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...
March 23, 2020
The New York Times (3/20, Green) reported “elementary and secondary schools will not be required to do standardized testing,” Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Friday....
March 19, 2020
WHEREAS , I proclaimed a state of emergency on March 15, 2020 to authorize the use of emergency powers in order to expand and expedite the State’s response to the many different...
March 17, 2020
The governor’s supplemental budget including
the General Purpose Aid reflected in the spreadsheets (ED 279s) sent out to
districts in late January is making i...
March 17, 2020
Please click the link below for updates/resources on COVID-19:
https://www.msmaweb.com/o/msma...
March 10, 2020
L.D. 900, An Act To Expand the Rights of Public Employees under the Maine Labor Laws, which would allow public employees, including teachers, to strike is before the House of Repr...
March 6, 2020
Washington,
D.C.: Following the Department of Education’s announcement to halt
a change to the methodology that determines which rural schools are eligible
for funding thr...
March 3, 2020
Response team met yesterday to build on Maine CDC’s work in coordinating coronavirus preparation and response to protect public health
Governor Janet Mills convened her Coron...
February 27, 2020
Maine DOE Newsroom
Reminders for School Communities Regarding the 2019 Novel Coronavirus!
Please note that at this time Maine has no confirmed cases associated with...