Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 132: Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education

Sec. 1. Adoption. Resolved: That final adoption of portions of Chapter 132: Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction, a provisionally adopted major substantive rule of the Department of Education that has been submitted to the Legislature for review pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A is authorized only if the following changes are made:

1. The rule must be amended in the preamble to the language strand in the English language arts standards to emphasize that these standards are not a checklist but key components of reading, writing, speaking and listening instruction and that these standards should be treated as such;

2. The rule must be amended in the preamble to the reading strand of the English language arts standards to include reference to texts in cursive, print and digital fonts; and

3. The rule must be amended in mathematics standards, coding reference 3.MD.A.1 to add a reference to analog and digital clocks.