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Health Insurance Conundrum for Maine’s Teachers | edumaine
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A-F Grading System Can’t “Meet the Standard”. Update on Experience Ratings: LD300 →. May 10, 2013 · 7:42 pm. Health Insurance Conundrum for Maine’s Teachers. 3 years ago, I was employed by the Maine Education Association. As one of 16 UniServ Directors (union rep) in the state. We all had basic bargaining strategies we passed along to local Associations, but an important one was: Don’t create different levels of benefits for employees within a bargaining unit. D In order to facilitate the competitive bid...
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Sitting on the Dock of the Bay … | edumaine
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Retirement Concerns for Maine Educators. New Teacher Evaluation Process for Maine →. May 11, 2011 · 9:37 pm. Sitting on the Dock of the Bay …. A May 9th post entitled “ Setting high standards, and sticking to them. 8221; by Maine Commissioner of Education Stephen Bowen at the Maine Department of Education Newsroom prompted me to reply there. However, the webpage advises: LEAVE A REPLY WITH YOUR COMMENTS. WE’LL SHARE THEM IN FUTURE POSTS. The Maine DoE News later tweeted “. Which creates the impression th...
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New Teacher Evaluation Process for Maine | edumaine
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Sitting on the Dock of the Bay …. Education Studies: Who Would Know? June 1, 2011 · 3:33 pm. New Teacher Evaluation Process for Maine. A, by circumstances beyond my control, very short legislative history of teacher evaluations in Maine:. Until the Spring of 2010, Maine teachers could not legally be evaluated using student assessments. The previous law read:. 20-A MRSA 6204(3), now repealed]. When the federal Race to the Top. Despite their professed opposition. The Maine Education Association. Anyway, in...
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EduMaine is a blog by Nancy Hudak, a former teacher, lawyer and union representative from Maine now semi-retired and blogging about education in Maine (and elsewhere). 2 responses to “. August 7, 2011 at 9:44 pm. Or does my employment end August, 31? Do I have to work for this school district for the first two months of the school year as a teacher’s aid? What if I find a new employer for the next school year? Does the district still have to pay the 90 days notice salary? August 8, 2011 at 10:37 am.
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Update on Experience Ratings: LD300 | edumaine
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Health Insurance Conundrum for Maine’s Teachers. May 20, 2013 · 7:22 pm. Update on Experience Ratings: LD300. A letter to the editor. In the May 14, 2013 edition of the Portland Press Herald. Led me to check out a bill introduced by Rep. Henry Beck (D-Waterville ), LD 300. The bill Summary says: “. In other words, the bill would negate the effects of LD 1326. From last session, An Act to Allow School Administrative Units to Seek Less Expensive Health Insurance Alternatives. 8216;s “. If the MEA wanted th...
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Stopping the Minimum Teacher Salary | edumaine
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Still Banned at Maine DoE →. August 3, 2012 · 6:23 pm. Stopping the Minimum Teacher Salary. According the Maine Department of Education’s website. Followed by an article. In the Bangor Daily News today, the State of Maine has decided to stop subsidizing the minimum teacher salary. The minimum teacher salary has been $30,000 in Maine for many years ($27,000 in 2005-06; $30,000 since then) [ 20-A MRSA 13405, 13406. However, the state has been reimbursing school systems that did not pay the minimum. There w...
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Education Studies: Who Would Know? Redux | edumaine
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New Teacher Evaluation Process for Maine. Defending Public Education →. January 1, 2012 · 3:12 pm. Education Studies: Who Would Know? I received a couple of private responses to a post entitled Education Studies: Who Would Know? After it appeared on DirigoBlue. Really, I do. That being said, I was banned* earlier this year from posting at the Department of Education’s Newsroom. 8220; I can only assume the term. I fail to see how anything I wrote could have been much worse. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Not Banned at the Maine DoE – ? | edumaine
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Still Banned at Maine DoE. A-F Grading System Can’t “Meet the Standard” →. April 9, 2013 · 12:48 pm. Not Banned at the Maine DoE –? I’m not a fan of rhetorical questions, but this situation seems to warrant one. Yesterday I posted here. That a comment I tried to make in response to the Maine Department of Education’s article, Preparing for A-F grading system,. What was the policy I failed to follow? Easy solution: provide two boxes. A bit more complicated, but common: a “. Still Banned at Maine DoE.
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Still Banned at Maine DoE | edumaine
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Stopping the Minimum Teacher Salary. Not Banned at the Maine DoE –? April 8, 2013 · 7:31 pm. Still Banned at Maine DoE. It’s hard to believe that one middle-aged woman 250 miles from Augusta can cause such consternation at the Maine Department of Education that any comments she tries to make at their website are promptly eliminated. On Sunday, I stumbled across an article at the Maine DoE online Newsroom: P reparing for A-F grading system. Nope Grading Maine schools. So, I typed a quick comment:. 8221; [...
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A-F Grading System Can’t “Meet the Standard” | edumaine
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Not Banned at the Maine DoE –? Health Insurance Conundrum for Maine’s Teachers →. April 22, 2013 · 5:58 pm. A-F Grading System Can’t “Meet the Standard”. Back in February, the Governor announced. A new (well, based on other states’ models, but new for Maine) grading system of Maine’s schools. The system will be based on the what-I-thought-were-the-now-antiquated A-through-F grades just as the Proficiency-Based Diploma. Comes into being in the state. A description of skill or knowledge deemed essential.