The Real World Design Challenge is an annual competition that provides high school students, grades 9-12, the opportunity to work on real-world engineering challenges in a team environment.
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CORRECTION: The item below has been corrected to show that appointments to both the Part C group and the Part B group will be made by the Governor.
The Maine Department of Education is seeking eligible, interested parents of students with disabilities, providers, programs administrators, private and public charter school representatives, and individuals with disabilities to serve on two advisory boards established under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
The Maine Department of Education expects to finally adopt a comprehensive revision of rules governing restraint and seclusion of students (Rule Chapter 33) by the end of this week. The effective date of the rule will be set by the Office of the Secretary of State and is expected to be June 7.
Seven schools in four districts received one of the nation’s highest nutrition awards for their achievements in the HealthierUS School Challenge last week.
John Magnarelli, USDA’s top regional school lunch official, presented students, administrators and food service staff with plaques and banners at schools in Kittery, York, Wells-Ogunquit CSD and MSAD 72.
The debt limit deal enacted by Congress on August 2, 2011 calls for about $900 billion in cuts in discretionary programs over the next decade and would impose further automatic, across-the-board spending cuts in many programs if Congress were to fail to enact an additional $1.2 trillion in deficit-reduction measures by January 15, 2012. These automatic cuts are known as sequestration. Because Congress did not agree on the additional measures, the automatic cuts – the sequestration – are scheduled to go into effect.
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For the second year in a row, S. W. Cole Engineering, Inc. will hold a contest this fall for schools throughout the company’s service areas to promote science and engineering educational programs. The contest, called “Dig into Science with S. W. Cole Engineering,” is open to science, math or engineering students in first through 12th grade in Maine and New Hampshire.
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Because Maine is a governing state for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, the Maine Department of Education encourages qualified grades 3-11 English language arts/literacy and mathematics teachers to apply to become item authors for the Consortium.
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Updated 6/19/2012: Please see updated information on the Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Educational Services
ORONO – As eighth graders, Tim Walsh and his classmates at Middle School of the Kennebunks designed eco-friendly hotel rooms for the Nonantum Resort in Kennebunkport.
Now, as a freshman at Kennebunk High School, Walsh has graduated from being a student involved with the Green Room Project to being a mentor for current eighth grade art students tackling the same assignment. Continue reading “MLTI design student turns mentor”
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The Maine DOE has entered the second, more earnest, phase of work developing an accountability and improvement system that’s thoughtful, fair and constructive; a system that considers multiple valid measures in determining the performance of students and schools; and a system that helps struggling schools improve rather than feel stigmatized.
Continue reading “Discussion, continued: Maine’s request for ESEA flexibility”
