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MACS Board of Directors

Next Board Meeting:

Tuesday, January 10

 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Cross Cafeteria (back room), State House, Augusta

Note:  At 3 p.m. MACS is holding a brief reception for members of the new Charter School Commission immediately preceding the board meeting.

 

Executive Director
Roger W. Brainerd, MEd	Roger has served Maine’s public schools as a teacher, administrator, and technology coordinator. He has Masters Degrees from the Univ. of Maine in Science Education and Educational Leadership.  Currently he is Principal of the Blue Hill Harbor School, an approved private school which is designed to become a public charter school.

Board of Directors
Judith Denton Jones, PhD Chair Hope	Judith is a sociologist, taught at American and George Washington Universities, and served as an education planner and facilities planner for the DC Public School System.  Her 1986 book documented an early public school choice program, “Six School Complex: A Successful Innovation in Washington, D.C.’s Public Schools.” She and her husband grow Christmas trees and blueberries in Hope.
Roger Brainerd, Union	Vice Chair
Dorothy Havey, Lincolnville	Treasurer
Jane Amero, Falmouth
John Bird, Rockland
Mary Budd, Bangor
Cheryl Clukey, Augusta
Rich Dale, PhD Farmington	Rick is an Assistant Professor of Special Education at the University of Maine at Farmington. Previously Rick was Assistant Professor of Special Ed. at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, director of special education in the public schools, a Pennsylvania Department of Education special education policy analyst, a state-wide consultant/trainer, and a special education teacher in various settings. Rick earned a Doctorate in Educational Administration at Penn State and the title of his dissertation was “The Politics of Special Education Policy in Charter School Legislation: Lessons from Pennsylvania.”
Garrett Mason, Wayne
Jeffrey Messer, Westbrook
Emanuel Pariser, Waterville	Emanuel was co-founder and co-director of The Community School in Camden. He has over 30 years experience in developing successful alternative programs for hard-to-reach youth.  He was the former president of the Alternative Education Association of Maine, and was a founding member of the Education Commissioner's Committee on Truant, Dropout and Alternative Education. Currently he is finishing his doctorate degree at the University of Maine.
James Patterson, Camden
Cheryl Robertson, PhD Orono	Cheryl has taught high school English in both traditional and alternative public schools in Maine. She recently earned her Ph.D. in Education at the University of Maine, Orono, with a special focus on students at risk.
Marylyn Wentworth, Kennebunk	Founder and director of The New School, an alternative high school in Kennebunk, Marylyn has a long history of supporting vulnerable children and providing alternative models of education.

MACS Advisory Board

To contact MACS: macs@mainecharterschools.org