Title 20-A, Title 20-A

A school administrative unit shall conform to the following standards in making public school resources and services available to a student enrolled in an equivalent instruction program. For the purposes of this section, "student enrolled in an equivalent instruction program" mea…

1. Placement. A student who has been receiving home-school instruction and who seeks admission to the regular school program must be placed in a grade commensurate with the level of the student's academic achievement. Placement must be guided by the following. A. Grade level plac…

When the local public school unit does not provide academic instruction for specific grade levels, the following applies for students enrolled in an approved program of equivalent instruction. [PL 1995, c. 610, §1 (NEW).] 1. Class participation. The home-schooled student or the s…

Each school administrative unit shall develop and adopt a policy consistent with this subchapter. Establishment and administration of the local school unit policy is subject to the following. [PL 1995, c. 610, §1 (NEW).] 1. Policy. Local school unit policy must be submitted to an…

Appeals that question the local school unit's policy compliance with this subchapter must be made to the commissioner, whose decision is final and binding.

1. Goal. It is the goal of the State to achieve a graduation rate of 90% by the end of the 2015-2016 school year for each publicly supported secondary school. In addition to calculating the 4-year adjusted cohort graduation rate following the procedures outlined in 34 Code of Fed…

1. Truant. A student is truant if the student is subject to section 5001‑A and: A. [PL 2007, c. 304, §5 (RP).] B. Has completed grade 6 and has the equivalent of 10 full days of unexcused absences or 7 consecutive school days of unexcused absences during a school year; [PL 2019, …

The following provisions apply to attendance coordinators. [PL 1989, c. 415, §21 (NEW).] 1. Appointment. The following provisions apply to the appointment of attendance coordinators. A. A superintendent shall appoint an attendance coordinator or coordinators. [PL 2011, c. 614, §1…

1. Civil violation. If a parent has control of a student who is truant under section 5051‑A, subsection 1 and that parent is primarily responsible for that truancy, that parent commits a civil violation for which a fine of not more than $250 may be adjudged, all or part of which …

Any firm or corporation, or agent or manager of any firm or corporation, who hires or otherwise engages any student who is truant as defined in this subchapter without a release from the student's supervising superintendent of schools is subject to the penalty provided in Title 2…

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, a "dropout" means any person who has withdrawn for any reason except death, or been expelled from school before graduation or completion of a program of studies and who has not enrolled in another educational ins…

The following provisions apply to the dropout prevention committee. [PL 1989, c. 415, §29 (RPR).] 1. Committee. Each superintendent, with school board approval, shall annually establish a separate dropout prevention committee for each individual school unit under the superintende…

1. Alternative education programs. If the superintendents approve, a school administrative unit may enroll a student in an alternative education program in another school administrative unit or in an approved private alternative education program. 2. Student count. A student prop…

The commissioner shall provide technical assistance regarding truancy, dropouts and reintegration and alternative education programs. To do this, the commissioner shall employ at least one consultant whose responsibility is to cover the area of truancy, dropouts and alternative e…

1. Commissioner. The commissioner shall appoint an advisory committee on truancy, dropouts and alternative education. 2. Duties of the advisory committee, as appointed by the commissioner. The advisory committee shall advise the commissioner on the development and implementation …

The commissioner shall establish rules to implement this subchapter by January 1987.

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. [PL 2007, c. 451, §6 (NEW).] 1. Academic programming waiver. 1-A. Academic programming agreement. "Academic programming agreement" means an agreement between an in…

1. Education disruption due to interim program placement. The responsible school at the time a student is placed in an interim program shall: A. Within 5 school days of becoming aware of the placement: (1) Make available to the student individual educational materials such as cur…

If the student who experiences education disruption is between 16 years of age and 20 years of age, the school work recognition plan developed or updated following the education disruption must include a description of what the student must do in order to qualify to graduate with…

1. Course credit or waiver. If a student who is experiencing or has experienced education disruption attends more than one school after the student's 2nd year of high school and is unable to fulfill a diploma course requirement of the responsible school but has completed a simila…

1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms having the following meanings. A. "Absence" means an excused absence, unexcused absence or disciplinary absence, as those terms are defined by the state board by rule. [PL 2023, c…