Bill Text: MI SB0913 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Appropriations; school aid; executive recommendation; provide for omnibus appropriations for school aid, higher education, and community colleges. Amends secs. 6, 11, 11a, 11j, 11k, 11m, 11s, 15, 18, 19, 20, 20d, 20f, 20m, 21f, 21h, 22a, 22b, 22d, 22m, 22n, 24, 24a, 24c, 25e, 25f, 25g, 26a, 26b, 26c, 31a, 31d, 31f, 32d, 32p, 35a, 39, 39a, 41, 51a, 51c, 51d, 53a, 54, 54b, 56, 61a, 61b, 62, 64b, 67, 74, 81, 94, 94a, 98, 99h, 99r, 99s, 104c, 107, 147, 147a, 147b, 147c, 147e, 152a, 160, 163, 166b, 201, 206, 207a, 207b, 207c, 209, 210b, 217, 225, 226, 229a, 236, 236b, 236c, 241, 242, 245, 252, 256, 263, 264, 265, 265a, 267, 268, 269, 270, 274c, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 289 & 296 of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1606 et seq.) ; adds secs. 23f, 54c, 54d, 61d, 210e & 265b & repeals secs. 21j, 22g, 31b, 31j, 32q, 35, 55, 61c, 64d, 65, 67a, 95b, 99k, 99t, 99u, 102d, 104d, 104e, 152b, 164g, 164h, 201a, 208, 212, 227, 228, 236a, 261, 271a, 274 & 275 of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1621j et seq.).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-21 - Referred To Committee On Appropriations [SB0913 Detail]
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SENATE BILL No. 913
March 21, 2018, Introduced by Senator HILDENBRAND and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend 1979 PA 94, entitled
"The state school aid act of 1979,"
by amending sections 6, 11, 11a, 11j, 11k, 11m, 11s, 15, 18, 19, 20, 20d, 20f, 20m,
21f, 21h, 22a, 22b, 22d, 22m, 22n, 24, 24a, 24c, 25e, 25f, 25g, 26a, 26b, 26c, 31a,
31d, 31f, 32d, 32p, 35a, 39, 39a, 41, 51a, 51c, 51d, 53a, 54, 54b, 56, 61a, 61b, 62,
64b, 67, 74, 81, 94, 94a, 98, 99h, 99r, 99s, 104c, 107, 147, 147a, 147b, 147c, 147e,
152a, 160, 163, 166b, 201, 206, 207a, 207b, 207c, 209, 210b, 217, 225, 226, 229a, 236,
236b, 236c, 241, 242, 245, 252, 256, 263, 264, 265, 265a, 267, 268, 269, 270, 274c,
276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 289, and 296 (MCL 388.1606, 388.1611, 388.1611a,
388.1611j, 388.1611k, 388.1611m, 388.1611s, 388.1615, 388.1618, 388.1619, 388.1620,
388.1620d, 388.1620f, 388.1620m, 388.1621f, 388.1621h, 388.1622a, 388.1622b,
388.1622d, 388.1622m, 388.1622n, 388.1624, 388.1624a, 388.1624c, 388.1625e, 388.1625f,
388.1625g, 388.1626a, 388.1626b, 388.1626c, 388.1631a, 388.1631d, 388.1631f,
388.1632d, 388.1632p, 388.1635a, 388.1639, 388.1639a, 388.1641, 388.1651a, 388.1651c,
388.1651d, 388.1653a, 388.1654, 388.1654b, 388.1656, 388.1661a, 388.1661b, 388.1662,
388.1664b, 388.1667, 388.1674, 388.1681, 388.1694, 388.1694a, 388.1698, 388.1699h,
388.1699r, 388.1699s, 388.1704c, 388.1707, 388.1747, 388.1747a, 388.1747b, 388.1747c,
388.1747e, 388.1752a, 388.1760, 388.1763, 388.1766b, 388.1801, 388.1806, 388.1807a,
388.1807b, 388.1807c, 388.1809, 388.1810b, 388.1817, 388.1825, 388.1826, 388.1829a,
388.1836, 388.1836b, 388.1836c, 388.1841, 388.1842, 388.1845, 388.1852, 388.1856,
388.1863, 388.1864, 388.1865, 388.1865a, 388.1867, 388.1868, 388.1869, 388.1870,
388.1874c, 388.1876, 388.1877, 388.1878, 388.1879, 388.1880, 388.1881, 388.1882,
388.1889, and 388.1896) sections 6, 11a, 11j, 11k, 11m, 11s, 15, 18, 20, 20d, 20f,
20m, 22a, 22b, 22d, 24, 24a, 24c, 25f, 25g, 26a, 26b, 26c, 31d, 31f, 32p, 39, 39a, 41,
51a, 51c, 51d, 53a, 54, 54b, 56, 61a, 61b, 62, 64b, 67, 74, 81, 94, 94a, 98, 99s, 147,
147b, 147c, 152a, 201, 206, 207a, 207b, 207c, 209, 210b, 217, 225, 226, 229a, 236,
236b, 236c, 241, 245, 252, 256, 263, 264, 265, 265a, 267, 268, 269, 270, 274c, 276,
277, 278, 279, 280, 281, and 282 as amended and 21h, 22m, 22n, 147e, and 160 as added
by 2017 PA 108, sections 11, 21f, 25e, 31a, 32d, 35a, 99h, 99r, 104c, 107, 147a, and
166b as amended by 2017 PA 143, section 19 as amended by 2016 PA 533, section 163 as
amended by 2015 PA 85, section 242 as amended by 2012 PA 201, section 289 as amended
by 2013 PA 60, section 296 as added by 2011 PA 62, and by adding sections 23f, 54c,
54d, 61d, 210e, and 265b; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
ARTICLE I
Sec. 6. (1) "Center program" means a program operated by a district or by an
intermediate district for special education pupils from several districts in programs
for pupils with autism spectrum disorder, pupils with severe cognitive impairment,
pupils with moderate cognitive impairment, pupils with severe multiple impairments,
pupils with hearing impairment, pupils with visual impairment, and pupils with
physical impairment or other health impairment. Programs for pupils with emotional
impairment housed in buildings that do not serve regular education pupils also
qualify. Unless otherwise approved by the department, a center program either shall
serve all constituent districts within an intermediate district or shall serve several
districts with less than 50% of the pupils residing in the operating district. In
addition, special education center program pupils placed part-time in noncenter
programs to comply with the least restrictive environment provisions of section 612 of
part B of the individuals with disabilities education act, 20 USC 1412, may be
considered center program pupils for pupil accounting purposes for the time scheduled
in either a center program or a noncenter program.
(2) "District and high school graduation rate" means the annual completion and
pupil dropout rate that is calculated by the center pursuant to nationally recognized
standards.
(3) "District and high school graduation report" means a report of the number of
pupils, excluding adult education participants, in the district for the immediately
preceding school year, adjusted for those pupils who have transferred into or out of
the district or high school, who leave high school with a diploma or other credential
of equal status.
(4) "Membership", except as otherwise provided in this article, means for a
district, a public school academy, or an intermediate district the sum of the product
of .90 times the number of full-time equated pupils in grades K to 12 actually
enrolled and in regular daily attendance on the pupil membership count day for the
current school year, plus the product of .10 times the final audited count from the
supplemental count day for the immediately preceding school year. A district's, public
school academy's, or intermediate district's membership shall be adjusted as provided
under section 25e for pupils who enroll after the pupil membership count day in a
strict discipline academy operating under sections 1311b to 1311m of the revised
school code, MCL 380.1311b to 380.1311m. However, for a district that is a community
district, "membership" means the sum of the product of .90 times the number of full-
time equated pupils in grades K to 12 actually enrolled and in regular daily
attendance in the community district on the pupil membership count day for the current
school year, plus the product of .10 times the sum of the final audited count from the
supplemental count day of pupils in grades K to 12 actually enrolled and in regular
daily attendance in the community district for the immediately preceding school year
plus the final audited count from the supplemental count day of pupils in grades K to
12 actually enrolled and in regular daily attendance in the education achievement
system for the immediately preceding school year. All pupil counts used in this
subsection are as determined by the department and calculated by adding the number of
pupils registered for attendance plus pupils received by transfer and minus pupils
lost as defined by rules promulgated by the superintendent, and as corrected by a
subsequent department audit. The amount of the foundation allowance for a pupil in
membership is determined under section 20. In making the calculation of membership,
all of the following, as applicable, apply to determining the membership of a
district, a public school academy, or an intermediate district:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, and pursuant to subsection
(6), a pupil shall be counted in membership in the pupil's educating district or
districts. An individual pupil shall not be counted for more than a total of 1.0 full-
time equated membership.
(b) If a pupil is educated in a district other than the pupil's district of
residence, if the pupil is not being educated as part of a cooperative education
program, if the pupil's district of residence does not give the educating district its
approval to count the pupil in membership in the educating district, and if the pupil
is not covered by an exception specified in subsection (6) to the requirement that the
educating district must have the approval of the pupil's district of residence to
count the pupil in membership, the pupil shall not be counted in membership in any
district.
(c) A special education pupil educated by the intermediate district shall be
counted in membership in the intermediate district.
(d) A pupil placed by a court or state agency in an on-grounds program of a
juvenile detention facility, a child caring institution, or a mental health
institution, or a pupil funded under section 53a, shall be counted in membership in
the district or intermediate district approved by the department to operate the
program.
(e) A pupil enrolled in the Michigan Schools for the Deaf and Blind shall be
counted in membership in the pupil's intermediate district of residence.
(f) A pupil enrolled in a career and technical education program supported by a
millage levied over an area larger than a single district or in an area vocational-
technical education program established pursuant to section 690 of the revised school
code, MCL 380.690, shall be counted only in the pupil's district of residence.
(g) A pupil enrolled in a public school academy shall be counted in membership in
the public school academy.
(h) For the purposes of this section and section 6a, for a cyber school, as
defined in section 551 of the revised school code, MCL 380.551, that is in compliance
with section 553a of the revised school code, MCL 380.553a, a pupil's participation in
the cyber school's educational program is considered regular daily attendance, and for
a district or public school academy, a pupil's participation in a virtual course as
defined in section 21f is considered regular daily attendance.
(i) For a new district or public school academy beginning its operation after
December 31, 1994, membership for the first 2 full or partial fiscal years of
operation shall be determined as follows:
(i) If operations begin before the pupil membership count day for the fiscal
year, membership is the average number of full-time equated pupils in grades K to 12
actually enrolled and in regular daily attendance on the pupil membership count day
for the current school year and on the supplemental count day for the current school
year, as determined by the department and calculated by adding the number of pupils
registered for attendance on the pupil membership count day plus pupils received by
transfer and minus pupils lost as defined by rules promulgated by the superintendent,
and as corrected by a subsequent department audit, plus the final audited count from
the supplemental count day for the current school year, and dividing that sum by 2.
(ii) If operations begin after the pupil membership count day for the fiscal year
and not later than the supplemental count day for the fiscal year, membership is the
final audited count of the number of full-time equated pupils in grades K to 12
actually enrolled and in regular daily attendance on the supplemental count day for
the current school year.
(j) If a district is the authorizing body for a public school academy, then, in
the first school year in which pupils are counted in membership on the pupil
membership count day in the public school academy, the determination of the district's
membership shall exclude from the district's pupil count for the immediately preceding
supplemental count day any pupils who are counted in the public school academy on that
first pupil membership count day who were also counted in the district on the
immediately preceding supplemental count day.
(k) For an extended school year program approved by the superintendent, a pupil
enrolled, but not scheduled to be in regular daily attendance, on a pupil membership
count day, shall be counted in membership.
(l) To be counted in membership, a pupil shall meet the minimum age requirement
to be eligible to attend school under section 1147 of the revised school code, MCL
380.1147, or shall be enrolled under subsection (3) of that section, and shall be less
than 20 years of age on September 1 of the school year except as follows:
(i) A special education pupil who is enrolled and receiving instruction in a
special education program or service approved by the department, who does not have a
high school diploma, and who is less than 26 years of age as of September 1 of the
current school year shall be counted in membership.
(ii) A pupil who is determined by the department to meet all of the following may
be counted in membership:
(A) Is enrolled in a public school academy or an alternative education high
school diploma program, that is primarily focused on educating pupils with extreme
barriers to education, such as being homeless as defined under 42 USC 11302.
(B) Had dropped out of school.
(C) Is less than 22 years of age as of September 1 of the current school year.
(iii) If a child does not meet the minimum age requirement to be eligible to
attend school for that school year under section 1147 of the revised school code, MCL
380.1147, but will be 5 years of age not later than December 1 of that school year,
the district may count the child in membership for that school year if the parent or
legal guardian has notified the district in writing that he or she intends to enroll
the child in kindergarten for that school year.
(m) An individual who has achieved a high school diploma shall not be counted in
membership. An individual who has achieved a high school equivalency certificate shall
not be counted in membership unless the individual is a student with a disability as
defined in R 340.1702 of the Michigan Administrative Code. An individual participating
in a job training program funded under former section 107a or a jobs program funded
under former section 107b, administered by the department of talent and economic
development, or participating in any successor of either of those 2 programs, shall
not be counted in membership.
(n) If a pupil counted in membership in a public school academy is also educated
by a district or intermediate district as part of a cooperative education program, the
pupil shall be counted in membership only in the public school academy unless a
written agreement signed by all parties designates the party or parties in which the
pupil shall be counted in membership, and the instructional time scheduled for the
pupil in the district or intermediate district shall be included in the full-time
equated membership determination under subdivision (q) and section 101. However, for
pupils receiving instruction in both a public school academy and in a district or
intermediate district but not as a part of a cooperative education program, the
following apply:
(i) If the public school academy provides instruction for at least 1/2 of the
class hours required under section 101, the public school academy shall receive as its
prorated share of the full-time equated membership for each of those pupils an amount
equal to 1 times the product of the hours of instruction the public school academy
provides divided by the number of hours required under section 101 for full-time
equivalency, and the remainder of the full-time membership for each of those pupils
shall be allocated to the district or intermediate district providing the remainder of
the hours of instruction.
(ii) If the public school academy provides instruction for less than 1/2 of the
class hours required under section 101, the district or intermediate district
providing the remainder of the hours of instruction shall receive as its prorated
share of the full-time equated membership for each of those pupils an amount equal to
1 times the product of the hours of instruction the district or intermediate district
provides divided by the number of hours required under section 101 for full-time
equivalency, and the remainder of the full-time membership for each of those pupils
shall be allocated to the public school academy.
(o) An individual less than 16 years of age as of September 1 of the current
school year who is being educated in an alternative education program shall not be
counted in membership if there are also adult education participants being educated in
the same program or classroom.
(p) The department shall give a uniform interpretation of full-time and part-time
memberships.
(q) The number of class hours used to calculate full-time equated memberships
shall be consistent with section 101. In determining full-time equated memberships for
pupils who are enrolled in a postsecondary institution, a pupil shall not be
considered to be less than a full-time equated pupil solely because of the effect of
his or her postsecondary enrollment, including necessary travel time, on the number of
class hours provided by the district to the pupil.
(r) Full-time equated memberships for pupils in kindergarten shall be determined
by dividing the number of instructional hours scheduled and provided per year per
kindergarten pupil by the same number used for determining full-time equated
memberships for pupils in grades 1 to 12. However, to the extent allowable under
federal law, for a district or public school academy that provides evidence
satisfactory to the department that it used federal title I money in the 2 immediately
preceding school fiscal years to fund full-time kindergarten, full-time equated
memberships for pupils in kindergarten shall be determined by dividing the number of
class hours scheduled and provided per year per kindergarten pupil by a number equal
to 1/2 the number used for determining full-time equated memberships for pupils in
grades 1 to 12. The change in the counting of full-time equated memberships for pupils
in kindergarten that took effect for 2012-2013 is not a mandate.
(s) For a district or a public school academy that has pupils enrolled in a grade
level that was not offered by the district or public school academy in the immediately
preceding school year, the number of pupils enrolled in that grade level to be counted
in membership is the average of the number of those pupils enrolled and in regular
daily attendance on the pupil membership count day and the supplemental count day of
the current school year, as determined by the department. Membership shall be
calculated by adding the number of pupils registered for attendance in that grade
level on the pupil membership count day plus pupils received by transfer and minus
pupils lost as defined by rules promulgated by the superintendent, and as corrected by
subsequent department audit, plus the final audited count from the supplemental count
day for the current school year, and dividing that sum by 2.
(t) A pupil enrolled in a cooperative education program may be counted in
membership in the pupil's district of residence with the written approval of all
parties to the cooperative agreement.
(u) If, as a result of a disciplinary action, a district determines through the
district's alternative or disciplinary education program that the best instructional
placement for a pupil is in the pupil's home or otherwise apart from the general
school population, if that placement is authorized in writing by the district
superintendent and district alternative or disciplinary education supervisor, and if
the district provides appropriate instruction as described in this subdivision to the
pupil at the pupil's home or otherwise apart from the general school population, the
district may count the pupil in membership on a pro rata basis, with the proration
based on the number of hours of instruction the district actually provides to the
pupil divided by the number of hours required under section 101 for full-time
equivalency. For the purposes of this subdivision, a district shall be considered to
be providing appropriate instruction if all of the following are met:
(i) The district provides at least 2 nonconsecutive hours of instruction per week
to the pupil at the pupil's home or otherwise apart from the general school population
under the supervision of a certificated teacher.
(ii) The district provides instructional materials, resources, and supplies that
are comparable to those otherwise provided in the district's alternative education
program.
(iii) Course content is comparable to that in the district's alternative
education program.
(iv) Credit earned is awarded to the pupil and placed on the pupil's transcript.
(v) If a pupil was enrolled in a public school academy on the pupil membership
count day, if the public school academy's contract with its authorizing body is
revoked or the public school academy otherwise ceases to operate, and if the pupil
enrolls in a district within 45 days after the pupil membership count day, the
department shall adjust the district's pupil count for the pupil membership count day
to include the pupil in the count.
(w) For a public school academy that has been in operation for at least 2 years
and that suspended operations for at least 1 semester and is resuming operations,
membership is the sum of the product of .90 times the number of full-time equated
pupils in grades K to 12 actually enrolled and in regular daily attendance on the
first pupil membership count day or supplemental count day, whichever is first,
occurring after operations resume, plus the product of .10 times the final audited
count from the most recent pupil membership count day or supplemental count day that
occurred before suspending operations, as determined by the superintendent.
(x) If a district's membership for a particular fiscal year, as otherwise
calculated under this subsection, would be less than 1,550 pupils and the district has
4.5 or fewer pupils per square mile, as determined by the department, and if the
district does not receive funding under section 22d(2), the district's membership
shall be considered to be the membership figure calculated under this subdivision. If
a district educates and counts in its membership pupils in grades 9 to 12 who reside
in a contiguous district that does not operate grades 9 to 12 and if 1 or both of the
affected districts request the department to use the determination allowed under this
sentence, the department shall include the square mileage of both districts in
determining the number of pupils per square mile for each of the districts for the
purposes of this subdivision. The membership figure calculated under this subdivision
is the greater of the following:
(i) The average of the district's membership for the 3-fiscal-year period ending
with that fiscal year, calculated by adding the district's actual membership for each
of those 3 fiscal years, as otherwise calculated under this subsection, and dividing
the sum of those 3 membership figures by 3.
(ii) The district's actual membership for that fiscal year as otherwise
calculated under this subsection.
(y) Full-time equated memberships for special education pupils who are not
enrolled in kindergarten but are enrolled in a classroom program under R 340.1754 of
the Michigan Administrative Code shall be determined by dividing the number of class
hours scheduled and provided per year by 450. Full-time equated memberships for
special education pupils who are not enrolled in kindergarten but are receiving early
childhood special education services under R 340.1755 or R 340.1862 of the Michigan
Administrative Code shall be determined by dividing the number of hours of service
scheduled and provided per year per-pupil by 180.
(z) A pupil of a district that begins its school year after Labor Day who is
enrolled in an intermediate district program that begins before Labor Day shall not be
considered to be less than a full-time pupil solely due to instructional time
scheduled but not attended by the pupil before Labor Day.
(aa) For the first year in which a pupil is counted in membership on the pupil
membership count day in a middle college program, the membership is the average of the
full-time equated membership on the pupil membership count day and on the supplemental
count day for the current school year, as determined by the department. If a pupil
described in this subdivision was counted in membership by the operating district on
the immediately preceding supplemental count day, the pupil shall be excluded from the
district's immediately preceding supplemental count for the purposes of determining
the district's membership.
(bb) A district or public school academy that educates a pupil who attends a
United States Olympic Education Center may count the pupil in membership regardless of
whether or not the pupil is a resident of this state.
(cc) A pupil enrolled in a district other than the pupil's district of residence
pursuant to section 1148(2) of the revised school code, MCL 380.1148, shall be counted
in the educating district.
(dd) For a pupil enrolled in a dropout recovery program that meets the
requirements of section 23a, the pupil shall be counted as 1/12 of a full-time equated
membership for each month that the district operating the program reports that the
pupil was enrolled in the program and was in full attendance. However, if the special
membership counting provisions under this subdivision and the operation of the other
membership counting provisions under this subsection result in a pupil being counted
as more than 1.0 FTE in a fiscal year, the payment made for the pupil under sections
22a and 22b shall not be based on more than 1.0 FTE for that pupil, and any portion of
an FTE for that pupil that exceeds 1.0 shall instead be paid under section 25g. The
district operating the program shall report to the center the number of pupils who
were enrolled in the program and were in full attendance for a month not later than 30
days after the end of the month. A district shall not report a pupil as being in full
attendance for a month unless both of the following are met:
(i) A personalized learning plan is in place on or before the first school day of
the month for the first month the pupil participates in the program.
(ii) The pupil meets the district's definition under section 23a of satisfactory
monthly progress for that month or, if the pupil does not meet that definition of
satisfactory monthly progress for that month, the pupil did meet that definition of
satisfactory monthly progress in the immediately preceding month and appropriate
interventions are implemented within 10 school days after it is determined that the
pupil does not meet that definition of satisfactory monthly progress.
(ee) A pupil participating in a virtual course under section 21f shall be counted
in membership in the district enrolling the pupil.
(ff) If a public school academy that is not in its first or second year of
operation closes at the end of a school year and does not reopen for the next school
year, the department shall adjust the membership count of the district or other public
school academy in which a former pupil of the closed public school academy enrolls and
is in regular daily attendance for the next school year to ensure that the district or
other public school academy receives the same amount of membership aid for the pupil
as if the pupil were counted in the district or other public school academy on the
supplemental count day of the preceding school year.
(gg) If a special education pupil is expelled under section 1311 or 1311a of the
revised school code, MCL 380.1311 and 380.1311a, and is not in attendance on the pupil
membership count day because of the expulsion, and if the pupil remains enrolled in
the district and resumes regular daily attendance during that school year, the
district's membership shall be adjusted to count the pupil in membership as if he or
she had been in attendance on the pupil membership count day.
(hh) A pupil enrolled in a community district shall be counted in membership in
the community district.
(ii) A part-time pupil enrolled in a nonpublic school in grades K to 12 in
accordance with section 166b shall not be counted as more than 0.75 of a full-time
equated membership.
(jj) A district that borders another state or a public school academy that
operates at least grades 9 to 12 and is located within 20 miles of a border with
another state may count in membership a pupil who is enrolled in a course at a college
or university that is located in the bordering state and within 20 miles of the border
with this state if all of the following are met:
(i) The pupil would meet the definition of an eligible student under the
postsecondary enrollment options act, 1996 PA 160, MCL 388.511 to 388.524, if the
course were an eligible course under that act.
(ii) The course in which the pupil is enrolled would meet the definition of an
eligible course under the postsecondary enrollment options act, 1996 PA 160, MCL
388.511 to 388.524, if the course were provided by an eligible postsecondary
institution under that act.
(iii) The department determines that the college or university is an institution
that, in the other state, fulfills a function comparable to a state university or
community college, as those terms are defined in section 3 of the postsecondary
enrollment options act, 1996 PA 160, MCL 388.513, or is an independent nonprofit
degree-granting college or university.
(iv) The district or public school academy pays for a portion of the pupil's
tuition at the college or university in an amount equal to the eligible charges that
the district or public school academy would pay to an eligible postsecondary
institution under the postsecondary enrollment options act, 1996 PA 160, MCL 388.511
to 388.524, as if the course were an eligible course under that act.
(v) The district or public school academy awards high school credit to a pupil
who successfully completes a course as described in this subdivision.
(kk) A pupil enrolled in a middle college program may be counted for more than a
total of 1.0 full-time equated membership if the pupil is enrolled in more than the
minimum number of instructional days and hours required under section 101 and the
pupil is expected to complete the 5-year program with both a high school diploma and
at least 60 transferable college credits or is expected to earn an associate's degree
in fewer than 5 years.
(5) "Public school academy" means that term as defined in section 5 of the
revised school code, MCL 380.5.
(6) "Pupil" means an individual in membership in a public school. A district must
have the approval of the pupil's district of residence to count the pupil in
membership, except approval by the pupil's district of residence is not required for
any of the following:
(a) A nonpublic part-time pupil enrolled
in grades K 1 to 12 in accordance with
section 166b.
(b) A pupil receiving 1/2 or less of his or her instruction in a district other
than the pupil's district of residence.
(c) A pupil enrolled in a public school academy.
(d) A pupil enrolled in a district other than the pupil's district of residence
under an intermediate district schools of choice pilot program as described in section
91a or former section 91 if the intermediate district and its constituent districts
have been exempted from section 105.
(e) A pupil enrolled in a district other than the pupil's district of residence
if the pupil is enrolled in accordance with section 105 or 105c.
(f) A pupil who has made an official written complaint or whose parent or legal
guardian has made an official written complaint to law enforcement officials and to
school officials of the pupil's district of residence that the pupil has been the
victim of a criminal sexual assault or other serious assault, if the official
complaint either indicates that the assault occurred at school or that the assault was
committed by 1 or more other pupils enrolled in the school the pupil would otherwise
attend in the district of residence or by an employee of the district of residence. A
person who intentionally makes a false report of a crime to law enforcement officials
for the purposes of this subdivision is subject to section 411a of the Michigan penal
code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.411a, which provides criminal penalties for that conduct.
As used in this subdivision:
(i) "At school" means in a classroom, elsewhere on school premises, on a school
bus or other school-related vehicle, or at a school-sponsored activity or event
whether or not it is held on school premises.
(ii) "Serious assault" means an act that constitutes a felony violation of
chapter XI of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.81 to 750.90h, or that
constitutes an assault and infliction of serious or aggravated injury under section
81a of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.81a.
(g) A pupil whose district of residence changed after the pupil membership count
day and before the supplemental count day and who continues to be enrolled on the
supplemental count day as a nonresident in the district in which he or she was
enrolled as a resident on the pupil membership count day of the same school year.
(h) A pupil enrolled in an alternative education program operated by a district
other than his or her district of residence who meets 1 or more of the following:
(i) The pupil has been suspended or expelled from his or her district of
residence for any reason, including, but not limited to, a suspension or expulsion
under section 1310, 1311, or 1311a of the revised school code, MCL 380.1310, 380.1311,
and 380.1311a.
(ii) The pupil had previously dropped out of school.
(iii) The pupil is pregnant or is a parent.
(iv) The pupil has been referred to the program by a court.
(i) A pupil enrolled in the Michigan Virtual School, for the pupil's enrollment
in the Michigan Virtual School.
(j) A pupil who is the child of a person who works at the district or who is the
child of a person who worked at the district as of the time the pupil first enrolled
in the district but who no longer works at the district due to a workforce reduction.
As used in this subdivision, "child" includes an adopted child, stepchild, or legal
ward.
(k) An expelled pupil who has been denied reinstatement by the expelling district
and is reinstated by another school board under section 1311 or 1311a of the revised
school code, MCL 380.1311 and 380.1311a.
(l) A pupil enrolled in a district other than the pupil's district of residence
in a middle college program if the pupil's district of residence and the enrolling
district are both constituent districts of the same intermediate district.
(m) A pupil enrolled in a district other than the pupil's district of residence
who attends a United States Olympic Education Center.
(n) A pupil enrolled in a district other than the pupil's district of residence
pursuant to section 1148(2) of the revised school code, MCL 380.1148.
(o) A pupil who enrolls in a district other than the pupil's district of
residence as a result of the pupil's school not making adequate yearly progress under
the no child left behind act of 2001, Public Law 107-110, or the every student
succeeds act, Public Law 114-95.
However, except for pupils enrolled in the youth challenge program at the site at
which the youth challenge program operated for 2015-2016, if a district educates
pupils who reside in another district and if the primary instructional site for those
pupils is established by the educating district after 2009-2010 and is located within
the boundaries of that other district, the educating district must have the approval
of that other district to count those pupils in membership.
(7) "Pupil membership count day" of a district or intermediate district means:
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the first Wednesday in October each
school year or, for a district or building in which school is not in session on that
Wednesday due to conditions not within the control of school authorities, with the
approval of the superintendent, the immediately following day on which school is in
session in the district or building.
(b) For a district or intermediate district maintaining school during the entire
school year, the following days:
(i) Fourth Wednesday in July.
(ii) First Wednesday in October.
(iii) Second Wednesday in February.
(iv) Fourth Wednesday in April.
(8) "Pupils in grades K to 12 actually enrolled and in regular daily attendance"
means pupils in grades K to 12 in attendance and receiving instruction in all classes
for which they are enrolled on the pupil membership count day or the supplemental
count day, as applicable. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a pupil who
is absent from any of the classes in which the pupil is enrolled on the pupil
membership count day or supplemental count day and who does not attend each of those
classes during the 10 consecutive school days immediately following the pupil
membership count day or supplemental count day, except for a pupil who has been
excused by the district, shall not be counted as 1.0 full-time equated membership. A
pupil who is excused from attendance on the pupil membership count day or supplemental
count day and who fails to attend each of the classes in which the pupil is enrolled
within 30 calendar days after the pupil membership count day or supplemental count day
shall not be counted as 1.0 full-time equated membership. In addition, a pupil who was
enrolled and in attendance in a district, intermediate district, or public school
academy before the pupil membership count day or supplemental count day of a
particular year but was expelled or suspended on the pupil membership count day or
supplemental count day shall only be counted as 1.0 full-time equated membership if
the pupil resumed attendance in the district, intermediate district, or public school
academy within 45 days after the pupil membership count day or supplemental count day
of that particular year. Pupils not counted as 1.0 full-time equated membership due to
an absence from a class shall be counted as a prorated membership for the classes the
pupil attended. For purposes of this subsection, "class" means a period of time in 1
day when pupils and a certificated teacher or legally
qualified AN INDIVIDUAL
WORKING
UNDER A VALID substitute teacher PERMIT, AUTHORIZATION, OR APPROVAL ISSUED BY THE
DEPARTMENT are together and instruction is taking place.
(9) "Rule" means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act
of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328.
(10) "The revised school code" means 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1 to 380.1852.
(11) "School district of the first class", "first class school district", and
"district of the first class" mean, for the purposes of this article only, a district
that had at least 40,000 pupils in membership for the immediately preceding fiscal
year.
(12) "School fiscal year" means a fiscal year that commences July 1 and continues
through June 30.
(13) "State board" means the state board of education.
(14) "Superintendent", unless the context clearly refers to a district or
intermediate district superintendent, means the superintendent of public instruction
described in section 3 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963.
(15) "Supplemental count day" means the day on which the supplemental pupil count
is conducted under section 6a.
(16) "Tuition pupil" means a pupil of school age attending school in a district
other than the pupil's district of residence for whom tuition may be charged to the
district of residence. Tuition pupil does not include a pupil who is a special
education pupil, a pupil described in subsection (6)(c) to (o), or a pupil whose
parent or guardian voluntarily enrolls the pupil in a district that is not the pupil's
district of residence. A pupil's district of residence shall not require a high school
tuition pupil, as provided under section 111, to attend another school district after
the pupil has been assigned to a school district.
(17) "State school aid fund" means the state school aid fund established in
section 11 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963.
(18) "Taxable value" means the taxable value of property as determined under
section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.27a.
(19) "Textbook" means a book, electronic book, or other instructional print or
electronic resource that is selected and approved by the governing board of a district
and that contains a presentation of principles of a subject, or that is a literary
work relevant to the study of a subject required for the use of classroom pupils, or
another type of course material that forms the basis of classroom instruction.
(20) "Total state aid" or "total state school aid" means the total combined
amount of all funds due to a district, intermediate district, or other entity under
this article.
Sec. 11. (1) For the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2017, there is appropriated
for the public schools of this state and
certain other state purposes relating to
education the sum of $12,069,644,300.00 from the state school aid fund, the sum of
$179,100,000.00 from the general fund, an amount not to exceed
$72,000,000.00 from the
community district education trust fund created
under section 12 of the Michigan trust
fund act, 2000 PA 489, MCL 12.262, and an
amount not to exceed $100.00 from the water
emergency reserve fund. For the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2018, 2019, there is
appropriated for the public schools of this state and certain other state purposes
relating to education the sum of $12,547,270,300.00
$12,762,325,200.00 from the state
school aid fund, the sum of $215,000,000.00
$45,000,000.00 from the general fund,
an
amount not to exceed $72,000,000.00 from the community district education trust fund
created under section 12 of the Michigan trust fund act, 2000 PA 489, MCL 12.262, an
amount not to exceed $23,100,000.00 $31,900,000.00 from the MPSERS
retirement
obligation reform reserve fund, and an amount not to exceed $100.00 from the water
emergency reserve fund. In addition, all
available federal funds are appropriated each
fiscal year for the fiscal years YEAR ending September 30, 2017 and September
30, 2018
2019.
(2) The appropriations under this section shall be allocated as provided in this
article. Money appropriated under this section from the general fund shall be expended
to fund the purposes of this article before the expenditure of money appropriated
under this section from the state school aid fund.
(3) Any general fund allocations under this article that are not expended by the
end of the state fiscal year are transferred to the school aid stabilization fund
created under section 11a.
Sec. 11a. (1) The school aid stabilization fund is created as a separate account
within the state school aid fund established by section 11 of article IX of the state
constitution of 1963.
(2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for
deposit into the school aid stabilization fund. The state treasurer shall deposit into
the school aid stabilization fund all of the following:
(a) Unexpended and unencumbered state school aid fund revenue for a fiscal year
that remains in the state school aid fund as of the bookclosing for that fiscal year.
(b) Money statutorily dedicated to the school aid stabilization fund.
(c) Money appropriated to the school aid stabilization fund.
(3) Money available in the school aid stabilization fund may not be expended
without a specific appropriation from the school aid stabilization fund. Money in the
school aid stabilization fund shall be expended only for purposes for which state
school aid fund money may be expended.
(4) The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the school aid
stabilization fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the school aid stabilization
fund interest and earnings from fund investments.
(5) Money in the school aid stabilization fund at the close of a fiscal year
shall remain in the school aid stabilization fund and shall not lapse to the
unreserved school aid fund balance or the general fund.
(6) If the maximum amount appropriated under section 11 from the state school aid
fund for a fiscal year exceeds the amount available for expenditure from the state
school aid fund for that fiscal year, there is appropriated from the school aid
stabilization fund to the state school aid fund an amount equal to the projected
shortfall as determined by the department of treasury, but not to exceed available
money in the school aid stabilization fund. If the money in the school aid
stabilization fund is insufficient to fully fund an amount equal to the projected
shortfall, the state budget director shall notify the legislature as required under
section 296(2) and state payments in an amount equal to the remainder of the projected
shortfall shall be prorated in the manner provided under section 296(3).
(7) For 2016-2017 and for 2017-2018, 2018-2019 in addition to the appropriations
in section 11, there is appropriated from the school aid stabilization fund to the
state school aid fund the amount necessary to fully fund the allocations under this
article.
Sec. 11j. From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount not
to exceed $125,500,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for payments to the school loan bond
redemption fund in the department of treasury on behalf of districts and intermediate
districts. Notwithstanding section 296 or any other provision of this act, funds
allocated under this section are not subject to proration and shall be paid in full.
Sec. 11k. For 2017-2018, 2018-2019, there is appropriated from the general
fund
to the school loan revolving fund an amount equal to the amount of school bond loans
assigned to the Michigan finance authority, not to exceed the total amount of school
bond loans held in reserve as long-term assets. As used in this section, "school loan
revolving fund" means that fund created in section 16c of the shared credit rating
act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141.1066c.
Sec. 11m. From the appropriation in
section 11, there is allocated for 2016-2017
an amount not to exceed $5,500,000.00 and there
is allocated for 2017-2018 2018-2019
an amount not to exceed $6,500,000.00 $24,000,000.00 for fiscal year
cash-flow
borrowing costs solely related to the state school aid fund established by section 11
of article IX of the state constitution of 1963.
Sec. 11s. (1) From the general fund appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated $10,142,500.00 for 2016-2017 and
there is allocated $8,730,000.00
$3,230,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for the purpose of providing services and
programs to children who reside within the boundaries of a district with the majority
of its territory located within the boundaries of a city for which an executive
proclamation of emergency is issued in the
current or immediately preceding 2 3
fiscal
years under the emergency management act, 1976 PA 390, MCL 30.401 to 30.421, AND FOR
THE DEPARTMENT TO IMPLEMENT AND ADMINISTER GRANTS AWARDED FOR, OR TO PROVIDE SERVICES
FOR THESE CHILDREN. From the funding appropriated in section 11, there is allocated
for each fiscal year for 2016-2017
and for 2017-2018 2018-2019 $100.00 from the water
emergency reserve fund for the purposes of this section.
(2) From the allocation in subsection (1), there is allocated to a district with
the majority of its territory located within the boundaries of a city in which an
executive proclamation of emergency is issued in the current or immediately preceding
2 3
fiscal years and that has at least 4,500 pupils in membership for the 2016-2017
fiscal year or has at least 4,000 pupils in membership for a fiscal year after 2016-
2017, an amount not to exceed $1,292,500.00
for 2016-2017 and an amount not to exceed
$2,625,000.00 $2,375,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for the purpose of employing
school nurses and school social workers. The district shall provide a report to the
department in a form, manner, and frequency prescribed by the department. The
department shall provide a copy of that report to the governor, the house and senate
school aid subcommittees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget
director within 5 days after receipt. The report shall provide at least the following
information:
(a) How many personnel were hired using the funds allocated under this
subsection.
(b) A description of the services provided to pupils by those personnel.
(c) How many pupils received each type of service identified in subdivision (b).
(d) Any other information the department considers necessary to ensure that the
children described in subsection (1) received appropriate levels and types of
services.
(3) From the allocation in subsection
(1), there is allocated to an intermediate
district that has a constituent district
described in subsection (2) an amount not to
exceed $1,195,000.00 for 2016-2017 and an
amount not to exceed $2,500,000.00 for 2017-
2018 to augment staff for the purpose of
providing additional early childhood services
and for nutritional services to children
described in subsection (1), regardless of
location of school of attendance. For
2016-2017, the early childhood services to be
provided under this subsection are state early
intervention services as described in
subsection (4) and early literacy services.
Beginning with 2017-2018, the early
childhood services to be provided under this
subsection are state early intervention
services that are similar to the services
described in the early on Michigan state
plan, including ensuring that all children
described in subsection (1) who are less
than 4 years of age as of September 1, 2016 are
assessed and evaluated at least twice
annually. In addition, funds allocated under
this subsection may also be expended to
provide informational resources to parents,
educators, and the community, and to
coordinate services with other local agencies.
The intermediate district shall provide
a report to the department in a form, manner,
and frequency approved by the
department. The department shall provide a copy
of that report to the governor, the
house and senate school aid subcommittees, the
house and senate fiscal agencies, and
the state budget director within 5 days after
receipt. The report shall provide at
least the following information:
(a) How many personnel were hired using
the funds appropriated in this
subsection.
(b) A description of the services
provided to children by those personnel.
(c) What types of additional nutritional
services were provided.
(d) How many children received each type
of service identified in subdivisions
(b) and (c).
(e) What types of informational resources
and coordination efforts were provided.
(f) Any other information the department
considers necessary to ensure that the
children described in subsection (1) received
appropriate levels and types of
services.
(4) For 2016-2017 only, from the
allocation in subsection (1), there is allocated
an amount not to exceed $6,155,000.00 to
intermediate districts described in
subsection (3) to provide state early intervention
services for children described in
subsection (1) who are less than 4 years of age
as of September 1, 2016. The
intermediate district shall use these funds to
provide state early intervention
services that are similar to the services
described in the early on Michigan state
plan, including ensuring that all children
described in subsection (1) who are less
than 4 years of age as of September 1, 2016 are
assessed and evaluated at least twice
annually.
(5) From the allocation in subsection
(1), there is allocated an amount not to
exceed $1,500,000.00 for 2016-2017 and an
amount not to exceed $3,000,000.00 for 2017-
2018 to intermediate districts described in subsection (3) to
enroll children
described in subsection (1) in school-day great
start readiness programs, regardless
of household income eligibility requirements
contained in section 39. The department
shall administer this funding consistent with
all other provisions of the great start
readiness programs contained in section 32d and
section 39.
(3) (6) For 2017-2018, 2018-2019, from the allocation in subsection (1), there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $605,000.00 for nutritional services to children
described in subsection (1).
(4) (7) In addition to other funding allocated and appropriated in
this section,
there is appropriated an amount not to exceed
$15,000,000.00 each fiscal year for
2016-2017 and 2017-2018 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018-2019 for state restricted
contingency
funds. These contingency funds are not available for expenditure until they have been
transferred to a section within this article under section 393(2) of the management
and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.
(5) (8) Notwithstanding section 17b, payments under this section
shall be paid on
a schedule determined by the department.
Sec. 15. (1) If a district or intermediate district fails to receive its proper
apportionment, the department, upon satisfactory proof that the district or
intermediate district was entitled justly, shall apportion the deficiency in the next
apportionment. Subject to subsections (2) and (3), if a district or intermediate
district has received more than its proper apportionment, the department, upon
satisfactory proof, shall deduct the excess in the next apportionment. Notwithstanding
any other provision in this article, state aid overpayments to a district, other than
overpayments in payments for special education or special education transportation,
may be recovered from any payment made under this article other than a special
education or special education transportation payment, from the proceeds of a loan to
the district under the emergency municipal loan act, 1980 PA 243, MCL 141.931 to
141.942, or from the proceeds of millage levied or pledged under section 1211 of the
revised school code, MCL 380.1211. State aid overpayments made in special education or
special education transportation payments may be recovered from subsequent special
education or special education transportation payments, from the proceeds of a loan to
the district under the emergency municipal loan act, 1980 PA 243, MCL 141.931 to
141.942, or from the proceeds of millage levied or pledged under section 1211 of the
revised school code, MCL 380.1211.
(2) If the result of an audit conducted by or for the department affects the
current fiscal year membership, affected payments shall be adjusted in the current
fiscal year. A deduction due to an adjustment made as a result of an audit conducted
by or for the department, or as a result of information obtained by the department
from the district, an intermediate district, the department of treasury, or the office
of auditor general, shall be deducted from the district's apportionments when the
adjustment is finalized. At the request of the district and upon the district
presenting evidence satisfactory to the department of the hardship, the department may
grant up to an additional 9 4 years for the adjustment and may advance
payments to the
district otherwise authorized under this article if the district would otherwise
experience a significant hardship in satisfying
its financial obligations. At the
request of a district and upon the district
presenting evidence satisfactory to the
department of the hardship, the department may
waive all or a portion of the
adjustments under this subsection if the
department determines that all of the
following apply:
(a) The district would otherwise
experience a significant hardship in satisfying
its financial obligations.
(b) The district would otherwise
experience a significant hardship in satisfying
its responsibility to provide instruction to
its pupils.
© The district has taken sufficient
corrective action to ensure that the
circumstance or circumstances that necessitated
the adjustment under this subsection
do not recur.
(3) If, based on an audit by the department or the department’s designee or
because of new or updated information received by the department, the department
determines that the amount paid to a district or intermediate district under this
article for the current fiscal year or a prior fiscal year was incorrect, the
department shall make the appropriate deduction or payment in the district’s or
intermediate district’s allocation in the next apportionment after the adjustment is
finalized. The deduction or payment shall be calculated according to the law in effect
in the fiscal year in which the incorrect amount was paid. If the district does not
receive an allocation for the fiscal year or if the allocation is not sufficient to
pay the amount of any deduction, the amount of any deduction otherwise applicable
shall be satisfied from the proceeds of a loan to the district under the emergency
municipal loan act, 1980 PA 243, MCL 141.931 to 141.942, or from the proceeds of
millage levied or pledged under section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211,
as determined by the department.
(4) The department may conduct audits, or may direct audits by designee of the
department, for the current fiscal year and the immediately preceding 3 fiscal years
of all records related to a program for which a district or intermediate district has
received funds under this article.
(5) Expenditures made by the department under this article that are caused by the
write-off of prior year accruals may be funded by revenue from the write-off of prior
year accruals.
(6) The department shall not deduct any
funds from a district due to a pupil
being counted in membership before the
effective date of the amendatory act that added
section 6(4)(jj), or otherwise reduce an
allocation under this article to a district
relative to the counting of a pupil in
membership as provided under section 6(4)(jj),
if the district substantially complied with the
requirements under section 6(4)(jj) in
a previous fiscal year as if section 6(4)(jj)
had been in effect in the previous
fiscal year.
(6) (7) In addition to funds appropriated in section 11 for all
programs and
services, there is appropriated for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for obligations in excess of
applicable appropriations an amount equal to the collection of overpayments, but not
to exceed amounts available from overpayments.
Sec. 18. (1) Except as provided in another section of this article, each district
or other entity shall apply the money received by the district or entity under this
article to salaries and other compensation of teachers and other employees, tuition,
transportation, lighting, heating, ventilation, water service, the purchase of
textbooks, other supplies, and any other school operating expenditures defined in
section 7. However, not more than 20% of the total amount received by a district under
sections 22a and 22b or received by an intermediate district under section 81 may be
transferred by the board to either the capital projects fund or to the debt retirement
fund for debt service. The money shall not be applied or taken for a purpose other
than as provided in this section. The department shall determine the reasonableness of
expenditures and may withhold from a recipient of funds under this article the
apportionment otherwise due upon a violation by the recipient.
(2) A district or intermediate district shall adopt an annual budget in a manner
that complies with the uniform budgeting and accounting act, 1968 PA 2, MCL 141.421 to
141.440a. Within 15 days after a district board adopts its annual operating budget for
the following school fiscal year, or after a district board adopts a subsequent
revision to that budget, the district shall make all of the following available
through a link on its website homepage, or may make the information available through
a link on its intermediate district's website homepage, in a form and manner
prescribed by the department:
(a) The annual operating budget and subsequent budget revisions.
(b) Using data that have already been collected and submitted to the department,
a summary of district expenditures for the most recent fiscal year for which they are
available, expressed in the following 2 pie
charts: VISUAL DISPLAYS
(i) A chart of personnel expenditures, broken into the following subcategories:
(A) Salaries and wages.
(B) Employee benefit costs, including, but not limited to, medical, dental,
vision, life, disability, and long-term care benefits.
(C) Retirement benefit costs.
(D) All other personnel costs.
(ii) A chart of all district expenditures, broken into the following
subcategories:
(A) Instruction.
(B) Support services.
(C) Business and administration.
(D) Operations and maintenance.
(c) Links to all of the following:
(i) The current collective bargaining agreement for each bargaining unit.
(ii) Each health care benefits plan, including, but not limited to, medical,
dental, vision, disability, long-term care, or any other type of benefits that would
constitute health care services, offered to any bargaining unit or employee in the
district.
(iii) The audit report of the audit conducted under subsection (4) for the most
recent fiscal year for which it is available.
(iv) The bids required under section 5 of the public employees health benefits
act, 2007 PA 106, MCL 124.75.
(v) The district's written policy governing procurement of supplies, materials,
and equipment.
(vi) The district's written policy establishing specific categories of
reimbursable expenses, as described in section 1254(2) of the revised school code, MCL
380.1254.
(vii) Either the district's accounts payable check register for the most recent
school fiscal year or a statement of the total amount of expenses incurred by board
members or employees of the district that were reimbursed by the district for the most
recent school fiscal year.
(d) The total salary and a description and cost of each fringe benefit included
in the compensation package for the superintendent of the district and for each
employee of the district whose salary exceeds $100,000.00.
(e) The annual amount spent on dues paid to associations.
(f) The annual amount spent on lobbying or lobbying services. As used in this
subdivision, "lobbying" means that term as defined in section 5 of 1978 PA 472, MCL
4.415.
(g) Any deficit elimination plan or enhanced deficit elimination plan the
district was required to submit under the revised school code.
(h) Identification of all credit cards maintained by the district as district
credit cards, the identity of all individuals authorized to use each of those credit
cards, the credit limit on each credit card, and the dollar limit, if any, for each
individual's authorized use of the credit card.
(i) Costs incurred for each instance of out-of-state travel by the school
administrator of the district that is fully or partially paid for by the district and
the details of each of those instances of out-of-state travel, including at least
identification of each individual on the trip, destination, and purpose.
(3) For the information required under subsection (2)(a), (2)(b)(i), and (2)(c),
an intermediate district shall provide the same information in the same manner as
required for a district under subsection (2).
(4) For the purposes of determining the reasonableness of expenditures, whether a
district or intermediate district has received the proper amount of funds under this
article, and whether a violation of this article has occurred, all of the following
apply:
(a) The department shall require that each district and intermediate district
have an audit of the district's or intermediate district's financial and pupil
accounting records conducted at least annually, and at such other times as determined
by the department, at the expense of the district or intermediate district, as
applicable. The audits must be performed by a certified public accountant or by the
intermediate district superintendent, as may be required by the department, or in the
case of a district of the first class by a certified public accountant, the
intermediate superintendent, or the auditor general of the city. A district or
intermediate district shall retain these records for the current fiscal year and from
at least the 3 immediately preceding fiscal years.
(b) If a district operates in a single building with fewer than 700 full-time
equated pupils, if the district has stable membership, and if the error rate of the
immediately preceding 2 pupil accounting field audits of the district is less than 2%,
the district may have a pupil accounting field audit conducted biennially but must
continue to have desk audits for each pupil count. The auditor must document
compliance with the audit cycle in the pupil auditing manual. As used in this
subdivision, "stable membership" means that the district's membership for the current
fiscal year varies from the district's membership for the immediately preceding fiscal
year by less than 5%.
(c) A district's or intermediate district's annual financial audit shall include
an analysis of the financial and pupil accounting data used as the basis for
distribution of state school aid.
(d) The pupil and financial accounting records and reports, audits, and
management letters are subject to requirements established in the auditing and
accounting manuals approved and published by the department.
(e) All of the following shall be done not later than November 1 each year for
reporting the prior fiscal year data:
(i) A district shall file the annual financial audit reports with the
intermediate district and the department.
(ii) The intermediate district shall file the annual financial audit reports for
the intermediate district with the department.
(iii) The intermediate district shall enter the pupil membership audit reports
for its constituent districts and for the intermediate district, for the pupil
membership count day and supplemental count day, in the Michigan student data system.
(f) The annual financial audit reports and pupil accounting procedures reports
shall be available to the public in compliance with the freedom of information act,
1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.
(g) Not later than January 31 of each year, the department shall notify the state
budget director and the legislative appropriations subcommittees responsible for
review of the school aid budget of districts and intermediate districts that have not
filed an annual financial audit and pupil accounting procedures report required under
this section for the school year ending in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(5) By November 1 each fiscal year, each district and intermediate district shall
submit to the center, in a manner prescribed by the center, annual comprehensive
financial data consistent with the district's or intermediate district's audited
financial statements and consistent with accounting manuals and charts of accounts
approved and published by the department. For an intermediate district, the report
shall also contain the website address where the department can access the report
required under section 620 of the revised school code, MCL 380.620. The department
shall ensure that the prescribed Michigan public school accounting manual chart of
accounts includes standard conventions to distinguish expenditures by allowable fund
function and object. The functions shall include at minimum categories for
instruction, pupil support, instructional staff support, general administration,
school administration, business administration, transportation, facilities operation
and maintenance, facilities acquisition, and debt service; and shall include object
classifications of salary, benefits, including categories for active employee health
expenditures, purchased services, supplies, capital outlay, and other. Districts shall
report the required level of detail consistent with the manual as part of the
comprehensive annual financial report.
(6) By September 30 of each year, each district and intermediate district shall
file with the department CENTER the special education actual cost report, known
as
"SE-4096", on a form and in the
manner prescribed by the department CENTER.
(7) By October 7 of each year, each district and intermediate district shall file
with the center the transportation expenditure report, known as "SE-4094", on a form
and in the manner prescribed by the center.
(8) The department shall review its pupil accounting and pupil auditing manuals
at least annually and shall periodically update those manuals to reflect changes in
this article.
(9) If a district that is a public school academy purchases property using money
received under this article, the public school academy shall retain ownership of the
property unless the public school academy sells the property at fair market value.
(10) If a district or intermediate district does not comply with subsections (4),
(5), (6), and (7), AND (12) or if the department determines that the
financial data
required under subsection (5) are not consistent with audited financial statements,
the department shall withhold all state school aid due to the district or intermediate
district under this article, beginning with the next payment due to the district or
intermediate district, until the district or intermediate district complies with
subsections (4), (5), (6), and (7), AND (12). If the district or intermediate
district
does not comply with subsections (4), (5), (6),
and (7), AND (12) by the end of the
fiscal year, the district or intermediate district forfeits the amount withheld.
(11) If a district or intermediate district does not comply with subsection (2),
the department may withhold up to 10% of the total state school aid due to the
district or intermediate district under this article, beginning with the next payment
due to the district or intermediate district, until the district or intermediate
district complies with subsection (2). If the district or intermediate district does
not comply with subsection (2) by the end of the fiscal year, the district or
intermediate district forfeits the amount withheld.
(12) By November 1 of each year, if a district or intermediate district offers
virtual learning under section 21f, OR FOR A SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE THAT IS A CYBER
SCHOOL, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 551 OF THE REVISED SCHOOL CODE, the district or
intermediate district shall submit to the department a report that details the per-
pupil costs of operating the virtual learning by vendor type AND VIRTUAL LEARNING
MODEL. The report shall include at least all of the following information
concerning
the operation of virtual learning for the
immediately preceding school fiscal year:
YEAR, INCLUDING INFORMATION CONCERNING SUMMER PROGRAMMING. INFORMATION SHALL BE
COLLECTED IN A FORM AND MANNER AS DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT AND SHALL BE COLLECTED
IN THE MOST EFFICIENT MANNER POSSIBLE IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN ON
REPORTING ENTITIES.
(a) The name of the district operating
the virtual learning and of each district
that enrolled students in the virtual learning.
(b) The total number of students enrolled
in the virtual learning and the total
number of membership pupils enrolled in the
virtual learning.
(c) For each pupil who is enrolled in a
district other than the district offering
virtual learning, the name of that district.
(d) The district in which the pupil was
enrolled before enrolling in the district
offering virtual learning.
(e) The number of participating students
who had previously dropped out of
school.
(f) The number of participating students
who had previously been expelled from
school.
(g) The total cost to enroll a student in
the program. This cost shall be
reported on a per-pupil, per-course,
per-semester or trimester basis by vendor type.
The total shall include costs broken down by
cost for content development, content
licensing, training, virtual instruction and
instructional support, personnel,
hardware and software, payment to each virtual
learning provider, and other costs
associated with operating virtual learning.
(h) The name of each virtual education
provider contracted by the district and
the state in which each virtual education
provider is headquartered.
(13) By March 31 of each year, the department shall submit to the house and
senate appropriations subcommittees on state school aid, the state budget director,
and the house and senate fiscal agencies a report summarizing the per-pupil costs by
vendor type of virtual courses available under section 21f OR VIRTUAL COURSES PROVIDED
BY A SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE THAT IS A CYBER SCHOOL, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 551 OF THE
REVISED SCHOOL CODE, MCD 380.551.
(14) As used in subsections (12) and (13), "vendor type" means the following:
(a) Virtual courses provided by the Michigan Virtual University.
(b) Virtual courses provided by a school of excellence that is a cyber school, as
defined in section 551 of the revised school code, MCL 380.551.
(c) Virtual courses provided by third party vendors not affiliated with a
Michigan public school.
(d) Virtual courses created and offered by a district or intermediate district.
(15) An allocation to a district or another entity under this article is
contingent upon the district's or entity's compliance with this section.
(16) Beginning October 1, 2017, and
not less than once every 3 months after that
date, the THE department shall submit to the senate and house subcommittees on school
aid and to the senate and house standing committees on education an itemized list of
allocations under this article to any association or consortium consisting of
associations. The report shall detail the recipient or recipients, the amount
allocated, and the purpose for which the funds were distributed.
Sec. 19. (1) A district or intermediate district shall comply with all applicable
reporting requirements specified in state and federal law. Data provided to the
center, in a form and manner prescribed by the center, shall be aggregated and
disaggregated as required by state and federal law. In addition, a district or
intermediate district shall cooperate with all measures taken by the center to
establish and maintain a statewide P-20 longitudinal data system.
(2) Each district shall furnish to the center not later than 5 weeks after the
pupil membership count day and by June 30 THE LAST BUSINESS DAY IN JUNE of the school
fiscal year ending in the fiscal year, in a manner prescribed by the center, the
information necessary for the preparation of the district and high school graduation
report AND FOR PREPARATION OF THE STATE OR FEDERAL ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTS. This
information shall meet requirements established in the pupil auditing manual approved
and published by the department. The center shall calculate an annual graduation and
pupil dropout rate for each high school, each district, and this state, in compliance
with nationally recognized standards for these calculations. The center shall report
all graduation and dropout rates to the senate and house education committees and
appropriations committees, the state budget director, and the department not later
than 30 days after the publication of the list described in subsection (5). Before
reporting these graduation and dropout rates, the department shall allow a school or
district to appeal the calculations. The department shall consider and act upon the
appeal within 30 days after it is submitted and shall not report these graduation and
dropout rates until after all appeals have been considered and decided.
(3) By the first business day in December
and by June 30 THE LAST
BUSINESS DAY IN
JUNE of each year, a district shall furnish to the center, in a manner prescribed by
the center, information related to educational personnel as necessary for reporting
required by state and federal law. For the purposes of this subsection, the center
shall only require districts and intermediate districts to report information that is
not already available from the office of retirement services in the department of
technology, management, and budget.
(4) If a district or intermediate district fails to meet the requirements of this
section, the department shall withhold 5% of the total funds for which the district or
intermediate district qualifies under this article until the district or intermediate
district complies with all of those subsections. If the district or intermediate
district does not comply with all of those subsections by the end of the fiscal year,
the department shall place the amount withheld in an escrow account until the district
or intermediate district complies with all of those subsections.
(5) Before publishing a list of school or district accountability designations as
required by the no child left behind act of 2001, Public Law 107-110, or the every
student succeeds act, Public Law 114-95, AND UTILIZING DATA THAT WAS CERTIFIED AS
ACCURATE AND COMPLETE AFTER DISTRICTS AND INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE ADHERED
TO DEADLINES, DATA QUALITY REVIEWS AND CORRECTION PROCESSES LEADING TO LOCAL
CERTIFICATION OF FINAL STUDENT DATA IN SUBSECTION 2 OF THIS SECTION, the department
shall allow a school or district to appeal ANY CALCULATION ERRORS USED IN THE
PREPARATION OF ACCOUNTABILITY METRICS. that determination.
The department shall
consider and act upon the appeal within 30 days after it is submitted and shall not
publish the list until after all appeals have been considered and decided.
(6) Beginning in 2016-2017, the department shall implement statewide standard
reporting requirements for education data approved by the department in conjunction
with the center. The department shall work with the center, intermediate districts,
districts, and other interested stakeholders to implement this policy change. A
district or intermediate district shall implement the statewide standard reporting
requirements not later than 2017-2018 or when a district or intermediate district
updates its education data reporting system, whichever is later.
Sec. 20. (1) For 2017-2018, 2018-2019, both of the following apply:
(a) The basic foundation allowance is $8,289.00.
$8,409.00.
(b) The minimum foundation allowance is $7,631.00. $7,871.00.
(2) The amount of each district's foundation allowance shall be calculated as
provided in this section, using a basic foundation allowance in the amount specified
in subsection (1).
(3) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the amount of a district's
foundation allowance shall be calculated as follows, using in all calculations the
total amount of the district's foundation allowance as calculated before any
proration:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, for a district that had a
foundation allowance for the immediately preceding state fiscal year that was at least
equal to the minimum foundation allowance for the immediately preceding state fiscal
year, but less than the basic foundation allowance for the immediately preceding state
fiscal year, the district shall receive a foundation allowance in an amount equal to
the sum of the district's foundation allowance for the immediately preceding state
fiscal year plus the difference between twice the dollar amount of the adjustment from
the immediately preceding state fiscal year to the current state fiscal year made in
the basic foundation allowance and [(the difference between the basic foundation
allowance for the current state fiscal year and basic foundation allowance for the
immediately preceding state fiscal year minus $20.00
$40.00) times (the difference
between the district's foundation allowance for the immediately preceding state fiscal
year and the minimum foundation allowance for the immediately preceding state fiscal
year) divided by the difference between the basic foundation allowance for the current
state fiscal year and the minimum foundation allowance for the immediately preceding
state fiscal year.] However, the foundation allowance for a district that had less
than the basic foundation allowance for the immediately preceding state fiscal year
shall not exceed the basic foundation allowance for the current state fiscal year.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for a district that in the
immediately preceding state fiscal year had a foundation allowance in an amount equal
to the amount of the basic foundation allowance for the immediately preceding state
fiscal year, the district shall receive a
foundation allowance for 2017-2018 2018-2019
in an amount equal to the basic foundation
allowance for 2017-2018. 2018-2019.
(c) For a district that had a foundation allowance for the immediately preceding
state fiscal year that was greater than the basic foundation allowance for the
immediately preceding state fiscal year, the district's foundation allowance is an
amount equal to the sum of the district's foundation allowance for the immediately
preceding state fiscal year plus the lesser of the increase in the basic foundation
allowance for the current state fiscal year, as compared to the immediately preceding
state fiscal year, or the product of the district's foundation allowance for the
immediately preceding state fiscal year times the percentage increase in the United
States consumer price index in the calendar year ending in the immediately preceding
fiscal year as reported by the May revenue estimating conference conducted under
section 367b of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1367b.
(d) For a district that has a foundation allowance that is not a whole dollar
amount, the district's foundation allowance shall be rounded up to the nearest whole
dollar.
(e) For a district that received a foundation allowance supplemental payment
calculated under section 20m and paid under
section 22b for 2016-2017, 2017-2018 the
district's 2016-2017 2017-2018 foundation allowance is considered to
have been an
amount equal to the sum of the district's
actual 2016-2017 2017-2018 foundation
allowance as otherwise calculated under this section plus the lesser of the per pupil
amount of the district's supplemental payment
for 2016-2017 2017-2018 as calculated
under section 20m or the product of the district's foundation allowance for the
immediately preceding state fiscal year times the percentage increase in the United
States consumer price index in the calendar year ending in the immediately preceding
fiscal year as reported by the May revenue estimating conference conducted under
section 367b of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1367b.
(4) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, beginning in 2014-2015, the
state portion of a district's foundation allowance is an amount equal to the
district's foundation allowance or the basic foundation allowance for the current
state fiscal year, whichever is less, minus the local portion of the district's
foundation allowance. For a district described in subsection (3)(c), beginning in
2014-2015, the state portion of the district's foundation allowance is an amount equal
to $6,962.00 plus the difference between the district's foundation allowance for the
current state fiscal year and the district's foundation allowance for 1998-99, minus
the local portion of the district's foundation allowance. For a district that has a
millage reduction required under section 31 of article IX of the state constitution of
1963, the state portion of the district's foundation allowance shall be calculated as
if that reduction did not occur. For a receiving district, if school operating taxes
continue to be levied on behalf of a dissolved district that has been attached in
whole or in part to the receiving district to satisfy debt obligations of the
dissolved district under section 12 of the revised school code, MCL 380.12, the
taxable value per membership pupil of property in the receiving district used for the
purposes of this subsection does not include the taxable value of property within the
geographic area of the dissolved district. For a community district, if school
operating taxes continue to be levied by a qualifying school district under section
12b of the revised school code, MCL 380.12b, with the same geographic area as the
community district, the taxable value per membership pupil of property in the
community district to be used for the purposes of this subsection does not include the
taxable value of property within the geographic area of the community district.
(5) The allocation calculated under this section for a pupil shall be based on
the foundation allowance of the pupil's district of residence. For a pupil enrolled
pursuant to section 105 or 105c in a district other than the pupil's district of
residence, the allocation calculated under this section shall be based on the lesser
of the foundation allowance of the pupil's district of residence or the foundation
allowance of the educating district. For a pupil in membership in a K-5, K-6, or K-8
district who is enrolled in another district in a grade not offered by the pupil's
district of residence, the allocation calculated under this section shall be based on
the foundation allowance of the educating district if the educating district's
foundation allowance is greater than the foundation allowance of the pupil's district
of residence. The calculation under this subsection shall take into account a
district's per-pupil allocation under section 20m.
(6) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for pupils in membership,
other than special education pupils, in a public school academy, the allocation
calculated under this section is an amount per membership pupil other than special
education pupils in the public school academy equal to the foundation allowance of the
district in which the public school academy is located or the state maximum public
school academy allocation, whichever is less. Except as otherwise provided in this
subsection, for pupils in membership, other than special education pupils, in a public
school academy that is a cyber school and is authorized by a school district, the
allocation calculated under this section is an amount per membership pupil other than
special education pupils in the public school academy equal to the foundation
allowance of the district that authorized the public school academy or the state
maximum public school academy allocation, whichever is less. However, a public school
academy that had an allocation under this subsection before 2009-2010 that was equal
to the sum of the local school operating revenue per membership pupil other than
special education pupils for the district in which the public school academy is
located and the state portion of that district's foundation allowance shall not have
that allocation reduced as a result of the 2010 amendment to this subsection.
Notwithstanding section 101, for a public school academy that begins operations after
the pupil membership count day, the amount per membership pupil calculated under this
subsection shall be adjusted by multiplying that amount per membership pupil by the
number of hours of pupil instruction provided by the public school academy after it
begins operations, as determined by the department, divided by the minimum number of
hours of pupil instruction required under section 101(3). The result of this
calculation shall not exceed the amount per membership pupil otherwise calculated
under this subsection. BEGINNING IN 2018-2019, FOR PUPILS IN MEMBERSHIP IN A PUBLIC
SCHOOL ACADEMY THAT WAS ISSUED A CONTRACT UNDER SECTION 552 OF THE REVISED SCHOOL
CODE, MCL 380.552, TO OPERATE AS A SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE THAT IS A CYBER SCHOOL, THE
ALLOCATION CALCULATED UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL BE AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO 75% OF THE AMOUNT
AS WOULD OTHERWISE BE CALCULATED UNDER THIS SUBSECTION FOR A PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY.
(7) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for pupils in membership,
other than special education pupils, in a community district, the allocation
calculated under this section is an amount per membership pupil other than special
education pupils in the community district equal to the foundation allowance of the
qualifying school district, as described in section 12b of the revised school code,
MCL 380.12b, that is located within the same geographic area as the community
district.
(8) Subject to subsection (4), for a district that is formed or reconfigured
after June 1, 2002 by consolidation of 2 or more districts or by annexation, the
resulting district's foundation allowance under this section beginning after the
effective date of the consolidation or annexation shall be the lesser of the sum of
the average of the foundation allowances of each of the original or affected
districts, calculated as provided in this section, weighted as to the percentage of
pupils in total membership in the resulting district who reside in the geographic area
of each of the original or affected districts plus $100.00 or the highest foundation
allowance among the original or affected districts. This subsection does not apply to
a receiving district unless there is a subsequent consolidation or annexation that
affects the district. The calculation under this subsection shall take into account a
district's per-pupil allocation under section 20m.
(9) Each fraction used in making calculations under this section shall be rounded
to the fourth decimal place and the dollar amount of an increase in the basic
foundation allowance shall be rounded to the nearest whole dollar.
(10) State payments related to payment of the foundation allowance for a special
education pupil are not calculated under this section but are instead calculated under
section 51a.
(11) To assist the legislature in determining the basic foundation allowance for
the subsequent state fiscal year, each revenue estimating conference conducted under
section 367b of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1367b, shall
calculate a pupil membership factor, a revenue adjustment factor, and an index as
follows:
(a) The pupil membership factor shall be computed by dividing the estimated
membership in the school year ending in the current state fiscal year, excluding
intermediate district membership, by the estimated membership for the school year
ending in the subsequent state fiscal year, excluding intermediate district
membership. If a consensus membership factor is not determined at the revenue
estimating conference, the principals of the revenue estimating conference shall
report their estimates to the house and senate subcommittees responsible for school
aid appropriations not later than 7 days after the conclusion of the revenue
conference.
(b) The revenue adjustment factor shall be computed by dividing the sum of the
estimated total state school aid fund revenue for the subsequent state fiscal year
plus the estimated total state school aid fund revenue for the current state fiscal
year, adjusted for any change in the rate or base of a tax the proceeds of which are
deposited in that fund and excluding money transferred into that fund from the
countercyclical budget and economic stabilization fund under the management and budget
act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594, by the sum of the estimated total school aid
fund revenue for the current state fiscal year plus the estimated total state school
aid fund revenue for the immediately preceding state fiscal year, adjusted for any
change in the rate or base of a tax the proceeds of which are deposited in that fund.
If a consensus revenue factor is not determined at the revenue estimating conference,
the principals of the revenue estimating conference shall report their estimates to
the house and senate subcommittees responsible for school aid appropriations not later
than 7 days after the conclusion of the revenue conference.
(c) The index shall be calculated by multiplying the pupil membership factor by
the revenue adjustment factor. If a consensus index is not determined at the revenue
estimating conference, the principals of the revenue estimating conference shall
report their estimates to the house and senate subcommittees responsible for school
aid appropriations not later than 7 days after the conclusion of the revenue
conference.
(12) Payments to districts and public school academies shall not be made under
this section. Rather, the calculations under this section shall be used to determine
the amount of state payments under section 22b.
(13) If an amendment to section 2 of article VIII of the state constitution of
1963 allowing state aid to some or all nonpublic schools is approved by the voters of
this state, each foundation allowance or per-pupil payment calculation under this
section may be reduced.
(14) As used in this section:
(a) "Certified mills" means the lesser of 18 mills or the number of mills of
school operating taxes levied by the district in 1993-94.
(b) "Combined state and local revenue" means the aggregate of the district's
state school aid received by or paid on behalf of the district under this section and
the district's local school operating revenue.
(c) "Combined state and local revenue per membership pupil" means the district's
combined state and local revenue divided by the district's membership excluding
special education pupils.
(d) "Current state fiscal year" means the state fiscal year for which a
particular calculation is made.
(e) "Dissolved district" means a district that loses its organization, has its
territory attached to 1 or more other districts, and is dissolved as provided under
section 12 of the revised school code, MCL 380.12.
(f) "Immediately preceding state fiscal year" means the state fiscal year
immediately preceding the current state fiscal year.
(g) "Local portion of the district's foundation allowance" means an amount that
is equal to the difference between (the sum of the product of the taxable value per
membership pupil of all property in the district that is nonexempt property times the
district's certified mills and, for a district with certified mills exceeding 12, the
product of the taxable value per membership pupil of property in the district that is
commercial personal property times the certified mills minus 12 mills) and (the
quotient of the product of the captured assessed valuation under tax increment
financing acts times the district's certified mills divided by the district's
membership excluding special education pupils).
(h) "Local school operating revenue" means school operating taxes levied under
section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211. For a receiving district, if
school operating taxes are to be levied on behalf of a dissolved district that has
been attached in whole or in part to the receiving district to satisfy debt
obligations of the dissolved district under section 12 of the revised school code, MCL
380.12, local school operating revenue does not include school operating taxes levied
within the geographic area of the dissolved district.
(i) "Local school operating revenue per membership pupil" means a district's
local school operating revenue divided by the district's membership excluding special
education pupils.
(j) "Maximum public school academy allocation", except as otherwise provided in
this subdivision, means the maximum per-pupil allocation as calculated by adding the
highest per-pupil allocation among all public school academies for the immediately
preceding state fiscal year plus the difference between twice the amount of the
difference between the basic foundation allowance for the current state fiscal year
and the basic foundation allowance for the immediately preceding state fiscal year and
[(the amount of the difference between the basic foundation allowance for the current
state fiscal year and the basic foundation allowance for the immediately preceding
state fiscal year minus $20.00 $40.00) times (the difference between the highest
per-
pupil allocation among all public school academies for the immediately preceding state
fiscal year and the minimum foundation allowance for the immediately preceding state
fiscal year) divided by the difference between the basic foundation allowance for the
current state fiscal year and the minimum foundation allowance for the immediately
preceding state fiscal year.] For the purposes
of this subdivision, for 2017-2018,
2018-2019, the maximum public school academy allocation is $7,631.00. $7,871.00.
(k) "Membership" means the definition of that term under section 6 as in effect
for the particular fiscal year for which a particular calculation is made.
(l) "Nonexempt property" means property that is not a principal residence,
qualified agricultural property, qualified forest property, supportive housing
property, industrial personal property, commercial personal property, or property
occupied by a public school academy.
(m) "Principal residence", "qualified agricultural property", "qualified forest
property", "supportive housing property", "industrial personal property", and
"commercial personal property" mean those terms as defined in section 1211 of the
revised school code, MCL 380.1211.
(n) "Receiving district" means a district to which all or part of the territory
of a dissolved district is attached under section 12 of the revised school code, MCL
380.12.
(o) "School operating purposes" means the purposes included in the operation
costs of the district as prescribed in sections 7 and 18 and purposes authorized under
section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211.
(p) "School operating taxes" means local ad valorem property taxes levied under
section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211, and retained for school
operating purposes.
(q) "Tax increment financing acts" means 1975 PA 197, MCL 125.1651 to 125.1681,
the tax increment finance authority act, 1980 PA 450, MCL 125.1801 to 125.1830, the
local development financing act, 1986 PA 281, MCL 125.2151 to 125.2174, the brownfield
redevelopment financing act, 1996 PA 381, MCL 125.2651 to 125.2672, or the corridor
improvement authority act, 2005 PA 280, MCL 125.2871 to 125.2899.
(r) "Taxable value per membership pupil" means taxable value, as certified by the
county treasurer and reported to the department, for the calendar year ending in the
current state fiscal year divided by the district's membership excluding special
education pupils for the school year ending in the current state fiscal year.
Sec. 20d. In making the final determination required under former section 20a of
a district's combined state and local revenue per membership pupil in 1993-94 and in
making calculations under section 20 for 2017-2018, 2018-2019 the department and the
department of treasury shall comply with all of the following:
(a) For a district that had combined state and local revenue per membership pupil
in the 1994-95 state fiscal year of $6,500.00 or more and served as a fiscal agent for
a state board designated area vocational education center in the 1993-94 school year,
total state school aid received by or paid on behalf of the district pursuant to this
act in 1993-94 shall exclude payments made under former section 146 and under section
147 on behalf of the district's employees who provided direct services to the area
vocational education center. Not later than June 30, 1996, the department shall make
an adjustment under this subdivision to the district's combined state and local
revenue per membership pupil in the 1994-95 state fiscal year and the department of
treasury shall make a final certification of the number of mills that may be levied by
the district under section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211, as a result
of the adjustment under this subdivision.
(b) If a district had an adjustment made to its 1993-94 total state school aid
that excluded payments made under former section 146 and under section 147 on behalf
of the district's employees who provided direct services for intermediate district
center programs operated by the district under sections 51 to 56, if nonresident
pupils attending the center programs were included in the district's membership for
purposes of calculating the combined state and local revenue per membership pupil for
1993-94, and if there is a signed agreement by all constituent districts of the
intermediate district that an adjustment under this subdivision shall be made, the
foundation allowances for 1995-96 and 1996-97 of all districts that had pupils
attending the intermediate district center program operated by the district that had
the adjustment shall be calculated as if their combined state and local revenue per
membership pupil for 1993-94 included resident pupils attending the center program and
excluded nonresident pupils attending the center program.
Sec. 20f. (1) From the funds appropriated in section 11, there is allocated an
amount not to exceed $18,000,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for payments to eligible
districts under this section.
(2) The funding under this subsection is from the allocation under subsection
(1). A district is eligible for funding under this subsection if the district received
a payment under this section as it was in effect for 2013-2014. A district was
eligible for funding in 2013-2014 if the sum of the following was less than $5.00:
(a) The increase in the district's foundation allowance or per-pupil payment as
calculated under section 20 from 2012-2013 to 2013-2014.
(b) The district's equity payment per membership pupil under former section 22c
for 2013-2014.
(c) The quotient of the district's allocation under section 147a for 2012-2013
divided by the district's membership pupils for 2012-2013 minus the quotient of the
district's allocation under section 147a for 2013-2014 divided by the district's
membership pupils for 2013-2014.
(3) The amount allocated to each eligible district under subsection (2) is an
amount per membership pupil equal to the amount per membership pupil the district
received under this section in 2013-2014.
(4) The funding under this subsection is from the allocation under subsection
(1). A district is eligible for funding under this subsection if the sum of the
following is less than $25.00:
(a) The increase in the district's foundation allowance or per-pupil payment as
calculated under section 20 from 2014-2015 to 2015-2016.
(b) The decrease in the district's best practices per-pupil funding under former
section 22f from 2014-2015 to 2015-2016.
(c) The decrease in the district's pupil performance per-pupil funding under
former section 22j from 2014-2015 to 2015-2016.
(d) The quotient of the district's allocation under section 31a for 2015-2016
divided by the district's membership pupils for 2015-2016 minus the quotient of the
district's allocation under section 31a for 2014-2015 divided by the district's
membership pupils for 2014-2015.
(5) The amount allocated to each eligible district under subsection (4) is an
amount per membership pupil equal to $25.00 minus the sum of the following:
(a) The increase in the district's foundation allowance or per-pupil payment as
calculated under section 20 from 2014-2015 to 2015-2016.
(b) The decrease in the district's best practices per-pupil funding under former
section 22f from 2014-2015 to 2015-2016.
(c) The decrease in the district's pupil performance per-pupil funding under
former section 22j from 2014-2015 to 2015-2016.
(d) The quotient of the district's allocation under section 31a for 2015-2016
divided by the district's membership pupils for 2015-2016 minus the quotient of the
district's allocation under section 31a for 2014-2015 divided by the district's
membership pupils for 2014-2015.
(6) If the allocation under subsection (1) is insufficient to fully fund payments
under subsections (3) and (5) as otherwise calculated under this section, the
department shall prorate payments under this section on an equal per-pupil basis.
Sec. 20m. (1) Foundation allowance
supplemental payments for 2017-2018 2018-2019
to districts that in the 2015-2016 fiscal year had a foundation allowance greater than
$8,169.00 shall be calculated under this section.
(2) The per-pupil allocation to each district under this section shall be the
difference between the dollar amount of the adjustment from the 2015-2016 state fiscal
year to the current state fiscal year in the basic foundation allowance minus the
dollar amount of the adjustment from the 2015-2016 fiscal year to the current state
fiscal year in a qualifying district's foundation allowance.
(3) If a district's local revenue per pupil does not exceed the sum of its
foundation allowance under section 20 plus the per-pupil allocation under subsection
(2), the total payment to the district calculated under this section shall be the
product of the per-pupil allocation under subsection (2) multiplied by the district's
membership excluding special education pupils. If a district's local revenue per pupil
exceeds the foundation allowance under section 20 but does not exceed the sum of the
foundation allowance under section 20 plus the per-pupil allocation under subsection
(2), the total payment to the district calculated under this section shall be the
product of the difference between the sum of the foundation allowance under section 20
plus the per-pupil allocation under subsection (2) minus the local revenue per pupil
multiplied by the district's membership excluding special education pupils. If a
district's local revenue per pupil exceeds the sum of the foundation allowance under
section 20 plus the per-pupil allocation under subsection (2), there is no payment
calculated under this section for the district.
(4) Payments to districts shall not be made under this section. Rather, the
calculations under this section shall be made and used to determine the amount of
state payments under section 22b.
Sec. 21f. (1) A primary district shall enroll an eligible pupil in virtual
courses in accordance with the provisions of this section. A primary district shall
not offer a virtual course to an eligible pupil unless the virtual course is published
in the primary district's catalog of board-approved courses or in the statewide
catalog of virtual courses maintained by the Michigan Virtual University pursuant to
section 98. The primary district shall also provide on its publicly accessible website
a link to the statewide catalog of virtual courses maintained by the Michigan Virtual
University. Unless the pupil is at least age 18 or is an emancipated minor, a pupil
shall not be enrolled in a virtual course without the consent of the pupil's parent or
legal guardian. PARENTAL CONSENT SHALL BE OBTAINED IN A FORM AND MANNER SPECIFIED BY
THE DEPARTMENT AND KEPT ON FILE BY THE PRIMARY DISTRICT.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), a primary district shall enroll an eligible pupil
in up to 2 virtual courses as requested by the pupil during an academic term,
semester, or trimester.
(3) A pupil may be enrolled in more than 2 virtual courses in a specific academic
term, semester, or trimester if all of the following conditions are met:
(a) The primary district has determined that it is in the best interest of the
pupil.
(b) The pupil agrees with the recommendation of the primary district.
(c) The primary district, in collaboration with the pupil, has developed an
education development plan, in a form and manner specified by the department, that is
kept on file by the district. Beginning October 1, 2016, this subdivision does not
apply to a pupil enrolled as a part-time pupil under section 166b.
(4) If the number of applicants eligible for acceptance in a virtual course does
not exceed the capacity of the provider to provide the virtual course, the provider
shall accept for enrollment all of the applicants eligible for acceptance. If the
number of applicants exceeds the provider's capacity to provide the virtual course,
the provider shall use a random draw system, subject to the need to abide by state and
federal antidiscrimination laws and court orders. A primary district that is also a
provider shall determine whether or not it has the capacity to accept applications for
enrollment from nonresident applicants in virtual courses and may use that limit as
the reason for refusal to enroll a nonresident applicant.
(5) A primary district may not establish additional requirements beyond those
specified in this subsection that would prohibit a pupil from taking a virtual course.
A pupil's primary district may deny the pupil enrollment in an online course if any of
the following apply, as determined by the district:
(a) The pupil is enrolled in any of grades K to 5.
(b) The pupil has previously gained the credits that would be provided from the
completion of the virtual course.
(c) The virtual course is not capable of generating academic credit.
(d) The virtual course is inconsistent with the remaining graduation requirements
or career interests of the pupil.
(e) The pupil has not completed the prerequisite coursework for the requested
virtual course or has not demonstrated proficiency in the prerequisite course content.
(f) The pupil has failed a previous virtual course in the same subject during the
2 most recent academic years.
(g) The virtual course is of insufficient quality or rigor. A primary district
that denies a pupil enrollment request for this reason shall enroll the pupil in a
virtual course in the same or a similar subject that the primary district determines
is of acceptable rigor and quality.
(h) The cost of the virtual course exceeds the amount identified in subsection
(9), (10), unless the pupil or the pupil's parent or legal guardian agrees to pay
the
cost that exceeds this amount.
(i) The request for a virtual course enrollment did not occur within the same
timelines established by the primary district for enrollment and schedule changes for
regular courses.
(j) The request for a virtual course enrollment was not made in the academic
term, semester, trimester, or summer preceding the enrollment. This subdivision does
not apply to a request made by a pupil who is newly enrolled in the primary district.
(6) If a pupil is denied enrollment in a virtual course by the pupil's primary
district, the primary district shall provide written notification to the pupil of the
denial, the reason or reasons for the denial pursuant to subsection (5), and a
description of the appeal process. The pupil may appeal the denial by submitting a
letter to the superintendent of the intermediate district in which the pupil's primary
district is located. The letter of appeal shall include the reason provided by the
primary district for not enrolling the pupil and the reason why the pupil is claiming
that the enrollment should be approved. The intermediate district superintendent or
designee shall respond to the appeal within 5 days after it is received. If the
intermediate district superintendent or designee determines that the denial of
enrollment does not meet 1 or more of the reasons specified in subsection (5), the
primary district shall enroll the pupil in the virtual course.
(7) To provide a virtual course to an eligible pupil under this section, a
provider shall do all of the following:
(a) Ensure that the virtual course has been published in the pupil's primary
district's catalog of board-approved courses or published in the statewide catalog of
virtual courses maintained by the Michigan Virtual University.
(b) Assign to each pupil a teacher of record and provide the primary district
with the personnel identification code assigned by the center for the teacher of
record. If the provider is a community college, the virtual course must be taught by
an instructor employed by or contracted through the providing community college.
(c) Offer the virtual course on an open entry and exit method, or aligned to a
semester, trimester, or accelerated academic term format.
(d) If the virtual course is offered to eligible pupils in more than 1 district,
the following additional requirements must also be met:
(i) Provide the Michigan Virtual University with a course syllabus that meets the
definition under subsection (14)(g) in a form and manner prescribed by the Michigan
Virtual University for inclusion in a statewide catalog of virtual courses.
(ii) Not later than October 1 of each fiscal year, provide the Michigan Virtual
University with an aggregated count of enrollments for each virtual course the
provider delivered to pupils pursuant to this section during the immediately preceding
school year, and the number of enrollments in which the pupil earned 60% or more of
the total course points for each virtual course.
(8) To provide an online course under this section, a community college shall
ensure that each online course it provides under this section generates postsecondary
credit.
(9) For any virtual course a pupil enrolls in under this section, the pupil's
primary district must assign to the pupil a mentor and shall supply the provider with
the mentor's contact information.
(10) For a pupil enrolled in 1 or more virtual courses, the primary district
shall use foundation allowance or per-pupil funds calculated under section 20 to pay
for the expenses associated with the virtual course or courses. A primary district is
not required to pay toward the cost of a virtual course an amount that exceeds 6.67%
of the minimum foundation allowance for the current fiscal year as calculated under
section 20.
(11) A virtual learning pupil shall have the same rights and access to technology
in his or her primary district's school facilities as all other pupils enrolled in the
pupil's primary district. The department shall establish standards for hardware,
software, and Internet access for pupils who are enrolled in more than 2 virtual
courses in an academic term, semester, or trimester taken at a location other than a
school facility.
(12) If a pupil successfully completes a virtual course, as determined by the
pupil's primary district, the pupil's primary district shall grant appropriate
academic credit for completion of the course and shall count that credit toward
completion of graduation and subject area requirements. A pupil's school record and
transcript shall identify the virtual course title as it appears in the virtual course
syllabus.
(13) The enrollment of a pupil in 1 or more virtual courses shall not result in a
pupil being counted as more than 1.0 full-time equivalent pupils under this article.
The minimum requirements to count the pupil in membership are those established by the
pupil accounting manual as it was in effect for the 2015-2016 school year or as
subsequently amended by the department if the department notifies the legislature
about the proposed amendment at least 60 days before the amendment becomes effective.
(14) As used in this section:
(a) "Instructor" means an individual who is employed by or contracted through a
community college.
(b) "Mentor" means a professional employee of the primary district who monitors
the pupil's progress, ensures the pupil has access to needed technology, is available
for assistance, and ensures access to the teacher of record. A mentor may also serve
as the teacher of record if the primary district is the provider for the virtual
course and the mentor meets the requirements under subdivision (e).
(c) "Primary district" means the district that enrolls the pupil and reports the
pupil for pupil membership purposes.
(d) "Provider" means the district, intermediate district, or community college
that the primary district pays to provide the virtual course or the Michigan Virtual
University if it is providing the virtual course.
(e) "Teacher of record" means a teacher who meets all of the following:
(i) Holds a valid Michigan teaching certificate or a teaching permit recognized
by the department.
(ii) If applicable, is endorsed in the subject area and grade of the virtual
course.
(iii) Is responsible for providing instruction, determining instructional methods
for each pupil, diagnosing learning needs, assessing pupil learning, prescribing
intervention strategies and modifying lessons, reporting outcomes, and evaluating the
effects of instruction and support strategies.
(iv) Has a personnel identification code provided by the center.
(v) If the provider is a community college, is an instructor employed by or
contracted through the providing community college.
(f) "Virtual course" means a course of study that is capable of generating a
credit or a grade and that is provided in an interactive learning environment where
the majority of the curriculum is delivered using the Internet and in which pupils may
be separated from their instructor or teacher of record by time or location, or both.
(g) "Virtual course syllabus" means a document that includes all of the
following:
(i) An alignment document detailing how the course meets applicable state
standards or, if the state does not have state standards, nationally recognized
standards.
(ii) The virtual course content outline.
(iii) The virtual course required assessments.
(iv) The virtual course prerequisites.
(v) Expectations for actual instructor or teacher of record contact time with the
virtual learning pupil and other communications between a pupil and the instructor or
teacher of record.
(vi) Academic support available to the virtual learning pupil.
(vii) The virtual course learning outcomes and objectives.
(viii) The name of the institution or organization providing the virtual content.
(ix) The name of the institution or organization providing the instructor or
teacher of record.
(x) The course titles assigned by the provider and the course titles and course
codes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) school codes for the
exchange of data (SCED).
(xi) The number of eligible pupils that will be accepted by the provider in the
virtual course. A primary district that is also the provider may limit the enrollment
to those pupils enrolled in the primary district.
(xii) The results of the virtual course quality review using the guidelines and
model review process published by the Michigan Virtual University.
(h) "Virtual learning pupil" means a pupil enrolled in 1 or more virtual courses.
Sec. 21h. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated
$6,000,000.00 $8,000,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for assisting districts assigned
by the superintendent to participate in a partnership to improve student achievement.
The purpose of the partnership is to identify district needs, develop intervention
plans, and partner with public, private, and nonprofit organizations to coordinate
resources and improve student achievement. Assignment of a district to a partnership
is at the sole discretion of the superintendent.
(2) A district assigned to a partnership by the superintendent is eligible for
funding under this section if the district includes at least 1 school that has been
rated with a grade of "F", or comparable performance rating, in the most recent state
accountability system rating, that is not under the supervision of the state school
reform/redesign office, and that does all of the following:
(a) Completes a comprehensive needs evaluation in collaboration with an
intermediate school district, community members, education organizations, and
postsecondary institutions, as applicable and approved by the superintendent, within
90 days of assignment to the partnership described in this section. The comprehensive
needs evaluation shall include at least all of the following:
(i) A review of the district's implementation and utilization of a multi-tiered
system of supports to ensure that it is used to appropriately inform instruction.
(ii) A review of the district and school building leadership and educator
capacity to substantially improve student outcomes.
(iii) A review of classroom, instructional, and operational practices and
curriculum to ensure alignment with research-based instructional practices and state
curriculum standards.
(b) Develops an intervention plan that has been approved by the superintendent
and that addresses the needs identified in the comprehensive needs evaluation
completed under subdivision (a). The intervention plan shall include at least all of
the following:
(i) Specific actions that will be taken by the district and each of its partners
to improve student achievement.
(ii) Specific measurable benchmarks that will be met within 18 months to improve
student achievement and identification of expected student achievement outcomes to be
attained within 3 years after assignment to the partnership.
(3) Upon approval of the intervention plan developed under subsection (2), the
department shall assign a team of individuals with expertise in comprehensive school
and district reform to partner with the district, the intermediate district, community
organizations, education organizations, and postsecondary institutions identified in
the intervention plan to review the district's use of existing financial resources to
ensure that those resources are being used as efficiently and effectively as possible
to improve student academic achievement.
(4) Funds allocated under this section may be used to pay for district
expenditures approved by the superintendent to improve student achievement. Funds may
be used for professional development for teachers or district or school leadership,
increased instructional time, teacher mentors, or other expenditures that directly
impact student achievement and cannot be paid from existing district financial
resources. An eligible district shall not receive funds under this section for more
than 3 years. Notwithstanding section 17b, payments to eligible districts under this
section shall be paid on a schedule determined by the department.
(5) The department shall annually report to the legislature on the activities
funded under this section and how those activities impacted student achievement in
eligible districts that received funds under this section.
Sec. 22a. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $5,207,000,000.00 for
2016-2017 and there is allocated
an amount not to
exceed $5,181,800,000.00 $5,048,000,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for payments to
districts and qualifying public school academies to guarantee each district and
qualifying public school academy an amount equal to its 1994-95 total state and local
per pupil revenue for school operating purposes under section 11 of article IX of the
state constitution of 1963. Pursuant to section 11 of article IX of the state
constitution of 1963, this guarantee does not apply to a district in a year in which
the district levies a millage rate for school district operating purposes less than it
levied in 1994. However, subsection (2) applies to calculating the payments under this
section. Funds allocated under this section that are not expended in the state fiscal
year for which they were allocated, as determined by the department, may be used to
supplement the allocations under sections 22b, 23F, and 51c in order to fully fund
those calculated allocations for the same fiscal year.
(2) To ensure that a district receives an amount equal to the district's 1994-95
total state and local per pupil revenue for school operating purposes, there is
allocated to each district a state portion of the district's 1994-95 foundation
allowance in an amount calculated as follows:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the state portion of a
district's 1994-95 foundation allowance is an amount equal to the district's 1994-95
foundation allowance or $6,500.00, whichever is less, minus the difference between the
sum of the product of the taxable value per membership pupil of all property in the
district that is nonexempt property times the district's certified mills and, for a
district with certified mills exceeding 12, the product of the taxable value per
membership pupil of property in the district that is commercial personal property
times the certified mills minus 12 mills and the quotient of the ad valorem property
tax revenue of the district captured under tax increment financing acts divided by the
district's membership. For a district that has a millage reduction required under
section 31 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, the state portion of the
district's foundation allowance shall be calculated as if that reduction did not
occur. For a receiving district, if school operating taxes are to be levied on behalf
of a dissolved district that has been attached in whole or in part to the receiving
district to satisfy debt obligations of the dissolved district under section 12 of the
revised school code, MCL 380.12, taxable value per membership pupil of all property in
the receiving district that is nonexempt property and taxable value per membership
pupil of property in the receiving district that is commercial personal property do
not include property within the geographic area of the dissolved district; ad valorem
property tax revenue of the receiving district captured under tax increment financing
acts does not include ad valorem property tax revenue captured within the geographic
boundaries of the dissolved district under tax increment financing acts; and certified
mills do not include the certified mills of the dissolved district. For a community
district, the allocation as otherwise calculated under this section shall be reduced
by an amount equal to the amount of local school operating tax revenue that would
otherwise be due to the community district if not for the operation of section 386 of
the revised school code, MCL 380.386, and the amount of this reduction shall be offset
by the increase in funding under section 22b(2).
(b) For a district that had a 1994-95 foundation allowance greater than
$6,500.00, the state payment under this subsection shall be the sum of the amount
calculated under subdivision (a) plus the amount calculated under this subdivision.
The amount calculated under this subdivision shall be equal to the difference between
the district's 1994-95 foundation allowance minus $6,500.00 and the current year hold
harmless school operating taxes per pupil. If the result of the calculation under
subdivision (a) is negative, the negative amount shall be an offset against any state
payment calculated under this subdivision. If the result of a calculation under this
subdivision is negative, there shall not be a state payment or a deduction under this
subdivision. The taxable values per membership pupil used in the calculations under
this subdivision are as adjusted by ad valorem property tax revenue captured under tax
increment financing acts divided by the district's membership. For a receiving
district, if school operating taxes are to be levied on behalf of a dissolved district
that has been attached in whole or in part to the receiving district to satisfy debt
obligations of the dissolved district under section 12 of the revised school code, MCL
380.12, ad valorem property tax revenue captured under tax increment financing acts do
not include ad valorem property tax revenue captured within the geographic boundaries
of the dissolved district under tax increment financing acts.
(3) Beginning in 2003-2004, for pupils in membership in a qualifying public
school academy, there is allocated under this section to the authorizing body that is
the fiscal agent for the qualifying public school academy for forwarding to the
qualifying public school academy an amount equal to the 1994-95 per pupil payment to
the qualifying public school academy under section 20.
(4) A district or qualifying public school academy may use funds allocated under
this section in conjunction with any federal funds for which the district or
qualifying public school academy otherwise would be eligible.
(5) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for a district that is
formed or reconfigured after June 1, 2000 by consolidation of 2 or more districts or
by annexation, the resulting district's 1994-95 foundation allowance under this
section beginning after the effective date of the consolidation or annexation shall be
the average of the 1994-95 foundation allowances of each of the original or affected
districts, calculated as provided in this section, weighted as to the percentage of
pupils in total membership in the resulting district in the state fiscal year in which
the consolidation takes place who reside in the geographic area of each of the
original districts. If an affected district's 1994-95 foundation allowance is less
than the 1994-95 basic foundation allowance, the amount of that district's 1994-95
foundation allowance shall be considered for the purpose of calculations under this
subsection to be equal to the amount of the 1994-95 basic foundation allowance. This
subsection does not apply to a receiving district unless there is a subsequent
consolidation or annexation that affects the district.
(6) Payments under this section are subject to section 25g.
(7) PAYMENTS TO DISTRICTS OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMIES SHALL NOT BE MADE UNDER THIS
SECTION FOR PUPILS ENROLLED PURSUANT TO SECTION 166B AND COUNTED IN MEMBERSHIP UNDER
SECTION 6. RATHER, THE PAYMENTS FOR SUCH PUPILS SHALL BE MADE UNDER SECTION 23F.
(8) (7) As used in this section:
(a) "1994-95 foundation allowance" means a district's 1994-95 foundation
allowance calculated and certified by the department of treasury or the superintendent
under former section 20a as enacted in 1993 PA 336 and as amended by 1994 PA 283.
(b) "Certified mills" means the lesser of 18 mills or the number of mills of
school operating taxes levied by the district in 1993-94.
(c) "Current state fiscal year" means the state fiscal year for which a
particular calculation is made.
(d) "Current year hold harmless school operating taxes per pupil" means the per
pupil revenue generated by multiplying a district's 1994-95 hold harmless millage by
the district's current year taxable value per membership pupil. For a receiving
district, if school operating taxes are to be levied on behalf of a dissolved district
that has been attached in whole or in part to the receiving district to satisfy debt
obligations of the dissolved district under section 12 of the revised school code, MCL
380.12, taxable value per membership pupil does not include the taxable value of
property within the geographic area of the dissolved district.
(e) "Dissolved district" means a district that loses its organization, has its
territory attached to 1 or more other districts, and is dissolved as provided under
section 12 of the revised school code, MCL 380.12.
(f) "Hold harmless millage" means, for a district with a 1994-95 foundation
allowance greater than $6,500.00, the number of mills by which the exemption from the
levy of school operating taxes on a homestead, qualified agricultural property,
qualified forest property, supportive housing property, industrial personal property,
commercial personal property, and property occupied by a public school academy could
be reduced as provided in section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211, and
the number of mills of school operating taxes that could be levied on all property as
provided in section 1211(2) of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211, as certified by
the department of treasury for the 1994 tax year. For a receiving district, if school
operating taxes are to be levied on behalf of a dissolved district that has been
attached in whole or in part to the receiving district to satisfy debt obligations of
the dissolved district under section 12 of the revised school code, MCL 380.12, school
operating taxes do not include school operating taxes levied within the geographic
area of the dissolved district.
(g) "Homestead", "qualified agricultural property", "qualified forest property",
"supportive housing property", "industrial personal property", and "commercial
personal property" mean those terms as defined in section 1211 of the revised school
code, MCL 380.1211.
(h) "Membership" means the definition of that term under section 6 as in effect
for the particular fiscal year for which a particular calculation is made.
(i) "Nonexempt property" means property that is not a principal residence,
qualified agricultural property, qualified forest property, supportive housing
property, industrial personal property, commercial personal property, or property
occupied by a public school academy.
(j) "Qualifying public school academy" means a public school academy that was in
operation in the 1994-95 school year and is in operation in the current state fiscal
year.
(k) "Receiving district" means a district to which all or part of the territory
of a dissolved district is attached under section 12 of the revised school code, MCL
380.12.
(l) "School operating taxes" means local ad valorem property taxes levied under
section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211, and retained for school
operating purposes as defined in section 20.
(m) "Tax increment financing acts" means 1975 PA 197, MCL 125.1651 to 125.1681,
the tax increment finance authority act, 1980 PA 450, MCL 125.1801 to 125.1830, the
local development financing act, 1986 PA 281, MCL 125.2151 to 125.2174, the brownfield
redevelopment financing act, 1996 PA 381, MCL 125.2651 to 125.2672, or the corridor
improvement authority act, 2005 PA 280, MCL 125.2871 to 125.2899.
(n) "Taxable value per membership pupil" means each of the following divided by
the district's membership:
(i) For the number of mills by which the exemption from the levy of school
operating taxes on a homestead, qualified agricultural property, qualified forest
property, supportive housing property, industrial personal property, commercial
personal property, and property occupied by a public school academy may be reduced as
provided in section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211, the taxable value
of homestead, qualified agricultural property, qualified forest property, supportive
housing property, industrial personal property, commercial personal property, and
property occupied by a public school academy for the calendar year ending in the
current state fiscal year. For a receiving district, if school operating taxes are to
be levied on behalf of a dissolved district that has been attached in whole or in part
to the receiving district to satisfy debt obligations of the dissolved district under
section 12 of the revised school code, MCL 380.12, mills do not include mills within
the geographic area of the dissolved district.
(ii) For the number of mills of school operating taxes that may be levied on all
property as provided in section 1211(2) of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211, the
taxable value of all property for the calendar year ending in the current state fiscal
year. For a receiving district, if school operating taxes are to be levied on behalf
of a dissolved district that has been attached in whole or in part to the receiving
district to satisfy debt obligations of the dissolved district under section 12 of the
revised school code, MCL 380.12, school operating taxes do not include school
operating taxes levied within the geographic area of the dissolved district.
Sec. 22b. (1) For discretionary nonmandated payments to districts under this
section, there is allocated for 2016-2017 an amount not to exceed $3,841,000,000.00
from the state school aid fund and general fund
appropriations in section 11 and an
amount not to exceed $72,000,000.00 from the
community district education trust fund
appropriation in section 11, and there is
allocated for 2017-2018
2018-2019 an amount
not to exceed $3,965,500,000.00 $4,156,600,000.00 from the state school
aid fund and
general fund appropriations in section 11 and an amount not to exceed $72,000,000.00
from the community district education trust fund appropriation in section 11. Except
for money allocated from the community district trust fund, money allocated under this
section that is not expended in the state fiscal year for which it was allocated, as
determined by the department, may be used to supplement the allocations under sections
22a, 23F, and 51c in order to fully fund those calculated allocations for the same
fiscal year.
(2) Subject to subsection (3) and section 296, the allocation to a district under
this section shall be an amount equal to the sum of the amounts calculated under
sections 20, 20m, 51a(2), 51a(3), and 51a(11), minus the sum of the allocations to the
district under sections 22a and 51c. For a community district, the allocation as
otherwise calculated under this section shall be increased by an amount equal to the
amount of local school operating tax revenue that would otherwise be due to the
community district if not for the operation of section 386 of the revised school code,
MCL 380.386, and this increase shall be paid from the community district education
trust fund allocation in subsection (1) in order to offset the absence of local school
operating revenue in a community district in the funding of the state portion of the
foundation allowance under section 20(4).
(3) In order to receive an allocation under subsection (1), each district shall
do all of the following:
(a) Comply with section 1280b of the revised school code, MCL 380.1280b.
(b) Comply with sections 1278a and 1278b of the revised school code, MCL
380.1278a and 380.1278b.
(c) Furnish data and other information required by state and federal law to the
center and the department in the form and manner specified by the center or the
department, as applicable.
(d) Comply with section 1230g of the revised school code, MCL 380.1230g.
(e) Comply with section 21f.
(4) Districts are encouraged to use funds allocated under this section for the
purchase and support of payroll, human resources, and other business function software
that is compatible with that of the intermediate district in which the district is
located and with other districts located within that intermediate district.
(5) From the allocation in subsection (1), the department shall pay up to
$1,000,000.00 in litigation costs incurred by this state related to commercial or
industrial property tax appeals, including, but not limited to, appeals of
classification, that impact revenues dedicated to the state school aid fund.
(6) From the allocation in subsection (1), the department shall pay up to
$1,000,000.00 in litigation costs incurred by this state associated with lawsuits
filed by 1 or more districts or intermediate districts against this state. If the
allocation under this section is insufficient to fully fund all payments required
under this section, the payments under this subsection shall be made in full before
any proration of remaining payments under this section.
(7) It is the intent of the legislature that all constitutional obligations of
this state have been fully funded under sections 22a, 31d, 51a, 51c, and 152a. If a
claim is made by an entity receiving funds under this article that challenges the
legislative determination of the adequacy of this funding or alleges that there exists
an unfunded constitutional requirement, the state budget director may escrow or
allocate from the discretionary funds for nonmandated payments under this section the
amount as may be necessary to satisfy the claim before making any payments to
districts under subsection (2). If funds are escrowed, the escrowed funds are a work
project appropriation and the funds are carried forward into the following fiscal
year. The purpose of the work project is to provide for any payments that may be
awarded to districts as a result of litigation. The work project shall be completed
upon resolution of the litigation.
