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physical activity programs in schools.__The physical education | consultant shall: |
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| | 1.__Resource expert.__Serve as a resource expert in physical | education, physical fitness and healthful physical activity | program areas for local, regional, state and national school | physical education and related policy-making groups; |
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| | 2.__Information. Monitor, interpret, synthesize and | disseminate relevant information related to physical education, | physical fitness and healthful physical activity trends, | practice, related policy changes, legal issues in program | implementation and professional development; |
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| | 3.__Staff development.__Foster and promote professional | development for physical education teachers and other school | personnel by planning and providing orientation, educational | offerings and networking with universities and other providers of | continuing education to meet identified needs; and |
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| | 4.__Standards.__Gather and analyze data relevant to the | physical education, physical fitness and healthful physical | activity programs and monitor standards to promote physical | education excellence and optimal physical fitness of | schoolchildren. |
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| | Sec. 4. 20-A MRSA §13803 is enacted to read: |
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| | After__December 31, 2005, upon expiration of a collective | bargaining agreement for a school administrative unit that | includes teachers, any new collective bargaining agreement for | that unit must include a provision allowing teachers and students | no less than 20 minutes to eat lunch each school day. |
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| | Sec. 5. 22 MRSA c. 271, sub-c. 5 is enacted to read: |
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| NUTRITIONAL STANDARDS FOR FOODS |
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| AND BEVERAGES SOLD IN SCHOOLS |
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| §1696-J.__Nutritional standards program |
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| | The department shall create a nutritional standards program | within the Bureau of Health to establish nutritional standards | for healthy foods and beverages that may be sold in schools. |
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