Bill Text: MI HB5555 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Appropriations; school aid; executive recommendation; provide for omnibus appropriations for school aid, higher education, and community colleges. Amends secs. 2, 3, 6, 11, 11a, 11j, 11k, 11m, 11s, 15, 18, 20, 20d, 20f, 21h, 22a, 22b, 22d, 22m, 22p, 24, 24a, 26a, 26b, 26c, 28, 31a, 31d, 31f, 31j, 31n, 32d, 32p, 35a, 39, 39a, 41, 51a, 51c, 51d, 51f, 53a, 54, 54b, 54d, 56, 61a, 61b, 61d, 62, 65, 67, 74, 81, 94, 94a, 98, 99h, 99s, 101, 104, 107, 147, 147a, 147c, 147e, 152a, 163, 201, 202a, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207a, 207b, 207c, 209, 209a, 217, 225, 226, 229a, 230, 236, 236b, 236c, 237b, 241, 242, 245, 245a, 252, 256, 263, 264, 265, 265a, 265b, 267, 268, 269, 270, 276, 277 278, 279, 280, 281, 282 & 289 of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1602 et seq.); adds secs. 20m, 22q, 31k, 32s, 97a, 98a, 98b, 98c, 231, 248 & 248a & repeals (See bill).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-27 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 02/27/2020 [HB5555 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB5555-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5555
February 26, 2020, Introduced by Rep. Hoadley
and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend 1979 PA 94, entitled
"The state school
aid act of 1979,"
by
amending sections 2, 3, 6, 11, 11a, 11j, 11k, 11m, 11s, 15, 18, 20, 20d, 20f,
21h, 22a, 22b, 22d, 22m, 22p, 24, 24a, 26a, 26b, 26c, 28, 31a, 31d, 31f, 31j,
31n, 32d, 32p, 35a, 39, 39a, 41, 51a, 51c, 51d, 51f, 53a, 54, 54b, 54d, 56,
61a, 61b, 61d, 62, 65, 67, 74, 81, 94, 94a, 98, 99h, 99s, 101, 104, 107, 147,
147a, 147c, 147e, 152a, 163, 201, 202a, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207a, 207b, 207c,
209, 209a, 217, 225, 226, 229a, 230, 236, 236b, 236c, 237b, 241, 242, 245,
245a, 252, 256, 263, 264, 265, 265a, 265b, 267, 268, 269, 270, 276, 277, 278,
279, 280, 281, 282, and 289 (MCL 388.1602,
388.1603, 388.1606, 388.1611, 388.1611a, 388.1611j, 388.1611k, 388.1611m,
388.1611s, 388.1615, 388.1618, 388.1620, 388.1620d, 388.1620f, 388.1621h,
388.1622a, 388.1622b, 388.1622d, 388.1622m, 388.1622p, 388.1624, 388.1624a,
388.1626a, 388.1626b, 388.1626c, 388.1628, 388.1631a, 388.1631d, 388.1631f,
388.1631j, 388.1631n, 388.1632d, 388.1632p, 388.1635a, 388.1639, 388.1639a,
388.1641, 388.1651a, 388.1651c, 388.1651d, 388.1651f, 388.1653a, 388.1654,
388.1654b, 388.1654d, 388.1656, 388.1661a, 388.1661b, 388.1661d, 388.1662,
388.1665, 388.1667, 388.1674, 388.1681, 388.1694, 388.1694a, 388.1698,
388.1699h, 388.1699s, 388.1701, 388.1704, 388.1707, 388.1747, 388.1747a,
388.1747c, 388.1747e, 388.1752a, 388.1763, 388.1801, 388.1802a, 388.1803,
388.1804, 388.1805, 388.1806, 388.1807a, 388.1807b, 388.1807c, 388.1809,
388.1809a, 388.1817, 388.1825, 388.1826, 388.1829a, 388.1830, 388.1836,
388.1836b, 388.1836c, 388.1837b, 388.1841, 388.1842, 388.1845, 388.1845a,
388.1852, 388.1856, 388.1863, 388.1864, 388.1865, 388.1865a, 388.1865b,
388.1867, 388.1868, 388.1869, 388.1870, 388.1876, 388.1877, 388.1878,
388.1879, 388.1880, 388.1881, 388.1882, and 388.1889), section 2 as amended by PA 227 of
2018, sections 3, 203, and 237b as amended by PA 108 of 2017, sections 6, 11a,
11j, 11k, 11m, 11s, 15, 18, 20d, 20f, 21h, 22a, 22m, 22p, 24, 24a, 26a, 26b,
26c, 31d, 31f, 31n, 32d, 32p, 39, 39a, 41, 51a, 51c, 51d, 53a, 54, 54b, 54d,
56, 61a, 61b, 61d, 62, 65, 67, 74, 81, 94, 94a, 98, 99h, 99s, 101, 104, 107,
147, 147a, 147c, 147e, and 152a as amended and sections 28 and 51f as added by
PA 58 of 2019, sections 11, 20, 22b, 22d, 31a, 35a, 236 and
252 as amended by PA 162 of 2019, section 31j as amended by PA 586 of 2018,
section 163 as amended by PA 266 of 2018, sections 201, 206, 207a, 207b, 207c,
209, 209a, 217, 225, 229a, and 230 as amended by PA 52 of 2019, section 202a
as amended by PA 249 of 2016, sections 204, 205, and 242 as amended by PA 201
of 2012, section 226 as amended by PA 265 of 2018, sections 236b, 236c, 241,
245, 245a, 256, 263, 264, 265, 265a, 265b, 267, 268, 269, 270, 276, 277, 278,
279, 280, 281, 282, and 289 as amended by PA 62 of 2019, and by adding sections 20m, 22q,
31k, 32s, 97a, 98a, 98b, 98c, 231, 248, and 248a; and to repeal acts and parts
of acts.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Article I
State Aid to Public Schools, Early Childhood,
and Adult Education
Sec. 2. As used in this article, and article IV, and
article V, the words and phrases defined in sections 3 to 6 have the
meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
Sec. 3. (1) "Average daily attendance", for the purposes
of complying with federal law, means 92% of the pupils counted in membership on
the pupil membership count day, as defined in section 6(7).
(2) "Board" means the governing body of a district or
public school academy.
(3) "Center" means the center for educational
performance and information created in section 94a.
(4) "Community district" means a school district
organized under part 5b of the revised school code.
(5) "Cooperative education program" means a written
voluntary agreement between and among districts to provide certain educational
programs for pupils in certain groups of districts. The written agreement shall
be approved by all affected districts at least annually and shall specify the
educational programs to be provided and the estimated number of pupils from
each district who will participate in the educational programs.
(6) "Department", except in section 107, as
otherwise provided in this article, means the department of education.
(7) "District" means a local school district established
under the revised school code or, except in sections 6(4), 6(6), 13, 20, 22a,
31a, 51a(14), 105, 105c, and 166b, a public school academy. Except in section
20, district also includes a community district.
(8) "District of residence", except as otherwise
provided in this subsection, means the district in which a pupil's custodial
parent or parents or legal guardian resides. For a pupil described in section
24b, the pupil's district of residence is the district in which the pupil
enrolls under that section. For a pupil described in section 6(4)(d), the
pupil's district of residence shall be considered to be the district or
intermediate district in which the pupil is counted in membership under that
section. For a pupil under court jurisdiction who is placed outside the
district in which the pupil's custodial parent or parents or legal guardian resides,
the pupil's district of residence shall be considered to be the educating
district or educating intermediate district.
(9) "District superintendent" means the superintendent
of a district or the chief administrator of a public school academy.
Sec. 6. (1) “Center program” means a program operated by a
district or by an intermediate district for special education pupils from
several districts in programs for pupils with autism spectrum disorder, pupils
with severe cognitive impairment, pupils with moderate cognitive impairment,
pupils with severe multiple impairments, pupils with hearing impairment, pupils
with visual impairment, and pupils with physical impairment or other health
impairment. Programs for pupils with emotional impairment housed in buildings
that do not serve regular education pupils also qualify. Unless otherwise
approved by the department, a center program either serves all constituent
districts within an intermediate district or serves several districts with less
than 50% of the pupils residing in the operating district. In addition, special
education center program pupils placed part-time in noncenter programs to
comply with the least restrictive environment provisions of section 1412 of the
individuals with disabilities education act, 20 USC 1412, may be considered
center program pupils for pupil accounting purposes for the time scheduled in
either a center program or a noncenter program.
(2) “District and high school graduation rate” means the annual
completion and pupil dropout rate that is calculated by the center pursuant to
nationally recognized standards.
(3) “District and high school graduation report” means a report of
the number of pupils, excluding adult education participants, in the district
for the immediately preceding school year, adjusted for those pupils who have
transferred into or out of the district or high school, who leave high school
with a diploma or other credential of equal status.
(4) “Membership”, except as otherwise provided in this article,
means for a district, a public school academy, or an intermediate district the
sum of the product of .90 times the number of full-time equated pupils in
grades K to 12 actually enrolled and in regular daily attendance on the pupil
membership count day for the current school year, plus the product of .10 times
the final audited count from the supplemental count day for the immediately
preceding school year. A district’s, public school academy’s, or intermediate
district’s membership is adjusted as provided under section 25e for pupils who
enroll after the pupil membership count day in a strict discipline academy
operating under sections 1311b to 1311m of the revised school code, MCL
380.1311b to 380.1311m. However, for a district that is a community district,
“membership” means the sum of the product of .90 times the number of full-time
equated pupils in grades K to 12 actually enrolled and in regular daily
attendance in the community district on the pupil membership count day for the
current school year, plus the product of .10 times the sum of the final audited
count from the supplemental count day of pupils in grades K to 12 actually
enrolled and in regular daily attendance in the community district for the
immediately preceding school year. All pupil counts used in this subsection are
as determined by the department and calculated by adding the number of pupils
registered for attendance plus pupils received by transfer and minus pupils
lost as defined by rules promulgated by the superintendent, and as corrected by
a subsequent department audit. The amount of the foundation allowance for a
pupil in membership is determined under section 20. In making the calculation
of membership, all of the following, as applicable, apply to determining the
membership of a district, a public school academy, or an intermediate district:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, and pursuant
to subsection (6), a pupil is counted in membership in the pupil’s educating
district or districts. An individual pupil shall not be counted for more than a
total of 1.0 full-time equated membership.
(b) If a pupil is educated in a district other than the pupil’s
district of residence, if the pupil is not being educated as part of a
cooperative education program, if the pupil’s district of residence does not
give the educating district its approval to count the pupil in membership in
the educating district, and if the pupil is not covered by an exception
specified in subsection (6) to the requirement that the educating district must
have the approval of the pupil’s district of residence to count the pupil in
membership, the pupil is not counted in membership in any district.
(c) A special education pupil educated by the intermediate
district is counted in membership in the intermediate district.
(d) A pupil placed by a court or state agency in an on-grounds
program of a juvenile detention facility, a child caring institution, or a
mental health institution, or a pupil funded under section 53a, is counted in
membership in the district or intermediate district approved by the department
to operate the program.
(e) A pupil enrolled in the Michigan Schools for the Deaf and
Blind is counted in membership in the pupil’s intermediate district of
residence.
(f) A pupil enrolled in a career and technical education program
supported by a millage levied over an area larger than a single district or in
an area vocational-technical education program established under section 690 of
the revised school code, MCL 380.690, is counted in membership only in the
pupil’s district of residence.
(g) A pupil enrolled in a public school academy is counted in
membership in the public school academy.
(h) For the purposes of this section and section 6a, for a cyber
school, as defined in section 551 of the revised school code, MCL 380.551, that
is in compliance with section 553a of the revised school code, MCL 380.553a, a
pupil’s participation in the cyber school’s educational program is considered
regular daily attendance, and for a district or public school academy, a
pupil’s participation in a virtual course as defined in section 21f is
considered regular daily attendance. For the purposes of this subdivision, for
a pupil enrolled in a cyber school and utilizing sequential learning,
participation means that term as defined in the pupil accounting manual,
section 5-o-d: requirements for counting pupils in membership-subsection 10.
(i) For a new district or public school academy beginning its
operation after December 31, 1994, membership for the first 2 full or partial
fiscal years of operation is determined as follows:
(i) If operations begin before the pupil membership count
day for the fiscal year, membership is the average number of full-time equated
pupils in grades K to 12 actually enrolled and in regular daily attendance on
the pupil membership count day for the current school year and on the
supplemental count day for the current school year, as determined by the
department and calculated by adding the number of pupils registered for
attendance on the pupil membership count day plus pupils received by transfer
and minus pupils lost as defined by rules promulgated by the superintendent,
and as corrected by a subsequent department audit, plus the final audited count
from the supplemental count day for the current school year, and dividing that
sum by 2.
(ii) If operations begin after the pupil membership count
day for the fiscal year and not later than the supplemental count day for the
fiscal year, membership is the final audited count of the number of full-time
equated pupils in grades K to 12 actually enrolled and in regular daily
attendance on the supplemental count day for the current school year.
(j) If a district is the authorizing body for a public school
academy, then, in the first school year in which pupils are counted in membership
on the pupil membership count day in the public school academy, the
determination of the district’s membership excludes from the district’s pupil
count for the immediately preceding supplemental count day any pupils who are
counted in the public school academy on that first pupil membership count day
who were also counted in the district on the immediately preceding supplemental
count day.
(k) For an extended school year program approved by the
superintendent, a pupil enrolled, but not scheduled to be in regular daily
attendance, on a pupil membership count day, is counted in membership.
(l) To be counted in membership, a pupil must meet the
minimum age requirement to be eligible to attend school under section 1147 of
the revised school code, MCL 380.1147, or must be enrolled under subsection (3)
of that section, and must be less than 20 years of age on September 1 of the
school year except as follows:
(i) A special education pupil who is enrolled and receiving
instruction in a special education program or service approved by the
department, who does not have a high school diploma, and who is less than 26
years of age as of September 1 of the current school year is counted in
membership.
(ii) A pupil who is determined by the department to meet
all of the following may be counted in membership:
(A) Is enrolled in a public school academy or an alternative
education high school diploma program, that is primarily focused on educating
pupils with extreme barriers to education, such as being homeless as defined
under 42 USC 11302.
(B) Had dropped out of school.
(C) Is less than 22 years of age as of September 1 of the current
school year.
(iii) If a child does not meet the minimum age requirement
to be eligible to attend school for that school year under section 1147 of the
revised school code, MCL 380.1147, but will be 5 years of age not later than
December 1 of that school year, the district may count the child in membership
for that school year if the parent or legal guardian has notified the district
in writing that he or she intends to enroll the child in kindergarten for that
school year.
(m) An individual who has achieved a high school diploma is not
counted in membership. An individual who has achieved a high school equivalency
certificate is not counted in membership unless the individual is a student
with a disability as defined in R 340.1702 of the Michigan Administrative Code.
An individual participating in a job training program funded under former
section 107a or a jobs program funded under former section 107b, administered
by the department of labor and economic opportunity, or participating in any
successor of either of those 2 programs, is not counted in membership.
(n) If a pupil counted in membership in a public school academy is
also educated by a district or intermediate district as part of a cooperative
education program, the pupil is counted in membership only in the public school
academy unless a written agreement signed by all parties designates the party
or parties in which the pupil is counted in membership, and the instructional
time scheduled for the pupil in the district or intermediate district is
included in the full-time equated membership determination under subdivision
(q) and section 101. However, for pupils receiving instruction in both a public
school academy and in a district or intermediate district but not as a part of
a cooperative education program, the following apply:
(i) If the public school academy provides instruction for
at least 1/2 of the class hours required under section 101, the public school
academy receives as its prorated share of the full-time equated membership for
each of those pupils an amount equal to 1 times the product of the hours of
instruction the public school academy provides divided by the number of hours
required under section 101 for full-time equivalency, and the remainder of the
full-time membership for each of those pupils is allocated to the district or
intermediate district providing the remainder of the hours of instruction.
(ii) If the public school academy provides instruction for
less than 1/2 of the class hours required under section 101, the district or
intermediate district providing the remainder of the hours of instruction
receives as its prorated share of the full-time equated membership for each of
those pupils an amount equal to 1 times the product of the hours of instruction
the district or intermediate district provides divided by the number of hours
required under section 101 for full-time equivalency, and the remainder of the full-time
membership for each of those pupils is allocated to the public school academy.
(o) An individual less than 16 years of age as of September 1 of
the current school year who is being educated in an alternative education
program is not counted in membership if there are also adult education
participants being educated in the same program or classroom.
(p) The department shall give a uniform interpretation of
full-time and part-time memberships.
(q) The number of class hours used to calculate full-time equated
memberships must be consistent with section 101. In determining full-time
equated memberships for pupils who are enrolled in a postsecondary institution
or for pupils engaged in an internship or work experience under section 1279h
of the revised school code, MCL 380.1279h, a pupil is not considered to be less
than a full-time equated pupil solely because of the effect of his or her
postsecondary enrollment or engagement in the internship or work experience,
including necessary travel time, on the number of class hours provided by the
district to the pupil.
(r) Full-time equated memberships for pupils in kindergarten are
determined by dividing the number of instructional hours scheduled and provided
per year per kindergarten pupil by the same number used for determining
full-time equated memberships for pupils in grades 1 to 12. However, to the
extent allowable under federal law, for a district or public school academy
that provides evidence satisfactory to the department that it used federal
title I money in the 2 immediately preceding school fiscal years to fund
full-time kindergarten, full-time equated memberships for pupils in
kindergarten are determined by dividing the number of class hours scheduled and
provided per year per kindergarten pupil by a number equal to 1/2 the number
used for determining full-time equated memberships for pupils in grades 1 to
12. The change in the counting of full-time equated memberships for pupils in
kindergarten that took effect for 2012-2013 is not a mandate.
(s) For a district or a public school academy that has pupils
enrolled in a grade level that was not offered by the district or public school
academy in the immediately preceding school year, the number of pupils enrolled
in that grade level to be counted in membership is the average of the number of
those pupils enrolled and in regular daily attendance on the pupil membership
count day and the supplemental count day of the current school year, as
determined by the department. Membership is calculated by adding the number of
pupils registered for attendance in that grade level on the pupil membership
count day plus pupils received by transfer and minus pupils lost as defined by
rules promulgated by the superintendent, and as corrected by subsequent department
audit, plus the final audited count from the supplemental count day for the
current school year, and dividing that sum by 2.
(t) A pupil enrolled in a cooperative education program may be
counted in membership in the pupil’s district of residence with the written
approval of all parties to the cooperative agreement.
(u) If, as a result of a disciplinary action, a district
determines through the district’s alternative or disciplinary education program
that the best instructional placement for a pupil is in the pupil’s home or
otherwise apart from the general school population, if that placement is
authorized in writing by the district superintendent and district alternative
or disciplinary education supervisor, and if the district provides appropriate
instruction as described in this subdivision to the pupil at the pupil’s home
or otherwise apart from the general school population, the district may count
the pupil in membership on a pro rata basis, with the proration based on the
number of hours of instruction the district actually provides to the pupil
divided by the number of hours required under section 101 for full-time
equivalency. For the purposes of this subdivision, a district is considered to
be providing appropriate instruction if all of the following are met:
(i) The district provides at least 2 nonconsecutive hours
of instruction per week to the pupil at the pupil’s home or otherwise apart
from the general school population under the supervision of a certificated
teacher.
(ii) The district provides instructional materials,
resources, and supplies that are comparable to those otherwise provided in the
district’s alternative education program.
(iii) Course content is comparable to that in the
district’s alternative education program.
(iv) Credit earned is awarded to the pupil and placed on
the pupil’s transcript.
(v) If a pupil was enrolled in a public school academy on
the pupil membership count day, if the public school academy’s contract with
its authorizing body is revoked or the public school academy otherwise ceases
to operate, and if the pupil enrolls in a district within 45 days after the
pupil membership count day, the department shall adjust the district’s pupil
count for the pupil membership count day to include the pupil in the count.
(w) For a public school academy that has been in operation for at
least 2 years and that suspended operations for at least 1 semester and is
resuming operations, membership is the sum of the product of .90 times the
number of full-time equated pupils in grades K to 12 actually enrolled and in
regular daily attendance on the first pupil membership count day or
supplemental count day, whichever is first, occurring after operations resume,
plus the product of .10 times the final audited count from the most recent pupil
membership count day or supplemental count day that occurred before suspending
operations, as determined by the superintendent.
(x) If a district’s membership for a particular fiscal year, as
otherwise calculated under this subsection, would be less than 1,550 pupils and
the district has 4.5 or fewer pupils per square mile, as determined by the
department, and if the district does not receive funding under section 22d(2),
the district’s membership is considered to be the membership figure calculated
under this subdivision. If a district educates and counts in its membership
pupils in grades 9 to 12 who reside in a contiguous district that does not
operate grades 9 to 12 and if 1 or both of the affected districts request the
department to use the determination allowed under this sentence, the department
shall include the square mileage of both districts in determining the number of
pupils per square mile for each of the districts for the purposes of this
subdivision. If a district has established a community engagement advisory
committee in partnership with the department of treasury and if the district is
required to submit a deficit elimination plan or an enhanced deficit
elimination plan under section 1220 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1220,
the district’s membership is considered to be the membership figure calculated
under this subdivision. The membership figure calculated under this
subdivision is the greater of the following:
(i) The average of the district’s membership for the
3-fiscal-year period ending with that fiscal year, calculated by adding the
district’s actual membership for each of those 3 fiscal years, as otherwise
calculated under this subsection, and dividing the sum of those 3 membership
figures by 3.
(ii) The district’s actual membership for that fiscal year
as otherwise calculated under this subsection.
(y) Full-time equated memberships for special education pupils who
are not enrolled in kindergarten but are enrolled in a classroom program under
R 340.1754 of the Michigan Administrative Code are determined by dividing the
number of class hours scheduled and provided per year by 450. Full-time equated
memberships for special education pupils who are not enrolled in kindergarten
but are receiving early childhood special education services under R 340.1755
or R 340.1862 of the Michigan Administrative Code are determined by dividing
the number of hours of service scheduled and provided per year per-pupil by
180.
(z) A pupil of a district that begins its school year after Labor
Day who is enrolled in an intermediate district program that begins before
Labor Day is not considered to be less than a full-time pupil solely due to
instructional time scheduled but not attended by the pupil before Labor Day.
(aa) For the first year in which a pupil is counted in membership
on the pupil membership count day in a middle college program, the membership
is the average of the full-time equated membership on the pupil membership
count day and on the supplemental count day for the current school year, as
determined by the department. If a pupil described in this subdivision was
counted in membership by the operating district on the immediately preceding
supplemental count day, the pupil is excluded from the district’s immediately
preceding supplemental count for the purposes of determining the district’s
membership.
(bb) A district or public school academy that educates a pupil who
attends a United States Olympic Education Center may count the pupil in
membership regardless of whether or not the pupil is a resident of this state.
(cc) A pupil enrolled in a district other than the pupil’s
district of residence under section 1148(2) of the revised school code, MCL
380.1148, is counted in the educating district.
(dd) For a pupil enrolled in a dropout recovery program that meets
the requirements of section 23a, the pupil is counted as 1/12 of a full-time
equated membership for each month that the district operating the program
reports that the pupil was enrolled in the program and was in full attendance.
However, if the special membership counting provisions under this subdivision
and the operation of the other membership counting provisions under this
subsection result in a pupil being counted as more than 1.0 FTE in a fiscal
year, the payment made for the pupil under sections 22a and 22b must not be
based on more than 1.0 FTE for that pupil., and any portion of an FTE
for that pupil that exceeds 1.0 is instead paid under section 25g. The
district operating the program shall report to the center the number of pupils
who were enrolled in the program and were in full attendance for a month not
later than 30 days after the end of the month. A district shall not report a
pupil as being in full attendance for a month unless both of the following are
met:
(i) A personalized learning plan is in place on or before
the first school day of the month for the first month the pupil participates in
the program.
(ii) The pupil meets the district’s definition under
section 23a of satisfactory monthly progress for that month or, if the pupil
does not meet that definition of satisfactory monthly progress for that month,
the pupil did meet that definition of satisfactory monthly progress in the
immediately preceding month and appropriate interventions are implemented
within 10 school days after it is determined that the pupil does not meet that
definition of satisfactory monthly progress.
(ee) A pupil participating in a virtual course under section 21f
is counted in membership in the district enrolling the pupil.
(ff) If a public school academy that is not in its first or second
year of operation closes at the end of a school year and does not reopen for
the next school year, the department shall adjust the membership count of the
district or other public school academy in which a former pupil of the closed
public school academy enrolls and is in regular daily attendance for the next
school year to ensure that the district or other public school academy receives
the same amount of membership aid for the pupil as if the pupil were counted in
the district or other public school academy on the supplemental count day of
the preceding school year.
(gg) If a special education pupil is expelled under section 1311
or 1311a of the revised school code, MCL 380.1311 and 380.1311a, and is not in
attendance on the pupil membership count day because of the expulsion, and if
the pupil remains enrolled in the district and resumes regular daily attendance
during that school year, the district’s membership is adjusted to count the
pupil in membership as if he or she had been in attendance on the pupil
membership count day.
