Thomas College, a private post-secondary institution in Waterville, Maine, is under scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice following a…
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President Donald Trump aims to restore “common sense” to school discipline practices with a Wednesday executive order that will end…
Rep. Kristen Cloutier (D-Lewiston) withdrew a bill earlier this month that would have put taxpayer-funded tampons in public school boys’…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs (ECA) held public hearings for four Democrat-led bills on Tuesday aimed…
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Rep. Cheryl Golek (D-Harpswell) withdrew a bill from consideration on Monday that would have mandated LGBTQ education curriculum in all…
Mainers had the opportunity on Tuesday to testify on three Republican-led bills that aim to protect students from sexually explicit…
Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 70’s school board voted unanimously on Monday night to defy the Maine Principals’ Association (MPA)…
Just two weeks after Waldo County Hospital closed its maternity and birthing unit citing declining birth rates, on Monday Rep.…
The Buxton man accused of raping a 15-year-old female student in the unisex bathroom of Bonny Eagle High School in…
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) must resume federal education funding for Maine, according to a Friday ruling from…
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As the deadline set in a letter of impasse the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights had sent…
A group of Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill that would improve transparency in Maine’s program allowing students to attend…
An Augusta father was silenced at a Wednesday public school board meeting when he used his testimony to criticize the…
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) is poised to ignore the April 11 deadline set by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE)…
Bowdoin College, an elite liberal arts college on the coast of Maine, is coming under national scrutiny for its handling…
Maine Attorney General (AG) Aaron Frey added to his growing list of lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday…
As Maine’s Democrats resist efforts by the federal government to remove Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) ideology and radical gender…
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DeepAudit, a non-profit tech startup using artificial intelligence tools to root out Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and ideologically-charged language,…
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins sent a letter to Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) on Wednesday announcing…
Republicans on the Maine Legislature’s Education and Cultural Affairs Committee reversed course on a bill last Tuesday that would have…
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) issued its final warning to the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) on Monday for…
The Office of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services referred the State of Maine to…
A Winterport Republican has introduced a bill that limits the immunity of the state’s education system. The bill’s public hearing…
The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce has raised serious concerns about antisemitism at Bowdoin College, demanding detailed…
An employee of the Guilford area school district (SAD 4) has been arrested and charged with possession of child pornography,…
The Trump Administration’s multiple probes into Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) and her cabinet agencies have now expanded to include…
The Portland Public School Board will be considering changes to its multiple equity-related policies in order to avoid an appearance…
President Donald Trump signed an executive Thursday that represents the first step toward officially abolishing the federal Department of Education…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed on Wednesday that the University of Maine system of state-funded schools will comply…
A U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) investigation found on Wednesday that the Maine DOE is…
Portland Public Schools Superintendent Ryan Scallon on Tuesday doubled down on the district’s commitment to “equity” and to continue allowing…
Democrat lawmakers are now looking to extend funding that makes community college free for all Maine residents — a benefit…
As Maine faces a potentially substantial loss of federal education funding for refusing to comply with one of President Donald…
Rep. Kristen Cloutier (D-Lewiston) wants to put tampons in high school and middle school boys’ bathrooms with a new bill…
Update: After the publication of this article, Rep. Reagan Paul (R-Winterport) contacted The Maine Wire saying that she has reconsidered…
A 13-year-old Cassidy Carlisle got an unwelcome shock when she encountered a biological male in the girls’ locker room at…
A political science professor at the University of Maine (UMaine) sent out a recruitment flyer for the UMaine Orono Students…
Terri Cooper, the superintendent of the RSU 21 district that includes the town of Kennebunk, ended her controversial five years…
Dr. Nirav Shah, former head of the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC), will be joining the…
Funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for Maine universities was restored Wednesday following a brief pause by the…
Maine’s leading Democratic figures have recently condemned the act of posting pictures of minors on Facebook as a serious political…
A Maine church embroiled in a legal dispute with the Hermon School System has claimed that Drummond Woodsum—the law firm…
A new bill from Rep. James White (R-Guilford) would allow adults over the age of 21 who possess a concealed…
A Wisconsin school district agreed to pay out $20,000 to a teacher who was terminated for refusing to use preferred…
Not long ago, the Maine State Legislature’s Education Committee called on the Department of Education to explain declining performance of…
Eleven children were hospitalized on Thursday after becoming mysteriously ill at the Wentworth School, an elementary school in Scarborough, with…
Some Maine students are granted the ability to attend a public school outside of their home district through what is…
