MDIschools.net

• Maine Education Data Profile, NCES
  • Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont: the education statistics of northern New England
  • Maine ranked 10th in K-12 Achievement
  • NAEP test scores compared to national
  • American Diploma Project Network: Maine data profile (2Mb, *.ppt) January 2008
• Legislature's Education Committee
• [NCLB] The Accountability Illusion, Fordham Institute (2/19/2009)
  • Maine report
• School District Reorganization
  • Reorganization by the numbers
    • The Road to 80 Districts
    • Where the students are (2/06/09)
    • Where the money goes (2/02/09)
    • Comprehensive reorganization referenda results
    • Legislators with districts facing penalties for non-compliance
  • Table of reorganized districts (2/06/09)
  • 2009 proposed reorganization legislation
• School district finance
  • Education Funding in the Federal Stimulus Package
    • Commissioner Gendron's briefing on education funds in the stimulus package (2/18/2009)
    • Message to superintendents from the Commissioner (2/18/2009)
    • AARA Spreadsheet showing breakdown of funds nationally, USDOE
    • Stimulus: Estimated additional allocations to schools for ESEA, Title I-A; and IDEA
      • funds estimated to MDI RSS
  • General Purpose Aid for Local Schools, 2009 curtailment estimate (*.xls) (11/21/08)
  • State subsidy as a function of school size
  • Education cost as a function of district size and school governance model
  • School spending as a function of local income and unit size
  • School size, subsidy, income, spending, and equity: Comparing the top-performing fifth of Maine’s public high schools
  • Minimum receivers
• Current policy issues
  • McKinsey Efficiency Report predictions for "non-instructional" savings
  • Multi-state partnership on high school education
  • High School Diploma Requirements
  • Four day school week
• Maine State Department of Education
• Maine state education standards: Learning Results (1997, updated 2000)
• Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction (October, 2007)
• National Center for Educational Statistics
• Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment and Staff From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2006–07, NCES

Essential Programs and Services funding model

EPS by the numbers
• EPS by the numbers: Labor Market Ratios
• ...An example
• Labor Markets - Perpetuating Inequities
• EPS by the numbers: High Performing Schools
• EPS by the numbers: Total Staffing
• EPS staffing ratios
• EPS by the numbers: Teachers
• 2008-09 School Budgets -- Over/Under 100% EPS, DoE (2/13/2009)

Maine Department of Education

• DoE's EPS page
• Jim Rier's 'EPS 101' powerpoint presentation to Education Committee (2/04/09), (*.ppt, 1.9Mb)
• Essential Programs & Services Model – Applying the Math to the Concept (DoE Presentation to the Joint Standing Committee on Education & Cultural Affairs – 2/3/05)

Maine Education Policy Research Institute

• Essential Programs and Services: The Basis for a New Approach for Funding Maine’s Public Schools, David L. Silvernail & Weston L. Bonney, Maine Policy Review, Winter 2001
• Essential Programs and Services funding model: Equity and Adequacy In Funding To Improve Learning For All Children, State Board of Education, (1999?)
• The Identification of Higher and Lower Performing Maine Schools: School Profiles and Characteristics, Dr. David L. Silvernail, USM, May 2007