(hh) A pupil enrolled in a community district is counted in
membership in the community district.
(ii) A part-time pupil enrolled in a nonpublic school in grades K
to 12 in accordance with section 166b shall not be counted as more than 0.75 of
a full-time equated membership.
(jj) A district that borders another state or a public school
academy that operates at least grades 9 to 12 and is located within 20 miles of
a border with another state may count in membership a pupil who is enrolled in
a course at a college or university that is located in the bordering state and
within 20 miles of the border with this state if all of the following are met:
(i) The pupil would meet the definition of an eligible
student under the postsecondary enrollment options act, 1996 PA 160, MCL
388.511 to 388.524, if the course were an eligible course under that act.
(ii) The course in which the pupil is enrolled would meet
the definition of an eligible course under the postsecondary enrollment options
act, 1996 PA 160, MCL 388.511 to 388.524, if the course were provided by an
eligible postsecondary institution under that act.
(iii) The department determines that the college or
university is an institution that, in the other state, fulfills a function
comparable to a state university or community college, as those terms are
defined in section 3 of the postsecondary enrollment options act, 1996 PA 160,
MCL 388.513, or is an independent nonprofit degree-granting college or
university.
(iv) The district or public school academy pays for a
portion of the pupil’s tuition at the college or university in an amount equal
to the eligible charges that the district or public school academy would pay to
an eligible postsecondary institution under the postsecondary enrollment
options act, 1996 PA 160, MCL 388.511 to 388.524, as if the course were an
eligible course under that act.
(v) The district or public school academy awards high
school credit to a pupil who successfully completes a course as described in
this subdivision.
(kk) A pupil enrolled in a middle college program may be counted
for more than a total of 1.0 full-time equated membership if the pupil is
enrolled in more than the minimum number of instructional days and hours
required under section 101 and the pupil is expected to complete the 5-year
program with both a high school diploma and at least 60 transferable college
credits or is expected to earn an associate’s degree in fewer than 5 years.
(ll) If a district’s or public school academy’s membership
for a particular fiscal year, as otherwise calculated under this subsection,
includes pupils counted in membership who are enrolled under section 166b, all
of the following apply for the purposes of this subdivision:
(i) If the district’s or public school academy’s membership
for pupils counted under section 166b equals or exceeds 5% of the district’s or
public school academy’s membership for pupils not counted in membership under
section 166b in the immediately preceding fiscal year, then the growth in the
district’s or public school academy’s membership for pupils counted under
section 166b must not exceed 10%.
(ii) If the district’s or public school academy’s
membership for pupils counted under section 166b is less than 5% of the
district’s or public school academy’s membership for pupils not counted in
membership under section 166b in the immediately preceding fiscal year, then
the district’s or public school academy’s membership for pupils counted under
section 166b must not exceed the greater of the following:
(A) 5% of the district’s or public school academy’s membership for
pupils not counted in membership under section 166b.
(B) 10% more than the district’s or public school academy’s
membership for pupils counted under section 166b in the immediately preceding
fiscal year.
(iii) If 1 or more districts consolidate or are parties to
an annexation, then the calculations under subdivisions (i) and (ii)
must be applied to the combined total membership for pupils counted in those
districts for the fiscal year immediately preceding the consolidation or
annexation.
(5) “Public school academy” means that term as defined in section
5 of the revised school code, MCL 380.5.
(6) “Pupil” means an individual in membership in a public school.
A district must have the approval of the pupil’s district of residence to count
the pupil in membership, except approval by the pupil’s district of residence
is not required for any of the following:
(a) A nonpublic part-time pupil enrolled in grades K to 12 in
accordance with section 166b.
(b) A pupil receiving 1/2 or less of his or her instruction in a
district other than the pupil’s district of residence.
(c) A pupil enrolled in a public school academy.
(d) A pupil enrolled in a district other than the pupil’s district
of residence under an intermediate district schools of choice pilot program as
described in section 91a or former section 91 if the intermediate district and
its constituent districts have been exempted from section 105.
(e) A pupil enrolled in a district other than the pupil’s district
of residence if the pupil is enrolled in accordance with section 105 or 105c.
(f) A pupil who has made an official written complaint or whose
parent or legal guardian has made an official written complaint to law
enforcement officials and to school officials of the pupil’s district of
residence that the pupil has been the victim of a criminal sexual assault or
other serious assault, if the official complaint either indicates that the
assault occurred at school or that the assault was committed by 1 or more other
pupils enrolled in the school the pupil would otherwise attend in the district
of residence or by an employee of the district of residence. A person who
intentionally makes a false report of a crime to law enforcement officials for
the purposes of this subdivision is subject to section 411a of the Michigan
penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.411a, which provides criminal penalties for
that conduct. As used in this subdivision:
(i) “At school” means in a classroom, elsewhere on school
premises, on a school bus or other school-related vehicle, or at a
school-sponsored activity or event whether or not it is held on school
premises.
(ii) “Serious assault” means an act that constitutes a
felony violation of chapter XI of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL
750.81 to 750.90h, or that constitutes an assault and infliction of serious or
aggravated injury under section 81a of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328,
MCL 750.81a.
(g) A pupil whose district of residence changed after the pupil
membership count day and before the supplemental count day and who continues to
be enrolled on the supplemental count day as a nonresident in the district in
which he or she was enrolled as a resident on the pupil membership count day of
the same school year.
(h) A pupil enrolled in an alternative education program operated
by a district other than his or her district of residence who meets 1 or more
of the following:
(i) The pupil has been suspended or expelled from his or
her district of residence for any reason, including, but not limited to, a
suspension or expulsion under section 1310, 1311, or 1311a of the revised
school code, MCL 380.1310, 380.1311, and 380.1311a.
(ii) The pupil had previously dropped out of school.
(iii) The pupil is pregnant or is a parent.
(iv) The pupil has been referred to the program by a court.
(i) A pupil enrolled in the Michigan Virtual School, for the
pupil’s enrollment in the Michigan Virtual School.
(j) A pupil who is the child of a person who works at the district
or who is the child of a person who worked at the district as of the time the
pupil first enrolled in the district but who no longer works at the district
due to a workforce reduction. As used in this subdivision, “child” includes an
adopted child, stepchild, or legal ward.
(k) An expelled pupil who has been denied reinstatement by the
expelling district and is reinstated by another school board under section 1311
or 1311a of the revised school code, MCL 380.1311 and 380.1311a.
(l) A pupil enrolled in a district other than the pupil’s
district of residence in a middle college program if the pupil’s district of
residence and the enrolling district are both constituent districts of the same
intermediate district.
(m) A pupil enrolled in a district other than the pupil’s district
of residence who attends a United States Olympic Education Center.
(n) A pupil enrolled in a district other than the pupil’s district
of residence pursuant to section 1148(2) of the revised school code, MCL
380.1148.
(o) A pupil who enrolls in a district other than the pupil’s
district of residence as a result of the pupil’s school not making adequate
yearly progress under the no child left behind act of 2001, Public Law 107-110,
or the every student succeeds act, Public Law 114-95.
However, if a district
educates pupils who reside in another district and if the primary instructional
site for those pupils is established by the educating district after 2009-2010
and is located within the boundaries of that other district, the educating
district must have the approval of that other district to count those pupils in
membership.
(7) “Pupil membership count day” of a district or intermediate
district means:
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the first Wednesday in
October each school year or, for a district or building in which school is not
in session on that Wednesday due to conditions not within the control of school
authorities, with the approval of the superintendent, the immediately following
day on which school is in session in the district or building.
(b) For a district or intermediate district maintaining school
during the entire school year, the following days:
(i) Fourth Wednesday in July.
(ii) First Wednesday in October.
(iii) Second Wednesday in February.
(iv) Fourth Wednesday in April.
(8) “Pupils in grades K to 12 actually enrolled and in regular
daily attendance” means pupils in grades K to 12 in attendance and receiving
instruction in all classes for which they are enrolled on the pupil membership
count day or the supplemental count day, as applicable. Except as otherwise
provided in this subsection, a pupil who is absent from any of the classes in
which the pupil is enrolled on the pupil membership count day or supplemental
count day and who does not attend each of those classes during the 10
consecutive school days immediately following the pupil membership count day or
supplemental count day, except for a pupil who has been excused by the
district, is not counted as 1.0 full-time equated membership. A pupil who is
excused from attendance on the pupil membership count day or supplemental count
day and who fails to attend each of the classes in which the pupil is enrolled
within 30 calendar days after the pupil membership count day or supplemental
count day is not counted as 1.0 full-time equated membership. In addition, a
pupil who was enrolled and in attendance in a district, intermediate district,
or public school academy before the pupil membership count day or supplemental
count day of a particular year but was expelled or suspended on the pupil
membership count day or supplemental count day is only counted as 1.0 full-time
equated membership if the pupil resumed attendance in the district,
intermediate district, or public school academy within 45 days after the pupil
membership count day or supplemental count day of that particular year. A pupil
not counted as 1.0 full-time equated membership due to an absence from a class
is counted as a prorated membership for the classes the pupil attended. For
purposes of this subsection, “class” means a period of time in 1 day when
pupils and a certificated teacher, a teacher engaged to teach under section
1233b of the revised school code, MCL 380.1233b, or an individual working under
a valid an individual who is appropriately placed under a valid
certificate, substitute permit, authorization, or approval issued by the
department, are together and instruction is taking place.
(9) “Rule” means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative
procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328.
(10) “The revised school code” means the revised school code, 1976
PA 451, MCL 380.1 to 380.1852.
(11) “School district of the first class”, “first class school
district”, and “district of the first class” mean, for the purposes of this
article only, a district that had at least 40,000 pupils in membership for the
immediately preceding fiscal year.
(12) “School fiscal year” means a fiscal year that commences July
1 and continues through June 30.
(13) “State board” means the state board of education.
(14) “Superintendent”, unless the context clearly refers to a
district or intermediate district superintendent, means the superintendent of
public instruction described in section 3 of article VIII of the state
constitution of 1963.
(15) “Supplemental count day” means the day on which the
supplemental pupil count is conducted under section 6a.
(16) “Tuition pupil” means a pupil of school age attending school
in a district other than the pupil’s district of residence for whom tuition may
be charged to the district of residence. Tuition pupil does not include a pupil
who is a special education pupil, a pupil described in subsection (6)(c) to
(o), or a pupil whose parent or guardian voluntarily enrolls the pupil in a
district that is not the pupil’s district of residence. A pupil’s district of
residence shall not require a high school tuition pupil, as provided under
section 111, to attend another school district after the pupil has been
assigned to a school district.
(17) “State school aid fund” means the state school aid fund
established in section 11 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963.
(18) “Taxable value” means the taxable value of property as
determined under section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL
211.27a.
(19) “Textbook” means a book, electronic book, or other
instructional print or electronic resource that is selected and approved by the
governing board of a district and that contains a presentation of principles of
a subject, or that is a literary work relevant to the study of a subject
required for the use of classroom pupils, or another type of course material
that forms the basis of classroom instruction.
(20) “Total state aid” or “total state school aid” means the total
combined amount of all funds due to a district, intermediate district, or other
entity under this article.
Sec. 11. (1) For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, 2021,
there is appropriated for the public schools of this state and certain other
state purposes relating to education the sum of $13,287,765,000.00 $13,957,858,500.00 from the state
school aid fund, the sum of $62,620,000.00 $80,000,000.00 from the general fund, an amount not to exceed $75,400,000.00
$78,400,000.00 from the
community district education trust fund created under section 12 of the
Michigan trust fund act, 2000 PA 489, MCL 12.262, an amount not to exceed
$1,900,000.00 from the MPSERS retirement obligation reform reserve fund,
and an amount not to exceed $100.00 from the water emergency reserve fund. In
addition, all available federal funds are appropriated for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2020. 2021.
(2) The appropriations under this section are allocated as
provided in this article. Money appropriated under this section from the
general fund must be expended to fund the purposes of this article before the
expenditure of money appropriated under this section from the state school aid
fund.
(3) Any general fund allocations under this article that are not
expended by the end of the fiscal year are transferred to the school aid
stabilization fund created under section 11a.
Sec. 11a. (1) The school aid stabilization fund is created as a
separate account within the state school aid fund.
(2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any
source for deposit into the school aid stabilization fund. The state treasurer
shall deposit into the school aid stabilization fund all of the following:
(a) Unexpended and unencumbered state school aid fund revenue for
a fiscal year that remains in the state school aid fund as of the bookclosing
for that fiscal year.
(b) Money statutorily dedicated to the school aid stabilization
fund.
(c) Money appropriated to the school aid stabilization fund.
(3) Money available in the school aid stabilization fund may not
be expended without a specific appropriation from the school aid stabilization
fund. Money in the school aid stabilization fund must be expended only for
purposes for which state school aid fund money may be expended.
(4) The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the school
aid stabilization fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the school aid
stabilization fund interest and earnings from fund investments.
(5) Money in the school aid stabilization fund at the close of a
fiscal year remains in the school aid stabilization fund and does not lapse to
the unreserved school aid fund balance or the general fund.
(6) If the maximum amount appropriated under section 11 from the
state school aid fund for a fiscal year exceeds the amount available for
expenditure from the state school aid fund for that fiscal year, there is
appropriated from the school aid stabilization fund to the state school aid
fund an amount equal to the projected shortfall as determined by the department
of treasury, but not to exceed available money in the school aid stabilization
fund. If the money in the school aid stabilization fund is insufficient to
fully fund an amount equal to the projected shortfall, the state budget
director shall notify the legislature as required under section 296(2) and
state payments in an amount equal to the remainder of the projected shortfall
must be prorated in the manner provided under section 296(3).
(7) For 2019-2020, 2020-2021, in addition to the
appropriations in section 11, there is appropriated from the school aid
stabilization fund to the state school aid fund the amount necessary to fully
fund the allocations under this article.
Sec. 11j. From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated
an amount not to exceed $111,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for
payments to the school loan bond redemption fund in the department of treasury
on behalf of districts and intermediate districts. Notwithstanding section 296
or any other provision of this act, funds allocated under this section are not
subject to proration and must be paid in full.
Sec. 11k. For 2019-2020, 2020-2021, there is
appropriated from the general fund to the school loan revolving fund an amount
equal to the amount of school bond loans assigned to the Michigan finance
authority, not to exceed the total amount of school bond loans held in reserve
as long-term assets. As used in this section, “school loan revolving fund”
means that fund created in section 16c of the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA
227, MCL 141.1066c.
Sec. 11m. From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated
for 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed $57,000,000.00 and there is allocated
for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed $66,000,000.00 for
fiscal year cash-flow borrowing costs solely related to the state school aid
fund established by section 11 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963.
Sec. 11s. (1) From the state school aid fund money appropriated in
section 11, there is allocated $8,075,000.00 $5,000,000.00 for
2020-2021 and from the general fund money appropriated in section 11, there is
allocated $3,075,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for the
purpose of providing services and programs to children who reside within the
boundaries of a district with the majority of its territory located within the
boundaries of a city for which an executive proclamation of emergency is issued
in the current or immediately preceding 3 5 fiscal years under
the emergency management act, 1976 PA 390, MCL 30.401 to 30.421. From the
funding appropriated in section 11, there is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021
$100.00 from the water emergency reserve fund for the purposes of this
section.
(2) From the general fund allocation in subsection (1),
there is allocated to a district with the majority of its territory located
within the boundaries of a city in which an executive proclamation of emergency
is issued in the current or immediately preceding 4 5 fiscal
years and that has at least 4,500 pupils in membership for the 2016-2017 fiscal
year or has at least 4,000 3,000 pupils in membership for a
fiscal year after 2016-2017, an amount not to exceed $2,425,000.00 for 2019-2020
2020-2021 for the purpose of employing school nurses, classroom
aides, and school social workers. The district shall provide a report to the
department in a form, manner, and frequency prescribed by the department. The
department shall provide a copy of that report to the governor, the house and
senate school aid subcommittees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the
state budget director within 5 days after receipt. The report must provide at
least the following information:
(a) How many personnel were hired using the funds allocated under
this subsection.
(b) A description of the services provided to pupils by those
personnel.
(c) How many pupils received each type of service identified in
subdivision (b).
(d) Any other information the department considers necessary to
ensure that the children described in subsection (1) received appropriate
levels and types of services.
(3) For 2019-2020 2020-2021 only, from the state
school aid fund allocation in subsection (1), there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $4,000,000.00 $2,400,000.00 to an intermediate
district that has a constituent district described in subsection (2) to provide
state early intervention services for children described in subsection (1) who
are between age 3 and age 5. The intermediate district shall use these funds to
provide state early intervention services that are similar to the services
described in the early on Michigan state plan, including ensuring that all
children described in subsection (1) who are less than 4 years of age as of
September 1, 2016 are assessed and evaluated at least twice annually.
(4) From the state school aid fund allocation in subsection
(1), there is allocated an amount not to exceed $1,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021
to the intermediate district described in subsection (3) to enroll children
described in subsection (1) in school-day great start readiness programs,
regardless of household income eligibility requirements contained in section
32d. The department shall administer this funding consistent with all other
provisions that apply to great start readiness programs under sections 32d and
39.
(5) For 2019-2020, 2020-2021, from the general
fund allocation in subsection (1), there is allocated an amount not to
exceed $650,000.00 for nutritional services to children described in subsection
(1).
(6) For 2020-2021, from the state school aid fund allocation in
subsection (1), there is allocated an amount not to exceed $1,600,000.00 to the
intermediate district described in subsection (3) for interventions and
supports for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade who were impacted
by the drinking water proclamation of emergency described in subsection (1).
Funds must be used for behavioral supports, social workers, counselors,
psychologists, nursing services including vision and hearing services,
transportation services, parental engagement, community coordination, and other
support services.
(7) (6)
In addition to other
funding allocated and appropriated in this section, there is appropriated an
amount not to exceed $5,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for
state restricted contingency funds. These contingency funds are not available
for expenditure until they have been transferred to a section within this
article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL
18.1393.
(8) (7)
Notwithstanding section
17b, the department shall make payments under this section on a schedule
determined by the department.
Sec. 15. (1) If a district or intermediate district fails to
receive its proper apportionment, the department, upon satisfactory proof that
the district or intermediate district was entitled justly, shall apportion the
deficiency in the next apportionment. Subject to subsections (2) and (3), if a
district or intermediate district has received more than its proper
apportionment, the department, upon satisfactory proof, shall deduct the excess
in the next apportionment. Notwithstanding any other provision in this article,
state aid overpayments to a district, other than overpayments in payments for
special education or special education transportation, may be recovered from
any payment made under this article other than a special education or special
education transportation payment, from the proceeds of a loan to the district
under the emergency municipal loan act, 1980 PA 243, MCL 141.931 to 141.942, or
from the proceeds of millage levied or pledged under section 1211 of the
revised school code, MCL 380.1211. State aid overpayments made in special
education or special education transportation payments may be recovered from
subsequent special education or special education transportation payments, from
the proceeds of a loan to the district under the emergency municipal loan act,
1980 PA 243, MCL 141.931 to 141.942, or from the proceeds of millage levied or
pledged under section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211.
(2) If the result of an audit conducted by or for the department
affects the current fiscal year membership, the department shall adjust
affected payments in the current fiscal year. A deduction due to an adjustment
made as a result of an audit conducted by or for the department, or as a result
of information obtained by the department from the district, an intermediate
district, the department of treasury, or the office of auditor general, must be
deducted from the district’s apportionments when the adjustment is finalized.
At the request of the district and upon the district presenting evidence
satisfactory to the department of the hardship, the department may grant up to
an additional 4 years for the adjustment and may advance payments to the
district otherwise authorized under this article if the district would
otherwise experience a significant hardship in satisfying its financial
obligations. However, a district that has presented satisfactory
evidence of hardship and is was undergoing an extended adjustment
during 2018-2019 may continue to use the period of extended adjustment as
originally granted by the department.
(3) If, based on an audit by the department or the department’s
designee or because of new or updated information received by the department,
the department determines that the amount paid to a district or intermediate
district under this article for the current fiscal year or a prior fiscal year
was incorrect, the department shall make the appropriate deduction or payment
in the district’s or intermediate district’s allocation in the next
apportionment after the adjustment is finalized. The department shall calculate
the deduction or payment according to the law in effect in the fiscal year in
which the incorrect amount was paid. If the district does not receive an
allocation for the fiscal year or if the allocation is not sufficient to pay
the amount of any deduction, the amount of any deduction otherwise applicable
must be satisfied from the proceeds of a loan to the district under the
emergency municipal loan act, 1980 PA 243, MCL 141.931 to 141.942, or from the
proceeds of millage levied or pledged under section 1211 of the revised school
code, MCL 380.1211, as determined by the department.
(4) If the department makes an adjustment under this section based
in whole or in part on a membership audit finding that a district or
intermediate district employed an educator in violation of certification
requirements under the revised school code and rules promulgated by the
department, the department shall prorate the adjustment according to the period
of noncompliance with the certification requirements.
(5) The department may conduct audits, or may direct audits by
designee of the department, for the current fiscal year and the immediately
preceding fiscal year of all records related to a program for which a district
or intermediate district has received funds under this article.
(6) Expenditures made by the department under this article that
are caused by the write-off of prior year accruals may be funded by revenue
from the write-off of prior year accruals.
(7) In addition to funds appropriated in section 11 for all
programs and services, there is appropriated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for
obligations in excess of applicable appropriations an amount equal to the
collection of overpayments, but not to exceed amounts available from
overpayments.
Sec. 18. (1) Except as provided in another section of this
article, each district or other entity shall apply the money received by the
district or entity under this article to salaries and other compensation of
teachers and other employees, tuition, transportation, lighting, heating,
ventilation, water service, the purchase of textbooks, other supplies, and any
other school operating expenditures defined in section 7. However, not more
than 20% of the total amount received by a district under sections 22a and 22b
or received by an intermediate district under section 81 may be transferred by
the board to either the capital projects fund or to the debt retirement fund
for debt service. A district or other entity shall not apply or take the money
for a purpose other than as provided in this section. The department shall
determine the reasonableness of expenditures and may withhold from a recipient
of funds under this article the apportionment otherwise due upon a violation by
the recipient.
(2) A district or intermediate district shall adopt an annual
budget in a manner that complies with the uniform budgeting and accounting act,
1968 PA 2, MCL 141.421 to 141.440a. Within 15 days after a district board
adopts its annual operating budget for the following school fiscal year, or
after a district board adopts a subsequent revision to that budget, the district
shall make all of the following available through a link on its website
homepage, or may make the information available through a link on its
intermediate district’s website homepage, in a form and manner prescribed by
the department:
(a) The annual operating budget and subsequent budget revisions.
(b) Using data that have already been collected and submitted to
the department, a summary of district expenditures for the most recent fiscal
year for which they are available, expressed in the following 2 visual
displays:
(i) A chart of personnel expenditures, broken into the
following subcategories:
(A) Salaries and wages.
(B) Employee benefit costs, including, but not limited to,
medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and long-term care benefits.
(C) Retirement benefit costs.
(D) All other personnel costs.
(ii) A chart of all district expenditures, broken into the
following subcategories:
(A) Instruction.
(B) Support services.
(C) Business and administration.
(D) Operations and maintenance.
(c) Links to all of the following:
(i) The current collective bargaining agreement for each
bargaining unit.
(ii) Each health care benefits plan, including, but not
limited to, medical, dental, vision, disability, long-term care, or any other
type of benefits that would constitute health care services, offered to any
bargaining unit or employee in the district.
(iii) The audit report of the audit conducted under
subsection (4) for the most recent fiscal year for which it is available.
(iv) The bids required under section 5 of the public
employees health benefit act, 2007 PA 106, MCL 124.75.
(v) The district’s written policy governing procurement of
supplies, materials, and equipment.
(vi) The district’s written policy establishing specific
categories of reimbursable expenses, as described in section 1254(2) of the
revised school code, MCL 380.1254.
(vii) Either the district’s accounts payable check register
for the most recent school fiscal year or a statement of the total amount of
expenses incurred by board members or employees of the district that were
reimbursed by the district for the most recent school fiscal year.
(d) The total salary and a description and cost of each fringe
benefit included in the compensation package for the superintendent of the
district and for each employee of the district whose salary exceeds
$100,000.00.
(e) The annual amount spent on dues paid to associations.
(f) The annual amount spent on lobbying or lobbying services. As
used in this subdivision, “lobbying” means that term as defined in section 5 of
1978 PA 472, MCL 4.415.
(g) Any deficit elimination plan or enhanced deficit elimination
plan the district was required to submit under the revised school code.
(h) Identification of all credit cards maintained by the district
as district credit cards, the identity of all individuals authorized to use
each of those credit cards, the credit limit on each credit card, and the
dollar limit, if any, for each individual’s authorized use of the credit card.
(i) Costs incurred for each instance of out-of-state travel by the
school administrator of the district that is fully or partially paid for by the
district and the details of each of those instances of out-of-state travel,
including at least identification of each individual on the trip, destination,
and purpose.
