HOUSE BILL No. 5060


     September 20, 2001, Introduced by Reps. Bernero, Spade, Waters, Lipsey, Rich Brown, Adamini, McConico, Plakas, Pestka, Neumann, Minore,
Gieleghem, Murphy, Bogardus, Wojno, Dennis, O'Neil, Zelenko, Jacobs, Clarke and Hansen and referred to the Committee on Education.


        A bill to amend 1970 PA 38, entitled

   "An act to provide for assessment and remedial assistance pro-
   grams of students in reading, mathematics and vocational
   education,"

   by amending sections 1, 2, and 6 (MCL 388.1081, 388.1082, and

   388.1086).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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           Sec. 1.  A statewide program of assessment of educational

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      progress and remedial assistance in the basic skills of students

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      in reading, mathematics, language arts,  and/or  OR other general

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      subject areas is established,  in the department of education

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      which  TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.  THIS

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      program shall DO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:

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           (a) Establish meaningful achievement goals in the basic

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      skills for students, and identify those students with the

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      greatest educational need in these skills.


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           (b) Provide  the  THIS state with the information needed to

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      allocate state funds and professional services in a manner best

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      calculated to equalize educational opportunities for students to

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      achieve competence in  such  THOSE basic skills.

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           (c) Provide school systems with strong incentives to intro-

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      duce educational programs to improve the education of students in

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       such  THOSE basic skills and model programs to raise the level

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      of achievement of students.

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           (d) Develop a system for educational self-renewal that would

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      continuously evaluate the programs and by this means help each

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      school to discover and introduce program changes that are most

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      likely to improve the quality of education.

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           (e) Provide the public periodically with information con-

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      cerning the progress of the state system of education.   Such

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      programs  THIS PROGRAM shall extend  current  OTHER department
   of

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      education efforts to conduct periodic and comprehensive assess-

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      ment of educational progress.

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           Sec. 2.  (1) The statewide assessment program of educational

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      progress shall cover all students annually  at two  IN AT LEAST 2

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      grade levels in public schools.

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           (2) The  department of education, hereinafter referred to as

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      the department,  STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION shall develop and con-

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      duct the program, and may utilize the assistance of appropriate

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      testing organizations  and/or  OR testing  specialist

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      SPECIALISTS.   The program shall expand the current basic skills

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      testing inventory in grades 4 and 7 coordinated by the

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      department.



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           (3) The program shall assess competencies in the basic

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      skills and collect and utilize other relevant information essen-

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      tial to the assessment program.

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           (4) Based on information from the program, students shall be

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      identified who have extraordinary need for assistance to improve

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      their competence in the basic skills.

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           (5) Information from the program shall be given to each

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      school as soon as possible to assist it in its efforts to improve

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      the achievement of students in the basic skills.

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           Sec. 6.  The  department  STATE BOARD shall promulgate rules

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      necessary to carry out the provisions of this act  ,  in accord-

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      ance with  and subject to the provisions of Act No.  306 of the

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      Public Acts of 1969, being sections 24.201 to 24.313 of the

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      Compiled Laws of 1948  THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES ACT OF 1969,

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      1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 TO 24.328.

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           Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take

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      effect unless all of the following bills of the 91st Legislature

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      are enacted into law:

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           (a) Senate Bill No. _____ or House Bill No. 5061 (request

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      no. 04812'01 a).

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           (b) Senate Bill No. _____ or House Bill No. 5062 (request

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      no. 04812'01 b).

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           (c) Senate Bill No. _____ or House Bill No. 5063 (request

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      no. 04812'01 c).









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