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Maine Schools Chief Moving On

By Catherine Gewertz — April 20, 2010 1 min read
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Susan Gendron, Maine’s commissioner of education, is stepping down at the end of the month to become the policy director for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. Ms. Gendron, who led a move to consolidate the states school districts, is also just finishing a term as president of the Council of Chief State School Officers, which is co-leading the initiative to design common standards.

A version of this article appeared in the April 21, 2010 edition of Education Week as Maine Schools Chief Moving On

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