September 24, 2007, Introduced by Senators JELINEK, SWITALSKI, CHERRY, JACOBS, PAPPAGEORGE and KAHN and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 1970 PA 38, entitled
"An act to provide for assessment and remedial assistance programs
of students in reading, mathematics and vocational education,"
by amending section 1 (MCL 388.1081).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. A statewide program of assessment of educational
progress and remedial assistance in the basic skills of students in
reading,
mathematics, science, and language arts and/or other
general
subject areas is established in the
department of
education. which
This program shall be designed to do all of the
following:
(a) Establish meaningful achievement goals in the basic skills
for students, and identify those students with the greatest
educational need in these skills.
(b) Provide the state with the information needed to allocate
state funds and professional services in a manner best calculated
to equalize educational opportunities for students to achieve
competence
in such the basic skills.
(c) Provide school systems with strong incentives to introduce
educational
programs to improve the education of students in such
the basic skills and model programs to raise the level of
achievement of students.
(d) Develop a system for educational self-renewal that would
continuously evaluate the programs and by this means help each
school to discover and introduce program changes that are most
likely to improve the quality of education.
(e) Provide the public periodically with information
concerning
the progress of the state system of education. Such
programs
The program shall extend current department of education
efforts to conduct periodic and comprehensive assessment of
educational progress.