MDIschools.net

• MEPRI reports on EPS funding formula components (presented to Ed Committee on 2/24/2010)
• MEPRI reports to Ed Committee on EPS, 2/24/2010)
• Review of EPS: Has the funding formula done its job?, MSMA (8/10/2009)

EPS by the numbers

• Testing the EPS formula: Regional per-pupil allocations
• Testing the EPS formula: Cumberland and Jonesport: a comparison of regional equity
• 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
• Effect of EPS from 2004 to 2008 as a function of school size
• 2008-09 school budgets in percentage over 100% EPS, DoE (2/13/2009)
• [EPS & AP] Irony of the week: a pop quiz
  • The Department, in fact, disputes the grading...
    • EPS supports AP
      • A matter of equity as compared to adequacy (2/25/09)
      • AP in Smaller High Schools (2/25/09)
• Spending caps are unrealistic, educators say, Susan M. Cover, Morning Sentinel (3/01/2009)
  ...Freeman said the state Department of Education monitors closely the spending levels set by the formula to make sure it provides enough funding for every child in the state to get a good education. ...She said schools need to accept the formula.
  • EPS and SPO's "accept it"..., NancyH
• Can we afford to keep schools' small class size?, Editorial, Kennebec Journal
  • Two choices, Brian Hubbell
• General Purpose Aid For Schools Challenged, Christopher Cousins, Ellsworth American (3/10/09)
  ...By moving more programs into the EPS formula, the state inflates its progress toward 55 percent funding while forcing local communities to pick up 45 percent of the cost of new initiatives, said Trahan. Rier disagreed.

References and background:

Maine Department of Education

• DoE's EPS page
• 2008-09 School Budgets -- Over/Under 100% EPS (2/13/2009)
• 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

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