An Act To Require the Maine Community College System, the University of Maine System and the Maine Maritime Academy To Report the Number of Students Enrolled in Remedial Courses
Maine Legislature, Session 125, LD 1645
Committee Amendment CA_B_S476 (Senate)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" B " to S.P. 544, L.D. 1645, Bill, "An Act To 
Require the Maine Community College System, the University of Maine System and the 
Maine Maritime Academy To Report the Number of Students Enrolled in Remedial 
Courses" 
Amend the bill in section 1 in § 1 00 12 by striking out all of subsections 1 and 2 and 
inserting the following: 
'1. Remedial courses. Using information that is already collected by the Maine 
Community College System, the University of Maine System and the Maine Maritime 
Academy, referred to in this section as "the public institutions of higher education," as 
part of the admissions and academic placement process, the President of the Maine 
Community College System, the Chancellor of the University of Maine System and the 
President of the Maine Maritime Academy shall annually compile the data so as to 
demonstrate: 
A. The total number of traditional students who are enrolled in remedial courses in 
English language arts and mathematics, which must be dis aggregated by campus and 
by subject area; 
B. The name of each secondary school in the State from which a traditional student 
enrolled in a remedial course received a high school diploma and the number of those 
students from each of those schools; and 
C. The retention and graduation rates for traditional students who were enrolled in 
remedial courses in English language arts and mathematics, which must be 
dis aggregated by campus. 
For the purposes of this section, "traditional student" means a student who has attended 
any accredited public school, private school or public charter school in the State and 
received a high school diploma from a secondary school in the State or who has 
participated in a home instruction program pursuant to section 500 I-A, subsection 3, 
paragraph A and who in the following academic year matriculates as a first-time, 
full-time student in a public institution of higher education. 
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2. Forms for school administrative unit evaluation. The public institutions of 
higher education shall develop forms for evaluation of school administrative units. The 
forms developed by the public institutions of higher education must include the 
information compiled under subsection 1 and may include but are not limited to the 
following information: 
A. Admissions data, including the total number of students and the mean score on a 
nationally accepted aptitude test for students who applied, were admitted and 
enrolled; 
B. Enrollment data, including the total number of students enrolled in each of the 
colleges or academic departments within the public institution of higher education; 
C. The number of first-generation college students; 
D. The average test scores attained by students matriculating within each public 
institution of higher education on a nationally accepted placement test used to 
determine students' levels of academic readiness; 
E. 
The percentage of students by selected subject areas who require remedial 
coursework before they may enroll in other college-level courses; 
F. First-year students' grade point averages and the actual mean grade point average 
for the students' first semester and first year; 
G. First-year students' grades in selected courses; and 
H. The enrollment status of students one year after matriculation, including whether 
the students are still enrolled, have withdrawn or were suspended. 
3. Personally identifiable information. In reporting pursuant to subsection 4 the 
information compiled under subsection 1, the public institutions of higher education shall 
manage education records in compliance with the federal Family Educational Rights and 
Privacy Act of 1974, 20 United States Code, Section 1232g. The public institutions of 
higher education may not make public any information that could identify an individual 
student and shall ensure that the purpose of reporting disaggregated data for students 
enrolled in remedial courses is to conduct research for the purpose of evaluating and 
improving education programs. To ensure that personally identifiable information that 
would make a student's identity easily traceable is not disclosed, the public institutions of 
higher education may not report dis aggregated information compiled under subsection 1 
if the total number of traditional students who received high school diplomas from the 
same secondary school and enrolled in the same remedial course at the same campus is 5 
or fewer. 
4. Report. Beginning with the 2012-2013 academic year, the President of the Maine 
Community College System, the Chancellor of the University of Maine System and the 
President of the Maine Maritime Academy shall each report the information compiled 
under this section and recommendations for strategies that may result in fewer students 
enrolling in remedial courses at postsecondary educational institutions and strategies for 
improving the retention and graduation rates for students who were enrolled in remedial 
courses. The reports must be submitted by January 1st of each year to the commissioner 
and to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over education 
and cultural affairs. The public institutions of higher education shall publish the annual 
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reports on their publicly accessible wcbsites. The public institutions of higher education 
shall provide the information to the department and the school boards and superintendents 
of school administrative units whose gr?-duates are enrolled as first-time, full-time 
students at a campus in one of the Imblic institutions of higher education. 
5, Contingent repeal. This section is repealed July 1, 2016 unless the commissioner 
certifies to the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Senate, the Clerk of the House of 
Bn2resentatives and the Revisor of Statutes before that date that the United States 
Congress has enacted legislation requiring public institutions of higher education to 
compile and report substantially the same data.' 
