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An Act Concerning the Calendars of Career and Technical Education Programs and Partnering Schools
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §4801, sub-§2-A, ¶A, as amended by PL 2011, c. 686, §2, is further amended to read:
 
A. There may not be more than 5 instructional days on which one or more of the The school calendars of the school administrative units affiliated with a career and technical education center or one or more of the school calendars of the school administrative units within a career and technical education region are not aligned withand the regional school calendar.must be aligned as follows:
 
(1) When there are 3 or fewer school administrative units affiliated with a career and technical education center or within a career and technical education region, there may not be more than 5 days on which the calendars of those schools are not aligned with each other and with the regional school calendar;
 
(2) When there are 4 or 5 school administrative units affiliated with a career and technical education center or within a career and technical education region, there may not be more than 6 days on which the calendars of those schools are not aligned with each other and with the regional school calendar; and
 
(3) When there are 6 or more school administrative units affiliated with a career and technical education center or within a career and technical education region, there may not be more than 7 days on which the calendars of those schools are not aligned with each other and with the regional school calendar.
 
SUMMARY
This bill provides that the calendars of all schools affiliated with a career and technical education center or within a career and technical education region must be aligned within 5 to 7 days of each other and with the regional school calendar, depending upon the number of schools sending students to the regional school.