It is called, “an awesome opportunity for a student;” the Tyler Technologies’ 2016 Maine App Challenge. This is a contest for Maine high school students to design, develop and demonstrate Android mobile apps. The apps need to be helpful to the students’ communities and schools.
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The Maine DOE is seeking comments from the public on its annual application for federal funds under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which covers services for children with disabilities, ages 3-20.
The application, which covers Maine fiscal year 2017 (starting July 1, 2016) is posted on the Maine DOE’s web page at www.maine.gov/doe/specialed/idea. The Part B budget is projected on the basis of Maine’s award for the current State fiscal year (2016), pending the State’s receipt of the finalized federal award for the coming year.
Written comments will be accepted from March 26, 2016 until 4 p.m. on April 24, 2016. Please send comments to Janice Breton at janice.breton@maine.gov or 23 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333.
Prior to the passage of the Every Student Success Act (ESSA), the Maine Department of Education had provided a protocol for schoolwide annual review. The recent reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as amended by ESSA places the schoolwide annual review in transition during 2016-2017 school year.
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The following Priority Notice was sent to superintendents.
Dear Superintendents,
I am writing to let you know registration is now open for our 105th Annual Commissioner’s Conference for Superintendents, scheduled for June 26-28 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor.
We’re looking forward to seeing you there and excited about how the agenda – developed in collaboration with the Maine School Superintendents Association – is coming together to best focus on the topics we continue to hear are of most importance to you.
The Maine DOE is pleased to announce new specialists who will be working in Augusta and in the field assisting you on a variety of fronts.
Bob Hasson, who has been in the education field for 37 years, is the new director of certification. Most recently, Bob worked as Deputy Executive Director of the Maine School Management Association and was Executive Director of the Maine School Superintendents Association. Prior to that, he was the superintendent of MSAD 51. Bob earned his BA from Saint Joseph’s College in Standish in Elementary Education, a M.Ed. in Special Education from Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts, and he earned his Doctorate in Education from Boston College.
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The Maine DOE is replacing its current student information system (SIS), Infinite Campus State Edition (ICSE), with Edupoint Synergy. The change will take place over the next two years, and the new Synergy computer system will have little or no impact on the student data system currently in use in Maine’s school administrative units (SAUs).
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The MEA Alternate Mathematics and English Language Arts/Literacy assessment known as the Multi-State Alternate Assessment (MSAA) is moving forward. On Friday, February 19, all students and Test Coordinators were registered in the MSAA System. Test Coordinators may now begin registering Test Administrators.
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Welcome to the February issue of the Maine DOE Monthly, which provides a recap of some of the month’s most important updates from the Department.
The Department is hard at work on several fronts.
We are getting up to speed on the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) with a particular interest in making sure implementing of regulations and reporting are not prohibitively complex for small and rural school districts.
Reprinted with permission from the Department of Administrative and Financial Services (DAFS).
AUGUSTA — As tax conformity legislation continues to make its way through the Maine Legislature, the Department of Administrative and Financial Services (DAFS) has heard from stakeholders in the education community asking about the effects of this proposal on teachers.
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Reprinted with permission from the Office of Governor Paul LePage.
AUGUSTA – Governor Paul R. LePage is urging teachers to contact Democrats in the Legislature and tell them to support the administration’s tax conformity bill that will provide teachers with tax benefits for school supplies they pay for out of their own pocket.
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