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Observations on The Legislative Work Session for the Boothbay School Charter Replacement

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It’s early in the day. In a few hours I will watch the live legislative session that decides about whether to enact the replacement school charter that my testimony argues relinquishes the Boothbay school district’s home rule authority and hands it over to corporate management by the state.

As I was contemplating what is transpiring in this town and in this state, It occurred to me that it was no accident that H.P. 1366 - L.D. 1845, last year’s amendment of our educational statutes was enacted in the same session that the Maine Space Corporation was chartered by special act of legislation. The demonstration schools suggest an attempt to extend what exists at the University of Maine into our high schools and secondary schools, such as operating an educational institution as a business enterprise as in the Advanced Manufacturing Center at the University of Maine, which employs student labor, but I have never read how the student labor force is paid.

The Advanced Manufacturing Center promotes a sense of project ownership to student employees and the self-motivation necessary to succeed in today’s professional engineering environment. source

It’s easy to spot the applied philosophy of “psychological ownership”. How is that interacting with the University of Maine’s claims to intellectual property ownership of projects done at the facilities owned by the University? What is the difference between the University’s policies and that of a corporation that employs a workforce? The language and concept used in the quote taken from the University is the same as the psychological ownership concept promoted in corporate culture. The idea is to make the employee feel like he is an owner so that the employee will be motivated to innovate for the corporation who will own the intellectual property create by the employee, begging the question, is the employee being paid enough to own a home? If the employee then works remotely, he would own the facility wherein his intellectual property is produced and thus own his intellectual property in this age of creeping communism.

That’s not in the plan!

Encourage the worker to feel a sense of psychological ownership so that the worker will innovate for the corporation which will own the intellectual property rights. In the case of a corporation the worker is being paid and that is part of the terms of agreement but in the case of the University the rational is that the University owns the intellectual property rights merely because it owns the facilities which are funded by the public, but not really for the public’s use.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

James Madison Federalist Paper #10

Which came first? The Maine Space Corporation or H.P. 1366 - L.D. 1845 and the demonstration schools?

Funded by NASA, MaxIQ Space is collaborating with Educate Maine and the Maine Space Grant Consortium to deliver a K-12 Space STEM program in 2023.

The goal of this program is to promote Space STEM skills and open up career opportunities in the growing space sector. In April 2022, the development of the Maine Space Sector was confirmed (press release), and this K-12 Space STEM program has been designed for Maine to equip and prepare youngsters for the opportunities that await them. Source

Note it says “youngsters” That’s not talking higher education!

Also enacted in April of 2022. HP 1489, the ”housing solution” act which takes a massive bite out of municipal home rule rights and H.P. 1366 - L.D. 1845 the educational amendment act that strikes out every instance of the word “restructure” and replaces it with “innovate”.

§13201. Maine Space Corporation established

The Maine Space Corporation is established as a body corporate and politic to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The corporation shall leverage the State's geographic, rocketry, manufacturing and higher education assets and capabilities to establish the State as a national and international industry destination and an authority in launching small launch vehicles and small satellites into polar orbit by:   [PL 2021, c. 631, §1 (NEW).]

Maine Constitution Article IV Part Third

Section 14.  Corporations, formed under general laws.  Corporations shall be formed under general laws, and shall not be created by special Acts of the Legislature, except for municipal purposes, and in cases where the objects of the corporation cannot otherwise be attained; and, however formed, they shall forever be subject to the general laws of the State.

Can a space corporation be formed other than by the State? Ask Elon Musk.

Clearly the Maine Legislature and Administrative Branch do not feel that the law applies to them since the law that governs what they do is our Constitution. They do not even think the Maine Constitution is important enough to be taught in our public school system.

Section 14 says all corporations are subject to general laws of the state ! That should include the general laws of our educational system, but typically the Maine Legislature has written a general law to say that certain schools, demonstration research schools, are exempt from general law, the catch 22 loop hole.

The problem with state-owned corporations, several of which are hosted by the University of Maine, is that they make the rules for the game in which they are players competing with other players. In a fair system government power is separate from the field that it governs.

Hours Later, after I watched the work session to find out what happened, pass through the paywall!