The group says the governor is using a Harvard report to "attack the state's teachers, principals, superintendents and school board members."
The Associated Press
AUGUSTA — An advocacy group for Maine school boards and superintendents took issue today with Gov. Paul LePage's
characterization of a Harvard University study that gave the state low
marks for student test score improvement, saying the governor was only
telling part of the story.
LePage said in a statement Wednesday that the study should
be a wake-up call that more must be done to improve public schools. He
called on state education officials, school administrators and teacher
unions to implement new educational practices focused on student
learning.
The governor was reacting to a report by Harvard's Program on
Education Policy and Governance that examined international and U.S.
state trends in student achievement growth for fourth- and eighth-grade
test score gains in math, reading and science.
The report said Maine had the second-slowest rate of improvement
between 1992 and 2011 among the 41 states included in the study, ahead
of only Iowa.
Today, the Maine School Management Association said the governor was not telling the full story.
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