Gendron calls on school leaders to review teacher evaluation models
With the clock ticking on Maine’s Race to the Top application, the state’s Department of Education is calling on school officials to begin exploring the idea of teacher evaluation models […]
Read More →One seemingly quiet day, two big education stories
With the legislature finally out of Session, one would think things might quiet down in Augusta, at least on the education front, but today ended up being far more newsworthy […]
Read More →Racing to the Bottom
Done and done. The House, without any debate, has approved the Senate amendment to LD 1799, and has seized from Maine’s school districts the right to select their own models […]
Read More →Racing Backwards…
Where to begin? By a 22 to 12 vote, a bipartisan majority of the Maine Senate tonight voted to prohibit the use of ANY teacher evaluation system which uses student […]
Read More →A little good news on Race to the Top, lots of bad news.
The good news is that, true to his word, Arne Duncan selected only two states out of forty to win in the first round of the Race to the Top […]
Read More →Race to the Top winners to be announced today
The winners of the first round of the federal Race to the Top grant competition will be announced at 1pm today, and as a number of folks in the education […]
Read More →Charter schools for Maine? Part 2
My hope had been that I would able, by now, to report that the Legislature’s Education Committee had voted the charter school bill out and sent it on to the […]
Read More →Charter School legislation coming up
Today’s Bangor Daily News describes upcoming legislation that would, at long last, authorize charter schools for Maine. Maine is one of only 10 states in the nation that does not […]
Read More →School Choice working for families in Lincoln County
A terrific column by Matt Stone in this weekend’s Kennebec Journal outlines how Wiscasset High School is working to attract students in the new RSU of which it is part, […]
Read More →Most consolidation plans panned in Tuesday voting
According to MDIschools.net, the state’s best resource for school district consolidation news, of the 18 school consolidation plans that went before voters yesterday, eleven were defeated. It will surprise almost […]
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