Fast Facts

Fast Facts Interesting facts and quotes about Association membership and public education in Maine and beyond. Have an idea or stat you want shared? Send it along with your name and local to gbechard@maineea.org $ 950 vs. The weekly median earnings in 2012-2013 for those who are union members versus employees who are 12 the number of states where lawmakers are getting more involved in setting academic standards for K-12 students $ 750 non-union members, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 8 out of 10 after a Common Core backlash—in some cases lawmakers are writing the standards themselves. “Our schools are evolving as they transition Number of K-12 Instructional Staff to “proficiency-based learning…Everyone is responsible for helping to overcome truancy and disengagement – the result listed on the Maine Education Data Management System (MEDMS) of the growing number of children in who are MEA members, giving crisis because of poverty and other family members a greater voice in their stressors. To address these obstacles, it profession.

is crucial to have strong relationships

between families and schools. These "I never met a kid that came in a relationships require shared responsibility standardized box. Not one! So what we want among teachers, administrators, students, to do is to say how do you open that public families and the community.” Special to the Press Herald, Sarah Brokofsky (Westbrook EA) and Kate Smith (Quamphegan EA), Maine County Teachers of the Year school to all of the opportunities that kid should have, and while we obsess over hitting a cut score on a standardized test, that's $49,232 2013-14 average teacher salary in Maine, according to NEA research. Maine pays its teachers never going to happen." - NEA President-elect Lily Eskelsen García published in www.dailykos.com 37th Maine’s Rank

the lowest out of all the in the U.S. for average

New England states. teacher salary,

according to NEA Research.