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Amend the resolve by striking out everything after the emergency preamble and before the emergency clause and inserting the following:
‘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.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment, which is the majority report of the committee, authorizes the Department of Education to finally adopt the provisionally adopted rule Chapter 132: Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction only if specified changes are made.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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