Election Day and Maine’s Education Future
At long last, Election Day is here. The votes cast today will, of course, have a huge impact on the development of public policy generally, but it is education issues […]
Read More →Among the school reformers…
So how far behind is Maine in terms of school reform? Way behind. Though I knew this already and have been banging this drum for what seems like years at […]
Read More →Libby Mitchell’s fuzzy math
Libby Mitchell’s school reform plan has a lot of different elements, and if they have one thing in common, it is that they involve a great deal of spending. According […]
Read More →New report calls for Maine to adopt charter schools, school vouchers
A new report from Envision Maine is in the news, with articles about it in the Portland Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News. The BDN even goes so far […]
Read More →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 →Libby Mitchell responds to Cutler op-ed…
Yesterday, I suggested that gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler’s recent Bangor Daily News op-ed raking Sen. Libby Mitchell and the Maine Education Association over the coals might be an indication that […]
Read More →Education issues to take center stage in Governor’s race?
I want to take a quick time-out from my ongoing analysis of Maine’s Race to the Top application in order to discuss a fiery op-ed from gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler, […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 3
In Part 3 of my series on Maine’s Race to the Top application, we look at section A(2) of the application, which has to do with the state’s capacity to […]
Read More →GOP Gubernatorial Candidates on How to Fix Maine Schools
What appears to be the last statewide debate between the seven Republican candidates for Governor took place last night, and was broadcast live on WMTW. (The debate is available for […]
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 […]
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