| Sec. 1. Department of Education to adopt rules to establish system for verification of |
| proficiency for prelingually deaf candidates for teacher certification. Resolved: That |
| the Department of Education shall adopt major substantive rules, |
| as defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, |
| subchapter 2-A, that establish a system for verifying the |
| proficiency of prelingually deaf teacher certification |
| candidates. This system must be available to prelingually deaf |
| teacher certification candidates in lieu of achievement of the |
| required scores on the Praxis assessment. This system must be |
| modeled after the one that has been used in California to certify |
| prelingually deaf teachers, school counselors, psychologists and |
| social workers. The system must include the establishment of a |
| 3-person panel to oversee the teacher for 2 years to verify that |
| the teacher has the ability to perform the functions of the job. |
