Resolve, To Assist the University of Maine System and the Maine Community College System To Reduce the Need for Remedial Education

CONCEPT DRAFT SUMMARY

This resolve is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208.

This resolve proposes to require the Department of Education to analyze the data for the last 3 academic years from public and private secondary schools regarding the number of students needing remedial education at the postsecondary level and the graduation rates of those students from postsecondary programs. The department is required to determine what methods are used by those schools with high graduation rates among students requiring remedial education and determine how to use those methods in other schools that do not have graduation rates as high. This resolve provides $1,000,000, disbursed by the department, to assist schools with low rates of graduation among its remedial education students to adopt methods of increasing the graduation rates of those students.