Live Blogging the LD 1799 Stakeholder group’s last (?) meeting before the May 14 deadline…
3:20pm. It doesn’t seem as though this needed to be as hard as is turned out to be, but the A.G is happy and Maine’s RTT application WILL go forward. […]
Read More →Budget Validation on ballots today
As I noted in a blog post yesterday, the budget validation process itself is up for a vote in some of Maine’s biggest school districts. When they go to the […]
Read More →Some of Maine’s biggest school districts to vote on Budget Validation process tomorrow.
It is school budget approval time for many school districts across Maine, which means it is time for voters to the head to the polls. By virtue of a recent […]
Read More →Maine’s Energy Burden
Unfortunately, there is a dearth of good comparative energy information by state. I recently found the website of the Institute for Energy Research that not only ranks the 50 states […]
Read More →New Haven teacher evaluation model may be salvation of stakeholder group
The infamous LD 1799 stakeholder group, which holds Maine’s hopes for a Race to the Top grant in its hands, has now met twice. The first meeting was something of […]
Read More →2009 County Population Estimates
In February I showed a presentation at our monthly Bangor and Portland lunches that showed Maine lost population for the first time since the 1960s. Recently the U.S. Department of […]
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Senate Finance Committee: Skating on Potomac River Ice in the Middle of a “Snowe” Storm
It never ceases to amaze me how the busiest woman in Washington remains so accessible. Just this week alone, I am aware of 8-10 hours of direct Washington senior staff […]
Read More →WSJ on teacher unions, PPH on charter schools
They come from right of center and left of center, but the Wall St. Journal and the Portland Press Herald share some common ground on issues of education reform. In […]
Read More →Maine Medicaid to Grow by up to 30,000 Thanks to Federal “Stimulus”?
The $825 billion (and growing) stimulus package working its way through Congress contains a dramatic expansion of Medicaid, which entitles anyone laid off and receiving unemployment, regardless of income or […]
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