Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) is partnering with a Brunswick-based nonprofit organization to fund the training of Maine students to be climate change activists.
According to a state contract document published Thursday, the Mills administration will be paying the Maine Environmental Education Association (MEEA), a 501(c)(3) environmental activist nonprofit organization, a grant of $8,844 for the project.
The project will include funding for educational conferences and for students to organize climate change activist groups at Maine schools.
“MEEA will provide services in support of a youth climate action pilot program to support groups of students, educators and school administrators from across the state to plan and implement climate action projects at their schools through leadership training, school climate action roadmaps and case studies, and technical assistance through the state’s new Green Schools Program, including support to access federal funding for projects,” the description of the grant reads.
The “youth climate action pilot program” will be in line with Gov. Mills’ “Maine Won’t Wait” four-year climate change action plan, which sets the goal of making the state carbon neutral by 2045.
“A new youth climate action pilot program will include conferences and other support for school groups to develop and implement climate action projects including support to access technical assistance and federal funding,” the state contract reads.
“Through this contract, MEEA will support the youth climate action pilot including the development of workshops and assistance to school groups participating in the pilot,” it continues. “This will include for example, providing compensation to conference leaders for the development and delivery of programming, reimbursing schools for transportation costs to reduce barriers for rural schools to participate, and other support for school groups to plan and implement climate projects at their school.”
The MEAA is one of 56 affiliate organizations of the North American Association for Environmental Education, and is a partner organization of Maine Youth for Climate Justice. The nonprofit recently held a $50 “equity workshop” entitled “White Women and Gender Expansive People Taking on Our Own White Supremacy.”
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which measures reading and mathematics proficiency of 4th and 8th grade students in U.S. public schools, released their 2024 report last week, showing that spending more per pupil than ever before, reading and math scores in Maine and nationwide have continued to plummet over the last decade.
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The NAEP results show that in Maine, one-third of 4th graders and less than a quarter of 8th graders are proficient or advanced in math.
In reading, just 26 percent of students in grades 4 and 8 are proficient or advanced. Maine now ranks 43rd in 4th grade math, 27th in 8th grade math, 43rd in 4th grade reading, and 35th 8th grade reading, relative to the other states.
Exploiting the kiddos again, with bold faced lies, to facilitate more grant grabbing and teach climate hoax activism to the juveniles. Gratefully, access to wagonloads of taxpayers money has been shut down by DOGE, bringing an eventual end to the absolute ridiculous ideology and fear mongering
of CLIMATE HOAXERS. Janet! Stop spending our taxpayers money to abuse, sexually exploit and dumb down our future leaders so they will fall in line and do your Communist bidding! You are not a good steward of our state, our safety & security or the hardworking taxpayers money.
Does Maine schools actually teach skills anymore or just brainwash?
Oh, that’s right… A confused, uninformed public in fear of the boogeyman is easier to control.
Someone needs to explain to Janet Mills, we are on a big rock floating in space, with a bunch of other big rocks, all circling a big ball of gas that is on fire, therefore the climate will always be changing in one way or another from now until the big ball of gas on fire burns out. And this is they way it has been for very along time.
No Janet ….it’s NOT “ Maine Won’t Wait “
It’s….. “ Maine Can’t Wait “ until you get TF out of Augusta .
YOU and your Democrat friends are a cancer that is gradually destroying OUR state .
We will banish you and yours in 2026 .
All these little bobble headed 2025 graduates from UMF with their poster board and construction paper climate projects don’t have a clue about the world or its energy requirements .
They are too busy at the weekly keg parties and stealing food from the cafeteria . A more sorry excuse for teachers does not exist . Fools turning children into fools . Janet’s next battalion of climate fear warriors ….let’s have another wine cooler Shavonda .
Coming to your town
Climate change has been real for billions of years. Man-made climate change is a SCAM created by the lunatic left to increase their own wealth and power !
They have been doing this for years in our schools. When little Johnny comes home worried about the climate and the bad people who don’t want to protect it. It’s all politically motivated BS that has sucked many into their hoax.
We all are given a second chance. It would be wise to keep on top of our legislators to make certain that they do not fall asleep in business as usual which allowed the democrats to slowly bring their horrible agenda into reality over the years.
In a civil manner help keep them on their toes, be involved and make sure and thank them for their service.
It’s time that all Maine ballots show the party affiliations of all candidates so that voters can have a clear understanding of the pro-American or anti-American nature of the candidates.
Stop lying to the children…
How did this disgusting piece of shit become our governor? Her illegals thats how. When they became citizens they voted blue no matter what. This is how and why Massachusetts can’t be run by republicans. There and elsewhere like Minnesota, California. Any state with a high concentration of illegals becomes a permanent blue state.