The MEA comes after Paul LePage
Looks like Al Diamon isn’t the only one who sees Waterville mayor Paul LePage as the one to beat in the race to be Maine’s next governor. The Maine Education […]
Read More →The Empire Strikes Back: Brenda Harvey’s assault on MHPC’s Welfare Report
Even in a small state like this, it is amazing what happens to you when you dare to question state agencies and departments about the work they do. For an example, […]
Read More →Steps to Fix Maine’s Welfare System
As Tarren has made clear, Maine faces an unsustainable explosion in welfare dependence. In our research, we have identified a handful of state policies that we feel have been instrumental […]
Read More →Maine’s Race to the Top “Report Card” is out and it is not pretty.
The U.S. Department of Education has released the scoring data for the second round of the Race to the Top competition and why Maine ended up ranking near the very […]
Read More →Maine ranks 33rd out of 36 Race to the Top states in Round 2 scoring
As readers of this blog will recall, Maine applied for the second round of grants under the federal Race to the Top program earlier this year and did not even […]
Read More →Maine’s Race to the Top application doesn’t make the cut…
According to Education Week, we’re out. More later…
Read More →Maine’s Race to the Top Application – the Final Analysis
So after 12,000 words of analysis spread over 14 blog entries, what is my bottom line on Maine’s Race to the Top application? We’ll evidently find out Monday whether we […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 14
The last section of the Race the Top application describes “Competition Priorities,” which appear to be issues that the U.S. Department of Education wants to see addressed in the applications […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 13
As we near the end of the state’s Race to the Top application – only 10 pages remain that we have yet to review – my sense is that we […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 12
Part F of the state’s Race to the Top application is a catch-all section touching on school funding, charter schools, and other school reform approaches that may not have been […]
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