Education
We need to innovate in Maine schools. This means enacting charter school legislation, rewarding teachers for student performance, and creating a culture of achievement that gives every Maine kid a fair shot at success. Quality, performance, and equity - those are our goals.
As we rebuild Maine, the most important investment we can make is in educating and training our young people. Unfortunately, Maine’s public education system is failing our kids.
We will create a climate of excitement, reform and innovation in our schools, colleges and universities, and we will foster better education at lower costs. We will authorize charter schools. We will measure PreK-12 student performance and use those measures to reward excellence and creativity from teachers. And we will maximize the value of our college and university assets by merging our two systems of higher education into one, making sure that we organize higher education around the needs of students, taxpayers and 21st century employers.
I will not rest until every Maine child has an equal opportunity to succeed and every Maine employer can draw from a pool of skilled and educated talent.
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Eliot recently sat down for an interview on Education in Maine. He talked specifically about:
