Bill Text: MI SB0921 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; public school academies; accreditation requirement for charter schools; revise. Amends sec. 1280 of 1976 PA 451 (380.1280).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-27 - Referred To Committee On Education [SB0921 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0921-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 921

 

 

April 27, 2016, Introduced by Senator YOUNG and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

by amending section 1280 (MCL 380.1280), as amended by 2006 PA 123.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1280. (1) The board of a school district that does not

 

want to be subject to the measures described in this section shall

 

ensure that each public school within operated by the school

 

district is accredited under this section. The board of directors

 

of a public school academy shall ensure that the public school

 

academy is accredited under this section.

 

     (2) As used in subsection (1), and subject to subsection (6),

 

"accredited" means certified by the superintendent of public

 

instruction as having met or exceeded standards established under

 

this section for 6 areas of school operation: administration and

 

school organization, curricula, staff, school plant and facilities,

 

school and community relations, and school improvement plans and

 

student performance. The building-level evaluation used in the

 

accreditation process shall include, but is not limited to, school

 

data collection, self-study, visitation and validation,

 

determination of performance data to be used, and the development

 

of a school improvement plan.

 

     (3) The department shall develop and distribute to all public

 

schools proposed accreditation standards. Upon distribution of the

 

proposed standards, the department shall hold statewide public

 

hearings for the purpose of receiving testimony concerning the

 

standards. After a review of the testimony, the department shall

 

revise and submit the proposed standards to the superintendent of

 

public instruction. After a review and revision, if appropriate, of

 

the proposed standards, the superintendent of public instruction

 

shall submit the proposed standards to the senate and house

 

committees that have the responsibility for education legislation.

 

Upon approval by these committees, the department shall distribute

 

to all public schools the standards to be applied to each public

 

school for accreditation purposes. The superintendent of public

 

instruction shall review and update the accreditation standards

 

annually using the process prescribed under this subsection.

 

     (4) The superintendent of public instruction shall develop and

 

distribute to all public schools standards for determining that a

 

public school is eligible for summary accreditation under

 

subsection (6). The standards shall be developed, reviewed,

 

approved, and distributed using the same process as prescribed in

subsection (3) for accreditation standards, and shall be finally

 

distributed and implemented not later than December 31, 1994.

 

     (5) The standards for accreditation or summary accreditation

 

under this section shall include as criteria pupil performance on

 

Michigan education assessment program (MEAP) tests and on the

 

Michigan merit examination under section 1279g and, until the

 

Michigan merit examination has been fully implemented, the

 

percentage of pupils achieving state endorsement under section

 

1279, state assessments, but shall not be based solely on pupil

 

performance on MEAP tests or the Michigan merit examination or on

 

the percentage of pupils achieving state endorsement under section

 

1279. state assessments. The standards shall also include as

 

criteria multiple year change in pupil performance on MEAP tests

 

and the Michigan merit examination and, until after the Michigan

 

merit examination is fully implemented, multiple year change in the

 

percentage of pupils achieving state endorsement under section

 

1279. state assessments. If it is necessary for the superintendent

 

of public instruction to revise accreditation or summary

 

accreditation standards established under subsection (3) or (4) to

 

comply with this subsection, the revised standards shall be

 

developed, reviewed, approved, and distributed using the same

 

process as prescribed in subsection (3).

 

     (6) If the superintendent of public instruction determines

 

that a public school has met the standards established under

 

subsection (4) or (5) for summary accreditation, the public school

 

is considered to be accredited without the necessity for a full

 

building-level evaluation under subsection (2).

     (7) If the superintendent of public instruction determines

 

that a public school has not met the standards established under

 

subsection (4) or (5) for summary accreditation but that the public

 

school is making progress toward meeting those standards, or if,

 

based on a full building-level evaluation under subsection (2), the

 

superintendent of public instruction determines that a public

 

school has not met the standards for accreditation but is making

 

progress toward meeting those standards, the public school is in

 

interim status and is subject to a full building-level evaluation

 

as provided in this section.