Amend the bill by adding after section 1 the following: 
'Sec. 2. Longitudinal data system; status report. 
The Commissioner of 
Education shall provide a report by February 2, 2013 to the j oint standing committee of 
the Legislature having jurisdiction over education and cultural affairs on the status of the 
Maine Statewide Longitudinal Data System established pursuant to the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 20-A, section 6005. The report must provide details on the implementation 
of the longitudinal data system, including: 
1. The current capacity of the longitudinal data system to compile, maintain and 
disseminate information concerning the educational histories, placement, employment 
and other measures of success of participants in state educational programs; 
2. The timeline for implementation of the longitudinal data system, including the 
expected dates for full deployment of the system; 
3. The identification of funding sources to meet the ongoing costs to maintain and 
update the longitudinal data system; and 
4. The training opportunities provided for educators statewide related to the 
longitudinal data system and the status of the Department of Education's plan to provide 
ongoing professional development and training for teachers and school officials on the 
use of data to inform instructional practices. 
Sec. 3. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and 
allocations are made. 
COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM, BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE MAINE 
Maine Community College System - Board of Trustees 0556 
Initiative: Provides funds for the cost associated with collecting and compiling additional 
data related to students enrolled in certain remedial courses. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
2012-13 
$130,000 
$130,000 
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COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM, BOARD OF 
TRUSTEES OF THE MAINE 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
GENERAL FUND 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL-ALL FUNDS 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM, BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE 
Educational and General Activities - UMS 0031 
2012-13 
$130,000 
$130,000 
Initiative: Provides funds for the cost associated with collecting and compiling additional 
data related to students enrolled in certain remedial courses. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM, BOARD OF 
TRUSTEES OF THE 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
GENERAL FUND 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL-ALL FUNDS 
SECTION TOTALS 
GENERAL FUND 
SECTION TOTAL - ALL FUNDS 
SUMMARY 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2012-13 
$122,500 
$122,500 
2012-13 
$122,500 
$122,500 
2012-13 
$252,500 
$252,500 
This amendment is the minority report of the Joint Standing Committee on Education 
and Cultural Affairs. The amendment makes the following changes to the bill. 
1. It limits the compilation of information to remedial courses in English language 
arts and mathematics. 
2. To ensure that personally identifiable information that would make a student's 
identity easily traceable is not disclosed, it prohibits an institution of higher education 
from reporting dis aggregated data for students enrolled in remedial courses when there 
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are 5 or fewer traditional students who received high school diplomas from the same 
secondary school and enrolled in the same remedial course at the same campus. 
3. It eliminates the provision in the bill that requires the public institutions of higher 
education to report information on students enrolled in remedial courses to school boards 
and superintendents of school administrative units whosc high school graduates are 
enrolled in remedial courses. 
4. It adds a repeal provision to provide that the compilation and reporting 
requirements related to remedial education are repealed July I, 2016 unless the United 
States Congress enacts a law by this date that requires the compilation and reporting of 
substantially the same data required by this legislation by public institutions of higher 
education. 
5. It adds a provision to the bill to require that the Maine Community College 
System, the University of Maine System and the Maine Maritime Academy develop 
forms for reporting information for school administrative unit evaluation in order to 
provide beneficial performance information to the public institutions of higher education, 
the Department of Education and the school boards and superintendents of the school 
administrative units whose graduates are enrolled as first-time, full-time students at a 
campus in one of the public institutions of higher education. 
6. It directs the Commissioner of Education to provide a status report by February 2, 
2013 to the j oint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over education 
and cultural affairs on the implementation of the Maine Statewide Longitudinal Data 
System established pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 6005. 
It adds an appropriations and allocations section. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
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Approved: 03121112 
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LD 1645 
LR 2533(03) 
An Act To Require the Maine Community College System, the University of Maine System and the 
Maine Maritime Academy To Report the Number of Students Enrolled in Remedial Courses 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment "B" S ~'1(p 
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
Appropriations/Allocations 
General Fund 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
FY 2011-12 
FY 2012-13 
$0 
$252,500 
$0 
$252,500 
Projections 
FY 2013-14 
$252,500 
$252,500 
Projections 
FY 2014-15 
$252,500 
$252,500 
This bill includes ongoing General Fund appropriations totaling $252,500 beginning in fiscal year 2012-13. Of that 
amount, a General Fund appropriation of $130,000 is provided to the Maine Community College System and a 
General Fund appropriation of$122,500 is provided to the University of Maine System for the costs associated with 
collecting and compiling additional data related to students enrolled in certain remedial courses. 
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