Education and Cultural Affairs

ME - Senator Rebecca Millett (D)

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Chair

ME - Senator Everett Carson (D)

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Member

ME - Senator Matthew Pouliot (U)

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Member

ME - Representative Victoria P. Kornfield (D)

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Chair

ME - Representative Michael F. Brennan (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Janice S. Dodge (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Gary A. Drinkwater (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Richard R. Farnsworth (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Justin Fecteau (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Henry L. Ingwersen (D)

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Member

ME - Representative David Harold McCrea (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Shelley Rudnicki (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Heidi H. Sampson (R)

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Member

ME - LD557 An Act To Create and Fund the School Revolving Maintenance Fund To Support the Usefulness and Longevity of Public School Buildings

ME - LD576 Resolve, Directing the Department of Education To Develop and Implement an Online Learning Platform for Students and Educators

ME - LD577 An Act To Increase Access to Nutritious Foods in Schools by Implementing an After-school Food Program for At-risk Students

ME - LD587 An Act To Require Career Options Education for High School Students

ME - LD589 Resolve, Directing the State Board of Education To Adopt Rules Prohibiting Teachers in Public Schools from Engaging in Political, Ideological or Religious Advocacy in the Classroom

ME - LD605 An Act To Improve Antihunger Programs in Maine Schools

ME - LD610 An Act To Provide Funding for Maine Public

ME - LD626 An Act To Provide Funding for the Naval Museum and Gardens in Brunswick

ME - LD632 An Act To Promote Free, Appropriate Public Education

ME - LD642 An Act Regarding Kindergarten Readiness for Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

ME - LD866 An Act To Support College Completion by Homeless Youth in Maine

ME - LD898 An Act To Provide for a Professional Wage and Support for New Educators

ME - LD1010 Resolve, Directing the Department of Education To Develop a Model School Disciplinary Policy

ME - LD979 An Act To Provide Consistent Data Regarding Education Funding

ME - LD985 An Act To Maintain High School Diploma Standards by Repealing Proficiency-based Diploma Standards

ME - LD997 An Act To Promote Social and Emotional Learning and Development for Young Children

ME - LD987 An Act To Provide Autonomy for Health Care Providers To Practice Patient-centered Care by Amending the Laws Governing Medical Exemptions to Immunization Requirements

ME - LD14 An Act To Improve Science and Engineering Education for Maine's Students

ME - LD63 An Act To Improve Responsiveness of Elected School Boards to the Public

ME - LD135 An Act To Appropriate Funds To Provide Sea Protection and Public Access to the Historic Whaleback Lighthouse in Kittery

ME - LD387 An Act To Require Cursive Handwriting Instruction in Grade 3 to Grade 5

ME - LD464 An Act To Change the Period To Request a Due Process Hearing for Costs Related to a Unilateral Private School Placement from a Public School

ME - LD55 An Act To Return the Normal Cost of Teacher Retirement to the State

ME - LD944 An Act To Ban Native American Mascots in All Public Schools

ME - LD965 An Act To Restrict Cell Phone Use by Students While in School

ME - LD843 An Act To Clarify Parental Consent Regarding the Release of Student Information

ME - LD1024 An Act To Include Mental Health Education in Maine Schools

ME - LD1036 Resolve, Establishing a Task Force To Study the Creation of a Comprehensive Career and Technical Education System To Support Workforce Development

ME - LD1035 Resolve, To Streamline the Process by Which Schools Receive Fresh Fruit and Vegetables

ME - LD1046 An Act To Authorize the Department of Education To Provide Flexibility in the Required Credentials for Teachers in Career and Technical Programs

ME - LD1050 An Act To Require Education about the Holocaust

ME - LD1043 An Act To Establish Universal Public Preschool Programs

ME - LD711 Resolve, To Establish a Commission To Study and Recommend a Minimum Age for Participation in Tackle Football

ME - LD714 An Act To Prohibit Public Charter Schools from Expending Funds for Advertising

