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Governor:Paul LePage
Commissioner of Education:Stephen Bowen
Quality Counts state grade:C
Pre-K-12 enrollment:188,945
Number of school districts:233
Number of public schools:631
Number of public school teachers:15,384
Unadjusted education spending per student:$12,452
Percent minority students:7.5%
Percent of students eligible for free/reduced price lunch:41.7%
Percent of students with disabilities:15.6%
Percent of English-language learners:2.5%
NAEP Mathematics 2011 percent proficient
4th grade math:45.0%
8th grade math:38.8%
NAEP Reading 2011 percent proficient
4th grade reading:32.4%
8th grade reading:38.5%

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Researchers are divided on whether streamlining results in cost-efficiency.
March 27, 2007 - Education Week
Critics fear the proposal would sweep aside local control, cost hundreds of administrators their jobs, and force school closures.
February 13, 2007 - Education Week
Gov. John E. Baldacci's proposal would eliminate hundreds of locally elected school boards and scores of superintendents and replace them with 26 regional boards and schools chiefs.
January 11, 2007 - Education Week
The U.S. Supreme Court last week rebuffed an appeal by eight Maine families who contend that their state has wrongly refused to pay their children’s tuition at religious high schools because the state only provides such benefits for certain students enrolled in nonreligious private schools.
December 5, 2006 - Education Week
Voters in some states didn't show a lot of generosity toward schools as they voted down measures that would have provided more funding for education in Idaho, Michigan, Nebraska, and Ohio. But proposals in three states that had the potential to restrict spending on schools-the idea known as a Taxpayer's Bill of Rights-were rejected, early returns showed.
November 8, 2006 - Education Week (Web)
Whether high school students take college-admissions tests used to be an individual decision. But a growing number of states are requiring that step and even making the exams a core part of their own testing systems.
September 12, 2006 - Education Week
Worried about the possible shrinkage of their educated workforces in coming decades, the New England states have joined together on a new initiative aimed at preparing more students to tackle college.
May 2, 2006 - Education Week
Instead of passing a state-developed test in order to graduate, high school students in Maine might soon have to take the newly revamped SAT.
September 13, 2005 - Education Week
Student-run foundations across the country are empowering a new generation of teenagers to play larger roles in their schools and communities.
April 19, 2005 | Updated: December 14, 2011 - Education Week
Faced with a changing job market and New England's lowest college-attendance rate, Maine is taking new stock of its "second tier" students.
March 29, 2005 - Education Week

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