(3) For the information required under subsection (2)(a), (2)(b)(i),
and (2)(c), an intermediate district shall provide the same information in the
same manner as required for a district under subsection (2).
(4) For the purposes of determining the reasonableness of
expenditures, whether a district or intermediate district has received the
proper amount of funds under this article, and whether a violation of this
article has occurred, all of the following apply:
(a) The department shall require that each district and
intermediate district have an audit of the district’s or intermediate
district’s financial and pupil accounting records conducted at least annually,
and at such other times as determined by the department, at the expense of the district
or intermediate district, as applicable. The audits must be performed by a
certified public accountant or by the intermediate district superintendent, as
may be required by the department, or in the case of a district of the first
class by a certified public accountant, the intermediate superintendent, or the
auditor general of the city. A district or intermediate district shall retain
these records for the current fiscal year and from at least the 3 immediately
preceding fiscal years.
(b) If a district operates in a single building with fewer than
700 full-time equated pupils, if the district has stable membership, and if the
error rate of the immediately preceding 2 pupil accounting field audits of the
district is less than 2%, the district may have a pupil accounting field audit
conducted biennially but must continue to have desk audits for each pupil
count. The auditor must document compliance with the audit cycle in the pupil
auditing manual. As used in this subdivision, “stable membership” means that
the district’s membership for the current fiscal year varies from the
district’s membership for the immediately preceding fiscal year by less than
5%.
(c) A district’s or intermediate district’s annual financial audit
must include an analysis of the financial and pupil accounting data used as the
basis for distribution of state school aid.
(d) The pupil and financial accounting records and reports,
audits, and management letters are subject to requirements established in the
auditing and accounting manuals approved and published by the department.
(e) All of the following shall be done not later than November 1
each year for reporting the prior fiscal year data:
(i) A district shall file the annual financial audit
reports with the intermediate district and the department.
(ii) The intermediate district shall file the annual
financial audit reports for the intermediate district with the department.
(iii) The intermediate district shall enter the pupil
membership audit reports for its constituent districts and for the intermediate
district, for the pupil membership count day and supplemental count day, in the
Michigan student data system.
(f) The annual financial audit reports and pupil accounting
procedures reports must be available to the public in compliance with the
freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.
(g) Not later than January 31 of each year, the department shall
notify the state budget director and the legislative appropriations
subcommittees responsible for review of the school aid budget of districts and
intermediate districts that have not filed an annual financial audit and pupil
accounting procedures report required under this section for the school year
ending in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(5) By the first business day in November 1 of each
fiscal year, each district and intermediate district shall submit to the
center, in a manner prescribed by the center, annual comprehensive financial
data consistent with the district’s or intermediate district’s audited
financial statements and consistent with accounting manuals and charts of
accounts approved and published by the department. For an intermediate
district, the report must also contain the website address where the department
can access the report required under section 620 of the revised school code,
MCL 380.620. The department shall ensure that the prescribed Michigan
public school accounting manual chart of accounts includes standard conventions
to distinguish expenditures by allowable fund function and object. The
functions must include at minimum categories for instruction, pupil support,
instructional staff support, general administration, school administration,
business administration, transportation, facilities operation and maintenance,
facilities acquisition, and debt service; and must include object
classifications of salary, benefits, including categories for active employee
health expenditures, purchased services, supplies, capital outlay, and other. A
district shall report the required level of detail consistent with the manual
as part of the comprehensive annual financial report.
(6) By the last business day in September 30 of each
year, each district and intermediate district shall file with the center the
special education actual cost report, known as “SE-4096”, on a form and in the
manner prescribed by the center. An intermediate district shall certify the
audit of a district’s report.
(7) By October 7 one week after the last business day in
September of each year, each district and intermediate district shall file
with the center the audited transportation expenditure report, known as
“SE-4094”, on a form and in the manner prescribed by the center. An
intermediate district shall certify the audit of a district’s report.
(8) The department shall review its pupil accounting and pupil
auditing manuals at least annually and shall periodically update those manuals
to reflect changes in this article.
(9) If a district that is a public school academy purchases
property using money received under this article, the public school academy
shall retain ownership of the property unless the public school academy sells
the property at fair market value.
(10) If a district or intermediate district does not comply with
subsections (4), (5), (6), (7), and (12), or if the department determines that
the financial data required under subsection (5) are not consistent with
audited financial statements, the department shall withhold all state school
aid due to the district or intermediate district under this article, beginning
with the next payment due to the district or intermediate district, until the
district or intermediate district complies with subsections (4), (5), (6), (7),
and (12). If the district or intermediate district does not comply with
subsections (4), (5), (6), (7), and (12) by the end of the fiscal year, the
district or intermediate district forfeits the amount withheld.
(11) If a district or intermediate district does not comply with
subsection (2), the department may withhold up to 10% of the total state school
aid due to the district or intermediate district under this article, beginning
with the next payment due to the district or intermediate district, until the
district or intermediate district complies with subsection (2). If the district
or intermediate district does not comply with subsection (2) by the end of the
fiscal year, the district or intermediate district forfeits the amount
withheld.
(12) By November 1 of each year, if a district or intermediate
district offers virtual learning under section 21f, or for a school of
excellence that is a cyber school, as defined in section 551 of the revised
school code, MCL 380.551, the district or intermediate district shall submit to
the department a report that details the per-pupil costs of operating the
virtual learning by vendor type and virtual learning model. The report must
include information concerning the operation of virtual learning for the
immediately preceding school fiscal year, including information concerning
summer programming. Information must be collected in a form and manner
determined by the department and must be collected in the most efficient manner
possible to reduce the administrative burden on reporting entities.
(13) By March 31 of each year, the department shall submit to the
house and senate appropriations subcommittees on state school aid, the state
budget director, and the house and senate fiscal agencies a report summarizing
the per-pupil costs by vendor type of virtual courses available under section
21f and virtual courses provided by a school of excellence that is a cyber
school, as defined in section 551 of the revised school code, MCL 380.551.
(14) As used in subsections (12) and (13), “vendor type” means the
following:
(a) Virtual courses provided by the Michigan Virtual University.
(b) Virtual courses provided by a school of excellence that is a
cyber school, as defined in section 551 of the revised school code, MCL
380.551.
(c) Virtual courses provided by third party vendors not affiliated
with a Michigan public school.
(d) Virtual courses created and offered by a district or
intermediate district.
(15) An allocation to a district or another entity under this
article is contingent upon the district’s or entity’s compliance with this
section.
Sec. 20. (1) For 2019-2020, 2020-2021, both of the following apply:
(a) The target foundation allowance, formerly known as the basic
foundation allowance, is $8,529.00. $8,679.00.
(b) The minimum foundation allowance is $8,111.00. $8,336.00.
(2) The department shall calculate the amount of each district’s
foundation allowance as provided in this section, using a target foundation
allowance in the amount specified in subsection (1). For the purpose of these
calculations, a reference to the target foundation allowance for a preceding
fiscal year is equivalent to a reference to the “basic” foundation allowance
for that fiscal year.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the department
shall calculate the amount of a district’s foundation allowance as follows,
using in all calculations the total amount of the district’s foundation
allowance as calculated before any proration:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, for a
district that had a foundation allowance for the immediately preceding fiscal
year that was at least equal to the minimum foundation allowance for the
immediately preceding fiscal year, but less than the target foundation
allowance for the immediately preceding fiscal year, the district receives a
foundation allowance in an amount equal to the sum of the district’s foundation
allowance for the immediately preceding fiscal year plus the difference between
twice one and a half times the dollar amount of the adjustment
from the immediately preceding fiscal year to the current fiscal year made in
the target foundation allowance and [(the difference between the target
foundation allowance for the current fiscal year and target foundation
allowance for the immediately preceding fiscal year minus $40.00 $50.00) times (the difference between
the district’s foundation allowance for the immediately preceding fiscal year
and the minimum foundation allowance for the immediately preceding fiscal year)
divided by the difference between the target foundation allowance for the current
fiscal year and the minimum foundation allowance for the immediately preceding
fiscal year.] However, the foundation allowance for a district that had less
than the target foundation allowance for the immediately preceding fiscal year
must not exceed the target foundation allowance for the current fiscal year.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for a
district that in the immediately preceding fiscal year had a foundation
allowance in an amount equal to the amount of the target foundation allowance
for the immediately preceding fiscal year, the district receives a foundation
allowance for 2019-2020 2020-2021
in an amount equal to the target foundation allowance for 2019-2020. 2020-2021.
(c) For a district that had a foundation allowance for the
immediately preceding fiscal year that was greater than the target foundation
allowance for the immediately preceding fiscal year, the district’s foundation
allowance is an amount equal to the sum of the district’s foundation allowance
for the immediately preceding fiscal year plus the lesser of the increase in
the target foundation allowance for the current fiscal year, as compared to the
immediately preceding fiscal year, or the product of the district’s foundation
allowance for the immediately preceding fiscal year times the percentage
increase in the United States Consumer Price Index in the calendar year ending
in the immediately preceding fiscal year as reported by the May revenue
estimating conference conducted under section 367b of the management and budget
act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1367b.
(d) For a district that has a foundation allowance that is not a
whole dollar amount, the department shall round the district’s foundation
allowance up to the nearest whole dollar.
(4) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, beginning in
2014-2015, the state portion of a district’s foundation allowance is an amount
equal to the district’s foundation allowance or the target foundation allowance
for the current fiscal year, whichever is less, minus the local portion of the
district’s foundation allowance. For a district described in subsection (3)(c),
beginning in 2014-2015, the state portion of the district’s foundation
allowance is an amount equal to $6,962.00 plus the difference between the district’s
foundation allowance for the current fiscal year and the district’s foundation
allowance for 1998-99, minus the local portion of the district’s foundation
allowance. For a district that has a millage reduction required under section
31 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, the department shall
calculate the state portion of the district’s foundation allowance as if that
reduction did not occur. For a receiving district, if school operating taxes
continue to be levied on behalf of a dissolved district that has been attached
in whole or in part to the receiving district to satisfy debt obligations of
the dissolved district under section 12 of the revised school code, MCL 380.12,
the taxable value per membership pupil of property in the receiving district
used for the purposes of this subsection does not include the taxable value of
property within the geographic area of the dissolved district. For a community
district, if school operating taxes continue to be levied by a qualifying
school district under section 12b of the revised school code, MCL 380.12b, with
the same geographic area as the community district, the taxable value per
membership pupil of property in the community district to be used for the
purposes of this subsection does not include the taxable value of property
within the geographic area of the community district.
(5) The allocation calculated under this section
for a pupil is based on the foundation allowance of the pupil’s district of
residence. For a pupil enrolled pursuant to section 105 or 105c in a district
other than the pupil’s district of residence, the allocation calculated under
this section is based on the lesser of the foundation allowance of the pupil’s
district of residence or the foundation allowance of the educating district.
For a pupil in membership in a K-5, K-6, or K-8 district who is enrolled in
another district in a grade not offered by the pupil’s district of residence,
the allocation calculated under this section is based on the foundation
allowance of the educating district if the educating district’s foundation
allowance is greater than the foundation allowance of the pupil’s district of
residence. The calculation under this subsection shall take into account a
district's per-pupil allocation under section 20m.
(6) Except
as otherwise provided in this subsection, for pupils in membership, other than
special education pupils, in a public school academy, the allocation calculated
under this section is an amount per membership pupil other than special
education pupils in the public school academy equal to the foundation allowance
of the district in which the public school academy is located or the state
maximum public school academy allocation, whichever is less. Except as
otherwise provided in this subsection, for pupils in membership, other than
special education pupils, in a public school academy that is a cyber school and
is authorized by a school district, the allocation calculated under this
section is an amount per membership pupil other than special education pupils
in the public school academy equal to the foundation allowance of the district
that authorized the public school academy or the state maximum public school
academy allocation, whichever is less. However, for a public school academy
that had an allocation under this subsection before 2009-2010 that was equal to
the sum of the local school operating revenue per membership pupil other than
special education pupils for the district in which the public school academy is
located and the state portion of that district’s foundation allowance, that
allocation is not reduced as a result of the 2010 amendment to this subsection.
Notwithstanding section 101, for a public school academy that begins operations
after the pupil membership count day, the amount per membership pupil
calculated under this subsection must be adjusted by multiplying that amount
per membership pupil by the number of hours of pupil instruction provided by
the public school academy after it begins operations, as determined by the
department, divided by the minimum number of hours of pupil instruction
required under section 101(3). The result of this calculation must not exceed
the amount per membership pupil otherwise calculated under this subsection. Beginning in 2020-2021, for pupils in membership
in a public school academy that was issued a contract under section 552 of the
revised school code, MCL 380.552, to operate as a school of excellence that is
a cyber school, the allocation calculated under this section shall be an amount
equal to 80% of the amount as would otherwise be calculated under this
subsection for a public school academy.
(7) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for pupils in
membership, other than special education pupils, in a community district, the
allocation calculated under this section is an amount per membership pupil
other than special education pupils in the community district equal to the
foundation allowance of the qualifying school district, as described in section
12b of the revised school code, MCL 380.12b, that is located within the same
geographic area as the community district.
(8) Subject to subsection (4), for a district that is formed or
reconfigured after June 1, 2002 by consolidation of 2 or more districts or by
annexation, the resulting district’s foundation allowance under this section
beginning after the effective date of the consolidation or annexation is the
lesser of the sum of the average of the foundation allowances of each of the
original or affected districts, calculated as provided in this section,
weighted as to the percentage of pupils in total membership in the resulting
district who reside in the geographic area of each of the original or affected
districts plus $100.00 or the highest foundation allowance among the original
or affected districts. This subsection does not apply to a receiving district
unless there is a subsequent consolidation or annexation that affects the
district. The calculation under this subsection shall take into account a
district's per-pupil allocation under section 20m.
(9) The department shall round each fraction used in making
calculations under this section to the fourth decimal place and shall round the
dollar amount of an increase in the target foundation allowance to the nearest
whole dollar.
(10) State payments related to payment of the foundation allowance
for a special education pupil are not calculated under this section but are
instead calculated under section 51a.
(11) To assist the legislature in determining the target
foundation allowance for the subsequent fiscal year, each revenue estimating
conference conducted under section 367b of the management and budget act, 1984
PA 431, MCL 18.1367b, must calculate a pupil membership factor, a revenue
adjustment factor, and an index as follows:
(a) The pupil membership factor is computed by dividing the
estimated membership in the school year ending in the current fiscal year,
excluding intermediate district membership, by the estimated membership for the
school year ending in the subsequent fiscal year, excluding intermediate
district membership. If a consensus membership factor is not determined at the
revenue estimating conference, the principals of the revenue estimating
conference shall report their estimates to the house and senate subcommittees responsible
for school aid appropriations not later than 7 days after the conclusion of the
revenue conference.
(b) The revenue adjustment factor is computed by dividing the sum
of the estimated total state school aid fund revenue for the subsequent fiscal
year plus the estimated total state school aid fund revenue for the current
fiscal year, adjusted for any change in the rate or base of a tax the proceeds
of which are deposited in that fund and excluding money transferred into that
fund from the countercyclical budget and economic stabilization fund under the
management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594, by the sum of
the estimated total school aid fund revenue for the current fiscal year plus
the estimated total state school aid fund revenue for the immediately preceding
fiscal year, adjusted for any change in the rate or base of a tax the proceeds
of which are deposited in that fund. If a consensus revenue factor is not
determined at the revenue estimating conference, the principals of the revenue
estimating conference shall report their estimates to the house and senate
subcommittees responsible for school aid appropriations not later than 7 days
after the conclusion of the revenue conference.
(c) The index is calculated by multiplying the pupil membership
factor by the revenue adjustment factor. If a consensus index is not determined
at the revenue estimating conference, the principals of the revenue estimating
conference shall report their estimates to the house and senate subcommittees responsible
for school aid appropriations not later than 7 days after the conclusion of the
revenue conference.
(12) Payments to districts and public school academies are not
made under this section. Rather, the calculations under this section are used
to determine the amount of state payments under section 22b.
(13) If an amendment to section 2 of article VIII of the state
constitution of 1963 allowing state aid to some or all nonpublic schools is
approved by the voters of this state, each foundation allowance or per-pupil
payment calculation under this section may be reduced.
(14) For the purposes of section 1211 of the revised school code,
MCL 380.1211, the basic foundation allowance under this section is considered
to be the target foundation allowance under this section.
(15) As used in this section:
(a) “Certified mills” means the lesser of 18 mills or the number
of mills of school operating taxes levied by the district in 1993-94.
(b) “Combined state and local revenue” means the aggregate of the
district’s state school aid received by or paid on behalf of the district under
this section and the district’s local school operating revenue.
(c) “Combined state and local revenue per membership pupil” means
the district’s combined state and local revenue divided by the district’s
membership excluding special education pupils.
(d) “Current fiscal year” means the fiscal year for which a
particular calculation is made.
(e) “Dissolved district” means a district that loses its
organization, has its territory attached to 1 or more other districts, and is
dissolved as provided under section 12 of the revised school code, MCL 380.12.
(f) “Immediately preceding fiscal year” means the fiscal year
immediately preceding the current fiscal year.
(g) “Local portion of the district’s foundation allowance” means
an amount that is equal to the difference between (the sum of the product of
the taxable value per membership pupil of all property in the district that is
nonexempt property times the district’s certified mills and, for a district
with certified mills exceeding 12, the product of the taxable value per
membership pupil of property in the district that is commercial personal
property times the certified mills minus 12 mills) and (the quotient of the
product of the captured assessed valuation under tax increment financing acts
times the district’s certified mills divided by the district’s membership
excluding special education pupils).
(h) “Local school operating revenue” means school operating taxes
levied under section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211. For a
receiving district, if school operating taxes are to be levied on behalf of a
dissolved district that has been attached in whole or in part to the receiving
district to satisfy debt obligations of the dissolved district under section 12
of the revised school code, MCL 380.12, local school operating revenue does not
include school operating taxes levied within the geographic area of the
dissolved district.
(i) “Local school operating revenue per membership pupil” means a
district’s local school operating revenue divided by the district’s membership
excluding special education pupils.
(j) “Maximum public school academy allocation”, except as
otherwise provided in this subdivision, means the maximum per-pupil allocation
as calculated by adding the highest per-pupil allocation among all public
school academies for the immediately preceding fiscal year plus the difference
between twice one and a half times the amount of the difference
between the target foundation allowance for the current fiscal year and the
target foundation allowance for the immediately preceding fiscal year and [(the
amount of the difference between the target foundation allowance for the
current fiscal year and the target foundation allowance for the immediately
preceding fiscal year minus $40.00 $50.00)
times (the difference between the highest per-pupil allocation among all public
school academies for the immediately preceding fiscal year and the minimum
foundation allowance for the immediately preceding fiscal year) divided by the
difference between the target foundation allowance for the current fiscal year
and the minimum foundation allowance for the immediately preceding fiscal
year.] For the purposes of this subdivision, for 2019-2020, 2020-2021 the maximum public school
academy allocation is $8,111.00. $8,336.00.
(k) “Membership” means the definition of that term under section 6
as in effect for the particular fiscal year for which a particular calculation
is made.
(l) “Nonexempt property” means property that is not a
principal residence, qualified agricultural property, qualified forest
property, supportive housing property, industrial personal property, commercial
personal property, or property occupied by a public school academy.
(m) “Principal residence”, “qualified agricultural property”,
“qualified forest property”, “supportive housing property”, “industrial
personal property”, and “commercial personal property” mean those terms as
defined in section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211.
(n) “Receiving district” means a district to which all or part of
the territory of a dissolved district is attached under section 12 of the
revised school code, MCL 380.12.
(o) “School operating purposes” means the purposes included in the
operation costs of the district as prescribed in sections 7 and 18 and purposes
authorized under section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211.
(p) “School operating taxes” means local ad valorem property taxes
levied under section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211, and
retained for school operating purposes.
(q) “Target foundation allowance for the immediately preceding
fiscal year” means, for 2019-2020 only, the basic foundation allowance in
effect for the 2018-2019 fiscal year.
(q) (r)
“Tax increment financing
acts” means parts 2, 3, 4, and 6 of the recodified tax increment financing act,
2018 PA 57, MCL 125.4201 to 125.4420 and 125.4602 to 125.4629, or the
brownfield redevelopment financing act, 1996 PA 381, MCL 125.2651 to 125.2670.
(r) (s)
“Taxable value per
membership pupil” means taxable value, as certified by the county treasurer and
reported to the department, for the calendar year ending in the current state
fiscal year divided by the district’s membership excluding special education
pupils for the school year ending in the current state fiscal year.
Sec. 20d. In making the final determination required under former
section 20a of a district’s combined state and local revenue per membership
pupil in 1993-94 and in making calculations under section 20 for 2019-2020, 2020-2021,
the department and the department of treasury shall comply with all of the
following:
(a) For a district that had combined state and local revenue per
membership pupil in the 1994-95 fiscal year of $6,500.00 or more and served as
a fiscal agent for a state board designated area vocational education center in
the 1993-94 school year, total state school aid received by or paid on behalf
of the district under this act in 1993-94 excludes payments made under former
section 146 and under section 147 on behalf of the district’s employees who
provided direct services to the area vocational education center. Not later
than June 30, 1996, the department shall make an adjustment under this
subdivision to the district’s combined state and local revenue per membership
pupil in the 1994-95 fiscal year and the department of treasury shall make a
final certification of the number of mills that may be levied by the district
under section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211, as a result of the
adjustment under this subdivision.
(b) If a district had an adjustment made to its 1993-94 total
state school aid that excluded payments made under former section 146 and under
section 147 on behalf of the district’s employees who provided direct services
for intermediate district center programs operated by the district under
sections 51 to 56, if nonresident pupils attending the center programs were
included in the district’s membership for purposes of calculating the combined
state and local revenue per membership pupil for 1993-94, and if there is a
signed agreement by all constituent districts of the intermediate district
agreeing to an adjustment under this subdivision, the department shall
calculate the foundation allowances for 1995-96 and 1996-97 of all districts
that had pupils attending the intermediate district center program operated by
the district that had the adjustment as if their combined state and local
revenue per membership pupil for 1993-94 included resident pupils attending the
center program and excluded nonresident pupils attending the center program.
Sec. 20f. (1) From the funds appropriated in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $18,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021
for payments to eligible districts under this section.
(2) The funding under this subsection is from the allocation under
subsection (1). A district is eligible for funding under this subsection if the
district received a payment under this section as it was in effect for
2013-2014. A district was eligible for funding in 2013-2014 if the sum of the
following was less than $5.00:
(a) The increase in the district’s foundation allowance or
per-pupil payment as calculated under section 20 from 2012-2013 to 2013-2014.
(b) The district’s equity payment per membership pupil under
former section 22c for 2013-2014.
(c) The quotient of the district’s allocation under section 147a
for 2012-2013 divided by the district’s membership pupils for 2012-2013 minus
the quotient of the district’s allocation under section 147a for 2013-2014
divided by the district’s membership pupils for 2013-2014.
(3) The amount allocated to each eligible district under
subsection (2) is an amount per membership pupil equal to the amount per
membership pupil the district received under this section in 2013-2014.
(4) The funding under this subsection is from the allocation under
subsection (1). A district is eligible for funding under this subsection if the
sum of the following is less than $25.00:
(a) The increase in the district’s foundation allowance or
per-pupil payment as calculated under section 20 from 2014-2015 to 2015-2016.
(b) The decrease in the district’s best practices per-pupil
funding under former section 22f from 2014-2015 to 2015-2016.
(c) The decrease in the district’s pupil performance per-pupil
funding under former section 22j from 2014-2015 to 2015-2016.
(d) The quotient of the district’s allocation under section 31a
for 2015-2016 divided by the district’s membership pupils for 2015-2016 minus
the quotient of the district’s allocation under section 31a for 2014-2015
divided by the district’s membership pupils for 2014-2015.
(5) The amount allocated to each eligible district under
subsection (4) is an amount per membership pupil equal to $25.00 minus the sum
of the following:
(a) The increase in the district’s foundation allowance or
per-pupil payment as calculated under section 20 from 2014-2015 to 2015-2016.
(b) The decrease in the district’s best practices per-pupil
funding under former section 22f from 2014-2015 to 2015-2016.
(c) The decrease in the district’s pupil performance per-pupil
funding under former section 22j from 2014-2015 to 2015-2016.
(d) The quotient of the district’s allocation under section 31a
for 2015-2016 divided by the district’s membership pupils for 2015-2016 minus
the quotient of the district’s allocation under section 31a for 2014-2015
divided by the district’s membership pupils for 2014-2015.
(6) If the allocation under subsection (1) is insufficient to
fully fund payments under subsections (3) and (5) as otherwise calculated under
this section, the department shall prorate payments under this section on an
equal per-pupil basis.
Sec. 20m. (1) Foundation
allowance supplemental payments for 2020-2021 to districts that in the
2019-2020 fiscal year had a foundation allowance greater than $8,529.00 shall
be calculated under this section.
