January 26, 2005, Introduced by Senators GARCIA, SWITALSKI, GOSCHKA, GEORGE, KUIPERS, CROPSEY and JELINEK and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled
"The revised school code,"
by amending section 1284 (MCL 380.1284), as amended by 1997 PA 53.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1284. (1) The board of a school district or of a public
school
academy shall determine the length of the school term year.
However,
except as otherwise provided in subsections (2) and (3),
if the board does not want the school district's or public school
academy's state school aid payments to be withheld as described in
section 101 of the state school aid act of 1979, MCL 388.1701, the
board
shall ensure that the minimum number of days of pupil
instruction
in a school year is 180 through the 1996-1997 school
year
and is 181 in the 1997-1998 school year, 182 in the 1998-1999
school
year, 183 in the 1999-2000 school year, 184 in the 2000-2001
school
year, 185 in the 2001-2002 school year, 186 in the 2002-2003
school
year, 187 in the 2003-2004 school year, 188 in the 2004-2005
school
year, 189 in the 2005-2006 school year, and 190 in the 2006-
2007
school year and each succeeding school year, and shall ensure
that
the minimum number of hours of pupil instruction in a school
year
is 900 for the 1994-95 school year, 990 for the 1995-96 and
1996-97
school years, 1,041 for the 1997-1998 school year, 1,047
for
the 1998-1999 school year, 1,098 for the 1999-2000 school year,
1,104
for the 2000-2001 school year, 1,110 for the 2001-2002 school
year,
1,116 for the 2002-2003 school year, 1,122 for the 2003-2004
school
year, 1,128 for the 2004-2005 school year, 1,134 for the
2005-2006
school year, and 1,140 for the 2006-2007 school year and
each
succeeding school year school
district or public school
academy provides at least 1,098 hours of pupil instruction during
each school year.
(2)
For a particular school year, if the department determines
that
the percentage growth in the basic foundation allowance under
section
20 of the state school aid act of 1979, MCL 388.1620, for
the
state fiscal year in which the school year begins, as compared
to
the basic foundation allowance for the immediately preceding
state
fiscal year, is less than the percentage increase in the
average
United States consumer price index for all urban consumers,
as
determined by the United States bureau of labor statistics, for
the
calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year in which
the
school year begins as compared to the second preceding calendar
year
before the calendar year in which the school year begins, then
there
shall be no increase in the required minimum number of days
or
hours of pupil instruction under subsection (1) for that
particular
school year. For the next school year after a school
year
for which there is no increase in the required minimum number
of
days and hours of pupil instruction under subsection (1) because
of
the operation of this subsection, and if the first sentence of
this
subsection does not apply, the increase in the required
minimum
number of days and hours of pupil instruction shall only be
1
day and the corresponding number of hours. This subsection shall
apply
and shall operate to limit increases under subsection (1)
until
the required minimum number of days and hours of pupil
instruction
under this section is 190 days and 1,140 hours.
(3)
The board of a school district or public school academy,
by
resolution, may choose to provide less than the number of days
of
pupil instruction required under subsection (1), but shall
provide
at least 180 days of pupil instruction and at least the
number
of hours of pupil instruction required under subsection (1).
(2) (4) Not later than August 1 of each year, the board of
each school district and the board of directors of each public
school
academy shall certify to the state board the number of days
and hours of pupil instruction in the previous school
year.
(3) (5) Days lost Hours in which there is no pupil
instruction because of strikes or teachers' conferences shall not
be
counted as days hours of pupil instruction.
(4) (6) The state board superintendent of public instruction
shall promulgate rules for the implementation of this section.