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Maine Department of Education

Published
January 31, 2024

Federal government examining Maine’s Child Development Services

Education Commissioner Pender Makin told employees a federal agency is 'interested' after multiple reports showed CDS is failing disabled children.
Published
January 29, 2024

Lawmakers look to implement African American, Wabanaki studies requirements

A bill before legislators would put funding and support behind existing laws mandating that K-12 schools teach Maine Native American and African American history.
Published
January 28, 2024

Maine is failing its youngest kids in need of disability services

Children are spending weeks, months, sometimes a year waiting for help from Child Development Services that the state agency says it cannot provide.
Published
December 10, 2023

Opinion: A thriving education system needs no advertising budget

We don't have a teacher shortage. We have a recruitment and retention problem.
Published
December 5, 2023

Maine lawmakers question education chief over failing early childhood program

Legislators called the Child Development Services agency 'broken.' Education Commissioner Pender Makin said little to ease their concerns.

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Published
December 5, 2023

Maine launches $1 million ad campaign to attract teachers amid shortage

The initiative is funded with pandemic relief money and quantifies for the first time the number of educator vacancies in Maine: over 850.
Published
November 24, 2023

Maine students are missing more school days than before the pandemic

Chronic absenteeism rates are more than 10 percentage points higher than the 2018-19 school year. Experts say resources to get students to class aren't back on track.
Published
November 9, 2023

State workers vote no confidence in director of child development services

The union representing agency workers called on the Maine Department of Education to replace Director Roberta Lucas, citing a 'toxic work environment' and her 'apparent support' for dissolving the agency.
Published
October 29, 2023

Refugees to be provided transitional housing at Good Will-Hinckley in Fairfield

About 35 refugees from Somalia, Syria and other countries are to be relocated from southern Maine to the Good Will-Hinckley campus.
Published
October 19, 2023

State’s new education podcast features 2 Portland teachers

The Maine Department of Education plans to highlight state educators and education in the monthly show.