A tip of the Downeast hat to those good folks at MDISchools.net, who are tipping us off to a big announcement today by the Governor, the Commissioner, and others.
Here’s part of the media advisory, as reproduced at MDISchools:
WHO
- Governor John E. Baldacci
- Education Commissioner Susan A. Gendron
- Ann Weisleder, Chair of the State Board of Education
- Mark Kostin, Senior Associate, Great Schools Partnership
- Key stakeholders
WHEN
Monday, December 15 at 1 p.m.WHERE
State House, Augusta, Governor’s Cabinet RoomWHAT
Announcement of a major new regional initiative to transform secondary education for the 21st century in the states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Maine. The effort aims to become a pioneering multistate partnership that can serve as a model for the nation.
It’s supported by the Gates Foundation and the Nellie Mae Education Foundation.
We’ve said it before: large-scale decisions open the door to large-scale mistakes. Gates has turned his attention to education, and we wish him well, and hope he backs winners. But the path of “initiatives” and “transform” and “pioneering” in education reform is strewn with wrecks.
Developing…
P.S. Aren’t we all getting tired of this “21st century” rhetoric? Could the two sentences following “WHAT” above be any more filled with education reform hack-ese?