Post by Logan on Mar 1, 2016 11:23:58 GMT -6
AUGUSTA — Spurred by Maine’s opioid addiction crisis and heroin deaths, lawmakers are considering a bill to require that state education officials prescribe how students are taught about substance abuse.
“We need to make sure that our children are not going down a dangerous path,” said House Majority Leader Jeff McCabe, D-Skowhegan. His bill, L.D. 1594, would direct the Maine Department of Education to develop a substance abuse education policy for middle school and high school students.
Currently, the state requires all schools to have such a policy, and offers guidelines and resources to develop it, but leaves it to local districts to create the actual policy.
That leaves gaps, McCabe and other supporters said Monday at a public hearing on the bill before the Legislature’s Education and Cultural Affairs Committee.
Read more: www.pressherald.com/2016/02/29/bill-would-have-state-education-officials-prescribe-how-students-are-taught-about-drug-abuse/
“We need to make sure that our children are not going down a dangerous path,” said House Majority Leader Jeff McCabe, D-Skowhegan. His bill, L.D. 1594, would direct the Maine Department of Education to develop a substance abuse education policy for middle school and high school students.
Currently, the state requires all schools to have such a policy, and offers guidelines and resources to develop it, but leaves it to local districts to create the actual policy.
That leaves gaps, McCabe and other supporters said Monday at a public hearing on the bill before the Legislature’s Education and Cultural Affairs Committee.
Read more: www.pressherald.com/2016/02/29/bill-would-have-state-education-officials-prescribe-how-students-are-taught-about-drug-abuse/