(8) If the local claims review board or a court of competent jurisdiction makes a
final determination that this state is in violation of section 29 of article IX of the
state constitution of 1963 regarding state payments to districts, the state budget
director shall use work project funds under subsection (7) or allocate from the
discretionary funds for nonmandated payments under this section the amount as may be
necessary to satisfy the amount owed to districts before making any payments to
districts under subsection (2).
(9) If a claim is made in court that challenges the legislative determination of
the adequacy of funding for this state's constitutional obligations or alleges that
there exists an unfunded constitutional requirement, any interested party may seek an
expedited review of the claim by the local claims review board. If the claim exceeds
$10,000,000.00, this state may remove the action to the court of appeals, and the
court of appeals shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction over the claim.
(10) If payments resulting from a final determination by the local claims review
board or a court of competent jurisdiction that there has been a violation of section
29 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 exceed the amount allocated for
discretionary nonmandated payments under this section, the legislature shall provide
for adequate funding for this state's constitutional obligations at its next
legislative session.
(11) If a lawsuit challenging payments made to districts related to costs
reimbursed by federal title XIX Medicaid funds is filed against this state, then, for
the purpose of addressing potential liability under such a lawsuit, the state budget
director may place funds allocated under this section in escrow or allocate money from
the funds otherwise allocated under this section, up to a maximum of 50% of the amount
allocated in subsection (1). If funds are placed in escrow under this subsection,
those funds are a work project appropriation and the funds are carried forward into
the following fiscal year. The purpose of the work project is to provide for any
payments that may be awarded to districts as a result of the litigation. The work
project shall be completed upon resolution of the litigation. In addition, this state
reserves the right to terminate future federal title XIX Medicaid reimbursement
payments to districts if the amount or allocation of reimbursed funds is challenged in
the lawsuit. As used in this subsection, "title XIX" means title XIX of the social
security act, 42 USC 1396 to 1396v.
(12) PAYMENTS TO DISTRICTS OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMIES SHALL NOT BE MADE UNDER
THIS SECTION FOR PUPILS ENROLLED PURSUANT TO SECTION 166B AND COUNTED IN MEMBERSHIP
UNDER SECTION 6. RATHER, THE PAYMENTS FOR SUCH PUPILS SHALL BE MADE UNDER SECTION 23F.
Sec. 22d. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, an amount not to exceed
$5,000,000.00 is allocated for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for supplemental payments to rural
districts under this section.
(2) From the allocation under subsection
(1), there is allocated for 2017-2018
2018-2019 an amount not to exceed $957,300.00 for payments under this subsection to
districts that meet all of the following:
(a) Operates grades K to 12.
(b) Has fewer than 250 pupils in membership.
(c) Each school building operated by the district meets at least 1 of the
following:
(i) Is located in the Upper Peninsula at least 30 miles from any other public
school building.
(ii) Is located on an island that is not accessible by bridge.
(3) The amount of the additional funding to each eligible district under
subsection (2) shall be determined under a spending plan developed as provided in this
subsection and approved by the superintendent of public instruction. The spending plan
shall be developed cooperatively by the intermediate superintendents of each
intermediate district in which an eligible district is located. The intermediate
superintendents shall review the financial situation of each eligible district,
determine the minimum essential financial needs of each eligible district, and develop
and agree on a spending plan that distributes the available funding under subsection
(2) to the eligible districts based on those financial needs. The intermediate
superintendents shall submit the spending plan to the superintendent of public
instruction for approval. Upon approval by the superintendent of public instruction,
the amounts specified for each eligible district under the spending plan are allocated
under subsection (2) and shall be paid to the eligible districts in the same manner as
payments under section 22b.
(4) Subject to subsection (6), from the allocation in subsection (1), there is
allocated for 2017-2018 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed $4,042,700.00 for payments
under this subsection to districts that have 7.3 or fewer pupils per square mile as
determined by the department.
(5) The funds allocated under subsection (4) shall be allocated on an equal per-
pupil basis.
(6) A district receiving funds allocated under subsection (2) is not eligible for
funding allocated under subsection (4).
Sec. 22m. (1) From the appropriations in
section 11, there is allocated for 2017-
2018 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed
$2,200,000.00 for supporting the integration of
local data systems into the Michigan data hub network based on common standards and
applications that are in compliance with section 19(6).
(2) An entity that is the fiscal agent for no more than 5 consortia of
intermediate districts that previously received funding from the technology readiness
infrastructure grant under former section 22i for the purpose of establishing regional
data hubs that are part of the Michigan data hub network is eligible for funding under
this section.
(3) The center shall work with an advisory committee composed of representatives
from intermediate districts within each of the data hub regions to coordinate the
activities of the Michigan data hub network.
(4) The center, in collaboration with the Michigan data hub network, shall
determine the amount of funds distributed under this section to each participating
regional data hub within the network, based upon a competitive grant process. Entities
receiving funding under this section shall represent geographically diverse areas in
this state.
(5) Notwithstanding section 17b, payments under this section shall be made on a
schedule determined by the center.
(6) To receive funding under this section, a regional data hub must have a
governance model that ensures local control of data, data security, and student
privacy issues. The integration of data within each of the regional data hubs shall
provide for the actionable use of data by districts and intermediate districts through
common reports and dashboards and for efficiently providing information to meet state
and federal reporting purposes.
(7) Participation in a data hub region in the Michigan data hub network under
this section is voluntary and is not required.
(8) Entities receiving funding under this section shall use the funds for all of
the following:
(a) Creating an infrastructure that effectively manages the movement of data
between data systems used by intermediate districts, districts, and other educational
organizations in Michigan based on common data standards to improve student
achievement.
(b) Utilizing the infrastructure to put in place commonly needed integrations,
reducing cost and effort to do that work while increasing data accuracy and usability.
(c) Promoting the use of a more common set of applications by promoting systems
that integrate with the Michigan data hub network.
(d) Promoting 100% district adoption of
the Michigan data hub network. by
September 30, 2018.
(e) Ensuring local control of data, data security, and student data privacy.
(f) Utilizing the infrastructure to promote the actionable use of data through
common reports and dashboards that are consistent statewide.
(g) Creating a governance model to facilitate sustainable operations of the
infrastructure in the future, including administration, legal agreements,
documentation, staffing, hosting, and funding.
(h) Evaluating future data initiatives at all levels to determine whether the
initiatives can be enhanced by using the standardized environment in the Michigan data
hub network.
(9) Not later than January 1, 2018, OF EACH FISCAL YEAR, the center shall prepare
a summary report of information provided by each entity that received funds under this
section that includes measurable outcomes based on the objectives described under this
section. The report shall include a summary of compiled data from each entity to
provide a means to evaluate the effectiveness of the project. The center shall submit
the report to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on state school aid
and to the house and senate fiscal agencies.
Sec. 22n. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $11,000,000.00 for 2017 2018 2018-2019 for additional payments to
districts for the higher instructional costs of educating high school pupils.
(2) A district is eligible for a payment under this section if it educates pupils
in 1 or more of grades 9 to 12.
(3) The payment to each eligible district under this section shall be an amount
equal to $25.00 multiplied by the district's total pupil membership in grades 9 to 12
as calculated under section 6 for the current fiscal year. If the allocation under
subsection (1) is insufficient to fully fund payments under this subsection, the
department shall prorate payments under this section on an equal per-pupil basis.
SEC. 23F. (1) FROM THE APPROPRIATION IN SECTION 11, THERE IS ALLOCATED FOR 2018-
2019 AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $64,100,000.00 FOR STATE FOUNDATION ALLOWANCE PAYMENTS AS
CALCULATED UNDER SECTION 20 TO DISTRICTS FOR NONPUBLIC PART-TIME PUPILS ENROLLED IN
DISTRICTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 166B AND COUNTED IN MEMBERSHIP UNDER SECTION 6.
MONEY ALLOCATED UNDER THIS SECTION THAT IS NOT EXPENDED IN THE STATE FISCAL YEAR FOR
WHICH IT WAS ALLOCATED, AS DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT, MAY BE USED TO SUPPLEMENT THE
ALLOCATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 22A, 22B, AND 51C IN ORDER TO FULLY FUND THOSE CALCULATED
ALLOCATIONS FOR THE SAME FISCAL YEAR.
(2) PAYMENTS TO DISTRICTS UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL BE EQUAL TO THE AMOUNT THAT
WOULD OTHERWISE BE PAID IN SECTION 22A AND SECTION 22B IF THE DISTRICT’S MEMBERSHIP
USED TO CALCULATE THOSE PAYMENTS WERE EQUAL TO THE NUMBER OF NONPUBLIC PUPILS IN
MEMBERSHIP, AS DEFINED IN THIS SECTION.
(3) IN ORDER TO RECEIVE AN ALLOCATION UNDER SUBSECTION (1), DISTRICTS SHALL DO
ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
(A) THE DISTRICT SHALL ENSURE THAT ALL INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE CONTACT WITH
STUDENTS AS PART OF A COURSE PROVIDING SERVICES TO PUPILS ENROLLED IN THE DISTRICT
UNDER SECTION 166B AND COUNTED IN MEMBERSHIP UNDER SECTION 6 HAVE NOT BEEN CONVICTED
OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT. THE DISTRICT SHALL ENSURE THAT ANY PERSON WHO PROVIDES DIRECT OR
INDIRECT CURRICULAR OFFERINGS TO PUPILS AS PART OF AN OPTIONAL OR REQUIRED PORTION OF
A COURSE PROVIDING SERVICES TO PUPILS ENROLLED IN THE DISTRICT UNDER SECTION 166B AND
COUNTED IN MEMBERSHIP UNDER SECTION 6, OR WHO HAS UNSUPERVISED CONTACT WITH PUPILS AS
PART OF SUCH COURSE, RECEIVE THE SAME CRIMINAL HISTORY AND CRIMINAL RECORDS CHECKS AS
EMPLOYEES OF THE DISTRICT, AS REQUIRED IN SECTION 1230, 1230A, 1230B, 1230C, 1230D,
1230E, AND 1230G OF THE REVISED SCHOOL CODE, 380.1230, 380.1230A, 380.1230B,
380.1230C, 380.1230D, 380.1230E, AND 380.1230G.
(B) IF A COURSE PROVIDING SERVICES TO PUPILS ENROLLED IN THE DISTRICT UNDER
SECTION 166B AND COUNTED IN MEMBERSHIP UNDER SECTION 6 HAS AN ASSOCIATED OPTIONAL
EXPERIENCE, THE DISTRICT SHALL ENSURE THAT THE OPTIONAL EXPERIENCE IS OFFERED ON A
SCHEDULE THAT WOULD MAKE IT FULLY AVAILABLE TO THE MAJORITY OF FULL-TIME PUPILS IN
MEMBERSHIP IN THE DISTRICT IN THE SAME GRADE LEVEL OR AGE GROUP AS STUDENTS
PARTICIPATING IN THE COURSE AND ENROLLING IN THE DISTRICT UNDER SECTION 166B.
(C) THE DISTRICT SHALL PROVIDE THE DEPARTMENT, IN A FORM AND MANNER PRESCRIBED BY
THE DEPARTMENT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CENTER, INFORMATION NECESSARY TO QUANTIFY THE
FOLLOWING:
(i) A COMPLETE LISTING OF ALL COURSES IN WHICH STUDENTS REPORTED FOR MEMBERSHIP
IN THE DISTRICT HAVE BEEN SERVED.
(ii) COURSE ENROLLMENTS BY EACH PARTICIPANT USING LOCAL CODING AND THE SCHOOL
CODES FOR THE EXCHANGE OF DATA (SCED).
(iii) IDENTIFICATION OF THE COURSE TEACHER OR MENTOR.
(iv) OUTCOMES FOR EACH STUDENT IN EACH COURSE.
(4) AS USED IN THIS SECTION "NONPUBLIC PUPILS IN MEMBERSHIP" MEANS THE NUMBER OF
FULL-TIME EQUATED NONPUBLIC SCHOOL PUPILS ENROLLED IN THE DISTRICT IN ACCORDANCE WITH
SECTION 166B AND COUNTED IN MEMBERSHIP UNDER SECTION 6. THIS NUMBER SHALL NOT EXCEED
AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO 5% OF THE AMOUNT CALCULATED BY SUBSTRACTING THE DISTRICT’S
MEMBERSHIP UNDER SECTION 6 BY THE NUMBER OF FULL-TIME EQUATED NONPUBLIC SCHOOL PUPILS
ENROLLED IN THE DISTRICT IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 166B AND COUNTED IN MEMBERSHIP
UNDER SECTION 6.
Sec. 24. (1) From the appropriation in
section 11, there is allocated for 2017-
2018 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed
$8,000,000.00 for payments to the educating
district or intermediate district for educating pupils assigned by a court or the
department of health and human services to reside in or to attend a juvenile detention
facility or child caring institution licensed by the department of health and human
services and approved by the department to provide an on-grounds education program.
The amount of the payment under this section to a district or intermediate district
shall be calculated as prescribed under subsection (2).
(2) The total amount allocated under this section shall be allocated by paying to
the educating district or intermediate district an amount equal to the lesser of the
district's or intermediate district's added cost or the department's approved per-
pupil allocation for the district or intermediate district. For the purposes of this
subsection:
(a) "Added cost" means 100% of the added cost each fiscal year for educating all
pupils assigned by a court or the department of health and human services to reside in
or to attend a juvenile detention facility or child caring institution licensed by the
department of health and human services or the department of licensing and regulatory
affairs and approved by the department to provide an on-grounds education program.
Added cost shall be computed by deducting all other revenue received under this
article for pupils described in this section from total costs, as approved by the
department, in whole or in part, for educating those pupils in the on-grounds
education program or in a program approved by the department that is located on
property adjacent to a juvenile detention facility or child caring institution. Costs
reimbursed by federal funds are not included.
(b) "Department's approved per-pupil allocation" for a district or intermediate
district shall be determined by dividing the total amount allocated under this section
for a fiscal year by the full-time equated membership total for all pupils approved by
the department to be funded under this section for that fiscal year for the district
or intermediate district.
(3) A district or intermediate district educating pupils described in this
section at a residential child caring institution may operate, and receive funding
under this section for, a department-approved on-grounds educational program for those
pupils that is longer than 181 days, but not longer than 233 days, if the child caring
institution was licensed as a child caring institution and offered in 1991-92 an on-
grounds educational program that was longer than 181 days but not longer than 233 days
and that was operated by a district or intermediate district.
(4) Special education pupils funded under section 53a shall not be funded under
this section.
Sec. 24a. From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount not
to exceed $1,339,000.00 $1,355,700.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for payments to
intermediate districts for pupils who are placed in juvenile justice service
facilities operated by the department of health and human services. Each intermediate
district shall receive an amount equal to the state share of those costs that are
clearly and directly attributable to the educational programs for pupils placed in
facilities described in this section that are located within the intermediate
district's boundaries. The intermediate districts receiving payments under this
section shall cooperate with the department of health and human services to ensure
that all funding allocated under this section is utilized by the intermediate district
and department of health and human services for educational programs for pupils
described in this section. Pupils described in this section are not eligible to be
funded under section 24. However, a program responsibility or other fiscal
responsibility associated with these pupils shall not be transferred from the
department of health and human services to a district or intermediate district unless
the district or intermediate district consents to the transfer.
Sec. 24c. From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount not
to exceed $1,528,400.00 $1,545,400.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for payments to
districts for pupils who are enrolled in a nationally administered community-based
education and youth mentoring program, known as the youth challenge program, that is
administered by the department of military and veterans affairs. Both of the following
apply to a district receiving payments under this section:
(a) The district shall contract with the department of military and veterans
affairs to ensure that all funding allocated under this section is utilized by the
district and the department of military and veterans affairs for the youth challenge
program.
(b) The district may retain for its administrative expenses an amount not to
exceed 3% of the amount of the payment the district receives under this section.
Sec. 25e. (1) The pupil membership transfer application and pupil transfer
process administered by the center under this section shall be used for processing
pupil transfers.
(2) If a pupil counted in membership for the pupil membership count day transfers
from a district or intermediate district to enroll in another district or intermediate
district after the pupil membership count day and before the supplemental count day
and, due to the pupil's enrollment and attendance status as of the pupil membership
count day, the pupil was not counted in membership in the educating district or
intermediate district, the educating district or intermediate district may report the
enrollment and attendance information to the center through the pupil transfer process
within 30 days after the transfer or within 30 days after the pupil membership count
certification date, whichever is later. Pupil transfers may be submitted no earlier
than the first day after the certification deadline for the pupil membership count day
and before the supplemental count day. Upon receipt of the transfer information under
this subsection indicating that a pupil has enrolled and is in attendance in an
educating district or intermediate district as described in this subsection, the pupil
transfer process shall do the following:
(a) Notify the district in which the pupil was previously enrolled.
(b) Notify both the pupil auditing staff of the intermediate district in which
the educating district is located and the pupil auditing staff of the intermediate
district in which the district that previously enrolled the pupil is located. The
pupil auditing staff shall investigate a representative sample based on required audit
sample sizes in the pupil auditing manual and may deny the pupil membership transfer.
(c) Aggregate the districtwide changes and notify the department for use in
adjusting the state aid payment system.
(3) The department shall do all of the following:
(a) Adjust the membership calculation for each district or intermediate district
in which the pupil was previously counted in membership or that previously received an
adjustment in its membership calculation under this section due to a change in the
pupil's enrollment and attendance so that the district's or intermediate district's
membership is prorated to allow the district or intermediate district to receive for
each school day, as determined by the financial calendar furnished by the center, in
which the pupil was enrolled and in attendance in the district or intermediate
district an amount equal to 1/105 of a full-time equated membership claimed in the
fall pupil membership count. The district or intermediate district shall receive a
prorated foundation allowance in an amount equal to the product of the adjustment
under this subdivision for the district or intermediate district multiplied by the
foundation allowance or per-pupil payment as calculated under section 20 for the
district or intermediate district. The foundation allowance or per-pupil payment shall
be adjusted by the pupil's full-time equated status as affected by the membership
definition under section 6(4).
(b) Adjust the membership calculation for the educating district or intermediate
district in which the pupil is enrolled and is in attendance so that the district's or
intermediate district's membership is increased to allow the district or intermediate
district to receive an amount equal to the difference between the full-time equated
membership claimed in the fall pupil membership count and the sum of the adjustments
calculated under subdivision (a) for each district or intermediate district in which
the pupil was previously enrolled and in attendance. The educating district or
intermediate district shall receive a prorated foundation allowance in an amount equal
to the product of the adjustment under this subdivision for the educating district or
intermediate district multiplied by the per-pupil payment as calculated under section
20 for the educating district or intermediate district. The foundation allowance or
per-pupil payment shall be adjusted by the pupil's full-time equated status as
affected by the membership definition under section 6(4).
(4) The changes in calculation of state school aid required under subsection (3)
shall take effect as of the date that the pupil becomes enrolled and in attendance in
the educating district or intermediate district, and the department shall base all
subsequent payments under this article for the fiscal year to the affected districts
or intermediate districts on this recalculation of state school aid.
(5) If a pupil enrolls in an educating district or intermediate district as
described in subsection (2), the district or intermediate district in which the pupil
is counted in membership or another educating district or intermediate district that
received an adjustment in its membership calculation under subsection (3), if any, and
the educating district or intermediate district shall provide to the center and the
department all information they require to comply with this section.
(6) The portion of the full-time equated pupil membership for which a pupil is
enrolled in 1 or more online courses under section 21f that is representative of the
amount that the primary district paid in course costs to the course provider shall not
be counted or transferred under the pupil transfer process under this section.
(7) It is the intent of the legislature that the center determine the number of
pupils who did not reside in this state as of the 2018-2019 pupil membership count day
but who newly enrolled in a district or intermediate district after that pupil
membership count day and before the 2018-2019 supplemental count day. It is the intent
of the legislature that the center further determine the number of pupils who were
counted in membership for the 2018-2019 pupil membership count day but who left this
state before the 2018-2019 supplemental count day. In 2019-2020, the center shall
provide a report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on state school
aid, and to the senate and house fiscal agencies, detailing the number of pupils
transferring in from another state or transferring out from this state OUTSIDE THE
MICHIGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM AND THE NUMBER OF PUPILS TRANSFERRING OUT OF THE
MICHIGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM between the pupil membership count day and
supplemental count day as described in this
subsection. The center shall include in
the report a discussion of benefits and
obstacles to developing a pupil enrollment
process for pupils who newly enroll in a
district or intermediate district after the
pupil membership count day and before the
supplemental count day, and developing a
process for deducting pupils who were counted
on the pupil membership count day and
transfer out of this state before the
supplemental count day.
(8) As used in this section:
(a) "Educating district or intermediate district" means the district or
intermediate district in which a pupil enrolls after the pupil membership count day or
after an adjustment was made in another district's or intermediate district's
membership calculation under this section due to the pupil's enrollment and
attendance.
(b) "Pupil" means that term as defined under section 6 and also children
receiving early childhood special education programs and services.
Sec. 25f. (1) From the state school aid fund money appropriated in section 11,
there is allocated an amount not to exceed
$750,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for
payments to strict discipline academies established under sections 1311b to 1311m of
the revised school code, MCL 380.1311b to 380.1311m, as provided under this section.
(2) In order to receive funding under this section, a strict discipline academy
shall first comply with section 25e and use the pupil transfer process under that
section for changes in enrollment as prescribed under that section.
(3) The total amount allocated to a strict discipline academy under this section
is an amount equal to the lesser of the strict discipline academy's added cost or the
department's approved per-pupil allocation for the strict discipline academy. However,
the sum of the amounts received by a strict discipline academy under this section and
under section 24 shall not exceed the product of the strict discipline academy's per-
pupil allocation calculated under section 20 multiplied by the strict discipline
academy's full-time equated membership. The department shall allocate funds to strict
discipline academies under this section on a monthly basis. For the purposes of this
subsection:
(a) "Added cost" means 100% of the added cost each fiscal year for educating all
pupils enrolled and in regular daily attendance at a strict discipline academy. Added
cost shall be computed by deducting all other revenue received under this article for
pupils described in this subsection from total costs, as approved by the department,
in whole or in part, for educating those pupils in a strict discipline academy. The
department shall include all costs including, but not limited to, educational costs,
insurance, management fees, technology costs, legal fees, auditing fees, interest,
pupil accounting costs, and any other administrative costs necessary to operate the
program or to comply with statutory requirements. Costs reimbursed by federal funds
are not included.
(b) "Department's approved per-pupil allocation" for a strict discipline academy
shall be determined by dividing the total amount allocated under this subsection for a
fiscal year by the full-time equated membership total for all pupils approved by the
department to be funded under this subsection for that fiscal year for the strict
discipline academy.
(4) Special education pupils funded under section 53a shall not be funded under
this section.
(5) If the funds allocated under this section are insufficient to fully fund the
adjustments under subsection (3), payments under this section shall be prorated on an
equal per-pupil basis.
(6) Payments to districts under this section shall be made according to the
payment schedule under section 17b.
Sec. 25g. (1) From the state school aid fund money appropriated in section 11,
there is allocated an amount not to exceed
$750,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for the
purposes of this section. If the operation of the special membership counting
provisions under section 6(4)(dd) and the other membership counting provisions under
section 6(4) result in a pupil being counted as more than 1.0 FTE in a fiscal year,
then the payment made for the pupil under sections 22a and 22b shall not be based on
more than 1.0 FTE for that pupil, and that portion of the FTE that exceeds 1.0 shall
be paid under this section in an amount equal to that portion multiplied by the
educating district's foundation allowance or per-pupil payment calculated under
section 20.
(2) Special education pupils funded under section 53a shall not be funded under
this section.
(3) If the funds allocated under this section are insufficient to fully fund the
adjustments under subsection (1), payments under this section shall be prorated on an
equal per-pupil basis.
(4) Payments to districts under this section shall be made according to the
payment schedule under section 17b.
Sec. 26a. From the funds appropriated in section 11, there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $17,000,000.00 each fiscal
year for 2016-2017 and for 2017-2018
$15,000,000.00 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018-2019 to reimburse districts and intermediate
districts pursuant to section 12 of the Michigan renaissance zone act, 1996 PA 376,
MCL 125.2692, for taxes levied in 2016 and 2017 as applicable 2018. The allocations
shall be made not later than 60 days after the department of treasury certifies to the
department and to the state budget director that the department of treasury has
received all necessary information to properly determine the amounts due to each
eligible recipient.
Sec. 26b. (1) From the appropriation in
section 11, there is allocated for 2017-
2018 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed
$4,405,100.00 for payments to districts,
intermediate districts, and community college districts for the portion of the payment
in lieu of taxes obligation that is attributable to districts, intermediate districts,
and community college districts pursuant to section 2154 of the natural resources and
environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.2154.
(2) If the amount appropriated under this section is not sufficient to fully pay
obligations under this section, payments shall be prorated on an equal basis among all
eligible districts, intermediate districts, and community college districts.
Sec. 26c. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $1,500,000.00 $3,000,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 to the promise zone
fund created in subsection (3). The funds allocated under this section reflect the
amount of revenue from the collection of the state education tax captured under
section 17(2) of the Michigan promise zone authority act, 2008 PA 549, MCL 390.1677.
(2) Funds allocated to the promise zone fund under this section shall be used
solely for payments to eligible districts and intermediate districts, in accordance
with section 17(3) of the Michigan promise zone authority act, 2008 PA 549, MCL
390.1677, that have a promise zone development plan approved by the department of
treasury under section 7 of the Michigan promise zone authority act, 2008 PA 549, MCL
390.1667. Eligible districts and intermediate districts shall use payments made under
this section for reimbursement for qualified educational expenses as defined in
section 3 of the Michigan promise zone authority act, 2008 PA 549, MCL 390.1663.
(3) The promise zone fund is created as a separate account within the state
school aid fund to be used solely for the purposes of the Michigan promise zone
authority act, 2008 PA 549, MCL 390.1661 to 390.1679. All of the following apply to
the promise zone fund:
(a) The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the promise zone fund. The
state treasurer shall credit to the promise zone fund interest and earnings from fund
investments.
(b) Money in the promise zone fund at the close of a fiscal year shall remain in
the promise zone fund and shall not lapse to the general fund.
(4) Subject to subsection (2), the state treasurer may make payments from the
promise zone fund to eligible districts and intermediate districts pursuant to the
Michigan promise zone authority act, 2008 PA 549, MCL 390.1661 to 390.1679, to be used
for the purposes of a promise zone authority created under that act.
(5) Notwithstanding section 17b, payments under this section shall be paid on a
schedule determined by the department.
Sec. 31a. (1) From the state school aid fund money appropriated in section 11,
there is allocated for 2017-2018 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed $510,207,300.00 for
payments to eligible districts and eligible public school academies for the purposes
of ensuring that pupils are proficient in English language arts by the end of grade 3,
that pupils are proficient in mathematics by the end of grade 8, that pupils are
attending school regularly, that high school graduates are career and college ready,
THAT DISTRICTS IMPLEMENT WITH FIDELITY A MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM OF SUPPORTS, and for the
purposes under subsections (7) and (8).
(2) For a district that has combined state and local revenue per membership pupil
under sections 20 and 20m that is greater than the basic foundation allowance under
section 20 for the current fiscal year, the allocation under this section shall be an
amount equal to 30% of the allocation for which it would otherwise be eligible under
this section before any proration under subsection (14).
(3) For a district or public school academy to be eligible to receive funding
under this section, other than funding under subsection (7) or (8), the district or
public school academy, for grades K to 3,
12, shall comply with the
requirements under
section 1280f of the revised school code, MCL 380.1280f, and SHALL use resources to
address early literacy AND NUMERACY, and for at least grades 4 K to 8 or, if the
district or public school academy does not
operate all of grades 4 K
to 8, for
all of
the grades it operates, must implement a multi-tiered system of supports that is an
evidence-based model FRAMEWORK that uses data-driven problem solving to
integrate
academic and behavioral instruction and that uses intervention delivered to all pupils
in varying intensities based on pupil needs. FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS, THE DISTRICT SHALL
IMPLEMENT CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES FOCUSED ON
ACADEMIC LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT ALIGNED WITH STATE ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
STANDARDS. This THE multi-tiered system of
supports DESCRIBED UNDER THIS
SUBSECTION
must provide at least all of the following
essential elements COMPONENTS:
(a) Implements effective instruction
for all learners. TEAM BASED LEADERSHIP.
(b) Intervenes early. TIERED DELIVERY SYSTEM.
(c) Provides a multi-tiered model of
instruction and intervention that provides
the following: SELECTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF
INSTRUCTION, INTERVENTIONS, AND
SUPPORTS.
(i) A core curriculum and classroom interventions
available to all pupils that
meet the needs of most pupils.
(ii) Targeted group interventions.
(iii) Intense individual interventions.
(d) Monitors pupil progress to inform
instruction. COMPREHENSIVE
SCREENING AND
ASSESSMENT SYSTEM.
(e) Uses data to make instructional
decisions. CONTINUOUS
DATA-BASED DECISION
MAKING.
(f) Uses assessments including universal
screening, diagnostics, and progress
monitoring.
(g) Engages families and the community.
(h) Implements evidence-based,
scientifically validated, instruction and
intervention.
(i) Implements instruction and intervention
practices with fidelity.
(j) Uses a collaborative problem-solving
model.
(4) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, an eligible district or
eligible public school academy shall receive under this section for each membership
pupil in the district or public school academy who is determined to be economically
disadvantaged, as reported to the center in the form and manner prescribed by the
center not later than the fifth Wednesday after the pupil membership count day of the
immediately preceding fiscal year, an amount per pupil equal to 11.5% of the statewide
weighted average foundation allowance. However, a public school academy that began
operations as a public school academy after the pupil membership count day of the
immediately preceding school year shall receive under this section for each membership
pupil in the public school academy, who is determined to be economically
disadvantaged, as reported to the center in the form and manner prescribed by the
center not later than the fifth Wednesday after the pupil membership count day of the
current fiscal year, an amount per pupil equal to 11.5% of the statewide weighted
average foundation allowance.
(5) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a district or public school
academy receiving funding under this section shall use that money only to provide
instructional programs and direct noninstructional services, including, but not
limited to, medical, mental health, or counseling services, for at-risk pupils; for
school health clinics; and for the purposes of subsection (6), (7), or (8). In
addition, a district that is a school district of the first class or a district or
public school academy in which at least 50% of the pupils in membership were
determined to be economically disadvantaged in the immediately preceding state fiscal
year, as determined and reported as described in subsection (4), may use not more than
20% of the funds it receives under this section for school security. A district or
public school academy shall not use any of that money for administrative costs. The
instruction or direct noninstructional services provided under this section may be
conducted before or after regular school hours or by adding extra school days to the
school year.
(6) A district or public school academy that receives funds under this section
and that operates a school breakfast program under section 1272a of the revised school
code, MCL 380.1272a, shall use from the funds received under this section an amount,
not to exceed $10.00 per pupil for whom the district or public school academy receives
funds under this section, necessary to pay for costs associated with the operation of
the school breakfast program.
(7) From the funds allocated under
subsection (1), there is allocated for 2017-
2018 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed
$6,057,300.00 to support primary health care
services provided to children and adolescents up to age 21. These funds shall be
expended in a form and manner determined jointly by the department and the department
of health and human services. If any funds allocated under this subsection are not
used for the purposes of this subsection for the fiscal year in which they are
allocated, those unused funds shall be used that fiscal year to avoid or minimize any
proration that would otherwise be required under subsection (14) for that fiscal year.
(8) From the funds allocated under
subsection (1), there is allocated for 2017-
2018 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed
$5,150,000.00 for the state portion of the
hearing and vision screenings as described in section 9301 of the public health code,
1978 PA 368, MCL 333.9301. A local public health department shall pay at least 50% of
the total cost of the screenings. The frequency of the screenings shall be as required
under R 325.13091 to R 325.13096 and R 325.3271 to R 325.3276 of the Michigan
Administrative Code. Funds shall be awarded in a form and manner approved jointly by
the department and the department of health and human services. Notwithstanding
section 17b, payments to eligible entities under this subsection shall be paid on a
schedule determined by the department.
(9) Each district or public school academy receiving funds under this section
shall submit to the department by July 15 of each fiscal year a report, in the form
and manner prescribed by the department, that includes a brief description of each
program conducted or services performed by the district or public school academy using
funds under this section, the amount of funds under this section allocated to each of
those programs or services, the total number of at-risk pupils served by each of those
programs or services, and the data necessary for the department and the department of
health and human services to verify matching funds for the temporary assistance for
needy families program. In prescribing the form and manner of the report, the
department shall ensure that districts are allowed to expend funds received under this
section on any activities that are permissible under this section. If a district or
public school academy does not comply with this subsection, the department shall
withhold an amount equal to the August payment due under this section until the
district or public school academy complies with this subsection. If the district or
public school academy does not comply with this subsection by the end of the state
fiscal year, the withheld funds shall be forfeited to the school aid fund.
(10) In order to receive funds under this section, a district or public school
academy shall allow access for the department or the department's designee to audit
all records related to the program for which it receives those funds. The district or
public school academy shall reimburse the state for all disallowances found in the
audit.
(11) Subject to subsections (6), (7), and (8), IN SCHOOLS WHERE GREATER THAN 50%
OF PUPILS ARE IDENTIFIED AS AT-RISK, a district or public school academy may
use up to
100% of the funds it receives under this section to
implement schoolwide reform in
schools with 40% or more of their pupils identified as at-risk
pupils by providing
instructional or noninstructional services
consistent with the school improvement
plan. REFORMS BY PROVIDING INSTRUCTIONAL OR NONINSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES
CONSISTENT WITH
THE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN THAT ARE TIER 1 EVIDENCE BASED, HIGH QUALITY ACADEMIC,
BEHAVIORAL, AND SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL INSTRUCTION, AND PART OF THE DISTRICT’S MULTI-TIERED
SYSTEM OF SUPPORT. DECISIONS ON IMPLEMENTING SCHOOLWIDE REFORMS SHALL BE GUIDED BY THE
DISTRICT’S COMPREHENSIVE NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND SHALL BE INCLUDED IN THE DISTRICT
IMPROVEMENT PLAN. SCHOOLWIDE REFORMS SHALL FEATURE PARENT AND COMMUNITY SUPPORTS,
ACTIVITIES, AND SERVICES, WHICH MAY INCLUDE THE PATHWAYS TO POTENTIAL PROGRAM CREATED
BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OR THE COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS PROGRAM.
(12) A district or public school academy that receives funds under this section
may use up to 3% 5 PERCENT of those funds to provide research-based
professional
development AND TO IMPLEMENT A COACHING MODEL THAT SUPPORTS THE MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM OF
SUPPORTS FRAMEWORK. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAY BE PROVIDED to district and school
leadership and teachers AND SHALL BE that is aligned to professional
learning
standards; is integrated into district,
school building, and classroom practices; and
is solely related to the following:
(a) Implementing the multi-tiered system of supports required in subsection (3)
with fidelity and utilizing the data from that system to inform curriculum and
instruction.
(b) Implementing section 1280f of the revised school code, MCL 380.1280f, as
required under subsection (3), with fidelity.
(13) A district or public school academy that receives funds under this section
may use funds received under this section to support instructional or behavioral
coaches. Funds used for this purpose are not subject to the cap under subsection (12).
(14) If necessary, and before any proration required under section 296, the
department shall prorate payments under this section by reducing the amount of the
allocation as otherwise calculated under this section by an equal percentage per
district.
(15) If a district is dissolved pursuant to section 12 of the revised school
code, MCL 380.12, the intermediate district to which the dissolved school district was
constituent shall determine the estimated number of pupils that are economically
disadvantaged and that are enrolled in each of the other districts within the
intermediate district and provide that estimate to the department for the purposes of
distributing funds under this section within 60 days after the school district is
declared dissolved.
(16) Beginning in 2018-2019, if a
district or public school academy does not
demonstrate to the satisfaction of the
department that at least 50% of at-risk pupils
are proficient in English language arts by the
end of grade 3 as measured by the state
assessment for the immediately preceding school
year and demonstrate to the
satisfaction of the department improvement over
each of the 3 immediately preceding
school years in the percentage of at-risk
pupils that are career- and college-ready as
determined by proficiency on the English
language arts, mathematics, and science
content area assessments on the grade 11
summative assessment under section
1279g(2)(a) of the revised school code, MCL
380.1279g, the district or public school
academy shall ensure all of the following:
(a) The district or public school academy
shall determine the proportion of total
at-risk pupils that represents the number of
pupils in grade 3 that are not proficient
in English language arts by the end of grade 3,
and the district or public school
academy shall expend that same proportion
multiplied by 1/2 of its total at-risk funds
under this section on tutoring and other
methods of improving grade 3 English language
arts proficiency.
(b) The district or public school academy
shall determine the proportion of total
at-risk pupils that represent the number of
pupils in grade 11 that are not career-
and college-ready as measured by the student's
score on the English language arts,
mathematics, and science content area
assessments on the grade 11 summative assessment
under section 1279g(2)(a) of the revised school
code, MCL 380.1279g, and the district
or public school academy shall expend that same
proportion multiplied by 1/2 of its
total at-risk funds under this section on
tutoring and other activities to improve
scores on the college entrance examination
portion of the Michigan merit examination.
ALL OF THE FOLLOWING APPLY FOR DISTRICTS AND PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMIES RECEIVING FUNDS
UNDER THIS SECTION:
(A) IF A DISTRICT OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY IS DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT TO BE
BELOW THE STATEWIDE AVERAGE IN THE PERCENTAGE OF ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED PUPILS WHO
ARE PROFICIENT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS BY THE END OF GRADE 3, AS MEASURED ON THE
2017-2018 ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS STATE ASSESSMENT, THE DISTRICT OR PUBLIC SCHOOL
ACADEMY SHALL COMPLY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS DESCRIBED UNDER SUBDIVISION (D).
(B) IF A DISTRICT OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY IS DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT TO BE
BELOW THE STATEWIDE AVERAGE IN THE PERCENTAGE OF ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED PUPILS WHO
ARE PROFICIENT IN MATHEMATICS AT THE END OF GRADE 8, AS MEASURED ON THE 2017-2018
MATHEMATICS STATE ASSESSMENT, THE DISTRICT OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY SHALL COMPLY WITH
THE REQUIREMENTS DESCRIBED UNDER SUBDIVISION (D).
(C) IF A DISTRICT OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY IS DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT TO BE
BELOW THE STATEWIDE AVERAGE IN THE PERCENTAGE OF ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED PUPILS
THAT ARE CAREER- AND COLLEGE-READY, AS DETERMINED BY PROFICIENCY ON THE ENGLISH
LANGUAGE ARTS, MATHEMATICS, AND SCIENCE CONTENT AREA ASSESSMENTS ON THE GRADE 11
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT UNDER SECTION 1279G(2)(A) OF THE REVISED SCHOOL CODE, MCL
380.1279G, THE DISTRICT OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY SHALL COMPLY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS
DESCRIBED UNDER SUBDIVISION (D).
(D) FOR DISTRICTS AND PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMIES BELOW THE STATEWIDE AVERAGES
DESCRIBED IN SUBDIVISION (A), SUBDIVISION (B), OR SUBDIVISION (C), THE DISTRICT OR
PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY SHALL ACHIEVE AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING BY OCTOBER 1, 2021
ON EACH OF THE GRADE-LEVEL AND SUBJECT-AREA ASSESSMENTS DESCRIBED IN THIS SUBSECTION:
(i) THE DISTRICT OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY HAS ATTAINED THE STATEWIDE AVERAGE IN
THE PERCENTAGE OF ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED PUPILS WHO ARE PROFICIENT IN THE 2020-
2021 GRADE-LEVEL AND SUBJECT-AREA ASSESSMENTS DESCRIBED IN THIS SUBSECTION, AS
APPLICABLE. FOR THE PURPOSES OF COMPLYING WITH THIS SUBDIVISION, THE STATEWIDE AVERAGE
IN THE PERCENTAGE OF ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED PUPILS WHO ARE PROFICIENT SHALL BE
DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT USING DATA FROM THE 2017-18 STATE ASSESSMENTS FOR GRADE-
LEVEL AND SUBJECT-AREA ASSESSMENTS DESCRIBED IN THIS SUBSECTION.
(ii) THE DISTRICT OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY HAS ATTAINED AN IMPROVEMENT OF AT
LEAST 10 PERCENTAGE POINTS IN THE PERCENT OF ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED PUPILS WHO ARE
PROFICIENT IN THE GRADE-LEVEL AND SUBJECT-AREA ASSESSMENTS DESCRIBED IN THIS
SUBSECTION ON THE 2020-2021 STATE ASSESSMENT COMPARED TO THE DISTRICT'S RESULTS ON THE
2017-2018 STATE ASSESSMENT IN THE APPLICABLE GRADES AND SUBJECT-AREAS.
(17) As used in subsection (16),
"total at-risk pupils" means the sum of the
number of pupils in grade 3 that are not
proficient in English language arts by the
end of third grade as measured on the state
assessment and the number of pupils in
grade 11 that are not career- and college-ready
as measured by the student's score on
the English language arts, mathematics, and
science content area assessments on the
grade 11 summative assessment under section
1279g(2)(a) of the revised school code,
MCL 380.1279g. FOR A DISTRICT OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY NOT
MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS
DESCRIBED IN SUBDIVISION (16)(D), THE SUPERINTENDENT SHALL ASSIGN A TEAM OF PERSONS
WITH EXPERTISE IN COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL AND DISTRICT REFORM TO PARTNER WITH THE
DISTRICT OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY, THE INTERMEDIATE DISTRICT, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS,
LOCAL EMPLOYERS, EDUCATION ORGANIZATIONS, AND POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS AS DETERMINED
BY THE SUPERINTENDENT TO CONDUCT AN EVALUATION THAT INCLUDES AT LEAST ALL OF THE
FOLLOWING:
(A) A REVIEW OF THE DISTRICT’S OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY’S IMPLEMENTATION AND
UTILIZATION OF ITS MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM OF SUPPORTS TO ENSURE IT IS BEING USED TO
APPROPRIATELY INFORM INSTRUCTION OF AT-RISK PUPILS AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR
CHANGES.
(B) AN ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AUDIT THAT REVIEWS AT LEAST ALL OF THE FOLLOWING AND
INCLUDES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CHANGES IF NECESSARY:
(i) DISTRICT AND BUILDING LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATOR CAPACITY TO SUBSTANTIALLY
IMPROVE STUDENT OUTCOMES.
(ii) CLASSROOM, INSTRUCTIONAL, AND OPERATIONAL PRACTICES AND CURRICULUM TO ENSURE
ALIGNMENT WITH RESEARCH-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES AND STATE CURRICULUM STANDARDS.
(iii) A REVIEW OF THE DISTRICT’S OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY’S USE OF FINANCIAL
RESOURCES WITH RECOMMENDATIONS TO MORE EFFECTIVELY USE THOSE RESOURCES TO IMPROVE
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT FOR AT-RISK PUPILS. THESE RECOMMENDATIONS MUST INCLUDE A PLAN FOR
USING FUNDS RECEIVED UNDER THIS SECTION.
(D) THE DISTRICT OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY AND THE SUPERINTENDENT SHALL BECOME AN
EARLY WARNING DISTRICT AND MUST ADOPT A DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN THAT INCORPORATES AT
LEAST ALL OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS RESULTING FROM THE EVALUATION UNDER SUBDIVISION (A),
SPECIFIES THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PARTNERS, ESTABLISHES 18-MONTH
BENCHMARKS, AND IS SIGNED BY THE PARTNERS AND APPROVED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT.
(E) THE DISTRICT OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY MUST SPEND FUNDS RECEIVED UNDER THIS
SECTION ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PLAN INCLUDED UNDER SUBDIVISION (B)(III) AND SHALL
IMPLEMENT TIER 1 EVIDENCE BASED, HIGH QUALITY ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL
INSTRUCTION AS A PART OF THEIR MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM OF SUPPORT.
(18) A district or public school academy that receives funds under this section
may use funds received under this section to provide an anti-bullying or crisis
intervention program.
(19) The department shall collaborate with the department of health and human
services to prioritize assigning Pathways to Potential Success coaches to elementary
schools that have a high percentage of pupils in grades K to 3 who are not proficient
in English language arts, based upon state assessments for pupils in those grades.
(20) For the purpose of determining the
number of economically disadvantaged
pupils enrolled in a community district for
2017-2018, disadvantaged pupils who were
enrolled in the education achievement system
for 2016-2017 shall be considered to have
been enrolled in the community district for
2016-2017.
(20) (21) As used in this section:
(a) "At-risk pupil" means a pupil IN GRADES K TO 12 for whom the district has
documentation that the pupil meets any of the following criteria:
(i) The pupil is economically disadvantaged.
(ii) The pupil is an English language learner.
(iii) The pupil is chronically absent as defined by and reported to the center.
(iv) The pupil is a victim of child abuse or neglect.
(v) The pupil is a pregnant teenager or teenage parent.
(vi) The pupil has a family history of school failure, incarceration, or
substance abuse.
(vii) The pupil is an immigrant who has immigrated within the immediately
preceding 3 years.
(viii) The pupil did not complete high school in 4 years and is still continuing
in school as identified in the Michigan cohort graduation and dropout report.
(ix) For pupils for whom the results of the state summative assessment have been
received, is a pupil who did not achieve proficiency on the English language arts,
mathematics, science, or social studies content area assessment.
(x) Is a pupil who is at risk of not meeting the district's or public school
academy's core academic curricular objectives in English language arts or mathematics,
as demonstrated on local assessments.
(b) "Economically disadvantaged" means a pupil who has been determined eligible
for free or reduced-price meals as determined under the Richard B. Russell national
school lunch act, 42 USC 1751 to 1769j; who is in a household receiving supplemental
nutrition assistance program or temporary assistance for needy families assistance; or
who is homeless, migrant, or in foster care, as reported to the center.
(c) "English language learner" means limited English proficient pupils who speak
a language other than English as their primary language and have difficulty speaking,
reading, writing, or understanding English as reported to the center.
(d) "Statewide weighted average foundation allowance" means the number that is
calculated by adding together the result of each district's or public school academy's
foundation allowance or per pupil payment calculated under section 20 multiplied by
the number of pupils in membership in that district or public school academy, and then
dividing that total by the statewide number of pupils in membership. For the purposes
of this calculation, a district's foundation allowance shall not exceed the basic
foundation allowance under section 20 for the current state fiscal year.
Sec. 31d. (1) From the appropriations in section 11, there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $22,495,100.00 $23,144,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for the purpose of
making payments to districts and other eligible entities under this section.
(2) The amounts allocated from state sources under this section shall be used to
pay the amount necessary to reimburse districts for 6.0127% of the necessary costs of
the state mandated portion of the school lunch programs provided by those districts.
The amount due to each district under this section shall be computed by the department
using the methods of calculation adopted by the Michigan supreme court in the
consolidated cases known as Durant v State of Michigan, 456 Mich 175 (1997).
(3) The payments made under this section include all state payments made to
districts so that each district receives at least 6.0127% of the necessary costs of
operating the state mandated portion of the school lunch program in a fiscal year.
(4) The payments made under this section to districts and other eligible entities
that are not required under section 1272a of the revised school code, MCL 380.1272a,
to provide a school lunch program shall be in an amount not to exceed $10.00 per
eligible pupil plus 5 cents for each free lunch and 2 cents for each reduced price
lunch provided, as determined by the department.
(5) From the federal funds appropriated in section 11, there is allocated for
2017-2018 2018-2019 all available federal
funding, estimated at $520,000,000.00 for
the national school lunch program and all available federal funding, estimated at
$3,200,000.00 for the emergency food assistance program.
(6) Notwithstanding section 17b, payments to eligible entities other than
districts under this section shall be paid on a schedule determined by the department.
(7) In purchasing food for a school lunch program funded under this section,
preference shall be given to food that is grown or produced by Michigan businesses if
it is competitively priced and of comparable quality.
Sec. 31f. (1) From the appropriations in section 11, there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $4,500,000.00 each fiscal year
for 2016-2017 and for 2017-2018 FOR
FISCAL YEAR 2018-2019 for the purpose of making payments to districts to reimburse for
the cost of providing breakfast.
(2) The funds allocated under this section for school breakfast programs shall be
made available to all eligible applicant districts that meet all of the following
criteria:
(a) The district participates in the federal school breakfast program and meets
all standards as prescribed by 7 CFR parts 220 and 245.
(b) Each breakfast eligible for payment meets the federal standards described in
subdivision (a).
(3) The payment for a district under this section is at a per meal rate equal to
the lesser of the district's actual cost or 100% of the statewide average cost of a
breakfast served, as determined and approved by the department, less federal
reimbursement, participant payments, and other state reimbursement. The statewide
average cost shall be determined by the department using costs as reported in a manner
approved by the department for the preceding school year.
(4) Notwithstanding section 17b, payments under this section may be made pursuant
to an agreement with the department.
(5) In purchasing food for a school breakfast program funded under this section,
preference shall be given to food that is grown or produced by Michigan businesses if
it is competitively priced and of comparable quality.
Sec. 32d. (1) From the funds appropriated in section 11, there is allocated to
eligible intermediate districts and consortia of intermediate districts for great
start readiness programs an amount not to
exceed $243,600,000.00 for 2017-2018. 2018-
2019. Funds allocated under this section for great start readiness programs shall be
used to provide part-day, school-day, or GSRP/Head Start blended comprehensive free
compensatory classroom programs designed to improve the readiness and subsequent
achievement of educationally disadvantaged children who meet the participant
eligibility and prioritization guidelines as defined by the department. For a child to
be eligible to participate in a program under this section, the child shall be at
least 4, but less than 5, years of age as of September 1 of the school year in which
the program is offered and shall meet those eligibility and prioritization guidelines.
A child who is not 4 years of age as of September 1, but who will be 4 years of age
not later than December 1, is eligible to participate if the child's parent or legal
guardian seeks a waiver from the September 1 eligibility date by submitting a request
for enrollment in a program to the responsible intermediate district, if the program
has capacity on or after September 1 of the school year, and if the child meets
eligibility and prioritization guidelines.
(2) Funds allocated under subsection (1) shall be allocated to intermediate
districts or consortia of intermediate districts based on the formula in section 39.
An intermediate district or consortium of intermediate districts receiving funding
under this section shall act as the fiduciary for the great start readiness programs.
In order to be eligible to receive funds allocated under this subsection from an
intermediate district or consortium of intermediate districts, a district, a
consortium of districts, or a public or private for-profit or nonprofit legal entity
or agency shall comply with this section and section 39.
(3) In addition to the allocation under subsection (1), from the general fund
money appropriated under section 11, there is allocated an amount not to exceed
$300,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for a competitive grant to continue a longitudinal
evaluation of children who have participated in great start readiness programs.
(4) To be eligible for funding under this section, a program shall prepare
children for success in school through comprehensive part-day, school-day, or
GSRP/Head Start blended programs that contain all of the following program components,
as determined by the department:
(a) Participation in a collaborative recruitment and enrollment process to assure
that each child is enrolled in the program most appropriate to his or her needs and to
maximize the use of federal, state, and local funds.
(b) An age-appropriate educational curriculum that is in compliance with the
early childhood standards of quality for prekindergarten children adopted by the state
board, including, at least, the Connect4Learning curriculum.
(c) Nutritional services for all program participants supported by federal,
state, and local resources as applicable.
(d) Physical and dental health and developmental screening services for all
program participants.
(e) Referral services for families of program participants to community social
service agencies, including mental health services, as appropriate.
(f) Active and continuous involvement of the parents or guardians of the program
participants.
(g) A plan to conduct and report annual great start readiness program evaluations
and continuous improvement plans using criteria approved by the department.
(h) Participation in a school readiness advisory committee convened as a
workgroup of the great start collaborative that provides for the involvement of
classroom teachers, parents or guardians of program participants, and community,
volunteer, and social service agencies and organizations, as appropriate. The advisory
committee annually shall review and make recommendations regarding the program
components listed in this subsection. The advisory committee also shall make
recommendations to the great start collaborative regarding other community services
designed to improve all children's school readiness.
(i) The ongoing articulation of the kindergarten and first grade programs offered
by the program provider.
(j) Participation in this state's great start to quality process with a rating of
at least 3 stars.
(5) An application for funding under this section shall provide for the
following, in a form and manner determined by the department:
(a) Ensure compliance with all program components described in subsection (4).
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, ensure that at least 90% of
the children participating in an eligible great start readiness program for whom the
intermediate district is receiving funds under this section are children who live with
families with a household income that is equal to or less than 250% of the federal
poverty level. If the intermediate district determines that all eligible children are
being served and that there are no children on the waiting list who live with families
with a household income that is equal to or less than 250% of the federal poverty
level, the intermediate district may then enroll children who live with families with
a household income that is equal to or less than 300% of the federal poverty level.
