Bill Text: MI HB4084 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Education; teachers; reading disability diagnostics course requirement for professional certification; eliminate. Amends sec. 1531 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1531).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-06 - Referred To Committee Of The Whole [HB4084 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4084-Engrossed.html
HB-4084, As Passed House, March 13, 2018
SUBSTITUTE FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 4084
A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled
"The revised school code,"
by amending section 1531 (MCL 380.1531), as amended by 2015 PA 159.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1531. (1) Except as provided in this act, the
superintendent of public instruction shall determine the
requirements for and issue all licenses and certificates for
teachers, including preprimary teachers, and the requirements for
an endorsement of teachers as qualified counselors and an
endorsement of teachers for teaching a foreign language in an
elementary grade in the public schools of the state.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in this act, the
superintendent of public instruction shall only issue a teaching
certificate
to a person an individual who has passed appropriate
House Bill No. 4084 as amended March 13, 2018
examinations as follows:
(a) For a secondary level teaching certificate, has passed
both
the basic skills examination and the
appropriate available
subject area examination for each subject area in which he or she
applies to be certified.
(b) For an elementary level teaching certificate, has passed,
the
basic skills examination and, if it
is available, the
elementary certification examination, and has passed the
appropriate available subject area examination for each subject
area, if any, in which he or she applies to be certified.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in this act, the
superintendent of public instruction shall issue a Michigan
teaching
certificate to a person an
individual holding a
certificate from another state or a teaching degree from an out-of-
state teacher preparation institution who applies for a Michigan
teaching
certificate only if the person individual
passes
appropriate examinations as follows:
(a)
For a secondary level teaching certificate, pass both the
basic
skills examination and the
appropriate available subject area
examination for each subject area in which he or she applies to be
certified. The superintendent of public instruction may accept
passage of an equivalent examination approved by the superintendent
of
public instruction to [meet ]1 or both of
these requirements.this
requirement.
(b)
For an elementary level teaching certificate, pass, the
basic
skills examination and, if it is
available, the elementary
certification examination, and pass the appropriate available
subject area examination for each subject area, if any, in which he
or she applies to be certified. The superintendent of public
instruction may accept passage of an equivalent examination
approved by the superintendent of public instruction to meet 1 or
more of these requirements.
(4) Except as otherwise provided in this act, the
superintendent of public instruction shall only issue a teaching
certificate
to a person an individual who has met the elementary or
secondary, as applicable, reading credit requirements established
under
superintendent of public instruction rule. If a person holds
a
teaching certificate, then beginning July 1, 2009,
notwithstanding
any rule to the contrary, the superintendent of
public
instruction shall not advance the person's certification to
professional
certification unless the person has successfully
completed
at least a 3-credit course of study with appropriate
field
experiences in the diagnosis and remediation of reading
disabilities
and differentiated instruction. To meet this
requirement,
the course of study should include the following
elements,
as determined by the department to be appropriate for the
person's
certification level and endorsements: interest
inventories,
English language learning screening, visual and
auditory
discrimination tools, language expression and processing
screening,
phonemics, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension,
spelling
and writing assessment tools, and instructional
strategies.
A person may complete the course of study either as
part
of his or her teacher preparation program or during the first
6
years of his or her employment in classroom teaching.
(5) Not later than January 11, 2002, the superintendent of
public instruction, in cooperation with appropriate curriculum
specialists and teacher educators, shall revise existing reading
standards to recognize reading disorders and to enable teachers to
make referrals for instruction and support for pupils with reading
disorders.
(6)
Subject to subsection (8), if a person an individual
holding a teaching certificate from another state applies to the
superintendent of public instruction for a Michigan teaching
certificate and meets the requirements of this subsection, the
superintendent
of public instruction shall issue to the person
individual a Michigan professional education teaching certificate
and
applicable endorsements comparable to those the person
individual
holds in the other state, without
requiring the person
individual
to pass a basic skills examination
or the applicable
subject area examination otherwise required under subsection (2) or
(3). To be eligible to receive a Michigan professional education
teaching
certificate under this subsection, a person an individual
shall provide evidence satisfactory to the department that he or
she meets all of the following requirements:
(a) Has taught successfully for at least 3 years in a position
for
which the person's individual's
teaching certification from the
other state was valid.
(b) Has earned, after his or her initial certification in
another state, at least 18 semester credit hours in a planned
course of study at an institution of higher education approved by
the superintendent of public instruction or has earned, at any
time, a master's or doctoral degree approved by the superintendent
of public instruction.
(c) Has met the elementary or secondary, as applicable,
reading credit requirement established under superintendent of
public instruction rule.
(7)
A person An individual who receives a teaching certificate
and endorsement or endorsements under subsection (6) is eligible to
receive 1 or more additional endorsements comparable to
endorsements
the person individual holds in another state only if
the
person individual passes the appropriate subject area
examinations required under subsection (2) or (3).
(8) The superintendent of public instruction shall deny a
Michigan
teaching certificate to a person an individual described
in subsection (6) for fraud, material misrepresentation, or
concealment
in the person's individual's
application for a
certificate
or for a conviction for which a person's an
individual's teaching certificate may be revoked under section
1535a.
(9)
The department, based upon criteria recommended pursuant
to
under subsection (11), shall provide to approved teacher
education
institutions guidelines and criteria approved by the
superintendent
of public instruction for use in the development or
selection
of a basic skills examination and approved
guidelines and
criteria for use in the development or selection of subject area
examinations.
