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| | | An Act To Promote the Coordination of School Calendars for |
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| | | Career and Technical Education Students |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §4801, sub-§2-A is enacted to read: |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | A.__There may not be more than 9 dissimilar instructional | | days within each regional calendar. |
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| | | B.__When career and technical centers or regions overlap, | | there must be common calendars for each of the schools in | | those overlapping areas. |
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