From charter schools and school funding, to the State budget, the first session of the 125th Maine Legislature was an eventful one for the state’s public schools.
The Maine Department of Education has prepared a summary of major laws related to education enacted by the First Regular Session of the 125th Maine Legislature. Continue reading “Maine DOE’s legislative summary available”
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POLICY CODE: DI
Continue reading “Reporting Deadlines and Subsidy Withholding”
ADMINISTRATIVE LETTER: 54
POLICY CODE: GC
Continue reading “Notice of Proposed Rule Change: Chapter 13, Educator Testing”
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POLICY CODE: IH
Continue reading “Use of Written Notice to Record Refusal to Hold IFSP/IEP Team Meeting”
Schools for Excellence initiative piloted at 18 Maine schools with focus on training and incentives
AUGUSTA — Teachers at 18 schools in five Maine school districts are participating in focused and integrated professional development, and developing new evaluation and performance-based pay systems this fall. The goal: improved achievement for their 5,500 students.
Continue reading “Teachers take active role in focus on training”
Note: This dispatch was updated on Sept. 30, 2011, to include a Nov. 1 deadline for submitting performance report.
The Maine Department of Education is allowing school districts to begin filing online performance reports concerning their expenditures of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds awarded under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Continue reading “Reporting ARRA funds awarded under IDEA, Part B”
The Maine Department of Education is distributing $836,000 to the state’s school districts to fund special educational services for preschool-age children with disabilities for the 2011-12 school year.
The federal government this week released the final application that states will need to submit to enter the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge. Maine is eligible for up to $50 million in the competition, which asks states to do some thoughtful planning to determine how they can expand access to early childhood education and make existing early childhood education programs better.
We’ve already started this work in collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services, the Maine Children’s Growth Council and others.
In the coming weeks, we’ll launch a web page devoted to our Race to the Top efforts and ask you — the public — to submit your ideas for how we can improve early childhood education in Maine.
Three teachers from China who will teach Mandarin language and Chinese culture classes in Maine schools during the 2011-12 school year met with Gov. Paul LePage on Aug. 22 as part of a daylong orientation to their new jobs.
The released items from the 2011 state science assessments have been posted to the Maine Department of Education website.
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