(10) For the purposes of this section, the superintendent of
public
instruction, based upon criteria recommended pursuant to
under subsection (11), shall develop, select, or develop and select
1
or more basic skills examinations and subject area examinations.
In addition, the superintendent of public instruction, based upon
criteria
recommended pursuant to under
subsection (11), shall
approve an elementary certification examination and a reading
subject area examination. If the department develops for use under
this subsection an examination that had previously been contracted
for using a competitive bid process, then the department shall not
expend on the development of that examination an amount that
exceeds the amount that the department expended on procurement of
the most recent competitively-bid version of that examination.
(11) The superintendent of public instruction shall appoint an
11-member
teacher examination advisory committee comprised composed
of representatives of approved teacher education institutions and
Michigan education organizations and associations. Not more than
1/2 of the members comprising this committee shall be certified
teachers.
This committee shall recommend criteria to be used by the
superintendent
of public instruction in the development, selection,
or
development and selection of 1 or more basic skills
examinations,
and criteria to be used by the
superintendent of
public instruction in the development, selection, or development
and selection of subject area examinations. In addition, the
committee shall recommend guidelines for the use and administration
of
those examinations. The basic skills examinations referred to in
this
subsection may be developed by the superintendent of public
instruction
or selected by the superintendent of public instruction
from
commercially or university developed examinations. In
addition,
an approved teacher education institution, pursuant to
under guidelines and criteria described in subsection (9), may
develop an examination at its own expense for approval by the
superintendent of public instruction. An approved teacher education
institution that develops its own examination is liable for any
litigation that results from the use of its examination.
(12) The superintendent of public instruction shall appoint a
7-member
standing technical advisory council comprised composed of
persons
individuals who are experts in measurement and assessment.
This council shall advise the superintendent of public instruction
and the teacher examination committee on the validity, reliability,
and other technical standards of the examinations that will be used
or are being used and of the administration and use of those
examinations.
(13) Not later than November 30 of each year, the
superintendent of public instruction shall submit in writing a
report
on the development or selection and use of the basic skills
examination,
the elementary certification
examination , and
the
subject area examinations to the house and senate education
committees. The report shall also contain a financial statement
regarding revenue received from the assessment of fees levied
pursuant
to under subsection (15) and the amount of and any
purposes for which that revenue was expended.
(14)
The basic skills examination, the elementary
certification
examination , and
the subject area examinations
required by this section may be taken at different times during an
approved
teacher preparation program, but the basic skills
examination
must be passed before a person is enrolled for student
teaching
and the elementary certification
examination and the
subject
area examinations, as applicable, must be passed before a
person
an individual is recommended for certification.
(15) The department, or if approved by the superintendent of
public instruction, a private testing service, may assess fees for
taking
the basic skills examination, elementary certification
examination , and the subject area examinations. The fees, which
shall be set by the superintendent of public instruction, shall not
exceed the actual cost of the examination and of administering the
examination. Fees received by the department shall be expended
solely for administrative expenses that it incurs in implementing
this section. If the superintendent of public instruction increases
a fee charged for an examination under this subsection, at least 1
year before implementing the fee increase, the department shall
notify each approved teacher education institution of the amount of
the fee increase. An approved teacher education institution shall
notify each of its affected students of the timing and amount of
such a fee increase.
(16)
If a person an individual holding a teaching certificate
from another state applies for a Michigan teaching certificate and
meets all requirements for the Michigan teaching certificate except
passage of the appropriate examinations under subsection (3), the
superintendent of public instruction shall issue a nonrenewable
temporary
teaching certificate, good for 1 year, to the person.
individual. The superintendent of public instruction shall not
issue
a Michigan teaching certificate to the person individual
after expiration of the temporary teaching certificate unless the
person
individual passes appropriate examinations as described in
subsection (3).
(17) As used in this section:
(a)
"Basic skills examination" means an examination developed
or
selected by the superintendent of public instruction or
developed
pursuant to subsection (11) by an approved teacher
education
institution for the purpose of demonstrating the
applicant's
knowledge and understanding of basic language and
mathematical
skills and other skills necessary for the certificate
sought,
and for determining whether or not an applicant is eligible
for
a provisional Michigan teaching certificate.
(a) (b)
"Elementary certification
examination" means a
comprehensive examination for elementary certification that has
been developed or selected by the superintendent of public
instruction for demonstrating the applicant's knowledge and
understanding of the core subjects normally taught in elementary
classrooms and for determining whether or not an applicant is
eligible for an elementary level teaching certificate.
(b) (c)
"Subject area examination"
means an examination
related to a specific area of certification, which examination has
been developed or selected by the superintendent of public
instruction for the purpose of demonstrating the applicant's
knowledge and understanding of the subject matter and determining
whether or not an applicant is eligible for a Michigan teaching
certificate.
(18) The superintendent of public instruction shall promulgate
rules for the implementation of this section.
(19) Notwithstanding any rule to the contrary, the
superintendent of public instruction shall continue to issue state
elementary
or secondary continuing education certificates pursuant
to
under R 390.1132(1) of the Michigan administrative code
Administrative
Code to persons individuals who completed the
requirements of that rule by December 31, 1992 and who apply for
that certificate not later than March 15, 1994. If the
superintendent of public instruction has issued a state elementary
or
secondary professional education certificate to a person an
individual described in this section, the superintendent of public
instruction
shall consider the person individual
to have a state
elementary or secondary, as applicable, continuing education
certificate.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
