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The Portland Police Department is working to identify a man whom officials at the city’s King Middle School claim exposed…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) questioned education experts about Maine’s failing schools on Friday during a hearing of the Senate…
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 number of public school employees who celebrated the political assassination of Christian and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk has reached…
Maine schools are now showing a “recruitment video” put out by the Maine Office of the Attorney General (AG) aimed…
Maine has been found to be one of the worst states for teachers in the entire country. According to a…
After conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was assassinated while peacefully debating on a Utah college campus, Maine’s radical left-wing college students…
Bowdoin College cancelled a vigil for Charlie Kirk scheduled for Sunday evening in a campus-wide email that said the Maine…
As the country mourns the horrific assassination of 31-year-old father, husband, and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, some of the teachers…
Twenty-six Maine high school seniors have been named semifinalists in the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program, the National Merit Scholarship…
The Maine Principals’ Association (MPA) filed a motion late last month asking a federal judge to block a subpoena from…
A group of conservative students at Bowdoin College in Brunswick are hosting a performance of October 7th, a theater production…
A federal judge in Boston has ruled that the Trump Administration must unfreeze billions of dollars in federal funding destined…
As a new school year begins, many schools throughout Maine have banned students from using their cell phones during the…
The U.S. Marshal Service arrested two fugitives in Gorham on Tuesday, including a juvenile implicated in a Westbrook shooting incident,…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services is “reviewing” a letter from the U.S. Department of Health and Human…
With schools across America preparing to re-open their doors for another academic year, most parents are feeling pessimistic about the…
With the start of a new school year right around the corner, many parents are preparing anew to consider how…
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With less than two weeks to go until kids across Maine go back to school, law enforcement and some educators…
Maine Governor Janet Mills and her administration have refused to follow President Donald Trump’s executive order interpreting Title IX to…
Dexter’s Town Council considered an ordinance on Thursday evening that would bar private school employees or parents operating homeschool co-ops…
The Milford firefighter who was once convicted of assaulting his baby has resigned from the school board just two days…
Bowdoin College is among the more than thirty institutes of higher education that are facing a class action lawsuit over…
A Milford firefighter who pleaded guilty to beating his baby ten years ago has won a seat on the town’s…
Washington County’s Baileyville School Department voted overwhelmingly at a Tuesday meeting to move towards compliance with federal Title IX antidiscrimination…
Lisbon voters have rejected the town’s proposed school budget of more than $21 million for the second time this year.…
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Are the robust enrollments rates experienced by Maine’s community colleges over the past few years about to substantially contract? In…
The University of Maine System spent nearly $2 million on out-of-state trips, according to recently released 2025 first quarter data,…
The quality of Maine’s early education system was found to be one of the worst in the nation despite a…
The First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday to uphold the lower court’s dismissal of a Maine mom’s lawsuit against…
A federal appeals court on Monday affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a Maine mother who accused public…
By Kendall Tietz Maine was one of the first states to publicly denounce President Trump’s executive actions on gender policy.…
Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) announced Friday that the Trump Administration has agreed to release the rest of Maine’s public…
The Maine Ethics Commission decided Wednesday that it would not be taking action against the Cape Elizabeth School Department for…
A former educational technician at the Congin Elementary School in Westbrook turned himself in on Thursday after a warrant was…
Maine received high-marks on the 2025 national score-card from the Sexuality Information and Education Council (SEICUS) non-profit, that ranks states based…
The Trump Administration is now expected to release $1.3 billion worth of federal funds for before- and after-school programming, multiple…
A group of ten Republican senators, including Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, have sent a letter to the Trump Administration…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has joined her counterparts in sixteen states in calling on Secretary of Education Linda McMahon…
The Trump Administration has delayed distributing $6.8 billion worth of federal funding for certain education programs it is currently reviewing…
Earlier this week, the State of Maine was listed as a co-plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Trump Administration over…
Congressional Republicans have renewed calls to revoke the federal charter for the nation’s largest teachers union on the grounds that…
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The newspaper that broke the news of a misconduct lawsuit against a midcoast school failed to mention the paper’s intimate…
Four Maine high school students will be joining the ranks of approximately 800 selected nationally this month who will be…
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A lawsuit against a private high school in Bath by students alleging abuse has sparked a widespread debate over its…