ME - LD712 An Act To Fully Fund After-school and Preschool Programs in the School Funding Formula, Increase the Economically Disadvantaged Student Factor in the School Funding Formula and Increase the School Construction Debt Service Limit

ME - LD721 An Act To Encourage Public Participation in School Board Meetings

ME - LD727 An Act Concerning Funding of Alternative Organizational Structures

ME - LD729 An Act Regarding the Probationary Period for Teachers

ME - LD1064 An Act To Address Maine's Firefighter Shortage by Offering Firefighter Training for Credit in High School Career and Technical Education Programs

ME - LD858 Resolve, Directing the Department of Education To Study and Make Recommendations for the Establishment of a Maine School Safety Center

ME - LD1170 An Act To Raise the Floor of State Education Funding

ME - LD382 An Act To Fund Services for Blind and Visually Impaired Persons at the Maine State Library

ME - LD1306 An Act To Promote Safe Schools through the Creation of the Safe School Climate Council

ME - LD1227 An Act To Allow Parents To Apply to the Commissioner of Education To Enroll Their Children in a Receiving School Administrative Unit and To Remove Limitations on Which Students May Be So Enrolled

ME - LD1283 Resolve, To Advance College Affordability by Convening a Task Force To Recommend a Sustainable Funding Model for Maintaining Maine's Public Higher Education Infrastructure

ME - LD1331 An Act To Amend the Student Information Privacy Act

ME - LD405 An Act To Increase the Statewide Minimum Salary for Teachers

ME - LD419 An Act To Require a Minimum Salary of $50,000 for Public School Teachers

ME - LD345 An Act To Help New Teachers Succeed

ME - LD318 An Act To Prepare All Students for Work and Life by Requiring That Students Receive Instruction in Vocational Preparation and Practical Life Skills

ME - LD136 An Act To Establish a Special Education Circuit Breaker Reimbursement Program

ME - LD484 Resolve, To Establish a Maine State High School Diploma

ME - LD1382 An Act To Establish Computer Science Courses and Content in Kindergarten to Grade 12 Schools

ME - LD1376 An Act To Direct the Department of Education To Amend Its Rules To Ensure That Physical Restraint and Seclusion Policies Are Followed for Special Education Students and Make Biennial Reports on the Use of Physical Restraint and Seclusion

ME - LD1592 An Act To Allow the Dissolution of Regional School Units Composed of a Single Municipality

ME - LD1593 An Act To Support Infrastructure Improvements in Schools

ME - LD1606 An Act To Increase Funding for Career and Technical Education Programs

ME - LD1607 An Act To Create the Department of Early Care and Learning

ME - LD1715 An Act To Reorganize the Provision of Services for Children with Disabilities from Birth to 5 Years of Age

ME - LD1778 An Act To Amend the Laws Concerning the Children's Cabinet and Its Advisory Councils

ME - LD1813 Resolve, To Ensure Safe and Inclusive Learning Environments

ME - LD1820 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Investigations by School Entities into Holders of Credentials

ME - LD1879 An Act Regarding the Adoption of Education Policies by School Boards

ME - LD1878 Resolve, To Establish the Commission To Study the Use of Adjunct Professors in Maine's Public University and College System

ME - LD1918 An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding the Reserve Funds of Certain School Organizational Structures

ME - LD2077 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 180: Performance Evaluation and Professional Growth Systems, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education

ME - LD2076 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 40: Rule for Medication Administration in Maine Schools, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education

ME - LD2075 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 115: Part II Requirements for Specific Certificates and Endorsements, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education

ME - LD2152 An Act To Permit Naloxone Possession and Administration in Public and Private Schools

ME - LD651 An Act To Facilitate School Access to Federal Title I Funds and Improve the Delivery of Special Education Services

ME - LD654 An Act Regarding Instruction in Civics in Secondary Schools

ME - LD662 An Act To Count Study Abroad toward Secondary School Credit

ME - LD882 Resolve, To Require the Examination of the System of Learning Results

ME - LD29 Resolve, To Implement the Recommendations of the Task Force To Address the Opioid Crisis in the State by Establishing a Work Group To Develop Educational Programming for Prevention of Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders among Youth and Adolescents