Left-wing activists in Gardiner’s Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 11 faced a potentially game-changing obstacle to their plans to establish…
Matthew Lillibridge, a Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 11 board member currently running for re-election, appeared to threaten parental rights…
The U.S. Department of Education has launched an online “End DEI” portal for parents, teachers and other community members to…
A brawl broke out at the Penquis Valley High School in Milo on Thursday morning, apparently involving staff and leaving…
Joanne O’Brien, a far-left Maine MSAD 11 School Board member overseeing public education in Gardiner, has garnered nationwide attention in…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Saturday aimed at eradicating the last vestiges of the COVID-19-era mandates by…
A transgender-identifying male, competing under the name “Katie,” from Cumberland’s Greely High School, came out on top in the girls’…
University of Southern Maine wants to make sure that new students are comfortable in their space or else it might…
A middle school teacher from Claremont, New Hampshire, was arrested last week for stalking one of her students after she…
Portland Public Schools will be working with the Portland Education Association, the district’s teachers’ union, to form a task force…
Maine’s education system – like that of much of the nation – is in a free-fall, maybe even has already…
On Thursday morning, the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is scheduled to hear from U.S. President…
In the face of a new executive order issued by President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposing significant penalties on schools…
Maine may gradually increase its current limit on charter schools if lawmakers pass a Republican-led bill introduced in late January.…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) is partnering with a Brunswick-based nonprofit organization…
A string of crises facing Kennebunk schools reached a new nadir with embezzlement charges against a newly appointed drama teacher.…
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) launched an investigation on Tuesday into the Denver, Colorado Public Schools District for converting…
President Donald Trump’s Wednesday executive order combating radical gender ideology and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) education in public schools…
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results for 2024 were released on Wednesday and the results are nothing short…
A group of 29 Maine Republicans sent a letter to the state’s Department of Education (DOE), urging it to comply…
Maine elementary and middle school students are continuing to struggle academically, according to the 2024 Nation’s Report Card. The National…
The Maine Department of Education (Maine DOE) is seeking grant applications for $650,000 in available funding that will go towards…
The United States Supreme Court is set to consider the constitutionality of the nation’s first religious charter school. Originating in…
The superintendent of Lewiston Public Schools issued an announcement on Thursday on the “real fear” among the school community regarding…
Some Maine students are granted the ability to attend a public school outside of their home district through what is…
At the opening of their Tuesday meeting, several members of the Portland Board of Public Education responded to “unsettling” comments…
Lawmakers in Augusta will be considering a proposal to establish “hope accounts” for Maine students who either are home-schooled or…
Oral arguments were heard Tuesday in the cases filed by two Maine Christian schools — St. Dominic Academy in Auburn…
Maine lawmakers have officially begun submitting bills for the new legislative session scheduled to begin Wednesday, and among these are…
President Joe Biden has pulled the plug on his most ambitious pre-election promise to cancel student loan debt for more…
The Town of Cape Elizabeth is revisiting the possibility of constructing a new middle school after voters narrowly rejected $94.7…
At Monday evening’s meeting of the Portland City Council, Board of Public Education Chair Sarah Lentz presented the annual State…
The Washington Post’s editorial board acknowledged that the alleged evidence showing the benefits of so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors could…
Over 60 percent of Americans are supportive of expanding educational freedom for students nationwide, according to a new poll conducted…
Students of the taxpayer-funded University of Maine at Augusta will have the opportunity to take a college-level course all about…
Maine Governor Janet Mills’ Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) is paying $12,500 to a California-based nonprofit that…
The United States Supreme Court announced Monday that they will not be hearing a case out of Wisconsin challenging a…
A new trend sweeping Maine schools has parents concerned about the lack of transparency surrounding medical treatments — including sex-change…
A judge on Friday ruled that the U.S. Naval Academy is allowed to continue to use race as a factor…
The taxpayer-funded Freeport Community Services (FCS) nonprofit canceled its rental agreement with Parents’ Rights in Education two days before the…
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) put forward the “Returning Education to Our States Act” on Thursday, a bill to end the…
At a Tuesday meeting of the Portland Board of Public Education, at-large member and Board Chair Sarah Lentz claimed that…
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested 46-year-old Stacey Ray Lancaster of Hudson, New Hampshire, a high school teacher, as part of…
The Maine Human Rights Commission (MHRC) cleared University of Southern Maine Sociology and Education Professor Dr. Christy Hammer of any…
South Portland residents approved two of the three bonds on this year’s ballot but rejected a $12.3 million proposal to…
Voters in Cape Elizabeth narrowly rejected a $94.7 million school improvement plan that included the construction of a new middle…
The Lincoln Academy in Newcastle is offering a support room for high school students struggling emotionally with President Donald Trump’s…
Former Republican President Donald Trump won a massive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday in quadrennial mock elections…
In just a matter of days, Cape Elizabeth residents will be deciding whether or not to approve a $94.7 million…