June 4, 2021
AUGUSTA: With the assistance of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Maine public schools have long offered a nutritious breakfast and lunch meal program to thousands of children ...
June 1, 2021
The Superintendent/Assistant Superintendent of the Year program information for 2022 is now available.
Nominations for these awards often come from school board members or scho...
May 26, 2021
The letter linked below was sent this morning to Senate President Jackson and House Speaker Fecteau asking them to oppose their own bill – L.D. 677 – that gives teachers the right...
May 21, 2021
A bill that would give teachers the right to strike and allow binding arbitration around wages and benefits – actions now prohibited under Maine law in the best interest of studen...
May 12, 2021
Governor Janet Mills today released a state budget plan that increases General Purpose Aid to schools by $187 million, bringing state share of the cost of education to 55 percent ...
February 2, 2021
Since 2012, the Maine Resilience Building Network has provided experienced leadership, professional development, training, systems change and advocacy for Maine to build more res...
January 26, 2021
We have been asked by Jason Judd, Executive Director of Educate Maine, and Christa Thorpe, Community Development Officer of the Island Institute, to forward the following info...
January 8, 2021
Governor Janet Mills released her proposed budget for fiscal years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 with a $22.5 million increase in public education funding in each year o...
December 14, 2020
The House and Senate named legislative committee members on Dec. 11. Listed below are the members of the Education Committee, which hears bills related to pre-K-12...
November 24, 2020
21 retired nurses join ranks with Maine Department of Education to support schools in their contract tracing efforts and notification
Augusta, MAINE – Commissioner of E...
November 23, 2020
The first American Indian Day was celebrated in May 1916 in New York. The event culminated an effort by Red Fox James, a member of the Blackfeet Nation who rode across the nation ...
November 23, 2020
Maine’s school leaders are diligently enforcing safety rules to keep students and staff safe as the second surge of the COVID virus sweeps across the country and w...
November 20, 2020
More than 730 students in rural Maine will have access to highspeed broadband to support remote learning by the end of the year through the Governor’s ConnectKidsNow! Initiative ...
October 8, 2020
“Public Education: Embracing Our Future Together” is the theme of this year’s Fall Conference to be held virtually this year on Friday and Saturday, October 30 and 31. The two da...
August 27, 2020
Governor Mills has issued an executive order
that addresses potential teacher, support staff and administrator shortages
in schools this year because of the p...
August 17, 2020
The Maine School Boards Association and the Maine School Superintendents Association are pleased to announce the Cultural Competence Institute (CCI) for all Maine educators, prese...
July 9, 2020
School Board members and superintendents are urged to support Question 1 on the July 14 ballot, which would approve a $15 million bond to invest in high speed internet in underser...
June 26, 2020
The Maine Department of Education, in collaboration with a diverse group of stakeholders and experts in the field, has created this initial iteration of a framework to assist in ...
May 13, 2020
On May 5, 2020 the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced that Maine, North Dakota, West Virginia and Vermont were approved to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Tr...
April 21, 2020
Last week a virtual panel discussion was held regarding the COVID-19 outbreak and:
Lessons from past outbreaks that we can draw from today
Strategies for communica...