(2) The per-pupil allocation to each district under this section
shall be the difference between the dollar amount of the adjustment from the
2019-2020 state fiscal year to the current state fiscal year in the target
foundation allowance minus the dollar amount of the adjustment from the
2019-2020 fiscal year to the current state fiscal year in a qualifying
district's foundation allowance.
(3) If a district's local revenue per pupil does not exceed the
sum of its foundation allowance under section 20 plus the per-pupil allocation
under subsection (2), the total payment to the district calculated under this
section shall be the product of the per-pupil allocation under subsection (2)
multiplied by the district's membership excluding special education pupils. If
a district's local revenue per pupil exceeds the foundation allowance under
section 20 but does not exceed the sum of the foundation allowance under
section 20 plus the per-pupil allocation under subsection (2), the total
payment to the district calculated under this section shall be the product of
the difference between the sum of the foundation allowance under section 20
plus the per-pupil allocation under subsection (2) minus the local revenue per
pupil multiplied by the district's membership excluding special education
pupils. If a district's local revenue per pupil exceeds the sum of the
foundation allowance under section 20 plus the per-pupil allocation under
subsection (2), there is no payment calculated under this section for the
district.
(4) Payments to districts shall not be made under this section.
Rather, the calculations under this section shall be made and used to determine
the amount of state payments under section 22b.
Sec. 21h. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated $6,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for assisting
districts assigned by the superintendent to participate in a partnership to
improve student achievement and for assisting districts demonstrating
financial stress, as determined by the state treasurer. The purpose of the
partnership is to identify district needs, develop intervention plans, and
partner with public, private, and nonprofit organizations to coordinate
resources and improve student achievement and district financial stability.
The superintendent shall collaborate with state treasurer to identify any
conditions that may be contributing to low academic performance within a
district being considered for assignment to a partnership. Assignment of a
district to a partnership is at the sole discretion of made by the
superintendent in consultation with the state treasurer.
(2) A district assigned to a partnership by the superintendent or
a district that has established a community engagement advisory committee in
partnership with the department of treasury is eligible for funding under
this section if the district includes at least 1 school that has been rated
with a grade of “F”, or comparable performance rating, in the most recent state
accountability system rating identified as low performing
under the approved federal accountability system or the state accountability
system. A district described in this subsection must do and that
does all of the following to be eligible for funding under this section:
(a) Completes Complete a comprehensive needs assessment
or evaluation, in collaboration with an intermediate school
district, community members, education organizations, and postsecondary
institutions, as applicable and approved by the superintendent, within 90 days
of assignment to the partnership described in this section or by October 15
of each year if the district has established a community engagement advisory
committee. The comprehensive needs evaluation must include at least all of
the following:
(i) A review of the district’s implementation and
utilization of a multi-tiered system of supports to ensure that it is used to
appropriately inform instruction.
(ii) A review of the district and school building
leadership and educator capacity to substantially improve student outcomes.
(iii) A review of classroom, instructional, and operational
practices and curriculum to ensure alignment with research-based instructional
practices and state curriculum standards.
(b) Develops Develop an academic and financial
operating plan or intervention plan that has been approved by the
superintendent and that addresses the needs identified in the comprehensive
needs evaluation completed under subdivision (a). The intervention plan must
include at least all of the following:
(i) Specific actions that will be taken by the district and
each of its partners to improve student achievement.
(ii) Specific measurable benchmarks that will be met within
18 months to improve student achievement and identification of expected student
achievement outcomes to be attained within 3 years after assignment to the
partnership.
(c) Crafts Craft academic goals that put pupils on
track to meet or exceed grade level proficiency.
(3) Upon approval of the academic and financial operating plan
or intervention plan developed under subsection (2), the department, in
collaboration with the department of treasury, shall assign a team of
individuals with expertise in comprehensive school and district reform to
partner with the district, the intermediate district, community organizations,
education organizations, and postsecondary institutions identified in the academic
and financial operating plan or intervention plan to review the district’s
use of existing financial resources to ensure that those resources are being
used as efficiently and effectively as possible to improve student academic
achievement and to ensure district financial stability. The
superintendent of public instruction may waive burdensome administrative rules
for a partnership district for the duration of the partnership agreement or
for a district that receives funding under this section in the current fiscal
year that has established a community engagement advisory committee in
partnership with the department of treasury.
(4) Funds allocated under this section may be used to pay for
district expenditures approved by the superintendent to improve student
achievement. Funds may be used for professional development for teachers or
district or school leadership, increased instructional time, teacher mentors,
or other expenditures that directly impact student achievement and cannot be
paid from existing district financial resources. An eligible district shall not
receive funds under this section for more than 3 years. Notwithstanding section
17b, the department shall make payments to eligible districts under this
section on a schedule determined by the department.
(5) The department shall collaborate with the department of
treasury and annually report in person to the legislature on the
activities funded under this section and how those activities impacted student
achievement in eligible districts that received funds under this section. To
the extent possible, participating districts receiving funding under this
section shall participate in the report. This report shall also include a
description regarding the department’s involvement in any community engagement
advisory committee, including a detailed justification if any decisions were
made to not partner with a district seeking to create a community engagement
advisory committee. If a determination is made by the department of treasury
that the department does not collaborate as required under this section, the
department shall include in the report under this section a detailed
justification as to why the collaboration did not occur.
Sec. 22a. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $5,057,000,000.00 $4,839,000,000.00
for 2018-2019 and there is allocated an amount not to exceed
$4,943,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for payments to districts
and qualifying public school academies to guarantee each district and
qualifying public school academy an amount equal to its 1994-95 total state and
local per pupil revenue for school operating purposes under section 11 of
article IX of the state constitution of 1963. Pursuant to section 11 of article
IX of the state constitution of 1963, this guarantee does not apply to a
district in a year in which the district levies a millage rate for school
district operating purposes less than it levied in 1994. However, subsection
(2) applies to calculating the payments under this section. Funds allocated
under this section that are not expended in the state fiscal year for which
they were allocated, as determined by the department, may be used to supplement
the allocations under sections 22b and 51c in order to fully fund those
calculated allocations for the same fiscal year.
(2) To ensure that a district receives an amount equal to the
district’s 1994-95 total state and local per pupil revenue for school operating
purposes, there is allocated to each district a state portion of the district’s
1994-95 foundation allowance in an amount calculated as follows:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the state
portion of a district’s 1994-95 foundation allowance is an amount equal to the
district’s 1994-95 foundation allowance or $6,500.00, whichever is less, minus
the difference between the sum of the product of the taxable value per
membership pupil of all property in the district that is nonexempt property
times the district’s certified mills and, for a district with certified mills
exceeding 12, the product of the taxable value per membership pupil of property
in the district that is commercial personal property times the certified mills
minus 12 mills and the quotient of the ad valorem property tax revenue of the
district captured under tax increment financing acts divided by the district’s
membership. For a district that has a millage reduction required under section
31 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, the department shall
calculate the state portion of the district’s foundation allowance as if that
reduction did not occur. For a receiving district, if school operating taxes
are to be levied on behalf of a dissolved district that has been attached in
whole or in part to the receiving district to satisfy debt obligations of the
dissolved district under section 12 of the revised school code, MCL 380.12,
taxable value per membership pupil of all property in the receiving district
that is nonexempt property and taxable value per membership pupil of property
in the receiving district that is commercial personal property do not include
property within the geographic area of the dissolved district; ad valorem
property tax revenue of the receiving district captured under tax increment
financing acts does not include ad valorem property tax revenue captured within
the geographic boundaries of the dissolved district under tax increment
financing acts; and certified mills do not include the certified mills of the
dissolved district. For a community district, the department shall reduce the
allocation as otherwise calculated under this section by an amount equal to the
amount of local school operating tax revenue that would otherwise be due to the
community district if not for the operation of section 386 of the revised
school code, MCL 380.386, and the amount of this reduction is offset by the
increase in funding under section 22b(2).
(b) For a district that had a 1994-95 foundation allowance greater
than $6,500.00, the state payment under this subsection is the sum of the
amount calculated under subdivision (a) plus the amount calculated under this
subdivision. The amount calculated under this subdivision must be equal to the
difference between the district’s 1994-95 foundation allowance minus $6,500.00
and the current year hold harmless school operating taxes per pupil. If the
result of the calculation under subdivision (a) is negative, the negative
amount is an offset against any state payment calculated under this
subdivision. If the result of a calculation under this subdivision is negative,
there is not a state payment or a deduction under this subdivision. The taxable
values per membership pupil used in the calculations under this subdivision are
as adjusted by ad valorem property tax revenue captured under tax increment
financing acts divided by the district’s membership. For a receiving district,
if school operating taxes are to be levied on behalf of a dissolved district
that has been attached in whole or in part to the receiving district to satisfy
debt obligations of the dissolved district under section 12 of the revised
school code, MCL 380.12, ad valorem property tax revenue captured under tax
increment financing acts do not include ad valorem property tax revenue
captured within the geographic boundaries of the dissolved district under tax increment
financing acts.
(3) Beginning in 2003-2004, for pupils in membership in a
qualifying public school academy, there is allocated under this section to the
authorizing body that is the fiscal agent for the qualifying public school
academy for forwarding to the qualifying public school academy an amount equal
to the 1994-95 per pupil payment to the qualifying public school academy under
section 20.
(4) A district or qualifying public school academy may use funds
allocated under this section in conjunction with any federal funds for which
the district or qualifying public school academy otherwise would be eligible.
(5) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for a
district that is formed or reconfigured after June 1, 2000 by consolidation of
2 or more districts or by annexation, the resulting district’s 1994-95
foundation allowance under this section beginning after the effective date of
the consolidation or annexation is the average of the 1994-95 foundation
allowances of each of the original or affected districts, calculated as
provided in this section, weighted as to the percentage of pupils in total
membership in the resulting district in the fiscal year in which the
consolidation takes place who reside in the geographic area of each of the original
districts. If an affected district’s 1994-95 foundation allowance is less than
the 1994-95 basic foundation allowance, the amount of that district’s 1994-95
foundation allowance is considered for the purpose of calculations under this
subsection to be equal to the amount of the 1994-95 basic foundation allowance.
This subsection does not apply to a receiving district unless there is a
subsequent consolidation or annexation that affects the district.
(6) Payments under this section are subject to section 25g.
(6) (7)
As used in this section:
(a) “1994-95 foundation allowance” means a district’s 1994-95
foundation allowance calculated and certified by the department of treasury or
the superintendent under former section 20a as enacted in 1993 PA 336 and as
amended by 1994 PA 283.
(b) “Certified mills” means the lesser of 18 mills or the number
of mills of school operating taxes levied by the district in 1993-94.
(c) “Current fiscal year” means the fiscal year for which a
particular calculation is made.
(d) “Current year hold harmless school operating taxes per pupil”
means the per pupil revenue generated by multiplying a district’s 1994-95 hold
harmless millage by the district’s current year taxable value per membership
pupil. For a receiving district, if school operating taxes are to be levied on
behalf of a dissolved district that has been attached in whole or in part to
the receiving district to satisfy debt obligations of the dissolved district
under section 12 of the revised school code, MCL 380.12, taxable value per
membership pupil does not include the taxable value of property within the
geographic area of the dissolved district.
(e) “Dissolved district” means a district that loses its
organization, has its territory attached to 1 or more other districts, and is
dissolved as provided under section 12 of the revised school code, MCL 380.12.
(f) “Hold harmless millage” means, for a district with a 1994-95
foundation allowance greater than $6,500.00, the number of mills by which the
exemption from the levy of school operating taxes on a principal residence,
qualified agricultural property, qualified forest property, supportive housing
property, industrial personal property, commercial personal property, and
property occupied by a public school academy could be reduced as provided in
section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211, and the number of mills
of school operating taxes that could be levied on all property as provided in
section 1211(2) of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211, as certified by the
department of treasury for the 1994 tax year. For a receiving district, if
school operating taxes are to be levied on behalf of a dissolved district that
has been attached in whole or in part to the receiving district to satisfy debt
obligations of the dissolved district under section 12 of the revised school
code, MCL 380.12, school operating taxes do not include school operating taxes
levied within the geographic area of the dissolved district.
(g) “Membership” means the definition of that term under section 6
as in effect for the particular fiscal year for which a particular calculation
is made.
(h) “Nonexempt property” means property that is not a principal
residence, qualified agricultural property, qualified forest property,
supportive housing property, industrial personal property, commercial personal
property, or property occupied by a public school academy.
(i) “Principal residence”, “qualified agricultural property”,
“qualified forest property”, “supportive housing property”, “industrial personal
property”, and “commercial personal property” mean those terms as defined in
section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1211.
(j) “Qualifying public school academy” means a public school
academy that was in operation in the 1994-95 school year and is in operation in
the current fiscal year.
(k) “Receiving district” means a district to which all or part of
the territory of a dissolved district is attached under section 12 of the
revised school code, MCL 380.12.
(l) “School operating taxes” means local ad valorem
property taxes levied under section 1211 of the revised school code, MCL
380.1211, and retained for school operating purposes as defined in section 20.
(m) “Tax increment financing acts” means 1975 PA 197, MCL 125.1651
to 125.1681, the tax increment finance authority act, 1980 PA 450, MCL 125.1801
to 125.1830, the local development financing act, 1986 PA 281, MCL 125.2151 to
125.2174, the brownfield redevelopment financing act, 1996 PA 381, MCL 125.2651
to 125.2670, or the corridor improvement authority act, 2005 PA 280, MCL
125.2871 to 125.2899.
(n) “Taxable value per membership pupil” means each of the
following divided by the district’s membership:
(i) For the number of mills by which the exemption from the
levy of school operating taxes on a principal residence, qualified agricultural
property, qualified forest property, supportive housing property, industrial
personal property, commercial personal property, and property occupied by a
public school academy may be reduced as provided in section 1211 of the revised
school code, MCL 380.1211, the taxable value of principal residence, qualified
agricultural property, qualified forest property, supportive housing property,
industrial personal property, commercial personal property, and property
occupied by a public school academy for the calendar year ending in the current
fiscal year. For a receiving district, if school operating taxes are to be
levied on behalf of a dissolved district that has been attached in whole or in
part to the receiving district to satisfy debt obligations of the dissolved
district under section 12 of the revised school code, MCL 380.12, mills do not
include mills within the geographic area of the dissolved district.
(ii) For the number of mills of school operating taxes that
may be levied on all property as provided in section 1211(2) of the revised
school code, MCL 380.1211, the taxable value of all property for the calendar
year ending in the current fiscal year. For a receiving district, if school
operating taxes are to be levied on behalf of a dissolved district that has
been attached in whole or in part to the receiving district to satisfy debt
obligations of the dissolved district under section 12 of the revised school
code, MCL 380.12, school operating taxes do not include school operating taxes
levied within the geographic area of the dissolved district.
(2) Subject to subsection (3) and section 296, the allocation to a
district under this section is an amount equal to the sum of the amounts
calculated under sections 20, 20m, 51a(2), 51a(3), and 51a(11), minus
the sum of the allocations to the district under sections 22a and 51c. For a
community district, the allocation as otherwise calculated under this section
is increased by an amount equal to the amount of local school operating tax
revenue that would otherwise be due to the community district if not for the
operation of section 386 of the revised school code, MCL 380.386, and this
increase must be paid from the community district education trust fund
allocation in subsection (1) in order to offset the absence of local school
operating revenue in a community district in the funding of the state portion
of the foundation allowance under section 20(4).
(3) In order to receive an allocation under subsection (1), each district
must do all of the following:
(a) Comply with section 1280b of the revised school code, MCL
380.1280b.
(b) Comply with sections 1278a and 1278b of the revised school
code, MCL 380.1278a and 380.1278b.
(c) Furnish data and other information required by state and
federal law to the center and the department in the form and manner specified
by the center or the department, as applicable.
(d) Comply with section 1230g of the revised school code, MCL
380.1230g.
(e) Comply with section 21f.
(f) For a district or public school academy that has entered into
a partnership agreement with the department, comply with section 22p.
(g) For a district or public school academy that offers
kindergarten, comply with section 104(4).
(4) Districts are encouraged to use funds allocated under this
section for the purchase and support of payroll, human resources, and other
business function software that is compatible with that of the intermediate
district in which the district is located and with other districts located within
that intermediate district.
(5) From the allocation in subsection (1), the department shall
pay up to $1,000,000.00 in litigation costs incurred by this state related to
commercial or industrial property tax appeals, including, but not limited to,
appeals of classification, that impact revenues dedicated to the state school
aid fund.
(6) From the allocation in subsection (1), the department shall
pay up to $1,000,000.00 in litigation costs incurred by this state associated
with lawsuits filed by 1 or more districts or intermediate districts against
this state. If the allocation under this section is insufficient to fully fund
all payments required under this section, the payments under this subsection
must be made in full before any proration of remaining payments under this
section.
(7) It is the intent of the legislature that all constitutional
obligations of this state have been fully funded under sections 22a, 31d, 51a,
51c, and 152a. If a claim is made by an entity receiving funds under this
article that challenges the legislative determination of the adequacy of this
funding or alleges that there exists an unfunded constitutional requirement,
the state budget director may escrow or allocate from the discretionary funds
for nonmandated payments under this section the amount as may be necessary to
satisfy the claim before making any payments to districts under subsection (2).
If funds are escrowed, the escrowed funds are a work project appropriation and
the funds are carried forward into the following fiscal year. The purpose of
the work project is to provide for any payments that may be awarded to
districts as a result of litigation. The work project is completed upon
resolution of the litigation.
(8) If the local claims review board or a court of competent
jurisdiction makes a final determination that this state is in violation of
section 29 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 regarding state
payments to districts, the state budget director shall use work project funds
under subsection (7) or allocate from the discretionary funds for nonmandated
payments under this section the amount as may be necessary to satisfy the
amount owed to districts before making any payments to districts under
subsection (2).
(9) If a claim is made in court that challenges the legislative
determination of the adequacy of funding for this state’s constitutional
obligations or alleges that there exists an unfunded constitutional
requirement, any interested party may seek an expedited review of the claim by
the local claims review board. If the claim exceeds $10,000,000.00, this state
may remove the action to the court of appeals, and the court of appeals has and
shall exercise jurisdiction over the claim.
(10) If payments resulting from a final determination by the local
claims review board or a court of competent jurisdiction that there has been a
violation of section 29 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 exceed
the amount allocated for discretionary nonmandated payments under this section,
the legislature shall provide for adequate funding for this state’s
constitutional obligations at its next legislative session.
(11) If a lawsuit challenging payments made to districts related
to costs reimbursed by federal title XIX Medicaid funds is filed against this
state, then, for the purpose of addressing potential liability under such a
lawsuit, the state budget director may place funds allocated under this section
in escrow or allocate money from the funds otherwise allocated under this
section, up to a maximum of 50% of the amount allocated in subsection (1). If
funds are placed in escrow under this subsection, those funds are a work
project appropriation and the funds are carried forward into the following
fiscal year. The purpose of the work project is to provide for any payments
that may be awarded to districts as a result of the litigation. The work
project is completed upon resolution of the litigation. In addition, this state
reserves the right to terminate future federal title XIX Medicaid reimbursement
payments to districts if the amount or allocation of reimbursed funds is
challenged in the lawsuit. As used in this subsection, “title XIX” means title
XIX of the social security act, 42 USC 1396 to 1396w-5.
Sec. 22d. (1) From the state school aid fund money appropriated
under section 11, an amount not to exceed $7,000,000.00 is allocated for 2019-2020
2020-2021 for supplemental
payments to rural districts under this section.
(2) From the allocation under subsection (1), there is allocated
for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an
amount not to exceed $957,300.00 for payments under this subsection to
districts that meet all of the following:
(a) Operates grades K to 12.
(b) Has fewer than 250 pupils in membership.
(c) Each school building operated by the district meets at least 1
of the following:
(i) Is located in the Upper Peninsula at least 30 miles
from any other public school building.
(ii) Is located on an island that is not accessible by
bridge.
(3) The amount of the additional funding to each eligible district
under subsection (2) is determined under a spending plan developed as provided
in this subsection and approved by the superintendent of public instruction.
The spending plan must be developed cooperatively by the intermediate
superintendents of each intermediate district in which an eligible district is
located. The intermediate superintendents shall review the financial situation
of each eligible district, determine the minimum essential financial needs of
each eligible district, and develop and agree on a spending plan that
distributes the available funding under subsection (2) to the eligible
districts based on those financial needs. The intermediate superintendents
shall submit the spending plan to the superintendent of public instruction for
approval. Upon approval by the superintendent of public instruction, the
amounts specified for each eligible district under the spending plan are
allocated under subsection (2) and must be paid to the eligible districts in
the same manner as payments under section 22b.
(4) Subject to subsection (6), from the allocation in subsection
(1), there is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed $6,042,700.00 for payments under
this subsection to districts that have fewer than 10.0 pupils per square mile
as determined by the department.
(5) The funds allocated under subsection (4) are allocated as
follows:
(a) An amount equal to $5,200,000.00 is allocated to districts
with fewer than 8.0 pupils per square mile, as determined by the department, on
an equal per-pupil basis.
(b) The balance of the funding under subsection (4) is allocated
as follows:
(i) For districts with at least 8.0 but fewer than 9.0
pupils per square mile, as determined by the department, the allocation is an
amount per pupil equal to 75% of the per-pupil amount allocated to districts
under subdivision (a).
(ii) For districts with at least 9.0 but fewer than 10.0
pupils per square mile, as determined by the department, the allocation is an
amount per pupil equal to 50% of the per-pupil amount allocated to districts
under subdivision (a).
(c) If the total funding allocated under subdivision (b) is not
sufficient to fully fund payments as calculated under that subdivision, the
department shall prorate payments to districts under subdivision (b) on an equal
per-pupil basis.
(6) A district receiving funds allocated under subsection (2) is
not eligible for funding allocated under subsection (4).
Sec. 22m. (1) From the appropriations in section 11, there is
allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed
$2,200,000.00 for supporting the integration of local data systems into the
Michigan data hub network based on common standards and applications that are
in compliance with section 19(6).
(2) An entity that is the fiscal agent for no more than 5 consortia
of intermediate districts that previously received funding from the technology
readiness infrastructure grant under former section 22i for the purpose of
establishing regional data hubs that are part of the Michigan data hub network
is eligible for funding under this section.
(3) The center shall work with an advisory committee composed of
representatives from intermediate districts within each of the data hub regions
to coordinate the activities of the Michigan data hub network.
(4) The center, in collaboration with the Michigan data hub
network, shall determine the amount of funds distributed under this section to
each participating regional data hub within the network, based upon a
competitive grant process. The center shall ensure that the entities receiving
funding under this section represent geographically diverse areas in this
state.
(5) Notwithstanding section 17b, the department shall make
payments under this section on a schedule determined by the center.
(6) To receive funding under this section, a regional data hub
must have a governance model that ensures local control of data, data security,
and student privacy issues. The integration of data within each of the regional
data hubs must provide for the actionable use of data by districts and
intermediate districts through common reports and dashboards and for
efficiently providing information to meet state and federal reporting purposes.
(7) Participation in a data hub region in the Michigan data hub
network under this section is voluntary and is not required.
(8) Entities receiving funding under this section shall use the
funds for all of the following:
(a) Creating an infrastructure that effectively manages the
movement of data between data systems used by intermediate districts, districts,
and other educational organizations in Michigan based on common data standards
to improve student achievement.
(b) Utilizing the infrastructure to put in place commonly needed
integrations, reducing cost and effort to do that work while increasing data accuracy
and usability.
(c) Promoting the use of a more common set of applications by
promoting systems that integrate with the Michigan data hub network.
(d) Promoting 100% district adoption of the Michigan data hub
network by September 30, 2020. 2021.
(e) Ensuring local control of data, data security, and student
data privacy.
(f) Utilizing the infrastructure to promote the actionable use of
data through common reports and dashboards that are consistent statewide.
(g) Creating a governance model to facilitate sustainable
operations of the infrastructure in the future, including administration, legal
agreements, documentation, staffing, hosting, and funding.
(h) Evaluating future data initiatives at all levels to determine
whether the initiatives can be enhanced by using the standardized environment
in the Michigan data hub network.
(9) Not later than January 1 of each fiscal year, the center shall
prepare a summary report of information provided by each entity that received
funds under this section that includes measurable outcomes based on the
objectives described under this section and a summary of compiled data from
each entity to provide a means to evaluate the effectiveness of the project.
The center shall submit the report to the house and senate appropriations
subcommittees on state school aid and to the house and senate fiscal agencies.
Sec. 22p. (1) In order to receive funding under section
22b, a district or public school academy that has is assigned by the
superintendent of public instruction as a partnership district must have a
signed partnership agreement with the department must meet both of the
following: that includes all of the following:
(a) Adopts a partnership agreement that includes measurable Measurable
academic outcomes that will be achieved after 18 months and after 36 months
from the date the agreement was originally signed. Measurable academic outcomes
under this subdivision must include outcomes that put pupils on track to meet
or exceed grade level proficiency and must be based on district needs
identified as required under section 21h and must include at least one
proficiency or growth outcome based upon state assessments as defined in
section 104c.
