Feds Find Maine DoE in Violation of Title IX
Maine Wire StaffBy Maine Wire StaffMarch 6, 2025Updated:March 6, 20256 Comments2 Mins Read2K Views
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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has found Maine to be in violation of Title IX protections of girls in school sports, Maine media outlets are reporting.
Late last month, the federal office announced it was investigating the Maine Department of Education’s refusal to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order barring transgender athletes from playing on girls’ teams.
“It is shameful that Governor Mills refuses to stand with women and girls. Her rejection of the anti-discrimination obligations that Maine voluntarily accepted when it agreed to receive federal taxpayer dollars is unlawful. OCR is still actively investigating Maine and one of its school administrative districts for apparent violations of federal law,” Acting Assistant Secretary Craig Trainor said on February 26.
Maine’s refusal to comply with the federal directive led to a public stand-off between President Trump and Maine Governor Janet Mills, who on February 21 vowed “we’ll see you in court.”
On Wednesday and Thursday, Maine outlets cited a Bangor Daily News report that the federal government had ruled against the state after only a four day investigation.
At stake is an estimated $280 million in funds the federal government provides Maine schools, either through support for special education or direct grants to universities and technical schools. Gov. Mills’ has asserted that banning biological males who identify as females from girls’ sports would violate the Maine Human Rights Act.
More recently, however, Mills has said the question is “worthy of a debate.”
The next stage in that debate may well be seen in how Maine responds to the federal finding, whether funds are withheld, and what court actions may ensue.
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Austin Power
Austin Power
4 hours ago
Its a man, its a man baby!
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Gardiner Schneider
Gardiner Schneider
4 hours ago
“More recently, however, Mills has said the question is “worthy of a debate.”” The real “debate” needs to be about ending the term in office of Governess Mills before she costs the tax payers of our State $280,000,000.00. I do not speak any language beyond American English, however there was a phrase recently recorded in the Oval Office that might be part of the debate, “suka blyat”.
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Eric H.
Eric H.
3 hours ago
Janet Mills is disgusting .
I want to wretch when I see her picture .
She has destroyed my state .
She needs to be brought to heal .
https://www.themainewire.com/2025/03/feds-find-maine-doe-in-violation-of-title-ix/
>Feds Find Maine DoE in Violation of Title IX
oh no
that sucks
Maine loses popular Sea Grant funding, 1 week after governor's public confrontation with Trump
March 04, 2025
Nicole Ogrysko, Maine Public
In this 2007 file photo, George Protopopescu of the Downeast Institute for Advanced Marine Research and Education measures each of the scallops brought up as Christopher Bartlett of the Maine Sea Grant program records the data. (Gabor Degre/BDN via Maine Public)
In this 2007 file photo, George Protopopescu of the Downeast Institute for Advanced Marine Research and Education measures each of the scallops brought up as Christopher Bartlett of the Maine Sea Grant program records the data. (Gabor Degre/BDN via Maine Public)
Over the weekend, the Trump administration told the University of Maine that it is discontinuing a $4.5 million award to the Maine Sea Grant Program.
There are 33 other similar Sea Grant programs in coastal and Great Lakes states around the country. Yet only Maine appears to have had its funding revoked. And the announcement came one week after Gov. Janet Mills sparred publicly with President Donald Trump at the White House about his executive order on transgender athletes.
The four-year federal award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration went into effect last February and would have awarded Maine Sea Grant roughly $4.5 million through January 2028, including about $1.5 million this year.
"It has been determined that the program activities proposed to be carried out in year 2 of the Maine Sea Grant Omnibus Award are no longer relevant to the focus of the administration’s priorities and program objectives," NOAA wrote in a letter to the University of Maine.
The program now appears to be in jeopardy, though both the UMaine system and its partners were still determining the specific impacts on Monday.
Federal and matching funds support the salaries of 20 people at the university and around the state. A spokesperson said Monday that the University of Maine system is still assessing how the funding cuts will directly impact staff and research projects underway.
Maine Sea Grant sponsors marine science and fisheries research initiatives around the state. Sebastian Belle, executive director of the Maine Aquaculture Association, said losing access to Maine Sea Grant shellfish, finfish and seaweed experts would be a "tremendous blow" to aquaculture businesses around the state.
"The costs to particularly the young farmers, the new start-up farmers, their costs would go up, because they would have to actually bear the costs of actually doing some of that research and learning that Sea Grant has been doing for them," he said.
Sea Grant experts have been instrumental in helping aquaculture farmers solve technical problems, Belle added. He called the Maine Sea Grant cuts "short-sighted" and said losing access to the program's expertise could stymy the long-term growth of the state's aquaculture sector.
