HOUSE BILL No. 5481


     January 20, 1998, Introduced by Reps. LeTarte, Rhead, Middleton, Lowe, Horton, Walberg, Jellema, Bobier, Gire, Johnson, Godchaux, Oxender, Baade and Jelinek and referred to the Committee on Education.


        A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

   "The revised school code,"

   by amending section 1233 (MCL 380.1233), as amended by 1995 PA

   289.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 1233.  (1) Except as provided in this section and sec-

 2    tion 1233b, the board of a school district or intermediate school

 3    district shall not permit a teacher who does not hold a valid

 4    teaching certificate to teach in a grade or department of the

 5    school, or a teacher without an endorsement by the state board to

 6    serve in a counseling role as the role is defined by the state

 7    board.

 8         (2) The intermediate superintendent shall notify immediately

 9    the state board of the names of noncertificated teachers teaching

10    in violation of subsection (1) and the names of nonendorsed


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 1    teachers serving in counseling roles in violation of subsection

 2    (1), the employing district, and the amount of time the noncer-

 3    tificated and nonendorsed teachers were employed.

 4         (3) The board of a school district or intermediate school

 5    district may renew through June 30, 1995 an annual vocational

 6    authorization of a noncertificated vocational teacher who is

 7    employed by the district or intermediate school district on June

 8    1, 1987, even if a certificated teacher is available for hire, if

 9    both of the following conditions are met:

10         (a) The noncertificated teacher is annually and continually

11    enrolled and completing credit in an approved vocational teacher

12    preparation program leading to vocational certification.

13         (b) The noncertificated teacher has a planned vocational

14    teacher preparation program leading to vocational certification

15    on file with the employing school district or intermediate school

16    district, his or her teacher preparation institution, and the

17    department.

18         (4) A vocational teacher preparation institution shall uti-

19    lize the employment experience of an annually authorized teacher

20    for the purpose of waiving student teaching as a requirement for

21    vocational certification if the annually authorized teacher is

22    supervised by the teacher preparation institution.

23         (5) All vocational education teachers certified after

24    June 1, 1995 shall pass a competency test.

25         (6) The board of a school district or intermediate school

26    district may employ a person without a teaching certificate as a

27    substitute teacher if the person has at least 90 semester hours



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 1    of college credit from a college or university OR, FOR SUBSTITUTE

 2    TEACHING IN GRADES K TO 9 ONLY, THE PERSON HAS AT LEAST 60 SEMES-

 3    TER HOURS OF COLLEGE CREDIT AND IS ENROLLED IN AN APPROVED

 4    TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM LEADING TO A PROVISIONAL TEACHING

 5    CERTIFICATE.














































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