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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PublishedJuly 4, 2013
Tractor driver killed in Bangor Fourth of July parade
The parade was diverted by a police standoff with a man charged with shooting from a downtown apartment.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2013
Maine tightens virtual charter school laws
Among the specific requirements now required is weekly face-to-face time between students and instructors.
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PublishedJune 29, 2013
New school snack rules a piece of cake for Maine
Regulations announced this week are catching up to what Maine was already doing, school officials say.
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PublishedJune 27, 2013
Maine Robotics Institute gets off the ground
Gov. LePage and Dean Kamen help unveil the new institute, which will help students afford to participate and compete on robotics teams.
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PublishedJune 26, 2013
Maine bill eases rule on school windfalls
Schools might be allowed – just this once – to bypass voter approval to spend unexpected state funds.
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PublishedJune 12, 2013
LePage tells man ‘I’ve done my part’ in response to Lewiston fires letter
LePage also says he’s forgiven Lewiston for $400,000 in loans, which city officials say they know nothing about.
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PublishedJune 4, 2013
Charter schools commission considers moratorium on applications
The Maine Charter School Commission is considering a one-year moratorium on new charter school applications because monitoring the five schools they’ve already approved and creating a raft of new rules is time-consuming.
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PublishedMay 24, 2013
Tuition increase approved for Maine’s community colleges
In-state rates at Maine’s two-year schools have risen 7 percent in the last five years, compared with a 29 percent increase at the state’s four-year universities, according to a report.
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PublishedMay 8, 2013
Democrats unveil their school grading plan
Democrats unveiled their own proposal Wednesday for how the state should evaluate Maine’s public schools, even as state education officials announced follow-up plans for schools that got D’s and F’s under the state’s new A-to-F grading system.
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PublishedMay 8, 2013
Democrats propose their own evaluation plan for Maine schools
Meanwhile, state education officials spell out strategies for helping schools that received low grades.
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