(b) Adopts a partnership agreement that includes accountability
Accountability measures to be imposed if the district or public
school academy does not achieve the measurable academic outcomes under
subdivision (a) for a school subject to a partnership agreement. Accountability
measures under this subdivision may shall include the closure
of the school at the end of the current school year or the reconstitution
of the school. For a public school academy that adopts a partnership agreement
under this subdivision, the agreement must include a requirement that if
reconstitution is imposed on a school that is operated by the public school
academy and that is subject to the partnership agreement, the school must be
reconstituted as described in section 507 of the revised school code, MCL
380.507. For a district that adopts a partnership agreement under this
subdivision, the agreement must include a requirement that if reconstitution is
imposed on a school that is operated by the district and that is subject to the
partnership agreement, all of the following apply:
(i) The district shall make significant changes to the
instructional and noninstructional programming of the school based on the needs
identified through a comprehensive review of data in compliance with section
21h.
(ii) The district shall replace the principal of the
school, unless the current principal has been in place for less than 3 years
and the board of the district determines that it is in the best interests of
the district to retain current school leadership.
(iii) The reconstitution plan for the school shall require
the adoption of goals similar to the goals included in a partnership agreement,
with a limit of 5 3 years to achieve the goals. If the goals are
not achieved within 5 3 years, the superintendent of public
instruction shall either impose a second reconstitution plan.
on the school or close the school.
(2) If a district or public school academy is assigned as a
partnership district during the current fiscal year, it must have a signed
partnership agreement in place within 90 days of assignment or funding under
section 22b will be withheld until such time that an agreement is in place.
Sec. 22q. (1) From the funds appropriated in section 11, there is
allocated for 2020-2021 only an amount not to exceed $5,000,000.00 for
competitive assistance grants to districts and intermediate districts.
(2) Funds received under this section may be used for costs
associated with reorganization and cooperative activities between districts or
between districts and intermediate districts that occur on or after June 30,
2020. A district or intermediate district is not eligible for funding under
this section until a reorganization or cooperative activity is approved by the
school electors of the applicable districts or intermediate districts. A
recipient district or intermediate district may spend funds allocated under
this section over 3 fiscal years.
(3) The department shall collaborate with the department of
treasury to develop an application process and to determine grant recipients
and award amounts under this section.
(4) Notwithstanding section 17b, grant payments under this section
shall be paid on a schedule determined by the department.
(5) The funds allocated under subsection (1) for 2020-2021 are a
work project appropriation, and any unexpended funds for 2020-2021 are carried
forward into 2021-2022. The purpose of the work project is to improve the
efficiency of the state education system through the support of reorganization
and cooperative activities between districts or between districts and
intermediate districts. The estimated completion date of the work project is
September 30, 2023.
Sec. 24. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed $7,150,000.00
for payments to the educating district or intermediate district for educating
pupils assigned by a court or the department of health and human services to
reside in or to attend a juvenile detention facility or child caring
institution licensed by the department of health and human services and
approved by the department to provide an on-grounds education program. The
amount of the payment under this section to a district or intermediate district
is calculated as prescribed under subsection (2).
(2) The department shall allocate the total amount allocated under
this section by paying to the educating district or intermediate district an
amount equal to the lesser of the district’s or intermediate district’s added
cost or the department’s approved per-pupil allocation for the district or
intermediate district. For the purposes of this subsection:
(a) “Added cost” means 100% of the added cost each fiscal year for
educating all pupils assigned by a court or the department of health and human
services to reside in or to attend a juvenile detention facility or child
caring institution licensed by the department of health and human services or
the department of licensing and regulatory affairs and approved by the
department to provide an on-grounds education program. Added cost is computed
by deducting all other revenue received under this article for pupils described
in this section from total costs, as approved by the department, in whole or in
part, for educating those pupils in the on-grounds education program or in a
program approved by the department that is located on property adjacent to a
juvenile detention facility or child caring institution. Costs reimbursed by
federal funds are not included.
(b) “Department’s approved per-pupil allocation” for a district or
intermediate district is determined by dividing the total amount allocated
under this section for a fiscal year by the full-time equated membership total
for all pupils approved by the department to be funded under this section for
that fiscal year for the district or intermediate district.
(3) A district or intermediate district educating pupils described
in this section at a residential child caring institution may operate, and
receive funding under this section for, a department-approved on-grounds
educational program for those pupils that is longer than 181 days, but not
longer than 233 days, if the child caring institution was licensed as a child
caring institution and offered in 1991-92 an on-grounds educational program
that was longer than 181 days but not longer than 233 days and that was
operated by a district or intermediate district.
(4) Special education pupils funded under section 53a are not
funded under this section.
Sec. 24a. From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated
an amount not to exceed $1,355,700.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for
payments to intermediate districts for pupils who are placed in juvenile
justice service facilities operated by the department of health and human
services. The amount of the payment to each intermediate district is an amount
equal to the state share of those costs that are clearly and directly
attributable to the educational programs for pupils placed in facilities
described in this section that are located within the intermediate district’s
boundaries. The intermediate districts receiving payments under this section
shall cooperate with the department of health and human services to ensure that
all funding allocated under this section is utilized by the intermediate
district and department of health and human services for educational programs
for pupils described in this section. Pupils described in this section are not
eligible to be funded under section 24. However, a program responsibility or
other fiscal responsibility associated with these pupils must not be
transferred from the department of health and human services to a district or
intermediate district unless the district or intermediate district consents to
the transfer.
Sec. 26a. From the funds appropriated in section 11, there is allocated
an amount not to exceed $14,000,000.00 for 2018-2019 and there is allocated
an amount not to exceed $15,300,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 to
reimburse districts and intermediate districts pursuant to section 12 of the
Michigan renaissance zone act, 1996 PA 376, MCL 125.2692, for taxes levied in 2018
and 2019, as applicable. 2020. The department shall pay the
allocations not later than 60 days after the department of treasury certifies
to the department and to the state budget director that the department of
treasury has received all necessary information to properly determine the
amounts due to each eligible recipient.
Sec. 26b. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $4,420,100.00 for 2018-2019 and there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $4,641,100.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021
for payments to districts, intermediate districts, and community college
districts for the portion of the payment in lieu of taxes obligation that is
attributable to districts, intermediate districts, and community college
districts under section 2154 of the natural resources and environmental
protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.2154.
(2) If the amount appropriated under this section is not
sufficient to fully pay obligations under this section, payments are prorated
on an equal basis among all eligible districts, intermediate districts, and
community college districts.
Sec. 26c. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $3,400,000.00 for 2018-2019 and there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $8,400,000.00 $9,700,000.00 for 2019-2020
2020-2021 to the promise zone fund created in subsection (3). The
funds allocated under this section reflect the amount of revenue from the
collection of the state education tax captured under section 17 of the Michigan
promise zone authority act, 2008 PA 549, MCL 390.1677.
(2) Funds allocated to the promise zone fund under this section
must be used solely for payments to eligible districts and intermediate districts,
in accordance with section 17 of the Michigan promise zone authority act, 2008
PA 549, MCL 390.1677, that have a promise zone development plan approved by the
department of treasury under section 7 of the Michigan promise zone authority
act, 2008 PA 549, MCL 390.1667. Eligible districts and intermediate districts
shall use payments made under this section for reimbursement for qualified
educational expenses as defined in section 3 of the Michigan promise zone
authority act, 2008 PA 549, MCL 390.1663.
(3) The promise zone fund is created as a separate account within
the state school aid fund to be used solely for the purposes of the Michigan
promise zone authority act, 2008 PA 549, MCL 390.1661 to 390.1679. All of the
following apply to the promise zone fund:
(a) The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the promise
zone fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the promise zone fund interest
and earnings from fund investments.
(b) Money in the promise zone fund at the close of a fiscal year
remains in the promise zone fund and does not lapse to the general fund.
(4) Subject to subsection (2), the state treasurer may make
payments from the promise zone fund to eligible districts and intermediate
districts under the Michigan promise zone authority act, 2008 PA 549, MCL
390.1661 to 390.1679, to be used for the purposes of a promise zone authority
created under that act.
(5) Notwithstanding section 17b, the department shall make
payments under this section on a schedule determined by the department.
Sec. 28. (1) To recognize differentiated instructional costs for
different types of pupils in 2019-2020, 2020-2021 the following
sections provide a weighted foundation allocation or an additional payment of
some type in the following amounts, as allocated under those sections:
(a) Section 22d, isolated and rural districts, $7,000,000.00.
(b) Section 31a, at risk, standard programming, $510,000,000.00.
$579,800,000.00.
(c) Section 31a, at risk, additional payment, $12,000,000.00.
$2,200,000.00.
(d) Section 41, bilingual education for English language learners,
$16,000,000.00. $18,000,000.00.
(e) Section 51c, special education, mandated percentages,
$689,100,000.00. $718,600,000.00.
(f) Section 51f, special education, additional percentages,
$60,207,000.00. $120,207,000.00.
(g) Section 61a, career and technical education, standard
reimbursement, $37,611,300.00.
(h) Section 61d, career and technical education incentives,
$10,000,000.00. $5,000,000.00.
(2) The funding described in subsection (1) is not a separate
allocation of any funding but is instead a listing of funding allocated in the
sections listed in subsection (1).
(2) For a district that has combined state and
local revenue per membership pupil under section sections 20 and
20m that is greater than the target foundation allowance under section 20
for the current fiscal year and that, for the immediately preceding fiscal
year, had combined state and local revenue per membership pupil under section
20 that was greater than the basic target foundation allowance
under section 20 that was in effect for the 2018-2019 that fiscal
year, the allocation under this section is an amount equal to 30% 50%
of the allocation for which it would otherwise be eligible under this section
before any proration under subsection (14). It is intended that this
percentage be increased annually until it reaches 100%. If a district has
combined state and local revenue per membership pupil under section sections
20 and 20m that is greater than the target foundation allowance under
section 20 for the current fiscal year, but for the immediately preceding 2018-2019
fiscal year had combined state and local revenue per membership pupil under
section 20 that was less than the basic foundation allowance under section 20
that was in effect for the 2018-2019 fiscal year, the district shall receive an
amount per pupil equal to 11.5% of the statewide weighted average foundation
allowance, as applied under subsection (4), and before any proration under
subsection (14).
(3) For a district or public school academy to
be eligible to receive funding under this section, other than funding under
subsection (7) or (8), the district or public school academy, for grades K to
12, shall comply with the requirements under section 1280f of the revised
school code, MCL 380.1280f, and shall use resources to address early literacy
and numeracy, and for at least grades K to 12 or, if the district or public
school academy does not operate all of grades K to 12, for all of the grades it
operates, must implement a multi-tiered system of supports that is an evidence
based framework that uses data driven problem solving to integrate academic and
behavioral instruction and that uses intervention delivered to all pupils in
varying intensities based on pupil needs. The multi-tiered system of supports
described in this subsection must provide at least all of the following
essential components:
(a) Team-based leadership.
(b) A tiered delivery system.
(c) Selection and implementation of instruction,
interventions, and supports.
(d) A comprehensive screening and assessment
system.
(e) Continuous data-based decision making.
(4) From the funds allocated under subsection
(1), there is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed $510,000,000.00 $582,000,000.00 to continue a weighted
foundation per pupil payment for districts and public school academies
enrolling economically disadvantaged pupils. The
department shall pay under this section to each eligible district or eligible
public school academy an amount per pupil equal to 11.5% of the statewide
weighted average foundation allowance for the following, as applicable:
(a) Except as otherwise provided under
subdivision (b) or (c), the greater of the following:
(i) The number of membership pupils in
the district or public school academy who are determined to be economically
disadvantaged, as reported to the center in the form and
manner prescribed by the center not later than the fifth Wednesday after the
pupil membership count day of the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(ii) If the district or public school
academy is in the community eligibility program, the number of pupils
determined to be eligible based on the product of the identified student
percentage multiplied by the total number of membership pupils in the
district or public school academy, as reported to the center in the form and
manner prescribed by the center not later than the fifth Wednesday after the
pupil membership count day of the immediately preceding fiscal year. These
calculations shall be made at the building level. This subparagraph only
applies to an eligible district or eligible public school academy for the
fiscal year immediately following the first fiscal year in which it is in the
community eligibility program. As used in this subparagraph, “identified
student percentage” means the quotient of the number of membership pupils
in an eligible district or eligible public school academy who are determined to
be economically disadvantaged, as reported to the center in a form and manner
prescribed by the center, not later than the fifth Wednesday after the pupil
membership count day in the fiscal year preceding the first fiscal year in
which the eligible district or eligible public school academy is in the
community eligibility program, divided by the total number of pupils counted
in membership in an eligible district or eligible public school academy on
the pupil membership count day in the fiscal year preceding the first fiscal
year in which the eligible district or eligible public school academy is in the
community eligibility program.
(b) If the district or public school academy
began operations as a district or public school academy after the pupil
membership count day of the immediately preceding school year, the number of
membership pupils in the district or public school academy who are determined
to be economically disadvantaged, as reported to the center in the form and
manner prescribed by the center not later than the fifth Wednesday after the
pupil membership count day of the current fiscal year.
(c) If the district or public school academy
began operations as a district or public school academy after the pupil
membership count day of the current fiscal year, the number of membership
pupils in the district or public school academy who are determined to be
economically disadvantaged, as reported to the center in the form and manner
prescribed by the center not later than the fifth Wednesday after the
supplemental count day of the current fiscal year.
(5) Except as otherwise provided in this
section, a district or public school academy receiving funding under this
section shall use that money only to provide instructional programs and direct
noninstructional services, including, but not limited to, medical, mental
health, or counseling services, for at-risk pupils; for school health clinics;
and for the purposes of subsection (6), (7), or (8). In addition, a district
that is a school district of the first class or a district or public school
academy in which at least 50% of the pupils in membership were determined to be
economically disadvantaged in the immediately preceding state fiscal year, as
determined and reported as described in subsection (4), may use not more than
20% of the funds it receives under this section for school security that aligns
to the needs assessment and the multi-tiered system of supports model. A district
or public school academy shall not use any of that money for administrative
costs. The instruction or direct noninstructional services provided under this
section may be conducted before or after regular school hours or by adding
extra school days to the school year.
(6) A district or public school academy that
receives funds under this section and that operates a school breakfast program
under section 1272a of the revised school code, MCL 380.1272a, shall use from
the funds received under this section an amount, not to exceed $10.00 per pupil
for whom the district or public school academy receives funds under this
section, necessary to pay for costs associated with the operation of the school
breakfast program.
(7) From the funds allocated under subsection
(1), there is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed $8,000,000.00 to support primary
health care services provided to children and adolescents up to age 21. These
funds must be expended in a form and manner determined jointly by the
department and the department of health and human services. If any funds
allocated under this subsection are not used for the purposes of this
subsection for the fiscal year in which they are allocated, those unused funds
must be used that fiscal year to avoid or minimize any proration that would
otherwise be required under subsection (14) for that fiscal year.
(8) From the funds allocated under subsection
(1), there is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed $5,150,000.00 for the state portion
of the hearing and vision screenings as described in section 9301 of the public
health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.9301. A local public health department shall
pay at least 50% of the total cost of the screenings. The frequency of the
screenings must be as required under R 325.13091 to R 325.13096 and R 325.3271
to R 325.3276 of the Michigan Administrative Code. Funds must be awarded in a
form and manner approved jointly by the department and the department of health
and human services. Notwithstanding section 17b, the department shall make
payments to eligible entities under this subsection on a schedule determined by
the department.
(9) Each district or public school academy
receiving funds under this section shall submit to the department by July 15 of
each fiscal year a report, in the form and manner prescribed by the department,
that includes a brief description of each program conducted or services
performed by the district or public school academy using funds under this
section, the amount of funds under this section allocated to each of those
programs or services, the total number of at risk pupils served by each of
those programs or services, and the data necessary for the department and the
department of health and human services to verify matching funds for the
temporary assistance for needy families program. In prescribing the form and
manner of the report, the department shall ensure that districts are allowed to
expend funds received under this section on any activities that are permissible
under this section. If a district or public school academy does not comply with
this subsection, the department shall withhold an amount equal to the August
payment due under this section until the district or public school academy
complies with this subsection. If the district or public school academy does
not comply with this subsection by the end of the fiscal year, the withheld
funds are forfeited to the school aid fund.
(10) In order to receive funds under this
section, a district or public school academy shall allow access for the
department or the department’s designee to audit all records related to the
program for which it receives those funds. The district or public school
academy shall reimburse the state for all disallowances found in the audit.
(11) Subject to subsections (6), (7), and (8),
for schools in which more than 40% of pupils are identified as at-risk, a
district or public school academy may use the funds it receives under this
section to implement tier 1, evidence-based practices in schoolwide reforms
that are guided by the district’s comprehensive needs assessment and are
included in the district improvement plan. Schoolwide reforms must include
parent and community supports, activities, and services, that may include the
pathways to potential program created by the department of health and human
services or the communities in schools program. As used in this subsection,
“tier 1, evidence-based practices” means research based instruction and
classroom interventions that are available to all learners and effectively meet
the needs of most pupils.
(12) A district or public school academy that
receives funds under this section may use up to 7.5% of those funds to provide
research based professional development and to implement a coaching model that
supports the multi-tiered system of supports framework. Professional
development may be provided to district and school leadership and teachers and
must be aligned to professional learning standards; integrated into district,
school building, and classroom practices; and solely related to the following:
(a) Implementing the multi-tiered system of
supports required in subsection (3) with fidelity and utilizing the data from
that system to inform curriculum and instruction.
(b) Implementing section 1280f of the revised
school code, MCL 380.1280f, as required under subsection (3), with fidelity.
(13) A district or public school academy that
receives funds under this section may use funds received under this section to
support instructional or behavioral coaches. Funds used for this purpose are
not subject to the cap under subsection (12).
(14) If necessary, and before any proration
required under section 296, the department shall prorate payments under this
section, except payments under subsection (7), (8), or (16), by reducing the
amount of the allocation as otherwise calculated under this section by an equal
percentage per district.
(15) If a district is dissolved pursuant to
section 12 of the revised school code, MCL 380.12, the intermediate district to
which the dissolved school district was constituent shall determine the
estimated number of pupils that are economically disadvantaged and that are
enrolled in each of the other districts within the intermediate district and
provide that estimate to the department for the purposes of distributing funds
under this section within 60 days after the school district is declared
dissolved.
(16) From the funds allocated under subsection (1),
(4), there is allocated for 2019-2020 an amount not to exceed
$12,000,000.00 2021-2021 the amount
necessary, estimated at $2,200,000.00, for payments to districts and public school academies that
otherwise received an allocation under this subsection for 2018-2019 2019-2020 and whose allocation under
this section for 2018-2019, 2019-2020,
excluding any payments under subsection (7) or (8), would have been more than
the district’s or public school academy’s allocation under this section for 2019-2020
2020-2021 as calculated under
subsection (4) only and as adjusted under subsection (14). The allocation for
each district or public school academy under this subsection is an amount equal
to its allocation under this section for 2018-2019 2019-2020 minus its allocation as otherwise calculated under
subsection (4) for 2019-2020, 2020-2021,
as adjusted by subsection (14), using in those calculations the 2017-2018 2018-2019 number of pupils determined
to be economically disadvantaged. However, if the allocation as otherwise
calculated under this subsection would have been less than $0.00, the
allocation under this subsection is $0.00. If necessary, and before any
proration required under section 296, the department shall prorate payments
under this subsection by reducing the amount of the allocation as otherwise
calculated under this subsection by an equal percentage per district or public
school academy.
(17) A district or public school academy that
receives funds under this section may use funds received under this section to
provide an anti-bullying or crisis intervention program.
(18) The department shall collaborate with the
department of health and human services to prioritize assigning Pathways to
Potential Success coaches to elementary schools that have a high percentage of
pupils in grades K to 3 who are not proficient in English language arts, based
upon state assessments for pupils in those grades.
(19) As used in this section:
(a) “At-risk pupil” means a pupil in grades K to
12 for whom the district has documentation that the pupil meets any of the
following criteria:
(i) The pupil is economically
disadvantaged.
(ii) The pupil is an English language
learner.
(iii) The pupil is chronically absent as
defined by and reported to the center.
(iv) The pupil is a victim of child abuse
or neglect.
(v) The pupil is a pregnant teenager or
teenage parent.
(vi) The pupil has a family history of
school failure, incarceration, or substance abuse.
(vii) The pupil is an immigrant who has
immigrated within the immediately preceding 3 years.
(viii) The pupil did not complete high
school in 4 years and is still continuing in school as identified in the
Michigan cohort graduation and dropout report.
(ix) For pupils for whom the results of
the state summative assessment have been received, is a pupil who did not
achieve proficiency on the English language arts, mathematics, science, or
social studies content area assessment.
(x) Is a pupil who is at risk of not
meeting the district’s or public school academy’s core academic curricular
objectives in English language arts or mathematics, as demonstrated on local
assessments.
(b) “Economically disadvantaged” means a pupil
who has been determined eligible for free or reduced-price meals as determined
under the Richard B. Russell national school lunch act, 42 USC 1751 to 1769j;
who is in a household receiving supplemental nutrition assistance program or
temporary assistance for needy families assistance; or who is homeless,
migrant, or in foster care, as reported to the center.
(c) “English language learner” means limited
English proficient pupils who speak a language other than English as their
primary language and have difficulty speaking, reading, writing, or
understanding English as reported to the center.
(d) “Statewide weighted average foundation
allowance” means the number that is calculated by adding together the result of
each district’s or public school academy’s foundation allowance, not to exceed
the target foundation allowance for the current fiscal year, or per-pupil
payment calculated under section sections 20 and 20m
multiplied by the number of pupils in membership in that district or public
school academy, and then dividing that total by the statewide number of pupils
in membership.
Sec. 31d. (1) From the appropriations in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $23,144,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021
for the purpose of making payments to districts and other eligible entities
under this section.
(2) The amounts allocated from state sources under this section
are used to pay the amount necessary to reimburse districts for 6.0127% of the
necessary costs of the state mandated portion of the school lunch programs
provided by those districts. The department shall calculate the amount due to
each district under this section using the methods of calculation adopted by
the Michigan supreme court in the consolidated cases known as Durant v State of
Michigan, 456 Mich 175 (1997).
(3) The payments made under this section include all state
payments made to districts so that each district receives at least 6.0127% of
the necessary costs of operating the state mandated portion of the school lunch
program in a fiscal year.
(4) The payments made under this section to districts and other
eligible entities that are not required under section 1272a of the revised
school code, MCL 380.1272a, to provide a school lunch program must be in an
amount not to exceed $10.00 per eligible pupil plus 5 cents for each free lunch
and 2 cents for each reduced price lunch provided, as determined by the
department.
(5) From the federal funds appropriated in section 11, there is
allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 all available federal funding,
estimated at $533,000,000.00 $545,000,000.00 for the national
school lunch program child nutrition programs and all available federal
funding, estimated at $4,200,000.00 $5,000,000.00 for the emergency
food assistance program. food distribution programs.
(6) Notwithstanding section 17b, the department shall make
payments to eligible entities other than districts under this section on a
schedule determined by the department.
(7) In purchasing food for a school lunch program funded under
this section, a district or other eligible entity shall give preference to food
that is grown or produced by Michigan businesses if it is competitively priced
and of comparable quality.
Sec. 31f. (1) From the appropriations in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $4,500,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021
for the purpose of making payments to districts to reimburse for the cost
of providing breakfast.
(2) The funds allocated under this section for school breakfast
programs are made available to all eligible applicant districts that meet all
of the following criteria:
(a) The district participates in the federal school breakfast program
and meets all standards as prescribed by 7 CFR parts 220 and 245.
(b) Each breakfast eligible for payment meets the federal
standards described in subdivision (a).
(3) The payment for a district under this section is at a per meal
rate equal to the lesser of the district’s actual cost or 100% of the statewide
average cost of a breakfast served, as determined and approved by the
department, less federal reimbursement, participant payments, and other state
reimbursement. The department shall determine the statewide average cost using
costs as reported in a manner approved by the department for the preceding
school year.
(4) Notwithstanding section 17b, the department may make payments
under this section pursuant to an agreement with the department.
(5) In purchasing food for a school breakfast program funded under
this section, a district shall give preference to food that is grown or
produced by Michigan businesses if it is competitively priced and of comparable
quality.
Sec. 31j. (1) From the general fund state school aid
fund money appropriated in section 11, there is allocated an amount not to
exceed $575,000.00 $1,000,000.00 for 2018-2019 for a pilot
project 2020-2021 to support
districts in the purchase of locally grown fruits and vegetables as described
in this section.
