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 29, 2014
University of Maine System looks into consolidating graduate business programs
The merged program would be based in Portland, but some USM faculty members oppose the plan.
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PublishedMay 29, 2014
USM faculty identifies $5 million in potential savings
About a dozen teachers volunteer to retire early as part of a plan that also tries to save academic programs.
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PublishedMay 28, 2014
School districts can delay implementing new graduation requirements
The state’s education commissioner says some officials need more time to implement the new standards, which require student proficiency in eight academic areas.
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PublishedMay 28, 2014
Maine high schools revamping graduation requirements
A change in state law prompts Portland officials to look at measures of ‘proficiency’ other than test scores.
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PublishedMay 27, 2014
Feature obituary: Becky Winfield, 53, BIW employee, active in Coastal Maine Great Dane rescue
Her buoyant personality was an inspiration to many.
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PublishedMay 23, 2014
The seven campuses of UMS carving out their niches
Each has been charged with developing a distinctive identity within the University of Maine System.
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PublishedMay 22, 2014
UMaine System’s 5-year plan: $60 million in workforce, facility reductions
The plan also calls for an academic overhaul to streamline programs at each of the seven campuses to decrease overlap, to help close a projected $69 million deficit.
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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
Search to begin for new president of University of Southern Maine
University of Maine System trustees hope to fill the position by July 2015.
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