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Category: Education and Cultural Affairs

GOP blocks bill to boost teacher recruitment, retention efforts

Posted: April 12, 2016

Sen. Millett’s bill would have fought turnover and burnout, raised teachers’ base pay AUGUSTA — Sen. Rebecca Millett criticized Republicans in...

Senate backs bill to provide stability to local school budgets

Posted: March 28, 2016

AUGUSTA — The Maine Senate on Monday gave initial approval to a bill that would add stability and predictability to the local school budgeting...

Senate gives initial support to bolster student loan debt relief program

Posted: March 28, 2016

AUGUSTA — In a preliminary vote on Monday, The Maine Senate gave unanimous support to a bill that will fight the “brain drain” by expanding...

Bills to fight brain drain, boost STEM workforce earn broad support

Posted: March 23, 2016

AUGUSTA — Three governor’s bills sponsored by Senate Democratic Leader Justin Alfond, D-Portland, earned broad support from the public and from...

Bill to boost teach training, base salary clears committee

Posted: February 17, 2016

AUGUSTA — The Education Committee on Tuesday endorsed a bill to improve in-classroom teacher training and increase the base salary for Maine’s...

Millett: LePage skirts Constitution with Department of Education scheme

Posted: February 11, 2016

  On Thursday, Gov. Paul LePage told reporters he would install himself as Commissioner of the Department of Education in name only, and make...

LePage stymies law to protect LGBT students

Posted: February 04, 2016

AUGUSTA – Gov. Paul LePage is standing in the way of proposed rules to comply with a law requiring the protection of LGBT rights in Maine. Those...

Bill to help Governor Baxter School for the Deaf gets green light from Education Committee

Posted: January 21, 2016

AUGUSTA — The Legislature’s Education Committee on Thursday gave unanimous approval to a bill by Sen. Cathy Breen, D-Falmouth, that will...

Sen. Millett's school budgeting bill wins unanimous committee support

Posted: January 20, 2016

AUGUSTA — A bill to add stability and predictability to the local school district budgeting process, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Rebecca Millett,...

Education groups line up to support Sen. Millett's school budgeting bill

Posted: January 13, 2016

AUGUSTA — A bill by Sen. Rebecca Millett, D-Cape Elizabeth, that would add stability and predictability to school district budgeting received...