(2) The department shall provide funding in an amount equal to
$125,000.00 per region to districts in prosperity regions 2, 4, 6, and 9 for
the pilot project described under this section. In addition, the department
shall provide funding in an amount equal to $75,000.00 to districts in
prosperity region 8 for the pilot project described under this section. From
the funding to districts in subsection (1), funding Funding retained
by prosperity regions districts that administer the project
shall program must not exceed 10%, and funding retained by the
department for administration shall must not exceed 6%. A prosperity
region district may enter into a memorandum of understanding with
the department or another prosperity region, district, or both,
to administer the project. program. If the department administers
the project program for a prosperity region, district,
the department may retain up to 10% of that prosperity region's district’s
funding for administration or may distribute some or all of that 10% to
program partners as appropriate.
(3) The department shall develop and implement a competitive grant
program for districts within the identified prosperity regions to assist
in paying for the costs incurred by the district to purchase or increase
purchases of whole or minimally processed fruits, vegetables, and legumes grown
in this state. The maximum amount that may be drawn down on a grant to a
district shall be is based on the number of meals served by the school
district during the previous school year under the Richard B. Russell
national school lunch act, 42 USC 1751 to 1769j. The department shall
collaborate with the Michigan department of agriculture and rural development
to provide training to newly participating schools and electronic information
on Michigan agriculture.
(4) The goals of the pilot project program include
improving daily nutrition and eating habits for children through the school
settings while investing in Michigan's agricultural and related food business
economy.
(5) A district that receives a grant under this section shall use
those funds for the costs incurred by the school district to purchase whole or
minimally processed fruits, vegetables, and legumes that meet all of the
following:
(a) Are purchased on or after the date the district received
notification from the department of the amount to be distributed to the
district under this subsection, including purchases made to launch meals in
September 2018 2020 for the 2018-2019 2019-2020 fiscal year.
(b) Are grown in this state and, if minimally processed, are also
processed in this state.
(c) Are used for meals that are served as part of the United
States Department of Agriculture's child nutrition programs.
(6) For Michigan-grown fruits, vegetables, and legumes that
satisfy the requirements of subsection (5), the department shall make matching
reimbursements shall be made in an amount not to exceed 10 cents for
every school meal that is served as part of the United States Department of
Agriculture's child nutrition programs and that uses Michigan-grown fruits,
vegetables, and legumes.
(7) A district that receives a grant for reimbursement under this
section shall use the grant to purchase whole or minimally processed fruits,
vegetables, and legumes that are grown in this state and, if minimally
processed, are also processed in this state.
(8) In awarding grants under this section, the department shall
work in conjunction with prosperity region offices, districts in
consultation with Michigan-based farm to school resource organizations, to
develop scoring criteria that assess an applicant's ability to procure
Michigan-grown products, prepare and menu Michigan-grown products, promote and
market Michigan-grown products, and submit letters of intent from districts on
plans for educational activities that promote the goals of the program.
(9) The department shall give preference to districts that propose
educational activities that meet 1 or more of the following: promote healthy
food activities; have clear educational objectives; involve parents or the
community; connect to a school's farm-to-school procurement activities; and
market and promote the program, leading to increased pupil knowledge and
consumption of Michigan-grown products. Applications The department
shall give stronger weighting and consideration to applications with robust
marketing and promotional activities. shall receive stronger
weighting and consideration.
(10) In awarding grants, the department shall also consider all of
the following: the
(a) The percentage
of children who qualify for free or reduced price school meals under the
Richard B. Russell national school lunch act, 42 USC 1751 to 1769j. ;
the
(b) The variety
of school sizes and geographic locations. within the identified
prosperity regions; and existing
(c) Existing or future collaboration opportunities between more than 1 district.
in a prosperity region.
(11) As a condition of receiving a grant under this section, a
district shall provide or direct its vendors to provide to prosperity region
offices the department copies of monthly receipts that show the
quantity of different Michigan-grown fruits, vegetables, and legumes purchased,
the amount of money spent on each of these products, the name and Michigan
location of the farm that grew the products, and the methods or plans to market
and promote the program. The district shall also provide to the prosperity
region department monthly lunch numbers and lunch participation
rates, and calendars or monthly menus noting when and how Michigan-grown
products were used in meals. The district and school food service director or
directors also shall agree to respond to brief online surveys and to provide a
report that shows the percentage relationship of Michigan spending compared to
total food spending. Not later than March 1, 2019, 2021, each prosperity
region office, either on its own or in conjunction with another prosperity
region, district shall submit a report to the department on expected
outcomes and related measurements for economic development and children's
nutrition and readiness to learn based on progress so far. The report shall must
include at least all of the following:
(a) The extent to which farmers and related businesses, including
distributors and processors, see an increase in market opportunities and income
generation through sales of Michigan or local products to districts. All of the
following apply for purposes of this subdivision:
(i) The data used to determine the amount of this increase shall
be are the total dollar amount of Michigan or local fruits,
vegetables, and legumes purchased by schools, along with the number of
different types of products purchased; school food purchasing trends identified
along with products that are of new and growing interest among food service
directors; the number of businesses impacted; and the percentage of total food
budget spent on Michigan-grown fruits, vegetables, and legumes.
(ii) The prosperity region office district
shall use purchasing data collected for the project program and
surveys of school food service directors on the impact and success of the project
program as the source for the data described in subparagraph (i).
(b) The ability to which pupils can access a variety of healthy
Michigan-grown foods through schools and increase their consumption of those
foods. All of the following apply for purposes of this subdivision:
(i) The data used to determine whether this subparagraph is
met shall be are the number of pupils exposed to Michigan-grown
fruits, vegetables, and legumes at schools; the variety of products served; new
items taste-tested or placed on menus; and the increase in pupil willingness to
try new local, healthy foods.
(ii) The prosperity region office district
shall use purchasing data collected for the project, meal count and enrollment
numbers, school menu calendars, and surveys of school food service directors as
the source for the data described in subparagraph (i).
(12) The department shall compile the reports provided by prosperity
region offices districts under subsection (11) into 1 legislative
report. The department shall provide this report not later than April 1, 2019
2021 to the house and senate subcommittees responsible for school
aid, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director.
(13) Notwithstanding section 17b, the department shall make
payments under this section on a schedule determined by the department.
Sec. 31k. (1) From the funds appropriated in section 11, there is
allocated for 2020-2021 only an amount not to exceed $1,000,000.00 for payments
to districts that forgive all outstanding student-meal debt.
(2) Districts requesting funding under this section must apply in
a form a manner determined by the department. Districts must demonstrate to the
department that all outstanding student-meal debt has been forgiven before
being eligible for funding under this section.
(3) The department shall provide payments to eligible districts in
an amount necessary to reimburse districts for the cost of forgiving all outstanding
student-meal debt, subject to subsection (7). Applications for funding are due
to the department by December 1, 2020. The department must make reimbursement
payments to all eligible districts within 60 days of the application deadline.
If the department makes payments under subsection (4), subjection (7) shall not
apply to this subsection.
(4) If the amount paid to districts under subsection (3) is less
than the amount allocated under subsection (1), the department may distribute
remaining funds to eligible districts through a second application in an amount
necessary to reimburse districts for the cost of forgiving all outstanding
student-meal debt, subject to subsection (7). Applications for funding under
this subsection are due to the department by May 1, 2021. The department must
make reimbursement payments to all eligible districts within 60 days of the
application deadline. A district receiving a reimbursement payment under
subsection (3) is not eligible for a reimbursement payment under this
subsection.
(6) A district receiving payments under this section shall adopt
policies to prevent public identification or stigmatization of pupils who
cannot pay for a school meal. These policies shall prohibit all of the
following:
(a) Requiring pupils who cannot pay for a school meal or who owe a
student-meal debt to wear a wristband or handstamp.
(b) Requiring pupils who cannot pay for a school meal or who owe a
student-meal debt to perform chores or other work to pay for school meals.
(c) Requiring a pupil to dispose of a meal after it has been
served because the pupil is unable to pay for the meal or owes a student-meal
debt.
(d) Communicating directly with a pupil about a student-meal debt.
The district may communicate directly with a pupil if the district has
attempted to contact, but has been unsuccessful in communicating with, a
pupil’s parent or legal guardian through telephone, mail, and electronic mail.
The district shall not discuss a pupil’s student-meal debt in the presence of
other pupils.
(7) If the amount allocated under this section is insufficient to
fully reimburse the cost of student-meal debt forgiveness for all eligible
districts, the department shall prorate the reimbursement on an equal
percentage per district.
(8) Notwithstanding section 17b, grant payments under this section
shall be paid on a schedule determined by the department.
Sec. 31n. (1) From the money appropriated in section 11, there is
allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for the purposes of this
section an amount not to exceed $30,000,000.00 and from the general fund money
appropriated in section 11, there is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021
for the purposes of this section an amount not to exceed $1,300,000.00. The
department and the department of health and human services shall continue a
program to distribute this funding to add licensed behavioral health providers
for general education pupils, and shall continue to seek federal Medicaid match
funding for all eligible mental health and support services.
(2) The department and the department of health and human services
shall maintain an advisory council for programs funded under this section. The
advisory council shall define goals for implementation of programs funded under
this section, and shall provide feedback on that implementation. At a minimum,
the advisory council shall consist of representatives of state associations
representing school health, school mental health, school counseling, education,
health care, and other organizations, representatives from the department and
the department of health and human services, and a representative from the
school safety task force created under Executive Order No. 2018-5. The
department and department of health and human services, working with the
advisory council, shall determine an approach to increase capacity for mental
health and support services in schools for general education pupils, and shall
determine where that increase in capacity qualifies for federal Medicaid match
funding.
(3) The advisory council shall develop a fiduciary agent checklist
for intermediate districts to facilitate development of a plan to submit to the
department and to the department of health and human services. The department
and department of health and human services shall determine the requirements
and format for intermediate districts to submit a plan for possible funding
under subsection (5). The department shall make applications for funding for
this program available to districts and intermediate districts not later than
December 1, 2019, 2020, and shall award the funding not later
than February 1, 2020. 2021.
(4) The department of health and human services shall seek to
amend the state Medicaid plan or obtain appropriate Medicaid waivers as
necessary for the purpose of generating additional Medicaid match funding for
school mental health and support services for general education pupils. The
intent is that a successful state plan amendment or other Medicaid match
mechanisms will result in additional federal Medicaid match funding for both
the new funding allocated under this section and for any expenses already
incurred by districts and intermediate districts for mental health and support
services for general education pupils.
(5) From the funds allocated under subsection (1), there is allocated
for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed $6,500,000.00 to
be distributed to the network of child and adolescent health centers to place a
licensed master’s level behavioral health provider in schools that do not
currently have services available to general education students. Existing child
and adolescent health centers receiving funding under this subsection shall
provide a commitment to maintain services and implement all available federal
Medicaid match methodologies. The department of health and human services shall
use all existing or additional federal Medicaid match opportunities to maximize
funding allocated under this subsection. The department shall provide funds
under this subsection to existing child and adolescent health centers in the
same proportion that funding under section 31a(7) is provided to child and
adolescent health centers located and operating in those districts.
(6) From the funds allocated under subsection (1), there is
allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed
$23,000,000.00 to be distributed to intermediate districts for the provision of
mental health and support services to general education students. From the
funds allocated under this subsection, the department shall distribute
$410,700.00 to each intermediate district that submits a plan approved
by the department and the department of health and human services. The
department and department of health and human services shall work cooperatively
in providing oversight and assistance to intermediate districts during the plan
submission process and shall monitor the program upon implementation. An
intermediate district shall use funds awarded under this subsection to provide
funding to its constituent districts, including public school academies that are
considered to be constituent districts under section 705(7) of the revised
school code, MCL 380.705, for the provision of mental health and support
services to general education students. Intermediate
districts may retain an amount not to exceed 5% of the grant award to
coordinate services and to improve or develop an integrated system of mental
health and support services. In addition to the criteria
identified under subsection (7), an intermediate district shall consider
geography, cost, or other challenges when awarding funding to its constituent
districts. If funding awarded to an intermediate district remains after funds
are provided by the intermediate district to its constituent districts, the
intermediate district may hire or contract for experts to provide mental health
and support services to general education students residing within the
boundaries of the intermediate district.
(7) A district requesting funds under this section from the
intermediate district in which it is located shall submit an application for
funding for the provision of mental health and support services to general
education pupils. A district receiving funding from the application process
described in this subsection shall provide services to nonpublic students upon
request. An intermediate district shall not discriminate against an application
submitted by a public school academy simply on the basis of the applicant being
a public school academy. The department shall approve grant applications based
on the following criteria:
(a) The district’s commitment to maintain mental health and
support services delivered by licensed providers into future fiscal years.
(b) The district’s commitment to work with its intermediate
district to use funding it receives under this section that is spent by the
district for general education pupils toward participation in federal Medicaid
match methodologies. A district must provide a local match of at least 20% of
the funding allocated to the district under section 31n.
(c) The district’s commitment to adhere to any local funding
requirements determined by the department and the department of health and
human services.
(d) The extent of the district’s existing partnerships with
community health care providers or the ability of the district to establish
such partnerships.
(e) The district’s documentation of need, including gaps in
current mental health and support services for the general education
population.
(f) The district’s submission of a formal plan of action
identifying the number of schools and students to be served.
(g) Whether the district will participate in ongoing trainings.
(h) Whether the district will submit an annual report to the
state.
(i) Whether the district demonstrates a willingness to work with
the state to establish program and service delivery benchmarks.
(j) Whether the district has developed a school safety plan or is
in the process of developing a school safety plan.
(k) Any other requirements determined by the department or the
department of health and human services.
(8) Funding under this section, including any federal Medicaid
funds that are generated, must not be used to supplant existing services.
(9) Both of the following are allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021
to the department of health and human services from the general fund money
allocated under subsection (1):
(a) An amount not to exceed $1,000,000.00 for the purpose
of upgrading technology and systems infrastructure and other administrative
requirements to support the programs funded under this section.
(b) An amount not to exceed $300,000.00 for the purpose of administering the programs under this section
and working on generating additional Medicaid funds as a result of programs
funded under this section.
(10) From the funds allocated under subsection (1), there is
allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed
$500,000.00 to intermediate
districts on an equal per intermediate district basis for the purpose of
administering programs funded under this section.
(11) The department and the department of health and human
services shall work with the advisory council to develop proposed measurements
of outcomes and performance. Those measurements shall include, at a minimum,
the number of pupils served, the number of schools served, and where those pupils
and schools were located. The department and the department of health and human
services shall compile data necessary to measure outcomes and performance, and
districts and intermediate districts receiving funding under this section shall
provide data requested by the department and department of health and human
services for the measurement of outcomes and performance. The department and
department of health and human services shall provide a an annual
report not later than December 1, 2019 and by December 1 annually thereafter
of each year to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on
school aid and health and human services, and to the house and senate
fiscal agencies, and to the state budget director. At a minimum, the
report must include measurements of outcomes and performance, proposals to
increase efficacy and usefulness, proposals to increase performance, and
proposals to expand coverage.
(12) For 2018-2019, 2019-2020, and 2020-2021 only, an intermediate
that receives funding under this section may carry over any unexpended funds
received under this section for up to two fiscal years beyond the fiscal year
in which the funds were allocated.
Sec. 32d. (1) From the funds appropriated in section 11, there is
allocated to eligible intermediate districts and consortia of intermediate
districts for great start readiness programs an amount not to exceed $249,600,000.00
$285,100,000.00 for 2019-2020.
2020-2021. An intermediate district or consortium shall use funds
allocated under this section for great start readiness programs to provide
part-day, school-day, or GSRP/Head Start blended comprehensive free
compensatory classroom programs designed to improve the readiness and
subsequent achievement of educationally disadvantaged children who meet the
participant eligibility and prioritization guidelines as defined by the
department. For a child to be eligible to participate in a program under this
section, the child must be at least 4, but less than 5, years of age as of
September 1 of the school year in which the program is offered and must meet
those eligibility and prioritization guidelines. A child who is not 4 years of
age as of September 1, but who will be 4 years of age not later than December
1, is eligible to participate if the child’s parent or legal guardian seeks a
waiver from the September 1 eligibility date by submitting a request for
enrollment in a program to the responsible intermediate district, if the
program has capacity on or after September 1 of the school year, and if the child
meets eligibility and prioritization guidelines.
(2) From the funds allocated under subsection (1), an amount not
to exceed $247,600,000.00 $283,100,000.00
is allocated to intermediate districts or consortia of intermediate
districts based on the formula in section 39. An intermediate district or
consortium of intermediate districts receiving funding under this section shall
act as the fiduciary for the great start readiness programs. In order to be
eligible to receive funds allocated under this subsection from an intermediate
district or consortium of intermediate districts, a district, a consortium of
districts, or a public or private for-profit or nonprofit legal entity or
agency shall comply with this section and section 39.
(3) In addition to the allocation under subsection (1), from the
general fund money appropriated under section 11, there is allocated an amount
not to exceed $350,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for a
competitive grant to continue a longitudinal evaluation of children who have
participated in great start readiness programs. This evaluation must include a
comparative analysis of the relationship between great start readiness programs
and performance on the kindergarten readiness assessment funded under section
104. The evaluation must use children wait-listed under this section for
comparison, must include a determination of the specific great start readiness
program in which the kindergarten students were enrolled and attended in the
previous school year, and must analyze Michigan kindergarten entry observation
tool scores for students taking the Michigan kindergarten entry observation
tool each year and produce a report as required under section 104. For
2019-2020, the performance data on the kindergarten readiness assessment must
be submitted to the center at the same time as the spring Michigan student data
system collection. Beginning in 2020-2021,
the The performance data on the kindergarten readiness assessment
must be submitted to the center at the same time as the fall Michigan student
data system collection. The responsibility for the analysis required under this
subsection may be added to the requirements that the department currently has
with its competitively designated current grantee.
(4) To be eligible for funding under this section, a program must
prepare children for success in school through comprehensive part-day,
school-day, or GSRP/Head Start blended programs that contain all of the
following program components, as determined by the department:
(a) Participation in a collaborative recruitment and enrollment
process to assure that each child is enrolled in the program most appropriate
to his or her needs and to maximize the use of federal, state, and local funds.
(b) An age-appropriate educational curriculum that is in compliance
with the early childhood standards of quality for prekindergarten children
adopted by the state board, including, at least, the Connect4Learning
curriculum.
(c) Nutritional services for all program participants supported by
federal, state, and local resources as applicable.
(d) Physical and dental health and developmental screening
services for all program participants.
(e) Referral services for families of program participants to
community social service agencies, including mental health services, as
appropriate.
(f) Active and continuous involvement of the parents or guardians
of the program participants.
(g) A plan to conduct and report annual great start readiness
program evaluations and continuous improvement plans using criteria approved by
the department.
(h) Participation in a school readiness advisory committee
convened as a workgroup of the great start collaborative that provides for the
involvement of classroom teachers, parents or guardians of program
participants, and community, volunteer, and social service agencies and
organizations, as appropriate. The advisory committee annually shall review and
make recommendations regarding the program components listed in this
subsection. The advisory committee also shall make recommendations to the great
start collaborative regarding other community services designed to improve all
children’s school readiness.
(i) The ongoing articulation of the kindergarten and first grade
programs offered by the program provider.
(j) Participation in this state’s great start to quality process
with a rating of at least 3 stars.
(5) An application for funding under this section must provide for
the following, in a form and manner determined by the department:
(a) Ensure compliance with all program components described in
subsection (4).
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, ensure that
at least 90% of the children participating in an eligible great start readiness
program for whom the intermediate district is receiving funds under this
section are children who live with families with a household income that is
equal to or less than 250% of the federal poverty guidelines. If the
intermediate district determines that all eligible children are being served
and that there are no children on the waiting list who live with families with
a household income that is equal to or less than 250% of the federal poverty
guidelines, the intermediate district may then enroll children who live with
families with a household income that is equal to or less than 300% of the
federal poverty guidelines. The enrollment process must consider income and
risk factors, such that children determined with higher need are enrolled
before children with lesser need. For purposes of this subdivision, all
age-eligible children served in foster care or who are experiencing
homelessness or who have individualized education programs recommending
placement in an inclusive preschool setting are considered to live with
families with household income equal to or less than 250% of the federal poverty
guidelines regardless of actual family income and are prioritized for
enrollment within the lowest quintile.
(c) Ensure that the applicant only uses qualified personnel for
this program, as follows:
(i) Teachers possessing proper training. A lead teacher
must have a valid teaching certificate with an early childhood (ZA or ZS)
endorsement or a bachelor’s or higher degree in child development or early
childhood education with specialization in preschool teaching. However, if an
applicant demonstrates to the department that it is unable to fully comply with
this subparagraph after making reasonable efforts to comply, teachers who have
significant but incomplete training in early childhood education or child
development may be used if the applicant provides to the department, and the
department approves, a plan for each teacher to come into compliance with the
standards in this subparagraph. A teacher’s compliance plan must be completed
within 2 years of the date of employment. Progress toward completion of the
compliance plan consists of at least 2 courses per calendar year.
(ii) Paraprofessionals possessing proper training in early
childhood education, including an associate’s degree in early childhood
education or child development or the equivalent, or a child development
associate (CDA) credential. However, if an applicant demonstrates to the
department that it is unable to fully comply with this subparagraph after
making reasonable efforts to comply, the applicant may use paraprofessionals
who have completed at least 1 course that earns college credit in early
childhood education or child development if the applicant provides to the
department, and the department approves, a plan for each paraprofessional to
come into compliance with the standards in this subparagraph. A
paraprofessional’s compliance plan must be completed within 2 years of the date
of employment. Progress toward completion of the compliance plan consists of at
least 2 courses or 60 clock hours of training per calendar year.
(d) Include a program budget that contains only those costs that
are not reimbursed or reimbursable by federal funding, that are clearly and
directly attributable to the great start readiness program, and that would not
be incurred if the program were not being offered. Eligible costs include
transportation costs. The program budget must indicate the extent to which
these funds will supplement other federal, state, local, or private funds. An
applicant shall not use funds received under this section to supplant any federal
funds received by the applicant to serve children eligible for a federally
funded preschool program that has the capacity to serve those children.
(6) For a grant recipient that enrolls pupils in a school-day
program funded under this section, each child enrolled in the school-day
program is counted as described in section 39 for purposes of determining the
amount of the grant award.
(7) For a grant recipient that enrolls pupils in a GSRP/Head Start
blended program, the grant recipient shall ensure that all Head Start and GSRP
policies and regulations are applied to the blended slots, with adherence to
the highest standard from either program, to the extent allowable under federal
law.
(8) An intermediate district or consortium of intermediate
districts receiving a grant under this section shall designate an early
childhood coordinator, and may provide services directly or may contract with 1
or more districts or public or private for-profit or nonprofit providers that
meet all requirements of subsections (4) and (5).
(9) An intermediate district or consortium of intermediate
districts may retain for administrative services provided by the intermediate
district or consortium of intermediate districts an amount not to exceed 4% of
the grant amount. Expenses incurred by subrecipients engaged by the
intermediate district or consortium of intermediate districts for directly
running portions of the program are considered program costs or a contracted
program fee for service.
(10) An intermediate district or consortium of intermediate
districts may expend not more than 2% of the total grant amount for outreach,
recruiting, and public awareness of the program.
(11) Each grant recipient shall enroll children identified under
subsection (5)(b) according to how far the child’s household income is below
250% of the federal poverty guidelines by ranking each applicant child’s
household income from lowest to highest and dividing the applicant children
into quintiles based on how far the child’s household income is below 250% of
the federal poverty guidelines, and then enrolling children in the quintile
with the lowest household income before enrolling children in the quintile with
the next lowest household income until slots are completely filled. If the
grant recipient determines that all eligible children are being served and that
there are no children on the waiting list who live with families with a
household income that is equal to or less than 250% of the federal poverty
guidelines, the grant recipient may then enroll children who live with families
with a household income that is equal to or less than 300% of the federal
poverty guidelines. The enrollment process must consider income and risk
factors, such that children determined with higher need are enrolled before
children with lesser need. For purposes of this subsection, all age-eligible
children served in foster care or who are experiencing homelessness or who have
individualized education programs recommending placement in an inclusive
preschool setting are considered to live with families with household income
equal to or less than 250% of the federal poverty guidelines regardless of
actual family income and are prioritized for enrollment within the lowest
quintile.
(12) An intermediate district or consortium of intermediate
districts receiving a grant under this section shall allow parents of eligible
children who are residents of the intermediate district or within the
consortium to choose a program operated by or contracted with another
intermediate district or consortium of intermediate districts and shall enter
into a written agreement regarding payment, in a manner prescribed by the
department.
