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Short of completely empty, and a chance to influence September 6

As it turns out, Maine didn't come up completely empty in Race to the Top. But it needed some company and a former education commissioner to reap any sort of reward.

• UPDATE: Fact-checking Paul LePage, and Common Core's tangled web August 24
• How much and when? August 22
• Zeroing in on "value added" August 17
• Sierra Club: Maine has 3 "Cool Schools" August 16
• Maine joining SSN ranks. Will parents go along? August 13
• Some loose ends tied this week in Maine education August 10
• Six in Maine go for i3 August 6
• A steeper cliff after EduJobs August 5
• MEA and the favorable incumbents; updates to a data repository August 5
• One federal pot out of reach, another in flux July 28
• Ed Week: Maine's Race to the Top fate will be known tomorrow July 26
• New graduation rates released, little gained so far July 20
• An updated student-teacher ratio, and updated inconsistencies July 14
• Reformist v. status quo, and a tempering force July 9
• Could Race to the Top shrink? June 30
• Midcoast project earns "pilot project" designation June 29
• What the heck is Maine's student-teacher ratio? June 24
• UPDATED: MEA announces it's Mitchell. Anyone surprised? June 24
• On buy-in, below average June 15
• Initial thoughts on a LePage v. Mitchell match-up June 9
• Innovations that don't fit the national mold: Maine and Race to the Top June 8
• Performance-based evaluations from the bottom up June 7
• Choice phrasing in Race to the Top June 2
• Breaking down buy-in May 25
• For after-school programs, a risk apart from grant bungling May 23
• Building buy-in: Maine at 68 for 215 and 14 for 55 May 20
• Choosing the evaluation panel's future May 12
• Maine is in Race to the Top running May 12
• Is MEA warming to Race to the Top? May 14
• UPDATED: Will the budget referendum stay in place? May 12
• Who knew? Department of Education stands in liberty's way May 10
• Bold approaches beyond pilot-project phase May 6
• Not down to 80, but getting closer May 4
• Baldacci claiming credit where it's undue May 3
• Not only plagiarism from Otten, but a lack of facts May 2
• A tiff of irony, a question of purpose, and the administrators' absence April 28
• Teacher evaluation catch-up and the would-be's on education April 27
• A big week in Maine education April 16
• 'Conversations' amid shadows April 13
• A barrier comes down? A few more thoughts April 7
• UPDATE: Sticking to the 'poison pill' April 7
• UPDATE: Amended bill wouldn't do the trick April 7
• UPDATE: More than Race to the Top hangs in the balance April 7
• Hanging in the balance April 7
• Evaluating teachers? Choose from one of the following April 6
• Highlights from the data drop March 31
• What do Delaware and Tennessee mean to Maine? March 29
• 'A personal journey for next generation learners' March 23
• Channeling consolidation's energy in Hancock County March 17