PERSONAL CURRICULUM S.B. 1427 (S-4): FLOOR ANALYSIS
Senate Bill 1427 (Substitute S-4 as reported)
Sponsor: Senator Wayne Kuipers
Committee: Education
CONTENT
The bill would amend the Revised School Code to do the following:
-- Specify that a personal curriculum approved for a pupil would have to incorporate as much of the subject area content expectations for the credits required under the Michigan Merit Curriculum as practicable "for the pupil".
-- Allow a school psychologist to be included in the group developing a pupil's personal curriculum.
-- Allow the parent of a pupil who transferred from out of State or from a nonpublic school and had completed at least the equivalent of two years of high school before the transfer, to request a personal curriculum for the pupil.
-- Require a personal curriculum for a student who had transferred from out of State or from a nonpublic school to include math in his or her final year of high school, and if the student were enrolled in the school for at least one full school year, require that math course to be at least algebra I.
-- Require the parent or legal guardian of a pupil for whom a personal curriculum had been approved to be in communication with each of the pupil's teachers at least once every calendar quarter.
-- Permit a pupil who was at least 18 years of age or an emancipated minor to act on his or her own behalf under these provisions.
MCL 380.1278b Legislative Analyst: Curtis Walker
FISCAL IMPACT
The bill would have no fiscal impact on State or local government.
Date Completed: 11-29-06 Fiscal Analyst: Kirk Sanderson
floor\sb1427 Analysis available @ http://www.michiganlegislature.org
This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.
Analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent. sb1427/0506