In addition, Maine Sea Grant played a major role in launching the state's emerging scallop farming industry, helping new farmers learn techniques being used in other countries and apply them to their operations here, Belle said.
"Without Sea Grant's engagement in that particular part of our sector, we wouldn't have, number one, as many farms as we have, and we wouldn't have farms as advanced as they are," he said.
Ten years ago, Maine Sea Grant provided funds to help launch a collaborative research project with fishermen, students and others to study and sample lobster at different life stages.
Lobsterman Curt Brown leads that project and said it's still providing invaluable data about the fishery.
>oh no
>that sucks
>Maine loses popular Sea Grant funding, 1 week after governor's public confrontation with Trump
"This is not a cost; this is not something you cut," said Brown, who's also a marine biologist for Ready Seafood. "This is an investment that has paid dividends for decades and will continue to pay dividends to Maine's coastal communities. And that's just so vitally important right now, especially right now. There's so much hinging on what happens right now, and we just can't afford to lose this vital resource."
Two former NOAA employees, including one fired last week by the Trump administration, told Maine Public and WBUR that Maine is the only state to have sea grant funding revoked, at least for now. Both said the program was slashed in retaliation after Mills' public confrontation with the president.
And Matt Charette, director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant in Massachusetts, said his organization is continuing to monitor the situation.
"As of now, there is no indication that any of the other 33 Sea Grant programs, including ours, are facing cuts similar to Maine Sea Grant," Charette said in a written statement to WCAI.
A spokesperson for NOAA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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>There are 33 other similar Sea Grant programs in coastal and Great Lakes states around the country.
<Yet only Maine appears to have had its funding revoked. And the announcement came one week after Gov. Janet Mills sparred publicly with President Donald Trump at the White House about his executive order on transgender athletes.
>Maine loses popular Sea Grant funding, 1 week after governor's public confrontation with Trump
Trump administration agrees to renegotiate Maine Sea Grant funding
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, pressured the U.S. commerce secretary Tuesday, saying withdrawing the $4.5 million award that funds years of research would 'cause devastating harm' to the state's coastal communities.
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Dana Morse, an aquaculture researcher with Maine Sea Grant, checks on ear-hung scallops attached to an anchor chain on a mussel raft along the Damariscotta River in South Bristol on June 8, 2016. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald
The Trump administration has agreed torenegotiate funding for Maine Sea Grant, one of the state’s key coastal resource programs, following conversations between U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnik and U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
The renegotiation would put funding back on the table so long asthe work supported by the program “focuses on advancing Maine’s coastal economies, working waterfronts and sustainable fisheries,” Collins’ office said in an emailed statement Wednesday afternoon.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Saturday that it was rescinding the $4.5 million award that supports marine science research, workforce development and education across the state for four years.
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It’s unclear when the money would be restored and when projects could resume. Maine Sea Grant will need to reapply for funding, according to the statement.
“I appreciate the secretary’s willingness to work together to ensure that Maine Sea Grant can continue to conduct research, support a robust pipeline of skilled labor, and ensure that our coastal economies remain profitable hubs for fishermen, lobstermen and hospitality workers,” Collins said in the statement. “It is important that Maine Sea Grant can continue to provide valuable services for communities across the state for years to come.”
“Through these bilateral negotiations, the department will ensure that the American people, including hardworking Mainers like lobstermen and fishermen, receive the benefit of the bargain consistent with the administration’s priorities and continued relevance to program objectives,” Nancy Hann, NOAA’s deputy undersecretary for operations, wrote in a memorandum.
Hann said the negotiations will modify the requirements of Maine Sea Grant’s award. It is unclear how Maine Sea Grant’s current work and focus differs from the Trump administration’s priorities — and whether the organization will have to shift that work to fall in line.
The University of Maine System oversees Maine Sea Grant. The program supported 332 businesses and 565 jobs in 2023 and generated $23.5 million of economic activity on $1.5 million in funding that year — roughly $15 for every federal dollar invested, according to the organization.
The news of the funding termination sent shockwaves through Maine’s fisheries industry. Maine Sea Grant Director Gayle Zydlewski said the funding getting pulled was “devastating.”
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/05/trump-administration-agrees-to-renegotiate-maine-sea-grant-funding/
>Trump administration agrees to renegotiate Maine Sea Grant funding
The Maine Lobstermen’s Association called Maine Sea Grant “an important partner” in “preserving our way of life.”
In a termination letter that was provided to the Press Herald, NOAA official Timothy Carrington wrote that the activities of Maine Sea Grant are “no longer relevant to the administration’s priorities and program objectives.”
But Collins said she explained to Lutnick how important Maine Sea Grant is to the state’s coastal communities and that losing the funding would “cause devastating harm.”
