January 13, 2016, Introduced by Rep. Muxlow and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled
"The revised school code,"
by amending section 1284b (MCL 380.1284b), as amended by 2006 PA
235.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
1284b. (1) Until subsection (2) applies to the school
district,
public school academy, or intermediate school district,
Except as otherwise provided in this section, the board of a school
district or intermediate school district or board of directors of a
public school academy shall establish the school calendar for each
school year for the school district, intermediate school district,
or public school academy. The school calendar shall meet all of the
following:
(a) In addition to the public holidays when school may not be
in session under section 1175, the school calendar shall ensure
that the district's or public school academy's schools are not in
session
on the Friday before Labor day.Day,
the Friday after
Thanksgiving Day, Good Friday, or the Monday after Easter.
(b) The school calendar shall meet the requirements of section
1284 and under section 101 of the state school aid act of 1979, MCL
388.1701, regarding the minimum amount of pupil instruction during
each school year.
(c) For a school district or intermediate school district, the
school calendar shall meet the requirements of section 1284a
regarding a common school calendar among the constituent districts
of an intermediate school district.
(2)
Except as otherwise provided in this section, the board of
a
school district or intermediate school district or board of
directors
of a public school academy shall ensure that the
district's
or public school academy's school year does not begin
before
Labor day.
(2) (3)
If a collective bargaining
agreement that provides a
complete school calendar is in effect for employees of a school
district, public school academy, or intermediate school district as
of
the effective date of the amendatory act that added subsection
(2),
subdivisions (b) and (c) to subsection
(1), and if that school
calendar
is not in compliance with subsection (2), (1), then
subsection
(2) does the 2016 amendments
to subsection (1) do not
apply to that school district, public school academy, or
intermediate school district until after the expiration of that
collective bargaining agreement.
(4)
If a school district, intermediate school district, or
public
school academy is operating a year-round school or program
as
of September 29, 2005 or is operating as of that date a school
that
is an international baccalaureate academy that provides 1,160
hours
of pupil instruction per school year, then subsection (2)
does
not apply to that school or program. If a school district,
intermediate
school district, or public school academy begins
operating
a year-round school or program after September 29, 2005,
the
school district, intermediate school district, or public school
academy
may apply to the superintendent of public instruction for a
waiver
from the requirements of subsection (2). Upon application,
if
the superintendent of public instruction determines that a
school
or program is a bona fide year-round school or program
established
for educational reasons, the superintendent of public
instruction
shall grant the waiver. The superintendent of public
instruction
shall establish standards for determining a bona fide
year-round
school or program for the purposes of this subsection.
(5)
If an intermediate school district contracts with a
constituent
district or public school academy to provide programs
or
services for pupils of the constituent district or public school
academy;
operates a program or service within a building owned by a
constituent
district or a public school academy located within the
intermediate
school district's boundaries; or otherwise provides
instructional
programs or services for pupils of a constituent
district
or public school academy, and if the school district's or
public
school academy's school year begins before Labor day under
subsection
(3) or (4), then the intermediate school district may
provide
programs or services according to the school district's or
public
school academy's calendar.
(6)
This section does not apply to a public school that
operates
all of grades 6 to 12 at a single site, that aligns its
high
school curriculum with advanced placement courses as the
capstone
of the curriculum, and that ends its second academic
semester
concurrently with the end of the advanced placement
examination
period.
(3) (7)
This section does not prohibit a
school district,
intermediate school district, or public school academy from
offering or requiring professional development for its personnel
that
is conducted before Labor day.Day.
(4) (8)
As used in this section,
"Labor day" Day"
means the
first Monday in September.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.