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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PublishedAugust 5, 2013
SMCC chief floats ideas to prepare Portland kids for college
In an address to Portland educators, he describes some of the deficiencies freshmen struggle with.
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PublishedJuly 31, 2013
LePage ‘offended’ by charter school criticisms
At a Heritage Policy Center luncheon, he blasts Sen. Justin Alfond’s family background and criticism of the school for hosting the conservative group.
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PublishedJuly 31, 2013
New Maine charter school forms have ‘substantive’ changes
The lengthy application to open a charter school are due Dec. 2.
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PublishedJuly 30, 2013
Maine panel sets deadline for charter school applications
There is now a separate application for virtual schools that spells out specific requirements, such as weekly face-to-face time for students and instructors.
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PublishedJuly 30, 2013
Baxter school criticized for luncheon with political group
But charter school officials deny seeking funds from the conservative Maine Heritage Policy Center.
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PublishedJuly 27, 2013
Goodwill puts focus on jobs at Maine juvenile detention center
Goodwill Industries will give juvenile offenders work experience before they are released.
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PublishedJuly 21, 2013
Maine schools’ shift to tougher standards will come with costs
As the state joins others in a transition to ‘Common Core,’ experts warn it will almost surely mean lower test scores.
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PublishedJuly 20, 2013
Back-to-school means facing tougher academic standards this fall
Regardless of the grade they will be in, students face tougher academic standards when they return to school in the fall as a result of the new Common Core standards that have been adopted statewide.
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PublishedJuly 15, 2013
Portland schools: LePage wrong about military recruiters
The district is now the third to say Gov. LePage is not correct by claiming uniformed military recruits are being barred from certain schools.
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PublishedJuly 7, 2013
Effort to feed Maine children hits milestone
Free summer meals are now offered in all Maine counties, a first, as the program adds 65 sites.
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