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Online Learning: Maximizing Results by Leveraging Technology
It’s time for Maine to embrace innovation in education through online learning – a method inherently customized to suit the needs of our individual students. Think about the technological progress we’ve made in different areas of life over the past …
The Past and Present of Customized Learning in Maine
Maine’s first academy, Berwick Academy in South Berwick, was founded in 1791.
This is the first of a three-part series on customized
Schools for Maine’s Future: The Promise of Digital Learning
Read the full report | Maine’s schools face a series of challenges in the years ahead. Despite sizable increases in school spending, student achievement outcomes have remained
The Fastest-Growing General Fund Programs in Maine Government
Read the full report (PDF) | Two years ago, the Maine Heritage Policy Center identified the 40 fastest-growing state programs funded by the state’s General Fund. That
Reforming Teacher Evaluation in Maine: New Haven, Connecticut’s Innovative Approach is a Model for Maine
Read the full report | By June 1 of this year, Maine is to submit its application for the Race to the Top, a federal education
Maine’s School Budget Validation Process Saves Tax Dollars
Read the full report | Today, Maine’s Legislature will begin debate on LD 1739, "An Act To Remove the Requirement that the Annual Budget of a Regional School
Racing to Catch Up
Read the full report | Having fallen behind more reform-minded states, Maine will struggle mightily to demonstrate to the Obama administration that it is worthy of
Setting the Record Straight on TABOR and Education in Colorado
Read the full report | To hear the opponents of the Question 4 Taxpayer Bill of Rights tell it, Colorado’s TABOR provision, passed by voters in 1992,
Who’s Afraid of Questions 2 and 4?
Read the full report | Research of public records reveals that opponents of proposed vehicle excise tax cuts (Question 2) and controls on government spending (Question 4)
Confronting the Critics: Myths and Facts about Charter Schools in Maine
Read the full report | This was supposed to have been the year that Maine finally enacted legislation authorizing public charter schools. In Washington, the Obama Administration
The Maine Heritage Policy Center
