Bill Text: MI HB4586 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; teachers; opportunity for teacher to submit written response to tenure charges; require in tenure act. Amends sec. 2, art. IV of 1937 (Ex Sess) PA 4 (MCL 38.102).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-28 - Printed Bill Filed 04/28/2011 [HB4586 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB4586-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4586

 

April 27, 2011, Introduced by Reps. Hooker, Yonker, Bumstead and Rendon and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

     A bill to amend 1937 (Ex Sess) PA 4, entitled

 

"An act relative to continuing tenure of office of certificated

teachers in public educational institutions; to provide for

probationary periods; to regulate discharges or demotions; to

provide for resignations and leaves of absence; to create a state

tenure commission and to prescribe the powers and duties thereof;

and to prescribe penalties for violation of the provisions of this

act,"

 

by amending section 2 of article IV (MCL 38.102), as amended by

 

1993 PA 60.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

                              ARTICLE IV

 

     Sec. 2. (1) All charges against a teacher shall be made in

 

writing, signed by the person making the charges, and filed with

 

the secretary, clerk, or other designated officer of the

 

controlling board, and a copy of the charges shall be provided to

 

the teacher. The charges shall specify a proposed outcome of either

 

discharge or a specific demotion of the teacher. The person making

 

the charges shall provide the teacher with a 5-day period for the

 

teacher to submit a written response to the charges before the

 

charges are filed with the controlling board.

 

     (2) The controlling board shall decide whether or not to

 

proceed upon the charges, or may modify the charges and decide to

 

proceed upon the charges as modified, not later than 10 days after

 

the charges are filed with the controlling board. A decision to

 

proceed upon the charges shall not be made except by a majority

 

vote of the controlling board and shall be reduced to writing. If

 

the teacher submits a written response to the charges, the

 

controlling board shall consider that response before voting on the

 

charges. The controlling board, if it decides to proceed upon the

 

charges, shall furnish the teacher not later than 5 days after

 

deciding to proceed upon the charges with the written decision to

 

proceed upon the charges, a written statement of the charges and a

 

statement of the teacher's rights under this article.