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Commentary: Essential Programs And Services Model, Denison Gallaudet, Henry R. Sciopone, Thomas Scott, Robert B. Kautz, Roger Shaw, Mark Eastman, Richard A. Lyons, Bob Hasson
Commentary: Essential Programs And Services Model, Denison Gallaudet, Henry R. Sciopone, Thomas Scott, Robert B. Kautz, Roger Shaw, Mark Eastman, Richard A. Lyons, Bob Hasson
Maine Policy Review
To further discussion about the Essential Programs and Services (EPS) model for funding public education in Maine, Maine Policy Review asked eight superintendents—representing districts across the state— to provide their views. We also asked each to discuss the needs of his district and whether additional state policy options were necessary to tackle the most pressing issues. The districts represented by these superintendents are a cross section of urban and rural high-receivers and low-receivers. Still, several commonalities emerge: the need for a state commitment that does not wax and wane with the business cycle; the urgency of professional development for new …
Essential Programs And Services: The Basis For A New Approach For Funding Maine’S Public Schools, David L. Silvernail, Weston L. Bonney
Essential Programs And Services: The Basis For A New Approach For Funding Maine’S Public Schools, David L. Silvernail, Weston L. Bonney
Maine Policy Review
In this article, David Silvernail and Weston Bonney extend Maine Policy Review’s coverage of school funding reform by introducing a new approach called Essential Programs and Services (EPS). Traditional approaches to school funding evaluate education in terms of revenue—by taking whatever dollars are available and dividing them in such a way as to ensure there are equal education dollars behind each child. In contrast, the Essential Programs and Services model focuses first on student outcomes, and second, on the services and resources needed to achieve these outcomes. The EPS model then defines what is adequate in terms of resources …
Reforming Maine's Education Funding Process, Patrick M. Dow, Ralph Townsend
Reforming Maine's Education Funding Process, Patrick M. Dow, Ralph Townsend
Maine Policy Review
In recent years funding for Maine K-12 education has been a source of almost constant dissension. As authors Patrick Dow and Ralph Townsend note, much of this dissension began in the early 1990s with the legislature's decision to reduce funding for local education. Shrinking community budgets for local education have led to political battles over who gets what and have led to changes in the school funding formula established in the 1970s. The authors argue that these changes have eroded the principles of equity on which the 1970s formula was built. They trace the history of education funding in Maine, …