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administrative unit, who is an habitual truant or a dropout or who | | has been placed on early release. |
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| | | §5122.__School supervision |
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| | | A school administrative unit shall provide supervision for | | each removed student.__The supervision must occur over the length | | of each school day during the period of the student's expulsion, | | suspension or early release.__School work, physical training, | | school maintenance and community service may be required of a | | student under supervision.__A student who fails to comply with | | supervision may be considered truant. |
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| | | §5123.__Services for students in need |
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| | | 1.__Notification.__The school administrative unit of a student | | in need of services shall notify the department and local law | | enforcement officials, providing them with the names and | | addresses of the student and the student's parents. |
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| | | 2.__Department plan.__Upon notification under subsection 1, | | the department shall contact the parents of the student in need | | of services.__The department and the parents, in consultation | | with local law enforcement officials, shall prepare and implement | | a plan to meet the student's unmet needs that are interfering | | with school attendance, work or appropriate behavior.__The | | parents of a student in need of services shall contribute to the | | cost of implementing the plan developed under this subsection | | unless the department determines that the parents' financial | | situation precludes such a contribution.__Failure of a parent to | | participate constructively in the planning and implementation | | required by this subsection may be considered grounds for | | appointing a surrogate parent under section 7207-A.__A student | | who fails to participate in the plan developed under this | | subsection may be considered truant. |
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| | | §5124.__Funding for school change |
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| | | If a plan prepared and implemented under section 5123, | | subsection 2 includes educating a student in a school | | administrative unit other than the unit for the area where the | | student's parents reside or in an approved private program, the | | school administrative unit for the area where the student's | | parents reside shall pay the cost of educating the student in | | another school administrative unit. |
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| | | Sec. 16. 20-A MRSA §7201, sub-§2, ¶B, as enacted by PL 1981, c. 693, | | §§5 and 8, is amended to read: |
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