(13) An intermediate district or consortium of intermediate
districts receiving a grant under this section shall conduct a local process to
contract with interested and eligible public and private for-profit and
nonprofit community-based providers that meet all requirements of subsection
(4) for at least 30% of its total allocation. For the purposes of this 30% allocation,
an intermediate district or consortium of intermediate districts may count
children served by a Head Start grantee or delegate in a blended Head Start and
great start readiness school-day program. Children served in a program funded
only through Head Start are not counted toward this 30% allocation. The
intermediate district or consortium shall report to the department, in a manner
prescribed by the department, a detailed list of community-based providers by
provider type, including private for-profit, private nonprofit, community
college or university, Head Start grantee or delegate, and district or
intermediate district, and the number and proportion of its total allocation
allocated to each provider as subrecipient. If the intermediate district or consortium
is not able to contract for at least 30% of its total allocation, the grant
recipient shall notify the department and, if the department verifies that the
intermediate district or consortium attempted to contract for at least 30% of
its total allocation and was not able to do so, then the intermediate district
or consortium may retain and use all of its allocation as provided under this
section. To be able to use this exemption, the intermediate district or
consortium shall demonstrate to the department that the intermediate district
or consortium increased the percentage of its total allocation for which it
contracts with a community-based provider and the intermediate district or
consortium shall submit evidence satisfactory to the department, and the
department must be able to verify this evidence, demonstrating that the
intermediate district or consortium took measures to contract for at least 30%
of its total allocation as required under this subsection, including, but not
limited to, at least all of the following measures:
(a) The intermediate district or consortium notified each
nonparticipating licensed child care center located in the service area of the
intermediate district or consortium regarding the center’s eligibility to
participate, in a manner prescribed by the department.
(b) The intermediate district or consortium provided to each
nonparticipating licensed child care center located in the service area of the
intermediate district or consortium information regarding great start readiness
program requirements and a description of the application and selection process
for community-based providers.
(c) The intermediate district or consortium provided to the public
and to participating families a list of community-based great start readiness
program subrecipients with a great start to quality rating of at least 3 stars.
(14) If an intermediate district or consortium of intermediate
districts receiving a grant under this section fails to submit satisfactory
evidence to demonstrate its effort to contract for at least 30% of its total
allocation, as required under subsection (13), the department shall reduce the
allocation to the intermediate district or consortium by a percentage equal to
the difference between the percentage of an intermediate district’s or
consortium’s total allocation awarded to community-based providers and 30% of
its total allocation.
(15) In order to assist intermediate districts and consortia in
complying with the requirement to contract with community-based providers for
at least 30% of their total allocation, the department shall do all of the
following:
(a) Ensure that a great start resource center or the department
provides each intermediate district or consortium receiving a grant under this
section with the contact information for each licensed child care center
located in the service area of the intermediate district or consortium by March
1 of each year.
(b) Provide, or ensure that an organization with which the
department contracts provides, a community-based provider with a validated
great start to quality rating within 90 days of the provider’s having submitted
a request and self-assessment.
(c) Ensure that all intermediate district, district, community
college or university, Head Start grantee or delegate, private for-profit, and
private nonprofit providers are subject to a single great start to quality
rating system. The rating system must ensure that regulators process all
prospective providers at the same pace on a first-come, first-served basis and
must not allow 1 type of provider to receive a great start to quality rating
ahead of any other type of provider.
(d) Not later than December 1 of each year, compile the results of
the information reported by each intermediate district or consortium under subsection
(13) and report to the legislature a list by intermediate district or
consortium with the number and percentage of each intermediate district’s or
consortium’s total allocation allocated to community-based providers by
provider type, including private for-profit, private nonprofit, community
college or university, Head Start grantee or delegate, and district or
intermediate district.
(16) A recipient of funds under this section shall report to the
center in a form and manner prescribed by the center the information necessary
to derive the number of children participating in the program who meet the
program eligibility criteria under subsection (5)(b), the number of eligible
children not participating in the program and on a waitlist, and the total
number of children participating in the program by various demographic groups
and eligibility factors necessary to analyze equitable and priority access to
services for the purposes of subsection (3).
(17) As used in this section:
(a) “GSRP/Head Start blended program” means a part-day program
funded under this section and a Head Start program, which are combined for a
school-day program.
(b) “Federal poverty guidelines” means the guidelines published
annually in the Federal Register by the United States Department of Health and
Human Services under its authority to revise the poverty line under 42 USC
9902.
(c) “Part-day program” means a program that operates at least 4
days per week, 30 weeks per year, for at least 3 hours of teacher-child contact
time per day but for fewer hours of teacher-child contact time per day than a
school-day program.
(d) “School-day program” means a program that operates for at
least the same length of day as a district’s first grade program for a minimum
of 4 days per week, 30 weeks per year. A classroom that offers a school-day
program must enroll all children for the school day to be considered a
school-day program.
(18) An intermediate district or consortium of intermediate
districts receiving funds under this section shall establish and charge tuition
according to a sliding scale of tuition rates based upon household income for
children participating in an eligible great start readiness program who live
with families with a household income that is more than 250% of the federal
poverty guidelines to be used by all of its providers, as approved by the
department.
(19) From the amount allocated in subsection (2), there is
allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed
$10,000,000.00 for reimbursement of transportation costs for children attending
great start readiness programs funded under this section. To receive
reimbursement under this subsection, not later than November 1, of each year, a
program funded under this section that provides transportation shall submit to
the intermediate district that is the fiscal agent for the program a projected
transportation budget. The amount of the reimbursement for transportation under
this subsection is no more than the projected transportation budget or $300.00
multiplied by the number of children funded for the program under this section.
If the amount allocated under this subsection is insufficient to fully
reimburse the transportation costs for all programs that provide transportation
and submit the required information, the department shall prorate the
reimbursement in an equal amount per child funded. The department shall make
payments to the intermediate district that is the fiscal agent for each
program, and the intermediate district shall then reimburse the program provider
for transportation costs as prescribed under this subsection.
(20) Subject to, and from the funds allocated under, subsection
(19), the department shall reimburse a program for transportation costs related
to parent- or guardian-accompanied transportation provided by transportation
service companies, buses, or other public transportation services. To be
eligible for reimbursement under this subsection, a program must submit to the
intermediate district or consortia of intermediate districts all of the following:
(a) The names of families provided with transportation support
along with a documented reason for the need for transportation support and the
type of transportation provided.
(b) Financial documentation of actual transportation costs
incurred by the program, including, but not limited to, receipts and mileage
reports, as determined by the department.
(c) Any other documentation or information determined necessary by
the department.
(21) The department shall implement a process to review and
approve age-appropriate comprehensive classroom level quality assessments for
GSRP grantees that support the early childhood standards of quality for
prekindergarten children adopted by the state board. The department shall make
available to intermediate districts at least 2 classroom level quality
assessments that were approved in 2018.
(22) An intermediate district that is a GSRP grantee may approve
the use of a supplemental curriculum that aligns with and enhances the
age-appropriate educational curriculum in the classroom. If the department
objects to the use of a supplemental curriculum approved by an intermediate
district, the superintendent shall establish a review committee independent of
the department. The review committee shall meet within 60 days of the
department registering its objection in writing and provide a final
determination on the validity of the objection within 60 days of the review
committee’s first meeting.
(23) The department shall implement a process to evaluate and
approve age-appropriate educational curricula that are in compliance with the
early childhood standards of quality for prekindergarten children adopted by
the state board.
(24) From the funds allocated under subsection (1), there is
allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed
$2,000,000.00 for payments to intermediate districts or consortia of
intermediate districts for professional development and training materials for
educators in programs implementing new curricula.
(25) A great start readiness program or a GSRP/Head Start blended
program funded under this section is permitted to utilize AmeriCorps Pre-K
Reading Corps members in classrooms implementing research-based early literacy
intervention strategies.
Sec. 32p. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $13,400,000.00 to intermediate districts for 2019-2020
2020-2021 for the purpose of providing early childhood funding to
intermediate school districts to support the activities goals and
outcomes under subsection (2) and subsection (4), and to provide early
childhood programs for children from birth through age 8. The funding
provided to each intermediate district under this section is determined by the
distribution formula established by the department’s office of great start to
provide equitable funding statewide. In order to receive funding under this
section, each intermediate district shall provide an application to the office
of great start not later than September 15 of the immediately preceding fiscal
year indicating the activities strategies planned to be provided.
(2) Each intermediate district or consortium of intermediate
districts that receives funding under this section shall convene a local great
start collaborative and a parent coalition. The goal of each great start
collaborative and parent coalition is to ensure the coordination and expansion
of local early childhood infrastructure and programs that allow every child in
the community to achieve the following outcomes:
(a) Children born healthy.
(b) Children healthy, thriving, and developmentally on track from
birth to third grade.
(c) Children developmentally ready to succeed in school at the
time of school entry.
(d) Children prepared to succeed in fourth grade and beyond by
reading proficiently by the end of third grade.
(3) Each local great start collaborative and parent coalition
shall convene workgroups to make recommendations about community services
designed to achieve the outcomes described in subsection (2) and to ensure that
its local great start system includes the following supports for children from
birth through age 8:
(a) Physical health.
(b) Social-emotional health.
(c) Family supports and basic needs.
(d) Parent education.
(e) Early education, including the child’s development of skills
linked to success in foundational literacy, and care.
(4) From the funds allocated in subsection (1), at least
$2,500,000.00 must be used for the purpose of providing home visits to at-risk
children and their families. The home visits must be conducted as part of a
locally coordinated, family-centered, evidence-based, data-driven home visit
strategic plan that is approved by the department. The goals of the home visits
funded under this subsection are to improve school readiness using
evidence-based methods, including a focus on developmentally appropriate
outcomes for early literacy, to reduce the number of pupils retained in
grade level, to reduce the number of pupils requiring special education
services, to improve positive parenting practices, and to improve family
economic self-sufficiency while reducing the impact of high-risk factors
through community resources and referrals. The department shall coordinate the
goals of the home visit strategic plans approved under this subsection with
other state agency home visit programs in a way that strengthens Michigan’s
home visiting infrastructure and maximizes federal funds available for the
purposes of at-risk family home visits. The coordination among departments and
agencies is intended to avoid duplication of state services and spending, and
should emphasize efficient service delivery of home visiting programs.
(5) Not later than December 1 of each year, each intermediate
district shall provide a report to the department detailing the activities strategies
actually provided implemented during the immediately preceding
school year and the families and children actually served. At a minimum, the
report must include an evaluation of the services provided with additional
funding under subsection (4) for home visits, using the goals identified in
subsection (4) as the basis for the evaluation, including the degree to which
school readiness was improved, any change in the number of pupils retained
at grade level, any change in the number of pupils receiving special education
services, the degree to which positive parenting practices were improved,
the degree to which there was improved family economic self-sufficiency, and
the degree to which community resources and referrals were utilized. The
department shall compile and summarize these reports and submit its summary to
the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on school aid and to the
house and senate fiscal agencies not later than February 15 of each year.
(6) An intermediate district or consortium of intermediate
districts that receives funding under this section may carry over any
unexpended funds received under this section into the next fiscal year and may
expend those unused funds through June 30 of the next fiscal year. An
intermediate district receiving funds for the purposes described in subsection
(2) in fiscal year 2020-2021 shall not carry over an amount exceeding 30% of
the amount awarded in that fiscal year. It is intended that the amount carried
forward from funding awarded in fiscal year 2021-2022 not exceed 20% of the
amount awarded in that fiscal year, and the amount carried forward in fiscal
year 2022-2023 not exceed 15% of the amount awarded in that fiscal year. A
recipient of a grant shall return any unexpended grant funds to the department
in the manner prescribed by the department not later than September 30 of the
next fiscal year after the fiscal year in which the funds are received.
(2) To be eligible to receive funding under this section, an
intermediate district must contain at least 1 district that is either a member
of a community engagement advisory committee in partnership
with the department of treasury or that meets all of the following:
(a) Assessed at least 10 third grade students in 2018-2019 on
the third grade English language arts portion of the state assessment, as
determined by the department.
(b) Had more than 75 percent of assessed third grade students
identified as not meeting proficiency on the English language arts portion of
the 2018-2019 state assessment, as determined by the department.
(c) Had more than 75 percent of pupil membership in 2018-2019
identified as economically disadvantaged as defined in section 31a.
(3) An intermediate district eligible to receive funds under
this section shall submit an application, in a form and manner prescribed by
the department, by a date specified by the department. The application shall,
at a minimum, contain the number of eligible children the intermediate district
is requesting to serve and the number of eligible children the intermediate
district has the capacity to serve under this section, including a verification
of physical facility and staff resource capacity. Eligible intermediate
districts are encouraged to collaborate with local governments to identify
children eligible for funding under this section. Both of the following apply
to funding awarded under this section:
(a) Payments to an intermediate district for children who reside
in the same district of residence shall not exceed $16,000,000.00.
(b) Payments to intermediate districts shall not exceed an
amount that the intermediate district has requested and has the capacity to
serve.
(4) Eligible intermediate districts shall receive an amount not
to exceed $8,336.00 per eligible child enrolled and participating in a full-day
program provided under this section. If a child is enrolled and participating
in a program under this section on less than a full-day basis, the department
shall prorate the allocation under this subsection based on the proportion of a
full-day program in which the child is enrolled and participating. Intermediate
districts receiving funding under this section may contract with local
governments to provide services, subject to the program requirements described
in subsections (6) and (7). If the total amount requested by all intermediate
school districts is not sufficient to fully fund all eligible children for
which intermediate districts have the capacity to serve, the number of children
receiving funding under this section shall be prorated on an equal percentage
basis.
(5) For an intermediate district to receive funding under this
section for a participating child, all of the following must be met:
(a) The child must be at least 4, but less than 5, years of age
as of September 1 of the school year in which the program is offered.
(b) The child’s district of residence must be a district meeting
the requirements described in subsection (2) and the district of residence must
be a constituent district of the intermediate district receiving funding.
(c) The child must not be enrolled in programs funded under
section 32d, the head start program, or a developmental kindergarten program.
(6) Funding under this section shall be used for educational
programming that prepares eligible children for success in school and includes
all of the following:
(a) Participation in a collaborative recruitment and enrollment
process to assure that each child is enrolled in programming most appropriate
to his or her needs and to maximize the use of federal, state, and local funds.
(b) Age-appropriate educational curriculum that is in compliance
with the early childhood standards of quality for prekindergarten children
adopted by the state board.
(c) Nutritional services for all program participants supported
by federal, state, and local resources as applicable.
(d) Physical and dental health and developmental screening
services for all program participants.
(e) Referral services for families of program participants to
community social service agencies, including mental health services, as
appropriate.
(f) Active and continuous involvement of the parents or
guardians of the program participants.
(7) Programs receiving funding under this section must follow
the same child health, child safety, child well-being, educator qualification
standards, and student ratio requirements as the great start readiness programs
funded under sections 32d and 39, as determined by the department.
(8) If the total amount for which eligible intermediate
districts are awarded under this section is less than the amount allocated
under subsection (1), any remaining funds that were allocated under this
section shall be distributed to intermediate districts receiving funding under
section 32d, pursuant to the formula under section 39.
(9) As used in this section:
(a) “District” means a local school district, as defined in section
6 of the revised school code, MCL 380.6
(b) “District of residence” means the district in which an
eligible child’s custodial parent or parents or legal guardian resides.
Sec. 35a. (1) From the
appropriations in section 11, there is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for the purposes of this
section an amount not to exceed $57,400,000.00 $55,400,000.00 from the state school aid fund and an amount not
to exceed $2,000,000.00 from the general fund. The superintendent shall
designate staff or contracted employees funded under this section as critical
shortage. Programs funded under this section are intended to ensure that this
state will be a top 10 state in grade 4 reading proficiency by 2025 according
to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
(2) A district that
receives funds under subsection (5) may spend up to 5% of those funds for
professional development for educators in a department-approved research-based
training program related to current state literacy standards for pupils in
grades K to 3. The professional development must also include training in the
use of screening and diagnostic tools, progress monitoring, and intervention
methods used to address barriers to learning and delays in learning that are
diagnosed through the use of these tools. (3) A district that receives funds
under subsection (5) may use up to 5% of those funds to administer
department-approved screening and diagnostic tools to monitor the development
of early literacy and early reading skills of pupils in grades K to 3 and to
support research-based professional development for educators in administering
screening and diagnostic tools and in data interpretation of the results
obtained through the use of those tools for the purpose of implementing a multi-tiered
system of support to improve reading proficiency among pupils in grades K to 3.
A department-approved screening and diagnostic tool administered by a district
using funding under this section must include all of the following components:
phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, and comprehension. Further, all of the
following sub-skills must be assessed within each of these components:
(a) Phonemic awareness
- segmentation, blending, and sound manipulation (deletion and substitution).
(b) Phonics - decoding
(reading) and encoding (spelling).
(c) Fluency - reading
rate, accuracy, and expression.
(d) Comprehension -
making meaning of text.
(4) From the allocation
under subsection (1), there is allocated an amount not to exceed $31,500,000.00
for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for
the purpose of providing early literacy coaches at intermediate districts to
assist teachers in developing and implementing instructional strategies for
pupils in grades K to 3 so that pupils are reading at grade level by the end of
grade 3. All of the following apply to funding under this subsection:
(a) The department
shall develop an application process consistent with the provisions of this
subsection. An application must provide assurances that literacy coaches funded
under this subsection are knowledgeable about at least the following:
(i) Current state literacy standards for
pupils in grades K to 3.
(ii) Implementing an instructional
delivery model based on frequent use of formative, screening, and diagnostic
tools, known as a multi-tiered system of support, to determine individual
progress for pupils in grades K to 3 so that pupils are reading at grade level
by the end of grade 3.
(iii) The use of data from diagnostic
tools to determine the necessary additional supports and interventions needed
by individual pupils in grades K to 3 in order to be reading at grade level.
(b) From the allocation
under this subsection, the department shall award grants to intermediate
districts for the support of early literacy coaches. The department shall
provide this funding in the following manner:
(i) The department shall award each
intermediate district grant funding to support the cost of 1 early literacy
coach in an equal amount per early literacy coach, not to exceed $112,500.00.
(ii) After distribution of the grant
funding under subparagraph (i),
the department shall distribute the remainder of grant funding for additional
early literacy coaches in an amount not to exceed $112,500.00 per early
literacy coach. The number of funded early literacy coaches for each
intermediate district is based on the percentage of the total statewide number
of pupils in grades K to 3 who meet the income eligibility standards for the
federal free and reduced-price lunch programs who are enrolled in districts in
the intermediate district.
(c) If an intermediate
district that receives funding under this subsection uses an assessment tool
that screens for signs of dyslexia, the intermediate district shall use the
assessment results from that assessment tool to identify pupils who demonstrate
signs of dyslexia.
(5) From the allocation
under subsection (1), there is allocated an amount not to exceed $19,900,000.00
for 2019-2020 2020-2021 to
districts that provide additional instructional time to those pupils in grades
K to 3 who have been identified by using department-approved screening and
diagnostic tools as needing additional supports and interventions in order to
be reading at grade level by the end of grade 3. Additional instructional time
may be provided before, during, and after regular school hours or as part of a
year-round balanced school calendar. All of the following apply to funding
under this subsection:
(a) In order to be
eligible to receive funding, a district shall demonstrate to the satisfaction
of the department that the district has done all of the following:
(i) Implemented a multi-tiered system of
support instructional delivery model that is an evidence-based model that uses
data-driven problem solving to integrate academic and behavioral instruction and
that uses intervention delivered to all pupils in varying intensities based on
pupil needs. The multi-tiered system of supports must provide at least all of
the following essential components:
(A) Team-based
leadership.
(B) A tiered delivery
system.
(C) Selection and
implementation of instruction, interventions, and supports.
(D) A comprehensive
screening and assessment system.
(E) Continuous
data-based decision making.
(ii) Used department-approved
research-based diagnostic tools to identify individual pupils in need of
additional instructional time.
(iii) Used a reading instruction method
that focuses on the 5 fundamental building blocks of reading: phonics, phonemic
awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension and content knowledge.
(iv) Provided teachers of pupils in
grades K to 3 with research-based professional development in diagnostic data
interpretation.
(v) Complied with the requirements under
section 1280f of the revised school code, MCL 380.1280f.
(b) The department
shall distribute funding allocated under this subsection to eligible districts
on an equal per-first-grade-pupil basis.
(c) If the funds
allocated under this subsection are insufficient to fully fund the payments
under this subsection, payments under this subsection are prorated on an equal
per-pupil basis based on grade 1 pupils.
(6) Not later than
September 1 of each year, a district that receives funding under subsection (4),
(5), or (9), in conjunction with the Michigan data hub network, if
possible, Michigan student data system, shall provide to the
department a report that includes at least both of the following, in a form and
manner prescribed by the department:
(a) For pupils in
grades K to 3, the pupils, schools, and grades served with funds under this
section and the categories of services provided.
(b) For pupils in
grades K to 3, pupil proficiency and growth data that allows analysis both in
the aggregate and by each of the following subgroups, as applicable:
(i) School.
(ii) Grade level.
(iii) Gender.
(iv) Race.
(v) Ethnicity.
(vi) Economically disadvantaged status.
(vii) Disability.
(viii) Pupils identified as having
reading deficiencies.
(7) From the allocation
under subsection (1), there is allocated an amount not to exceed $1,000,000.00
$4,000,000.00 for 2019‑2020
2020-2021 to an intermediate
district in which the combined total number of pupils in membership of all of
its constituent districts is the fewest among all intermediate districts. All
of the following apply to the funding under this subsection:
(a) Funding under this
subsection must be used by the intermediate district, in partnership with an
association that represents intermediate district administrators in this state,
to implement both all of the following:
(i) Literacy essentials teacher and
principal training modules.
(ii) Face-to-face and online professional
learning of literacy essentials teacher and principal training modules for
literacy coaches, principals, and teachers.
(iii) The placement of
regional lead literacy coaches to facilitate professional learning for early
literacy coaches. These lead regional coaches shall provide support for new
literacy coaches, building teachers, and administrators, and shall facilitate
regional data collection to evaluate the effectiveness of statewide literacy
coaches funded under this section.
(iv) Provide $500,000.00 from this subsection for literacy training,
modeling, coaching, and feedback for district and public school academy
principals. The training must use the pre‑K and K‑3 essential instructional practices in literacy
created by the General Education Leadership Network as the framework for all
training.
(b) Not later than
September 1 of each year, the intermediate district described in this
subsection, in consultation with grant recipients, shall submit a report to the
chairs of the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on state school aid,
and the chairs of the senate and house standing committees
responsible for education legislation, the house and senate fiscal agencies,
and the
state budget director. The report described under this
subdivision must include student achievement results in English language arts
and survey results with feedback from parents and teachers regarding the
initiatives implemented under this subsection.
(c) Up to 2% of funds allocated in this
subsection may be used by the association representing intermediate district
administrators that is in partnership with the intermediate school district
specified in this subsection to administer this subsection.
(8) From the general fund money allocated in subsection (1), the
department shall allocate the amount of $2,000,000.00 for 2020‑2021 only to the Michigan Education Corps for the PreK Reading
Corps and the K3 Reading Corps. By September 1 of the current fiscal year, the
Michigan Education Corps shall provide a report concerning its use of the
funding to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on state school
aid, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the state budget director, and the
senate and house caucus policy offices on outcomes and performance measures of
the Michigan Education Corps, including, but not limited to, the degree to
which the Michigan Education Corps’s replication of the Michigan PreK Reading
Corps and the K3 Reading Corps is demonstrating sufficient efficacy and impact.
The report must include data pertaining to at least all of the following:
(a) The current impact of the programs on this state in terms of
numbers of children and schools receiving support. This portion of the report
must specify the number of children tutored, including dosage and completion,
and the demographics of those children.
(b) Whether the assessments and interventions are implemented with
fidelity. This portion of the report must include details on the total number
of assessments and interventions completed and the range, mean, and standard
deviation.
(c) Whether the literacy improvement of children participating in
the programs is consistent with expectations. This portion of the report must
detail at least all of the following:
(i) Growth rate by grade or age level, in comparison to
targeted growth rate.
(ii) Average linear growth rates.
(iii) Exit rates.
(iv) Percentage of children who exit who also meet or
exceed spring benchmarks.
(d) The impact of the programs on organizations and stakeholders,
including, but not limited to, school administrators, internal coaches, and
AmeriCorps members.
(9) (8) If a district or
intermediate district expends any funding received under subsection (4) or (5)
for professional development in research-based effective reading instruction,
the district or intermediate district shall select a professional development
program from the list described under subdivision (a). All of the following
apply to the requirement under this subsection:
(a) The department
shall issue a request for proposals for professional development programs in
research-based effective reading instruction to develop an initial approved
list of professional development programs in research-based effective reading
instruction. The department shall complete and make the initial approved
list public not later than December 1, 2019. After December 1, 2019, the
department and shall determine if it will, on a rolling basis,
approve any new proposals submitted for addition to its initial approved list.
(b) To be included as
an approved professional development program in research-based effective
reading instruction under subdivision (a), an applicant must demonstrate to the
department in writing the program’s competency in all of the following topics:
(i) Understanding of phonemic awareness,
phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
(ii) Appropriate use of assessments and
differentiated instruction.
(iii) Selection of appropriate
instructional materials.
(iv) Application of research-based
instructional practices.
(c) As used in this
subsection, “effective reading instruction” means reading instruction
scientifically proven to result in improvement in pupil reading skills.