The enrollment process shall consider income and risk factors, such that children
determined with higher need are enrolled before children with lesser need. For
purposes of this subdivision, all age-eligible children served in foster care or who
are experiencing homelessness or who have individualized education plans recommending
placement in an inclusive preschool setting shall be considered to live with families
with household income equal to or less than 250% of the federal poverty level
regardless of actual family income and shall be prioritized for enrollment within the
lowest quintile.
(c) Ensure that the applicant only uses qualified personnel for this program, as
follows:
(i) Teachers possessing proper training. A lead teacher must have a valid
teaching certificate with an early childhood (ZA or ZS) endorsement or a bachelor's or
higher degree in child development or early childhood education with specialization in
preschool teaching. However, if an applicant demonstrates to the department that it is
unable to fully comply with this subparagraph after making reasonable efforts to
comply, teachers who have significant but incomplete training in early childhood
education or child development may be used if the applicant provides to the
department, and the department approves, a plan for each teacher to come into
compliance with the standards in this subparagraph. A teacher's compliance plan must
be completed within 2 years of the date of employment. Progress toward completion of
the compliance plan shall consist of at least 2 courses per calendar year.
(ii) Paraprofessionals possessing proper training in early childhood education,
including an associate's degree in early childhood education or child development or
the equivalent, or a child development associate (CDA) credential. However, if an
applicant demonstrates to the department that it is unable to fully comply with this
subparagraph after making reasonable efforts to comply, the applicant may use
paraprofessionals who have completed at least 1 course that earns college credit in
early childhood education or child development if the applicant provides to the
department, and the department approves, a plan for each paraprofessional to come into
compliance with the standards in this subparagraph. A paraprofessional's compliance
plan must be completed within 2 years of the date of employment. Progress toward
completion of the compliance plan shall consist of at least 2 courses or 60 clock
hours of training per calendar year.
(d) Include a program budget that contains only those costs that are not
reimbursed or reimbursable by federal funding, that are clearly and directly
attributable to the great start readiness program, and that would not be incurred if
the program were not being offered. Eligible costs include transportation costs. The
program budget shall indicate the extent to which these funds will supplement other
federal, state, local, or private funds. Funds received under this section shall not
be used to supplant any federal funds received by the applicant to serve children
eligible for a federally funded preschool program that has the capacity to serve those
children.
(6) For a grant recipient that enrolls pupils in a school-day program funded
under this section, each child enrolled in the school-day program shall be counted as
described in section 39 for purposes of determining the amount of the grant award.
(7) For a grant recipient that enrolls pupils in a GSRP/Head Start blended
program, the grant recipient shall ensure that all Head Start and GSRP policies and
regulations are applied to the blended slots, with adherence to the highest standard
from either program, to the extent allowable under federal law.
(8) An intermediate district or consortium of intermediate districts receiving a
grant under this section shall designate an early childhood coordinator, and may
provide services directly or may contract with 1 or more districts or public or
private for-profit or nonprofit providers that meet all requirements of subsections
(4) and (5).
(9) An intermediate district or consortium of intermediate districts may retain
for administrative services provided by the intermediate district or consortium of
intermediate districts an amount not to exceed 4% of the grant amount. Expenses
incurred by subrecipients engaged by the intermediate district or consortium of
intermediate districts for directly running portions of the program shall be
considered program costs or a contracted program fee for service.
(10) An intermediate district or consortium of intermediate districts may expend
not more than 2% of the total grant amount for outreach, recruiting, and public
awareness of the program.
(11) Each grant recipient shall enroll children identified under subsection
(5)(b) according to how far the child's household income is below 250% of the federal
poverty level by ranking each applicant child's household income from lowest to
highest and dividing the applicant children into quintiles based on how far the
child's household income is below 250% of the federal poverty level, and then
enrolling children in the quintile with the lowest household income before enrolling
children in the quintile with the next lowest household income until slots are
completely filled. If the grant recipient determines that all eligible children are
being served and that there are no children on the waiting list who live with families
with a household income that is equal to or less than 250% of the federal poverty
level, the grant recipient may then enroll children who live with families with a
household income that is equal to or less than 300% of the federal poverty level. The
enrollment process shall consider income and risk factors, such that children
determined with higher need are enrolled before children with lesser need. For
purposes of this subdivision, all age-eligible children served in foster care or who
are experiencing homelessness or who have individualized education plans recommending
placement in an inclusive preschool setting shall be considered to live with families
with household income equal to or less than 250% of the federal poverty level
regardless of actual family income and shall be prioritized for enrollment within the
lowest quintile.
(12) An intermediate district or consortium of intermediate districts receiving a
grant under this section shall allow parents of eligible children who are residents of
the intermediate district or within the consortium to choose a program operated by or
contracted with another intermediate district or consortium of intermediate districts
and shall enter into a written agreement regarding payment, in a manner prescribed by
the department.
(13) An intermediate district or consortium of intermediate districts receiving a
grant under this section shall conduct a local process to contract with interested and
eligible public and private for-profit and nonprofit community-based providers that
meet all requirements of subsection (4) for at least 30% of its total allocation. For
the purposes of this 30% allocation, an intermediate district or consortium of
intermediate districts may count children served by a Head Start grantee or delegate
in a blended Head Start and great start readiness school-day program. Children served
in a program funded only through Head Start shall not be counted toward this 30%
allocation. The intermediate district or consortium shall report to the department, in
a manner prescribed by the department, a detailed list of community-based providers by
provider type, including private for-profit, private nonprofit, community college or
university, Head Start grantee or delegate, and district or intermediate district, and
the number and proportion of its total allocation allocated to each provider as
subrecipient. If the intermediate district or consortium is not able to contract for
at least 30% of its total allocation, the grant recipient shall notify the department
and, if the department verifies that the intermediate district or consortium attempted
to contract for at least 30% of its total allocation and was not able to do so, then
the intermediate district or consortium may retain and use all of its allocation as
provided under this section. To be able to use this exemption, the intermediate
district or consortium shall demonstrate to the department that the intermediate
district or consortium increased the percentage of its total allocation for which it
contracts with a community-based provider and the intermediate district or consortium
shall submit evidence satisfactory to the department, and the department must be able
to verify this evidence, demonstrating that the intermediate district or consortium
took measures to contract for at least 30% of its total allocation as required under
this subsection, including, but not limited to, at least all of the following
measures:
(a) The intermediate district or consortium notified each nonparticipating
licensed child care center located in the service area of the intermediate district or
consortium regarding the center's eligibility to participate, in a manner prescribed
by the department.
(b) The intermediate district or consortium provided to each nonparticipating
licensed child care center located in the service area of the intermediate district or
consortium information regarding great start readiness program requirements and a
description of the application and selection process for community-based providers.
(c) The intermediate district or consortium provided to the public and to
participating families a list of community-based great start readiness program
subrecipients with a great start to quality rating of at least 3 stars.
(14) If an intermediate district or consortium of intermediate districts
receiving a grant under this section fails to submit satisfactory evidence to
demonstrate its effort to contract for at least 30% of its total allocation, as
required under subsection (13), the department shall reduce the allocation to the
intermediate district or consortium by a percentage equal to the difference between
the percentage of an intermediate district's or consortium's total allocation awarded
to community-based providers and 30% of its total allocation.
(15) In order to assist intermediate districts and consortia in complying with
the requirement to contract with community-based providers for at least 30% of their
total allocation, the department shall do all of the following:
(a) Ensure that a great start resource center or the department provides each
intermediate district or consortium receiving a grant under this section with the
contact information for each licensed child care center located in the service area of
the intermediate district or consortium by March 1 of each year.
(b) Provide, or ensure that an organization with which the department contracts
provides, a community-based provider with a validated great start to quality rating
within 90 days of the provider's having submitted a request and self-assessment.
(c) Ensure that all intermediate district, district, community college or
university, Head Start grantee or delegate, private for-profit, and private nonprofit
providers are subject to a single great start to quality rating system. The rating
system shall ensure that regulators process all prospective providers at the same pace
on a first-come, first-served basis and shall not allow 1 type of provider to receive
a great start to quality rating ahead of any other type of provider.
(d) Not later than December 1 of each year, compile the results of the
information reported by each intermediate district or consortium under subsection (13)
and report to the legislature a list by intermediate district or consortium with the
number and percentage of each intermediate district's or consortium's total allocation
allocated to community-based providers by provider type, including private for-profit,
private nonprofit, community college or university, Head Start grantee or delegate,
and district or intermediate district.
(16) A recipient of funds under this
section shall report to the department
CENTER in a form and manner prescribed by the department CENTER the number of children
participating in the program who meet the income eligibility criteria under subsection
(5)(b) and the total number of children participating in the program. For children
participating in the program who meet the income eligibility criteria specified under
subsection (5)(b), a recipient shall also report whether or not a parent is available
to provide care based on employment status. For the purposes of this subsection,
"employment status" shall be defined by the department of health and human services in
a manner consistent with maximizing the amount of spending that may be claimed for
temporary assistance for needy families maintenance of effort purposes.
(17) As used in this section:
(a) "GSRP/Head Start blended program" means a part-day program funded under this
section and a Head Start program, which are combined for a school-day program.
(b) "Part-day program" means a program that operates at least 4 days per week, 30
weeks per year, for at least 3 hours of teacher-child contact time per day but for
fewer hours of teacher-child contact time per day than a school-day program.
(c) "School-day program" means a program that operates for at least the same
length of day as a district's first grade program for a minimum of 4 days per week, 30
weeks per year. A classroom that offers a school-day program must enroll all children
for the school day to be considered a school-day program.
(18) An intermediate district or consortium of intermediate districts receiving
funds under this section shall establish and charge tuition according to a sliding
scale of tuition rates based upon household income for children participating in an
eligible great start readiness program who live with families with a household income
that is more than 250% of the federal poverty level to be used by all of its
providers, as approved by the department.
(19) From the amount appropriated in subsection (1), there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $10,000,000.00 for reimbursement of transportation costs for children
attending great start readiness programs funded under this section. To receive
reimbursement under this subsection, not later
than November 1, 2017, 2018, a program
funded under this section that provides transportation shall submit to the
intermediate district that is the fiscal agent for the program a projected
transportation budget. The amount of the reimbursement for transportation under this
subsection shall be no more than the projected transportation budget or $300.00
multiplied by the number of children funded for the program under this section. If the
amount allocated under this subsection is insufficient to fully reimburse the
transportation costs for all programs that provide transportation and submit the
required information, the reimbursement shall be prorated in an equal amount per child
funded. Payments shall be made to the intermediate district that is the fiscal agent
for each program, and the intermediate district shall then reimburse the program
provider for transportation costs as prescribed under this subsection.
(20) The department shall implement a process to review and approve age-
appropriate comprehensive classroom level quality assessments for GSRP grantees that
support the early childhood standards of quality for prekindergarten children adopted
by the state board. The department shall complete the approval process and make
available to intermediate districts at least 2 approved classroom level quality
assessments no later than April 1, 2018 2019.
(21) An intermediate district that is a GSRP grantee may approve the use of a
supplemental curriculum that aligns with and enhances the age-appropriate educational
curriculum in the classroom. If the department objects to the use of a supplemental
curriculum approved by an intermediate district, the superintendent of public
instruction shall establish a review committee independent of the department. The
review committee shall meet within 60 days of the department registering its objection
in writing and provide a final determination on the validity of the objection within
60 days of the review committee's first meeting.
(22) A great start readiness program or a GSRP/Head Start blended program funded
under this section shall be permitted to utilize AmeriCorps Pre-K Reading Corps
members in classrooms implementing research-based early literacy intervention
strategies.
Sec. 32p. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $13,400,000.00 to intermediate
districts for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for the
purpose of providing early childhood funding to intermediate school districts to
support the activities under subsection (2) and subsection (4), and to provide early
childhood programs for children from birth through age 8. The funding provided to each
intermediate district under this section shall be determined by the distribution
formula established by the department's office of great start to provide equitable
funding statewide. In order to receive funding under this section, each intermediate
district shall provide an application to the office of great start not later than
September 15 of the immediately preceding fiscal year indicating the activities
planned to be provided.
(2) Each intermediate district or consortium of intermediate districts that
receives funding under this section shall convene a local great start collaborative
and a parent coalition. The goal of each great start collaborative and parent
coalition shall be to ensure the coordination and expansion of local early childhood
infrastructure and programs that allow every child in the community to achieve the
following outcomes:
(a) Children born healthy.
(b) Children healthy, thriving, and developmentally on track from birth to third
grade.
(c) Children developmentally ready to succeed in school at the time of school
entry.
(d) Children prepared to succeed in fourth grade and beyond by reading
proficiently by the end of third grade.
(3) Each local great start collaborative and parent coalition shall convene
workgroups to make recommendations about community services designed to achieve the
outcomes described in subsection (2) and to ensure that its local great start system
includes the following supports for children from birth through age 8:
(a) Physical health.
(b) Social-emotional health.
(c) Family supports and basic needs.
(d) Parent education.
(e) Early education, including the child's development of skills linked to
success in foundational literacy, and care.
(4) From the funds allocated in subsection (1), at least $2,500,000.00 shall be
used for the purpose of providing home visits to at-risk children and their families.
The home visits shall be conducted as part of a locally coordinated, family-centered,
evidence-based, data-driven home visit strategic plan that is approved by the
department. The goals of the home visits funded under this subsection shall be to
improve school readiness using evidence-based methods, including a focus on
developmentally appropriate outcomes for early
literacy, to reduce the number of
pupils retained in grade level, and to reduce
the number of pupils requiring special
education services. IMPROVE POSITIVE PARENTING PRACTICES AND TO
IMPROVE FAMILY
ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY WHILE REDUCING THE IMPACT OF HIGH RISK FACTORS THROUGH
COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND REFERRALS. The department shall coordinate the goals of the
home visit strategic plans approved under this subsection with other state agency home
visit programs in a way that strengthens Michigan's home visiting infrastructure and
maximizes federal funds available for the purposes of at-risk family home visits. The
coordination among departments and agencies is intended to avoid duplication of state
services and spending, and should emphasize efficient service delivery of home
visiting programs.
(5) Not later than December 1 of each year, each intermediate district shall
provide a report to the department detailing the activities actually provided during
the immediately preceding school year and the families and children actually served.
At a minimum, the report shall include an evaluation of the services provided with
additional funding under subsection (4) for home visits, using the goals identified in
subsection (4) as the basis for the evaluation, including the degree to which school
readiness was improved, any change in the number of pupils retained at grade level,
and any change in the number of pupils receiving special education services. The
department shall compile and summarize these reports and submit its summary to the
house and senate appropriations subcommittees on school aid and to the house and
senate fiscal agencies not later than February 15 of each year.
(6) An intermediate district or consortium of intermediate districts that
receives funding under this section may carry over any unexpended funds received under
this section into the next fiscal year and may expend those unused funds through June
30 of the next fiscal year. A recipient of a grant shall return any unexpended grant
funds to the department in the manner prescribed by the department not later than
September 30 of the next fiscal year after the fiscal year in which the funds are
received.
Sec. 35a. (1) From the appropriations in
section 11, there is allocated for 2017-
2018 2018-2019 for the purposes of
this section an amount not to exceed $26,900,000.00
from the state school aid fund. and an amount not to exceed $2,500,000.00
from the
general fund. THE SUPERINTENDENT SHALL DESIGNATE STAFF OR
CONTRACTED EMPLOYEES FUNDED
UNDER THIS SECTION AS CRITICAL SHORTAGE. PROGRAMS FUNDED UNDER THIS SECTION ARE
INTENDED TO ENSURE THAT THIS STATE WILL BE IN THE TOP 10 MOST IMPROVED STATES IN GRADE
4 READING PROFICIENCY BY THE 2019 NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS (NAEP)
AND WILL BE IN THE TOP 10 STATES OVERALL IN GRADE 4 READING PROFICIENCY BY 2025.
(2) A district that receives funds under subsection (5) may spend up to 5% of
those funds for professional development for educators in a department-approved
research-based training program related to current state literacy standards for pupils
in grades K to 3. The professional development shall also include training in the use
of screening and diagnostic tools, progress monitoring, and intervention methods used
to address barriers to learning and delays in learning that are diagnosed through the
use of these tools.
(3) A district that receives funds under subsection (5) may use up to 5% of those
funds to administer department-approved screening and diagnostic tools to monitor the
development of early literacy and early reading skills of pupils in grades K to 3 and
to support research-based professional development for educators in administering
screening and diagnostic tools and in data interpretation of the results obtained
through the use of those tools for the purpose of implementing a multi-tiered system
of support to improve reading proficiency among pupils in grades K to 3. A department-
approved screening and diagnostic tool administered by a district using funding under
this section must include all of the following components: phonemic awareness,
phonics, fluency, and comprehension. Further, all of the following sub-skills must be
assessed within each of these components:
(a) Phonemic awareness - segmentation, blending, and sound manipulation (deletion
and substitution).
(b) Phonics - decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling).
(c) Fluency - reading rate, accuracy, and expression.
(d) Comprehension - making meaning of text.
(4) From the allocations under subsection (1), there is allocated an amount not
to exceed $6,000,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for the purpose of providing early
literacy coaches at intermediate districts to assist teachers in developing and
implementing instructional strategies for pupils in grades K to 3 so that pupils are
reading at grade level by the end of grade 3. All of the following apply to funding
under this subsection:
(a) The department shall develop an application process consistent with the
provisions of this subsection. An application shall provide assurances that literacy
coaches funded under this subsection are knowledgeable about at least the following:
(i) Current state literacy standards for pupils in grades K to 3.
(ii) Implementing an instructional delivery model based on frequent use of
formative, screening, and diagnostic tools, known as a multi-tiered system of support,
to determine individual progress for pupils in grades K to 3 so that pupils are
reading at grade level by the end of grade 3.
(iii) The use of data from diagnostic tools to determine the necessary additional
supports and interventions needed by individual pupils in grades K to 3 in order to be
reading at grade level.
(b) From the allocation under this subsection, the department shall award grants
to intermediate districts for the support of early literacy coaches. An intermediate
district must provide matching funds for at least 50% of the grant amount awarded to
support the cost of the literacy coach. The department shall provide this funding in
the following manner:
(i) Each intermediate district shall be awarded grant funding to support the cost
of 1 early literacy coach in an equal amount per early literacy coach, not to exceed
$75,000.00.
(ii) After distribution of the grant funding under subparagraph (i), the
department shall distribute the remainder of grant funding for additional early
literacy coaches in an amount not to exceed $75,000.00 per early literacy coach. The
number of funded early literacy coaches for each intermediate district shall be based
on the percentage of the total statewide number of pupils in grades K to 3 who meet
the income eligibility standards for the federal free and reduced-price lunch programs
who are enrolled in districts in the intermediate district. For each additional early
literacy coach funded under this subparagraph, the department shall not make an award
to an intermediate district under this subparagraph in an amount that is less than the
amount necessary to pay 1/2 of the total cost of that additional early literacy coach.
(5) From the allocations under subsection (1), there is allocated an amount not
to exceed $20,900,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 to districts that provide additional
instructional time to those pupils in grades K to 3 who have been identified by using
department-approved screening and diagnostic tools as needing additional supports and
interventions in order to be reading at grade level by the end of grade 3. Additional
instructional time may be provided before, during, and after regular school hours or
as part of a year-round balanced school calendar. All of the following apply to
funding under this subsection:
(a) In order to be eligible to receive funding, a district shall demonstrate to
the satisfaction of the department that the district has done all of the following:
(i) Implemented a multi-tiered system of support instructional delivery model
that is an evidence-based model that uses data-driven problem solving to integrate
academic and behavioral instruction and that uses intervention delivered to all pupils
in varying intensities based on pupil needs. The multi-tiered system of supports must
provide at least all of the following essential elements:
(A) Implements effective instruction for all learners.
(B) Intervenes early.
(C) Provides a multi-tiered model of instruction and intervention that provides
the following: a core curriculum and classroom interventions available to all pupils
that meet the needs of most pupils; targeted group interventions; and intense
individual interventions.
(D) Monitors pupil progress to inform instruction.
(E) Uses data to make instructional decisions.
(F) Uses assessments including universal screening, diagnostics, and progress
monitoring.
(G) Engages families and the community.
(H) Implements evidence-based, scientifically validated, instruction and
intervention.
(I) Implements instruction and intervention practices with fidelity.
(J) Uses a collaborative problem-solving model.
(ii) Used department-approved research-based diagnostic tools to identify
individual pupils in need of additional instructional time.
(iii) Used a reading instruction method that focuses on the 5 fundamental
building blocks of reading: phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and
comprehension and content knowledge.
(iv) Provided teachers of pupils in grades K to 3 with research-based
professional development in diagnostic data interpretation.
(v) Complied with the requirements under section 1280f of the revised school
code, MCL 380.1280f.
(b) Funding allocated under this subsection shall be distributed to eligible
districts by multiplying the number of full-time-equivalent pupils in grade 1 in the
district by $210.00.
(c) If the funds allocated under this subsection are insufficient to fully fund
the payments under this subsection, payments under this subsection shall be prorated
on an equal per-pupil basis based on grade 1 pupils.
(6) From the general fund money allocated
in subsection (1), the department shall
allocate the amount of $2,500,000.00 for
2017-2018 to the Michigan Education Corps.
All of the following apply to funding under
this subsection:
(a) By August 1 of the current fiscal
year, the Michigan Education Corps shall
provide a report concerning its use of the
funding to the senate and house
appropriations subcommittees on state school
aid, the senate and house fiscal
agencies, and the senate and house caucus
policy offices on outcomes and performance
measures of the Michigan Education Corps,
including, but not limited to, the degree to
which the Michigan Education Corps's
replication of the Michigan Reading Corps program
is demonstrating sufficient efficacy and
impact. The report must include data
pertaining to at least all of the following:
(i) The current impact of the Michigan Reading
Corps on this state in terms of
numbers of children and programs receiving
support. This portion of the report shall
specify the number of children tutored,
including dosage and completion, and the
demographics of those children.
(ii) Whether the assessments and interventions are
implemented with fidelity.
This portion of the report shall include
details on the total number of assessments
and interventions completed and the range,
median, mean, and standard deviation for
all assessments.
(iii) Whether the literacy improvement of children
participating in the Michigan
Reading Corps is consistent with expectations.
This portion of the report shall detail
at least all of the following:
(A) Growth rate by grade level, in
comparison to targeted growth rate.
(B) Average linear growth rates.
(C) Exit rates.
(D) Percentage of children who exit who
also meet or exceed spring benchmarks.
(iv) The impact of the Michigan Reading Corps on
organizations and stakeholders,
including, but not limited to, school
administrators, internal coaches, and AmeriCorps
members.
(b) If the department determines that the
Michigan Education Corps has misused
the funds allocated under this subsection, the
Michigan Education Corps shall
reimburse this state for the amount of state
funding misused.
(c) The department may not reserve any
portion of the allocation provided under
this subsection for an evaluation of the
Michigan Education Corps, the Michigan
Education Corps' funding, or the Michigan
Education Corps' programming. The department
shall award the entire $2,500,000.00 allocated
under this subsection to the Michigan
Education Corps and shall not condition the
awarding of this funding on the
implementation of an independent evaluation.
Sec. 39. (1) An eligible applicant receiving funds under section 32d shall submit
an application, in a form and manner prescribed by the department, by a date specified
by the department in the immediately preceding state fiscal year. The application
shall include all of the following:
(a) For 2017-2018 2018-2019 calculations, the estimated total number of children
in the community who meet the criteria of section 32d, as provided to the applicant by
the department utilizing the most recent population data available from the American
community survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau. Beginning in 2018-2019,
the department shall ensure that it provides updated American community survey
population data at least once every 3 years.
(b) The estimated number of children in the community who meet the criteria of
section 32d and are being served exclusively by Head Start programs operating in the
community.
(c) The number of children whom the applicant has the capacity to serve who meet
the criteria of section 32d including a verification of physical facility and staff
resources capacity.
(2) After notification of funding allocations, an applicant receiving funds under
section 32d shall also submit an implementation plan for approval, in a form and
manner prescribed by the department, by a date specified by the department, that
details how the applicant complies with the program components established by the
department pursuant to section 32d.
(3) The initial allocation to each eligible applicant under section 32d shall be
the lesser of the following:
(a) The sum of the number of children served in a school-day program in the
preceding school year multiplied by $7,250.00 and the number of children served in a
GSRP/Head Start blended program or a part-day program in the preceding school year
multiplied by $3,625.00.
(b) The sum of the number of children the applicant has the capacity to serve in
2017-2018 2018-2019 in a school-day program multiplied by $7,250.00 and the
number of
children served in a GSRP/Head Start blended program or a part-day program the
applicant has the capacity to serve in 2017-2018 2018-2019 multiplied by $3,625.00.
(4) If funds remain after the allocations under subsection (3), the department
shall distribute the remaining funds to each intermediate district or consortium of
intermediate districts that serves less than the state percentage benchmark determined
under subsection (5). These remaining funds shall be distributed to each eligible
applicant based upon each applicant's proportionate share of the remaining unserved
children necessary to meet the statewide percentage benchmark in intermediate
districts or consortia of intermediate districts serving less than the statewide
percentage benchmark. When all applicants have been given the opportunity to reach the
statewide percentage benchmark, the statewide percentage benchmark may be reset, as
determined by the department, until greater equity of opportunity to serve eligible
children across all intermediate school districts has been achieved.
(5) For the purposes of subsection (4),
for the 2017-2018 2018-2019 program year,
the department shall calculate a percentage of children served by each intermediate
district or consortium of intermediate districts by dividing the number of children
served in the immediately preceding year by that intermediate district or consortium
by the total number of children within the intermediate district or consortium of
intermediate districts who meet the criteria of section 32d as determined by the
department utilizing the most recent population data available from the American
community survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau. The department shall
compare the resulting percentage of eligible children served to a statewide percentage
benchmark to determine if the intermediate district or consortium is eligible for
additional funds under subsection (4). For 2017-2018, 2018-2019, the statewide
percentage benchmark is 60%.
(6) If, taking into account the total amount to be allocated to the applicant as
calculated under this section, an applicant determines that it is able to include
additional eligible children in the great start readiness program without additional
funds under section 32d, the applicant may include additional eligible children but
shall not receive additional funding under section 32d for those children.
(7) The department shall review the program components under section 32d and
under this section at least biennially. The department also shall convene a committee
of internal and external stakeholders at least once every 5 years to ensure that the
funding structure under this section reflects current system needs under section 32d.
(8) As used in this section, "school-day program", "GSRP/Head Start blended
program", and "part-day program" mean those terms as defined in section 32d.
Sec. 39a. (1) From the federal funds appropriated in section 11, there is
allocated each FOR fiscal year for 2016-2017 and for 2017-2018 2018-2019 to districts,
intermediate districts, and other eligible entities all available federal funding,
estimated at $744,039,900.00 for 2016-2017 and $731,600,000.00 for 2017-2018
$730,600,000.00, for the federal programs under the no child left behind act of 2001,
Public Law 107-110, or the every student succeeds act, Public Law 114-95. These funds
are allocated as follows:
(a) An amount estimated at $1,200,000.00 each
fiscal year FOR 2018-2019 to
provide students with drug- and violence-prevention programs and to implement
strategies to improve school safety, funded from DED-OESE, drug-free schools and
communities funds.
(b) An amount estimated at $111,111,900.00
for 2016-2017 and $100,000,000.00 for
2017-2018 2018-2019 for the purpose of
preparing, training, and recruiting high-
quality teachers and class size reduction, funded from DED-OESE, improving teacher
quality funds.
(c) An amount estimated at $12,200,000.00
for 2016-2017 and $11,000,000.00 for
2017-2018 2018-2019 for programs to teach
English to limited English proficient (LEP)
children, funded from DED-OESE, language acquisition state grant funds.
(d) An amount estimated at $250,000.00
for 2016-2017 only for the Michigan
charter school subgrant program, funded from
DED-OESE, charter school funds.
(D) (e) An amount estimated at $3,000,000.00 for 2016-2017 and $2,800,000.00 for
2017-2018 2018-2019 for rural and low
income schools, funded from DED-OESE, rural and
low income school funds.
(E) (f) An amount estimated at $535,000,000.00 each fiscal year FOR 2018-2019 to
provide supplemental programs to enable educationally disadvantaged children to meet
challenging academic standards, funded from DED-OESE, title I, disadvantaged children
funds.
(F) (g) An amount estimated at $8,878,000.00 for 2016-2017 and $9,200,000.00 for
2017-2018 2018-2019 for the purpose of identifying and serving migrant
children,
funded from DED-OESE, title I, migrant education funds.
(G) (h) An amount estimated at $39,000,000.00 each fiscal year FOR 2018-2019 for
the purpose of providing high-quality extended learning opportunities, after school
and during the summer, for children in low-performing schools, funded from DED-OESE,
twenty-first century community learning center funds.
(H) (i) An amount estimated at $18,000,000.00 each
fiscal year $12,000,000.00 FOR
2018-2019 to help support local school improvement efforts, funded from DED-OESE,
title I, local school improvement grants.
(I) (j) An amount estimated at
$15,400,000.00 each fiscal year FOR 2018-2019 to
improve the academic achievement of students, funded from DED-OESE, title IV, student
support and academic enrichment grants.
(J) AN AMOUNT ESTIMATED AT $5,000,000.00 FOR 2018-2019 FOR THE REMAINING BALANCE
OF THE AMOUNT APPROPRIATED IN 2014 PA 116, MCL 388.1632R, FOR FEDERAL FUNDING AWARDED
TO THIS STATE UNDER SECTIONS 14005, 14006, AND 14013 OF TITLE XIV OF THE AMERICAN
RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009, PUBLIC LAW 111-5, FOR THE RACE TO THE TOP -
EARLY LEARNING CHALLENGE GRANT.
(2) From the federal funds appropriated in section 11, there is allocated for
2016-2017 and for 2017-2018 2018-2019 to districts, intermediate districts, and other
eligible entities all available federal
funding, estimated at $30,800,000.00 for 2016-
2017 and $30,000,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for the following programs that are
funded by federal grants:
(a) An amount estimated at $200,000.00
for 2016-2017 and $100,000.00 for 2017-
2018 2018-2019 for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome education grants,
funded from
HHS – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, AIDS funding.
(b) An amount estimated at $2,600,000.00
for 2016-2017 and $1,900,000.00 for
2017-2018 2018-2019 to provide services to homeless children and youth, funded
from
DED-OVAE, homeless children and youth funds.
(c) An amount estimated at $4,000,000.00 each
fiscal year FOR 2018-2019 to
provide mental health, substance abuse, or violence prevention services to students,
funded from HHS-SAMHSA.
(d) An amount estimated at $24,000,000.00
each fiscal year FOR
2018-2019 for
providing career and technical education services to pupils, funded from DED-OVAE,
basic grants to states.
(3) All federal funds allocated under this section shall be distributed in
accordance with federal law and with flexibility provisions outlined in Public Law
107-116, and in the education flexibility partnership act of 1999, Public Law 106-25.
Notwithstanding section 17b, payments of federal funds to districts, intermediate
districts, and other eligible entities under this section shall be paid on a schedule
determined by the department.
(4) For the purposes of applying for federal grants appropriated under this
article, the department shall allow an intermediate district to submit a consortium
application on behalf of 2 or more districts with the agreement of those districts as
appropriate according to federal rules and guidelines.
(5) For the purposes of funding federal title I grants under this article, in
addition to any other federal grants for which a strict discipline academy is
eligible, the department shall allocate to strict discipline academies out of title I,
part A funds equal to what a strict discipline academy would have received if included
and calculated under title I, part D, or what it would receive under the formula
allocation under title I, part A, whichever is greater.
(6) As used in this section:
(a) "DED" means the United States Department of Education.
(b) "DED-OESE" means the DED Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.
(c) "DED-OVAE" means the DED Office of Vocational and Adult Education.
(d) "HHS" means the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
(e) "HHS-SAMHSA" means the HHS Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration.
Sec. 41. (1) For a district or public school academy to be eligible to receive
funding under this section, the district or public school academy must administer to
English language learners the English language proficiency assessment known as the
"WIDA ACCESS for English language learners" or the "WIDA Alternate ACCESS". From the
appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount not to exceed $6,000,000.00
for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for payments to eligible districts and eligible public
school
academies for services for English language learners who have been administered the
WIDA ACCESS for English language learners.
(2) Funding allocated under this section shall be distributed to eligible
districts and eligible public school academies based on the number of full-time
equivalent English language learners as follows:
(a) $620.00 per full-time equivalent English language learner who has been
assessed under the WIDA ACCESS for English language learners or the WIDA Alternate
ACCESS with a WIDA ACCESS or WIDA Alternate ACCESS composite score between 1.0 and
1.9, or less, as applicable to each assessment.
(b) $410.00 per full-time equivalent English language learner who has been
assessed under the WIDA ACCESS for English language learners or the WIDA Alternate
ACCESS with a WIDA ACCESS or WIDA Alternate ACCESS composite score between 2.0 and
2.9, or less, as applicable to each assessment.
(3) If funds allocated under this section are insufficient to fully fund the
payments as prescribed under subsection (2), payments shall be prorated on an equal
percentage basis, with the same percentage proration applied to both funding
categories.
(4) Each district or public school academy receiving funds under this section
shall submit to the department by July 15 of each fiscal year a report, not to exceed
10 pages, on the usage by the district or public school academy of funds under this
section, in a form and manner determined by the department, which shall include a
brief description of each program conducted or services performed by the district or
public school academy using funds under this section and the amount of funds under
this section allocated to each of those programs or services. If a district or public
school academy does not comply with this section, the department shall withhold an
amount equal to the August payment due under this section until the district or public
school academy complies with this subsection. If the district or public school academy
does not comply with this section by the end of the state fiscal year, the withheld
funds shall be forfeited to the school aid fund.
(5) In order to receive funds under this section, a district or public school
academy shall allow access for the department or the department's designee to audit
all records related to the program for which it receives those funds. The district or
public school academy shall reimburse this state for all disallowances found in the
audit.
(6) Beginning July 1, 2020, and every 3 years thereafter, the department shall
review the per-pupil distribution under subsection (2), to ensure that funding levels
are appropriate and make recommendations for adjustments to the members of the senate
and house subcommittees on K-12 school aid appropriations.
Sec. 51a. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $941,946,100.00 for 2016-2017
and there is allocated an amount not to
exceed $956,246,100.00 $979,346,100.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 from state sources and
all available federal funding under sections 611 to 619 of part B of the individuals
with disabilities education act, 20 USC 1411 to 1419, estimated at $370,000,000.00
each FOR fiscal year for 2016-2017 and for 2017-2018 2018-2019, plus any carryover
federal funds from previous year appropriations. In addition, from the general fund
appropriation in section 11, there is allocated to the department an amount not to
exceed $500,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for the purpose of subsection (16). The
allocations under this subsection are for the purpose of reimbursing districts and
intermediate districts for special education programs, services, and special education
personnel as prescribed in article 3 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1701 to
380.1766; net tuition payments made by intermediate districts to the Michigan Schools
for the Deaf and Blind; and special education programs and services for pupils who are
eligible for special education programs and services according to statute or rule. For
meeting the costs of special education programs and services not reimbursed under this
article, a district or intermediate district may use money in general funds or special
education funds, not otherwise restricted, or contributions from districts to
intermediate districts, tuition payments, gifts and contributions from individuals or
other entities, or federal funds that may be available for this purpose, as determined
by the intermediate district plan prepared pursuant to article 3 of the revised school
code, MCL 380.1701 to 380.1766. Notwithstanding section 17b, payments of federal funds
to districts, intermediate districts, and other eligible entities under this section
shall be paid on a schedule determined by the department.
(2) From the funds allocated under subsection (1), there is allocated the amount
necessary, and estimated at $260,700,000.00
for 2016-2017 and estimated at
$264,200,000.00 $272,100,000.00 for 2017-2018, 2018-2019, for payments toward
reimbursing districts and intermediate districts for 28.6138% of total approved costs
of special education, excluding costs reimbursed under section 53a, and 70.4165% of
total approved costs of special education transportation. Allocations under this
subsection shall be made as follows:
(a) The initial amount allocated to a district under this subsection toward
fulfilling the specified percentages shall be calculated by multiplying the district's
special education pupil membership, excluding pupils described in subsection (11),
times the foundation allowance under section 20 of the pupil's district of residence
plus the amount of the district's per-pupil allocation under section 20m, not to
exceed the basic foundation allowance under section 20 for the current fiscal year,
or, for a special education pupil in membership in a district that is a public school
academy, times an amount equal to the amount per membership pupil calculated under
section 20(6). For an intermediate district, the amount allocated under this
subdivision toward fulfilling the specified percentages shall be an amount per special
education membership pupil, excluding pupils described in subsection (11), and shall
be calculated in the same manner as for a district, using the foundation allowance
under section 20 of the pupil's district of residence, not to exceed the basic
foundation allowance under section 20 for the current fiscal year, and that district's
per-pupil allocation under section 20m.
(b) After the allocations under subdivision (a), districts and intermediate
districts for which the payments calculated under subdivision (a) do not fulfill the
specified percentages shall be paid the amount necessary to achieve the specified
percentages for the district or intermediate district.
(3) From the funds allocated under
subsection (1), there is allocated each fiscal
year for 2016-2017 and for 2017-2018 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed
$1,000,000.00 $1,100,000.00 to make payments to districts and
intermediate districts
under this subsection. If the amount allocated to a district or intermediate district
for a fiscal year under subsection (2)(b) is less than the sum of the amounts
allocated to the district or intermediate district for 1996-97 under sections 52 and
58, there is allocated to the district or intermediate district for the fiscal year an
amount equal to that difference, adjusted by applying the same proration factor that
was used in the distribution of funds under section 52 in 1996-97 as adjusted to the
district's or intermediate district's necessary costs of special education used in
calculations for the fiscal year. This adjustment is to reflect reductions in special
education program operations or services between 1996-97 and subsequent fiscal years.
Adjustments for reductions in special education program operations or services shall
be made in a manner determined by the department and shall include adjustments for
program or service shifts.
(4) If the department determines that the sum of the amounts allocated for a
fiscal year to a district or intermediate district under subsection (2)(a) and (b) is
not sufficient to fulfill the specified percentages in subsection (2), then the
shortfall shall be paid to the district or intermediate district during the fiscal
year beginning on the October 1 following the determination and payments under
subsection (3) shall be adjusted as necessary. If the department determines that the
sum of the amounts allocated for a fiscal year to a district or intermediate district
under subsection (2)(a) and (b) exceeds the sum of the amount necessary to fulfill the
specified percentages in subsection (2), then the department shall deduct the amount
of the excess from the district's or intermediate district's payments under this
article for the fiscal year beginning on the October 1 following the determination and
payments under subsection (3) shall be adjusted as necessary. However, if the amount
allocated under subsection (2)(a) in itself exceeds the amount necessary to fulfill
the specified percentages in subsection (2), there shall be no deduction under this
subsection.
(5) State funds shall be allocated on a total approved cost basis. Federal funds
shall be allocated under applicable federal requirements, except that an amount not to
exceed $3,500,000.00 may be allocated by the
department each FOR fiscal year for
2016-
2017 and for 2017-2018 2018-2019 to districts,
intermediate districts, or other
eligible entities on a competitive grant basis for programs, equipment, and services
that the department determines to be designed to benefit or improve special education
on a statewide scale.
(6) From the amount allocated in subsection (1), there is allocated an amount not
to exceed $2,200,000.00 each FOR fiscal year for 2016-2017 and for 2017-2018 2018-2019
to reimburse 100% of the net increase in necessary costs incurred by a district or
intermediate district in implementing the revisions in the administrative rules for
special education that became effective on July 1, 1987. As used in this subsection,
"net increase in necessary costs" means the necessary additional costs incurred solely
because of new or revised requirements in the administrative rules minus cost savings
permitted in implementing the revised rules. Net increase in necessary costs shall be
determined in a manner specified by the department.
(7) For purposes of sections 51a to 58, all of the following apply:
(a) "Total approved costs of special education" shall be determined in a manner
specified by the department and may include indirect costs, but shall not exceed 115%
of approved direct costs for section 52 and section 53a programs. The total approved
costs include salary and other compensation for all approved special education
personnel for the program, including payments for social security and Medicare and
public school employee retirement system contributions. The total approved costs do
not include salaries or other compensation paid to administrative personnel who are
not special education personnel as defined in section 6 of the revised school code,
MCL 380.6. Costs reimbursed by federal funds, other than those federal funds included
in the allocation made under this article, are not included. Special education
approved personnel not utilized full time in the evaluation of students or in the
delivery of special education programs, ancillary, and other related services shall be
reimbursed under this section only for that portion of time actually spent providing
these programs and services, with the exception of special education programs and
services provided to youth placed in child caring institutions or juvenile detention
programs approved by the department to provide an on-grounds education program.
(b) Beginning with the 2004-2005 fiscal year, a district or intermediate district
that employed special education support services staff to provide special education
support services in 2003-2004 or in a subsequent fiscal year and that in a fiscal year
after 2003-2004 receives the same type of support services from another district or
intermediate district shall report the cost of those support services for special
education reimbursement purposes under this article. This subdivision does not
prohibit the transfer of special education classroom teachers and special education
classroom aides if the pupils counted in membership associated with those special
education classroom teachers and special education classroom aides are transferred and
counted in membership in the other district or intermediate district in conjunction
with the transfer of those teachers and aides.
(c) If the department determines before bookclosing for a fiscal year that the
amounts allocated for that fiscal year under subsections (2), (3), (6), and (11) and
sections 53a, 54, and 56 will exceed expenditures for that fiscal year under
subsections (2), (3), (6), and (11) and sections 53a, 54, and 56, then for a district
or intermediate district whose reimbursement for that fiscal year would otherwise be
affected by subdivision (b), subdivision (b) does not apply to the calculation of the
reimbursement for that district or intermediate district and reimbursement for that
district or intermediate district shall be calculated in the same manner as it was for
2003-2004. If the amount of the excess allocations under subsections (2), (3), (6),
and (11) and sections 53a, 54, and 56 is not sufficient to fully fund the calculation
of reimbursement to those districts and intermediate districts under this subdivision,
then the calculations and resulting reimbursement under this subdivision shall be
prorated on an equal percentage basis. Beginning in 2015-2016, the amount of
reimbursement under this subdivision for a fiscal year shall not exceed $2,000,000.00
for any district or intermediate district.
(d) Reimbursement for ancillary and other related services, as defined by R
340.1701c of the Michigan Administrative Code, shall not be provided when those
services are covered by and available through private group health insurance carriers
or federal reimbursed program sources unless the department and district or
intermediate district agree otherwise and that agreement is approved by the state
budget director. Expenses, other than the incidental expense of filing, shall not be
borne by the parent. In addition, the filing of claims shall not delay the education
of a pupil. A district or intermediate district shall be responsible for payment of a
deductible amount and for an advance payment required until the time a claim is paid.
(e) Beginning with calculations for 2004-2005, if an intermediate district
purchases a special education pupil transportation service from a constituent district
that was previously purchased from a private entity; if the purchase from the
constituent district is at a lower cost, adjusted for changes in fuel costs; and if
the cost shift from the intermediate district to the constituent does not result in
any net change in the revenue the constituent district receives from payments under
sections 22b and 51c, then upon application by the intermediate district, the
department shall direct the intermediate district to continue to report the cost
associated with the specific identified special education pupil transportation service
and shall adjust the costs reported by the constituent district to remove the cost
associated with that specific service.
(8) A pupil who is enrolled in a full-time special education program conducted or
administered by an intermediate district or a pupil who is enrolled in the Michigan
schools for the deaf and blind shall not be included in the membership count of a
district, but shall be counted in membership in the intermediate district of
residence.
(9) Special education personnel transferred from 1 district to another to
implement the revised school code shall be entitled to the rights, benefits, and
tenure to which the person would otherwise be entitled had that person been employed
by the receiving district originally.
(10) If a district or intermediate district uses money received under this
section for a purpose other than the purpose or purposes for which the money is
allocated, the department may require the district or intermediate district to refund
the amount of money received. Money that is refunded shall be deposited in the state
treasury to the credit of the state school aid fund.
(11) From the funds allocated in subsection (1), there is allocated the amount
necessary, estimated at $3,500,000.00 for
2016-2017, and estimated at $3,600,000.00
$3,400,000.00 for 2017-2018, 2018-2019, to pay the foundation
allowances for pupils
described in this subsection. The allocation to a district under this subsection shall
be calculated by multiplying the number of pupils described in this subsection who are
counted in membership in the district times the sum of the foundation allowance under
section 20 of the pupil's district of residence plus the amount of the district's per-
pupil allocation under section 20m, not to exceed the basic foundation allowance under
section 20 for the current fiscal year, or, for a pupil described in this subsection
who is counted in membership in a district that is a public school academy, times an
amount equal to the amount per membership pupil under section 20(6) or, for a pupil
described in this subsection who is counted in membership in the education achievement
system, times an amount equal to the amount per membership pupil under section 20(7).
The allocation to an intermediate district under this subsection shall be calculated
in the same manner as for a district, using the foundation allowance under section 20
of the pupil's district of residence, not to exceed the basic foundation allowance
under section 20 for the current fiscal year, and that district's per-pupil allocation
under section 20m. This subsection applies to all of the following pupils:
(a) Pupils described in section 53a.
(b) Pupils counted in membership in an intermediate district who are not special
education pupils and are served by the intermediate district in a juvenile detention
or child caring facility.
(c) Pupils with an emotional impairment counted in membership by an intermediate
district and provided educational services by the department of health and human
services.
(12) If it is determined that funds allocated under subsection (2) or (11) or
under section 51c will not be expended, funds up to the amount necessary and available
may be used to supplement the allocations under subsection (2) or (11) or under
section 51c in order to fully fund those allocations. After payments under subsections
(2) and (11) and section 51c, the remaining expenditures from the allocation in
subsection (1) shall be made in the following order:
(a) 100% of the reimbursement required under section 53a.
(b) 100% of the reimbursement required under subsection (6).
(c) 100% of the payment required under section 54.
(d) 100% of the payment required under subsection (3).
(e) 100% of the payments under section 56.
(13) The allocations under subsections (2), (3), and (11) shall be allocations to
intermediate districts only and shall not be allocations to districts, but instead
shall be calculations used only to determine the state payments under section 22b.
(14) If a public school academy that is not a cyber school, as defined in section
551 of the revised school code, MCL 380.551, enrolls under this section a pupil who
resides outside of the intermediate district in which the public school academy is
located and who is eligible for special education programs and services according to
statute or rule, or who is a child with disabilities, as defined under the individuals
with disabilities education act, Public Law 108-446, the intermediate district in
which the public school academy is located and the public school academy shall enter
into a written agreement with the intermediate district in which the pupil resides for
the purpose of providing the pupil with a free appropriate public education, and the
written agreement shall include at least an agreement on the responsibility for the
payment of the added costs of special education programs and services for the pupil.
If the public school academy that enrolls the pupil does not enter into an agreement
under this subsection, the public school academy shall not charge the pupil's resident
intermediate district or the intermediate district in which the public school academy
is located the added costs of special education programs and services for the pupil,
and the public school academy is not eligible for any payouts based on the funding
formula outlined in the resident or nonresident intermediate district's plan. If a
pupil is not enrolled in a public school academy under this subsection, the provision
of special education programs and services and the payment of the added costs of
special education programs and services for a pupil described in this subsection are
the responsibility of the district and intermediate district in which the pupil
resides.
(15) For the purpose of receiving its federal allocation under part B of the
individuals with disabilities education act, Public Law 108-446, a public school
academy that is a cyber school, as defined in section 551 of the revised school code,
MCL 380.551, and is in compliance with section 553a of the revised school code, MCL
380.553a, shall directly receive the federal allocation under part B of the
individuals with disabilities education act, Public Law 108-446, from the intermediate
district in which the cyber school is located, as the subrecipient. If the
intermediate district does not distribute the funds described in this subsection to
the cyber school by the part B application due date of July 1, the department may
distribute the funds described in this subsection directly to the cyber school
according to the formula prescribed in 34 CFR 300.705 and 34 CFR 300.816.
(16) For a public school academy that is a cyber school, as defined in section
551 of the revised school code, MCL 380.551, and is in compliance with section 553a of
the revised school code, MCL 380.553a, that enrolls a pupil under this section, the
intermediate district in which the cyber school is located shall ensure that the cyber
school complies with sections 1701a, 1703, 1704, 1751, 1752, 1756, and 1757 of the
revised school code, MCL 380.1701a, 380.1703, 380.1704, 380.1751, 380.1752, 380.1756,
and 380.1757; applicable rules; and the individuals with disabilities education act,
Public Law 108-446. From the general fund appropriation under subsection (1), the
department shall provide appropriate administrative funding to the intermediate
district in which that cyber school is located for the purpose of ensuring that
compliance.
(17) For the purposes of this section, the department or the center shall only
require a district or intermediate district to report information that is not already
available from the financial information database maintained by the center.
Sec. 51c. As required by the court in the consolidated cases known as Durant v
State of Michigan, 456 Mich 175 (1997), from the allocation under section 51a(1),
there is allocated each fiscal year for FISCAL YEAR 2016-2017 and for 2017-2018 2018-
2019 the amount necessary, estimated at $624,600,000.00 for 2016-2017 and
$635,300,000.00 $650,600,000.00 for 2017-2018, 2018-2019, for payments to reimburse
districts for 28.6138% of total approved costs of special education excluding costs
reimbursed under section 53a, and 70.4165% of total approved costs of special
education transportation. Funds allocated under this section that are not expended in
the state fiscal year for which they were allocated, as determined by the department,
may be used to supplement the allocations under
sections 22a and 22b,
AND 23F in
order
to fully fund those calculated allocations for the same fiscal year.
Sec. 51d. (1) From the federal funds appropriated in section 11, there is
allocated each fiscal year for FISCAL YEAR 2016-2017 and for 2017-2018, 2018-2019, all
available federal funding, estimated at
$61,000,000.00 each fiscal year, for special
education programs and services that are funded by federal grants. All federal funds
allocated under this section shall be distributed in accordance with federal law.
Notwithstanding section 17b, payments of federal funds to districts, intermediate
districts, and other eligible entities under this section shall be paid on a schedule
determined by the department.
(2) From the federal funds allocated under subsection (1), the following amounts
are allocated each fiscal year for 2016-2017
and for FISCAL YEAR 2017-2018 2018-2019:
(a) An amount estimated at $14,000,000.00
each fiscal year for handicapped
infants and toddlers, funded from DED-OSERS, handicapped infants and toddlers funds.
(b) An amount estimated at $12,000,000.00 each fiscal year for preschool grants
(Public Law 94-142), funded from DED-OSERS, handicapped preschool incentive funds.
(c) An amount estimated at $35,000,000.00
each fiscal year for special education
programs funded by DED-OSERS, handicapped program, individuals with disabilities act
funds.
(3) As used in this section, "DED-OSERS" means the United States Department of
Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
Sec. 53a. (1) For districts, reimbursement for pupils described in subsection (2)
shall be 100% of the total approved costs of operating special education programs and
services approved by the department and included in the intermediate district plan
adopted pursuant to article 3 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1701 to 380.1766,
minus the district's foundation allowance calculated under section 20 and minus the
district's per-pupil allocation under section 20m. For intermediate districts,
reimbursement for pupils described in subsection (2) shall be calculated in the same
manner as for a district, using the foundation allowance under section 20 of the
pupil's district of residence, not to exceed the basic foundation allowance under
section 20 for the current fiscal year, and that district's per-pupil allocation under
section 20m.
(2) Reimbursement under subsection (1) is for the following special education
pupils:
(a) Pupils assigned to a district or intermediate district through the community
placement program of the courts or a state agency, if the pupil was a resident of
another intermediate district at the time the pupil came under the jurisdiction of the
court or a state agency.
(b) Pupils who are residents of institutions operated by the department of health
and human services.
(c) Pupils who are former residents of department of community health
institutions for the developmentally disabled who are placed in community settings
other than the pupil's home.
(d) Pupils enrolled in a department-approved on-grounds educational program
longer than 180 days, but not longer than 233 days, at a residential child care
institution, if the child care institution offered in 1991-92 an on-grounds
educational program longer than 180 days but not longer than 233 days.
(e) Pupils placed in a district by a parent for the purpose of seeking a suitable
home, if the parent does not reside in the same intermediate district as the district
in which the pupil is placed.
(3) Only those costs that are clearly and directly attributable to educational
programs for pupils described in subsection (2), and that would not have been incurred
if the pupils were not being educated in a district or intermediate district, are
reimbursable under this section.
(4) The costs of transportation shall be funded under this section and shall not
be reimbursed under section 58.