ME - LD404 An Act To Fund the School Revolving Renovation Fund

ME - LD930 An Act To Give Maine Schools Additional Options To Make Up Missed School Days

ME - LD1029 An Act To Expand Educational Opportunities for Students Attending Public Secondary Schools with Enrollments of 300 or Fewer Students

ME - LD98 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 122: Grant Application and Award Procedure: Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Educational Services, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education

ME - LD1262 An Act To Allow Funds from the Federal E-Rate Program To Be Applied to Maine Preschool Programs

ME - LD1267 An Act To Allow the Awarding of Graduation Credits by Career and Technical Education Centers and Regions

ME - LD703 An Act To Help Maine Students Succeed

ME - LD701 An Act To Modernize the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program

ME - LD736 An Act To Protect Students during Elections Held at Their Schools

ME - LD750 An Act To Allow Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps Instructors To Instruct without State Certification

ME - LD760 An Act To Prohibit the University of Maine System, the Maine Community College System and the Maine Maritime Academy from Considering the Criminal Records of Applicants

ME - LD770 An Act To Provide for a Later Starting Time for High Schools

ME - LD773 An Act Regarding Secondary School Education Concerning Sexual Activity and Sexual Assault

ME - LD791 An Act To Provide School Districts with Full State Funding for Students with High-cost Special Education Needs

ME - LD860 An Act To Establish the Maine Community College System No-cost Tuition Program

ME - LD718 An Act To Increase Funding for Adult Basic Literacy, Workplace Education and College Preparedness

ME - LD852 An Act To Enhance the Coordination of Benefits, Assessments and Expansion of Continuing Education Programs for Young Adults with Disabilities after High School

ME - LD1174 An Act To Facilitate Remote Learning during School Cancellations

ME - LD1182 An Act To Improve School Safety by Requiring Law Enforcement Visits

ME - LD176 An Act To Enhance Participation on the State Board of Education

ME - LD541 Resolve, To Reduce Food Waste in Schools

ME - LD513 An Act To Limit the Number of Students and Prevent the Addition of Grade Levels at Virtual Public Charter Schools

ME - LD512 Resolve, To Create the Task Force To Study and Plan for the Implementation of Maine's Early Childhood Special Education Services

ME - LD502 An Act To Establish the Summer Success Program Fund

ME - LD503 An Act To Provide Additional Funding for the Maine Bicentennial Commission

ME - LD504 An Act To Enhance the Development of Innovative Career and Technical Education Programs

ME - LD468 An Act To Require That the State Fund on an Ongoing Basis a Minimum of 50 Percent of the Costs Associated with Public Preschool Programs

ME - LD470 An Act To Provide Traffic Safety Education in Schools

ME - LD97 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 38: Suicide Awareness and Prevention in Maine Public Schools, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education

ME - LD103 An Act To Ensure the Integrity of For-profit Colleges

ME - LD150 An Act To Improve Attendance at Public Elementary Schools

ME - LD155 An Act To Ensure Transparency in College Costs

ME - LD161 An Act To Increase Access to Career and Technical Education

ME - LD160 An Act To Add Instruction in Personal Finance to the Statewide System of Learning Results

ME - LD167 An Act To Prevent Food Shaming in Maine's Public Schools

ME - LD185 An Act To Provide a Method for a Student To Be Excused from Standardized Testing

ME - LD178 An Act To Increase the State Share of the Cost of Health Insurance for Retired Teachers

ME - LD206 An Act To Raise the University of Maine System Debt Ceiling

ME - LD210 An Act To Increase Technology and Engineering Education for Grades 7 to 12

ME - LD454 An Act To Encourage the Purchase of Local Produce for Public Schools

ME - LD225 An Act Regarding Transportation Management Software and School Bus Replacement

