Constitution, Art. VIII, Pt. First, §§3 to 6 are enacted to read:

Section 3.__Equal access to good education.__In any effort the State undertakes to aid local public schools it must provide for distribution of that aid among the various schools and school units in a manner designed to equalize the ability of every school to provide a good education and must take full account of unavoidable differences in resources and costs, including those that may arise because of the school's location.

Section 4.__Protecting access in rural areas.__The State may undertake no action that would contribute to the closing of any public school if doing so would lengthen a child's daily time on a school bus to more than 2 hours for a child under 12 years of age or more than 3 hours for a child 12 years of age or older.

Section 5.__Local control of schools.__The State may not compel municipalities to join school administrative districts or school administrative districts to join larger districts.__The State may, however, adjust the state funding to account for any inefficiencies caused by the small size of a district, but only to the extent it can be demonstrated that the district's joining with adjoining towns or districts would result in immediate reduction in the per student costs for all municipalities concerned.

Section 6.__Right to access to local schools.__The rights established under this Part belong to and may be asserted by every citizen of the State.

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Constitutional referendum procedure; form of question; effective date. Resolved: That the municipal officers of this State shall notify the inhabitants of their respective cities, towns and plantations to meet, in the manner prescribed by law for holding a statewide election, at a statewide election, on the Tuesday following the first Monday of November following the passage of this resolution, to vote upon the ratification of the amendment proposed in this resolution by voting upon the following question:

"Do you favor amending the Constitution of Maine to prevent the State from requiring that public schools be incorporated into larger school districts and to prevent the State from closing a public school if it will result in a child under