An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Task Force on Franco-Americans Regarding the Reporting of Franco-American Ethnicity Data
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §6004, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2011, c. 171, §9, is further amended to read:
1. Duty of superintendent. In accordance with time schedules established by the commissioner, the superintendent of each school administrative unit and the administrator of each private school shall inform the commissioner, in the format specified by and with the content required by the commissioner, of the number of students attending their schools and in the case of public schools the number of students residing in their the school administrative unit. Beginning with the start of the 2014-2015 school year, the information must include the number of Franco-American students attending each public school and each private school. The superintendent of each school administrative unit shall also inform the commissioner of the number of Franco-American students residing in the school administrative unit. This information must be supplied on forms provided by the commissioner.
SUMMARY
This bill requires the superintendent of each school administrative unit and the administrator of each private school to report to the Commissioner of Education the number of Franco-American students in their schools.