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Bill to change special education for state’s youngest children passes first round of votes in House, Senate
A bill that would restructure Maine’s broken system of educating young children with disabilities has passed initial votes in the House and the Senate this week. The support gathered in a 96 to 52 House vote Wednesday was quickly echoed in the Senate Thursday afternoon, where members voted 27 to 8 in support of a bill to transfer that responsibility for educating Maine’s youngest children with disabilities to local school districts. “This bill is going to do a lot of good things for a lot of school districts,” Sen. James...