Task Force on Seamless P-16 Educational Systems

 

MEETING AGENDA

Friday, July 30, 2004

Room 107, Cross State Office Building

9:30am – 3:30pm

 

 

I.          Commissioner Gendron—Expected Outcomes for the day

 

II.         Laurie Lachance, State Economist

 

            Overview of the Economy, Economic Climate

            Projection of where we are going

            State demographic trends

 

III.       Susan Cameron—School Enrollment Demographics

 

IV.       Data

 

            What are the trends?

            What do they mean?

            What are the challenges?

 

V.        Best Practices

 

VI.       Systems—What are the particular characteristics that make Maine’s system in a position to be seamless?  Sue Gendron, John Fitzsimmons, Joseph Westfal

 

VII.      Lunch

 

VIII.     What needs refinement?

 

IX.       Review of Draft Vision

            Development of List of Attributes

 

X.        Goals

 

            * Develop an AdHoc group to draft goals

            * Discussion about possible goal or cluster areas