(5) Not more than $10,500,000.00 of the allocation for 2017-2018 2018-2019 in
section 51a(1) shall be allocated under this section.
Sec. 54. Each intermediate district shall receive an amount per-pupil for each
pupil in attendance at the Michigan schools for the deaf and blind. The amount shall
be proportionate to the total instructional cost at each school. Not more than
$1,688,000.00 of the allocation for 2017-2018 2018-2019 in section 51a(1) shall
be
allocated under this section.
Sec. 54b. (1) From the general fund appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $1,600,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 to continue
the implementation of the recommendations of the special education reform task force
published in January 2016.
(2) Except as provided in subsection (3), the department shall use funds
allocated under this section for the purpose of piloting statewide implementation of
the Michigan Integrated Behavior and Learning Support Initiative (MiBLSI), a
nationally recognized program that includes positive behavioral intervention and
supports and provides a statewide structure to support local initiatives for an
integrated behavior and reading program. With the assistance of the intermediate
districts involved in MiBLSI, the department shall identify a number of intermediate
districts to participate in the pilot that is sufficient to ensure that MiBLSI can be
implemented statewide with fidelity and sustainability. In addition, the department
shall identify an intermediate district to act as a fiscal agent for these funds.
(3) In addition to the purpose under
subsection (2), the department shall use
funds allocated under this section for the
purpose of providing training to
intermediate districts and districts related to
the safe implementation of emergency
restraints and seclusion. The department shall
develop and implement a training
program that is based on the state board's
adopted standards and on any other
legislation enacted by the legislature
regarding the emergency use of seclusion and
restraint.
SEC. 54C. (1) FROM THE GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATION IN SECTION 11, THERE IS
ALLOCATED AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $500,000.00 for 2018-2019 TO CONTINUE THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE SPECIAL EDUCATION REFORM TASK FORCE
PUBLISHED IN JANUARY 2016, TO INCREASE ACCESS TO SERVICES AND RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS
IN SPECIAL EDUCATION AND THEIR PARENTS OR GUARDIANS, AND TO STRENGTHEN MEDIATION
SERVICES AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION AND THEIR PARENTS OR GUARDIANS.
(2) FROM THE AMOUNT ALLOCATED IN SUBSECTION (1), THERE IS ALLOCATED AN AMOUNT NOT
TO EXCEED $205,000.00 FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENHANCING CAPACITY OF MICHIGAN’S PARENT
TRAINING INFORMATION CENTER, MICHIGAN ALLIANCE FOR FAMILIES, TO INCREASE DIRECT
ADVOCACY EFFORTS, WORK SURROUNDING TRANSITION ISSUES, AND AWARENESS OF THE
ORGANIZATION.
(3) FROM THE AMOUNT ALLOCATED IN SUBSECTION (1), THERE IS ALLOCATED AN AMOUNT NOT
TO EXCEED $295,000.00 FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING MEDIATION SERVICES OFFERED THROUGH
THE MICHIGAN SPECIAL EDUCATION MEDIATION PROGRAM, BY INCREASING AWARENESS OF
MEDIATION, REFRAMING THE PURPOSE OF MEDIATION, STRENGTHENING MEDIATOR KNOWLEDGE AROUND
SPECIAL EDUCATION, AND MAKING MEDIATION MORE ACCESSIBLE.
SEC. 54D. (1) FROM THE APPROPRIATIONS IN SECTION 11, THERE IS ALLOCATED AN AMOUNT
NOT TO EXCEED $5,000,000.00 FOR 2018-2019 FOR COMPETITIVE GRANTS TO INTERMEDIATE
DISTRICTS, OR CONSORTIUMS OF INTERMEDIATE DISTRICTS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING
STATE EARLY ON SERVICES PILOT PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN BIRTH TO 3 YEARS OF AGE WITH
DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY(S) AND/OR DISABILITIES AND THEIR FAMILIES AS DESCRIBED IN THE
EARLY ON MICHIGAN STATE PLAN, AS APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
(2) TO BE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE FUNDING UNDER THIS SECTION, EACH INTERMEDIATE
DISTRICT, OR CONSORTIUM OF INTERMEDIATE DISTRICTS, SHALL APPLY IN A FORM AND MANNER
DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
(3) THE FUNDING ALLOCATED UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL BE USED TO INCREASE EARLY ON
SERVICES AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO CHILDREN THAT DEMONSTRATE DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS TO
HELP PREPARE THEM FOR SUCCESS AS THEY ENTER SCHOOL. STATE EARLY ON SERVICES INCLUDE
EVALUATING AND PROVIDING EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES FOR ELIGIBLE INFANTS AND TODDLERS
AND THEIR FAMILIES TO ADDRESS DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS, INCLUDING THOSE AFFECTING
PHYSICAL, COGNITIVE, COMMUNICATION, ADAPTIVE, SOCIAL OR EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT. FUNDS
SHALL NOT BE USED TO SUPPLANT EXISTING SERVICES THAT ARE CURRENTLY BEING PROVIDED.
(4) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL DEVELOP A COMPETITIVE APPLICATION PROCESS AND METHOD OF
GRANT DISTRIBUTION BY OCTOBER 1, 2018. AWARD DISTRIBUTION WILL OCCUR IN MULTIPLE
PROSPERITY REGIONS TO ENSURE PROGRAMS ARE DIVERSE GEOGRAPHICALLY AND ADDRESS
DEMONSTRATED NEED FOR ADDITIONAL SERVICES. THOSE APPLICANTS THAT DEMONSTRATE THE
CAPACITY TO ALIGN THESE FUNDS WITH FEDERAL MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENTS SHALL BE GIVEN
PREFERENCE. CONSORTIUMS OF INTERMEDIATE DISTRICTS COMPRISED OF ONE OR MORE
INTERMEDIATE DISTRICT WITH THE CAPACITY TO ALIGN THESE FUNDS WITH FEDERAL MEDICAID
REIMBURSEMENTS AND ONE OR MORE WITHOUT THIS CAPACITY WILL ALSO BE GIVEN PREFERENCE, AS
TO ENCOURAGE MENTORSHIP AMONG INTERMEDIATE DISTRICTS IN FACILITATING THIS FUNDING
CAPACITY.
(5) THE APPLICANT INTERMEDIATE DISTRICTS SHALL REPORT DATA AND OTHER INFORMATION
TO THE DEPARTMENT IN A FORM, MANNER, AND FREQUENCY APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT TO ALLOW
FOR MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF THE PILOT PROJECTS AND TO ENSURE THAT THE CHILDREN
DESCRIBED IN SUBSECTION (1) RECEIVED APPROPRIATE LEVELS AND TYPES OF SERVICES
DELIVERED BY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL BASED ON THE INDIVIDUAL NEEDS OF THE CHILDREN AND
THEIR FAMILIES.
Sec. 56. (1) For the purposes of this section:
(a) "Membership" means for a particular fiscal year the total membership for the
immediately preceding fiscal year of the intermediate district and the districts
constituent to the intermediate district.
(b) "Millage levied" means the millage levied for special education pursuant to
part 30 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1711 to 380.1743, including a levy for
debt service obligations.
(c) "Taxable value" means the total taxable value of the districts constituent to
an intermediate district, except that if a district has elected not to come under part
30 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1711 to 380.1743, membership and taxable value
of the district shall not be included in the membership and taxable value of the
intermediate district.
(2) From the allocation under section 51a(1), there is allocated an amount not to
exceed $37,758,100.00 each FOR fiscal year for 2016-2017 and for 2017-2018 2018-2019
to reimburse intermediate districts levying millages for special education pursuant to
part 30 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1711 to 380.1743. The purpose, use, and
expenditure of the reimbursement shall be limited as if the funds were generated by
these millages and governed by the intermediate district plan adopted pursuant to
article 3 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1701 to 380.1766. As a condition of
receiving funds under this section, an intermediate district distributing any portion
of special education millage funds to its constituent districts shall submit for
departmental approval and implement a distribution plan.
(3) Reimbursement for those millages
levied in 2015-2016 shall be made in 2016-
2017 at an amount per 2015-2016 membership
pupil computed by subtracting from
$180,900.00 the 2015-2016 taxable value behind each membership pupil and
multiplying
the resulting difference by the 2015-2016 millage levied.
(3) (4) Reimbursement for those millages levied in 2016-2017 2017-2018 shall be
made in 2017-2018 2018-2019 at an amount per 2016-2017 2017-2018 membership pupil
computed by subtracting from $183,200.00 $189,900.00 the 2016-2017 2017-2018 taxable
value behind each membership pupil and multiplying the resulting difference by the
2016-2017 2017-2018
millage
levied, and then subtracting from that amount the 2016-
2017 2017-2018 local community
stabilization share revenue for special education
purposes behind each membership pupil for reimbursement of personal property exemption
loss under the local community stabilization authority act, 2014 PA 86, MCL 123.1341
to 123.1362.
(4) (5) The amount paid to a single intermediate
district under this section
shall not exceed 62.9% of the total amount allocated under subsection (2).
(5) (6) The amount paid to a single intermediate district under this section
shall not
be less than 75% of the amount allocated to the intermediate district under this
section for the immediately preceding fiscal year.
Sec. 61a. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $36,611,300.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 to reimburse on an added cost
basis districts, except for a district that served as the fiscal agent for a
vocational education consortium in the 1993-94 school year and that has a foundation
allowance as calculated under section 20 greater than the minimum foundation allowance
under that section, and secondary area vocational-technical education centers for
secondary-level career and technical education programs according to rules approved by
the superintendent. Applications for participation in the programs shall be submitted
in the form prescribed by the department. The department shall determine the added
cost for each career and technical education program area. The allocation of added
cost funds shall be prioritized based on the capital and program expenditures needed
to operate the career and technical education programs provided; the number of pupils
enrolled; the advancement of pupils through the instructional program; the existence
of an articulation agreement with at least 1 postsecondary institution that provides
pupils with opportunities to earn postsecondary credit during the pupil's
participation in the career and technical education program and transfers those
credits to the postsecondary institution upon completion of the career and technical
education program; and the program rank in student placement, job openings, and wages,
and shall not exceed 75% of the added cost of any program. Notwithstanding any rule or
department determination to the contrary, when determining a district's allocation or
the formula for making allocations under this section, the department shall include
the participation of pupils in grade 9 in all of those determinations and in all
portions of the formula. With the approval of the department, the board of a district
maintaining a secondary career and technical education program may offer the program
for the period from the close of the school year until September 1. The program shall
use existing facilities and shall be operated as prescribed by rules promulgated by
the superintendent.
(2) Except for a district that served as the fiscal agent for a vocational
education consortium in the 1993-94 school year, districts and intermediate districts
shall be reimbursed for local career and technical education administration, shared
time career and technical education administration, and career education planning
district career and technical education administration. The definition of what
constitutes administration and reimbursement shall be pursuant to guidelines adopted
by the superintendent. Not more than $800,000.00 of the allocation in subsection (1)
shall be distributed under this subsection.
(3) A career and technical education program funded under this section may
provide an opportunity for participants who are eligible to be funded under section
107 to enroll in the career and technical education program funded under this section
if the participation does not occur during regular school hours.
(4) In addition to the money allocated
under subsections (1), (5), and (6), from
the general fund money appropriated in section
11, there is allocated for 2017-2018 an
amount not to exceed $79,000.00 to an eligible
Michigan-approved 501(c)(3)
organization for the purposes of teaching or
training restaurant management and
culinary arts for career and professional
development. The department shall oversee
funds distributed to an eligible grantee under
this section. As used in this
subsection, "eligible Michigan-approved
501(c)(3) organization" means an organization
that is exempt from taxation under section
501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of
1986, 26 USC 501, that provides the ProStart
curriculum and training to state-approved
career and technical education programs with
classification of instructional programs
(CIP) codes in the 12.05xx category, and that
administers national certification for
the purpose of restaurant management and
culinary arts for career and professional
development.
(5) In addition to the funds allocated
under subsections (1), (4), and (6), from
the funds appropriated in section 11, there is
allocated for 2017-2018 an amount not
to exceed $1,000,000.00 for competitive grants
to intermediate districts to hire
career and technical education counselors. All
of the following apply to this funding:
(a) An intermediate district seeking a
grant under this subsection shall apply to
the department in a form and manner specified
by the department.
(b) The department shall award grants
under this subsection on a competitive
basis to no more than 3 intermediate districts
but shall give priority to the
intermediate district that has the greatest
number of pupils enrolled in its
constituent districts and shall ensure that
grants are equitably distributed to the
various geographic areas of this state and to
urban and rural areas.
(c) To be eligible for funding under this
subsection, an intermediate district
shall do all of the following:
(i) Catalog all available K-12 and other workforce
development programs and
services, including job search, job training,
pre-employment certifications, career
awareness programs, career and technical
education programs, and other related
programs and services offered by districts or
intermediate districts, postsecondary
institutions, and other private or public
service organizations.
(ii) Develop an outreach program that educates
students about career and
technical education options and connects
students to the services cataloged under
subparagraph (i).
(iii) Track student placement and report on student
placement to the house and
senate appropriations subcommittees on school
aid no later than June 30, 2018 in the
form and manner prescribed by the department.
(6) In addition to the funds allocated
under subsections (1), (4), and (5), there
is allocated an amount not to exceed
$160,000.00 for 2017-2018 to eligible districts
under this subsection for the purpose of career
and technical education counselors. To
be eligible to receive funding under this
subsection, an eligible district must be a
constituent district of an intermediate
district that is located in prosperity region
6 and borders prosperity regions 5, 7, and 9,
and must have at least 1,600 pupils in
membership in 2017-2018. A grant to an eligible
district under this subsection shall
be $80,000.00.
Sec. 61b. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $8,000,000.00 each FOR fiscal year for 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 2018-2019
for CTE early/middle college and CTE dual enrollment programs authorized under this
section and for planning grants for the development or expansion of CTE early/middle
college programs. The purpose of these programs is to increase the number of Michigan
residents with high-quality degrees or credentials, and to increase the number of
students who are college and career ready upon high school graduation.
(2) From the funds allocated under subsection (1), an amount as determined under
this subsection shall be allocated to each intermediate district serving as a fiscal
agent for state-approved CTE early/middle college and CTE dual enrollment programs in
each of the prosperity regions and subregions identified by the department. An
intermediate district shall not use more than 5% of the funds allocated under this
subsection for administrative costs for serving as the fiscal agent.
(3) To be an eligible fiscal agent, an intermediate district must agree to do all
of the following in a form and manner determined by the department:
(a) Distribute funds to eligible CTE early/middle college and CTE dual enrollment
programs in a prosperity region or subregion as described in this section.
(b) Collaborate with the talent
district career council CAREER
AND EDUCATIONAL
ADVISORY COUNCIL that is located in the prosperity region or subregion to develop a
regional strategic plan under subsection (4) that aligns CTE programs and services
into an efficient and effective delivery system for high school students.
(c) Implement a regional process to rank career clusters in the prosperity region
or subregion as described under subsection (4). Regional processes shall be approved
by the department before the ranking of career clusters.
(d) Report CTE early/middle college and CTE dual enrollment program and student
data and information as prescribed by the department AND THE CENTER.
(4) A regional strategic plan must be
approved by the talent district career
council CAREER AND EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL before submission to
the department. A
regional strategic plan shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(a) An identification of regional employer need based on a ranking of all career
clusters in the prosperity region or subregion ranked by 10-year job openings
projections and median wage for each standard occupational code in each career cluster
as obtained from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Standard occupational
codes within high-ranking clusters also may be further ranked by median wage. The
rankings shall be reviewed by the talent
district career council
CAREER AND
EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL located in the prosperity region or subregion and
modified if necessary to accurately reflect employer demand for talent in the
prosperity region or subregion. A talent
district career council CAREER
AND
EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL shall document that it has conducted this review and
certify that it is accurate. These career cluster rankings shall be determined and
updated once every 4 years.
(b) An identification of educational entities in the prosperity region or
subregion that will provide eligible CTE early/middle college and CTE dual enrollment
programs including districts, intermediate districts, postsecondary institutions, and
noncredit occupational training programs leading to an industry-recognized credential.
(c) A strategy to inform parents and students of CTE early/middle college and CTE
dual enrollment programs in the prosperity region or subregion.
(d) Any other requirements as defined by the department.
(5) An eligible CTE program is a program that meets all of the following:
(a) Has been identified in the highest 5 career cluster rankings in any of the 10
regional strategic plans jointly approved by the Michigan talent investment agency in
the department of talent and economic development and the department.
(b) Has a coherent sequence of courses that will allow a student to earn a high
school diploma and achieve at least 1 of the following in a specific career cluster:
(i) An associate degree.
(ii) An industry-recognized technical certification approved by the Michigan
talent investment agency in the department of talent and economic development.
(iii) Up to 60 transferable college credits.
(iv) Participation in a registered apprenticeship.
(c) Is aligned with the Michigan merit curriculum.
(d) Has an articulation agreement with at least 1 postsecondary institution that
provides students with opportunities to receive postsecondary credits during the
student's participation in the CTE early/middle college or CTE dual enrollment program
and transfers those credits to the postsecondary institution upon completion of the
CTE early/middle college or CTE dual enrollment program.
(e) Provides instruction that is supervised, directed, or coordinated by an
appropriately certificated CTE teacher or, for concurrent enrollment courses, a
postsecondary faculty member.
(f) Provides for highly integrated student support services that include at least
the following:
(i) Teachers as academic advisors.
(ii) Supervised course selection.
(iii) Monitoring of student progress and completion.
(iv) Career planning services provided by a local one-stop service center as
described in the Michigan works one-stop service center system act, 2006 PA 491, MCL
408.111 to 408.135, or by a high school counselor or advisor.
(g) Has courses that are taught on a college campus, are college courses offered
at the high school and taught by college faculty, or are courses taught in combination
with online instruction.
(6) Funds to eligible CTE early/middle college and CTE dual enrollment programs
shall be distributed as follows:
(a) The department shall determine statewide average CTE costs per pupil for each
CIP code program by calculating statewide average costs for each CIP code program for
the 3 most recent fiscal years.
(b) Distribution to each eligible CTE early/middle college or CTE dual enrollment
program shall be the product of 50% of CTE costs per pupil times the current year
pupil enrollment of each eligible CTE early/middle college or CTE dual enrollment
program.
(7) In order to receive funds under this section, a CTE early/middle college or
CTE dual enrollment program shall furnish to the intermediate district that is the
fiscal agent identified in subsection (1), in a form and manner determined by the
department, all information needed to administer this program and meet federal
reporting requirements; shall allow the department or the department's designee to
review all records related to the program for which it receives funds; and shall
reimburse the state for all disallowances found in the review, as determined by the
department.
(8) There is allocated from the funds under subsection (1) an amount not to
exceed $500,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for grants to intermediate districts or
consortia of intermediate districts for the purpose of planning for new or expanded
early middle college programs. Applications for grants shall be submitted in a form
and manner determined by the department. The amount of a grant under this subsection
shall not exceed $50,000.00. To be eligible for a grant under this subsection, an
intermediate district or consortia of intermediate districts must provide matching
funds equal to the grant received under this subsection. Notwithstanding section 17b,
payments under this subsection may be made as determined by the department.
(9) Funds distributed under this section may be used to fund program expenditures
that would otherwise be paid from foundation allowances. A program receiving funding
under section 61a may receive funding under this section for allowable costs that
exceed the reimbursement the program received under section 61a. The combined payments
received by a program under section 61a and this section shall not exceed the total
allowable costs of the program. A program provider shall not use more than 5% of the
funds allocated under this section to the program for administrative costs.
(10) If the allocation under subsection (1) is insufficient to fully fund
payments as otherwise calculated under this section, the department shall prorate
payments under this section on an equal percentage basis.
(11) If pupils enrolled in a career cluster in an eligible CTE early/middle
college or CTE dual enrollment program qualify to be reimbursed under this section,
those pupils continue to qualify for reimbursement until graduation, even if the
career cluster is no longer identified as being in the highest 5 career cluster
rankings.
(12) As used in this section:
(a) "Allowable costs" means those costs directly attributable to the program as
jointly determined by the Michigan talent investment agency and the department.
(B) "CAREER AND EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL", OR ITS SUCCESSOR MEANS AN ADVISORY
COUNCIL TO THE LOCAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARDS LOCATED IN A PROSPERITY REGION
CONSISTING OF EDUCATIONAL, EMPLOYER, LABOR, AND PARENT REPRESENTATIVES.
(C) (b) "CIP" means classification of instructional
programs.
(D) (c) "CTE" means career and technical education
programs.
(E) (d) "CTE dual enrollment program" means a 4-year high
school program of
postsecondary courses offered by eligible postsecondary educational institutions that
leads to an industry-recognized certification or degree.
(F) (e) "Early/middle college program" means a 5-year
high school program.
(G) (f) "Eligible postsecondary educational institution"
means that term as
defined in section 3 of the career and technical preparation act, 2000 PA 258, MCL
388.1903.
(g) "Talent district career council"
means an advisory council to the local workforce
development boards located in a prosperity
region consisting of educational, employer,
labor, and parent representatives.
SEC. 61D. (1) FROM THE APPROPRIATION IN SECTION 11, THERE IS ALLOCATED AN AMOUNT
NOT TO EXCEED $5,000,000.00 FOR 2018-2019 FOR ADDITIONAL PAYMENTS TO DISTRICTS FOR
PUPILS ENROLLED IN CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS. THE PURPOSE OF FUNDS UNDER
THIS SECTION IS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MICHIGAN RESIDENTS WITH HIGH-QUALITY DEGREES
OR CREDENTIALS, AND TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO ARE COLLEGE AND CAREER
READY UPON HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION.
(2) PAYMENTS TO DISTRICTS UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL BE CALCULATED IN THE FOLLOWING
MANNER:
(A) A PAYMENT OF $25.00 MULTIPLIED BY THE NUMBER OF PUPILS IN GRADES 9 TO 12 WHO
ARE COUNTED IN MEMBERSHIP IN THE DISTRICT AND ARE ENROLLED IN AT LEAST 1 CAREER AND
TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM.
(B) AN ADDITIONAL PAYMENT OF $25.00 MULTIPLIED BY THE NUMBER OF PUPILS IN GRADES
9 TO 12 WHO ARE COUNTED IN MEMBERSHIP IN THE DISTRICT AND ARE ENROLLED IN AT LEAST 1
CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM THAT PROVIDES INSTRUCTION IN CRITICAL SKILLS
AND HIGH-DEMAND CAREER FIELDS.
(3) IF THE ALLOCATION UNDER SUBSECTION (1) IS INSUFFICIENT TO FULLY FUND PAYMENTS
UNDER SUBSECTION (2), THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PRORATE PAYMENTS UNDER THIS SECTION ON AN
EQUAL PER-PUPIL BASIS.
(4) AS USED IN THIS SECTION:
(A) "CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM" MEANS A STATE-APPROVED CAREER AND
TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM, AS DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
(B) "CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM THAT PROVIDES INSTRUCTION IN CRITICAL
SKILLS AND HIGH-DEMAND CAREER FIELD" MEANS A CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM
CLASSIFIED UNDER ANY OF THE FOLLOWING 2-DIGIT CLASSIFICATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS
(CIP) CODES:
(i) 01, WHICH REFERS TO "AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE OPERATIONS, AND RELATED
SCIENCES".
(ii) 03, WHICH REFERS TO "NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION".
(iii) 10 THROUGH 11, WHICH REFERS TO "COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES/TECHNICIANS AND
SUPPORT SERVICES" AND "COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES".
(iv) 14 THROUGH 15, WHICH REFERS TO "ENGINEERING" AND "ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES
AND ENGINEERING-RELATED FIELDS".
(v) 26, WHICH REFERS TO "BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES".
(vi) 46 THROUGH 48, WHICH REFERS TO "CONSTRUCTION TRADES", "MECHANIC AND REPAIR
TECHNOLOGIES/TECHNICIANS", AND "PRECISION PRODUCTION".
(vii) 51, WHICH REFERS TO "HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND RELATED PROGRAMS".
Sec. 62. (1) For the purposes of this section:
(a) "Membership" means for a particular fiscal year the total membership for the
immediately preceding fiscal year of the intermediate district and the districts
constituent to the intermediate district or the total membership for the immediately
preceding fiscal year of the area vocational-technical program.
(b) "Millage levied" means the millage levied for area vocational-technical
education pursuant to sections 681 to 690 of the revised school code, MCL 380.681 to
380.690, including a levy for debt service obligations incurred as the result of
borrowing for capital outlay projects and in meeting capital projects fund
requirements of area vocational-technical education.
(c) "Taxable value" means the total taxable value of the districts constituent to
an intermediate district or area vocational-technical education program, except that
if a district has elected not to come under sections 681 to 690 of the revised school
code, MCL 380.681 to 380.690, the membership and taxable value of that district shall
not be included in the membership and taxable value of the intermediate district.
However, the membership and taxable value of a district that has elected not to come
under sections 681 to 690 of the revised school code, MCL 380.681 to 380.690, shall be
included in the membership and taxable value of the intermediate district if the
district meets both of the following:
(i) The district operates the area vocational-technical education program
pursuant to a contract with the intermediate district.
(ii) The district contributes an annual amount to the operation of the program
that is commensurate with the revenue that would have been raised for operation of the
program if millage were levied in the district for the program under sections 681 to
690 of the revised school code, MCL 380.681 to 380.690.
(2) From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount not to
exceed $9,190,000.00 each FOR fiscal year for 2016-2017 and for 2017-2018 2018-2019 to
reimburse intermediate districts and area vocational-technical education programs
established under section 690(3) of the revised school code, MCL 380.690, levying
millages for area vocational-technical education pursuant to sections 681 to 690 of
the revised school code, MCL 380.681 to 380.690. The purpose, use, and expenditure of
the reimbursement shall be limited as if the funds were generated by those millages.
(3) Reimbursement for the millages levied
in 2015-2016 shall be made in 2016-2017
at an amount per 2015-2016 membership pupil
computed by subtracting from $198,100.00
the 2015-2016 taxable value behind each membership
pupil and multiplying the resulting
difference by the 2015-2016 millage levied.
(3) (4) Reimbursement for those millages levied in 2016-2017 2017-2018 shall be
made in 2017-2018 2018-2019 at an amount per 2016-2017 2017-2018 membership pupil
computed by subtracting from $199,000.00 $205,600.00 the 2016-2017 2017-2018 taxable
value behind each membership pupil and multiplying the resulting difference by the
2016-2017 2017-2018 millage levied, and
then subtracting from that amount the 2016-
2017 2017-2018 local community
stabilization share revenue for area vocational
technical education behind each membership pupil for reimbursement of personal
property exemption loss under the local community stabilization authority act, 2014 PA
86, MCL 123.1341 to 123.1362.
(4) (5) The amount paid to a single intermediate district under
this section
shall not exceed 38.4% of the total amount allocated under subsection (2).
(5) (6) The amount paid to a single intermediate district under this
section
shall not be less than 75% of the amount allocated to the intermediate district under
this section for the immediately preceding fiscal year.
Sec. 64b. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $1,750,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for supplemental payments to
districts that support the attendance of district pupils in grades 9 to 12 under the
postsecondary enrollment options act, 1996 PA 160, MCL 388.511 to 388.524, or under
the career and technical preparation act, 2000 PA 258, MCL 388.1901 to 388.1913,
consistent with section 21b, or that support the attendance of district pupils in a
concurrent enrollment program if the district meets the requirements under subsection
(3). Programs funded under this section are intended to increase the number of pupils
who are college- and career-ready upon high school graduation.
(2) To be eligible for payments under this section for supporting the attendance
of district pupils under the postsecondary enrollment options act, 1996 PA 160, MCL
388.511 to 388.524, or under the career and technical preparation act, 2000 PA 258,
MCL 388.1901 to 388.1913, a district shall do all of the following:
(a) Provide information to all high school pupils on postsecondary enrollment
options, including enrollment eligibility, the institutions and types of courses that
are eligible for participation, the decision-making process for granting academic
credit, and an explanation of eligible charges that will be paid by the district.
(b) Enter into a written agreement with a postsecondary institution before the
enrollment of district pupils.
(c) Agree to pay all eligible charges pursuant to section 21b.
(d) Award high school credit for the postsecondary course if the pupil
successfully completes the course.
(3) To be eligible for payments under this section for pupils enrolled in a
concurrent enrollment program, a district shall do all of the following:
(a) Provide information to all high school pupils on postsecondary enrollment
options, including enrollment eligibility, the institutions and types of courses that
are eligible for participation, the decision-making process for granting academic
credit, and an explanation of eligible charges that will be paid by the district.
(b) Enter into a written agreement with a postsecondary institution establishing
the concurrent enrollment program before the enrollment of district pupils in a
postsecondary course through the postsecondary institution.
(c) Ensure that the course is taught by either a high school teacher or
postsecondary faculty pursuant to standards established by the postsecondary
institution with which the district has entered into a written agreement to operate
the concurrent enrollment program.
(d) Ensure that the written agreement provides that the postsecondary institution
agrees not to charge the pupil for any cost of the program.
(e) Ensure that the course is taught in the local district or intermediate
district.
(f) Ensure that the pupil is awarded both high school and college credit at a
community college or state public university in this state upon successful completion
of the course as outlined in the agreement with the postsecondary institution.
(4) Funds shall be awarded to eligible districts under this section in the
following manner:
(a) A payment of $10.00 per credit, for up to 3 credits, for a credit-bearing
course in which a pupil enrolls during the current school year, as described under
either subsection (2) or (3).
(b) An additional payment of $30.00 per-pupil per course identified in
subdivision (a), if the pupil successfully completes, and is awarded both high school
and postsecondary credit for, the course during the current school year.
(5) A district requesting payment under this section shall submit an application
to the department in the form and manner prescribed by the department. Notwithstanding
section 17b, payments under this section shall be made on a schedule determined by the
department.
Sec. 67. (1) From the general fund amount appropriated in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $3,000,000.00
for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for college
access programs. The programs funded under this section are intended to inform
students of college and career options and to provide resources intended to increase
the number of pupils who are adequately prepared with the information needed to make
informed decisions on college and career. The funds appropriated under this section
are intended to be used to increase the number of Michigan residents with high-quality
degrees or credentials. Funds appropriated under this section shall not be used to
supplant funding for counselors already funded by districts.
(2) The talent investment agency of the department of talent and economic
development shall administer funds allocated under this section in collaboration with
the Michigan college access network. These funds may be used for any of the following
purposes:
(a) Michigan college access network operations, programming, and services to
local college access networks.
(b) Local college access networks, which are community-based college
access/success partnerships committed to increasing the college participation and
completion rates within geographically defined communities through a coordinated
strategy.
(c) The Michigan college advising program, a program intended to place trained,
recently graduated college advisors in high schools that serve significant numbers of
low-income and first-generation college-going pupils. State funds used for this
purpose may not exceed 33% of the total funds available under this subsection.
(d) Subgrants of up to $5,000.00 to districts with comprehensive high schools
that establish a college access team and implement specific strategies to create a
college-going culture in a high school in a form and manner approved by the Michigan
college access network and the Michigan talent investment agency.
(e) The Michigan college access portal, an online one-stop portal to help pupils
and families plan and apply for college.
(f) Public awareness and outreach campaigns to encourage low-income and first-
generation college-going pupils to take necessary steps toward college and to assist
pupils and families in completing a timely and accurate free application for federal
student aid.
(g) Subgrants to postsecondary institutions to recruit, hire, and train college
student mentors and college advisors to assist high school pupils in navigating the
postsecondary planning and enrollment process.
(3) For the purposes of this section, "college" means any postsecondary
educational opportunity that leads to a career, including, but not limited to, a
postsecondary degree, industry-recognized technical certification, or registered
apprenticeship.
Sec. 74. (1) From the amount appropriated in section 11, there is allocated an
amount not to exceed $3,730,300.00 $3,754,900.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for the
purposes of this section.
(2) From the allocation in subsection (1), there is allocated for each fiscal
year the amount necessary for payments to state supported colleges or universities and
intermediate districts providing school bus driver safety instruction pursuant to
section 51 of the pupil transportation act, 1990 PA 187, MCL 257.1851. The payments
shall be in an amount determined by the department not to exceed the actual cost of
instruction and driver compensation for each public or nonpublic school bus driver
attending a course of instruction. For the purpose of computing compensation, the
hourly rate allowed each school bus driver shall not exceed the hourly rate received
for driving a school bus. Reimbursement compensating the driver during the course of
instruction shall be made by the department to the college or university or
intermediate district providing the course of instruction.
(3) From the allocation in subsection
(1), there is allocated for 2017-2018 2018-
2019 the amount necessary to pay the reasonable costs of nonspecial education
auxiliary services transportation provided pursuant to section 1323 of the revised
school code, MCL 380.1323. Districts funded under this subsection shall not receive
funding under any other section of this article for nonspecial education auxiliary
services transportation.
(4) From the funds allocated in subsection (1), there is allocated an amount not
to exceed $1,705,300.00 $1,729,900.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for reimbursement to
districts and intermediate districts for costs associated with the inspection of
school buses and pupil transportation vehicles by the department of state police as
required under section 715a of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.715a,
and section 39 of the pupil transportation act, 1990 PA 187, MCL 257.1839. The
department of state police shall prepare a statement of costs attributable to each
district for which bus inspections are provided and submit it to the department and to
an intermediate district serving as fiduciary in a time and manner determined jointly
by the department and the department of state police. Upon review and approval of the
statement of cost, the department shall forward to the designated intermediate
district serving as fiduciary the amount of the reimbursement on behalf of each
district and intermediate district for costs detailed on the statement within 45 days
after receipt of the statement. The designated intermediate district shall make
payment in the amount specified on the statement to the department of state police
within 45 days after receipt of the statement. The total reimbursement of costs under
this subsection shall not exceed the amount allocated under this subsection.
Notwithstanding section 17b, payments to eligible entities under this subsection shall
be paid on a schedule prescribed by the department.
Sec. 81. (1) From the appropriation in
section 11, there is allocated for 2017-
2018 2018-2019 to the intermediate districts the sum necessary, but not
to exceed
$67,108,000.00 to provide state aid to intermediate districts under this section.
(2) The amount allocated under this section to each intermediate district is an
amount equal to 100% of the amount allocated to the intermediate district under this
section for 2016-2017 2017-2018. Funding provided under this section
shall be used to
comply with requirements of this article and the revised school code that are
applicable to intermediate districts, and for which funding is not provided elsewhere
in this article, and to provide technical assistance to districts as authorized by the
intermediate school board.
(3) Intermediate districts receiving funds under this section, shall collaborate
with the department to develop expanded professional development opportunities for
teachers to update and expand their knowledge and skills needed to support the
Michigan merit curriculum.
(4) From the allocation in subsection (1), there is allocated to an intermediate
district, formed by the consolidation or annexation of 2 or more intermediate
districts or the attachment of a total intermediate district to another intermediate
school district or the annexation of all of the constituent K-12 districts of a
previously existing intermediate school district which has disorganized, an additional
allotment of $3,500.00 each fiscal year for each intermediate district included in the
new intermediate district for 3 years following consolidation, annexation, or
attachment.
(5) In order to receive funding under this section, an intermediate district
shall do all of the following:
(a) Demonstrate to the satisfaction of the department that the intermediate
district employs at least 1 person who is trained in pupil accounting and auditing
procedures, rules, and regulations.
(b) Demonstrate to the satisfaction of the department that the intermediate
district employs at least 1 person who is trained in rules, regulations, and district
reporting procedures for the individual-level student data that serves as the basis
for the calculation of the district and high school graduation and dropout rates.
(c) Comply with sections 1278a and 1278b of the revised school code, MCL
380.1278a and 380.1278b.
(d) Furnish data and other information required by state and federal law to the
center and the department in the form and manner specified by the center or the
department, as applicable.
(e) Comply with section 1230g of the revised school code, MCL 380.1230g.
(f) Comply with section 761 of the revised school code, MCL 380.761.
Sec. 94. (1) From the general fund appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated to the department for 2017-2018 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed
$750,000.00 for efforts to increase the number of pupils who participate and succeed
in advanced placement and international baccalaureate programs.
(2) From the funds allocated under this section, the department shall award funds
to cover all or part of the costs of advanced placement test fees or international
baccalaureate test fees and international baccalaureate registration fees for low-
income pupils who take an advanced placement or an international baccalaureate test.
Payments shall not exceed $20.00 per test completed or $150.00 per international
baccalaureate registration fees per pupil registered.
(3) The department shall only award funds under this section if the department
determines that all of the following criteria are met:
(a) Each pupil for whom payment is made meets eligibility requirements of the
federal advanced placement test fee program under section 1701 of the no child left
behind act of 2001, Public Law 107-110, or under a corresponding provision of the
every student succeeds act, Public Law 114-95.
(b) The tests are administered by the college board, the international
baccalaureate organization, or another test provider approved by the department.
(c) The pupil for whom payment is made pays at least $5.00 toward the cost of
each test for which payment is made.
(4) The department shall establish procedures for awarding funds under this
section.
(5) Notwithstanding section 17b, payments under this section shall be made on a
schedule determined by the department.
Sec. 94a. (1) There is created within the state budget office in the department
of technology, management, and budget the center for educational performance and
information. The center shall do all of the following:
(a) Coordinate the collection of all data required by state and federal law from
districts, intermediate districts, and postsecondary institutions.
(b) Create, maintain, and enhance this state's P-20 longitudinal data system and
ensure that it meets the requirements of subsection (4).
(c) Collect data in the most efficient manner possible in order to reduce the
administrative burden on reporting entities, including, but not limited to, electronic
transcript services.
(d) Create, maintain, and enhance this state's web-based educational portal to
provide information to school leaders, teachers, researchers, and the public in
compliance with all federal and state privacy laws. Data shall include, but are not
limited to, all of the following:
(i) Data sets that link teachers to student information, allowing districts to
assess individual teacher impact on student performance and consider student growth
factors in teacher and principal evaluation systems.
(ii) Data access or, if practical, data sets, provided for regional data hubs
that, in combination with local data, can improve teaching and learning in the
classroom.
(iii) Research-ready data sets for researchers to perform research that advances
this state's educational performance.
(e) Provide data in a useful manner to allow state and local policymakers to make
informed policy decisions.
(f) Provide public reports to the citizens of this state to allow them to assess
allocation of resources and the return on their investment in the education system of
this state.
(g) Other functions as assigned by the state budget director.
(2) Each state department, officer, or agency that collects information from
districts, intermediate districts, or postsecondary institutions as required under
state or federal law shall make arrangements with the center to ensure that the state
department, officer, or agency is in compliance with subsection (1). This subsection
does not apply to information collected by the department of treasury under the
uniform budgeting and accounting act, 1968 PA 2, MCL 141.421 to 141.440a; the revised
municipal finance act, 2001 PA 34, MCL 141.2101 to 141.2821; the school bond
qualification, approval, and loan act, 2005 PA 92, MCL 388.1921 to 388.1939; or
section 1351a of the revised school code, MCL 380.1351a.
(3) The center may enter into any interlocal agreements necessary to fulfill its
functions.
(4) The center shall ensure that the P-20 longitudinal data system required under
subsection (1)(b) meets all of the following:
(a) Includes data at the individual student level from preschool through
postsecondary education and into the workforce.
(b) Supports interoperability by using standard data structures, data formats,
and data definitions to ensure linkage and connectivity in a manner that facilitates
the exchange of data among agencies and institutions within the state and between
states.
(c) Enables the matching of individual teacher and student records so that an
individual student may be matched with those teachers providing instruction to that
student.
(d) Enables the matching of individual teachers with information about their
certification and the institutions that prepared and recommended those teachers for
state certification.
(e) Enables data to be easily generated for continuous improvement and decision-
making, including timely reporting to parents, teachers, and school leaders on student
achievement.
(f) Ensures the reasonable quality, validity, and reliability of data contained
in the system.
(g) Provides this state with the ability to meet federal and state reporting
requirements.
(h) For data elements related to preschool through grade 12 and postsecondary,
meets all of the following:
(i) Contains a unique statewide student identifier that does not permit a student
to be individually identified by users of the system, except as allowed by federal and
state law.
(ii) Contains student-level enrollment, demographic, and program participation
information.
(iii) Contains student-level information about the points at which students exit,
transfer in, transfer out, drop out, or complete education programs.
(iv) Has the capacity to communicate with higher education data systems.
(i) For data elements related to preschool through grade 12 only, meets all of
the following:
(i) Contains yearly test records of individual students for assessments approved
by DED-OESE for accountability purposes under section 1111(b) of the elementary and
secondary education act of 1965, 20 USC 6311, including information on individual
students not tested, by grade and subject.
(ii) Contains student-level transcript information, including information on
courses completed and grades earned.
(iii) Contains student-level college readiness test scores.
(j) For data elements related to postsecondary education only:
(i) Contains data that provide information regarding the extent to which
individual students transition successfully from secondary school to postsecondary
education, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(A) Enrollment in remedial coursework.
(B) Completion of 1 year's worth of college credit applicable to a degree within
2 years of enrollment.
(ii) Contains data that provide other information determined necessary to address
alignment and adequate preparation for success in postsecondary education.
(5) From the general fund appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an
amount not to exceed $10,173,200.00 for
2016-2017 and an amount not to exceed
$16,216,000.00 $16,356,700.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 to the department of technology,
management, and budget to support the operations of the center. In addition, from the
federal funds appropriated in section 11 there
is allocated for each fiscal year for
2016-2017 and for 2017-2018 2018-2019 the amount necessary, estimated at
$193,500.00,
to support the operations of the center and to establish a P-20 longitudinal data
system necessary for state and federal reporting purposes. The center shall cooperate
with the department to ensure that this state is in compliance with federal law and is
maximizing opportunities for increased federal funding to improve education in this
state.
(6) From the funds allocated in subsection (5), the center may use an amount
determined by the center for competitive grants
for 2017-2018 2018-2019 to support
collaborative efforts on the P-20 longitudinal data system. All of the following apply
to grants awarded under this subsection:
(a) The center shall award competitive grants to eligible intermediate districts
or a consortium of intermediate districts based on criteria established by the center.
(b) Activities funded under the grant shall support the P-20 longitudinal data
system portal and may include portal hosting, hardware and software acquisition,
maintenance, enhancements, user support and related materials, and professional
learning tools and activities aimed at improving the utility of the P-20 longitudinal
data system.
(c) An applicant that received a grant under this subsection for the immediately
preceding fiscal year shall receive priority for funding under this section. However,
after 3 fiscal years of continuous funding, an applicant is required to compete openly
with new applicants.
(7) Funds allocated under this section that are not expended in the fiscal year
in which they were allocated may be carried forward to a subsequent fiscal year and
are appropriated for the purposes for which the funds were originally allocated.
(8) The center may bill departments as necessary in order to fulfill reporting
requirements of state and federal law. The center may also enter into agreements to
supply custom data, analysis, and reporting to other principal executive departments,
state agencies, local units of government, and other individuals and organizations.
The center may receive and expend funds in addition to those authorized in subsection
(5) to cover the costs associated with salaries, benefits, supplies, materials, and
equipment necessary to provide such data, analysis, and reporting services.
(9) As used in this section:
(a) "DED-OESE" means the United States Department of Education Office of
Elementary and Secondary Education.
(b) "State education agency" means the department.
Sec. 98. (1) From the general fund money appropriated in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $7,387,500.00
for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for the
purposes described in this section. The Michigan Virtual University shall provide a
report to the legislature not later than
November 1, 2017 OF
EACH YEAR,
that includes
its mission, its plans, and proposed benchmarks it must meet, which shall include a
plan to achieve a 50% increase in documented
improvement in each requirement of the
Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute
and Michigan Virtual School, and all
other THE organizational priorities identified in this section, in order to
receive
full funding for 2018-2019 2019-2020. Not later than March 1, 2018 OF EACH YEAR, the
Michigan Virtual University shall provide an update to the house and senate
appropriations subcommittees on school aid to show the progress being made to meet the
benchmarks identified.
(2) The Michigan Virtual University shall operate the Michigan Virtual Learning
Research Institute. The Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute shall do all of
the following:
(a) Support and accelerate innovation in education through the following
activities:
(i) Test, evaluate, and recommend as appropriate new technology-based
instructional tools and resources.
(ii) Research, design, and recommend virtual education delivery models for use by
pupils and teachers that include age-appropriate multimedia instructional content.
(iii) Research, develop, and recommend annually to the department criteria by
which cyber schools and virtual course providers should be monitored and evaluated to
ensure a quality education for their pupils.
(iv) Based on pupil completion and performance data reported to the department or
the center for educational performance and information from cyber schools and other
virtual course providers operating in this state, analyze the effectiveness of virtual
learning delivery models in preparing pupils to be college- and career-ready and
publish a report that highlights enrollment totals, completion rates, and the overall
impact on pupils. The report shall be submitted to the house and senate appropriations
subcommittees on state school aid, the state budget director, the house and senate
fiscal agencies, the department, districts, and intermediate districts not later than
March 31, 2018 OF EACH YEAR.
(v) Provide an extensive professional development program to at least 30,000
educational personnel, including teachers, school administrators, and school board
members, that focuses on the effective integration of virtual learning into curricula
and instruction. The Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute is encouraged to
work with the MiSTEM advisory council created under section 99s to coordinate
professional development of teachers in applicable fields. In addition, the Michigan
Virtual Learning Research Institute and external stakeholders are encouraged to
coordinate with the department for professional development in this state. Not later
than December 1, 2018 OF EACH YEAR, the Michigan Virtual Learning Research
Institute
shall submit a report to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on state
school aid, the state budget director, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the
department on the number and percentage of
teachers, school administrators, and school
board members who have received professional development services from the Michigan
Virtual University. The report shall also identify barriers and other opportunities to
encourage the adoption of virtual learning in the public education system.
(vi) Identify and share best practices for planning, implementing, and evaluating
virtual and blended education delivery models with intermediate districts, districts,
and public school academies to accelerate the adoption of innovative education
delivery models statewide.
(b) Provide leadership for this state's system of virtual learning education by
doing the following activities:
(i) Develop and report policy recommendations to the governor and the legislature
that accelerate the expansion of effective virtual learning in this state's schools.
(ii) Provide a clearinghouse for research reports, academic studies, evaluations,
and other information related to virtual learning.
(iii) Promote and distribute the most current instructional design standards and
guidelines for virtual teaching.
(iv) In collaboration with the department and interested colleges and
universities in this state, support implementation and improvements related to
effective virtual learning instruction.
(v) Pursue public/private partnerships that include districts to study and
implement competency-based technology-rich virtual learning models.
(vi) Create a statewide network of school-based mentors serving as liaisons
between pupils, virtual instructors, parents, and school staff, as provided by the
department or the center, and provide mentors with research-based training and
technical assistance designed to help more pupils be successful virtual learners.
(vii) Convene focus groups and conduct annual surveys of teachers,
administrators, pupils, parents, and others to identify barriers and opportunities
related to virtual learning.
(viii) Produce an annual consumer awareness report for schools and parents about
effective virtual education providers and education delivery models, performance data,
cost structures, and research trends.
(ix) Research and establish PROVIDE an internet-based platform that educators can
use to create student-centric learning tools and resources FOR SHARING IN THE STATE’S
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE REPOSITORY and facilitate a user network that assists
educators in using the CONTENT CREATION platform AND STATE REPOSITORY FOR OPEN
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES. As part of this initiative, the Michigan Virtual University
shall work collaboratively with districts and intermediate districts to establish a
plan to make available virtual resources that align to Michigan's K-12 curriculum
standards for use by students, educators, and parents.
(x) Create and maintain a public statewide catalog of virtual learning courses
being offered by all public schools and community colleges in this state. The Michigan
Virtual Learning Research Institute shall identify and develop a list of nationally
recognized best practices for virtual learning and use this list to support reviews of
virtual course vendors, courses, and instructional practices. The Michigan Virtual
Learning Research Institute shall also provide a mechanism for intermediate districts
to use the identified best practices to review content offered by constituent
districts. The Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute shall review the virtual
course offerings of the Michigan Virtual University, and make the results from these
reviews available to the public as part of the statewide catalog. The Michigan Virtual
Learning Research Institute shall ensure that the statewide catalog is made available
to the public on the Michigan Virtual University website and shall allow the ability
to link it to each district's website as provided for in section 21f. The statewide
catalog shall also contain all of the following:
(A) The number of enrollments in each virtual course in the immediately preceding
school year.
(B) The number of enrollments that earned 60% or more of the total course points
for each virtual course in the immediately preceding school year.
(C) The completion PASS rate for each virtual course.
(xi) Develop prototype and pilot SUPPORT registration, payment services, and
transcript functionality to FOR the statewide catalog and train key
stakeholders on
how to use new features.
(xii) Collaborate with key stakeholders to examine district level accountability
and teacher effectiveness issues related to virtual learning under section 21f and
make findings and recommendations publicly available.
(xiii) Provide a report on the activities of the Michigan Virtual Learning
Research Institute.
(3) To further enhance its expertise and leadership in virtual learning, the
Michigan Virtual University shall continue to operate the Michigan Virtual School as a
statewide laboratory and quality model of instruction by implementing virtual and
blended learning solutions for Michigan schools in accordance with the following
parameters:
(a) The Michigan Virtual School must maintain its accreditation status from
recognized national and international accrediting entities.
(b) The Michigan Virtual University shall use no more than $1,000,000.00 of the
amount allocated under this section to subsidize the cost paid by districts for
virtual courses.
(c) In providing educators responsible for the teaching of virtual courses as
provided for in this section, the Michigan Virtual School shall follow the
requirements to request and assess, and the department of state police shall provide a
criminal history check and criminal records
check under sections 1230 and 1230a of the
revised school code, MCL 380.1230 and 380.1230a., in the same manner as if the
Michigan Virtual School were a school district under those sections.
(4) From the funds allocated under subsection (1), the Michigan Virtual
University shall allocate up to $500,000.00 to support the expansion of new online and
blended educator professional development programs.
(5) If the course offerings are included in the statewide catalog of virtual
courses under subsection (2)(b)(x), the Michigan Virtual School operated by the
Michigan Virtual University may offer virtual course offerings, including, but not
limited to, all of the following:
(a) Information technology courses.
(b) College level equivalent courses, as defined in section 1471 of the revised
school code, MCL 380.1471.
(c) Courses and dual enrollment opportunities.
(d) Programs and services for at-risk pupils.
(e) High school equivalency test preparation courses for adjudicated youth.
(f) Special interest courses.
(g) Professional development programs for teachers, school administrators, other
school employees, and school board members.
(6) If a home-schooled or nonpublic school student is a resident of a district
that subscribes to services provided by the Michigan Virtual School, the student may
use the services provided by the Michigan Virtual School to the district without
charge to the student beyond what is charged to a district pupil using the same
services.
(7) Not later than December 1 of each fiscal year, the Michigan Virtual
University shall provide a report to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees
on state school aid, the state budget director, the house and senate fiscal agencies,
and the department that includes at least all of the following information related to
the Michigan Virtual School for the preceding state fiscal year:
(a) A list of the districts served by the Michigan Virtual School.
(b) A list of virtual course titles available to districts.
(c) The total number of virtual course enrollments and information on
registrations and completions by course.
(d) The overall course completion rate percentage.
(8) In addition to the information listed in subsection (7), the report under
subsection (7) shall also include a plan to serve at least 600 schools with courses
from the Michigan Virtual School or with content available through the internet-based
platform identified in subsection (2)(b)(ix).
(9) The governor may appoint an advisory group for the Michigan Virtual Learning
Research Institute established under subsection (2). The members of the advisory group
shall serve at the pleasure of the governor and shall serve without compensation. The
purpose of the advisory group is to make recommendations to the governor, the
legislature, and the president and board of the Michigan Virtual University that will
accelerate innovation in this state's education system in a manner that will prepare
elementary and secondary students to be career and college ready and that will promote
the goal of increasing the percentage of citizens of this state with high-quality
degrees and credentials to at least 60% by 2025.
(10) Not later than November 1, 2017 OF EACH YEAR, the Michigan Virtual
University shall submit to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on state
school aid, the state budget director, and the house and senate fiscal agencies a
detailed budget for the 2017-2018 2018-2019 fiscal year that includes a breakdown on
its projected costs to deliver virtual educational services to districts and a summary
of the anticipated fees to be paid by districts for those services. Not later than
March 1 each year, the Michigan Virtual University shall submit to the house and
senate appropriations subcommittees on state school aid, the state budget director,
and the house and senate fiscal agencies a breakdown on its actual costs to deliver
virtual educational services to districts and a summary of the actual fees paid by
districts for those services based on audited financial statements for the immediately
preceding fiscal year.
