Changes in Diploma Requirements Discussed!

• What MAAE and ABC are doing
• What You Can Do
• How to Listen to Live Streaming of the Committee's Meeting
  

Maine’s legislature has convened a “stakeholders committee” to make recommendations to the Department of Education and the Legislature for changes to Maine’s high-school graduation requirements. Through our lobbyists Bob Howe and Pam Cahill, MAAE and the organizations of the Arts are Basic Coalition (ABC) (hot link) advocated with the legislature’s Education Committee to have a Visual and Performing Arts representative added to the stakeholders’ group. The Education Committee decided not to add any content area representatives, but instead to provide at least one opportunity for public comment during the stakeholders’ group’s meetings. (read more)

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MAAE is a member of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network.

Maine Arts Teacher Fellowship 2009 Guidelines (read here)
Application Process Now Open

Maine Arts Education Census
Deadline Nov. 25
Are you a Maine arts educator? Did you complete the Arts Education Census in April? If not, we need your input. Your expertise is needed to make a strong case for arts education in Maine. You will have until Nov. 25 to complete the on-line survey. For instructions (survey instructions *pdf)

The Maine Arts Education survey
must be completed on-line, but we recommend that you preview a pdf of the survey first:
Census for Elementary Arts Teachers
(link to Elementary* pdf)
Census for Secondary Arts Teachers
(link to Secondary *pdf)

Check back here after Nov 21 to find out about treats offered by Maine's arts and cultural organizations to those who complete the survey!