Later this month Maine Regional School Unit 22 (RSU 22) is set to consider various options for “restructuring” the district’s…
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A Maine teacher was arrested Thursday following information that she had been engaging in inappropriate sexual relations with a minor…
Maine Democratic lawmakers on the Legislative Council voted Thursday to reject an after-deadline emergency bill proposal that would restrict the…
The White House announced Wednesday that President Joe Biden has canceled yet another round of student debt, nearly six months…
A Maine school district has agreed to change how it promotes “affinity groups” for students of color after receiving pushback…
A high school in Maine has opted to ditch a plan to using biometric fingerprint scanners to help staff keep…
A trans-identifying biological male is expected to dominate at the New Hampshire Division II championship track meet this Sunday, where…
The University of Maine Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) held a ceremony Thursday commemorating the start of Black History…
A public high school in Maine is among the first in the state to adopt biometric scanning technology to track…
Policies governing speech on Maine’s campuses need improvement to protect students’ freedom of speech, according to a new report from…
The College Board has weighed in on two data privacy bills currently under consideration by the Maine Judiciary Committee, urging…
Members of the Falmouth High School Football Team and their parents published a 41-page-long list of grievances against Coach John…
Colby College, a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine, has a course in its Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies…
Yarmouth Elementary School (YES) Principal Ryan Gleason announced Thursday in a letter to families that instead of celebrating Valentine’s Day…
On Tuesday, an application that allows illegal immigrants residing in the state to access financial aid and in-state tuition rates…
In an eye-opening examination of higher education’s current climate, Bates College stands as a stark example of the struggles with…
The South Portland Board of Education is considering ways to improve “diversity” and reduce racial and socioeconomic “segregation” across the…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced this week that six educational institutions in Maine will be receiving a combined total of…
Portland School Board Chair Sarah Lentz presented the 2023 State of the Schools report to the Portland City Council Monday…
A longtime substitute teacher and paraprofessional in Maine School Administrative District 75 (MSAD 75) has resigned following the district’s recent…
The Maine Department of Education (MDOE) announced last month that it has launched a nationwide “Live and Teach in Maine”…
Harvard University President Claudine Gay — already under scrutiny over her contentious Dec. 5 testimony to Congress concerning campus anti-semitism…
Education, particularly a college degree, has long been a ticket to the middle class and upward mobility in America. Unfortunately,…
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has officially come to Maine. The Imagination Library — first founded by Parton in 1995 –…
The University of Maine System (UMS) announced Wednesday that they will be offering free tuition to those who were physically…
Over a dozen students at Wiscasset Middle High School (WMHS) staged a walkout Monday morning in protest of school staff…
A proposal by Rep. Barbara Bagshaw (R-Windham) of the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee to lift the enrollment cap on…
Wiscasset Middle High School (WMHS) Principal Gina Stevens faces potential dismissal over accusations that she had a hidden camera installed…
The Maine State Legislative Council rejected a bill proposed by Rep. Barbara A. Bagshaw (R-Windham) of the Education and Cultural…
More than 200 colleges across the country, including two in Maine, collectively received billions in funding from foreign powers, including…
In response to a Citizen’s Challenge of Educational Media complaint against the book “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe, an MSAD…
A new statewide organization has formed in Maine to support parents who choose to educate their children at home rather…
A Newcastle woman who discovered that public school officials were facilitating the social transition of her 13-year-old daughter behind her…
Maine’s community colleges saw historically high enrollment this fall, surpassing the previous record which had been set in 2011, according…
The Maine Department of Education (MDOE) is currently accepting public comment on its revised learning standards for Science as part…
The Maine Department of Education (MDOE) is currently accepting public comment on its revised Social Studies learning standards as part…
School board meetings have become a source of heated and highly contentious debate in recent years with parents and community…
A Maine cross country runner who competed last year in the Western Maine Conference (WMC) Boys Cross Country meets is…
South Portland High School (SPHS) went into lockdown this morning while the South Portland Police Department (SPPD) investigated a suspicious…
A flyer advertising a sex therapist’s “Raising Sexually Healthy Children” workshop hosted by the Greely Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) was…
A Cumberland, Maine, Town Council meeting became heated Tuesday evening when a parent confronted the Councilors with sexually explicit images…
The former Longley Elementary School in Lewiston — currently being used for adult education classes — was broken into and…
The Daily Caller News Foundation Kate Anderson on September 26, 2023 Almost half of parents turning to homeschooling today say they…
A school teacher at private school in Maine was fired after he vocally criticized so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programming…
Boston University announced Wednesday that it is launching an inquiry into Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research (CAR)…
A Fairfield father says that a federally funded health clinic operating within Lawrence High School provided his minor daughter with…
Maine school libraries are stocking a children’s graphic novel meant to teach “news literacy” that contains thinly veiled allusions to…
There were approximately 320 students from homeless families enrolled in the Portland Public School (PPS) system during the 2022-2023 school…