(11) As used in this section:
(a) "Blended learning" means a hybrid instructional delivery model where pupils
are provided content, instruction, and assessment, in part at a supervised educational
facility away from home where the pupil and a teacher with a valid Michigan teaching
certificate are in the same physical location and in part through internet-connected
learning environments with some degree of pupil control over time, location, and pace
of instruction.
(b) "Cyber school" means a full-time instructional program of virtual courses for
pupils that may or may not require attendance at a physical school location.
(c) "Virtual course" means a course of study that is capable of generating a
credit or a grade and that is provided in an interactive learning environment in which
the majority of the curriculum is delivered using the internet and in which pupils are
separated from their instructor or teacher of record by time or location, or both.
Sec. 99h. (1) From the state school aid fund appropriation in section 11, there
is allocated an amount not to exceed
$2,500,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for
competitive grants to districts, and from
the general fund appropriation in section
11, there is allocated an amount not to exceed
$300,000.00 for 2017-2018 for
competitive grants to nonpublic schools, INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AND PUBLIC
SCHOOL ACADEMIES that provide pupils in grades K to 12 with expanded opportunities to
improve mathematics, science, and technology skills by participating in events hosted
by a science and technology development program known as FIRST (for inspiration and
recognition of science and technology) Robotics, including JR FIRST Lego League, FIRST
Lego League, FIRST tech challenge, and FIRST Robotics competition. Programs funded
under this section are intended to increase the number of pupils demonstrating
proficiency in science and mathematics on the state assessments and to increase the
number of pupils who are college- and career-ready upon high school graduation.
Notwithstanding section 17b, grant payments to
districts and nonpublic schools,
INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AND PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMIES under this section shall be
paid on a schedule determined by the department. The department shall set maximum
grant awards for each different level of competition in a manner that both maximizes
the number of teams that will be able to receive funds and expands the geographical
distribution of teams.
(2) A district or nonpublic school,
INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT,
OR PUBLIC
SCHOOL ACADEMY applying for a grant under this section shall submit an application in
a form and manner determined by the department.
To be eligible for a grant, a district
or nonpublic school, INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT, OR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMY shall
demonstrate in its application that the
district or nonpublic school IT has
established a partnership for the purposes of the FIRST Robotics program with at least
1 sponsor, business entity, higher education institution, or technical school, shall
submit a spending plan, and shall pay at least 25% of the cost of the FIRST Robotics
program.
(3) The department shall distribute the grant funding under this section for the
following purposes:
(a) Grants to districts or nonpublic
schools, INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, OR
PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMIES to pay for stipends not to exceed $1,500.00 for 1 coach per
team.
(b) Grants to districts or nonpublic
schools, INTERMEDIATE
SCHOOL DISTRICTS, OR
PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMIES for event registrations, materials, travel costs, and other
expenses associated with the preparation for and attendance at FIRST Robotics events
and competitions. Each grant recipient shall provide a local match from other private
or local funds for the funds received under this subdivision equal to at least 50% of
the costs of participating in an event.
(c) Grants to districts or nonpublic
schools, INTERMEDIATE
SCHOOL DISTRICTS, OR
PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMIES for awards to teams that advance to the state and world
championship competitions. The department shall determine an equal amount per team for
those teams that advance to the state championship and a second equal award amount to
those teams that advance to the world championship.
(4) A nonpublic school that receives a
grant under this section may use the funds
for either FIRST Robotics or Science Olympiad
programs.
(5) To be eligible to receive funds under
this section, a nonpublic school must
be a nonpublic school registered with the
department and must meet all applicable
state reporting requirements for nonpublic
schools.
Sec. 99r. (1) From the general fund appropriation under section 11, there is
allocated for 2016-2017 an amount not to
exceed $75,000.00, and there is allocated for
2017-2018 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed $250,000.00 $400,000.00 TO THE DEPARTMENT
OF TECHNOLOGY, MANAGEMENT, AND BUDGET, to support the creation
FUNCTIONS of the
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT FOR THE MISTEM network.
(2) From the general fund allocation
under this section, there is allocated for
2016-2017 an amount not to exceed $75,000.00 to
the department of technology,
management, and budget to support the functions
of a transitional executive director
and executive assistant for the MiSTEM network.
The department of technology,
management, and budget shall work with the
Michigan Mathematics and Science Centers
Network and the MiSTEM council to hire the
transitional executive director and
executive assistant. The transitional executive
director and executive assistant shall
work with the president and executive director
of the Michigan Mathematics and Science
Centers Network and the chairperson and
vice-chairperson of the MiSTEM council. The
transitional executive director and executive
assistant shall do all of the following:
(a) Develop a plan for the creation of
MiSTEM network regions that does all of
the following:
(i) Creates a structured relationship between the
MiSTEM council, MiSTEM network
executive director and executive assistant, and
MiSTEM network region staff that
ensures services to all regions and local
communities in each region.
(ii) Empowers the MiSTEM network regions in a
manner that creates a robust
statewide STEM culture, empowers STEM teachers,
integrates business and education into
the MiSTEM network, and ensures high-quality
and equitable distribution of STEM
experiences for pupils.
(iii) Identifies region boundaries throughout the
state and identifies fiscal
agents within those regions.
(iv) Identifies MiSTEM state and regional goals and
objectives and processes by
which goals and objectives shall be measured.
(v) Includes processes by which the MiSTEM network
regions apply for MiSTEM
grants, provide feedback on grant-funded
programming, share best practices, and create
regional master plans.
(vi) Creates a marketing campaign, including, at
least, an online presence which
includes dashboards of outcomes for the MiSTEM
network.
(b) Form a committee for the purpose of
identifying each MiSTEM network region
and selecting a fiscal agent and determining
staffing for that region. Fiscal agents
shall be an intermediate district within the
region, a university within the region,
or another organization that served as fiscal
agent within the Michigan Mathematics
and Science Centers Network. Agencies
interested in serving as the region's fiscal
agent shall be included on this committee. The
committee shall also include
representatives of the general education
leadership network and the governor's talent
investment board, in addition to the math and
science centers and MiSTEM council. The
committee shall identify necessary staffing
levels and locations of staff and
determine processes by which the entire region
will receive and share services. All
fiscal agents for the Michigan Mathematics and
Science Centers Network are required to
maintain current levels of effort for the
MiSTEM network as for the Michigan
Mathematics and Science Centers Network.
(c) Establish a system to distribute and
monitor MiSTEM grants during the
creation of the MiSTEM network. The monitoring
of the grants shall include conducting
reviews of recipients and the experiences and
feedback of pupils.
(d) Report to the governor and the
legislature on the development of the MiSTEM
network.
(e) Submit the plan developed under
subdivision (a) to the governor and the
legislature on or before December 1, 2017.
(f) Hire all MiSTEM network staff between
January 1, 2018 and April 1, 2018.
However, if a MiSTEM network will employ
Michigan Mathematics and Science Centers
Network staff, those staff may be hired after
April 1, 2018.
(2) (3) From the general fund allocation under this
section, there is allocated
for 2017-2018 an amount not to exceed
$250,000.00 to support a permanent executive
director and an executive assistant for the
MiSTEM network. After the creation of the
MiSTEM network region, the
transitional executive director funded under subsection (2)
may be appointed as the permanent executive
director, or a new permanent executive
director may be hired. The permanent
executive director and executive assistant FOR
THE MISTEM NETWORK shall do all of the following:
(a) Serve as a liaison among and between the department, the department of
technology, management, and budget, the MiSTEM advisory council, THE MICHIGAN
MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE CENTERS NETWORK, THE GOVERNOR’S TALENT INVESTMENT BOARD, THE
GENERAL EDUCATION LEADERSHIP NETWORK, and the regional
MiSTEM centers REGIONS in a
manner that creates a robust statewide STEM culture, that empowers STEM teachers, that
integrates business and education into the STEM network, and that ensures high-quality
STEM experiences for pupils.
(b) Coordinate the implementation of a marketing campaign, including, but not
limited to, a website that includes dashboards of outcomes, to build STEM awareness
and communicate STEM needs and opportunities to pupils, parents, educators, and the
business community.
(c) Award WORK WITH THE DEPARTMENT AND THE MISTEM
ADVISORY COUNCIL TO COORDINATE,
AWARD, and monitor MiSTEM state and federal grants to the MiSTEM network regions and
conduct reviews of grant recipients, including, but not limited to, pupil experience
and feedback.
(d) Report to the governor, the legislature, THE DEPARTMENT, and the MiSTEM
advisory council annually on the activities and performance of the MiSTEM network
regions.
(e) Coordinate recurring discussions and work with regional staff to ensure that
a network or loop of feedback and best practices are shared, including funding,
programming, professional learning opportunities, discussion of MiSTEM strategic
vision, and regional objectives.
(f) Coordinate major grant application
efforts with the MiSTEM advisory council
to assist regional staff with grant
applications on a local level. The MiSTEM advisory
council shall leverage private and nonprofit
relationships to coordinate and align
private funds in addition to funds appropriated
under this section.
(F) (g) Train state and regional staff in the STEMworks
rating system IN
COLLABORATION WITH THE MISTEM ADVISORY COUNCIL AND THE DEPARTMENT.
(G) COLLABORATE WITH THE MiSTEM network TO HIRE MISTEM NETWORK REGION STAFF.
Sec. 99s. (1) From the funds appropriated under section 11, there is allocated
for 2017-2018 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed $6,234,300.00
$7,434,300.00 from the
state school aid fund appropriation and an
amount not to exceed $1,600,000.00
$100,000.00 from the general fund appropriation for Michigan science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (MiSTEM) programs. In addition, from the federal funds
appropriated in section 11, there is allocated
for 2017-2018 2018-2019 an amount
estimated at $4,700,000.00 $3,500,000.00 from DED-OESE, title II, mathematics and
science partnership grants. Programs funded under this section are intended to
increase the number of pupils demonstrating proficiency in science and mathematics on
the state assessments and to increase the number of pupils who are college- and
career-ready upon high school graduation. Notwithstanding section 17b, payments under
this section shall be paid on a schedule determined by the department.
(2) From the general fund allocation in subsection (1), there is allocated an
amount not to exceed $50,000.00 $100,000.00 to the department for administrative,
training, and travel costs related to the MiSTEM advisory council. All of the
following apply to the MiSTEM advisory council funded under this subsection:
(a) The MiSTEM advisory council is created. The MiSTEM advisory council shall
provide to the governor, legislature, department of talent and economic development,
and department recommendations designed to improve and promote innovation in STEM
education and to prepare students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics.
(b) The MiSTEM advisory council created under subdivision (a) shall consist of
the following members:
(i) The governor shall appoint 11 voting members who are representative of
business sectors that are important to Michigan's economy and rely on a STEM-educated
workforce, nonprofit organizations and associations that promote STEM education, K-12
and postsecondary education entities involved in STEM-related career education, or
other sectors as considered appropriate by the governor. Each of these members shall
serve at the pleasure of the governor and for a term determined by the governor.
(ii) The senate majority leader shall appoint 2 members of the senate to serve as
nonvoting, ex-officio members of the MiSTEM advisory council, including 1 majority
party member and 1 minority party member.
(iii) The speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint 2 members of the
house of representatives to serve as nonvoting, ex-officio members of the MiSTEM
advisory council, including 1 majority party member and 1 minority party member.
(c) Each member of the MiSTEM advisory council shall serve without compensation.
(d) The MiSTEM advisory council annually shall review and make recommendations to
the governor, the legislature, and the department concerning changes to the statewide
strategy adopted by the council for delivering STEM education-related opportunities to
pupils. The MiSTEM advisory council shall use funds received under this subsection to
ensure that its members or their designees are trained in the Change the Equation
STEMworks rating system program for the purpose of rating STEM programs.
(e) The MiSTEM advisory council shall make specific funding recommendations for
the funds allocated under subsection (3) by
December 15 of each fiscal year. The
amount of each grant recommended shall not
exceed $100,000.00. Each specific funding
recommendation shall be for a program approved by the MiSTEM advisory council. To be
eligible for MiSTEM advisory council approval, a program must satisfy all of the
following:
(i) Align with this state's academic standards.
(ii) Have STEMworks certification.
(iii) Provide project-based experiential learning, student programming, or
educator professional learning experiences.
(iv) Focus predominantly on classroom-based STEM experiences or professional
learning experiences.
(f) The MiSTEM advisory council shall approve programs that REPRESENT ALL NETWORK
REGIONS AND include a diverse array of options for students and educators and at least
1 program in each of the following areas:
(i) Robotics.
(ii) Computer science or coding.
(iii) Engineering or bioscience.
(g) The MiSTEM advisory council is encouraged to work with the MiSTEM Network
regions to develop locally and regionally developed
programs and professional
development experiences for the programs on the list of approved programs.
(h) If the MiSTEM advisory council is unable to make specific funding
recommendations by December 15 of a fiscal
year, the department of technology,
management, and budget shall award and the
department shall distribute the funds
allocated under subsection (3) on a competitive grant basis that at least follows the
statewide STEM strategy plan and rating system recommended by the MiSTEM advisory
council. Each grant shall not exceed $100,000.00
and must provide STEM education-
related opportunities for pupils.
(i) The MiSTEM advisory council shall work with the executive director of the
MiSTEM network funded under section 99r to implement the statewide STEM strategy
adopted by the MiSTEM advisory council.
(3) From the state school aid fund money allocated under subsection (1), there is
allocated for 2017-2018 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed $2,850,000.00
for the
purpose of funding programs under this section
for 2017-2018 2018-2019, as recommended
by the MiSTEM advisory council.
(4) From the state school aid fund
allocation under subsection (1), there is
allocated for 2017-2018 an amount not to exceed
$3,299,300.00 to support the
activities and programs of mathematics and
science centers. In addition, from the
federal funds allocated under subsection (1),
there is allocated for 2017-2018 an
amount estimated at $4,700,000.00 from
DED-OESE, title II, mathematics and science
partnership grants, for the purposes of this
subsection. All of the following apply to
the programs and funding under this subsection:
(a) Within a service area designated
locally, approved by the department, and
consistent with the comprehensive master plan
for mathematics and science centers
developed by the department and approved by the
state board, an established
mathematics and science center shall provide 2
or more of the following 6 basic
services, as described in the master plan, to
constituent districts and communities:
leadership, pupil services, curriculum support,
community involvement, professional
development, and resource clearinghouse
services.
(b) The department shall not award a
state grant under this subsection to more
than 1 mathematics and science center located
in a designated region as prescribed in
the 2007 master plan unless each of the grants
serves a distinct target population or
provides a service that does not duplicate
another program in the designated region.
(c) As part of the technical assistance
process, the department shall provide
minimum standard guidelines that may be used by
the mathematics and science center for
providing fair access for qualified pupils and
professional staff as prescribed in
this subsection.
(d) Allocations under this subsection to
support the activities and programs of
mathematics and science centers shall be
continuing support grants to all 33
established mathematics and science centers.
For 2017-2018, each established
mathematics and science center shall receive
state funding in an amount equal to 100%
of the amount it was allocated under former
section 99 for 2014-2015. If a center
declines state funding or a center closes, the
remaining money available under this
subsection shall be distributed to the
remaining centers, as determined by the
department.
(e) From the funds allocated under this
subsection, the department shall
distribute for 2017-2018 an amount not to
exceed $750,000.00 in a form and manner
determined by the department to those centers
able to provide curriculum and
professional development support to assist
districts in implementing the Michigan
merit curriculum components for mathematics and
science. Funding under this
subdivision is in addition to funding allocated
under subdivision (d).
(f) It is the intent of the legislature
that the funding allocated under this
subsection represents the final year of funding
for mathematics and science centers
and that mathematics and science centers shall
not be funded in 2018-2019.
(5) From the funds allocated under
subsection (1), there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $85,000.00 to the Michigan
Mathematics and Science Centers Network to
reimburse intermediate school districts for
transition costs incurred as the centers
transition to MiSTEM network regions.
(4) (6) From the general fund SCHOOL AID FUND allocation under
subsection (1),
there is allocated an amount not to exceed $1,400,000.00
$3,834,300.00 FOR 2018-2019
to SUPPORT THE ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS OF the MiSTEM network regions. In addition,
from the federal funds allocated under subsection (1), there is allocated for 2018-
2019 an amount estimated at $3,500,000.00 from DED-OESE, title II, mathematics and
science partnership grants, for the purposes
of this subsection. For 2017-2018 Each
established MiSTEM network region shall receive
funding under this subsection in an
amount equal to 50% of the state funding amount
allocated for 2017-2018 to the
mathematics and science centers located within
that region to allow the MiSTEM network
region to begin operating by April 1, 2018. For
former mathematics and science centers
with territory in more than 1 MiSTEM network
region, the amount allocated shall be
divided proportionally. BEGINNING IN 2018-2019, THE FISCAL AGENT
FOR EACH MISTEM
NETWORK REGION SHALL RECEIVE $200,000.00 FOR THE BASE OPERATIONS OF EACH REGION. THE
REMAINING DOLLARS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED TO EACH FISCAL AGENT ON AN EQUAL AMOUNT PER
PUPIL BASED ON THE NUMBER OF K TO 12 PUPILS ENROLLED IN DISTRICTS WITHIN EACH REGION
IN THE PRIOR YEAR.
(5) (7) A MiSTEM network region shall do all of the
following:
(a) Collaborate with the talent
district career council CAREER
AND EDUCATIONAL
ADVISORY COUNCIL that is located in the prosperity MISTEM region to develop a regional
strategic plan for STEM education that creates a robust regional STEM culture, that
empowers STEM teachers, that integrates business and education into the STEM network,
and that ensures high-quality STEM experiences for pupils. At a minimum, a regional
STEM strategic plan should do all of the following:
(i) Identify regional employer need for STEM.
(ii) Identify processes for regional employers and educators to create guided
pathways for STEM careers that include internships or externships, apprenticeships,
and other experiential engagements for pupils.
(iii) Identify educator professional development opportunities, including
internships or externships and apprenticeships,
that integrate this state's science
content standards into high-quality STEM experiences that engage pupils.
(b) Facilitate regional STEM events such as educator and employer networking and
STEM career fairs to raise STEM awareness.
(c) Contribute to the MiSTEM website and engage in other MiSTEM network functions
to further the mission of STEM in this state in coordination with the MiSTEM advisory
council and its executive director.
(d) Facilitate application and implementation of state and federal funds under
this subsection and any other grants or funds for the MiSTEM network region.
(e) Work with districts to provide STEM programming and professional development.
(f) Coordinate recurring discussions and
work with the talent district career
council CAREER AND EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL to ensure that feedback
and best
practices are being shared, including funding, program, professional learning
opportunities, and regional strategic plans.
(6) From the SCHOOL AID funds allocated under subsection (1), the department
shall distribute for 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed $750,000.00 in a form and
manner determined by the department to those NETWORK REGIONS able to provide
curriculum and professional development support to assist districts in implementing
the Michigan merit curriculum components for mathematics and science.
(7) (8) In order to receive state or federal funds
under subsection (4) or (6), a
grant recipient shall allow access for the department or the department's designee to
audit all records related to the program for which it receives those funds. The grant
recipient shall reimburse the state for all disallowances found in the audit.
(8) (9) In order to receive state funds under
subsection (4) or (6), a grant
recipient shall provide at least a 10% local match from local public or private
resources for the funds received under this subsection.
(9) (10) Not later than July 1, 2019 and July 1 of each
year thereafter, a MiSTEM
network region that receives funds under
subsection (6) (4) shall report to the
executive director of the MiSTEM network in a form and manner prescribed by the
executive director on performance measures developed by the MiSTEM network regions and
approved by the executive director. The performance measures shall be designed to
ensure that the activities of the MiSTEM network are improving student academic
outcomes.
(10) (11) Not more than 5% of a MiSTEM network region
grant under subsection (4)
OR (6) may be retained by a fiscal agent for serving as the fiscal agent of a MiSTEM
network region.
(11) (12) As used in this section:
(A) "CAREER AND EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL", OR ITS SUCCESSOR MEANS AN ADVISORY
COUNCIL TO THE LOCAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARDS LOCATED IN A PROSPERITY REGION
CONSISTING OF EDUCATIONAL, EMPLOYER, LABOR, AND PARENT REPRESENTATIVES.
(B) (a) "DED" means the United States Department of
Education.
(C) (b) "DED-OESE" means the DED Office of Elementary and
Secondary Education.
(D) (c) "STEM" means science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics delivered
in an integrated fashion using cross-disciplinary learning experiences that can
include language arts, performing and fine arts, and career and technical education.
(d) "Talent district career
council" means an advisory council to the local
workforce development boards located in a
prosperity region consisting of educational,
employer, labor, and parent representatives.
(13) From the general fund allocation
under subsection (1), there is allocated an
amount not to exceed $150,000.00 for 2017-2018
for a grant to the Van Andel Education
Institute for the purposes of advancing and
promoting science education and increasing
the number of students who choose to pursue
careers in science or science-related
fields. Funds allocated under this subsection
shall be used to provide professional
development for science teachers in using
student-driven, inquiry-based instruction.
(14) Not later than January 1, 2019, the
executive director of the MiSTEM centers
network shall report to the house and senate
appropriations subcommittees on school
aid and the house and senate fiscal agencies on
the number of male and female MiSTEM
center program participants and the steps, if
any, that the MiSTEM centers are taking
to reduce any disparity between the number of
male and female participants.
Sec. 104. (1) In order to receive state aid under this article, a district shall
comply with sections 1249, 1278a, 1278b, 1279, 1279g, and 1280b of the revised school
code, MCL 380.1249, 380.1278a, 380.1278b, 380.1279, 380.1279g, and 380.1280b, and 1970
PA 38, MCL 388.1081 to 388.1086. Subject to subsection (2), from the state school aid
fund money appropriated in section 11, there is
allocated for 2017-2018 2018-2019 an
amount not to exceed $34,709,400.00 $31,009,400.00 for payments on behalf
of districts
for costs associated with complying with those provisions of law. In addition, from
the federal funds appropriated in section 11, there
is allocated for 2017-2018 2018-
2019 an amount estimated at $6,250,000.00, funded from DED-OESE, title VI, state
assessment funds, and from DED-OSERS, section 504 of part B of the individuals with
disabilities education act, Public Law 94-142, plus any carryover federal funds from
previous year appropriations, for the purposes of complying with the federal no child
left behind act of 2001, Public Law 107-110, or the every student succeeds act, Public
Law 114-95.
(2) The results of each test administered as part of the Michigan student test of
educational progress (M-STEP), including tests administered to high school students,
shall include an item analysis that lists all items that are counted for individual
pupil scores and the percentage of pupils choosing each possible response. The
department shall work with the center to identify the number of students enrolled at
the time assessments are given by each district. In calculating the percentage of
pupils assessed for a district's scorecard, the department shall use only the number
of pupils enrolled in the district at the time the district administers the
assessments and shall exclude pupils who enroll in the district after the district
administers the assessments.
(3) All federal funds allocated under this section shall be distributed in
accordance with federal law and with flexibility provisions outlined in Public Law
107-116, and in the education flexibility partnership act of 1999, Public Law 106-25.
(4) From the funds allocated in
subsection (1), there is allocated an amount not
to exceed $1,000,000.00 for 2017-2018 to an
intermediate district described in this
subsection to implement a Michigan kindergarten
entry observation tool in 2017–2018.
The funding under this subsection is allocated
to an intermediate district in
prosperity region 9 with at least 3,000
kindergarten pupils enrolled in its
constituent districts to continue participation
in the Maryland-Ohio pilot and cover
the costs of implementing the pilot observation
tool, including a contract with a
university for implementation of the pilot
observation tool. The intermediate district
shall continue implementation of the 2016-2017
pilot study with existing participating
intermediate districts during the 2017-2018
school year. The Michigan kindergarten
entry observation shall be conducted in all
kindergarten classrooms in districts
located in prosperity regions 4, 5, and 9
beginning in August 2018. A constituent
district of an intermediate district located
within prosperity region 4, 5, or 9 shall
administer the Maryland-Ohio tool within each
kindergarten classroom to either the
full census of kindergarten pupils or a
representative sample of not less than 35% of
the enrolled kindergarten pupils in each
classroom. The intermediate district
receiving the funding allocated under this
subsection shall work with other
intermediate districts to implement the
Michigan kindergarten entry observation,
engage with the office of great start and the
department, and provide a report to the
legislature on the demonstrated readiness of
kindergarten pupils within the
participating intermediate districts. That
intermediate district may share this
funding with the other affected intermediate
districts and districts. Allowable costs
under this subsection include those incurred in
July, August, and September 2017 as
well as those incurred in 2017-2018. As used in
this subsection, "kindergarten" may
include a classroom for young 5-year-olds,
commonly referred to as "young 5s" or
"developmental kindergarten". The
department shall approve the language and literacy
domain within the Maryland-Ohio tool, also
referred to as the "Kindergarten Readiness
Assessment", for use by districts as an
initial assessment that may be delivered to
all kindergarten students to assist with
identifying any possible area of concern for
a student in English language arts.
(4) (5) The department shall continue to make the
kindergarten entry assessment
developed by the department and field tested in 2015-2016 AND PILOTED IN 2017-2018
available to districts in 2017-2018. 2018-2019. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ENSURE THAT
THE
KINDERGARTEN ENTRY ASSESSMENT PROVIDES INFORMATION REGARDING THE EXTENT TO WHICH
INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS ARE PREPARED TO TRANSITION SUCCESSFULLY FROM PREKINDERGARTEN TO
KINDERGARTEN. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL WORK WITH THE CENTER TO ENSURE THAT RESULTS FROM
THE KINDERGARTEN ENTRY ASSESSMENT ARE INTEGRATED IN THE P-20 LONGITUDINAL DATA SYSTEM.
(5) (6) The department may recommend, but may not
require, districts to allow
pupils to use an external keyboard with tablet devices for online M-STEP testing,
including, but not limited to, open-ended test items such as constructed response or
equation builder items.
(6) (7) Notwithstanding section 17b, payments on behalf
of districts,
intermediate districts, and other eligible entities under this section shall be paid
on a schedule determined by the department.
(7) (8) From the allocation in subsection (1), there is
allocated an amount not
to exceed $3,200,000.00 $500,000.00 for the development or selection of MAINTENANCE OF
an online reporting tool to provide student-level assessment data in a secure
environment to educators, parents, and pupils immediately after assessments are
scored. The department and the center shall ensure that any data collected by the
online reporting tool do not provide individually identifiable student data to the
federal government.
(8) (9) As used in this section:
(a) "DED" means the United States Department of Education.
(b) "DED-OESE" means the DED Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.
(c) "DED-OSERS" means the DED Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative
Services.
AMEND Sec. 104c. (1) In order to receive state aid under this article, a district
shall administer the state assessments described in this section.
(2) For the purposes of this section, the department shall develop AND ADMINISTER
for use in the spring of 2015-2016 the Michigan student
test of educational progress
(M-STEP) assessments in English language arts and mathematics. These assessments shall
be aligned to state standards.
(3) For the purposes of this section, the department shall implement a summative
assessment system that is proven to be valid and reliable for administration to pupils
as provided under this subsection. The summative assessment system shall meet all of
the following requirements:
(a) The summative assessment system shall measure student proficiency on the
current state standards, shall measure student growth for consecutive grade levels in
which students are assessed in the same subject area in both grade levels, and shall
be capable of measuring individual student performance.
(b) The summative assessments for English language arts and mathematics shall be
administered to all public school pupils in grades 3 to 11, including those pupils as
required by the federal individuals with disabilities education act, Public Law 108-
446, and by title I of the federal every student succeeds act (ESSA), Public Law 114-
95.
(c) The summative assessments for science shall be administered to all public
school pupils in at least grades 4 and 7,
5 AND 8, including those pupils
as required
by the federal individuals with disabilities education act, Public Law 108-446, and by
title I of the federal every student succeeds act (ESSA), Public Law 114-95.
(d) The summative assessments for social studies shall be administered to all
public school pupils in at least grades 5 and 8, including those pupils as required by
the federal individuals with disabilities education act, Public Law 108-446, and by
title I of the federal every student succeeds act (ESSA), Public Law 114-95.
(e) The content of the summative assessments shall be aligned to state standards.
(f) The pool of questions for the summative assessments shall be subject to a
transparent review process for quality, bias, and sensitive issues involving educator
review and comment. The department shall post samples from tests or retired tests
featuring questions from this pool for review by the public.
(g) The summative assessment system shall ensure that students, parents, and
teachers are provided with reports that convey individual student proficiency and
growth on the assessment and that convey individual student domain-level performance
in each subject area, including representative questions, and individual student
performance in meeting state standards.
(h) The summative assessment system shall be capable of providing, and the
department shall ensure that students, parents, teachers, administrators, and
community members are provided with, reports that convey aggregate student proficiency
and growth data by teacher, grade, school, and district.
(i) The summative assessment system shall ensure the capability of reporting the
available data to support educator evaluations.
(j) The summative assessment system shall ensure that the reports provided to
districts containing individual student data are available within 60 days after
completion of the assessments.
(k) The summative assessment system shall ensure that access to individually
identifiable student data meets all of the following:
(i) Is in compliance with 20 USC 1232g, commonly referred to as the family
educational rights and privacy act of 1974.
(ii) Except as may be provided for in an agreement with a vendor to provide
assessment services, as necessary to support educator evaluations pursuant to
subdivision (i), or for research or program evaluation purposes, is available only to
the student; to the student's parent or legal guardian; and to a school administrator
or teacher, to the extent that he or she has a legitimate educational interest.
(l) The summative assessment system shall ensure that the assessments are pilot
tested before statewide implementation.
(m) The summative assessment system shall ensure that assessments are designed so
that the maximum total combined length of time that schools are required to set aside
for a pupil to answer all test questions on all assessments that are part of the
system for the pupil's grade level does not exceed that maximum total combined length
of time for the previous statewide assessment system or 9 hours, whichever is less.
This subdivision does not limit the amount of time a district may allow a pupil to
complete a test.
(n) The total cost of executing the summative assessment system statewide each
year, including, but not limited to, the cost of contracts for administration,
scoring, and reporting, shall not exceed an amount equal to 2 times the cost of
executing the previous statewide assessment after adjustment for inflation.
(o) Beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, the summative assessment system
shall not require more than 3 hours in duration, on average, for an individual pupil
to complete the combined administration of the math and English language arts portions
of the assessment for any 1 grade level.
(4) In an effort to develop a cohesive
state assessment system, the department
shall implement a request for information
process for a common formative assessment
system that is fully aligned to this state's
content standards for English language
arts and mathematics. The department may use
information compiled from a request for
proposal in 2016-2017 to satisfy this request.
(4) (5) Beginning in the 2015-2016 school year, the THE department shall field
test ADMINISTER BENCHMARK assessments in the fall and spring of each
school year to
measure English language arts and mathematics
in each of grades K to 2. for full
implementation when the assessments have been
successfully field tested. This full
FULL implementation shall occur not later than the 2018-2019 school year. These
assessments are necessary to determine a pupil's proficiency level before grade 3.
(6) Not later than November 1, 2017, the
department shall issue a request for
information for not less than 3 benchmark
assessments that each meet all of the
following:
(a) Assesses all of grades 3 through 7 in
math and English language arts.
(b) Is aligned with this state's content
standards such that items were written
for this state's content standards.
(c) Is computer adaptive above and below
grade level.
(d) Produces a pupil's results in not
more than 48 hours from the time the
benchmark assessment is administered.
(e) Is self-scoring.
(f) Aligns to this state's content
standards.
(g) Measures the academic growth of
pupils and provides an estimate for adequate
yearly growth.
(h) Demonstrates validity and reliability
as appropriate for a computer adaptive
assessment.
(i) Is provided by a vendor that is willing to
negotiate a discounted state rate
for pricing.
(7) Not later than March 1, 2018 and in
consultation with experts in the field of
education and educational assessment
measurement, the department shall approve at
least 3 benchmark assessments that were
included in a response to the request for
information under subsection (6) and meet the
requirements described in subsection
(6).
(8) The department shall use the
responses to the request for information to
create a benchmark assessment budget request
for the 2018-2019 fiscal year.
(5) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROVIDE GUIDANCE TO DISTRICTS ON OPTIONALLY ADOPTING AND
IMPLEMENTING DEPARTMENT-APPROVED BENCHMARK ASSESSMENTS FOR GRADES 3 THROUGH 7 IN
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS AND MATHEMATICS AND SHALL RECOMMEND THAT DISTRICTS COMMIT TO
USING THE SAME BENCHMARK ASSESSMENT FOR NO LESS THAN THREE YEARS WITHOUT SWITCHING TO
ANOTHER BENCHMARK ASSESSMENT.
(6) (9) This section does not prohibit districts from adopting
interim
assessments.
(7) (10) As used in this section, "English language arts"
means that term as
defined in section 104b.
Sec. 107. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $27,000,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for adult education programs
authorized under this section. Except as
otherwise provided under subsections (14),
(15), and (19), AND (15) funds allocated under this section are
restricted for adult
education programs as authorized under this section only. A recipient of funds under
this section shall not use those funds for any other purpose.
(2) To be eligible for funding under this section, an eligible adult education
provider shall employ certificated teachers and qualified administrative staff and
shall offer continuing education opportunities for teachers to allow them to maintain
certification.
(3) To be eligible to be a participant funded under this section, an individual
shall be enrolled in an adult basic education program, an adult secondary education
program, an adult English as a second language program, a high school equivalency test
preparation program, or a high school completion program, that meets the requirements
of this section, and for which instruction is provided, and THE INDIVIDUAL shall HAVE
ATTAINED 18 YEARS OF AGE AND THE INDIVIDUAL’S GRADUATING CLASS HAS
GRADUATED. meet
either of the following:
(a) Has attained 20 years of age.
(b) Has attained 18 years of age and the
individual's graduating class has
graduated.
(4) By April 1 of each fiscal year, the intermediate districts within a
prosperity region or subregion shall determine which intermediate district will serve
as the prosperity region's or subregion's fiscal agent for the next fiscal year and
shall notify the department in a form and manner determined by the department. The
department shall approve or disapprove of the prosperity region's or subregion's
selected fiscal agent. From the funds allocated under subsection (1), an amount as
determined under this subsection shall be allocated to each intermediate district
serving as a fiscal agent for adult education programs in each of the prosperity
regions or subregions identified by the department. An intermediate district shall not
use more than 5% of the funds allocated under this subsection for administration costs
for serving as the fiscal agent. Beginning in 2014-2015, 67% of the allocation
provided to each intermediate district serving as a fiscal agent shall be based on the
proportion of total funding formerly received by the adult education providers in that
prosperity region or subregion in 2013-2014, and 33% shall be allocated based on the
factors in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c). For 2018-2019, 33% of the allocation
provided to each intermediate district serving as a fiscal agent shall be based upon
the proportion of total funding formerly received by the adult education providers in
that prosperity region in 2013-2014 and 67% of the allocation shall be based upon the
factors in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c). Beginning in 2019-2020, 100% of the
allocation provided to each intermediate district serving as a fiscal agent shall be
based on the factors in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c). The funding factors for this
section are as follows:
(a) Sixty percent of this portion of the funding shall be distributed based upon
the proportion of the state population of individuals between the ages of 18 and 24
that are not high school graduates that resides in each of the prosperity regions or
subregions, as reported by the most recent 5-year estimates from the American
community survey (ACS) from the United States Census Bureau.
(b) Thirty-five percent of this portion of the funding shall be distributed based
upon the proportion of the state population of individuals age 25 or older who are not
high school graduates that resides in each of the prosperity regions or subregions, as
reported by the most recent 5-year estimates from the American community survey (ACS)
from the United States Census Bureau.
(c) Five percent of this portion of the funding shall be distributed based upon
the proportion of the state population of individuals age 18 or older who lack basic
English language proficiency that resides in each of the prosperity regions or
subregions, as reported by the most recent 5-year estimates from the American
community survey (ACS) from the United States Census Bureau.
(5) To be an eligible fiscal agent, an intermediate district must agree to do the
following in a form and manner determined by the department:
(a) Distribute funds to adult education programs in a prosperity region or
subregion as described in this section.
(b) Collaborate with the talent
district career council, CAREER
AND EDUCATIONAL
ADVISORY COUNCIL, which is an advisory council of the workforce development boards
located in the prosperity region or subregion, or its successor, to develop a regional
strategy that aligns adult education programs and services into an efficient and
effective delivery system for adult education learners, with special consideration for
providing contextualized learning and career pathways and addressing barriers to
education and employment.
(c) Collaborate with the talent district
career council, CAREER AND EDUCATIONAL
ADVISORY COUNCIL, which is an advisory council of the workforce development boards
located in the prosperity region or subregion, or its successor, to create a local
process and criteria that will identify eligible adult education providers to receive
funds allocated under this section based on location, demand for services, past
performance, quality indicators as identified by the department, and cost to provide
instructional services. The fiscal agent shall determine all local processes,
criteria, and provider determinations. However, the local processes, criteria, and
provider services must be approved by the department before funds may be distributed
to the fiscal agent.
(d) Provide oversight to its adult education providers throughout the program
year to ensure compliance with the requirements of this section.
(e) Report adult education program and participant data and information as
prescribed by the department.
(6) An adult basic education program, an adult secondary education program, or an
adult English as a second language program operated on a year-round or school year
basis may be funded under this section, subject to all of the following:
(a) The program enrolls adults who are determined by a department-approved
assessment, in a form and manner prescribed by the department, to be below twelfth
grade level in reading or mathematics, or both, or to lack basic English proficiency.
(b) The program tests individuals for eligibility under subdivision (a) before
enrollment and upon completion of the program in compliance with the state-approved
assessment policy.
(c) A participant in an adult basic education program is eligible for
reimbursement until 1 of the following occurs:
(i) The participant's reading and mathematics proficiency are assessed at or
above the ninth grade level.
(ii) The participant fails to show progress on 2 successive assessments after
having completed at least 450 hours of instruction.
(d) A participant in an adult secondary education program is eligible for
reimbursement until 1 of the following occurs:
(i) The participant's reading and mathematics proficiency are assessed above the
twelfth grade level.
(ii) The participant fails to show progress on 2 successive assessments after
having at least 450 hours of instruction.
(e) A funding recipient enrolling a participant in an English as a second
language program is eligible for funding according to subsection (9) until the
participant meets 1 of the following:
(i) The participant is assessed as having attained basic English proficiency as
determined by a department-approved assessment.
(ii) The participant fails to show progress on 2 successive department-approved
assessments after having completed at least 450 hours of instruction. The department
shall provide information to a funding recipient regarding appropriate assessment
instruments for this program.
(7) A high school equivalency test preparation program operated on a year-round
or school year basis may be funded under this section, subject to all of the
following:
(a) The program enrolls adults who do not have a high school diploma or a high
school equivalency certificate.
(b) The program shall administer a pre-test approved by the department before
enrolling an individual to determine the individual's literacy levels, shall
administer a high school equivalency practice test to determine the individual's
potential for success on the high school equivalency test, and shall administer a
post-test upon completion of the program in compliance with the state-approved
assessment policy.
(c) A funding recipient shall receive funding according to subsection (9) for a
participant, and a participant may be enrolled in the program until 1 of the following
occurs:
(i) The participant achieves a high school equivalency certificate.
(ii) The participant fails to show progress on 2 successive department-approved
assessments used to determine readiness to take a high school equivalency test after
having completed at least 450 hours of instruction.
(8) A high school completion program operated on a year-round or school year
basis may be funded under this section, subject to all of the following:
(a) The program enrolls adults who do not have a high school diploma.
(b) The program tests participants described in subdivision (a) before enrollment
and upon completion of the program in compliance with the state-approved assessment
policy.
(c) A funding recipient shall receive funding according to subsection (9) for a
participant in a course offered under this subsection until 1 of the following occurs:
(i) The participant passes the course and earns a high school diploma.
(ii) The participant fails to earn credit in 2 successive semesters or terms in
which the participant is enrolled after having completed at least 900 hours of
instruction.
(9) A funding recipient shall receive payments under this section in accordance
with all of the following:
(a) Statewide allocation criteria, including 3-year average enrollments, census
data, and local needs.
(b) Participant completion of the adult basic education objectives by achieving
an educational gain as determined by the national reporting system levels; for
achieving basic English proficiency, as determined by the department; for achieving a
high school equivalency certificate or passage of 1 or more individual high school
equivalency tests; for attainment of a high school diploma or passage of a course
required for a participant to attain a high school diploma; for enrollment in a
postsecondary institution, or for entry into or retention of employment, as
applicable.
(c) Participant completion of core indicators as identified in the innovation and
opportunity act.
(d) Allowable expenditures.
(10) A person who is not eligible to be a participant funded under this section
may receive adult education services upon the payment of tuition. In addition, a
person who is not eligible to be served in a program under this section due to the
program limitations specified in subsection (6), (7), or (8) may continue to receive
adult education services in that program upon the payment of tuition. The tuition
level shall be determined by the local or intermediate district conducting the
program.
(11) An individual who is an inmate in a state correctional facility shall not be
counted as a participant under this section.
(12) A funding recipient shall not commingle money received under this section or
from another source for adult education purposes with any other funds and shall
establish a separate ledger account for funds received under this section. This
subsection does not prohibit a district from using general funds of the district to
support an adult education or community education program.
(13) A funding recipient receiving funds under this section may establish a
sliding scale of tuition rates based upon a participant's family income. A funding
recipient may charge a participant tuition to receive adult education services under
this section from that sliding scale of tuition rates on a uniform basis. The amount
of tuition charged per participant shall not exceed the actual operating cost per
participant minus any funds received under this section per participant. A funding
recipient may not charge a participant tuition under this section if the participant's
income is at or below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines published by the United
States Department of Health and Human Services.
(14) In order to receive funds under this section, a funding recipient shall
furnish to the department, in a form and manner determined by the department, all
information needed to administer this program and meet federal reporting requirements;
shall allow the department or the department's designee to review all records related
to the program for which it receives funds; and shall reimburse the state for all
disallowances found in the review, as determined by the department. In addition, a
funding recipient shall agree to pay to a career and technical education program under
section 61a the amount of funding received under this section in the proportion of
career and technical education coursework used to satisfy adult basic education
programming, as billed to the funding recipient by programs operating under section
61a.
(15) From the amount appropriated in
subsection (1), an amount not to exceed
$500,000.00 shall be allocated for 2017-2018 to not more
than 1 pilot program that is
located in a prosperity region with 2 or more
subregions and that connects adult
education participants directly with employers
by linking adult education, career and
technical skills, and workforce development. To
be eligible for funding under this
subsection, a pilot program shall provide a
collaboration linking adult education
programs within the county, the area
career/technical center, and local employers, and
shall meet the additional criteria in
subsections (16) and (17). Funding under this
subsection for 2017-2018 is for the third of 3
years of funding.
(16) A pilot program funded under
subsection (15) shall require adult education
staff to work with Michigan works! agency to
identify a cohort of participants who are
most prepared to successfully enter the
workforce. Participants identified under this
subsection shall be dually enrolled in adult
education programming and at least 1
technical course at the area career/technical
center.
(17) A pilot program funded under
subsection (15) shall have on staff an adult
education navigator who will serve as a
caseworker for each participant identified
under subsection (16). The navigator shall work
with adult education staff and
potential employers to design an educational
program best suited to the personal and
employment needs of the participant, and shall
work with human service agencies or
other entities to address any barrier in the
way of participant access.
(18) Not later than December 1, 2018, the
pilot program funded under subsection
(15) shall provide to the senate and house
appropriations subcommittees on school
aid, to the senate and house fiscal agencies,
and to the state budget director, a
report detailing number of participants,
graduation rates, and a measure of
transitioning to employment.
(15) (19) From the amount appropriated in subsection (1), an amount
not to exceed
$2,000,000.00 shall be allocated for 2017-2018
2018-2019 for grants to not more
than 5
pilot programs that are additional to the
pilot program funded under subsection (15)
to connect adult education participants with employers as provided under this
subsection. TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDING UNDER THIS SUBSECTION, A PILOT PROGRAM SHALL
PROVIDE A COLLABORATION LINKING ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS WITHIN THE COUNTY, THE AREA
CAREER/TECHNICAL CENTER, AND LOCAL EMPLOYERS. The grant to each eligible pilot program
shall be up to $400,000.00. To receive funding under this subsection, an eligible
pilot program shall satisfy all of the following:
(a) Meets 1 of the following:
(i) Is located in prosperity region 1c.
(ii) Is located in prosperity region 2 and borders prosperity region 4.
(iii) Is located in prosperity region 4a and borders prosperity region 5.
(iv) Is located in prosperity region 5 and borders Lake Huron.
(v) Is located in prosperity region 9 and borders a neighboring state.
(B) SHALL REQUIRE ADULT EDUCATION STAFF TO WORK WITH MICHIGAN WORKS! AGENCY TO
IDENTIFY A COHORT OF PARTICIPANTS WHO ARE MOST PREPARED TO SUCCESSFULLY ENTER THE
WORKFORCE. PARTICIPANTS IDENTIFIED UNDER THIS SUBSECTION SHALL BE DUALLY ENROLLED IN
ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMMING AND AT LEAST 1 TECHNICAL COURSE AT THE AREA
CAREER/TECHNICAL CENTER.
(C) SHALL HAVE A PERSON STAFFED AS AN ADULT EDUCATION NAVIGATOR WHO WILL SERVE AS
A CASEWORKER FOR EACH PARTICIPANT IDENTIFIED UNDER SUBDIVISION (B). THE NAVIGATOR
SHALL WORK WITH ADULT EDUCATION STAFF AND POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS TO DESIGN AN EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAM BEST SUITED TO THE PERSONAL AND EMPLOYMENT NEEDS OF THE PARTICIPANT, AND SHALL
WORK WITH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES OR OTHER ENTITIES TO ADDRESS ANY BARRIER IN THE WAY
OF PARTICIPANT ACCESS.
(b) Begins operations at the start of the
2017-2018 school year.
(c) Replicates the pilot program funded
under subsection (15).
(d) Meets the requirements under
subsections (15), (16), and (17) for a pilot
program funded under subsection (15).
(16) (20) Not later than December 1, 2018 2019, a pilot program funded under
subsection (19) (15) shall provide a report to the senate and house
appropriations
subcommittees on school aid, to the senate and house fiscal agencies, and to the state
budget director identifying the number of participants, graduation rates, and a
measure of transition to employment.
(17) (21) The department shall approve at least 3 high school
equivalency tests
and determine whether a high school equivalency certificate meets the requisite
standards for high school equivalency in this state.
(18) (22) As used in this section:
(a) "Career pathway" means a combination of rigorous and high-quality education,
training, and other services that comply with all of the following:
(i) Aligns with the skill needs of industries in the economy of this state or in
the regional economy involved.
(ii) Prepares an individual to be successful in any of a full range of secondary
or postsecondary education options, including apprenticeships registered under the act
of August 16, 1937 (commonly known as the "national apprenticeship act"), 29 USC 50 et
seq.
(iii) Includes counseling to support an individual in achieving the individual's
education and career goals.
(iv) Includes, as appropriate, education offered concurrently with and in the
same context as workforce preparation activities and training for a specific
occupation or occupational cluster.
(v) Organizes education, training, and other services to meet the particular
needs of an individual in a manner that accelerates the educational and career
advancement of the individual to the extent practicable.
(vi) Enables an individual to attain a secondary school diploma or its recognized
equivalent, and at least 1 recognized postsecondary credential.
(vii) Helps an individual enter or advance within a specific occupation or
occupational cluster.
(b) "Department" means the department of talent and economic development.
(c) "Eligible adult education provider" means a district, intermediate district,
a consortium of districts, a consortium of intermediate districts, or a consortium of
districts and intermediate districts that is identified as part of the local process
described in subsection (5)(c) and approved by the department.
Sec. 147. (1) The allocation for 2017-2018
2018-2019 for the public school
employees' retirement system pursuant to the public school employees retirement act of
1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437, shall be made using the individual
projected benefit entry age normal cost method of valuation and risk assumptions
adopted by the public school employees retirement board and the department of
technology, management, and budget.
(2) The annual level percentage of
payroll contribution rates for the 2017-2018
2018-2019 fiscal year, as determined by the retirement system, are estimated as
follows:
(a) For public school employees who first worked for a public school reporting
unit before July 1, 2010 and who are enrolled in the health premium subsidy, the
annual level percentage of payroll contribution
rate is estimated at 36.88% 38.39%,
with 25.56% 26.18% paid directly by the employer.
(b) For public school employees who first worked for a public school reporting
unit on or after July 1, 2010 and who are enrolled in the health premium subsidy, the
annual level percentage of payroll contribution
rate is estimated at 35.60% 36.60%,
with 24.28% 24.39% paid directly by the employer.
(c) For public school employees who first worked for a public school reporting
unit on or after July 1, 2010 and who participate in the personal healthcare fund, the
annual level percentage of payroll contribution
rate is estimated at 35.35% 36.24%,
with 24.03% paid directly by the employer.
(d) For public school employees who first worked for a public school reporting
unit on or after September 4, 2012, who elect defined contribution, and who
participate in the personal healthcare fund, the annual level percentage of payroll
contribution rate is estimated at 32.28% 33.17%, with 20.96% paid directly by the
employer.
(e) For public school employees who first worked for a public school reporting
unit before July 1, 2010, who elect defined contribution, and who are enrolled in the
health premium subsidy, the annual level percentage of payroll contribution rate is
estimated at 32.53% 33.53%, with 21.21%
21.32% paid directly by the
employer.
(f) For public school employees who first worked for a public school reporting
unit before July 1, 2010, who elect defined contribution, and who participate in the
personal healthcare fund, the annual level percentage of payroll contribution rate is
estimated at 32.28% 33.17%, with 20.96% paid directly by the
employer.
(g) For public school employees who first worked for a public school reporting
unit before July 1, 2010 and who participate in the personal healthcare fund, the
annual level percentage of payroll contribution
rate is estimated at 36.63% 38.03%,
with 25.31% 25.82% paid directly by the employer.
(H) FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES WHO FIRST WORKED FOR A PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORTING
UNIT AFTER JANUARY 31, 2018 AND WHO ELECT TO BECOME MEMBERS OF THE MPSERS PLAN, THE
ANNUAL LEVEL PERCENTAGE OF PAYROLL CONTRIBUTION RATE IS ESTIMATED AT 39.37%, WITH
27.16% PAID DIRECTLY BY THE EMPLOYER.
(3) In addition to the employer payments described in subsection (2), the
employer shall pay the applicable contributions to the Tier 2 plan, as determined by
the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to
38.1437.
(4) The contribution rates in subsection
(2) reflect an amortization period of 21
20 years
for 2017-2018 2018-2019. The public school
employees' retirement system board
shall notify each district and intermediate district by February 28 of each fiscal
year of the estimated contribution rate for the next fiscal year.
Sec. 147a. (1) From the appropriation in
section 11, there is allocated for 2017-
2018 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed $100,000,000.00 for payments to
participating
districts. A participating district that receives money under this subsection shall
use that money solely for the purpose of offsetting a portion of the retirement
contributions owed by the district for the fiscal year in which it is received. The
amount allocated to each participating district under this subsection shall be based
on each participating district's percentage of the total statewide payroll for all
participating districts for the immediately preceding fiscal year. As used in this
subsection, "participating district" means a district that is a reporting unit of the
Michigan public school employees' retirement system under the public school employees
retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437, and that reports
employees to the Michigan public school employees' retirement system for the
applicable fiscal year.
(2) In addition to the allocation under subsection (1), from the state school aid
fund money appropriated under section 11, there is allocated an amount not to exceed
$48,940,000.00 $88,091,000.00 for 2017-2018 2018-2019 for payments to
participating
districts and intermediate districts and from the general fund money appropriated
under section 11, there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $29,000.00 $48,000.00 for
2017-2018 2018-2019 for payments to
participating district libraries. The amount
allocated to each participating entity under this subsection shall be based on each
participating entity's percentage of the total statewide payroll for that type of
participating entity for the immediately preceding fiscal year. A participating entity
that receives money under this subsection shall use that money solely for the purpose
of offsetting a portion of the normal cost contribution rate. As used in this
subsection:
(a) "District library" means a district library established under the district
library establishment act, 1989 PA 24, MCL 397.171 to 397.196.
(b) "Participating entity" means a district, intermediate district, or district
library that is a reporting unit of the Michigan public school employees' retirement
system under the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL
38.1301 to 38.1437, and that reports employees to the Michigan public school
employees' retirement system for the applicable fiscal year.
Sec. 147b. (1) The MPSERS retirement obligation reform reserve fund is created as
a separate account within the state school aid fund.
(2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for
deposit into the MPSERS retirement obligation reform reserve fund. The state treasurer
shall direct the investment of the MPSERS retirement obligation reform reserve fund.
