AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine State House is quiet as legislators — now finished with a new two-year budget and scores of other bills — take some time off. But when they will return to work later this month they’ll have plenty to do.
After giving final approval Thursday to a $6.1 billion state budget, weary legislators debated a few more bills before adjourning until June 28th.
When they return, they’ll have to finish up work on some major unresolved issues. Among them is a bill to authorize charter school. A bill that awaiting final action would allow no more than 10 public charter schools in the first 10 years. It would also limit the number of students who can attend them in the first three years to protect smaller non-charter public schools.
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- Newly-elected House Speaker Robert Nutting, R-Oakland, receives a warm welcome from members of the 125th Maine legislature after being sworn into office at the State House in Augusta, Maine, on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. This is the first time in more than three decades that there is a Republican-led House and Senate. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)
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