State law, 20-A MRSA Section 13013-A subsection 5 & 6; as Amended by PL 2012 c. 702, established the National Board Certification Scholarship Fund to encourage teachers to apply to and enroll in the certification program offered by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, or its successor organization.
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Recent legislative changes to the salary supplement for teachers who have attained National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification are now in effect.
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The Department has posted a Question and Answer document relating to Rule Chapter 33, “Rule Governing Physical Restraint and Seclusion.” Continue reading “Rule Chapter 33 Q & A now available”
Call it a hunch.
Julia Bluhm, an eighth grader from Waterville Junior High, had a sneaking suspicion that not all young women were beautiful, thin and fit.
Yet, as Bluhm flipped through the pages of last May’s Seventeen magazine, there they were, in glorious color, one perfect teen after another.
Of course, it wasn’t just May’s issue. And it wasn’t just Seventeen magazine. These smiling stick-figures in minimalist fashions were everywhere, she discovered, seemingly taunting her.
“All fake,” Bluhm concluded.
Riding a mantra of “if you don’t like something, change it,” Bluhm and her Waterville Junior High partner Izzy Labbe set out on a campaign to shake up the good folks who, for starters, publish Seventeen. The magazine’s current circulation is 20 million worldwide.
“When girls read magazines like Seventeen, they shouldn’t have to be subjected to Photoshopped images and subliminal messages about the way they are supposed to look,” Labbe said.
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The Governor’s Office has issued the following notice:
AUGUSTA – In accordance with a Presidential proclamation, the United States flag and the State of Maine flag shall be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset Friday, August 31, 2012, to honor the passing of astronaut Neil Armstrong.
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The Maine Migrant Education Program survey has been updated for the 2012-13 school year, and the Department of Education is requesting that school units distribute it to all newly enrolled students.
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The White House honored Linda St. Andre, principal of Governor James B. Longley Elementary School in Lewiston, among 12 distinguished school turnaround leaders named “Champions of Change” last week.
When St. Andre became principal of Longley in 2010, the school had been identified as one of Maine’s lowest performing schools and was in the process of accepting a federal School Improvement Grant (SIG). As a result, Longley became the first Maine school to implement the turnaround model.
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Rule changes proposed for the Maine Department of Education, Rule Chapter 13, Qualifying Examinations for Teachers, Educational Specialists and Administrators, have been finally adopted.
The Maine Education Data Management System’s staff edition is open for staff data collection for the 2012-13 school year.
Schools that receive federal Title I funds, have poverty rates of at least 40 percent and have approved Title IA Schoolwide Plans are eligible to use their Title I funds – and funds from other sources – to develop “schoolwide programs.”
