Regional School Calendars

As a part of Public Law 2011, Chapter 686, school administrative units and private schools approved for tuition purposes are now required to establish regional school calendars, in coordination with their local secondary Career and Technical Education (CTE) school. These calendars must be submitted to the Maine Department of Education no later than June 1, 2013.

View the complete text of the Commissioner’s Administrative Letter, issued on Jan. 8, 2013.

In order to assist with this task, the following resources have been developed:

• Regional Calendar Guidance (MS Word) – More detailed information than is contained in the administrative letter about who is responsible for doing what and when.
• Full Day Template (MS Excel) – An Excel file with one worksheet for up to five schools. Use this template if your local CTE school day is not broken down between morning and afternoon. If you have more than five high schools in your region, please copy the worksheet to another tab in the same file until you have enough for all schools.
• Half Day Template (MS Excel) - An Excel file with one worksheet for up to six schools. Use this template if your local CTE school day is broken down between morning and afternoon. If you have more than six high schools in your region, please copy the worksheet to another tab in the same file until you have enough for all schools.
• Instructions for using templates – Detailed instructions for using both the full and half day Excel templates.
• Waiver request form (MS Word) – Use this form if you need to request a waiver from the requirement of no more than 5 dissimilar days.

Maine Revised Statute, Title 20-A, Part 3, Chapter 209, Section 4801

 

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