Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 2
Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part A(1)(iii): The state’s achievement goals and how stakeholder support “will translate into broad statewide impact.” Yesterday, I briefly described the school reform vision […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 1
Whether Maine wins a federal grant or not, the state’s Race to the Top application will likely drive the education reform discussion in Maine for some time. But what does […]
Read More →Live Blogging the Education Committee’s June meeting
4:00 pm: Ending on time, and a good meeting overall – good to see the committee throwing its weight around a little. There wasn’t nearly enough of this last legislative […]
Read More →Maine’s Race to the Top application due today
June 1 has arrived and applications for the second round of federal Race to the Top grants are due today, including Maine’s. Not wanting to tip its hand, the state […]
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 […]
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 →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 →BDN – Greenville’s small school a key to its community
The BDN features a very good front page article this morning about how well the Greenville school has done despite its small size. Check out these statistics from the article: […]
Read More →Sinclair Act recalled by current consolidation efforts
Today’s Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal feature a story on the Sinclair Act which makes use of quite a bit of MHPC research, as in the following clip: Bob Whytock […]
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