AUGUSTA – The four-year graduation rate for Maine high schools rose for a third year in a row, to 85.34 percent for 2012. It’s a rise of more than 1½ percentage points from the previous year and nearly 5 percentage points since 2009.
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The following is a news release from the Maine Charter School Commission.
AUGUSTA — The Maine Charter School Commission approved two new charter schools on Tuesday to open next fall: the Harpswell Coastal Academy and the Fiddlehead School of Arts and Sciences in Gray.
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State preparing for move to Smarter Balanced assessment in 2014
AUGUSTA – Reading and math scores in grades 3 through 8 are flat, while writing scores increased slightly after a decline the previous year. The scores are from the latest New England Common Assessment Program tests, taken in October 2012.
AUGUSTA – Maine’s finance and education commissioners questioned Education Committee action on Wednesday that they called the opening salvo in a campaign to undermine the state’s new public charter schools before they have barely gotten started.
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At an event to showcase Hermon’s Bridge Year program to area legislators on Friday, Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen told the audience the program is so promising that Gov. Paul R. LePage has included money in his proposed budget to replicate it in schools statewide.
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Thanks to the United States Senate Youth Program for sharing the following press release with the Maine Department of Education for publication.
AUGUSTA—Senators Susan M. Collins and Angus King today announced the names of the two students who have been selected as delegates to the 51st Annual United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP) that will be held March 9 to 16, 2013, in Washington, D.C.
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The Maine Department of Public Safety has just issued the following release. While law enforcement has found no credible threat, all agencies involved, including local school districts working with state and local law enforcement and the Maine Department of Education, remain vigilant and committed to the task of school emergency preparedness and take seriously all possible threats.
NEWS RELEASE from the Maine Department of Public Safety
from Spokesman Steve McCausland – 626-3811
Gov. Paul R. LePage issued the following press release this evening:
AUGUSTA – Governor Paul R. LePage asks that the people of Maine observe a moment of silence on Friday, Dec. 21, at 9:30 a.m., in remembrance of the victims of the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Gov. Paul R. LePage issued the following statement Friday after learning of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., earlier today:
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AUGUSTA – The move toward evaluation systems for teachers in all Maine schools takes a big step forward this month. Continue reading “Teacher eval systems move forward”
