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An Act To Expand Educational Opportunities for Students in the Unorganized Territories
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §3252, sub-§1, as repealed and replaced by PL 1985, c. 490, §3, is amended to read:
 
1. Elementary school privileges provided.   The commissioner may provide elementary schooling for resident children by establishing and maintaining such elementary schools as may seem advisable or by sending these children as tuition students to elementary schools elsewhere in the State. A parent or guardian of a child residing in an unorganized unit that does not have an elementary school located in that unorganized unit may choose an elementary school in the State for that child to attend.
 
SUMMARY
This bill provides that the parent or guardian of a child residing in an unorganized unit that does not have an elementary school located in that unorganized unit may choose an elementary school in the State for that child to attend.