ME - LD236 An Act Regarding the Use of Unanticipated State Aid for Kindergarten to Grade 12 Education

ME - LD237 An Act To Appropriate Funds for Coaching Services for Existing and New Prekindergarten Programs

ME - LD246 An Act To Secure the Future of the Frances Perkins Homestead

ME - LD247 An Act To Increase the Amount of Time School Counselors and Social Workers Spend Providing Students Direct and Indirect Counseling

ME - LD259 An Act To Require the State To Meet the Mandatory 55 Percent Contribution to Schools

ME - LD438 An Act To Allow the Creation of New Innovative School Models by Removing the Cap on the Number of Authorized Charter Schools

ME - LD151 An Act To Align State Law with Current Practice Regarding Required School Attendance

ME - LD283 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 132: Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education

ME - LD296 An Act Regarding Student Privacy with Respect to Video Recordings

ME - LD309 An Act To Eliminate the Regional Adjustment for Public School Systems

ME - LD307 An Act To Limit the Number of Charter Schools in Maine

ME - LD359 An Act To Address Student Hunger with a "Breakfast after the Bell" Program

ME - LD358 An Act To Fully Fund Career and Technical Education for Fiscal Year 2018-19

ME - LD375 An Act To Promote the Forest Products Industry in School Construction and Renovation Involving Heating Systems

ME - LD385 An Act To Base School Funding on the Number of Students Sent by a Town to a Regional School Unit

ME - LD395 An Act To Protect Access to Outside-of-school Enrichment Opportunities

ME - LD406 An Act To Establish Regional School Leadership Academies

ME - LD412 An Act To Restore System Administration Allocations in Maine School Administrative Units to the Level Prescribed for Fiscal Year 2017-18

ME - LD549 An Act To Promote Academic Achievement through Hunger Relief for Maine Children

ME - LD1396 An Act To Update the Laws Governing the Regional Library Systems

ME - LD1428 An Act To Require the State To Fund 50 Percent of Public Preschool Programs

ME - LD1857 An Act To Protect Teachers from Punitive or Retaliatory Transfers

ME - LD1858 An Act To Protect Teachers from Professional Teacher Certificate Endorsement Changes

ME - LD1855 An Act To Include Student Absences for Mental Health or Behavioral Health Needs as Excusable Absences

ME - LD1860 An Act To Establish a Process for the Consideration and Implementation of Changes to School Curricula

ME - LD1566 An Act To Increase the Number of Recipients under the Tuition Waiver Program for Participants in Foster Care

ME - LD1638 An Act To Provide for Gubernatorial Appointments to the Maine Charter School Commission

ME - LD1641 An Act To Strengthen the School Transportation Workforce

ME - LD1773 An Act To Clarify Bonding Authority for School Management and Leadership Centers

ME - LD1785 An Act To Amend Certain Education Laws

ME - LD2024 An Act To Remove from the Calculation of the Cost of Education the Maine Public Employees Retirement System Teacher Plan Unfunded Actuarial Liability

ME - LD2016 An Act Regarding School Discipline for Maine's Youngest Students

ME - LD2014 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Maine State Grant Program

ME - LD2020 An Act To Strengthen Maritime Education by Amending the Laws Governing the Maine School for Marine Science, Technology, Transportation and Engineering

ME - LD2022 An Act To Provide Funding for Capital Improvements and Equipment for Career and Technical Education Centers and Regions

ME - LD2035 An Act To Modify Teacher Certification Expiration Dates for Teachers Who Use Family Medical Leave

ME - LD2046 An Act Regarding Immunizations

ME - LD2156 Resolve, Requiring the Department of Education To Report on Issues Relating to Bullying in Schools

ME - LD2113 An Act To Prevent Charter Schools from Using State Funds for Anti-union Campaigns

ME - LD2121 Resolve, To Establish the Task Force To Study the Coordination of Services and Expansion of Educational Programs for Young Adults with Disabilities

