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Maine is risking more than the potential for a $75 million award in the federal Race to the Top application if legislators reject a bill that strikes down a prohibition on linking student achievement data with teacher and principal evaluations.
Department of Education spokesman David Connerty-Marin says Maine would likely risk all other federal education funding if lawmakers don't strike down that statutory prohibition.
That amounts to about $100 million a year, he said, and that's before you add in another $59 million in funds the state is expecting in federal recovery money for the 2010-11 school year.
Federal education officials are in the process of reviewing Maine's application for that latest wave of federal recovery money. The state had to provide a number of assurances in order to receive that money. Among those was a promise that Maine would strike down its barrier between student achievement data and teacher and principal evaluations, Connerty-Marin said.
"They're not going to dole out money unless certain conditions are agreed to," he said.
L.D. 1799, the law that would rid Maine of that legal barrier, needs to pass in some form, Connerty-Marin said.
"If it needs to be fixed up later or improved upon, that's OK," he said. "We're dead in the water unless we get some sort of bill that links student data to teacher and principal evaluations."
Courtesy of Morning Sentinel reporter Erin Rhoda:Sen. Susan Collins is also worried about Maine's standing in the federal Race to the Top competition.
At a visit to Embden Elementary School today, the Republican said she was "worried that Maine may lose out on funding" if the state's prohibition on linking student achievement data and teacher evaluations isn't struck down.
She called the potential Race to the Top award (for Maine it would be up to $75 million) "potentially a source of much needed funding for Maine schools."
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