By Cliff Ginn and Rob Brown With so much attention on health care, few have noticed that Congress just passed crucial legislation to expand educational opportunity. Increasing access to higher education and training is the best way to prepare Americans with the knowledge and skills that the 21st century economy demands. Raising the proportion of [...]
There’s a serious shortage of environmentally friendly jobs in Maine that match the education schools offer. By ADAM MARQUIS, Portland Press Herald PORTLAND – Forget death and taxes. The two certainties of life in Maine are a lack of good-paying jobs and high and volatile energy costs. On education, as a recent college graduate facing [...]
Maine’s Competitive Skills Scholarship Program by Sandra S. Butler, Luisa S. Deprez, John Dorrer, & Auta M. Main The authors describe how the Competitive Skills Scholarship Program, administered by the Maine Department of Labor, aims both to meet the needs of Maine employers through improved access to a skilled labor force and to improve job [...]
By Rob Brown & Auta Main The days when a high school diploma assured a good job for life are long gone. Like most growing industries, even Maine’s manufacturing sector now frequently requires education well beyond high school just to get in the door, let alone advance up the career – and income – ladder. [...]
By Rob Brown and Auta Main The days when a high school diploma assured a good job for life are long gone. Like most growing industries, even Maine’s manufacturing sector now frequently require education well beyond high school just to get in the door, let alone advance up the career — and income — ladder. [...]
By Maine Politics Most news media in Maine recently covered the heartwarming story of Chelsea Edgar of Whitefield, who was the first recipient of a new state-issued high school diploma. Because of this program, Chelsea, obviously a bright young woman, will be able to attend Kennebec Valley Community College this fall. This is a great [...]
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By Rob Brown The Opportunity Maine program is a bold, simple and universal promise to reward hard work and a commitment to Maine with educational and economic opportunity. It is a powerful new tool to help our citizens afford a college degree and to build the skilled work force our businesses need. The program will [...]
By Anya Kamanetz Last May I went up to Augusta to testify in favor of a citizen proposal to provide a state income tax credit to all Maine college graduates who stay in the state, to offset the cost of their student loans. Now the Drum Major Institute has named Opportunity Maine, conceived by a [...]
By Ron Bancroft Thank goodness for Harold Alfond. Just when the signals for Maine’s economy were looking bleak, just when we all were in need of a boost fitting of the holiday season, along comes the Harold Alfond College Challenge. Thanks to an extraordinarily generous bequest from the late Harold Alfond, all babies born in [...]