 

     (8) If a public school has not met the standards established

 

under subsection (4) or (5) for summary accreditation and is not

 

eligible for interim status under subsection (7), the public school

 

is unaccredited and subject to the measures provided in this

 

section.

 

     (9) Beginning with the 2002-2003 school year, if at least 5%

 

of a public school's answer sheets from the administration of the

 

Michigan educational assessment program (MEAP) state assessment

 

tests are lost by the department or by a state contractor and if

 

the public school can verify that the answer sheets were collected

 

from pupils and forwarded to the department or the contractor, the

 

department shall not assign an accreditation score or school report

 

card grade to the public school for that subject area for the

 

corresponding year for the purposes of determining state

 

accreditation under this section. The department shall not assign

 

an accreditation score or school report card grade to the public

 

school for that subject area until the results of all tests for the

next year are available.

 

     (10) Subsection (9) does not preclude the department from

 

determining whether a public school or a school district has

 

achieved adequate yearly progress for the school year in which the

 

answer sheets were lost for the purposes of the no child left

 

behind act of 2001, Public Law 107-110. However, the department

 

shall ensure that a public school or the school district is not

 

penalized when determining adequate yearly progress status due to

 

the fact that the public school's MEAP state assessment answer

 

sheets were lost by the department or by a state contractor, but

 

shall not require a public school or school district to retest

 

pupils or produce scores from another test for this purpose.

 

     (11) The superintendent of public instruction shall annually

 

review and evaluate for accreditation purposes the performance of

 

each public school that is unaccredited and as many of the public

 

schools that are in interim status as permitted by the department's

 

resources.

 

     (12) The superintendent of public instruction shall, and the

 

intermediate school district to which a school district is

 

constituent, a consortium of intermediate school districts, or any

 

combination thereof may, provide technical assistance, as

 

appropriate, to a public school that is unaccredited or that is in

 

interim status upon request of the school board of the school

 

district in which or board of directors that operates the public

 

school. is located. If requests to the superintendent of public

 

instruction for technical assistance exceed the capacity, priority

 

shall be given to unaccredited public schools.

     (13) A Subject to subsection (14), a public school that has

 

been unaccredited for 3 consecutive years is subject to 1 or more

 

of the following measures, as determined by the superintendent of

 

public instruction:

 

     (a) The superintendent of public instruction or his or her

 

designee shall appoint at the expense of the affected school

 

district an administrator of the public school until the public

 

school becomes accredited.

 

     (b) A parent, legal guardian, or person in loco parentis of a

 

child who attends the public school may send his or her child to

 

any accredited public school with an appropriate grade level within

 

the school district.

 

     (c) The public school, with the approval of the superintendent

 

of public instruction, shall align itself with an existing

 

research-based school improvement model or establish an affiliation

 

for providing assistance to the public school with a college or

 

university located in this state.

 

     (d) The public school shall be closed.

 

     (14) If a public school academy has been unaccredited for 3

 

consecutive years, the superintendent of public instruction shall

 

issue an order closing the public school academy effective at the

 

end of the school year in which the order is issued.

 

     (15) (14) The superintendent of public instruction shall

 

evaluate the school accreditation program and the status of public

 

schools under this section and shall submit an annual report based

 

upon the evaluation to the senate and house committees that have

 

the responsibility for education legislation. The report shall

address the reasons each unaccredited school is not accredited and

 

shall recommend legislative action that will result in the

 

accreditation of all public schools in this state.

 

     (16) (15) Beginning with the 2008-2009 school year, a high

 

school shall not be accredited by the department unless the

 

department determines that the high school is providing or has

 

otherwise ensured that all pupils have access to all of the

 

elements of the curriculum required under sections 1278a and 1278b.

 

If it is necessary for the superintendent of public instruction to

 

revise accreditation or summary accreditation standards established

 

under subsection (3) or (4) to comply with the changes made to this

 

section by the amendatory act that added this subsection, the

 

revised standards shall be developed, reviewed, approved, and

 

distributed using the same process as prescribed in subsection (3).

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.