Bill Text: MI HB4084 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
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-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4084
January 25, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Tedder, Leutheuser, Marino, Glenn and Barrett and referred to the Committee on Education Reform.
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
examinations as follows:
(a) For a secondary level teaching certificate, has passed
both
the basic skills professional
readiness 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 professional
readiness 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 professional readiness
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.
(b) For an elementary level teaching certificate, pass the
basic
skills professional readiness
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 professional readiness
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 professional
readiness 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 professional
readiness 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 professional
readiness 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 professional
readiness 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
professional readiness 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 professional
readiness 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
professional readiness examination must be passed before a
person
an individual 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 professional
readiness 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 "Professional
readiness examination" means
an examination developed or selected by the superintendent of
public
instruction or developed pursuant to under 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.
(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.
(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.
