Skip Maine state header navigation

Agencies | Online Services | Help

Skip First Level Navigation | Skip All Navigation

Home > Superintendents Informational Letter

Date:

To: Sending School Superintendents

From: Methods of Administration Team Leader

RE: Interview and Visit Information

The Maine State Department of Education performs on-site reviews for civil rights compliance, as charged by the U. S. Department of Education, on a five-year cycle for all the vocational centers and regions. The on-site review has three general components, which include: 1) written document review, 2) physical setting accessibility and 3) student/instructor interviews. As a way of helping to ensure for compliance at the sending schools we perform several tasks. Specifically, we interview a representative cross-section of the schools' students, review sending school policies and information and have group interviews with all of the key administrators during the on-site review at the vocational center. If it is not possible to perform these functions at the vocational center for a particular school, then I can schedule the interviews at individual school sites.

I have enclosed some sample questions for the different groups that our consultants use as a reference. Listed below is a checklist of the documents we ask the sending schools to bring to the vocational center for our beginning introduction and interview.

  • Affirmative Action Plan
  • Grievance Procedures and Appeals Process for Students and Teachers
  • Handbooks for Students, Parents and Faculty
  • Course selection booklets, brochures and catalogs
    •

    If you have any additional questions or comments, please feel free to contact me at 207.624.6747 or buzz.gamble@maine.gov.