The Maine Department of Education has developed a companion document to the legally-required procedural safeguards. Continue reading “Parent-friendly procedural safeguards available”
Category: Special Education
Notice of Proposed Rule Change: Chapter 101, Maine Unified Special Education Regulation Birth to Age Twenty
The Maine Department of Education is proposing changes to Chapter 101, “Maine Unified Special Education Regulation Birth to Age Twenty,” a Maine Department of Education rule. Continue reading “Notice of Proposed Rule Change: Chapter 101, Maine Unified Special Education Regulation Birth to Age Twenty”
Mandatory race and ethnicity reports due Nov. 30
The 2012 EEO-5 Online Filing System is now open and accepting annual reports from school districts in either the revised race and ethnicity categories or the prior U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission race and ethnicity categories.
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Learn more about collaborative problem solving approach to school discipline
Teachers, administrators, school counselors and mental health specialists are invited to attend the second annual Lives in the Balance conference to learn more about the Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) approach to school discipline practices.
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Scholarship allows in-service teachers to become ESL-endorsed
The University of Maine’s Project Reach program offers in-service teachers a scholarship to enable them to become English as a Second Language-endorsed.
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Rule Change Adoption: Chapter 4-A, Procedural Rule, Equal Educational Opportunity
Rule changes proposed for the Maine Human Rights Commission and the Department of Education, Rule Chapter 4-A,Procedural Rule, Equal Educational Opportunity, have been finally adopted.
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Training for those helping youth transition from detention facilities
Anyone who works with youth transitioning from a juvenile detention facility to school is invited to attend a training workshop sponsored in part by Project IMPACT (Interagency Model Project for Academic and Correctional Transition).
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Amended guidance on federal sequestration
This is an update on the current status of the anticipated sequestration of federal funds as a result of the debt limit deal enacted by Congress on August 2, 2011. The President is required to issue a sequestration order, which will have immediate effect, no later than Jan. 2, 2013.
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New mentoring workshop for educators of gifted and talented
New and experienced gifted and talented educators will have a chance to learn new skills and practices at a mentoring workshop sponsored by the Maine Department of Education.
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From homelessness to happiness through Jobs for Maine’s Graduates program
Thanks to Jobs for Maine’s Graduates for sharing the following article with the Maine DOE for publication.
You might not think a teenager who earned good grades and had plenty of friends would have any trouble in high school, but Missy Nolette-Bald did. A 1995 alumnus of the Jobs for Maine’s Graduates (JMG) program at Biddeford High School, Nolette-Bald faced some major struggles at home.
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