Bill Text: MI SB0423 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Education; school districts; instruction in certain United States historical information; require. Amends secs. 1278 & 1279g of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1278 & 380.1279g) & adds secs. 1167 & 1259.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-12-31 - Assigned Pa 0555'14 [SB0423 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-SB0423-Engrossed.html
SB-0423, As Passed House, December 19, 2014
HOUSE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 423
A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled
"The revised school code,"
(MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1281a.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1281a. (1) The legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
(a) Section 2 of article VIII of the state constitution of
1963 requires that "The legislature shall maintain and support a
system of free public elementary and secondary schools as defined
by law.". That section further requires that "Every school district
shall provide for the education of its pupils without
discrimination as to religion, creed, race, color or national
origin.".
(b) Since at least 1970, this state has required the statewide
assessment of educational progress in local public elementary and
secondary schools under 1970 PA 38, MCL 388.1081 to 388.1086.
(c) In addition to long-standing state requirements, this
state is also subject to various federal requirements with respect
to elementary and secondary education, including the requirement
that Michigan students be proficient and make adequate yearly
progress as provided under title 20 of the United States Code.
(d) Under the state constitution of 1963, long-standing state
law, and federal law, Michigan children have the right to a free,
quality, equitable public education.
(2) The department of technology, management, and budget shall
enter into a contract for a comprehensive statewide cost study to
determine the sufficient resources per pupil to provide a public
education that enables a pupil to demonstrate successful
completion, in terms of proficiency, of all of the credit
requirements of the Michigan merit standard under sections 1278a
and 1278b. The department of technology, management, and budget
shall also ensure that the study meets all of the following:
(a) Considers whether public resources being committed to
public education are distributed in such a way that all children
have an equal opportunity to succeed in school.
(b) Is conducted by a vendor who is qualified to conduct the
study. The vendor must have proven experience in utilizing multiple
national-level research approaches, including at least all of the
following types of analysis: successful school district,
professional judgment, and evidence-based. The vendor must have a
proven ability to combine the data generated from these research
approaches to assess at least all of the following:
(i) How strongly the identified data or costs are associated
with achieving this state's student performance goals including,
but not limited to, required proficiency in reading and
mathematics, and whether this association is sufficient to
establish a cause-and-effect relationship.
(ii) The degree to which the data or costs took into
consideration efficiency and lowest possible cost of resource
delivery.
(iii) The transparency and reliability of the data generated.
(iv) How well the data could be applied to recognize existing
public school and pupil cost pressure differences.
(c) Includes at least all of the following:
(i) A determination of the educational resources and related
expenditures that are required to provide a quality elementary and
secondary education for each pupil in the public schools. The study
shall include examining exemplary school districts that are high-
performing and low-spending school districts. As part of the
determination under this subparagraph, a review shall be conducted
of school district efforts in support of public schools.
(ii) An examination of the potential utility of geographic
cost-of-education indexing in this state.
(iii) An investigation of additional categories of funding that
may be necessary to meet needs unique to schools and pupils,
including, but not limited to, the following:
(A) Socioeconomic status.
(B) Limited English proficiency.
(C) Pupils with special education needs.
(D) Scarcity and density of population.
(E) Issues related to the rural, urban, or suburban nature of
the school district.
(iv) An examination of the impact of food service costs,
transportation costs, costs associated with community services,
adult education costs, school building construction and maintenance
and other capital costs, and debt service costs.
(v) A determination of the cost impact of pupil population
growth and decline.
(3) Not later than 30 days after the completion of the study
required under this section, the department of technology,
management, and budget shall submit to the legislature, the
governor, and the legislative auditor general a report containing a
detailed summary of the findings from the study.
(4) The department of technology, management, and budget shall
ensure that the study required under this section is completed
within 1 year after the effective date of this section. The
department of technology, management, and budget shall develop a
request for proposals and award the contract required under this
section in time for this deadline for completion of the study to be
met and shall include this deadline in the request for proposals
and in the contract.
