Predictions for Consolidation Plans
Our friends over at AsMaineGoes have been doing a little predicting. How will the 17 consolidation plans to go before voters turn out? My guesses: · Falmouth / MSAD 51(Cumberland). […]
Read More →Education news roundup
It has been a few weeks since the last update on the education blog. A few news stories of note: Skip Greenlaw’s Maine Coalition to Save Schools submitted 61,142 signatures […]
Read More →Movement afoot on charter schools and teacher pay reform?
It is probably fair to say that the Democratic party and the teacher’s unions have traditionally opposed much in the way of substantive school reform other than spending more money […]
Read More →New report sheds light on remediation costs for colleges
How good are the nation’s K-12 schools? A new report attempts to measure that by looking at the number of incoming college students in need of remedial work as a […]
Read More →Dropping of MEA test results raises questions
What was for many the first full week back to school got off to a rocky start with a report in yesterday’s Maine Sunday Telegram revealing that the Maine Department […]
Read More →Pupil numbers down, school staff numbers up
It was reported recently that Maine’s school enrollment is projected to drop below 190,000, down dramatically from 216,000 only a decade ago. The Department of Education expects enrollment to continue […]
Read More →Consolidation update
As I described in an op-ed in yesterday’s Kennebec Journal, the district consolidation effort is not moving forward quite as well as some would have us believe. With regard to […]
Read More →Portland’s teacher pay problem
Though The Maine Heritage Policy Center has been supportive of alternative teacher compensation models, what the Portland school system came up with is not what we had in mind. As […]
Read More →Glass half full time at Maine Dept. of Education
Lots of lipstick being applied to the school district reorganization pig this week. The Department of Education, always looking on the bright side, reported this week that “half of all […]
Read More →Sheepscot Valley consolidation plan would preserve choice
Last month, we released a report entitled District Consolidation and the Threat to School Choice: 15 Reorganization Plans to Watch. In it, as the title makes clear, we identified a […]
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