A progressive Maine law firm that represents several school districts throughout the state issued a memo alongside the Maine School…
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The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) sent a letter to the lawyer representing Gateway Community Services last…
The Brewer School Department and its legal representatives from the Drummond-Woodsom law firm settled a First Amendment lawsuit on Saturday…
The federal governmentâspecifically the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) director, Dr. Ozâhas informed Governor Janet Mills that her…
Maine’s teacher hiring standards could become much stricter if a bipartisan bill aimed at protecting children, currently under consideration in…
Image source: https://canoemaine.wordpress.com/ One beloved Danforth teacher’s refusal to accept East Grand School’s radical transgender policy, which authorized staff to…
The most celebrated jockey in the annals of horseracing lived in Canada — but kept a post-office box in Van…
Washington County’s Baileyville School Department voted overwhelmingly at a Tuesday meeting to move towards compliance with federal Title IX antidiscrimination…
A federal appeals court on Monday affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a Maine mother who accused public…
The Regional School Unit (RSU) 73 School Board, serving Jay, Livermore, and Livermore Falls, voted on Thursday night to alter…
The Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 52 school board voted Thursday night to send a potential change to its transgender…
The nation’s first Catholic charter school remains stymied by an Oklahoma court’s chokehold after the United States Supreme Court was…
An activist group in Dexter has secured enough signatures to force a recall vote for two conservative Maine School Administrative…
Once again, a Maine transgender-identifying male athlete seized victory over girls at a high school track meet on Friday, as…
The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday concerning the constitutionality of the nationâs first religious charter school. Originating…
An Augusta father was silenced at a Wednesday public school board meeting when he used his testimony to criticize the…
A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit brought by a Maine substance abuse counselor who alleges a state judge…
A Maine church embroiled in a legal dispute with the Hermon School System has claimed that Drummond Woodsumâthe law firm…
Not long ago, the Maine State Legislatureâs Education Committee called on the Department of Education to explain declining performance of…
The United States Supreme Court is set to consider the constitutionality of the nation’s first religious charter school. Originating in…
A leading progressive law firm in Maine is advising public school officials on how they can effectively resist potential immigration…
I come bearing both good news and bad news from the frontlines of Maineâs culture wars. First the bad news.…
Maine’s public institutions, especially the government-run schools, have been consumed in recent years with crafting policies on the basis of…
The Independent Commission to Investigate the Facts of the Tragedy met publicly today for the first time. Established by Gov.…
UPDATE: Kevin Kelley, spokesman for the Independent Commission, has provided a statement to the Maine Wire clarifying that the Commission…
A Newcastle woman who discovered that public school officials were facilitating the social transition of her 13-year-old daughter behind her…
In the latest round of legal filings related to Newcastle mom Amber Lavigne’s lawsuit against the Great Salt Bay Community…
The Maine Board of Licensure in Social Work held a disciplinary hearing Friday for a conditionally licensed public school social worker who…
Maine’s K-12 Transgender Express encountered a speed bump last week just north of Bangor, jarring one of the wheels loose.…
The Superintendent of the Hermon public schools, Micah Grant, sends his children to a private religious school — Bangor Christian…
Two Maine moms say agents from Maine’s troubled child welfare agency paid them visits just days after they complained about…
The question of whether school employees should inform parents and legal guardians when a student requests to transition gender or…
At a raucous school board meeting Wednesday night, nearly 100 parents expressed their frustration and anger over how the Windham…
The chaos surrounding the Mt. Ararat Schools (MSAD 75) continues this week following the revelation that School Board Chair Frank…
Correction: In a 2/24 piece by Sam Patten entitled GOP Pushes for Parental Rights, Transparency in Maine Schools, the author…
Parents in Windham are battling with left-wing activists and members of the school board over books in the school library…
In his first statement addressing the growing scandal over his 2018 campaign’s use of a secret “enemies list” to censor…
The Maine Republican Party is accusing U.S. Sen. Angus King of violating the First Amendment free speech rights of Maine…
U.S. Sen. Angus King’s 2018 campaign targeted journalists and ordinary Mainers for censorship if their posts showed they were critical…
Recently the SAD 17 school district in western Maine, my kidâs school district, tried to enact a policy based on…
Paris residents voted Tuesday night to recall a pair of school board officials who drew the community’s ire by pushing…
Voters in Paris will decide Tuesday whether to recall two members of the Oxford Hills School Board in a vote…
The Oxford Hills School Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to indefinitely postpone the adoption of a controversial policy that would…
A school board recall fight in the Oxford Hills School District is the latest chapter in a growing divide over…
Maine Republicans have already decided on who will lead the 13-member Republican caucus in the State Senate, but the contest…
The estate tax, often referred to as the âdeath tax,â is assessed by the government when property exchanges ownership after…
by Peter Steele | The Maine Wire How are these two apparently random, innocent-sounding events connected? First, The Portland Press Herald ran…
by Terrilyn Simpson The much debated “Takings Bill” will be hammered out in round two of a legislative work session…