The state treasurer shall credit to the MPSERS retirement obligation reform reserve
fund interest and earnings from the MPSERS retirement obligation reform reserve fund.
(3) Money available in the MPSERS retirement obligation reform reserve fund shall
not be expended without a specific appropriation.
(4) Money in the MPSERS retirement obligation reform reserve fund at the close of
the fiscal year shall remain in the MPSERS retirement obligation reform reserve fund
and shall not lapse to the state school aid fund or to the general fund. The
department of treasury shall be the administrator of the MPSERS retirement obligation
reform reserve fund for auditing purposes.
(5) If the contributions described in
section 43e of the public school employees
retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL
38.1343e, as that section was added by 2010
PA 75, are determined by a final order of a
court of competent jurisdiction for which
all rights of appeal have been exhausted to be
constitutional and if the order for
preliminary injunction in case no. 10-45-MM
issued on July 13, 2010 is lifted, the
money placed in a separate interest bearing
account as a result of implementing the
preliminary injunction shall be deposited into
the MPSERS retirement obligation reform
reserve fund created in this section to be used
solely for health care unfunded
accrued liabilities.
(6) For the fiscal year ending September
30, 2018, $55,000,000.00 from the state
school aid fund shall be deposited into the
MPSERS retirement obligation reform
reserve fund to be used for the purposes under
section 147e.
Sec. 147c. (1) From the appropriation in
section 11, there is allocated for 2017-
2018 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed
$960,130,000.00 $1,032,000,000.00 from the
state school aid fund for payments to districts and intermediate districts that are
participating entities of the Michigan public school employees' retirement system. In
addition, from the general fund money appropriated in section 11, there is allocated
for 2017-2018 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed $654,000.00 $700,000.00 for payments
to district libraries that are participating entities of the Michigan public school
employees' retirement system. All of the following apply to funding under this
subsection:
(a) For 2017-2018 2018-2019, the amounts allocated under this subsection are
estimated to provide an average MPSERS rate cap
per pupil amount of $640.00 $690.00
and are estimated to provide a rate cap per pupil for districts ranging between $4.00
and $3,020.00 $3,000.00.
(b) Payments made under this subsection shall be equal to the difference between
the unfunded actuarial accrued liability contribution rate as calculated pursuant to
section 41 of the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL
38.1341, as calculated without taking into account the maximum employer rate of 20.96%
included in section 41 of the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA
300, MCL 38.1341, and the maximum employer rate of 20.96% included in section 41 of
the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1341.
(c) The amount allocated to each participating entity under this subsection shall
be based on each participating entity's proportion of the total covered payroll for
the immediately preceding fiscal year for the same type of participating entities. A
participating entity that receives funds under this subsection shall use the funds
solely for the purpose of retirement contributions as specified in subdivision (d).
(d) Each participating entity receiving funds under this subsection shall forward
an amount equal to the amount allocated under subdivision (c) to the retirement system
in a form, manner, and time frame determined by the retirement system.
(e) Funds allocated under this subsection should be considered when comparing a
district's growth in total state aid funding from 1 fiscal year to the next.
(f) Not later than December 20, 2017 2018, the department shall publish and post
on its website an estimated MPSERS rate cap per pupil for each district.
(g) It is the intent of the
legislature that any funds allocated under this
subsection are first applied to pension contributions, and if any funds remain after
that payment, those remaining funds shall be applied to other postemployment benefit
contributions.
(h) As used in this subsection:
(i) "District library" means a district library established under the district
library establishment act, 1989 PA 24, MCL 397.171 to 397.196.
(ii) "MPSERS rate cap per pupil" means an amount equal to the quotient of the
district's payment under this subsection divided by the district's pupils in
membership.
(iii) "Participating entity" means a district, intermediate district, or district
library that is a reporting unit of the Michigan public school employees' retirement
system under the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL
38.1301 to 38.1437, and that reports employees to the Michigan public school
employees' retirement system for the applicable fiscal year.
(iv) "Retirement board" means the board that administers the retirement system
under the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to
38.1437.
(v) "Retirement system" means the Michigan public school employees' retirement
system under the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL
38.1301 to 38.1437.
(2) In addition to the funds allocated
under subsection (1), from the
appropriation in section 11, there is allocated
for 2017-2018 only an amount not to
exceed $200,000,000.00 for payments to
participating entities. Notwithstanding section
17b, payments to eligible participating entities
under this subsection shall be paid
in 1 installment no later than October 20,
2017. Payments under this subsection shall
be made as follows:
(a) The amount allocated to each
participating entity under this subsection shall
be based on each participating entity's
proportion of the total covered payroll for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016. A
participating entity that receives funds
under this subsection shall use the funds
solely for purposes of this subsection.
(b) Each participating entity receiving
funds under this subsection shall forward
an amount equal to the sum of the amount
allocated under this subsection and the
amount allocated under subsection (1) to the
retirement system in a form, manner, and
time frame prescribed by the retirement system.
(c) Payments under this subsection shall
be used by the retirement system
specifically for the payment or prepayment of
the final years or partial years of any
additional costs to the retirement system due
to the operation of section 81b of the
public school employees retirement act of 1979,
1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1381b, without
regard to the amortization of those costs under
section 81b(5) of the public school
employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300,
MCL 38.1381b, and in a manner and form
as determined by the office of retirement
services.
(d) As used in this subsection:
(i) "Participating entity" means a
district, intermediate district, community
college, or district library that is a
reporting unit of the Michigan public school
employees' retirement system under the public
school employees retirement act of 1979,
1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437, and that
reports employees to the Michigan public
school employees' retirement system for the
applicable fiscal year.
(ii) "Retirement system" means the
Michigan public school employees' retirement
system under the public school employees
retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL
38.1301 to 38.1437.
Sec. 147e. (1) From the appropriation in
section 11, there is allocated for 2017-
2018 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed $23,100,000.00 $31,900,000.00 from the MPSERS
retirement obligation reform reserve fund AND $5,700,000.00 FROM THE STATE SCHOOL AID
FUND for payments to participating entities.
(2) The payment to each participating entity under this section shall be the sum
of the amounts under this subsection as follows:
(a) An amount equal to the contributions made by a participating entity for the
additional contribution made to a qualified participant's Tier 2 account in an amount
equal to the contribution made by the qualified participant not to exceed 3% of the
qualified participant's compensation as provided for under section 131(6) of the
public school employees retirement act of 1979,
1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1431., if that act
is amended by either Senate Bill No. 401 or
House Bill No. 4647 of the 99th
Legislature.
(b) Beginning October 1, 2017, an amount equal to the contributions made by a
participating entity for a qualified participant who is only a Tier 2 qualified
participant under section 81d of the public school employees retirement act of 1979,
1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1381d, not to exceed 4%, and, beginning February 1, 2018, not to
exceed 1%, of the qualified participant's
compensation., if that act is amended
by
either Senate Bill No. 401 or House Bill No.
4647 of the 99th Legislature.
(c) An amount equal to the increase in employer normal cost contributions under
section 41b(2) of the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL
38.1341b, for a member that was hired after February 1, 2018 and chose to participate
in Tier 1, compared to the employer normal cost contribution for a member under
section 41b(1) of the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL
38.1341b., if section 41b of the public school employees retirement act of 1979,
1980
PA 300, MCL 38.1341b, is amended by either
Senate Bill No. 401 or House Bill No. 4647
of the 99th Legislature.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) "Member" means that term as defined under the public school employees
retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437.
(b) "Participating entity" means a district, intermediate district, or community
college that is a reporting unit of the Michigan public school employees' retirement
system under the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL
38.1301 to 38.1437, and that reports employees to the Michigan public school
employees' retirement system for the applicable fiscal year.
(c) "Qualified participant" means that term as defined under section 124 of the
public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1424.
Sec. 152a. (1) As required by the court in the consolidated cases known as Adair
v State of Michigan, 486 Mich 468 (2010), from the state school aid fund money
appropriated in section 11 there is allocated
for 2017-2018 2018-2019 an amount not to
exceed $38,000,500.00 to be used solely for the purpose of paying necessary costs
related to the state-mandated collection, maintenance, and reporting of data to this
state.
(2) From the allocation in subsection (1), the department shall make payments to
districts and intermediate districts in an equal amount per-pupil based on the total
number of pupils in membership in each district and intermediate district. The
department shall not make any adjustment to these payments after the final installment
payment under section 17b is made.
Sec. 160. If a district or intermediate district requests the superintendent to
grant a waiver for the district or intermediate district from the requirements of
section 1284b of the revised school code, MCL 380.1284b, that district or intermediate
district shall use a portion of its funding
under this article to conduct a joint
public hearing with the department to be
held before the waiver is granted at a
location within the district or intermediate district.
Sec. 163. (1) Except as provided in the revised school code, the board of a
district or intermediate district shall not permit any of the following:
(a) A noncertificated educator AN INDIVIDUAL WHO DOES NOT HOLD A VALID
CERTIFICATE OR WHO IS NOT WORKING UNDER A VALID SUBSTITUTE PERMIT, AUTHORIZATION, OR
APPROVAL ISSUED UNDER RULES PROMULGATED BY THE DEPARTMENT to teach in an elementary or
secondary school. or in an adult basic education or high school completion
program.
(b) A noncertificated educator AN INDIVIDUAL WHO DOES NOT SATISFY THE
REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 1233 OF THE REVISED SCHOOL CODE AND RULES PROMULGATED BY THE
DEPARTMENT to provide counseling SCHOOL COUNSELOR services to pupils in an
elementary
or secondary school. or in an adult basic education or high school
completion program.
(c) A noncertificated educator to
administer instructional programs AN INDIVIDUAL
WHO DOES NOT SATISFY THE REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 1246 OF THE REVISED SCHOOL CODE OR
WHO IS NOT WORKING UNDER A VALID SUBSTITUTE PERMIT ISSUED UNDER RULES PROMULGATED BY
THE DEPARTMENT TO BE EMPLOYED AS A SUPERINTENDENT, PRINCIPAL, OR ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL,
OR AS A PERSON WHOSE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY IS TO ADMINISTER INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS in
an elementary or secondary school, or in an
adult basic education or high school
completion program, unless that educator is
fulfilling applicable continuing education
requirements. A DISTRICT OR INTERMEDIATE DISTRICT.
(2) Except as provided in the revised school code, a district or intermediate
district employing educators not legally
certificated or licensed INDIVIDUALS
IN
VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION shall have deducted the sum equal to the amount paid the
educators INDIVIDUALS for the period of noncertificated,
unlicensed, or illegal
employment. Each intermediate superintendent shall notify the department of the name
of the noncertificated or unlicensed
educator, INDIVIDUAL
EMPLOYED IN VIOLATION OF
THIS SECTION, and the district employing that individual and the amount of salary the
noncertificated or unlicensed educator INDIVIDUAL was paid within a constituent
district.
(3) If a school official is notified by the department that he or she is
employing a nonapproved, noncertificated, or
unlicensed educator AN
INDIVIDUAL in
violation of this section and knowingly
continues to employ that educator, INDIVIDUAL,
the school official is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of $1,500.00 for
each incidence. This penalty is in addition to all other financial penalties otherwise
specified in this article.
Sec. 166b. (1) This act does not prohibit a parent or legal guardian of a minor
who is enrolled in any of grades kindergarten
1 to 12 in a nonpublic
school or who is
being home-schooled from also enrolling the minor in a district, public school
academy, or intermediate district in any curricular offering that is provided by the
district, public school academy, or intermediate district at a public school site and
is available to pupils in the minor's grade level or age group, subject to compliance
with the same requirements that apply to a full-time pupil's participation in the
offering. However, state school aid shall be provided under this act for a minor
enrolled as described in this subsection only
for A curricular offerings OFFERING THAT
IS RESTRICTED TO NONESSENTIAL ELECTIVE COURSES, AND IS that are available to full-time
pupils in the minor's grade level or age group. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBSECTION, A
CURRICULAR OFFERING INCLUDES OPTIONAL EXPERIENCES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CURRICULAR
OFFERING.
(2) This act does not prohibit a parent or legal guardian of a minor who is
enrolled in any of grades kindergarten 1 to 12 in a nonpublic school or who resides
within the A district and is being home-schooled from also
enrolling the minor in the
district in a ANY NONESSENTIAL ELECTIVE curricular offering being provided by the
district at the A nonpublic school site. THAT IS PROVIDED BY THE DISTRICT, PUBLIC
SCHOOL ACADEMY, OR INTERMEDIATE DISTRICT AT A PUBLIC SCHOOL SITE, AND THAT IS
AVAILABLE TO PUPILS IN THE MINOR’S GRADE LEVEL OR AGE GROUP, SUBJECT TO COMPLIANCE
WITH THE SAME REQUIREMENTS THAT APPLY TO A FULL-TIME PUPIL’S PARTICIPATION IN THE
OFFERING. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBSECTION, A CURRICULAR OFFERING INCLUDES OPTIONAL
EXPERIENCES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CURRICULAR OFFERING. However, state STATE school aid
shall be provided under this act for a minor enrolled as described in this subsection
only if all of the following apply:
(a) Either of the following:
(i) The nonpublic school site is located, or the nonpublic students are educated,
within the geographic boundaries of the district.
(ii) If the nonpublic school has submitted a written request to the district in
which the nonpublic school is located for the district to provide certain instruction
under this subsection for a school year and the district does not agree to provide
some or all of that instruction by May 1 immediately preceding that school year or, if
the request is submitted after March 1 immediately preceding that school year, within
60 days after the nonpublic school submits the request, the instruction is instead
provided by an eligible other district. This subparagraph does not require a nonpublic
school to submit more than 1 request to the district in which the nonpublic school is
located for that district to provide instruction under this subsection, and does not
require a nonpublic school to submit an additional request to the district in which
the nonpublic school is located for that district to provide additional instruction
under this subsection beyond the instruction requested in the original request, before
having the instruction provided by an eligible other district. A public school academy
that is located in the district in which the nonpublic school is located or in an
eligible other district also may provide instruction under this subparagraph under the
same conditions as an eligible other district. As used in this subparagraph, "eligible
other district" means a district that is located in the same intermediate district as
the district in which the nonpublic school is located or is located in an intermediate
district that is contiguous to that intermediate district.
(b) The nonpublic school is registered with the department as a nonpublic school
and meets all state reporting requirements for nonpublic schools.
(c) The instruction is provided directly
by a certified teacher at OF the
district or public school academy or at OF an intermediate district.
(d) The curricular offering is also available to full-time pupils in the minor's
grade level or age group in the district or public school academy at a public school
site.
(e) The curricular offering is restricted to nonessential elective courses for
pupils in grades kindergarten 1 to 12.
(F) IF A COURSE HAS AN ASSOCIATED OPTIONAL EXPERIENCE, THE OPTIONAL EXPERIENCE
MUST ALSO BE AVAILABLE TO FULL-TIME PUPILS IN THE MINOR’S GRADE LEVEL OR AGE GROUP.
(3) A nonessential course in grades 1 to 8 is a course other than a mathematics,
science, social studies, and English language arts course required by the district for
grade progression. Nonessential courses in grades 9 to 12 are those other than algebra
1, algebra 2, English 9-12, geometry, biology, chemistry, physics, economics,
geography, American history, world history, the Constitution, government, and civics,
or courses that CAN fulfill the same credit requirement as these courses. Nonessential
elective courses include courses offered by the local district for high school credit
that are also capable of generating postsecondary credit, including, at least,
advanced placement and international baccalaureate courses. College level courses
taken by high school students for college credit are nonessential courses. Remedial
courses for any grade in the above-listed essential courses are considered essential.
Kindergarten is considered nonessential.
(4) Subject to section 6(4)(ii) AND SECTION 23F, a minor enrolled as described in
this section is a part-time pupil for purposes of state school aid under this act.
(5) A district that receives a written request to provide instruction under
subsection (2) shall reply to the request in writing by May 1 immediately preceding
the applicable school year or, if the request is made after March 1 immediately
preceding that school year, within 60 days after the nonpublic school submits the
request. The written reply shall specify whether the district agrees to provide or
does not agree to provide the instruction for each portion of instruction included in
the request.
ARTICLE II
STATE AID TO COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Sec. 201. (1) Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts
listed in this section are appropriated for community colleges for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2018, 2019, from the funds indicated in this section. The
following is a summary of the appropriations in this section:
(a) The gross appropriation is $399,326,500.00.
$405,015,500.00. After deducting
total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental transfers in the amount of $0.00,
the adjusted gross appropriation is $399,326,500.00.
$405,015,500.00.
(b) The sources of the adjusted gross appropriation described in subdivision (a)
are as follows:
(i) Total federal revenues, $0.00.
(ii) Total local revenues, $0.00.
(iii) Total private revenues, $0.00.
(iv) Total other state restricted
revenues, $398,301,500.00. $405,015,500.00.
(v) State general fund/general
purpose money, $1,025,000.00. $0.00.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), the amount appropriated for community college
operations is $319,050,900.00, allocated as follows:
(a) The appropriation for Alpena
Community College is $5,627,500.00.
,
$5,596,200.00 for operations and $31,300.00 for
performance funding.
(b) The appropriation for Bay de Noc
Community College is $5,589,000.00.
,
$5,560,900.00 for operations and $28,100.00 for
performance funding.
(c) The appropriation for Delta College
is $14,990,700.00. , $14,907,700.00 for
operations and $83,000.00 for performance
funding.
(d) The appropriation for Glen Oaks
Community College is $2,601,400.00.
,
$2,586,900.00 for operations and $14,500.00 for
performance funding.
(e) The appropriation for Gogebic
Community College is $4,715,400.00.
,
$4,692,200.00 for operations and $23,200.00 for
performance funding.
(f) The appropriation for Grand Rapids
Community College is $18,556,800.00.
,
$18,450,500.00 for operations and $106,300.00
for performance funding.
(g) The appropriation for Henry Ford
College is $22,299,200.00. , $22,176,000.00
for operations and $123,200.00 for performance
funding.
(h) The appropriation for Jackson College
is $12,590,100.00. , $12,527,400.00 for
operations and $62,700.00 for performance
funding.
(i) The appropriation for Kalamazoo
Valley Community College is $12,948,700.00.
,
$12,873,900.00 for operations and $74,800.00
for performance funding.
(j) The appropriation for Kellogg Community
College is $10,143,600.00. ,
$10,087,500.00 for operations and $56,100.00
for performance funding.
(k) The appropriation for Kirtland
Community College is $3,289,400.00.
,
$3,270,000.00 for operations and $19,400.00 for
performance funding.
(l) The appropriation for Lake
Michigan College is $5,523,600.00.
, $5,492,800.00
for operations and $30,800.00 for performance
funding.
(m) The appropriation for Lansing
Community College is $32,324,200.00.
,
$32,165,600.00 for operations and $158,600.00
for performance funding.
(n) The appropriation for Macomb
Community College is $33,863,600.00.
,
$33,681,800.00 for operations and $181,800.00
for performance funding.
(o) The appropriation for Mid Michigan
Community College is $4,968,900.00.
,
$4,937,400.00 for operations and $31,500.00 for
performance funding.
(p) The appropriation for Monroe County
Community College is $4,665,500.00.
,
$4,636,700.00 for operations and $28,800.00 for
performance funding.
(q) The appropriation for Montcalm
Community College is $3,446,300.00.
,
$3,426,700.00 for operations and $19,600.00 for
performance funding.
(r) The appropriation for C.S. Mott
Community College is $16,258,100.00.
,
$16,167,200.00 for operations and $90,900.00
for performance funding.
(s) The appropriation for Muskegon
Community College is $9,203,000.00.
,
$9,150,600.00 for operations and $52,400.00 for
performance funding.
(t) The appropriation for North Central
Michigan College is $3,353,200.00.
,
$3,330,200.00 for operations and $23,000.00 for
performance funding.
(u) The appropriation for Northwestern
Michigan College is $9,508,900.00.
,
$9,459,800.00 for operations and $49,100.00 for
performance funding.
(v) The appropriation for Oakland
Community College is $21,905,700.00.
,
$21,770,900.00 for operations and $134,800.00
for performance funding.
(w) The appropriation for Schoolcraft
College is $12,991,300.00. , $12,909,300.00
for operations and $82,000.00 for performance
funding.
(x) The appropriation for Southwestern
Michigan College is $6,860,700.00.
,
$6,827,000.00 for operations and $33,700.00 for
performance funding.
(y) The appropriation for St. Clair
County Community College is $7,300,100.00.
,
$7,259,300.00 for operations and $40,800.00 for
performance funding.
(z) The appropriation for Washtenaw
Community College is $13,631,400.00 ,
$13,534,000.00 for operations and $97,400.00
for performance funding.
(aa) The appropriation for Wayne County
Community College is $17,338,300.00.
,
$17,234,200.00 for operations and $104,100.00
for performance funding.
(bb) The appropriation for West Shore
Community College is $2,556,300.00.
,
$2,540,000.00 for operations and $16,300.00 for
performance funding.
(3) The amount appropriated in subsection (2) for community college operations is
$319,050,900.00 and is appropriated from the state school aid fund.
(4) From the appropriations described in subsection (1), both of the following
apply:
(a) Subject to section 207a, the amount
appropriated for fiscal year 2017-2018
2018-2019 to offset certain fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-2019 retirement contributions
is $1,733,600.00, appropriated from the state school aid fund.
(b) For fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-2019 only, there is allocated an amount not to
exceed $3,612,000.00 $6,431,000.00 for payments to
participating community colleges,
appropriated from the state school aid fund. A community college that receives money
under this subdivision shall use that money solely for the purpose of offsetting the
normal cost contribution rate.
(5) From the appropriations described in subsection (1), subject to section 207b,
the amount appropriated for payments to community colleges that are participating
entities of the retirement system is $70,805,000.00,
$75,300,000.00, appropriated from
the state school aid fund.
(6) From the appropriations described in subsection (1), subject to section 207c,
the amount appropriated for renaissance zone
tax reimbursements is $3,100,000.00,
$2,500,000.00, appropriated from the state school aid fund.
(7) From the appropriations described in
subsection (1), there is appropriated
$1,025,000.00 from general fund/general purpose
money, for fiscal year 2017-2018 only,
to the Michigan Community College Association,
for the purpose of enhancing the
Michigan Transfer Network website to improve
the transfer of college credit among
Michigan's postsecondary institutions. The
Michigan Community College Association
shall provide information on request to the
house and senate subcommittees on
community colleges, the house and senate fiscal
agencies, and the state budget
director on the use of these funds until the
project is completed.
Sec. 206. (1) The funds appropriated in section 201 are appropriated for
community colleges with fiscal years ending
June 30, 2018 2019 and shall be paid out
of the state treasury and distributed by the state treasurer to the respective
community colleges in 11 monthly installments on the sixteenth of each month, or the
next succeeding business day, beginning with
October 16, 2017. 2018. Each community
college shall accrue its July and August 2018
2019 payments to its
institutional
fiscal year ending June 30, 2018. 2019.
(2) If the state budget director determines that a community college failed to
submit any of the information described in subdivisions (a) to (f) in the form and
manner specified by the center, the state
treasurer shall, subject to subdivision (g),
withhold the monthly installments from that community college until those data are
submitted:
(a) All verified THE Michigan COMMUNITY COLLEGE VERIFIED DATA INVENTORY community
colleges activities classification structure data for the preceding
academic year to
the center by November 1 of each year as specified in section 217.
(b) The college credit opportunity data set as specified in section 209.
(c) The longitudinal data set for the preceding academic year to the center as
specified in section 219.
(d) The annual independent audit as specified in section 222.
(e) Tuition and mandatory fees information for the current academic year as
specified in section 225.
(f) The number and type of associate degrees and other certificates awarded
during the previous academic year as specified in section 226.
(g) The state budget director shall
notify the chairs of the house and senate
appropriations subcommittees on community
colleges at least 10 days before withholding
funds from any community college.
Sec. 207a. All of the following apply to
the allocation of the fiscal year 2017-
2018 2018-2019 appropriations described in section 201(4):
(a) A community college that receives money under section 201(4) shall use that
money solely for the purpose of offsetting a portion of the retirement contributions
owed by the college for that fiscal year.
(b) The amount allocated to each participating community college under section
201(4) shall be based on each college's percentage of the total covered payroll for
all community colleges that are participating colleges in the immediately preceding
fiscal year.
Sec. 207b. All of the following apply to
the allocation of the fiscal year 2017-
2018 2018-2019 appropriations described in section 201(5) for payments to
community
colleges that are participating entities of the retirement system:
(a) The amount of a payment under section 201(5) shall be the difference between
the unfunded actuarial accrued liability contribution rate as calculated under section
41 of the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1341, as
calculated without taking into account the maximum employer rate of 20.96% included in
section 41 of the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL
38.1341, and the maximum employer rate of 20.96% under section 41 of the public school
employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1341.
(b) The amount allocated to each community college under section 201(5) shall be
based on each community college's percentage of the total covered payroll for all
community colleges that are participating colleges in the immediately preceding fiscal
year. A community college that receives funds under this subdivision shall use the
funds solely for the purpose of retirement contributions under section 201(5).
(c) Each participating college that receives funds under section 201(5) shall
forward an amount equal to the amount allocated under subdivision (b) to the
retirement system in a form and manner determined by the retirement system.
Sec. 207c. All of the following apply to the allocation of the appropriations
described in section 201(6) to community colleges described in section 12(3) of the
Michigan renaissance zone act, 1996 PA 376, MCL 125.2692:
(a) The amount allocated to each community college under section 201(6) for
fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-2019 shall be based on that community
college's proportion
of total revenue lost by community colleges as a result of the exemption of property
taxes levied in 2017 2018 under the Michigan renaissance zone act, 1996
PA 376, MCL
125.2681 to 125.2696.
(b) The appropriations described in section 201(6) shall be made to each eligible
community college within 60 days after the department of treasury certifies to the
state budget director that it has received all necessary information to properly
determine the amounts payable to each eligible community college under section 12 of
the Michigan renaissance zone act, 1996 PA 376, MCL 125.2692.
Sec. 209. (1) Within 30 days after the board of a community college adopts its
annual operating budget for the following fiscal year, or after the board adopts a
subsequent revision to that budget, the community college shall make all of the
following available through a link on its website homepage:
(a) The annual operating budget and subsequent budget revisions.
(b) A link to the most recent "Activities
Classification Structure Data Book and
Companion". "MICHIGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DATA INVENTORY
REPORT".
(c) General fund revenue and expenditure projections for the current fiscal year
and the next fiscal year.
(d) A listing of all debt service obligations, detailed by project, anticipated
fiscal year payment of each project, and total
outstanding debt for the current fiscal
year.
(e) Links to all of the following for the community college:
(i) The current collective bargaining agreement for each bargaining unit.
(ii) Each health care benefits plan, including, but not limited to, medical,
dental, vision, disability, long-term care, or any other type of benefits that would
constitute health care services, offered to any bargaining unit or employee of the
community college.
(iii) Audits and financial reports for the most recent fiscal year for which they
are available.
(iv) A copy of the board of trustees resolution regarding compliance with best
practices for the local strategic value component described in section 230(2).
(2) For statewide consistency and public visibility, community colleges must use
the icon badge provided by the department of technology, management, and budget
consistent with the icon badge developed by the department of education for K-12
school districts. It must appear on the front of each community college's homepage.
The size of the icon may be reduced to 150 x 150 pixels.
(3) The state budget director shall
determine whether a community college has
complied with this section. The state budget
director may withhold a community
college's monthly installments described in
section 206 until the community college
complies with this section. The state budget
director shall notify the chairs of the
house and senate appropriations subcommittee on
community colleges at least 10 days
before withholding funds from any community
college.
(3) (4) Each community college shall report the following
information to the
senate and house appropriations subcommittees on community colleges, the senate and
house fiscal agencies, and the state budget office by November 15 of each fiscal year
and post that information on its website as required under subsection (1):
(a) Budgeted current fiscal year general fund revenue from tuition and fees.
(b) Budgeted current fiscal year general fund revenue from state appropriations.
(c) Budgeted current fiscal year general fund revenue from property taxes.
(d) Budgeted current fiscal year total general fund revenue.
(e) Budgeted current fiscal year total general fund expenditures.
(4) (5) By November 15 of each year, a community college shall
report the
following information to the center and post the information on its website under the
budget transparency icon badge:
(a) Opportunities for earning college credit through the following programs:
(i) State approved career and technical education or a tech prep articulated
program of study.
(ii) Direct college credit or concurrent enrollment.
(iii) Dual enrollment.
(iv) An early college/middle college program.
(b) For each program described in subdivision (a) that the community college
offers, all of the following information:
(i) The number of high school students participating in the program.
(ii) The number of school districts that participate in the program with the
community college.
(iii) Whether a college professor, qualified local school district employee, or
other individual teaches the course or courses in the program.
(iv) The total cost to the community college to operate the program.
(v) The cost per credit hour for the course or courses in the program.
(vi) The location where the course or courses in the program are held.
(vii) Instructional resources offered to the program instructors.
(viii) Resources offered to the student in the program.
(ix) Transportation services provided to students in the program.
Sec. 210b. By March 1, 2018 2019, the Michigan Community College Association
and
the Michigan Association of State Universities shall submit a report to the senate and
house appropriations subcommittees on community colleges, the senate and house fiscal
agencies, and the state budget director on the activities and programs of the transfer
steering committee since the March 1, 2017 2018 report required under this section,
including all of the following:
(a) The alignment of learning outcomes in gateway mathematics courses in the
quantitative reasoning, college algebra, and statistics pathways and the
transferability of mathematics gateway courses between and among community colleges
and universities.
(b) The development of program-specific, statewide transfer pathways that meet
program requirements for both associate and bachelor's degree programs.
(c) The development of an enhanced online communication tool to share information
about postsecondary options in Michigan, course equivalencies, and transfer pathways
that are clearly articulated.
(d) The establishment of clear timelines for developing and implementing transfer
pathways.
(e) A progress report on the implementation of the Michigan transfer agreement.
SEC. 210E. BY FEBRUARY 1, 2019, THE MICHIGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATION, THE
MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE UNIVERSITIES, AND THE MICHIGAN INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES, ON BEHALF OF THEIR MEMBER COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, SHALL SUBMIT TO THE
SENATE AND HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEES ON HIGHER EDUCATION, THE SENATE AND
HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEES ON COMMUNITY COLLEGES, THE SENATE AND HOUSE FISCAL
AGENCIES, AND THE STATE BUDGET DIRECTOR A COMPREHENSIVE REPORT DETAILING THE NUMBER OF
ACADEMIC PROGRAM PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN PUBLIC COMMUNITY COLLEGES, PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES,
AND PRIVATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING
INFORMATION:
(A) THE NAMES OF THE BACCALAUREATE DEGREE PROGRAMS OF STUDY OFFERED BY PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES ON COMMUNITY COLLEGE CAMPUSES.
(B) THE NAMES OF THE ARTICULATION AGREEMENTS FOR BACCALAUREATE DEGREE PROGRAMS OF
STUDY BETWEEN PUBLIC COMMUNITY COLLEGES, PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES, AND PRIVATE COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES.
(C) THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS ENROLLED AND NUMBER OF DEGREES AWARDED THROUGH
ARTICULATION AGREEMENTS, AND THE NUMBER OF COURSES OFFERED, NUMBER OF STUDENTS
ENROLLED, AND NUMBER OF DEGREES AWARDED THROUGH ON-CAMPUS PROGRAMS NAMED IN
SUBDIVISION (A) FROM JULY 1, 2017 THROUGH JUNE 30,2018.
Sec. 217. (1) The center shall do all of the following:
(a) Establish, maintain, and coordinate the state community college database
commonly known as the "activities
classification structure" or "ACS" database.
"MICHIGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DATA INVENTORY".
(b) Collect data concerning community colleges and community college programs in
this state, including data required by law.
(c) Establish procedures to ensure the validity and reliability of the data and
the collection process.
(d) Develop model data collection policies, including, but not limited to,
policies that ensure the privacy of any individual student data. Privacy policies
shall ensure that student social security numbers are not released to the public for
any purpose.
(e) Provide data in a useful manner to allow state policymakers and community
college officials to make informed policy decisions.
(2) There is created within the center
the activities classification structure
"MICHIGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DATA INVENTORY" advisory committee. The committee shall
provide advice to the director of the center regarding the management of the state
community college database, including, but not limited to:
(a) Determining what data are necessary to collect and maintain to enable state
and community college officials to make informed policy decisions.
(b) Defining the roles of all stakeholders in the data collection system.
(c) Recommending timelines for the implementation and ongoing collection of data.
(d) Establishing and maintaining data definitions, data transmission protocols,
and system specifications and procedures for the efficient and accurate transmission
and collection of data.
(e) Establishing and maintaining a process for ensuring the accuracy of the data.
(f) Establishing and maintaining policies related to data collection, including,
but not limited to, privacy policies related to individual student data.
(g) Ensuring that the data are made available to state policymakers and citizens
of this state in the most useful format possible.
(h) Addressing other matters as determined by the director of the center or as
required by law.
(3) The activities classification
structure MICHIGAN
COMMUNITY COLLEGE DATA
INVENTORY advisory committee created in subsection (2) shall consist of the following
members:
(a) One representative from the house fiscal agency, appointed by the director of
the house fiscal agency.
(b) One representative from the senate fiscal agency, appointed by the director
of the senate fiscal agency.
(c) One representative from the workforce development agency, appointed by the
director of the workforce development agency.
(d) One representative from the center appointed by the director of the center.
(e) One representative from the state budget office, appointed by the state
budget director.
(f) One representative from the governor's policy office, appointed by that
office.
(g) Four representatives of the Michigan Community College Association, appointed
by the president of the association. From
the groupings of community colleges given in
table 17 of the activities classification
structure database described in subsection
(1), the association shall appoint 1
representative each from group 1, group 2, and
group 3, and 1 representative from either group
3 or 4.
Sec. 225. Each community college shall report to the center by August 31 of each
year the tuition and mandatory fees paid by a full-time in-district student and a
full-time out-of-district student as established by the college governing board for
the current academic year. This report
should also include the annual cost of
attendance based on a full-time course load of
30 credits. Each community college
shall also report any revisions to the reported current academic year tuition and
mandatory fees adopted by the college governing board to the center within 15 days of
being adopted. The center shall provide this information and any revisions to the
house and senate fiscal agencies and the state budget director.
Sec. 226. Each community college shall report to the center BY OCTOBER 15 OF EACH
YEAR the numbers and type of associate degrees and other certificates awarded by the
community college during the previous fiscal
ACADEMIC year USING THE P-20 LONGITUDINAL
DATA SYSTEM. The report shall be made not later than November 15 of
each year.
Community colleges shall work with the center
to develop a systematic approach for
meeting this requirement using the P-20
longitudinal data system.
Sec. 229a. Included in the fiscal year 2017-2018
2018-2019 appropriations for the
department of technology, management, and budget are appropriations totaling
$30,879,600.00 $36,378,100.00 to provide funding for
the state share of costs for
previously constructed capital projects for community colleges. Those appropriations
for state building authority rent represent additional state general fund support for
community colleges, and the following is an estimate of the amount of that support to
each community college:
(a) Alpena Community College, $630,000.00.
$876,300.00.
(b) Bay de Noc Community College, $682,400.00. $677,000.00.
(c) Delta College, $3,347,300.00. $3,798,700.00.
(d) Glen Oaks Community College, $124,000.00. $123,000.00.
(e) Gogebic Community College, $56,400.00. $56,000.00.
(f) Grand Rapids Community College, $2,075,300.00. $2,536,500.00.
(g) Henry Ford College, $1,036,200.00. $1,028,000.00.
(h) Jackson College, $2,264,800.00. $2,164,000.00.
(i) Kalamazoo Valley Community College, $1,957,400.00. $1,942,000.00.
(j) Kellogg Community College, $524,100.00. $681,300.00.
(k) Kirtland Community College, $365,900.00. $591,800.00.
(l) Lake Michigan College, $342,700.00. $975,800.00.
(m) Lansing Community College, $1,150,000.00. $1,141,000.00.
(n) Macomb Community College, $1,662,100.00. $1,649,000.00.
(o) Mid Michigan Community College, $1,627,800.00. $1,615,000.00.
(p) Monroe County Community College, $1,273,000.00. $1,544,300.00.
(q) Montcalm Community College, $978,700.00. $971,000.00.
(r) C.S. Mott Community College, $1,817,300.00. $2,107,200.00.
(s) Muskegon Community College, $570,500.00. $989,000.00.
(t) North Central Michigan College, $416,300.00. $668,000.00.
(u) Northwestern Michigan College, $1,315,400.00. $1,844,900.00.
(v) Oakland Community College, $468,700.00. $465,000.00.
(w) Schoolcraft College, $1,558,300.00. $2,296,000.00.
(x) Southwestern Michigan College, $531,700.00. $887,500.00.
(y) St. Clair County Community College, $358,800.00. $723,500.00.
(z) Washtenaw Community College, $1,689,300.00. $1,826,000.00.
(aa) Wayne County Community College, $1,473,600.00. $1,462,000.00.
(bb) West Shore Community College, $581,600.00. $738,300.00.
ARTICLE III
STATE AID FOR UNIVERSITIES AND STUDENT FINANCIAL AID
Sec. 236. (1) Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts
listed in this section are appropriated for higher education for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2018, 2019, from the funds indicated in this section. The
following is a summary of the appropriations in this section:
(a) The gross appropriation is $1,629,224,400.00.
$1,658,932,600.00. After
deducting total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental transfers in the amount
of $0.00, the adjusted gross appropriation is $1,629,224,400.00.
$1,658,932,600.00.
(b) The sources of the adjusted gross appropriation described in subdivision (a)
are as follows:
(i) Total federal revenues, $111,526,400.00.
$113,026,400.00.
(ii) Total local revenues, $0.00.
(iii) Total private revenues, $0.00.
(iv) Total other state restricted
revenues, $238,443,500.00. $385,688,300.00.
(v) State general fund/general
purpose money, $1,279,254,500.00.
$1,160,217,900.00.
(2) Amounts appropriated for public universities are as follows:
(a) The appropriation for Central
Michigan University is $85,654,400.00,
$87,413,100.00, $83,925,500.00 $85,654,400.00 for operations and $1,728,900.00
$1,758,700.00 for performance funding.
(b) The appropriation for Eastern
Michigan University is $75,169,900.00,
$76,977,200.00, $73,593,800.00 $75,169,900.00 for operations and $1,576,100.00
$1,807,300.00 for performance funding.
(c) The appropriation for Ferris State
University is $53,595,500.00,
$54,975,900.00, $52,259,900.00 $53,595,500.00 for operations and $1,335,600.00
$1,380,400.00 for performance funding.
(d) The appropriation for Grand Valley
State University is $70,100,100.00,
$72,053,500.00, $68,227,900.00 $70,100,100.00 for operations and $1,872,200.00
$1,953,400.00 for performance funding.
(e) The appropriation for Lake Superior
State University is $13,775,000.00,
$13,988,400.00, $13,567,400.00 $13,775,000.00 for operations and $207,600.00
$213,400.00 for performance funding.
(f) The appropriation for Michigan State
University is $344,404,800.00,
$350,698,000.00, $275,862,100.00 $281,239,100.00 for operations, $5,377,000.00
$5,029,800.00 for performance funding, $33,913,100.00 $34,591,400.00 for MSU
AgBioResearch, and $29,252,600.00 $29,837,700.00 for MSU Extension.
(g) The appropriation for Michigan
Technological University is $49,052,200.00,
$49,947,900.00, $48,097,500.00 $49,052,200.00 for operations and $954,700.00
$895,700.00 for performance funding.
(h) The appropriation for Northern
Michigan University is $47,137,400.00,
$48,004,600.00, $46,279,200.00 $47,137,400.00 for operations and $858,200.00
$867,200.00 for performance funding.
(i) The appropriation for Oakland
University is $51,235,900.00, $52,816,100.00,
$49,920,700.00 $51,235,900.00 for operations and $1,315,200.00
$1,580,200.00 for
performance funding.
(j) The appropriation for Saginaw Valley
State University is $29,766,100.00,
$30,526,800.00, $29,114,000.00 $29,766,100.00 for operations and $652,100.00
$760,700.00 for performance funding.
(k) The appropriation for University of
Michigan – Ann Arbor is $314,589,100.00,
$320,775,300.00, $308,639,000.00 $314,589,100.00 for operations and $5,950,100.00
$6,186,200.00 for performance funding.
(l) The appropriation for
University of Michigan – Dearborn is $25,421,900.00,
$26,070,700.00, $24,803,300.00 $25,421,900.00 for operations and $618,600.00
$648,800.00 for performance funding.
(m) The appropriation for University of
Michigan – Flint is $23,061,800.00,
$23,584,100.00, $22,549,300.00 $23,061,800.00 for operations and $512,500.00
$522,300.00 for performance funding.
(n) The appropriation for Wayne State
University is $199,169,800.00,
$202,361,000.00, $196,064,500.00 $199,169,800.00 for operations and $3,105,300.00
$3,191,200.00 for performance funding.
(o) The appropriation for Western Michigan
University is $109,376,800.00,
$111,148,300.00, $107,440,900.00 $109,376,800.00 for operations and $1,935,900.00
$1,771,500.00 for performance funding.
(3) The amount appropriated in subsection (2) for public universities is
appropriated from the following:
(a) State school aid fund, $231,219,500.00.
$379,786,300.00.
(b) State general fund/general purpose
money, $1,260,291,200.00.
$1,141,554,600.00.
(4) The amount appropriated for Michigan public school employees' retirement
system reimbursement is $6,705,000.00, $5,133,000.00, appropriated from the
state
school aid fund.
(5) The amount appropriated for state and regional programs is $315,000.00,
appropriated from general fund/general purpose money and allocated as follows:
(a) Higher education database modernization and conversion, $200,000.00.
(b) Midwestern Higher Education Compact, $115,000.00.
(6) The amount appropriated for the Martin Luther King, Jr. - Cesar Chavez - Rosa
Parks program is $2,691,500.00, appropriated from general fund/general purpose money
and allocated as follows:
(a) Select student support services, $1,956,100.00.
(b) Michigan college/university partnership program, $586,800.00.
(c) Morris Hood, Jr. educator development program, $148,600.00.
(7) Subject to subsection (8), the amount appropriated for grants and financial
aid is $127,583,200.00, $128,783,200.00, allocated as follows:
(a) State competitive scholarships, $26,361,700.00.
$32,361,700.00.
(b) Tuition grants, $38,021,500.00. $32,021,500.00.
(c) Tuition incentive program, $58,300,000.00.
$59,800,000.00.
(d) Children of veterans and officer's survivor tuition grant programs,
$1,400,000.00.
(e) Project GEAR-UP, $3,200,000.00.
(f) North American Indian tuition waiver, $300,000.00.
(8) The money appropriated in subsection (7) for grants and financial aid is
appropriated from the following:
(a) Federal revenues under the United States Department of Education, Office of
Elementary and Secondary Education, GEAR-UP program, $3,200,000.00.
(b) Federal revenues under the social security act, temporary assistance for
needy families, $108,326,400.00. $109,826,400.00.
(c) Contributions to children of veterans tuition grant program, $100,000.00.
(d) State general fund/general purpose
money, $15,956,800.00. $15,656,800.00.
(9) For fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-2019 only, in addition to the allocation under
subsection (4), from the appropriations described in subsection (1), there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $419,000.00
$669,000.00 for payments to
participating public universities, appropriated from the state school aid fund. A
university that receives money under this subsection shall use that money solely for
the purpose of offsetting the normal cost contribution rate. As used in this
subsection, "participating public universities" means public universities that are a
reporting unit of the Michigan public school employees' retirement system under the
public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437,
and that pay contributions to the Michigan public school employees' retirement system
for the state fiscal year.
Sec. 236b. In addition to the funds appropriated in section 236, there is
appropriated for grants and financial aid in
fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-2019
an amount
not to exceed $6,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds. These funds are not
available for expenditure until they have been transferred under section 393(2) of the
management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393, for another purpose under this
article.
Sec. 236c. In addition to the funds
appropriated for fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-
2019 in section 236, appropriations to the department of technology, management, and
budget in the act providing general
appropriations for fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-2019
for state building authority rent, totaling an
estimated $144,995,300.00,
$155,478,500.00, provide funding for the state share of costs for previously
constructed capital projects for state universities. These appropriations for state
building authority rent represent additional state general fund support provided to
public universities, and the following is an estimate of the amount of that support to
each university:
(a) Central Michigan University, $12,570,900.00.
$12,936,500.00.
(b) Eastern Michigan University, $5,177,500.00.
$7,083,900.00.
(c) Ferris State University, $6,658,300.00.
$8,275,000.00.
(d) Grand Valley State University, $7,057,800.00.
$8,800,000.00.
(e) Lake Superior State University, $1,832,400.00.
$2,285,800.00.
(f) Michigan State University, $15,500,500.00.
$16,790,400.00.
(g) Michigan Technological University, $7,225,100.00.
$6,782,000.00.
(h) Northern Michigan University, $7,786,500.00.
$7,309,000.00.
(i) Oakland University, $13,492,400.00.
$12,665,000.00.
(j) Saginaw Valley State University, $10,918,500.00.
$10,984,000.00.
(k) University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, $10,586,200.00.
$11,861,000.00.
(l) University of Michigan - Dearborn,
$9,581,500.00. $10,918,000.00.
(m) University of Michigan - Flint, $4,315,600.00.
$6,244,800.00.
(n) Wayne State University, $16,378,300.00.
$16,480,200.00.
(o) Western Michigan University, $15,913,800.00.
$16,062,900.00.
Sec. 241. (1) Subject to sections 244 and 265a, the funds appropriated in section
236 to public universities shall be paid out of the state treasury and distributed by
the state treasurer to the respective institutions in 11 equal monthly installments on
the sixteenth of each month, or the next succeeding business day, beginning with
October 16, 2017. 2018. Except for Wayne State University, each
institution shall
accrue its July and August 2018 2019 payments to its institutional fiscal year
ending
June 30, 2018. 2019.
(2) All public universities shall submit higher education institutional data
inventory (HEIDI) data and associated financial and program information requested by
and in a manner prescribed by the state budget director. For public universities with
fiscal years ending June 30, 2017, 2018, these data shall be submitted to the state
budget director by October 15, 2017. 2018. Public universities with a fiscal year
ending September 30, 2017 2018 shall submit preliminary HEIDI data by November
15,
2017 2018 and final data by December 15, 2017. 2018. If a public university fails to
submit HEIDI data and associated financial aid program information in accordance with
this reporting schedule, the state treasurer may withhold the monthly installments
under subsection (1) to the public university until those data are submitted.
Sec. 242. Funds received by the state from the federal government or private
sources for the use of a college or university are appropriated for the purposes for
which they are provided. The acceptance and
use of federal or private funds do not
place an obligation on the legislature to
continue the purposes for which the funds
are made available.
Sec. 245. (1) A public university shall maintain a public transparency website
available through a link on its website homepage. The public university shall update
this website within 30 days after the university's governing board adopts its annual
operating budget for the next academic year, or after the governing board adopts a
subsequent revision to that budget.
(2) The website required under subsection (1) shall include all of the following
concerning the public university:
(a) The annual operating budget and subsequent budget revisions.
(b) A summary of current expenditures for the most recent fiscal year for which
they are available, expressed as pie charts in the following 2 categories:
(i) A chart of personnel expenditures, broken into the following subcategories:
(A) Earnings and wages.
(B) Employee benefit costs, including, but not limited to, medical, dental,
vision, life, disability, and long-term care benefits.
(C) Retirement benefit costs.
(D) All other personnel costs.
(ii) A chart of all current expenditures the public university reported as part
of its higher education institutional data inventory data under section 241(2), broken
into the same subcategories in which it reported those data.
(c) Links to all of the following for the public university:
(i) The current collective bargaining agreement for each bargaining unit.
(ii) Each health care benefits plan, including, but not limited to, medical,
dental, vision, disability, long-term care, or any other type of benefits that would
constitute health care services, offered to any bargaining unit or employee of the
public university.
(iii) Audits and financial reports for the most recent fiscal year for which they
are available.
(iv) Campus security policies and crime statistics pursuant to the student right-
to-know and campus security act, Public Law 101-542, 104 Stat 2381. Information shall
include all material prepared pursuant to the public information reporting
requirements under the crime awareness and campus security act of 1990, title II of
the student right-to-know and campus security act, Public Law 101-542, 104 Stat 2381.
(d) A list of all positions funded partially or wholly through institutional
general fund revenue that includes the position title and annual salary or wage amount
for each position.
(e) General fund revenue and expenditure projections for the current fiscal year
and the next fiscal year.
(f) A listing of all debt service obligations, detailed by project, anticipated
fiscal year payment for each project, and total outstanding debt for the current
fiscal year.
(g) The institution's policy regarding the transferability of core college
courses between community colleges and the university.
(h) A listing of all community colleges that have entered into reverse transfer
agreements with the university.
(3) On the website required under subsection (1), a public university shall
provide a dashboard or report card demonstrating the university's performance in
several "best practice" measures. The dashboard or report card shall include at least
all of the following for the 3 most recent academic years for which the data are
available:
(a) Enrollment.
(b) Student retention rate.
(c) Six-year graduation rates.
(d) Number of Pell grant recipients and graduating Pell grant recipients.
(e) Geographic origination of students, categorized as in-state, out-of-state,
and international.
(f) Faculty to student ratios and total university employee to student ratios.
(g) Teaching load by faculty classification.
(h) Graduation outcome rates, including employment and continuing education.
(4) For statewide consistency and public visibility, public universities must use
the icon badge provided by the department of technology, management, and budget
consistent with the icon badge developed by the department of education for K-12
school districts. It must appear on the front of each public university's homepage.
The size of the icon may be reduced to 150 x 150 pixels. The font size and style for
this reporting must be consistent with other documents on each university's website.
(5) The state budget director shall
determine whether a public university has
complied with this section. The state budget
director may withhold a public
university's monthly installments described in
section 241 until the public university
complies with this section.
(5) (6) By November 15 of each year, a public university shall
report the
following information to the center and post the information on its website under the
budget transparency icon badge:
(a) Opportunities for earning college credit through the following programs:
(i) State approved career and technical education or a tech prep articulated
program of study.
(ii) Direct college credit or concurrent enrollment.
(iii) Dual enrollment.
(iv) An early college/middle college program.
(b) For each program described in subdivision (a) that the public university
offers, all of the following information:
(i) The number of high school students participating in the program.
(ii) The number of school districts that participate in the program with the
public university.
(iii) Whether a university professor, qualified local school district employee,
or other individual teaches the course or courses in the program.
(iv) The total cost to the public university to operate the program.
(v) The cost per credit hour for the course or courses in the program.
(vi) The location where the course or courses in the program are held.
(vii) Instructional resources offered to the program instructors.
(viii) Resources offered to the student in the program.
(ix) Transportation services provided to students in the program.
Sec. 252. (1) The amounts appropriated in section 236 for the state tuition grant
program shall be distributed pursuant to 1966 PA 313, MCL 390.991 to 390.997a.
(2) Tuition grant awards shall be made to all eligible Michigan residents
enrolled in undergraduate degree programs who
are qualified and who apply before July
1, 2017 for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Beginning with the 2018-2019 academic year,
tuition grant awards shall be made to all
eligible Michigan residents enrolled in
undergraduate degree programs who are qualified
and who apply before March 1 of each
year for the next academic year.
(3) Beginning with the 2018-2019 academic
year, a tuition grant may be renewed
for not more than 10 semesters or its
equivalent in trimesters or quarters of
undergraduate education, or if an eligible
applicant has not completed using the grant
within 10 years after his or her eligibility is
determined, whichever occurs first.
The department shall determine an equivalent to
10 semesters or its equivalent in
trimesters or quarters of undergraduate
education for less than full-time but more
than half-time students.
(3) (4) Pursuant to section 5 of 1966 PA 313, MCL
390.995, and subject to
subsections (8) (7) and (9), (8), the department of treasury shall determine an actual
maximum tuition grant award per student, which
shall be no less than $2,000.00,
$2,100.00, that ensures that the aggregate payments for the tuition grant program do
not exceed the appropriation contained in section 236 for the state tuition grant
program. If the department determines that insufficient funds are available to
establish a maximum award amount equal to at
least $2,000.00, $2,100.00,
the
department shall immediately report to the house and senate appropriations
subcommittees on higher education, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state
budget director regarding the estimated amount of additional funds necessary to
establish a $2,000.00 $2,100.00 maximum award amount. If the department
determines
that sufficient funds are available to establish a maximum award amount equal to at
least $2,000.00, $2,100.00, the department shall immediately report
to the house and
senate appropriations subcommittees on higher education, the house and senate fiscal
agencies, and the state budget director regarding the maximum award amount established
and the projected amount of any projected year-end appropriation balance based on that
maximum award amount. By February 18 of each fiscal year, the department shall analyze
the status of award commitments, shall make any necessary adjustments, and shall
confirm that those award commitments will not exceed the appropriation contained in
section 236 for the tuition grant program. The determination and actions shall be
reported to the state budget director and the house and senate fiscal agencies no
later than the final day of February of each year. If award adjustments are necessary,
the students shall be notified of the adjustment by March 4 of each year.
