65,000
students and 10,000 educators are impacted each year by the work of Ruth’s Reusable Resources, MEA’s Corporate Award Winner.
“When enrollment was down, [the administration] cut faculty positions, but now that enrollment is at an all-time high, faculty have not been hired back. That has a direct impact on our students— I am losing time for the one-to-one interactions with my students that makes the community college experience special.”
-Shari Ward, CCFA President
300
students participated in this year’s Read Across Maine Challenge
“The sooner that we can get to our students that are struggling, and help them get untangled, the chances of them needing services later are greatly decreased.”
-Barbara Welsh, Title I interventionist at Mill Steam Elementary School told NPR in an interview about the impact of Title I funding in her rural district.
Read the full story here: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/19/nx-s1-5398545/trump-schools-maine-education-funding
“We need to attract more businesses to Maine, including tech industries. To do this we need a well-educated workforce… But we can’t do it without monetary support. Your funding enables our current students to develop into mature citizens and contributing members of society. I can’t think of a better investment of tax dollars.”
Karol Maybury, Professor of Psychology UMF and member of AFUM, told members of the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee in April at a hearing for LD 1219, An Act to Increase State Funding for the Campuses of the University of Maine System
Watch Karol’s testimony here: https://www.facebook.com/reel/9591979210913337
5,000,000
hours of instructional time were lost during the 2023-2024 school year due to chronic absenteeism, according to Kids Count data. That’s equivalent to over 570 years.
