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: Education and Cultural Affairs
Sponsors: ALFOND, CAIN, COURTNEY, GERZOFSKY, GOODALL, HOBBINS, LANGLEY, PATRICK, BLODGETT, NELSON
Amends: 20-A MRSA §10012

Legislative Document 
No. 1645 
S.P. 544 
In Senate, December 21, 2011 
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 
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
203. 
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on December 19, 2011.  Referred to the Committee 
on Education and Cultural Affairs pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to 
Joint Rule 218. 
JOSEPH G. CARLETON, JR. 
Secretary of the Senate 
Presented by Senator ALFOND of Cumberland. 
Cosponsored by Representative CAIN of Orono and 
Senators: COURTNEY of York, GERZOFSKY of Cumberland, GOODALL of Sagadahoc, 
HOBBINS of York, LANGLEY of Hancock, PATRICK of Oxford, Representatives: 
BLODGETT of Augusta, NELSON of Falmouth. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  20-A MRSA §10012 is enacted to read: 
§10012.  High school graduates data; remedial courses 
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 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, 
which must be disaggregated 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, which must be disaggregated by campus. 
For the purposes of this subsection, "traditional student" means a student who has 
attended any accredited public school or private 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 5001-A, subsection 3, paragraph A and who in 
the following academic year matriculates in the Maine Community College System, in 
the University of Maine System or at the Maine Maritime Academy. 
2.  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 subsection 1, including 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 of Education, the joint standing committee of the Legislature having 
jurisdiction over education and cultural affairs and the school boards and superintendents 
of school administrative units whose graduates are enrolled in remedial courses.  The 
Maine Community College System, the University of Maine System and the Maine 
Maritime Academy shall publish the annual reports on their publicly accessible websites. 
SUMMARY 
This bill requires the Maine Community College System, the University of Maine 
System and the Maine Maritime Academy to report annually on the number of traditional 
students who attended high school in the State and who are enrolled in remedial courses 
at each campus within their respective systems.