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 7, 2013
Senate Democrats roll out their proposal for evaluating state’s 600 schools
A week after heavily criticizing the state’s new A-to-F school grading system, Maine Democrats said they will propose a different way to evaluate Maine’s 600 public schools. The plan will be introduced at a news conference at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at the State House.
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PublishedMay 3, 2013
Maine charter school funding is a lesson in controversy
Some raise concerns as the Education Committee looks at making this a line item in the state budget.
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PublishedMay 3, 2013
Lawmakers review plan to change charter school funding
Lawmakers on the Education Committee reviewing plans to change how the state’s charter schools are funded say they are not inclined to support a plan by the LePage administration to spread out funding among all schools, and instead want to look at paying for charter schools as a line item in the state budget.
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PublishedMay 3, 2013
Legislative panel leans toward funding charter schools in Maine budget
But charter school supporters argue that would politicize the schools and make them targets for opponents.
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PublishedMay 2, 2013
Report cards reinforce wealth effect, experts say
Education experts say it’s no surprise that Maine’s new A-to-F school grading system shows that schools in wealthier communities generally have higher grades while those in poorer communities have more D’s and F’s.
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PublishedMay 1, 2013
How the grades are calculated
The Department of Education takes into account test scores and growth when determining what grade to give schools.
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PublishedMay 1, 2013
‘I want the good schools to be rewarded,’ says LePage
The LePage administration unveiled a sweeping new statewide grading system for public schools, a hallmark of the governor’s education reform efforts, that immediately drew sharp criticism Wednesday from educators who say it stigmatizes poor schools with a failing grade.
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PublishedMay 1, 2013
Administration unveils school grades; C the average for Central Maine schools
The LePage administration unveiled its A-F grading system Wednesday, the latest education reform effort that has already drawn sharp criticism from union leaders and educators. As in most of the state, C was the common grade for schools in central Maine.
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PublishedApril 28, 2013
Longtime Thornton Academy headmaster to lead Portland charter school
Carl Stasio, who retired from TA last June, will begin his work as executive director at Baxter Academy for Technology and Science in early May.
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PublishedApril 27, 2013
Maine public schools to be assigned letter grades
Democratic legislators, school officials cry foul over Gov. Paul LePage’s education initiative.
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