Four Kennebec County schools went into lockdown yesterday due to reports of an armed student on the nearby Kents Hill…
Parents in the Maine School Administrative District #51 (MSAD #51) pushed back against pornographic books in the district’s school libraries…
Middle schoolers in Topsham were sent home this morning out of an abundance of caution after the school received a…
Although Maine is still experiencing persistent teacher shortages, the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) saw a 40 percent increase in…
A Portland high school was evacuated Monday morning after police received an unfounded text message claiming there was in active…
Westbrook High School went into lockdown earlier Thursday morning when a student reported to school officials that another student was…
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) unveiled the names of over 16,000 semifinalists in the 69th annual National Merit Scholarship…
Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Sunday that he has granted a pardon to a father who was prosecuted and…
Stacy Davis Gates, head of the Chicago Teachers Union, has been the subject of significant backlash after a local newspaper…
Maine Regional School District 5’s (RSU5) Board of Directors is set to hear a first reading of a new policy…
Free speech may not be so free on college campuses in Maine, according to a recent ranking done by College…
Gov. Janet Mills announced Tuesday a new initiative to help Maine schools recruit, train, and retain educators through pre-apprenticeship and…
Maine’s Community College System (MCCS) is still mandating COVID-19 shots for students enrolled in programs that require visiting third-party locations,…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Brandon Poulter on August 14, 2023 Colleges and universities have started implementing questions about identity…
The $445 million Fiscal Year 2024-2025 supplemental budget passed by the Maine Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Janet…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on August 13, 2023 In July, California’s Senate Bill 596, which would make…
Two people were discovered last week to be living on the roof of the Lillian P. Hussey Elementary School in…
Following a tense Maine School Administrative District 51 (MSAD #51) board meeting in July that was adjourned after a parent…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on August 2, 2023 The American Civil Liberties Union sued a Missouri…
The National Education Association, the largest labor union in the United States, published a list Wednesday of “Great Summer Reads…
The Supreme Court issued an opinion this morning officially declaring affirmative action unconstitutional. The case, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.…
Democratic lawmakers voted Friday to kill a bill that would have prohibited public school employees from addressing students by alternative…
Over the past few days, the Legislature has shot down a series of bills and resolutions aimed at shoring up…
American 13-year-olds have posted another decline in math and reading testing, according to a Wednesday release of data from the…
The Maine Department of Education (MDOE) is a failing institution that is based on white supremacy, according to comments Speaker…
Maine’s school rank 34th among all 50 states in the nation when it comes to education, according the 2023 Kids…
The State Legislature has rejected a bill that would have expanded school choice in Maine by creating an Empowerment Scholarship…
Democratic House lawmakers on Thursday killed a bill that would have guaranteed parents’ “fundamental right to make decisions regarding the…
St. Dominic Academy in Auburn filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Mills Administration and the Maine Human Rights Commission alleging…
Portland High School was temporarily locked down last week after a brawl between students that some say included a knife,…
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…
Officials within the Biden Administration are preparing for the possibility that the Supreme Court will strike down its large-scale student…
The Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee held a work session Wednesday afternoon on a proposed bill LD 1735, “An Act to…
Officials at Gardiner Area High School have implemented a temporary policy banning the display of all flags on school grounds…
In the latest video for Maine Wire TV, Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson sat down with Rep. Heidi Sampson (R-Alfred) and Rep.…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on June 4, 2023 The crisis at the southern border is overwhelming school…
The Daily Caller News Foundation Laurel Duggan on June 5, 2023 “Conversion therapy,” a term widely understood to mean bans on…
The Portland School Board announced on Friday that they will vote on Tuesday to confirm Dr. Ryan Scallon as the…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on May 30, 2023 The nation’s largest teachers union is backing an LGBTQ…
Falmouth Elementary School is celebrating “pride month” by raising money for nonprofits that support Democratic Party policies in Augusta, including…
Bangor High School officials are investigating an allegation of an “inappropriate relationship” between a staff member and a student. On…
Republican lawmakers on the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee stormed out of a work session Wednesday after learning that noncitizens…
Maine school officials in a public school district used their government email accounts and school resources to advocate against LD…
A Maine Wire / Co/Efficient poll conducted this week shows that most Maine voters want schools to get back to…
The Maine Department of Education makes certain data available through an online portal per the terms of the Every Student…
The mother of a Hermon school system student is calling on school officials to adopt policies that will regulate whether…
The school system in Maine’s largest city has been operating a résumé coaching program that is only available to people…
Whether school bus drivers at several Maine public schools can celebrate the season by playing Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer or…
The National Education Association (NEA), America’s second largest teachers’ union, set off a firestorm over the weekend with a tweet…
Gray-New Gloucester Middle School Teacher Ann Cook’s politically charged conversation with an 8th grader, first reported on by The Maine…
The number of parents submitting Freedom of Access Act requests to Maine’s government-run schools is “out of control,” according to…