[Local-Maine-Schools] Fwd: Re: Critique of Maine’s proposed c harter school bill

[Brian Hubbell]

Thanks, Dick,

Gail Marshall attended the Education Committee hearings on Friday and
offered testimony on several bills including LD 1488. Judy Sproule and I
gave testimony on several other flights of bills last Monday. You can see
summaries of those bills and our positions on them at:
http://forum.mdischools.net/20110426/MDIRSS-legislative-update

We also opposed LD 1346, the bill establishing sub-minimum wage and expanded
work hours for students
http://forum.mdischools.net/state/20110415/LD1346-testimony

And we opposed several bill seeking to establish tax credits for tuition
paid to religious schools:
http://forum.mdischools.net/state/20110405/tuition-tax-credit-bills-testimony

We have supported bills adopting the Common Core standards and some
modifications to teachers' probationary contracts, while opposing the
governor's proposed changes to teachers' retirement benefits:
http://forum.mdischools.net/state/20110411-15/policy

<http://forum.mdischools.net/20110426/MDIRSS-legislative-update>Anyone
interested in the whole session's worth of education legislation can see the
bills (with summaries) that we're following here:
http://forum.mdischools.net/state/2011-legislation

<http://forum.mdischools.net/state/2011-legislation>-Brian

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On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Dick Atlee <atlee at umd.edu> wrote:

> I passed on to several lists the critique Brian forwarded. This reponse
> from Phil Bailey:
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> http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_125th/billtexts/SP046601.asp
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> May want to check out this bill 1488  (scroll to the bottom for the
> summary) and consider it as an alternative to 1553 (which is truly horrible)
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