Maine Education Matters

Matt says goodbye and thank you to all who helped follow and support this podcast over the years. It breaks my heart to have to stop this podcast, but the time it takes to pull together vs the time I have in my life that I need to focus on family or finances ... well... arent balanced. And as such, I need to step away from it. Will it be back? I dunno. Maybe. But in the meantime, keep following wh...

Matt previews public hearings for the week of March 10, 2025. LD 369, SP0161 An Act to Grant or Extend Conditional Teaching Certificates Under Certain Circumstances  - Sen. James Libby of Cumberland LD 470, SP0209 An Act to Require School Administrative Units to Adopt Mentoring Programs for Teachers and to Improve Existing Programs  - Sen. Joseph Rafferty of York LD 696, SP0313 An Act to Bolster t...

Matt previews public hearings and work sessions for the week of March 3, 2025. Public Hearings: LD 46, HP0010 An Act to Establish a Grant Program to Increase Postsecondary Educational Opportunities for Students with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities or Autism Spectrum Disorder  - Rep. Kelly Murphy of Scarborough - Emergency LD 198, SP0085 An Act to Prohibit the University of Maine System...

Matt previews public hearings for: Judiciary Committee: LD 537   An Act to Prohibit the Doxing of a Minor and to Authorize a Related Civil Action  - Rep. Melanie Sachs of Freeport Education and Cultural Affairs Committee: LD 34   An Act to Increase the Minimum Salary for Teachers  - Sen. Teresa Pierce of Cumberland LD 71    An Act Regarding Special Education Funding  - Rep. Kristi Mathieson of Kit...

Matt begins the 132nd Legislative Session review with an announcement that the podcast is changing! How will it change? Glad you asked. The world has changed, in many profound personal ways, and Matt is struggling to find the time to make this podcast what it should be, and what he wants it to be. He wants to keep doing it, but time is valuable and he needs to spend his time wisely and make sure h...

Matt reviews some of the names, and names only, of upcoming bills for the 132nd Legislative Session.

Audio updated (1/4/2025) Matt talks about cell phone bans, AI, and Edutopia's 10 Most Significant Education Studies from 2024 .

Hey there, faithful seventeen listeners! Yes! We're coming back for the 132nd First session starting in January. Matt talks about a few upcoming episodes and what to expect-ish for this next session. This episode was produced and edited by Matt Drewette-Card

Matt & Matt discuss the goings on at the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee from Feb 13, 2024 - Feb 26, 2024. Plus: Matt drinks more Moxie, and Matt drops a tease for our next episode. Hosted by Matt Drewette-Card and Matthew Shea This episode was produced and edited by Matt Drewette-Card.

Matt and Matt celebrate the 200th episode of Maine Education Matters and are joined by former co-hosts Courtney Belolan and Lady Julie Smyth. Plus: Matt holds up a promise.

Matt & Matt review the public hearings and worksessions for the week of January 29th, including some not-brief briefings and then preview the next week. Plus: a hair story!

Matt & Matt review the worksessions and public hearings for the week of January 22, 2024, and preview the week of January 29, 2024. Plus: lots of time travel talk and a tuba is mentioned.

Matt and Matt review the Worksessions from January 16, 2024, and preview the Public Hearings and Work Sessions for January 23, 24, and 25.

Matt & Matt review the Public Hearings from January 9 & January 11, and preview the Worksessions for January 16. Follow along with all of the legislation for this session here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FjDDXGrg98_BwdzBimm8xh54JJFlbEhQG3fB8i4yT6M/edit?usp=sharing

Matt and his new(?) cohost preview the 2nd session of the 131st Maine Legislature by looking at some of the upcoming titles and no other contexts!

Matt doesn't feel like working (#onbrand) so he's reposting his already recorded "Pathway to Legislation" episode from December 2022, as we get ready for the 2nd session of the 131st Legislature in Maine.

Matt dives into a few more of the bills that were passed in the 1st session of the 131st Legislative session.

Matt recaps some of the bills passed in the first session of Maine's 131st Legislative Session, using the "Annual Legislative Update" from Drummond Woodsum (https://dwmlaw.com/) as a guide.

We're back!!! Season 9 is upon us, and Maine Education Matters is BACK! This episode, Matt describes some upcoming episodes to "wet our whistles" in preparation for the 2nd Session of the 131st Legislature, including: 2023 Recap and Review 2024 Carryover Bills 2024 Bill Titles Path of Legislation Education and Cultural Affairs Committee Members Study Groups For more info on the 1st S...

Matt begins to look back at what was the first session of the 131st legislature by reviewing some of the bills that were passed, enacted, and signed.

Matt talks about some bills being carried over to the next session, congratulates the new Maine State Butterfly, puts in a request for the Maine Department of Education, and spends a lot of time talking about... time.

Matt @DrewetteCard returns to his ASMR practices and reviews the Work Session votes from the week of May 15 and previews the Work Sessions for the week of May 22.

Matt @DrewetteCard looks ahead to the week of May 15 and the nearly 30 bills going to Work Session. Plus Matt dives back into the May 11 Public Hearings (Parents Rights in Education Day) because there was some what-what-what moments that left him stunned.

Matt @DrewetteCard previews 3 of the 4 days of Public Hearings for the week of May 8, 2023. The 4th day (May 11th) was covered extensively in podcast #185. Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FjDDXGrg98_BwdzBimm8xh54JJFlbEhQG3fB8i4yT6M/edit?usp=sharing

Matt @DrewetteCard previews the May 11 public hearing day which is all about parents rights in education, curriculum transparency, and ideology in the classroom. Matt reviews each of the 7 bills being heard that day, and has some help to (ack) discuss the various (ack ack) acts and enactments (ack ack ack) of the day. Ack.