The Center for Education Reform» Maine http://www.edreform.com Since 1993, the leading voice and advocate for lasting, substantive and structural education reform in the U.S. Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:26:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.edreform.com/2012/02/6010/ http://www.edreform.com/2012/02/6010/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:20:12 +0000 admin http://www.edreform.com/?p=6010 The newly formed Maine State Charter School Commission is taking to the road to hear the public’s ideas on what they want to see in a charter school. Read more.

]]> http://www.edreform.com/2012/02/6010/feed/ 0 Snowe-d under http://www.edreform.com/edspresso-shots/snowe-d-under/ http://www.edreform.com/edspresso-shots/snowe-d-under/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:19:32 +0000 admin http://www.edspresso.com/?p=3912 plowIn an attempt to win back her crown as Miss Congeniality among anti-school-choice Democrats, Olympia Snowe (R-ME) strolled to the well of the Senate yesterday evening to stab her fellow Mainer, Sen. Susan Collins, in the back by voting against the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program. Ms. Collins is one of the program’s chief champions. Despite the courage demonstrated by Senators Dianne Feinstein, Bill Nelson, Mark Warner, and Joe Lieberman – who voted FOR the voucher program – Sen. Snowe’s status as the lone Republican vote against the program was anything but courageous. Whether she likes Sen. Collins or not – or whether she wants to curry favor with Democrats or not (she does), Sen. Snowe’s vote today left DC kids… snowed under.

(In another bit of Maine news, yesterday, the state legislature again denied families another form school choice when their Education Committee endorsed an “innovative schools” bill which had all references to charter school removed before moving on to the main body.)

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