Reorganization and the Threat to Maine’s Tradition of School Choice
Read the full report | Before adjourning its recent session, the state legislature approved a much-needed and long-awaited bill to fix some of the technical and other issues with the […]
Read More →Beyond School District Reorganization: A Vision for Education Reform
Read the full report | Just before the December 1st deadline for Maine’s school units to submit their district reorganization plans, the Maine Department of Education released a long-awaited proposal […]
Read More →New York’s BOCES System: A Model for Maine?
Read the full report | Under the provisions of the school district reorganization law passed last spring, school and community leaders had until December 1 of this year to develop […]
Read More →Portsmouth Herald: Baldacci’s Maine school consolidation idea unravels
A couple of weeks ago, the Brunswick Times Record became one of the few major papers to editorialize against the state’s school system consolidation plan. Today, the Portsmouth Herald joins […]
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 →Is Bigger that Much Better? School District Size, High School Completion, and Post-Secondary Enrollment Rates in Maine
Read the full report | If recent news stories from across Maine are any indication, opposition to the state-mandated school district consolidation effort is growing. Communities are finding that instead […]
Read More →Lincoln County News: Consolidation work “nightmarish”
I post this story because I think this may be the first time the word “nightmarish” has shown up in the newspapers in a story about current efforts to consolidate […]
Read More →Saving Our Small Schools: Is Privatization an Option?
Read the full report | Maine’s small schools are in danger. Though legislators deliberating Governor Baldacci’s school system consolidation proposal could have found other ways to generate administrative savings within and […]
Read More →How Consolidation Threatens School Choice
Read the full report | What the people of Arrowsic, Georgetown, Phippsburg, West Bath, and Woolwich are being encouraged to do would shock supporters of school choice across the nation, […]
Read More →The Sinclair Act at 50: What History Tells Us about the Consequences of Consolidation
Read the full report | How much of the following sounds familiar? Maine people were told by the “powers that be” that the state’s schools were too costly. The problem, […]
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