This was the first major cut to NOAA, and it is the first program under the University of Maine System that has lost all of the funding it needs for base operations. The loss of funding also comes two weeks after President Donald Trump threatened to cut Maine’s federal funding in the wake of a confrontation with Gov. Janet Mills over the state’s refusal to ban transgender athletes from competing in girls’ sports.
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King, Pingree and Collins urge Trump administration to reinstate Maine Sea Grant funding
The Press Herald reached out to administrators from the 33 comparable programs in other states Tuesday and Wednesday. The 16 that have so far responded said they haven’t lost funding.
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, and Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-1st District, asserted this week that the Trump administration decided to defund Maine Sea Grant as retaliation, noting that there did not appear to be any similar cuts at other Sea Grant programs.
On Wednesday, they said they were pleased that Lutnick is willing to reconsider the termination, but argued that the system should not have to reapply for “funding that was improperly taken away from them in the first place.”
“It is critical that the federal government honor its commitment to supporting research and development in coastal communities to ensure the future success and resilience of Maine’s marine economy and immediately restore the Maine Sea Grant’s full funding,” King and Pingree said in a written statement.
Collins, meanwhile, has also spoken with leadership at the University of Maine and the director of Maine Sea Grant.
University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy, in a written statement Wednesday night, said she was “deeply appreciative of Senator Collins’ leadership and relentless advocacy” for the program.
She said she looks forward to finding a mutually agreeable path forward and noted an “outpouring of support” since the weekend announcement.
Collins has also “exchanged text messages” with Trump adviser and billionaire Elon Musk, she told Politico yesterday. Collins wouldn’t say what the texts have been about, but said she has raised objections to some of the cuts and Musk’s role in the U.S. government.
Staff Writer Daniel Kool contributed to this report.
this won't age well
MJTruthUltra
@MJTruthUltra
Ian Carroll believes Q is a Bullshit Psyop involving Time Traveling lol
As much as I do like Ian and his opinions, based on his words right here, I’m pretty sure he has never read the drops.
For someone who does research “conspiracies” as well as he does, it’s disappointing to hear this kind of mainstream media take.
But I won’t demonize the dude..
What people have to understand, including Ian, is that just like January 6 was infiltrated by Feds to make the movement look like “insurrectionists”, the same has been done with anons who are spreading intentionally dumb shit.
For example, when I first started becoming interested in the subject of Q, some “influencers” had me believe that Q was secretly JFK Jr, the Q group were Time-travelers, or that celebrities who died were taken into witness protection. lol
It wasn’t until I sat down and read every single Q drop like a book that I realized Q never said any of this stuff. That realization began my journey to actually start researching EVERYTHING for myself. And now I dedicate myself to this movement everyday.
When it comes to “decodes”, there are some undeniable proofs that Trump and the Military was/is very much involved with it all… heck, president Trump literally played a song at his rallies titled WWG1WGA and posts incognito Q content quite a lot.
But I will admit, most times “decodes” are just the interpretation of folks who either don’t understand what the hell they’re talking about, haven’t properly researched it, or feds trying to make the collective movement look dumb.
What I did find out when I read every single drop was that Q was talking about some very heavy subjects. World wide subjects that I never even knew existed.
—— The Russia collision Hoax,
—— FISA
—— spying on Trump campaign
—— wide open borders
—— Hillary emails
—— pallets of cash going to foreign countries
—— Obama corruption
—— Snowden and Assange
—— Voting, how mail in voting was a huge democrat scam
—— the Plandemic
—— the SA mass arrests
—— Soros and the top families who basically control the world
—— history of banking, the Titanic
And so much more..
And Since Ian is very outspoken on Israel, he would learn quite a bit of things that point to what he speaks about everyday.
—— the need to follow families and their historical connections to world events.
—— a handful of of corporations own 90+% of all we hear see and read.
Q used the Socratic method to ask a lot of questions, and like Ian, encouraged everyone to think and research things for themselves.
If Ian doesn’t properly research this subject for himself, he cannot be trusted to talk about it in a genuine manner.
I Still got big respect for @IanCarrollShow
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Collin Rugg
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Unearthed video shows Jasmine Crockett talking with a much different accent than the one she has now in Congress.
Interesting.
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>https://x.com/twatterbaas/status/1897690052282507741
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>Them fucking chinee illegals with a billion dollar op.
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Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ Brother Helped Transfer Nine-Acre Black Market Cannabis Grow to Chinese National “Mother” Living in Guangdong Province: Triad Weed
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A Chinese national living in the Guangdong Province, China, became the proud owner of a “fixer upper” in Penobscot County…
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