MHPC Releases Question 2 Report
AUGUSTA- This week, The Maine Heritage Policy Center (MHPC) released a new report, The Wrong Choice for ME: How Question 2 would exacerbate inequality in K-12 education and cost thousands of […]
Read More →The MEA looks ahead…
The Maine Education Association took its fair share of lumps (and then some) this past election season. The union backed the wrong horse in the gubernatorial race, dropping more than […]
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 →Maine’s Race to the Top “Report Card” is out and it is not pretty.
The U.S. Department of Education has released the scoring data for the second round of the Race to the Top competition and why Maine ended up ranking near the very […]
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 →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 8
Part D (2) of the Race to the Top application has to do with “improving teacher and principal effectiveness based on performance.” This single section of the application is worth […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 4
The last part of the first section of Maine’s Race to the Top application relates to how well the state has done “over the past several years” at improving student […]
Read More →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 →MEA: Maine suffering from “ballooning class sizes.” Really? (Part 2)
Yesterday, I took a look at the Maine Education Association’s claims that class sizes in Maine are “ballooning.” The truth, as the U.S. D.O.E., Education Week, and others have found, […]
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