The $11 million bill seeks funding for current and new initiatives to increase training for workers.
Noel K. Gallagher
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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Maine ‘skills gap’ bill gets favorable reviews at hearing
While LD 90 gets broad support, the Committee on Maine’s Workforce and Economic Future has not yet identified how the state would pay for the various initiatives.
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Charter school founder sues school after ouster
PORTLAND – The founder of Portland’s first charter school is suing the school, saying the board of directors falsely accused him of mismanaging the Baxter Academy for Technology and Science. John Jaques said he is seeking punitive damages, according to a counterclaim filed Wednesday in Cumberland County Superior Court. The school sued him last […]
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Special Maine panel unveils proposals for closing ‘skills gap’
The group puts forth a package of bills seeking $11 million for job training.
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Charter school board sues founder over paperwork
The board of the Baxter Academy for Technology and Science in Portland has sued founder John Jaques, demanding that he turn over all school property, from paperwork to control of school materials stored online.
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Baxter Academy leadership dispute moves online
“It’s unfortunate that he’s trying to hold the school hostage but that’s what he’s doing,” says Allison Crean Davis, the vice chair of the board of directors of the Baxter Academy for Technology and Science.
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Baxter Academy’s top exec ousted by board
Mismanagement of the charter school is cited, but John Jaques says it’s a power play by a large donor
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Panel backs compromise on Maine student ‘restraint’ rules
The compromise would allow a “physical escort,” which includes temporary touching of a student to “induce” the student to walk to another room.
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LePage voucher plan for low-income pupils is met with concerns
Some lawmakers say Maine is already cutting school funding, so it doesn’t make sense to siphon off more money.
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Legislators call LePage’s low-income, private-school voucher program a backdoor move
AUGUSTA — The LePage administration is proposing a $530,000 school voucher program for low-income students to pay some of the transportation, tuition and residential costs of a non-religious private school or a public school in another district.