The Harvard report studied 41 states and it ranked Maine 40th in terms of educational growth. So now Governor LePage announced his plan to turn that around.
It's called A.B.C. Accountability, Best practices, and Choice. LePage wants a better way to hold struggling schools accountable, find out best practices for student achievement, and give students a choice of where and how they want to learn.
LePage says he's not ruling out the state taking over or shutting down underperforming schools. We also spoke to a teacher, the president of the Maine Education Society. She says LePage is interpreting the study wrong. She argues that Maine has excelled in test scores for years and it's harder for a student to go from A to A than it is for a student with an f to improve to a better grade.
Again this is just a proposal, but LePage says he'll push to get his ideas in place.
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