CHAPTER 617
H.P. 1446 - L.D. 1946
An Act To Promote the Coordination of School Calendars for Career and Technical Education Students
Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the members elected to each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §4801, sub-§2-A is enacted to read:
2-A. Regional school calendars; plan; rules. Each school administrative unit shall work with affiliated units, as defined in section 8301-A, subsection 1, in its career and technical center or school administrative units in its career and technical region to develop and approve a regional school calendar that aligns the school calendars of sending schools with the school calendars of career and technical education programs in the region. The plan for a regional school calendar must meet the following requirements.
A. There may not be more than 9 dissimilar instructional days within each regional calendar.
B. When career and technical centers or regions overlap, there must be common calendars for each of the schools in those overlapping areas.
C. The authority for approving the regional school calendar must be within the school boards of the local school administrative units.
D. Regional school calendars may have provisions for waivers of the number of dissimilar days for extenuating circumstances.
E. Plans for regional school calendars must be approved and implemented in time for the 2005-2006 school year.
The commissioner shall adopt rules to establish requirements for regional school calendars. Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are major substantive rules pursuant to Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.
Effective July 30, 2004, unless otherwise indicated.
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