ME - LD1894 An Act To Incentivize the Purchase of Electric Public School Buses

ME - LD1916 An Act To Increase High School Graduation Rates for Students Experiencing Homelessness or in Foster Care

ME - LD665 An Act To Enact the Campus Free Expression Act

ME - LD664 An Act To Organize Biannual County Meetings for Local School Boards

ME - LD672 An Act To Allow Local Flexibility in Teacher Assignment To Enhance Student Achievement

ME - LD685 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Maine School for Marine Science, Technology, Transportation and Engineering

ME - LD137 An Act To Make the Maine Learning Technology Initiative More Cost-effective

ME - LD1168 Resolve, To Improve Maine's Response to Childhood Trauma

ME - LD388 An Act To Recognize Employee Background Checks Conducted for Out-of-state Schools Eligible for Maine Tuition Assistance

ME - LD798 An Act To Protect Maine Children and Students from Preventable Diseases by Repealing Certain Exemptions from the Laws Governing Immunization Requirements

ME - LD1216 An Act To Support Community Schools

ME - LD1152 An Act To Make the Maine Educational Assessment Optional for Kindergarten to Grade 8

ME - LD1149 An Act To Strengthen Resource Sharing and Access to Library Materials among Maine Libraries

ME - LD92 An Act To Amend Teacher Evaluation Requirements

ME - LD441 An Act To Reduce Childhood Exposure to Harmful Ultraviolet Radiation by Allowing Students To Use Sunscreen in Schools

ME - LD427 An Act To Require the State To Fund Teacher Retirement

ME - LD1338 An Act To Protect Teachers from Unfair Evaluations

ME - LD1344 An Act To Improve Nutrition in Maine Schools

ME - LD1343 An Act To Improve Health Education and Physical Education in Schools

ME - LD1341 An Act To Provide Flexibility for Efficient and Effective Management of School Management and Leadership Centers

ME - LD1347 An Act To Promote High-quality After-school Programs in Public Schools

ME - LD1351 An Act To Allow for the Recovery and Redistribution of Food in Public Schools

ME - LD1369 An Act To Create an Additional Pathway To Certify Industrial Arts Teachers To Foster Career and Technical Subjects in Maine Schools

ME - LD1370 An Act To Address Violent Behavior in the Classroom

ME - LD1425 An Act To Maintain the Integrity of the Department of Education by Prohibiting Its Promotion of Policies and Practices That Are Not Based on Rigorous Peer Review and Analysis, Limiting Acceptance of Private Funding in Implementing and Influencing State Policy and Retaining the Home Rule Powers to School Administrative Units

ME - LD1478 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 115: The Credentialing of Education Personnel, a Late-filed Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education

ME - LD1497 An Act To Recognize High-performing, Efficient School Districts with Regard to the System Administration Allocation

ME - LD1538 An Act Regarding Compensation Equity for Positions in the Maine Community College System

ME - LD1549 An Act To Increase the Supplement for Certain National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certified Teachers in Maine

ME - LD1521 An Act To Expand Skill Development Opportunities for Maine Youth

ME - LD1700 Resolve, To Promote the Inclusion of African-American History and Culture in the Curricular Offerings of School Administrative Units

ME - LD1765 An Act To Expand and Clarify the Prohibition of Hazing at Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools and Postsecondary Institutions

ME - LD1618 An Act To Authorize Career and Technical Education Regions To Enter into Energy Conservation Performance Contracts for School Facilities

ME - LD1815 An Act To Provide Funds To Continue the Statewide Online Advanced Placement Course Program Provided by the Department of Education in Partnership with the University of Maine at Fort Kent

ME - LD1999 An Act To Amend the Maine Education Savings Program

ME - LD1947 An Act To Fund Capital Improvements to Career and Technical Education Centers

ME - LD2071 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 125: Basic Approval Standards: Public Schools and School Administrative Units, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education

ME - LD2072 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 132: Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education

ME - LD2166 An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Work Group on the Laws Governing Investigations by School Entities into Holders of Credentials