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| LR 2926 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act Relating to the Flanders Bay Community School District |
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| LR 2644 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act Regarding Standardized Testing in Maine
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill would prevent the Department of Education from adopting standardized assessment testing indefinitely. This bill constitutes an emergency since the Commissioner of Education has decided to replace the State's education assessment with the SAT for high school juniors this spring. Without this legislation, the Legislature will not be able to act on this decision which could put low-income students at risk of being disadvantaged in planning and applying for college. |
| LR 2785 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Prevent the Use of Nutritional Supplements by Maine Student Athletes |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would prohibit nonmedically necessary use of certain nutritional supplements by student athletes in Maine schools in kindergarten to grade 12. |
| LR 2870 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Invest in the Future of Maine Citizens
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill would establish resources to improve the health, well-being, education and economic security of Maine citizens by enhancing and expanding early education opportunities, after-school initiatives, physical education programs and access to higher education scholarships. |
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| LR 2473 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act Concerning Members of School Administrative Districts' Finance Committees
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| SUMMARY |
| Under this bill, the finance committee of a board of directors for a school administrative district is made up of at a minimum 3 members. Current law sets the membership at 3. |
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| LR 2867 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-11-28 |
| An Act To Promote Youth Involvement in County and Local Government |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would create an internship program that pairs college-aged students with county and local governments. Students must have completed at least 2 years of college or just graduated from college, and must be Maine residents or out-of-state students attending college in Maine. This internship program would be administered by the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy at the University of Maine |
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| LR 2804 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Enable Local Adult Education Programs To Play a Greater Role in Helping Dislocated Workers |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would require the State Department of Labor to ensure that representatives of the local adult education community are participants in the planning and execution of initiatives designed to assist dislocated workers. |
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| LR 2490 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-11-28 |
| An Act To Provide State Funding for the Fingerprinting of School Personnel |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would require that the State pay for the fingerprinting of school personnel.
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| LR 2835 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Inform Parents of Students' Privacy Rights |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would require all public high schools to inform parents of students in those high schools of the parents rights under the Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Section 9528, which deals with armed forces recruiter access to students. High schools would be required to
provide an "opt out" selection on the mandatory emergency cards sent to parents. |
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| LR 2657 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-11-28 |
| An Act Regarding the Sharing of Costs in Certain School Districts
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill would extend the transition adjustment for member municipalities within certain school administrative districts and community school districts that are eligible under the provisions of P&SL 2005, chapter 23, section 1. That transition adjustment provision was created to shift the contribution levels of certain member municipalities that were adversely impacted by changes to the school funding formula. |
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| LR 2577 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-11-28 |
| An Act To Restore the Cost-sharing Agreement Established by
the Voters of School Administrative District No. 40
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill reestablishes the cost-sharing agreement established in 1992 at a referendum election by the voters of School Administrative District No. 40. That cost-sharing formula apportions all the local share contributions to the school district on the basis of 50% of each town's valuation and 50% of each town's student population. The bill also preserves the right of the voters of a school administrative district to maintain cost-sharing arrangements that are available under current law.
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| LR 2881 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Authorize Flexibility in School Attendance Requirements in Emergencies |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would allow local school boards to request variances from the Commissioner of Education to allow the boards to lengthen the school day and shorten the school week or to take other measures in the case of fuel shortages or other declared emergencies. |
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| LR 2628 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Promote Economic Development by Enhancing Educational Opportunities |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill provides for the continuation of the college transitions pilot projects that are in place in 7 adult education programs. These projects assist persons to transition from job loss to community college by placing them in an adult education setting where they learn about getting back into a learning mode, explore college programs and are placed in an academic setting to improve skills and confidence/ |
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| LR 2773 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Save the Marine Trades Center and Strengthen Maine's Boatbuilding Workforce |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would enact measures to ensure the continued operation of the Marine Trades Center in Eastport and to strengthen the boatbuilding workforce in the State. |
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| LR 2777 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Allow School Districts To Recover Certain Funds |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would allow school districts that receive tuition students to recover Essential Programs and Services targeted funds from the sending districts. |
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| LR 2899 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-11-28 |
| An Act To Amend the Law Governing Warrant Funding for Education |
| SUMMARY |
| This resolve would have the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs review and amend the language concerning warrant funding to municipalities for education. |
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| LR 2670 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-11-28 |
| An Act To Include Dental Screening with Other Preschool Testing for Maine's Children |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would add dental screenings to the hearing and vision screenings given to children before they start school. |
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| LR 2757 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Clarify Provisions Governing Technical Education
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill would exempt certain Maine Community College System programs from certain driver education requirements as set forth in statute and related rules of the Department of Secretary of State. |
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| LR 2917 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act Concerning Energy Conservation in Schools |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would raise the allowable contract cost for improving school energy conservation and efficiency from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. |
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| LR 2708 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act Concerning the Implementation of Cuts in Child Development Services |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill requires the Legislature to review the implementation of cuts in Child Development Services proposed by the Department of Education and to make changes to the implementation. |