A big week for education in Maine
I don’t imagine most people even realized it, but there were two big developments this week in the world of K-12 education in Maine. The first, and bigger of the […]
Read More →Live Blogging the LD 1799 Stakeholder group’s last (?) meeting before the May 14 deadline…
3:20pm. It doesn’t seem as though this needed to be as hard as is turned out to be, but the A.G is happy and Maine’s RTT application WILL go forward. […]
Read More →Budget Validation on ballots today
As I noted in a blog post yesterday, the budget validation process itself is up for a vote in some of Maine’s biggest school districts. When they go to the […]
Read More →Some of Maine’s biggest school districts to vote on Budget Validation process tomorrow.
It is school budget approval time for many school districts across Maine, which means it is time for voters to the head to the polls. By virtue of a recent […]
Read More →Our new report on the New Haven model
As I promised in my last post, we’ve just released a new Issue Brief report on the new teacher evaluation model that was developed by the New Haven, Connecticut, public […]
Read More →New Haven teacher evaluation model may be salvation of stakeholder group
The infamous LD 1799 stakeholder group, which holds Maine’s hopes for a Race to the Top grant in its hands, has now met twice. The first meeting was something of […]
Read More →The Otten imbroglio, continued…
In an article in today’s Portland Press Herald, the Otten campaign makes another attempt to downplay their liberal use of my work in answer to a question on education policy […]
Read More →The Otten imbroglio…
In my March 4th testimony before the legislature’s Education Committee, I laid out why I thought the state should adopt bold reform measures in response to the federal Race to […]
Read More →Stakeholders Meeting regarding Race to the Top Funds
After some time to reflect, a few thoughts on yesterday’s meeting in Augusta: Considering the madness of the entire enterprise – taking two weeks to develop a model for performance-based […]
Read More →Liveblogging the LD1799 Stakeholder Meeting
Check out my live blog from today’s stakeholder meeting in Augusta. Things got tense at times, and it’s clear that frustration has set in with many of the parties involved […]
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