(4) (5) Any unexpended and unencumbered funds remaining on
September 30, 2018
2019 from the amounts appropriated in section 236 for the tuition grant program for
fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-2019 do not lapse on September 30, 2018 2019, but continue
to be available for expenditure for tuition
grants provided in the 2018-2019 2019-2020
fiscal year under a work project account. The
use of these unexpended fiscal year
2017-2018 funds terminates at the end of the
2018-2019 fiscal year.
(5) (6) The department of treasury shall continue a proportional
tuition grant
maximum award level for recipients enrolled less than full-time in a given semester or
term.
(6) (7) If the department of treasury increases the maximum award
per eligible
student from that provided in the previous fiscal year, it shall not have the effect
of reducing the number of eligible students receiving awards in relation to the total
number of eligible applicants. Any increase in the maximum grant shall be proportional
for all eligible students receiving awards for that fiscal year.
(7) (8) Except as provided in subsection (5), (4), the department of treasury
shall not award more than $3,500,000.00 $4,200,000.00 in tuition grants to
eligible
students enrolled in the same independent nonprofit college or university in this
state. Any decrease in the maximum grant shall be proportional for all eligible
students enrolled in that college or university, as determined by the department.
(8) (9) The department of treasury shall not award tuition grants
to otherwise
eligible students enrolled in an independent college or university that does not
report, in a form and manner directed by and satisfactory to the department of
treasury, by October 31 of each year, all of the following:
(a) The number of students in the most recently completed academic year who in
any academic year received a state tuition grant at the reporting institution and
successfully completed a program or graduated.
(b) The number of students in the most recently completed academic year who in
any academic year received a state tuition grant at the reporting institution and took
a remedial education class.
(c) The number of students in the most recently completed academic year who in
any academic year received a Pell grant at the reporting institution and successfully
completed a program or graduated.
(9) (10) By February 1, 2018 2019, each independent college and university
participating in the tuition grant program shall report to the senate and house
appropriations subcommittees on higher education, the senate and house fiscal
agencies, and the state budget director on its efforts to develop and implement sexual
assault response training for the institution's title IX coordinator, campus law
enforcement personnel, campus public safety personnel, and any other campus personnel
charged with responding to on-campus incidents, including information on sexual
assault response training materials and the status of implementing sexual assault
response training for institutional personnel.
Sec. 256. (1) The funds appropriated in section 236 for the tuition incentive
program shall be distributed as provided in this section and pursuant to the
administrative procedures for the tuition incentive program of the department of
treasury.
(2) As used in this section:
(a) "Phase I" means the first part of the tuition incentive program defined as
the academic period of 80 semester or 120 term credits, or less, leading to an
associate degree or certificate. Students must be enrolled in a certificate or
associate degree program and taking classes within the program of study for a
certificate or associate degree. Tuition will not be covered for courses outside of a
certificate or associate degree program.
(b) "Phase II" means the second part of the tuition incentive program which
provides assistance in the third and fourth year of 4-year degree programs.
(c) "Department" means the department of treasury.
(d) "High school equivalency certificate" means that term as defined in section
4.
(3) An individual shall meet the following basic criteria and financial
thresholds to be eligible for tuition incentive program benefits:
(a) To be eligible for phase I, an individual shall meet all of the following
criteria:
(i) Apply for certification to the department any time after he or she begins the
sixth grade but before August 31 of the school year in which he or she graduates from
high school or before achieving a high school equivalency certificate.
(ii) Be less than 20 years of age at the time he or she graduates from high
school with a diploma or certificate of completion or achieves a high school
equivalency certificate or, for students attending a 5-year middle college approved by
the Michigan department of education, be less than 21 years of age when he or she
graduates from high school.
(iii) Be a United States citizen and a resident of this state according to
institutional criteria.
(iv) Be at least a half-time student, earning less than 80 semester or 120 term
credits at a participating educational institution within 4 years of high school
graduation or achievement of a high school equivalency certificate. All program
eligibility expires 6 years from high school graduation or achievement of a high
school equivalency certificate.
(v) Meet the satisfactory academic progress policy of the educational institution
he or she attends.
(b) To be eligible for phase II, an individual shall meet either of the following
criteria in addition to the criteria in subdivision (a):
(i) Complete at least 56 transferable semester or 84 transferable term credits.
(ii) Obtain an associate degree or certificate at a participating institution.
(c) To be eligible for phase I or phase II, an individual must not be
incarcerated and must be financially eligible as determined by the department. An
individual is financially eligible for the tuition incentive program if he or she was
eligible for Medicaid from this state for 24 months within the 36 consecutive months
before application. The department shall accept certification of Medicaid eligibility
only from the department of health and human services for the purposes of verifying if
a person is Medicaid eligible for 24 months within the 36 consecutive months before
application. Certification of eligibility may begin in the sixth grade. As used in
this subdivision, "incarcerated" does not include detention of a juvenile in a state-
operated or privately operated juvenile detention facility.
(4) Beginning in fiscal year
2017-2018, The THE department shall not
award more
than $8,500,000.00 annually in tuition incentive program funds to eligible students
enrolled in the same college or university in this state.
(5) For phase I, the department shall provide payment on behalf of a person
eligible under subsection (3). The department shall only accept standard per-credit
hour tuition billings and shall reject billings that are excessive or outside the
guidelines for the type of educational institution.
(6) For phase I, all of the following apply:
(a) Payments for associate degree or certificate programs shall not be made for
more than 80 semester or 120 term credits for any individual student at any
participating institution.
(b) For persons enrolled at a Michigan community college, the department shall
pay the current in-district tuition and mandatory fees. For persons residing in an
area that is not included in any community college district, the out-of-district
tuition rate may be authorized.
(c) For fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-2019, for persons enrolled at a Michigan
public university, the department shall pay lower division resident tuition and
mandatory fees for the current year. Beginning in fiscal year 2018-2019, for persons
enrolled at a Michigan public university, the department shall pay mandatory fees for
the current year and a per-credit payment that does not exceed 3 times the average
community college in-district per-credit tuition rate as reported on August 1 for the
immediately preceding academic year.
(d) For persons enrolled at a Michigan independent, nonprofit degree-granting
college or university, or a Michigan federal tribally controlled community college, or
Focus: HOPE, the department shall pay mandatory fees for the current year and a per-
credit payment that does not exceed the average community college in-district per-
credit tuition rate as reported on August 1, for the immediately preceding academic
year.
(7) A person participating in phase II may be eligible for additional funds not
to exceed $500.00 per semester or $400.00 per term up to a maximum of $2,000.00
subject to the following conditions:
(a) Credits are earned in a 4-year program at a Michigan degree-granting 4-year
college or university.
(b) The tuition reimbursement is for coursework completed within 30 months of
completion of the phase I requirements.
(8) The department shall work closely with participating institutions to develop
an application and eligibility determination process that will provide the highest
level of participation and ensure that all requirements of the program are met.
(9) Applications for the tuition incentive program may be approved at any time
after the student begins the sixth grade. If a determination of financial eligibility
is made, that determination is valid as long as the student meets all other program
requirements and conditions.
(10) Each institution shall ensure that all known available restricted grants for
tuition and fees are used prior to billing the tuition incentive program for any
portion of a student's tuition and fees.
(11) The department shall ensure that the tuition incentive program is well
publicized and that eligible Medicaid clients are provided information on the program.
The department shall provide the necessary funding and staff to fully operate the
program.
(12) Any unexpended and unencumbered
funds remaining on September 30, 2018 from
the amounts appropriated in section 236 for the
tuition incentive program for fiscal
year 2017-2018 do not lapse on September 30,
2018, but continue to be available for
expenditure for tuition incentive program funds
provided in the 2018-2019 fiscal year
under a work project account. The use of these
unexpended fiscal year 2017-2018 funds
terminates at the end of the 2018-2019 fiscal
year.
(12) (13) The department of treasury shall collaborate with the
center to use the
P-20 longitudinal data system to report the following information for each qualified
postsecondary institution:
(a) The number of phase I students in the most recently completed academic year
who in any academic year received a tuition incentive program award and who
successfully completed a degree or certificate program. Cohort graduation rates for
phase I students shall be calculated using the established success rate methodology
developed by the center in collaboration with the postsecondary institutions.
(b) The number of students in the most recently completed academic year who in
any academic year received a Pell grant at the reporting institution and who
successfully completed a degree or certificate program. Cohort graduation rates for
students who received Pell grants shall be calculated using the established success
rate methodology developed by the center in collaboration with the postsecondary
institutions.
(13) (14) If a qualified postsecondary institution does not report
the data
necessary to comply with subsection (13) (12) to the P-20 longitudinal data system,
the institution shall report, in a form and manner satisfactory to the department of
treasury and the center, all of the information
needed to comply with subsection (13)
(12) by December 1, 2017 2019.
(14) (15) Beginning in fiscal year 2018-2019 2019-2020, if a qualified
postsecondary institution does not report the data necessary to complete the reporting
in subsection (13) (12) to the P-20 longitudinal data system by
October 15 for the
prior academic year, the department of treasury shall not award phase I tuition
incentive program funding to otherwise eligible students enrolled in that institution
until the data are submitted.
Sec. 263. (1) Included in the
appropriation in section 236 for fiscal year 2017-
2018 2018-2019 for MSU AgBioResearch is $2,982,900.00 and included in the
appropriation in section 236 for MSU Extension is $2,645,200.00 for Project GREEEN.
Project GREEEN is intended to address critical regulatory, food safety, economic, and
environmental problems faced by this state's plant-based agriculture, forestry, and
processing industries. "GREEEN" is an acronym for Generating Research and Extension to
Meet Environmental and Economic Needs.
(2) The department of agriculture and rural development and Michigan State
University, in consultation with agricultural commodity groups and other interested
parties, shall develop Project GREEEN and its program priorities.
Sec. 264. Included in the appropriation
in section 236 for fiscal year 2017-2018
2018-2019 for Michigan State University is $80,000.00 for the Michigan Future Farmers
of America Association. This $80,000.00 allocation shall not supplant any existing
support that Michigan State University provides to the Michigan Future Farmers of
America Association.
Sec. 265. (1) Payments under section 265a for performance funding shall only be
made to a public university that certifies to the state budget director by August 31,
2017 2018 that its board did not adopt an increase in tuition and fee rates for
resident undergraduate students after September
1, 2016 2017 for the 2016-2017 2017-
2018 academic year and that its board will not adopt an increase in tuition and fee
rates for resident undergraduate students for
the 2017-2018 2018-2019
academic
year
that is greater than 3.8% or $475.00 $490.00, whichever is greater. As used in this
subsection:
(a) "Fee" means any board-authorized fee that will be paid by more than 1/2 of
all resident undergraduate students at least once during their enrollment at a public
university, as described in the higher education institutional data inventory (HEIDI)
user manual. A university increasing a fee that applies to a specific subset of
students or courses shall provide sufficient information to prove that the increase
applied to that subset will not cause the increase in the average amount of board-
authorized total tuition and fees paid by
resident undergraduate students in the 2017-
2018 2018-2019 academic year to exceed the limit established in this
subsection.
(b) "Tuition and fee rate" means the average of full-time rates paid by a
majority of students in each undergraduate class, based on an unweighted average of
the rates authorized by the university board and actually charged to students,
deducting any uniformly rebated or refunded amounts, for the 2 semesters with the
highest levels of full-time equated resident undergraduate enrollment during the
academic year, as described in the higher education institutional data inventory
(HEIDI) user manual.
(c) For purposes of subdivision (a), for
a public university that compels
resident undergraduate students to be covered
by health insurance as a condition to
enroll at the university, "fee"
includes the annual amount a student is charged for
coverage by the university-affiliated group
health insurance policy if he or she does
not provide proof that he or she is otherwise
covered by health insurance. This
subdivision does not apply to limited subsets
of resident undergraduate students to be
covered by health insurance for specific
reasons other than general enrollment at the
university.
(2) The state budget director shall implement uniform reporting requirements to
ensure that a public university receiving a payment under section 265a for performance
funding has satisfied the tuition restraint requirements of this section. The state
budget director shall have the sole authority to determine if a public university has
met the requirements of this section. Information reported by a public university to
the state budget director under this subsection shall also be reported to the house
and senate appropriations subcommittees on higher education and the house and senate
fiscal agencies.
(3) Universities that exceed the tuition
and fee rate cap described in subsection
(1) shall not receive a planning or
construction authorization for a state-funded
capital outlay project in fiscal year 2018-2019
or fiscal year 2019-2020.
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision
of this act, the legislature may at any
time adjust appropriations for a university
that adopts an increase in tuition and fee
rates for resident undergraduate students that
exceeds the rate cap established in
subsection (1).
Sec. 265a. (1) Appropriations to public universities in section 236 for fiscal
year 2017-2018 2018-2019 for performance funding shall be paid
only to a public
university that complies with section 265 and certifies to the state budget director,
the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on higher education, and the house
and senate fiscal agencies by August 31, 2017
2018 that it complies with
all of the
following requirements:
(a) The university participates in reverse transfer agreements described in
section 286 with at least 3 Michigan community colleges.
(b) The university does not and will not consider whether dual enrollment credits
earned by an incoming student were utilized towards his or her high school graduation
requirements when making a determination as to whether those credits may be used by
the student toward completion of a university degree or certificate program.
(c) The university actively participates in and submits timely updates to the
Michigan Transfer Network created as part of the Michigan Association of Collegiate
Registrars and Admissions Officers transfer agreement.
(2) Any performance funding amounts under section 236 that are not paid to a
public university because it did not comply with 1 or more requirements under
subsection (1) are unappropriated and reappropriated for performance funding to those
public universities that meet the requirements under subsection (1), distributed in
proportion to their performance funding appropriation amounts under section 236.
(3) The state budget director shall report to the house and senate appropriations
subcommittees on higher education and the house and senate fiscal agencies by
September 30, 2017 2018, regarding any performance funding amounts
that are not paid
to a public university because it did not comply with 1 or more requirements under
subsection (1) and any reappropriation of funds under subsection (2).
(4) Performance funding amounts described in section 236 are distributed based on
the following formula:
(a) Proportional to each university's share of total operations funding
appropriated in fiscal year 2010-2011, 50%.
(b) Based on weighted undergraduate completions in critical skills areas, 11.1%.
FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018-2019, THE WEIGHTING FOR CERTIFICATES AND ASSOCIATE DEGREES IN
CRITICAL SKILLS AREAS IS INCREASED.
(c) Based on research and development expenditures, for universities classified
in Carnegie classifications as doctoral universities: moderate research activity,
doctoral universities: higher research activity, or doctoral universities: highest
research activity only, 5.6%.
(d) Based on 6-year graduation rate, total degree completions, and institutional
support as a percentage of core expenditures, and the percentage of students receiving
Pell grants, scored against national Carnegie classification peers and weighted by
total undergraduate fiscal year equated students, 33.3%.
(5) For purposes of determining the score of a university under subsection
(4)(d), each university is assigned 1 of the following scores:
(a) A university classified as in the top 20%, a score of 3.
(b) A university classified as above national median, a score of 2.
(c) A university classified as improving,
a score of 2. It is the intent of the
legislature that, beginning in the 2018-2019
state fiscal year, a university
classified as improving is assigned a score of
1.
(d) A university that is not included in subdivision (a), (b), or (c), a score of
0.
(6) As used in this section, "Carnegie classification" means the basic
classification of the university according to the most recent version of the Carnegie
classification of institutions of higher education, published by the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
(7) It is the intent of the legislature
to allocate more funding based on
performance metrics in future years.
SEC. 265B. BY FEBRUARY 1, 2019, THE MICHIGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATION, THE
MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE UNIVERSITIES, AND THE MICHIGAN INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES, ON BEHALF OF THEIR MEMBER COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, SHALL SUBMIT TO THE
SENATE AND HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEES ON HIGHER EDUCATION, THE SENATE AND
HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEES ON COMMUNITY COLLEGES, THE SENATE AND HOUSE FISCAL
AGENCIES, AND THE STATE BUDGET DIRECTOR A COMPREHENSIVE REPORT DETAILING THE NUMBER OF
ACADEMIC PROGRAM PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN PUBLIC COMMUNITY COLLEGES, PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES,
AND PRIVATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING
INFORMATION:
(A) THE NAMES OF THE BACCALAUREATE DEGREE PROGRAMS OF STUDY OFFERED BY PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES ON COMMUNITY COLLEGE CAMPUSES.
(B) THE NAMES OF THE ARTICULATION AGREEMENTS FOR BACCALAUREATE DEGREE PROGRAMS OF
STUDY BETWEEN PUBLIC COMMUNITY COLLEGES, PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES, AND PRIVATE COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES.
(C) THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS ENROLLED AND NUMBER OF DEGREES AWARDED THROUGH
ARTICULATION AGREEMENTS, AND THE NUMBER OF COURSES OFFERED, NUMBER OF STUDENTS
ENROLLED, AND NUMBER OF DEGREES AWARDED THROUGH ON-CAMPUS PROGRAMS NAMED IN
SUBDIVISION (A) FROM JULY 1, 2017 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2018.
Sec. 267. All public universities shall submit the amount of tuition and fees
actually charged to a full-time resident
undergraduate student for academic year 2017-
2018 2018-2019 as part of their higher education institutional data
inventory (HEIDI)
data by August 31 of each year. A public university shall report any revisions for any
semester of the reported academic year 2017-2018
2018-2019 tuition and fee charges
to
HEIDI within 15 days of being adopted.
Sec. 268. (1) For the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2018, it is the intent of
the legislature that funds be allocated for
unfunded North American Indian tuition
waiver costs incurred by public universities
under 1976 PA 174, MCL 390.1251 to
390.1253, from the general fund.
(2) Appropriations in section 236(7)(f)
for North American Indian tuition waivers
shall be paid to universities under section 2a
of 1976 PA 174, MCL 390.1252a.
Allocations shall be adjusted for amounts
included in university operations
appropriations. If funds are insufficient to
support the entire cost of waivers,
amounts shall be prorated proportionate to each
institution's shortfall as a
percentage of its fiscal year 2017-2018 state
appropriation for operations.
(1) (3) By February 15 of each year, the department of civil rights
shall
annually submit to the state budget director, the house and senate appropriations
subcommittees on higher education, and the house and senate fiscal agencies a report
on North American Indian tuition waivers for the preceding academic year that
includes, but is not limited to, all of the following information:
(a) The number of waiver applications received and the number of waiver
applications approved.
(b) For each university submitting
information under subsection (4), (2), all of
the following:
(i) The number of graduate and undergraduate North American Indian students
enrolled each term for the previous academic year.
(ii) The number of North American Indian waivers granted each term, including to
continuing education students, and the monetary value of the waivers for the previous
academic year.
(iii) The number of graduate and undergraduate students attending under a North
American Indian tuition waiver who withdrew from the university each term during the
previous academic year. For purposes of this subparagraph, a withdrawal occurs when a
student who has been awarded the waiver withdraws from the institution at any point
during the term, regardless of enrollment in subsequent terms.
(iv) The number of graduate and undergraduate students attending under a North
American Indian tuition waiver who successfully complete a degree or certificate
program, separated by degree or certificate level, and the graduation rate for
graduate and undergraduate students attending under a North American Indian tuition
waiver who complete a degree or certificate within 150% of the normal time to
complete, separated by the level of the degree or certificate.
(2) (4) A public university that receives funds under section 236
shall provide
to the department of civil rights any information necessary for preparing the report
detailed in subsection (3), (1), using guidelines and procedures developed by
the
department of civil rights.
(3) (5) The department of civil rights may consolidate the report
required under
this section with the report required under section 223, but a consolidated report
must separately identify data for universities and data for community colleges.
Sec. 269. For fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-2019, from the amount appropriated in
section 236 to Central Michigan University for operations, $29,700.00 shall be paid to
Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College for the costs of waiving tuition for North American
Indians under 1976 PA 174, MCL 390.1251 to 390.1253.
Sec. 270. For fiscal year 2017-2018, 2018-2019, from the amount appropriated in
section 236 to Lake Superior State University for operations, $100,000.00 shall be
paid to Bay Mills Community College for the costs of waiving tuition for North
American Indians under 1976 PA 174, MCL 390.1251 to 390.1253.
Sec. 274c. By February 1, 2018, 2019, each university receiving funds under
section 236 shall report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on
higher education, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director
on its efforts to develop and implement sexual assault response training for the
university's title IX coordinator, campus law enforcement personnel, campus public
safety personnel, and any other campus personnel charged with responding to on-campus
incidents, including information on sexual assault response training materials and the
status of implementing sexual assault response training for campus personnel.
Sec. 276. (1) Included in the
appropriation for fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-2019
for each public university in section 236 is funding for the Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Cesar Chavez - Rosa Parks future faculty program that is intended to increase the pool
of academically or economically disadvantaged candidates pursuing faculty teaching
careers in postsecondary education. Preference may not be given to applicants on the
basis of race, color, ethnicity, gender, or national origin. Institutions should
encourage applications from applicants who would otherwise not adequately be
represented in the graduate student and faculty populations. Each public university
shall apply the percentage change applicable to every public university in the
calculation of appropriations in section 236 to the amount of funds allocated to the
future faculty program.
(2) The program shall be administered by each public university in a manner
prescribed by the workforce development agency. The workforce development agency shall
use a good faith effort standard to evaluate whether a fellowship is in default.
Sec. 277. (1) Included in the
appropriation for fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-2019
for each public university in section 236 is funding for the Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Cesar Chavez - Rosa Parks college day program that is intended to introduce
academically or economically disadvantaged schoolchildren to the potential of a
college education. Preference may not be given to participants on the basis of race,
color, ethnicity, gender, or national origin. Public universities should encourage
participation from those who would otherwise not adequately be represented in the
student population.
(2) Individual program plans of each public university shall include a budget of
equal contributions from this program, the participating public university, the
participating school district, and the participating independent degree-granting
college. College day funds shall not be expended to cover indirect costs. Not more
than 20% of the university match shall be attributable to indirect costs. Each public
university shall apply the percentage change applicable to every public university in
the calculation of appropriations in section 236 to the amount of funds allocated to
the college day program.
(3) The program described in this section shall be administered by each public
university in a manner prescribed by the workforce development agency.
Sec. 278. (1) Included in section 236 for
fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-2019
is
funding for the Martin Luther King, Jr. - Cesar Chavez - Rosa Parks select student
support services program for developing academically or economically disadvantaged
student retention programs for 4-year public and independent educational institutions
in this state. Preference may not be given to participants on the basis of race,
color, ethnicity, gender, or national origin. Institutions should encourage
participation from those who would otherwise not adequately be represented in the
student population.
(2) An award made under this program to any 1 institution shall not be greater
than $150,000.00, and the amount awarded shall be matched on a 70% state, 30% college
or university basis.
(3) The program described in this section shall be administered by the workforce
development agency.
Sec. 279. (1) Included in section 236 for
fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-2019
is
funding for the Martin Luther King, Jr. - Cesar Chavez - Rosa Parks college/university
partnership program between 4-year public and independent colleges and universities
and public community colleges, which is intended to increase the number of
academically or economically disadvantaged students who transfer from community
colleges into baccalaureate programs. Preference may not be given to participants on
the basis of race, color, ethnicity, gender, or national origin. Institutions should
encourage participation from those who would otherwise not adequately be represented
in the transfer student population.
(2) The grants shall be made under the program described in this section to
Michigan public and independent colleges and universities. An award to any 1
institution shall not be greater than $150,000.00, and the amount awarded shall be
matched on a 70% state, 30% college or university basis.
(3) The program described in this section shall be administered by the workforce
development agency.
Sec. 280. (1) Included in the
appropriation for fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-2019
for each public university in section 236 is funding for the Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Cesar Chavez - Rosa Parks visiting professors program which is intended to increase
the number of instructors in the classroom to provide role models for academically or
economically disadvantaged students. Preference may not be given to participants on
the basis of race, color, ethnicity, gender, or national origin. Public universities
should encourage participation from those who would otherwise not adequately be
represented in the student population.
(2) The program described in this section shall be administered by the workforce
development agency.
Sec. 281. (1) Included in the
appropriation for fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-2019
in section 236 is funding under the Martin Luther King, Jr. - Cesar Chavez - Rosa
Parks initiative for the Morris Hood, Jr. educator development program which is
intended to increase the number of academically or economically disadvantaged students
who enroll in and complete K-12 teacher education programs at the baccalaureate level.
Preference may not be given to participants on the basis of race, color, ethnicity,
gender, or national origin. Institutions should encourage participation from those who
would otherwise not adequately be represented in the teacher education student
population.
(2) The program described in this section shall be administered by each state-
approved teacher education institution in a manner prescribed by the workforce
development agency.
(3) Approved teacher education institutions may and are encouraged to use student
support services funding in coordination with the Morris Hood, Jr. funding to achieve
the goals of the program described in this section.
Sec. 282. Each institution receiving
funds for fiscal year 2017-2018 2018-2019
under section 278, 279, or 281 shall provide to the workforce development agency by
April 15, 2018 2019 the unobligated and unexpended funds as of
March 31, 2018 2019 and
a plan to expend the remaining funds by the end of the fiscal year. Notwithstanding
the award limitations in sections 278 and 279, the amount of funding reported as not
being expended will be reallocated to the institutions that intend to expend all
funding received under section 278, 279, or 281.
Sec. 289. (1) The auditor general shall periodically
NOT LESS THAN EVERY FOUR
YEARS audit higher education institutional data inventory (HEIDI) data submitted by
all public universities under section 241 and may perform audits of selected public
universities if determined necessary. The audits shall be based upon the definitions,
requirements, and uniform reporting categories established by the state budget
director in consultation with the HEIDI advisory committee. The auditor general shall
submit a report of findings to the house and senate appropriations committees and the
state budget director no later than July 1 of each year an audit takes place.
(2) Student credit hours reports shall not include the following:
(a) Student credit hours generated through instructional activity by faculty or
staff in classrooms located outside Michigan, with the exception of instructional
activity related to study-abroad programs or field programs.
(b) Student credit hours generated through distance learning instruction for
students not eligible for the public university's in-state main campus resident
tuition rate. However, in instances where a student is enrolled in distance education
and non-distance education credit hours in a given term and the student's non-distance
education enrollment is at a campus or site located within Michigan, student credit
hours per the student's eligibility for in-state or out-of-state tuition rates may be
reported.
(c) Student credit hours generated through credit by examination.
(d) Student credit hours generated through inmate prison programs regardless of
teaching location.
(e) Student credit hours generated in new degree programs created on or after
January 1, 1975 and before January 1, 2013, that were not specifically authorized for
funding by the legislature, except spin-off programs converted from existing core
programs, and student credit hours generated in any new degree programs created after
January 1, 2013, that are specifically excluded from reporting by the legislature
under this section.
(3) "Distance learning instruction" as used in subsection (2) means instruction
that occurs solely in other than a traditional classroom setting where the student and
instructor are in the same physical location and for which a student receives course
credits and is charged tuition and fees. Examples of distance learning instruction are
instruction delivered solely through the internet, cable television, teleconference,
or mail.
ARTICLE IV
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 296. (1) If the maximum amount appropriated under this act from the state
school aid fund for a fiscal year exceeds the amount necessary to fully fund
allocations under this act from the state school aid fund, that excess amount shall
not be expended in that state fiscal year and shall not lapse to the general fund, but
instead shall be deposited into the school aid stabilization fund created in section
11a.
(2) If the total maximum amount appropriated under all articles of this act from
the state school aid fund and the school aid stabilization fund exceeds the amount
available for expenditure from the state school aid fund for that fiscal year,
payments under sections 11f, 11g, 11j, 22a, 26a, 26b, 31d, 31f, 51a(2), 51a(12), 51c,
53a, 56, 147C, and 152a shall be made in full. In addition, for districts beginning
operations after 1994-95 that qualify for payments under section 22b, payments under
section 22b shall be made so that the qualifying districts receive the lesser of an
amount equal to the 1994-95 foundation allowance of the district in which the district
beginning operations after 1994-95 is located or $5,500.00. The amount of the payment
to be made under section 22b for these qualifying districts shall be as calculated
under section 22a, with the balance of the payment under section 22b being subject to
the proration otherwise provided under this subsection and subsection (3). If
proration is necessary, state payments under each of the other sections of article I
from all state funding sources, and state appropriations to community colleges and
public universities under articles II and III from the state school aid fund, shall be
prorated in the manner prescribed in subsection (3) as necessary to reflect the amount
available for expenditure from the state school aid fund for the affected fiscal year.
However, if the department of treasury determines that proration will be required
under this subsection, or if the department of treasury determines that further
proration is required under this subsection after an initial proration has already
been made for a fiscal year, the department of treasury shall notify the state budget
director, and the state budget director shall notify the legislature at least 30
calendar days or 6 legislative session days, whichever is more, before the department
reduces any payments under this act because of the proration. During the 30-calendar-
day or 6-legislative-session-day period after that notification by the state budget
director, the department shall not reduce any payments under this act because of
proration under this subsection. The legislature may prevent proration from occurring
by, within the 30-calendar-day or 6-legislative-session-day period after that
notification by the state budget director, enacting legislation appropriating
additional funds from the general fund, countercyclical budget and economic
stabilization fund, state school aid fund balance, or another source to fund the
amount of the projected shortfall.
(3) If proration is necessary under subsection (2), the department shall
calculate the proration in district and intermediate district payments under article I
that is required under subsection (2), and the department of treasury shall calculate
the proration in community college and public university payments under articles II
and III that is required under subsection (2), as follows:
(a) The department and the department of treasury shall calculate the percentage
of total state school aid fund money that is appropriated and allocated under this act
for the affected fiscal year for each of the following:
(i) Districts.
(ii) Intermediate districts.
(iii) Entities receiving funding from the state school aid fund under article I
other than districts or intermediate districts.
(iv) Community colleges and public universities that receive funding from the
state school aid fund.
(b) The department shall recover a percentage of the proration amount required
under subsection (2) that is equal to the percentage calculated under subdivision
(a)(i) for districts by reducing payments to districts. This reduction shall be made
by calculating an equal dollar amount per pupil as necessary to recover this
percentage of the proration amount and reducing each district's total state school aid
from state sources, other than payments under sections 11f, 11g, 11j, 22a, 26a, 26b,
31d, 31f, 51a(2), 51a(12), 51c, 53a, 147C, and 152a, by that amount.
(c) The department shall recover a percentage of the proration amount required
under subsection (2) that is equal to the percentage calculated under subdivision
(a)(ii) for intermediate districts by reducing payments to intermediate districts.
This reduction shall be made by reducing the payments to each intermediate district,
other than payments under sections 11f, 11g, 26a, 26b, 51a(2), 51a(12), 53a, 56, 147C,
and 152a, on an equal percentage basis.
(d) The department shall recover a percentage of the proration amount required
under subsection (2) that is equal to the percentage calculated under subdivision
(a)(iii) for entities receiving funding from the state school aid fund under article I
other than districts and intermediate districts by reducing payments to these
entities. This reduction shall be made by reducing the payments to each of these
entities, other than payments under sections 11j, 26a, and 26b, on an equal percentage
basis.
(e) The department of treasury shall recover a percentage of the proration amount
required under subsection (2) that is equal to the percentage calculated under
subdivision (a)(iv) for community colleges and public universities that receive
funding from the state school aid fund by reducing that portion of the payments under
articles II and III, OTHER THAN THOSE PAYMENTS UNDER SECTION 201(5) AND 236(4) OF
THESE ARTICLES, to these community colleges and public universities that is from the
state school aid fund on an equal percentage basis.
ARTICLE V
SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS
SEC. 298. (1) SUBJECT TO THE CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THIS ACT, THE AMOUNTS LISTED
IN THIS SECTION FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, COMMUNITY
COLLEGES AND PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES OF THIS STATE, AND CERTAIN OTHER STATE PURPOSES
RELATING TO EDUCATION ARE A SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS CONTAINED IN THIS ACT FOR FISCAL
YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2019 AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR
ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2020, FROM THE FUNDS INDICATED IN THIS ACT:
(2) SUMMARY OF EDUCATION OMNIBUS APPROPRIATIONS
GROSS APPROPRIATION...................................... $ 16,699,916,900 $ 16,698,233,800
TOTAL INTERDEPARTMENTAL GRANTS AND
INTRADEPARTMENTAL TRANSFERS........................... 0 0
ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................ $ 16,699,916,900 $ 16,698,233,800
TOTAL FEDERAL REVENUES.................................. 1,837,769,900 1,832,769,900
TOTAL LOCAL REVENUES.................................... 0 0
TOTAL PRIVATE REVENUES.................................. 0 0
TOTAL OTHER STATE RESTRICTED REVENUES................... 13,656,929,100 13,660,246,600
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 1,205,217,900 $ 1,205,217,900
SEC. 298A. (1) SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR SCHOOL AID (ARTICLE I)
APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
GROSS APPROPRIATION...................................... $ 14,635,968,800 $ 14,630,585,700
TOTAL INTERDEPARTMENTAL GRANTS AND
INTRADEPARTMENTAL TRANSFERS........................... 0 0
ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................ $ 14,635,968,800 $ 14,630,585,700
TOTAL FEDERAL REVENUES.................................. 1,724,743,500 1,719,743,500
TOTAL LOCAL REVENUES.................................... 0 0
TOTAL PRIVATE REVENUES.................................. 0 0
TOTAL OTHER STATE RESTRICTED REVENUES................... 12,866,225,300 12,865,842,200
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 45,000,000 $ 45,000,000
(2) BASIC OPERATIONS
PROPOSAL A OBLIGATION PAYMENT........................... $ 5,048,000,000 $ 4,985,000,000
DISCRETIONARY PAYMENT................................... 4,228,600,000 4,219,000,000
MICHIGAN PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM
REFORM COSTS.......................................... 1,258,439,000 1,308,439,000
ISD GENERAL OPERATIONS.................................. 67,108,000 67,108,000
SHARED TIME PUPILS...................................... 64,100,000 64,100,000
HOLD HARMLESS PROVISION................................. 18,000,000 18,000,000
ISOLATED DISTRICT FUNDING............................... 5,000,000 5,000,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION................................... $ 10,689,247,000 $ 10,666,647,000
APPROPRIATED FROM:
STATE RESTRICTED REVENUES............................... 10,678,371,200 10,652,541,200
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 10,875,800 $ 14,105,800
(3) SPECIAL EDUCATION
SPECIAL EDUCATION HEADLEE OBLIGATION.................... $ 650,600,000 $ 665,000,000
SPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATIONS........................... 272,100,000 278,000,000
SPECIAL EDUCATION MILLAGE EQUALIZATION.................. 37,758,100 37,758,100
SPECIAL EDUCATION COURT PLACED FTES..................... 10,500,000 10,500,000
EARLY ON................................................ 5,000,000 5,000,000
SPECIAL EDUCATION NON-SEC. 52 PAYMENT................... 3,400,000 3,200,000
SPECIAL EDUCATION RULE CHANGE........................... 2,200,000 2,200,000
MICHIGAN SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND................. 1,688,000 1,688,000
INTEGRATED BEHAVIOR AND LEARNING SUPPORT (MIBLSI)....... 1,600,000 1,600,000
SPECIAL EDUCATION HOLD HARMLESS PAYMENT................. 1,100,000 1,100,000
SPECIAL EDUCATION MONITORING............................ 500,000 500,000
SPECIAL EDUCATION TASKFORCE RECOMMENDATIONS............. 500,000 500,000
SPECIAL EDUCATION FEDERAL PROGRAMS.................... 431,000,000 431,000,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 1,417,946,100 $ 1,438,046,100
APPROPRIATED FROM:
FEDERAL REVENUES........................................ 431,000,000 431,000,000
STATE RESTRICTED REVENUES............................... 984,346,100 1,004,446,100
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 2,600,000 $ 2,600,000
(4) SUPPORT SERVICES
AT-RISK PROGRAMS........................................ $ 499,000,000 $ 499,000,000
ADULT EDUCATION......................................... 27,000,000 27,000,000
EARLY LITERACY GRANTS................................... 20,900,000 20,900,000
HIGH SCHOOL PER PUPIL PAYMENTS.......................... 11,000,000 11,000,000
PARTNERSHIP MODEL DISTRICTS............................. 8,000,000 6,000,000
COURT-PLACED CHILDREN................................... 8,000,000 8,000,000
MICHIGAN VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY............................. 7,387,500 7,387,500
ADOLESCENT TEEN HEALTH CENTERS.......................... 6,057,300 6,057,300
EARLY LITERACY INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES.................... 6,000,000 6,000,000
BILINGUAL EDUCATION..................................... 6,000,000 6,000,000
VISION AND HEARING SCREENINGS........................... 5,150,000 5,150,000
DRINKING WATER DECLARATION OF EMERGENCY................. 3,230,100 0
BUS DRIVER SAFETY PROGRAMS.............................. 2,025,000 2,025,000
SCHOOL BUS INSPECTION PROGRAMS.......................... 1,729,900 1,729,900
CHALLENGE PROGRAM....................................... 1,545,400 1,545,400
JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITY PROGRAMS.................... 1,355,700 1,355,700
STRICT DISCIPLINE ACADEMIES PUPIL TRANSFERS............. 750,000 750,000
DROPOUT RECOVERY PROGRAMS............................... 750,000 750,000
FEDERAL PROGRAMS........................................ 760,600,000 755,600,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 1,376,480,900 $ 1,366,250,800
APPROPRIATED FROM:
FEDERAL REVENUES........................................ 760,600,000 755,600,000
STATE RESTRICTED REVENUES............................... 605,263,400 603,263,300
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 10,617,500 $ 7,387,500
(5) SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAMS
SCHOOL LUNCH............................................ $ 546,344,000 $ 546,691,000
SCHOOL BREAKFAST........................................ 4,500,000 4,500,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 550,844,000 $ 551,191,000
APPROPRIATED FROM:
FEDERAL REVENUES........................................ 523,200,000 523,200,000
STATE RESTRICTED REVENUES............................... 27,644,000 27,991,000
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 0 $ 0
(6) EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
GREAT START READINESS PROGRAM........................... $ 243,900,000 $ 243,900,000
GREAT START EARLY CHILDHOOD BLOCK GRANTS................ 13,400,000 13,400,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 257,300,000 $ 257,300,000
APPROPRIATED FROM:
STATE RESTRICTED REVENUES............................... 257,000,000 257,000,000
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 300,000 $ 300,000
(7) STUDENT ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING COSTS..................... 38,000,500 38,000,500
STUDENT ASSESSMENTS..................................... 37,259,400 37,259,400
CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE AND INFORMATION...... 16,550,200 16,550,200
REGIONAL DATA HUBS...................................... 2,200,000 2,200,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 94,010,100 $ 94,010,100
APPROPRIATED FROM:
FEDERAL REVENUES........................................ 6,443,500 6,443,500
STATE RESTRICTED REVENUES............................... 71,209,900 71,209,900
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 16,356,700 $ 16,356,700
(8) DEBT SERVICE AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS
SCHOOL BOND LOAN REDEMPTION FUND........................ $ 125,500,000 $ 125,500,000
SCHOOL AID FUND BORROWING COSTS......................... $ 24,000,000 $ 31,000,000
RENAISSANCE ZONE REIMBURSEMENT.......................... $ 15,000,000 $ 15,000,000
PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAXES REIMBURSEMENT.................. $ 4,405,100 $ 4,405,100
PROMISE ZONE PAYMENTS................................... $ 3,000,000 $ 3,000,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 171,905,100 $ 178,905,100
APPROPRIATED FROM:
STATE RESTRICTED REVENUES............................... 171,905,100 178,905,100
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 0 $ 0
(9) COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.................................... $ 36,611,300 $ 36,611,300
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION MILLAGE REIMBURSEMENT.............. 9,190,000 9,190,000
MISTEM NETWORK REGIONS.................................. 8,084,300 8,084,300
CTE AND EARLY MIDDLE COLLEGE PROGRAMS................... 8,000,000 8,000,000
CTE PER PUPIL FUNDING................................... 5,000,000 5,000,000
MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK......................... 3,000,000 3,000,000
MISTEM COUNCIL.......................................... 2,950,000 2,950,000
FIRST ROBOTICS.......................................... 2,500,000 2,500,000
DUAL ENROLLMENT INCENTIVE PAYMENTS...................... 1,750,000 1,750,000
ADVANCED PLACEMENT (AP) INCENTIVE PROGRAM............... 750,000 750,000
STEM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR................................. 400,000 400,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 78,235,600 $ 78,235,600
APPROPRIATED FROM:
FEDERAL REVENUES........................................ 3,500,000 3,500,000
STATE RESTRICTED REVENUES............................... 70,485,600 70,485,600
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 4,250,000 $ 4,250,000
SEC. 298B. (1) SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES (ARTICLE II)
APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
GROSS APPROPRIATION...................................... $ 405,015,500 $ 407,715,500
TOTAL INTERDEPARTMENTAL GRANTS AND
INTRADEPARTMENTAL TRANSFERS........................... 0 0
ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................ $ 405,015,500 $ 407,715,500
TOTAL FEDERAL REVENUES.................................. 0 0
TOTAL LOCAL REVENUES.................................... 0 0
TOTAL PRIVATE REVENUES.................................. 0 0
TOTAL OTHER STATE RESTRICTED REVENUES................... 405,015,500 407,715,500
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 0 $ 0
(2) OPERATIONS
(A) ALPENA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 5,627,500 $ 5,627,500
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 5,627,500 $ 5,627,500
(B) BAY DE NOC COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 5,589,000 $ 5,589,000
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 5,589,000 $ 5,589,000
(C) DELTA COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 14,990,700 $ 14,990,700
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 14,990,700 $ 14,990,700
(D) GLEN OAKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 2,601,400 $ 2,601,400
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 2,601,400 $ 2,601,400
(E) GOGEBIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 4,715,400 $ 4,715,400
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 4,715,400 $ 4,715,400
(F) GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 18,556,800 $ 18,556,800
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 18,556,800 $ 18,556,800
(G) HENRY FORD COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 22,299,200 $ 22,299,200
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 22,299,200 $ 22,299,200
(H) JACKSON COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 12,590,100 $ 12,590,100
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 12,590,100 $ 12,590,100
(I) KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 12,948,700 $ 12,948,700
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 12,948,700 $ 12,948,700
(J) KELLOGG COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 10,143,600 $ 10,143,600
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 10,143,600 $ 10,143,600
(K) KIRTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 3,298,400 $ 3,298,400
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 3,298,400 $ 3,298,400
(L) LAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 5,523,600 $ 5,523,600
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 5,523,600 $ 5,523,600
(M) LANSING COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 32,324,200 $ 32,324,200
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 32,324,200 $ 32,324,200
(N) MACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 33,863,600 $ 33,863,600
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 33,863,600 $ 33,863,600
(O) MID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 4,968,900 $ 4,968,900
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 4,968,900 $ 4,968,900
(P) MONROE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 4,665,500 $ 4,665,500
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 4,665,500 $ 4,665,500
(Q) MONTCALM COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 3,446,300 $ 3,446,300
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 3,446,300 $ 3,446,300
(R) C. S. MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 16,258,100 $ 16,258,100
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 16,258,100 $ 16,258,100
(S) MUSKEGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 9,203,000 $ 9,203,000
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 9,203,000 $ 9,203,000
(T) NORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 3,353,200 $ 3,353,200
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 3,353,200 $ 3,353,200
(U) NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 9,508,900 $ 9,508,900
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 9,508,900 $ 9,508,900
(V) OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 21,905,700 $ 21,905,700
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 21,905,700 $ 21,905,700
(W) SCHOOLCRAFT COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 12,991,300 $ 12,991,300
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 12,991,300 $ 12,991,300
(X) SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 6,860,700 $ 6,860,700
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 6,860,700 $ 6,860,700
(Y) ST. CLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 7,300,100 $ 7,300,100
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 7,300,100 $ 7,300,100
(Z) WASHTENAW COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 13,631,400 $ 13,631,400
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 13,631,400 $ 13,631,400
(AA) WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 17,338,300 $ 17,338,300
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 17,338,300 $ 17,338,300
(BB) WEST SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 2,556,300 $ 2,556,300
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 0 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 2,556,300 $ 2,556,300
(CC) OPERATIONS FUNDING SOURCES
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 319,050,900 $ 319,050,900
APPROPRIATED FROM:
STATE SCHOOL AID FUND................................... 319,050,900 319,050,900
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 0 $ 0
(3) MICHIGAN PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT
SYSTEM (MPSERS)
MPSERS COST OFFSET...................................... $ 1,733,600 $ 1,733,600
MPSERS UAL CAP REIMBURSEMENT............................ 75,300,000 78,000,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 77,033,600 $ 79,733,600
APPROPRIATED FROM:
STATE SCHOOL AID FUND................................... 77,033,600 79,733,600
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 0 $ 0
(4) RENAISSANCE ZONE REIMBURSEMENTS
RENAISSANCE ZONE REIMBURSEMENTS......................... $ 2,500,000 $ 2,500,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 2,500,000 $ 2,500,000
APPROPRIATED FROM:
STATE SCHOOL AID FUND................................... $ 2,500,000 $ 2,500,000
(6) ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS
MPSERS NORMAL COST OFFSET............................... 6,431,000 6,431,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 4,637,000 $ 7,225,000
APPROPRIATED FROM:
STATE SCHOOL AID FUND................................... 3,612,000 7,225,000
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ $ 0
SEC. 298C. (1) SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR UNIVERSITIES AND STUDENT FINANCIAL
AID (ARTICLE III)
APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
GROSS APPROPRIATION...................................... $ 1,658,932,600 $ 1,659,932,600
TOTAL INTERDEPARTMENTAL GRANTS AND
INTRADEPARTMENTAL TRANSFERS........................... 0 0
ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................ $ 1,658,932,600 $ 1,659,932,600
TOTAL FEDERAL REVENUES.................................. 113,026,400 113,026,400
TOTAL LOCAL REVENUES.................................... 0 0
TOTAL PRIVATE REVENUES.................................. 0 0
TOTAL OTHER STATE RESTRICTED REVENUES................... 385,688,300 386,688,300
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 1,160,217,900 $ 1,160,217,900
(2) UNIVERSITY OPERATIONS
(A) CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 85,654,400 $ 87,413,100
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 1,758,700 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 87,413,100 $ 87,413,100
(B) EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 75,169,900 $ 76,977,200
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 1,807,300 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 76,977,200 $ 76,977,200
(C) FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 53,595,500 $ 54,975,900
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 1,380,400 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 54,975,900 $ 54,975,900
(D) GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 70,100,100 $ 72,053,500
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 1,953,400 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 72,053,500 $ 72,053,500
(E) LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 13,775,000 $ 13,988,400
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 213,400 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 13,988,400 $ 13,988,400
(F) MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 281,239,100 $ 286,268,900
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 5,029,800 0
MSU AGBIORESEARCH....................................... 34,591,400 34,591,400
MSU EXTENSION........................................... 29,837,700 29,837,700
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 350,698,000 $ 350,698,000
(G) MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 49,052,200 $ 49,947,900
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 895,700 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 49,947,900 $ 49,947,900
(H) NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 47,137,400 $ 48,004,600
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 867,200 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 48,004,600 $ 48,004,600
(I) OAKLAND UNIVERSITY
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 51,235,900 $ 52,816,100
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 1,580,200 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 52,816,100 $ 52,816,100
(J) SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 29,766,100 $ 30,526,800
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 760,700 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 30,526,800 $ 30,526,800
(K) UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - ANN ARBOR
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 314,589,100 $ 320,775,300
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 6,186,200 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 320,775,300 $ 320,775,300
(L) UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN – DEARBORN
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 25,421,900 $ 26,070,700
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 648,800 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 26,070,700 $ 26,070,700
(M) UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN – FLINT
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 23,061,800 $ 23,584,100
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 522,300 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 23,584,100 $ 23,584,100
(N) WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 199,169,800 $ 202,361,000
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 3,191,200 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 202,361,000 $ 202,361,000
(O) WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
OPERATIONS.............................................. $ 109,376,800 $ 111,148,300
PERFORMANCE FUNDING..................................... 1,771,500 0
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 111,148,300 $ 111,148,300
(P) OPERATIONS FUNDING SOURCES
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 1,521,340,900 $ 1,521,340,900
APPROPRIATED FROM:
STATE SCHOOL AID FUND................................... 379,786,300 379,786,300
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 1,141,554,600 $ 1,141,554,600
(3) MICHIGAN PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT
SYSTEM (MPSERS)
MPSERS UAL CAP REIMBURSEMENT............................ $ 5,133,000 $ 6,133,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 5,133,000 $ 6,133,000
APPROPRIATED FROM:
STATE SCHOOL AID FUND................................... 5,133,000 6,133,000
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 0 $ 0
(4) STATE AND REGIONAL PROGRAMS
HIGHER EDUCATION DATABASE MODERNIZATION AND
CONVERSION.......................................... $ 200,000 $ 200,000
MIDWESTERN HIGHER EDUCATION COMPACT..................... 115,000 115,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 315,000 $ 315,000
APPROPRIATED FROM:
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 315,000 $ 315,000
(5) MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. – CESAR CHAVEZ – ROSA
PARKS PROGRAM
SELECT STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES......................... $ 1,956,100 $ 1,956,100
MICHIGAN COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM......... 586,800 586,800
MORRIS HOOD, JR. EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM........... 148,600 148,600
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 2,691,500 $ 2,691,500
APPROPRIATED FROM:
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 2,691,500 $ 2,691,500
(6) GRANTS AND FINANCIAL AID
STATE COMPETITIVE SCHOLARSHIPS.......................... $ 32,361,700 $ 32,361,700
TUITION GRANTS.......................................... 32,021,500 32,021,500
TUITION INCENTIVE PROGRAM............................... 59,800,000 59,800,000
CHILDREN OF VETERANS AND OFFICER’S SURVIVOR
TUITION GRANT PROGRAMS.............................. 1,400,000 1,400,000
PROJECT GEAR-UP......................................... 3,200,000 3,200,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION..................................... $ 128,783,200 $ 128,783,200
APPROPRIATED FROM:
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, OFFICE OF .
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, GEAR-UP PROGRAM... 3,200,000 3,200,000
SOCIAL SECURITY ACT, TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY
FAMILIES.............................................. 109,826,400 109,826,400
CONTRIBUTIONS TO CHILDREN OF VETERANS TUITION GRANT
PROGRAM............................................... 100,000 100,000
STATE GENERAL FUND/GENERAL PURPOSE...................... $ 15,656,800 $ 15,656,800
Enacting section 1. (1) In accordance with section 30 of article I of the state
constitution of 1963, total state spending on school aid under article I as amended by
this amendatory act from state sources for fiscal year 2018-2019 is estimated at
$12,911,225,300.00 and state appropriations for school aid to be paid to local units
of government for fiscal year 2018-2019 are estimated at $12,733,596,100.00.
(2) In accordance with section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of
1963, total state spending from state sources for community colleges for fiscal year
2018-2019 under article II as amended by this amendatory act is estimated at
$405,015,500.00 and the amount of that state spending from state sources to be paid to
local units of government for fiscal year 2018-2019 is estimated at $405,015,500.00.
(3) In accordance with section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of
1963, total state spending from state sources for higher education for fiscal year
2018-2019 under article III as amended by this amendatory act is estimated at
$1,545,906,200.00 and the amount of that state spending from state sources to be paid
to local units of government for fiscal year 2018-2019 is estimated at $0.
Enacting section 2. Sections 21j, 22g, 31b, 31j, 32q, 35, 55, 61c, 64d, 65, 67a,
95b, 99k, 99t, 99u, 102d, 104d, 104e, 152b, 164g, 164h, 201a, 208, 212, 227, 228,
236a, 261, 271a, 274, and 275 of the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL
388.1621j, 388.1622g, 388.1631b, 388.1631j, 388.1632q, 388.1635, 388.1655, 388.1661c,
388.1664d, 388.1665, 388.1667a, 388.1695b, 388.1699k, 388.1699t, 388.1699u, 388.1702d,
388.1704d, 388.1704e, 388.1752b, 388.1764g, 388.1764h, 388.1801a, 388.1808, 388.1812,
388.1827, 388.1828, 388.1836a, 388.1861, 388.1871a, 388.1874, and 388.1875 are
repealed effective October 1, 2018.
