Maine plunges on technology index
The Bangor Daily News reported yesterday that Maine has dropped 6 places, from being ranked 33rd nationally to now being 39th on the Milken Institute’s State Science and Technology Index. […]
Read More →First RSU takes power today
Though it seems to have escaped the attention of most newspapers, the Forecaster reports here that Bath-area RSU 1 takes effect today as the state’s first “reorganized” school district. This […]
Read More →Portland Press Herald supports school choice?
An odd and somewhat confusing editorial from our friends at the Portland Press Herald today. The piece is focused around the issue of exclusive tuitioning contracts. Towns without their own […]
Read More →Voters taking advantage of school budget validation process
The school budget validation process, which was part of the school district reorganization law passed last year, is proving popular with voters. The process allows for a referendum vote on […]
Read More →School Choice in the news
In an ironic coincidence, the Wall Street Journal editorialized today about the growing popularity of school choice options in Florida, just a we released a new report outlining how existing […]
Read More →Is school choice being preserved as school districts consolidate? Not really.
The controversial school reorganization law that passed last year was supposed to preserve school choice for those communities that had it. The Department of Education’s reorganization website says clearly that […]
Read More →Consolidation Conundrums Continue…
As the Reorganization Planning Committees (RPC’s) get back to work developing plans for the creation of Regional School Units (RSU’s), they will have to deal with latest wrinkle in the […]
Read More →School Choice issues fill the op-ed pages
In less than a week, two separate op-eds on school choice have appeared in Maine’s two largest newspapers. Last Thursday, my piece on the loss of school choice in the […]
Read More →So what ultimately happened with school consolidation?
In all the furor surrounding the legislature’s $53 million tax day tax increase, it may have been overlooked that even though it took them three and half months to do […]
Read More →$100 a day and what do you get…
With the legislature’s most recent tax-increasing outrage dominating the news from Augusta, it may have escaped the attention of the public that as of yesterday, the 17th, our intrepid legislators […]
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