A church fighting to stop a major university in Maine from selling a Belfast property it had won the right…
Nearly 50 Maine Republican lawmakers on Monday sent a letter to the presidents of the Maine Community College System (MCCS)…
JoAnna St. Germain, the Waterville teacher who made international headlines in May for her Facebook posts calling for President Donald…
After Eastern Maine Community College (EMCC) professor Carol Lewandowski received significant backlash for providing unprofessional and discriminatory feedback to a…
The U.S. Department of Education is reviewing multiple federal grants that would have been released on Tuesday, delaying the release…
Maine’s increasingly litigious Attorney General (AG) Aaron Frey signed on to yet another lawsuit against the federal government on Monday,…
A York Democrat’s bill to expand the administrative process behind Maine’s public school transfer program died between chambers after the…
A professor at Eastern Maine Community College (EMCC) attacked and discriminated against a Christian conservative student for writing an essay…
The Regional School Unit (RSU) 73 School Board, serving Jay, Livermore, and Livermore Falls, voted on Thursday night to alter…
A midcoast Maine school is trying out a new lesson – disciplining students who step out of line with a…
By August of next year, all Maine school boards will be required to adopt a policy regarding the use of…
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The Maine House voted narrowly on Friday evening to pass a bill that will ban transgender-identifying males from girls’ sports…
Mainers will not be seeing the full price tags on their ballots when they go to the polls to vote…
by Zoe Scontras I attended Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) in Virginia from eighth grade through high school. I had…
Sen. Rick Bennett (R-Oxford) voted with Democrats on Thursday night and became the only Republican to oppose a bill that…
The Regional School Unit (RSU) 4 school board voted on Wednesday, near the end of the school year, to remove…
If the closings of birthing units at multiple Maine hospitals were not enough of a red flag signaling the downward…
Cape Elizabeth residents have narrowly approved an $86.5 million proposal to replace and repair the town’s aging middle and elementary…
Nearly two-thirds — an estimated 61 percent — of the South Portland residents who participated in Tuesday’s election voted to…
President Donald Trump (R) has asked the United States Supreme Court to halt enforcement of an order issued by a…
A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s (R) executive order barring foreign students from entering the…
Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 11 is poised to approve or deny an extremely controversial school-based medical clinic on Thursday,…
Scarborough public school officials sent out a letter to the community this week warning of potential threats from Nihilistic Violent…
South Portland residents are set to vote on a proposed $73 million school budget next Tuesday amidst concerns over public…
Maine’s House and Senate have been going back and forth for the past couple of weeks over whether or not…
President Donald Trump (R) invoked federal law to block foreign students from entering the country to study at Harvard University…
Long-time U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill famously said “all politics is local,” and he could just have easily been talking…
The Maine Department of Education (DOE) issued a no-bid contract this week spending nearly $30,000 on English language classes for…
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An effort to make the process of Maine public school students transferring from one district to another more transparent was…
by Robert Muldoon When Bates College did not release its admissions applications figures this March or April — as it…
The Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 52 school board voted Thursday night to send a potential change to its transgender…
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A public school in Maine has suspended a middle school student for barking like a dog at another student who…
Out Maine, an LGBTQ non-profit that pushes radical gender ideology on children, received three new grants this month to help…
The upcoming June 10 election for the Regional School Unit (RSU) 40 school board could have significant consequences for girls…
California made a minor but potentially significant policy change to mitigate the damage done by allowing transgender-identifying males to compete…
In what is appearing increasingly to be a personally-driven showdown, President Donald Trump vowed this week to strip America’s oldest…
Maine State Police arrested the husband of a Hermon Middle School teacher, Aaron M. Pinette, 42, on Friday on child…
Topsham’s Mt. Ararat High School is losing its athletics director at the end of the school-year, according to a resignation…
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s (R) executive order aiming to dismantle the Department of Education, arguing that…
The nation’s first Catholic charter school remains stymied by an Oklahoma court’s chokehold after the United States Supreme Court was…
Bowdoin College is now facing a civil rights complaint from the Equal Protection Project (EPP) filed on Wednesday, after it…
Legislators have unanimously rejected a proposal to make free community college a permanent fixture in Maine, bringing an end to…
A bill sponsored by Senate President Mattie Daughtry (D-Cumberland) aiming to provide millions of dollars in continuing support for the…
The bill that would have established “hope accounts” for Maine students who either are home-schooled or attend a private school…
A Topsham teacher at Mt. Ararat High School and Middle School is no longer a school employee after the Portland…
Cape Elizabeth residents will return to the polls on June 10 to again weigh in on a multi-million dollar proposal…
The Maine State Legislature’s Judiciary Committee held a public hearing on Friday for a “common sense and natural order” bill…