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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…
Last month the Maine Department of Education (Maine DOE) launched a first-in-the-nation project aimed at bringing collections of children’s picture…
A fight broke out on a Lewiston Middle School bus on October 2nd when two female students were caught on…
The principal of a public high school in South Paris forwarded a recruitment email from the Maine Democratic Party to…
A massive influx in non-English speaking students in Pennsylvania is overwhelming school districts across the state, and the logistical strain…
The Maine Department of Education (Maine DOE) entered into a “partnership” with the nonprofit Maine Trust for Local News in…
The transgender Maine high schooler who assaulted a high school girl on Friday was the subject of previous sexual harassment…
The Maine State Library is spending nearly $13,000 in taxpayer funds to create a toolkit meant for “caregivers” to teach…
The Winthrop School District is facing a nearly $700,000 budget deficit for the current school year. According to Winthrop Superintendent…
A member of a Portland Public Schools committee charged with redrawing the school district’s attendance boundaries in order to address…
A longtime Democratic politician and government employee has been hired in a $121,000-a-year position at the Maine Department of Education…
The Mills administration has paid $120,000 to the Maine Trust for Local News (MTLN), the nonprofit that owns the Portland…
Maine’s largest Christian school filed an appeal Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit as part…
The Portland public schools are aiming to ensure that all students have equal outcomes and equal experiences, according to a…
The Cape Elizabeth School Board voted unanimously on Aug. 12 to support the $94.7 million referendum approved for the ballot…
The Cape Elizabeth Town Council has voted unanimously to put a $94.7 million school improvement plan on the ballot in…
A federal judge has declined to issue a preliminary injunction suspending enforcement of a clause in the Maine Human Rights…
In November, Gorham residents will be asked to approve $12 million in spending for a set of three improvement projects…
The University of New England (UNE) announced on Wednesday that it is launching four new online courses this fall for…
Residents in the Oxford Hills School District (MSAD 17) have voted to reject a proposed FY25 school budget for a…
The Town of Cape Elizabeth is now considering two separate proposals aimed at addressing the aging buildings that currently house…
A recent report from education reform organization EdChoice revealed that Americans are more dissatisfied with the state of public education…
After their second trip to the polls this summer, Westbrook voters have approved a $51 million FY25 school budget accompanied…
On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill into law preventing schools implementing policies that require parents to…
The Maine Department of Education (DOE) is planning to spend $26,000 on an online English language learning platform to assist…
Portland Adult Education (PAE), the adult student component of Portland Public Schools, is seeking to leverage $200,000 in property taxes…
A group of nine Louisiana families have filed a lawsuit against the Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education…
The school board members and superintendent of a public school in Damariscotta blamed a Newcastle mom and the Maine Wire…
Not a single 8th grade student at left-wing activist and basketball legend LeBron James’ I Promise School in Ohio has…
The Portland Board of Public Education next week will consider a resolution to form a committee that would evaluate and…
On Tuesday, Gorham residents approved by just four votes a more than $53 million school budget accompanied by a 9.05…
Westbrook residents voted Tuesday to reject the town’s proposed $51.7 million school budget that included a nearly 16 percent increase…
On Tuesday, Lewiston residents voted down a $110 million school budget that would have raised the school portion of the…
Maine taxpayers may have to foot the more than $20,000 bill for a motivational speaker to deliver a keynote address…
Gorham residents will be asked Tuesday to approve the school district’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which includes a…
On Tuesday, Lewiston residents will be asked to weigh in on a proposed school budget for a second time this…
The Board of Directors of Maine’s Regional School Unit 40 (RSU 40) on Thursday evening voted to delete a transgender…
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday it has concluded an investigation into an alleged assault by a teacher against…
A federal judge has declined, for a second time, to issue an injunction suspending enforcement of a clause in the…
Portland Public Schools is seeking to spend over $200,000 in federal funds on hiring four English language teachers who will…
Email communications recently provided to The Daily Wire show that Seattle, Washington schoolchildren can acquire transgender hormone therapy from public…
Maine mother Amber Lavigne has appealed a federal judge’s decision to dismiss her case against the Great Salt Bay Community…
The United States District Court for the District of Maine has dismissed a Maine mother’s lawsuit against the Great Salt…
Maine is the 28th best state to live in according to a new report from U.S. News. But the state’s…
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced today the awarding of $2,500 scholarships to 2,500 high school seniors nationwide, including…
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A former educator in Maine School Administrative District 75 (MSAD 75), who resigned following the district’s adoption of a “transgender…
The Falmouth High School Civil Rights Team on Tuesday gave a presentation on the Falmouth Public Schools’ recently adopted “Transgender…
The Biden Administration announced Monday that it is pushing forward with a plan to cancel an additional tranche of student…
The Maine Home Education Alliance (MHEA) hosted its first annual Leader Summit on Saturday, drawing homeschool leaders from across the…
Hermon’s school superintendent Micah Grant unexpectedly announced his resignation on Monday after years of controversy. Grant, who has attributed his…
The Osseo Area School District in Minnesota decided that parents could opt their children out of the upcoming “LGBTQIA+ History…
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is requiring students to take a course on “Diversity and Civility”…
Later this month Maine Regional School Unit 22 (RSU 22) is set to consider various options for “restructuring” the district’s…
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…