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US attorney general is suing Maine over transgender athletes

by Christopher Burns April 16, 2025April 16, 2025

The civil rights lawsuit alleges the Maine Department of Education has discriminated against girls and women and failed to protect them.

Feds give Maine 10 more days to ban transgender athletes from girls’ sports

by Christopher Burns April 1, 2025April 1, 2025

Opinion Contributor

Experimental education has failed our kids. We need to get back to basics.

by Opinion Contributor October 10, 2024October 10, 2024

Schools will get more aid after Maine discovers $42M math error

by Michael Shepherd March 29, 2023March 29, 2023

News

4 Maine counties with rising rates of coronavirus downgraded to yellow status in school advisory system

by Lynne Fort April 24, 2021April 24, 2021

News

Maine schools chief: COVID-19 tests for students could offer ‘false sense of security’

by Eesha Pendharkar July 25, 2020August 10, 2020

News

Around the state, educators and parents wonder how best to reopen schools

by Robbie Feinberg, Maine Public July 15, 2020July 15, 2020

Education, News, Politics, State

Maine tells schools to prepare for a fall that could still involve remote learning

by Jessica Piper June 12, 2020June 16, 2020

There’s no plan yet for Maine schools to reopen, but they won’t go back to normal this fall

by Eesha Pendharkar June 3, 2020August 10, 2020

Education, Free, News, State

Schools should plan on remote learning for rest of academic year, state says

by Lynne Fort April 7, 2020June 16, 2020

Education, Free, News, State

Maine cancels annual standardized tests after getting feds’ approval

by Eesha Pendharkar March 31, 2020

Education, News, Politics, State

Maine DOE warns state could lose more than $1 million in federal grants for rural schools

by Maine Public February 11, 2020

Education, Maine Focus

Anticipating LePage’s reorganization, schools move to take over preschoolers’ special ed

by Matthew Stone March 11, 2018March 11, 2018

Education, Maine Focus

Forced to wait for help, or get none at all, Maine kids with disabilities risk starting school behind

by Matthew Stone November 20, 2017November 20, 2017

Education, Maine Focus

Maine’s education data say schools hired 18,000 in 2015. They didn’t.

by Darren Fishell November 16, 2017November 16, 2017

Education, Maine Focus

How Maine hurt education by trying to reform it

by Matthew Stone November 14, 2017February 5, 2018