Noel Gallagher covers K-12 and higher education issues statewide. Her stories are a mix of breaking news and trend stories. In recent years, they’ve ranged from why college costs so much, the launch of the state’s first charter schools, how a school welcomed a transgender student and why Maine schools have a hard time finding teachers. She’s enough of a news nerd to enjoy sitting through legislative education committee meetings and hours-long school board meetings so you don’t have to. The Maine Press Association has honored Noel’s work, but she says she writes for the readers, in the firm belief that an informed citizenry is key to a healthy democracy. Noel is a California native who has worked at wire services, online websites and newspapers across the country. She was in Washington D.C. during the early Clinton years, covering AIDS activism in 1990s San Francisco, documenting the business of wine in Sonoma County and riding out the boom and bust cycle of the early Internet era in early 2000s Silicon Valley. She arrived in Maine at the beginning of the recession and wrote quite a bit about the downturn here. In her free time, Noel writes the occasional cookbook review, spends an inordinate amount of time at the Portland Public Library and hangs out with her three fabulous kids and wonderful husband. She is not a former member of the band Oasis.
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PublishedMay 19, 2014
UMaine System trustees OK round one of cutbacks
The budget sheds programs and 157 jobs, and officials say more deep cuts likely will be needed next year.
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PublishedMay 18, 2014
USM students take bid to stop cuts directly to UMaine System trustees
The officials are set to vote Monday on a $529 million budget that eliminates 157 positions statewide.
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PublishedMay 18, 2014
All parties feeling pain of university cost-cutting
Six years of payroll data show that faculty, administration and service employees have been hit equally by a $26 million reduction.
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PublishedMay 10, 2014
Graduation 2014: Capping off the day at USM, Saint Joseph’s
Graduates hear an ‘Ode to Graduation’ and, at Saint Joseph’s College, a push to volunteer.
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PublishedMay 8, 2014
Maine schools to get their report cards next week
The Maine Department of Education says 110 of 600 public schools improved by at least a letter grade from last year, when the A-to-F report card system was launched.
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PublishedMay 6, 2014
Maine charter commission rejects virtual academy’s appeal
Maine Virtual Academy board member Peter Mills said the school will apply again next year.
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PublishedMay 5, 2014
Maine charter school commissioners could decide to hear appeal
If the seven-member panel reconsiders Maine Virtual Academy’s application, the school still will need five votes for approval.
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PublishedApril 30, 2014
UMaine system may take $11.4 million from reserves to balance budget
A finance committee will consider Monday the proposed budget, which the system’s finance chief describes as not sustainable.
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PublishedApril 25, 2014
Former finance director accused of embezzling $20,000 from Maine tribe
Charles Fourcloud, who was arrested in California, had been fired by the Passamaquoddies after they discovered he had hidden his identity and criminal past.
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PublishedApril 22, 2014
Maine ties California for top high schools
Maine goes to the head of the class in the latest rankings of schools by U.S. News & World Report.
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