(9) From the allocation
under subsection (1), there is allocated for 2019-2020 only an amount not to
exceed $5,000,000.00 for a summer school reading program for grade 3 pupils who
did not score at least proficient on the English language arts portion of the
Michigan student test of educational progress (M-STEP) and for pupils in grades
K to 2 who are not reading at grade level. All of the following apply to the
funding allocated under this subsection:
(a) To be eligible for
funding under this subsection, a district must apply in a form and manner
prescribed by the department by not later than January 15, 2020.
(b) The department
shall award funding under this subsection not later than March 15, 2020.
(c) The amount of
funding to each eligible district is equal to the product of the quotient of
$5,000,000.00 divided by the sum of the number of pupils determined by the
department to have scored less than proficient on the English language arts
portion of the 2019 grade 3 Michigan student test of educational progress
(M-STEP) among all of the districts that apply and are eligible for funding for
a summer school reading program under this subsection, multiplied by the number
of pupils in the eligible district determined by the department to have scored
less than proficient on the English language arts portion of the 2019 grade 3
Michigan student test of educational progress (M-STEP).
(d) A district that is
awarded funding under this subsection must prioritize its summer school reading
program toward grade 3 pupils who scored less than proficient on the English
language arts portion of the Michigan student test of educational progress
(M-STEP), but may extend the program to any pupil in grades K to 2 who is not
reading at grade level if the program has capacity.
(10) Notwithstanding
section 17b, the department shall make payments made under subsections (7) and (9)
(8) on a schedule determined by the department.
Sec. 39. (1) An eligible applicant receiving funds under section
32d shall submit an application, in a form and manner prescribed by the
department, by a date specified by the department in the immediately preceding
fiscal year. An eligible applicant is not required to amend the applicant’s
current accounting cycle or adopt this state’s fiscal year accounting cycle in
accounting for financial transactions under this section. The application must
include all of the following:
(a) The estimated total number of children in the community who
meet the criteria of section 32d, as provided to the applicant by the
department utilizing the most recent population data available from the
American Community Survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau. The
department shall ensure that it provides updated American Community Survey
population data at least once every 3 years.
(b) The estimated number of children in the community who meet the
criteria of section 32d and are being served exclusively by Head Start programs
operating in the community.
(c) The number of children whom the applicant has the capacity to
serve who meet the criteria of section 32d including a verification of physical
facility and staff resources capacity.
(2) After notification of funding allocations, an applicant
receiving funds under section 32d shall also submit an implementation plan for
approval, in a form and manner prescribed by the department, by a date
specified by the department, that details how the applicant complies with the
program components established by the department pursuant to section 32d.
(3) The initial allocation to each eligible applicant under
section 32d is the lesser of the following:
(a) The sum of the number of children served in a school-day
program in the preceding school year multiplied by $7,250.00 $8,336.00
and the number of children served in a GSRP/Head Start blended program or a
part-day program in the preceding school year multiplied by $3,625.00. $4,168.00
(b) The sum of the number of children the applicant has the
capacity to serve in the current school year in a school-day program multiplied
by $7,250.00 $8,336.00 and the number of children served in a
GSRP/Head Start blended program or a part-day program the applicant has the
capacity to serve in the current school year multiplied by $3,625.00. $4,168.00
(4) If funds remain after the allocations under subsection (3),
the department shall distribute the remaining funds to each intermediate
district or consortium of intermediate districts that serves less than the
state percentage benchmark determined under subsection (5). The department
shall distribute these remaining funds to each eligible applicant based upon
each applicant’s proportionate share of the remaining unserved children
necessary to meet the statewide percentage benchmark in intermediate districts
or consortia of intermediate districts serving less than the statewide
percentage benchmark. When all applicants have been given the opportunity to
reach the statewide percentage benchmark, the statewide percentage benchmark
may be reset, as determined by the department, until greater equity of
opportunity to serve eligible children across all intermediate school districts
has been achieved.
(5) For the purposes of subsection (4), the department shall
calculate a percentage of children served by each intermediate district or
consortium of intermediate districts by dividing the number of children served
in the immediately preceding year by that intermediate district or consortium
by the total number of children within the intermediate district or consortium
of intermediate districts who meet the criteria of section 32d as determined by
the department utilizing the most recent population data available from the
American Community Survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau. The
department shall compare the resulting percentage of eligible children served
to a statewide percentage benchmark to determine if the intermediate district
or consortium is eligible for additional funds under subsection (4). The
statewide percentage benchmark is 60%.
(6) If, taking into account the total amount to be allocated to
the applicant as calculated under this section, an applicant determines that it
is able to include additional eligible children in the great start readiness
program without additional funds under section 32d, the applicant may include
additional eligible children but does not receive additional funding under
section 32d for those children.
(7) The department shall review the program components under
section 32d and under this section at least biennially. The department also
shall convene a committee of internal and external stakeholders at least once
every 5 years to ensure that the funding structure under this section reflects
current system needs under section 32d.
(8) As used in this section, “school-day program”, “GSRP/Head
Start blended program”, and “part-day program” mean those terms as defined in
section 32d.
Sec. 39a. (1) From the federal funds appropriated in section 11,
there is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 to districts,
intermediate districts, and other eligible entities all available federal
funding, estimated at $725,600,000.00 $749,200,000.00 for the federal programs under the no child left
behind act of 2001, Public Law 107-110, or the every student succeeds act,
Public Law 114-95. These funds are allocated as follows:
(a) An amount estimated at $1,200,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 to provide students with
drug- and violence-prevention programs and to implement strategies to improve
school safety, funded from DED-OESE, drug-free schools and communities funds.
(b) An amount estimated at $100,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021
for the purpose of preparing, training, and recruiting high-quality
teachers and class size reduction, funded from DED-OESE, improving teacher
quality funds.
(c) An amount estimated at $11,000,000.00 $13,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021
for programs to teach English to limited English proficient (LEP) children,
funded from DED-OESE, language acquisition state grant funds.
(d) An amount estimated at $2,800,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for rural and low income
schools, funded from DED-OESE, rural and low income school funds.
(e) An amount estimated at $535,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 to provide supplemental
programs to enable educationally disadvantaged children to meet challenging
academic standards, funded from DED-OESE, title I, disadvantaged children
funds.
(f) An amount estimated at $9,200,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for the purpose of
identifying and serving migrant children, funded from DED-OESE, title I,
migrant education funds.
(g) An amount estimated at $39,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for the purpose of providing
high-quality extended learning opportunities, after school and during the
summer, for children in low-performing schools, funded from DED-OESE,
twenty-first century community learning center funds.
(h) An amount estimated at $12,000,000.00 $14,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021
to help support local school improvement efforts, funded from DED-OESE, title
I, local school improvement grants.
(i) An amount estimated at $15,400,000.00 $35,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021
to improve the academic achievement of students, funded from DED-OESE,
title IV, student support and academic enrichment grants.
(2) From the federal funds appropriated in section 11, there is
allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 to districts, intermediate
districts, and other eligible entities all available federal funding, estimated
at $49,100,000.00 $55,000,000.00 for
2019-2020 2020-2021 for the following programs that are funded by
federal grants:
(a) An amount estimated at $100,000.00 for 2019-2020 for acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome education grants, funded from HHS – Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, AIDS funding.
(a) (b)
An amount estimated at $1,900,000.00
$3,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021
to provide services to homeless children and youth, funded from DED-OVAE,
homeless children and youth funds.
(c) An amount estimated at $4,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 to provide mental health, substance abuse, or
violence prevention services to students, funded from HHS-SAMHSA.
(b) (d)
An amount estimated at
$24,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021
for providing career and technical education services to pupils, funded
from DED-OVAE, basic grants to states.
(c) (e)
An amount estimated at
$14,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021
for the Michigan charter school subgrant program, funded from DED–OII,
public charter schools program funds.
(d) (f)
An amount estimated at $5,100,000.00
$14,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021
for the purpose of promoting and expanding high-quality preschool services,
funded from HHS–OCC, preschool development funds.
(3) The department shall distribute all federal funds allocated
under this section in accordance with federal law and with flexibility
provisions outlined in Public Law 107-116, and in the education flexibility
partnership act of 1999, Public Law 106-25. Notwithstanding section 17b, the
department shall make payments of federal funds to districts, intermediate
districts, and other eligible entities under this section on a schedule
determined by the department.
(4) For the purposes of applying for federal grants appropriated
under this article, the department shall allow an intermediate district to
submit a consortium application on behalf of 2 or more districts with the
agreement of those districts as appropriate according to federal rules and
guidelines.
(5) For the purposes of funding federal title I grants under this
article, in addition to any other federal grants for which the strict
discipline academy is eligible, the department shall allocate to a strict
discipline academy out of title I, part A an amount equal to what the strict
discipline academy would have received if included and calculated under title
I, part D, or what it would receive under the formula allocation under title I,
part A, whichever is greater.
(6) As used in this section:
(a) “DED” means the United States Department of Education.
(b) “DED-OESE” means the DED Office of Elementary and Secondary
Education.
(c) “DED-OII” means the DED Office of Innovation and Improvement.
(d) “DED-OVAE” means the DED Office of Vocational and Adult
Education.
(e) “HHS” means the United States Department of Health and Human
Services.
(f) “HHS-OCC” means the HHS Office of Child Care.
(g) “HHS-SAMHSA” means the HHS Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration.
Sec. 41. (1) For a district or public school academy to be
eligible to receive funding under this section, the district or public school academy
must administer to English language learners the English language proficiency
assessment known as the “WIDA ACCESS for English language learners” or the
“WIDA Alternate ACCESS”. From the appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $13,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021
for payments to eligible districts and eligible public school academies for
services for English language learners who have been administered the WIDA
ACCESS for English language learners.
(2) The department shall distribute funding allocated under
subsection (1) to eligible districts and eligible public school academies based
on the number of full-time equivalent English language learners as follows:
(a) $900.00 per full-time equivalent English language learner who
has been assessed under the WIDA ACCESS for English language learners or the
WIDA Alternate ACCESS with a WIDA ACCESS or WIDA Alternate ACCESS composite
score between 1.0 and 1.9, or less, as applicable to each assessment.
(b) $620.00 per full-time equivalent English language
learner who has been assessed under the WIDA ACCESS for English language
learners or the WIDA Alternate ACCESS with a WIDA ACCESS or WIDA Alternate
ACCESS composite score between 2.0 and 2.9, or less, as applicable to each assessment.
(c) $100.00 per full-time equivalent English language
learner who has been assessed under the WIDA ACCESS for English language
learners or the WIDA Alternate ACCESS with a WIDA ACCESS or WIDA Alternate
ACCESS composite score between 3.0 and 3.9, or less, as applicable to each
assessment.
(3) If funds allocated under subsection (1) are insufficient to
fully fund the payments as prescribed under subsection (2), the department
shall prorate payments on an equal percentage basis, with the same percentage
proration applied to all funding categories.
(4) Each district or public school academy receiving funds under
subsection (1) shall submit to the department by July 15 of each fiscal year a
report, not to exceed 10 pages, on the usage by the district or public school
academy of funds under subsection (1) in a form and manner determined by the
department, including a brief description of each program conducted or services
performed by the district or public school academy using funds under subsection
(1) and the amount of funds under subsection (1) allocated to each of those
programs or services. If a district or public school academy does not comply
with this subsection, the department shall withhold an amount equal to the
August payment due under this section until the district or public school
academy complies with this subsection. If the district or public school academy
does not comply with this subsection by the end of the state fiscal year, the
withheld funds are forfeited to the school aid fund.
(5) In order to receive funds under this subsection (1), a
district or public school academy shall allow access for the department or the
department’s designee to audit all records related to the program for which it
receives those funds. The district or public school academy shall reimburse
this state for all disallowances found in the audit.
(6) Beginning July 1, 2020, and every 3 years thereafter, the
department shall review the per-pupil distribution under subsection (2), to
ensure that funding levels are appropriate and make recommendations for
adjustments to the members of the senate and house subcommittees on K-12 school
aid appropriations.
(7) In addition to the funds allocated under
subsection (1), from the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated for
2020-2021 an amount not to exceed $5,000,000.00 from the state school aid fund
for additional payments to districts for educating English language arts
learners. The department shall pay under this section to each district or
public school academy an amount equal to $50.00 multiplied by the number of
membership pupils in the district who are English language arts learners, as
reported to the center in the form and manner prescribed by the center of the
immediately preceding fiscal year. If the allocation under this subsection is
insufficient to fully fund payments under this subsection, the department shall
prorate payments on an equal per-pupil basis.
Sec. 51a. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $1,008,996,100.00 for 2018-2019 and there
is allocated an amount not to exceed $1,045,196,100.00 $1,085,096,100.00
for 2019-2020 2020-2021 from
state sources and all available federal funding under sections 611 to 619 of
part B of the individuals with disabilities education act, 20 USC 1411 to 1419,
estimated at $370,000,000.00 each fiscal year for 2018-2019 and $375,000,000.00
for 2019-2020, 2020-2021,
plus any carryover federal funds from previous year appropriations. In
addition, from the general fund appropriation in section 11, there is allocated
to the department an amount not to exceed $500,000.00 for 2018-2019 for the
purpose of subsection (16). The allocations under this subsection are for
the purpose of reimbursing districts and intermediate districts for special
education programs, services, and special education personnel as prescribed in
article 3 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1701 to 380.1761; net tuition
payments made by intermediate districts to the Michigan Schools for the Deaf
and Blind; and special education programs and services for pupils who are
eligible for special education programs and services according to statute or
rule. For meeting the costs of special education programs and services not
reimbursed under this article, a district or intermediate district may use
money in general funds or special education funds, not otherwise restricted, or
contributions from districts to intermediate districts, tuition payments, gifts
and contributions from individuals or other entities, or federal funds that may
be available for this purpose, as determined by the intermediate district plan
prepared under article 3 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1701 to 380.1761.
Notwithstanding section 17b, the department shall make payments of federal
funds to districts, intermediate districts, and other eligible entities under
this section on a schedule determined by the department.
(2) From the funds allocated under subsection (1), there is
allocated the amount necessary, estimated at $286,800,000.00 for 2018-2019
and estimated at $297,800,000.00 $308,000,000.00
for 2019-2020, 2020-2021,
for payments toward reimbursing districts and intermediate districts for
28.6138% of total approved costs of special education, excluding costs
reimbursed under section 53a, and 70.4165% of total approved costs of special
education transportation. Allocations under this subsection are made as
follows:
(a) The department shall calculate the initial amount allocated to
a district under this subsection toward fulfilling the specified percentages by
multiplying the district’s special education pupil membership, excluding pupils
described in subsection (11), times the foundation allowance under section 20
of the pupil’s district of residence, plus the amount of the district's
per-pupil allocation under section 20m, not to exceed the basic
foundation allowance under section 20 for the 2018-2019 fiscal year and beginning
with 2019-2020 not to exceed the target foundation allowance for the
current fiscal year, or, for a special education pupil in membership in a
district that is a public school academy, times an amount equal to the amount
per membership pupil calculated under section 20(6). For an intermediate
district, the amount allocated under this subdivision toward fulfilling the
specified percentages is an amount per special education membership pupil,
excluding pupils described in subsection (11), and is calculated in the same
manner as for a district, using the foundation allowance under section 20 of
the pupil’s district of residence, not to exceed the basic foundation
allowance under section 20 for the 2018-2019 fiscal year and beginning with
2019-2020 not to exceed the target foundation allowance for the current
fiscal year, and that district's
per-pupil allocation under section 20m.
(b) After the allocations under subdivision (a), the department
shall pay a district or intermediate district for which the payments calculated
under subdivision (a) do not fulfill the specified percentages the amount
necessary to achieve the specified percentages for the district or intermediate
district.
(3) From the funds allocated under subsection (1), there is
allocated for 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed $1,200,000.00 and there is
allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an
amount not to exceed $1,000,000.00 to make payments to districts and
intermediate districts under this subsection. If the amount allocated to a
district or intermediate district for a fiscal year under subsection (2)(b) is
less than the sum of the amounts allocated to the district or intermediate
district for 1996-97 under sections 52 and 58, there is allocated to the
district or intermediate district for the fiscal year an amount equal to that
difference, adjusted by applying the same proration factor that was used in the
distribution of funds under section 52 in 1996-97 as adjusted to the district’s
or intermediate district’s necessary costs of special education used in
calculations for the fiscal year. This adjustment is to reflect reductions in
special education program operations or services between 1996-97 and subsequent
fiscal years. The department shall make adjustments for reductions in special
education program operations or services in a manner determined by the
department and shall include adjustments for program or service shifts.
(4) If the department determines that the sum of the amounts
allocated for a fiscal year to a district or intermediate district under
subsection (2)(a) and (b) is not sufficient to fulfill the specified
percentages in subsection (2), then the department shall pay the shortfall to
the district or intermediate district during the fiscal year beginning on the
October 1 following the determination and shall adjust payments under
subsection (3) as necessary. If the department determines that the sum of the
amounts allocated for a fiscal year to a district or intermediate district
under subsection (2)(a) and (b) exceeds the sum of the amount necessary to
fulfill the specified percentages in subsection (2), then the department shall
deduct the amount of the excess from the district’s or intermediate district’s
payments under this article for the fiscal year beginning on the October 1 following
the determination and shall adjust payments under subsection (3) as necessary.
However, if the amount allocated under subsection (2)(a) in itself exceeds the
amount necessary to fulfill the specified percentages in subsection (2), there
is no deduction under this subsection.
(5) State funds are allocated on a total approved cost basis.
Federal funds are allocated under applicable federal requirements.,
except that an amount not to exceed $3,500,000.00 may be allocated by the
department each fiscal year for 2018-2019 and for 2019-2020 to districts,
intermediate districts, or other eligible entities on a competitive grant basis
for programs, equipment, and services that the department determines to be
designed to benefit or improve special education on a statewide scale.
(6) From the amount allocated in subsection (1), there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $2,200,000.00 each fiscal year for
2018-2019 and for 2019-2020 for fiscal year 2020-2021 to reimburse
100% of the net increase in necessary costs incurred by a district or
intermediate district in implementing the revisions in the administrative rules
for special education that became effective on July 1, 1987. As used in this
subsection, “net increase in necessary costs” means the necessary additional
costs incurred solely because of new or revised requirements in the
administrative rules minus cost savings permitted in implementing the revised
rules. The department shall determine net increase in necessary costs in a
manner specified by the department.
(7) For purposes of sections 51a to 58, all of the following
apply:
(a) “Total approved costs of special education” are determined in
a manner specified by the department and may include indirect costs, but must
not exceed 115% of approved direct costs for section 52 and section 53a
programs. The total approved costs include salary and other compensation for
all approved special education personnel for the program, including payments
for Social Security and Medicare and public school employee retirement system
contributions. The total approved costs do not include salaries or other
compensation paid to administrative personnel who are not special education
personnel as defined in section 6 of the revised school code, MCL 380.6. Costs
reimbursed by federal funds, other than those federal funds included in the
allocation made under this article, are not included. Special education
approved personnel not utilized full time in the evaluation of students or in
the delivery of special education programs, ancillary, and other related
services are reimbursed under this section only for that portion of time
actually spent providing these programs and services, with the exception of
special education programs and services provided to youth placed in child caring
institutions or juvenile detention programs approved by the department to
provide an on-grounds education program.
(b) Beginning with the 2004-2005 fiscal year, a district or
intermediate district that employed special education support services staff to
provide special education support services in 2003-2004 or in a subsequent
fiscal year and that in a fiscal year after 2003-2004 receives the same type of
support services from another district or intermediate district shall report
the cost of those support services for special education reimbursement purposes
under this article. This subdivision does not prohibit the transfer of special
education classroom teachers and special education classroom aides if the
pupils counted in membership associated with those special education classroom
teachers and special education classroom aides are transferred and counted in
membership in the other district or intermediate district in conjunction with
the transfer of those teachers and aides.
(c) If the department determines before bookclosing for a fiscal
year that the amounts allocated for that fiscal year under subsections (2),
(3), (6), and (11) and sections 53a, 54, and 56 will exceed expenditures for
that fiscal year under subsections (2), (3), (6), and (11) and sections 53a,
54, and 56, then for a district or intermediate district whose reimbursement
for that fiscal year would otherwise be affected by subdivision (b),
subdivision (b) does not apply to the calculation of the reimbursement for that
district or intermediate district and the department shall calculate
reimbursement for that district or intermediate district in the same manner as
it was for 2003-2004. If the amount of the excess allocations under subsections
(2), (3), (6), and (11) and sections 53a, 54, and 56 is not sufficient to fully
fund the calculation of reimbursement to those districts and intermediate
districts under this subdivision, then the department shall prorate
calculations and resulting reimbursement under this subdivision on an equal percentage
basis. Beginning in 2015-2016, the amount of reimbursement under this
subdivision for a fiscal year must not exceed $2,000,000.00 for any district or
intermediate district.
(d) Reimbursement for ancillary and other related services, as
defined by R 340.1701c of the Michigan Administrative Code, is not provided
when those services are covered by and available through private group health
insurance carriers or federal reimbursed program sources unless the department
and district or intermediate district agree otherwise and that agreement is
approved by the state budget director. Expenses, other than the incidental
expense of filing, must not be borne by the parent. In addition, the filing of
claims must not delay the education of a pupil. A district or intermediate
district is responsible for payment of a deductible amount and for an advance
payment required until the time a claim is paid.
(e) Beginning with calculations for 2004-2005, if an intermediate
district purchases a special education pupil transportation service from a
constituent district that was previously purchased from a private entity; if
the purchase from the constituent district is at a lower cost, adjusted for
changes in fuel costs; and if the cost shift from the intermediate district to
the constituent does not result in any net change in the revenue the
constituent district receives from payments under sections 22b and 51c, then
upon application by the intermediate district, the department shall direct the
intermediate district to continue to report the cost associated with the
specific identified special education pupil transportation service and shall
adjust the costs reported by the constituent district to remove the cost
associated with that specific service.
(8) A pupil who is enrolled in a full-time special education
program conducted or administered by an intermediate district or a pupil who is
enrolled in the Michigan schools for the deaf and blind is not included in the
membership count of a district, but is counted in membership in the
intermediate district of residence.
(9) Special education personnel transferred from 1 district to
another to implement the revised school code are entitled to the rights,
benefits, and tenure to which the person would otherwise be entitled had that
person been employed by the receiving district originally.
(10) If a district or intermediate district uses money received
under this section for a purpose other than the purpose or purposes for which
the money is allocated, the department may require the district or intermediate
district to refund the amount of money received. The department shall deposit
money that is refunded in the state treasury to the credit of the state school
aid fund.
(11) From the funds allocated in subsection (1), there is allocated
the amount necessary, estimated at $3,100,000.00 for 2018-2019 and estimated
at $2,900,000.00 for 2019-2020, 2020-2021,
to pay the foundation allowances for pupils described in this subsection. The
department shall calculate the allocation to a district under this subsection
by multiplying the number of pupils described in this subsection who are
counted in membership in the district times the sum of the foundation allowance
under section 20 of the pupil’s district of residence, plus the amount of the
district's per-pupil allocation under section 20m, not to exceed the basic
foundation allowance under section 20 for the 2018-2019 fiscal year and
beginning with 2019-2020 not to exceed the target foundation allowance for
the current fiscal year, or, for a pupil described in this subsection who is
counted in membership in a district that is a public school academy, times an
amount equal to the amount per membership pupil under section 20(6). The
department shall calculate the allocation to an intermediate district under
this subsection in the same manner as for a district, using the foundation
allowance under section 20 of the pupil’s district of residence, not to exceed the
basic foundation allowance under section 20 for the 2018-2019 fiscal year and
beginning with 2019-2020 not to exceed the target foundation allowance for
the current fiscal year, and that district's per-pupil allocation under
section 20m. This subsection applies to all of the following pupils:
(a) Pupils described in section 53a.
(b) Pupils counted in membership in an intermediate district who
are not special education pupils and are served by the intermediate district in
a juvenile detention or child caring facility.
(c) Pupils with an emotional impairment counted in membership by
an intermediate district and provided educational services by the department of
health and human services.
(12) If it is determined that funds allocated under subsection (2)
or (11) or under section 51c will not be expended, funds up to the amount
necessary and available may be used to supplement the allocations under
subsection (2) or (11) or under section 51c in order to fully fund those
allocations. After payments under subsections (2) and (11) and section 51c, the
department shall expend the remaining funds from the allocation in subsection
(1) in the following order:
(a) 100% of the reimbursement required under section 53a.
(b) 100% of the reimbursement required under subsection (6).
(c) 100% of the payment required under section 54.
(d) 100% of the payment required under subsection (3).
(e) 100% of the payments under section 56.
(13) The allocations under subsections (2), (3), and (11) are
allocations to intermediate districts only and are not allocations to
districts, but instead are calculations used only to determine the state
payments under section 22b.
(14) If a public school academy that is not a cyber school, as
defined in section 551 of the revised school code, MCL 380.551, enrolls under
this section a pupil who resides outside of the intermediate district in which
the public school academy is located and who is eligible for special education
programs and services according to statute or rule, or who is a child with
disabilities, as defined under the individuals with disabilities education act,
Public Law 108-446, the intermediate district in which the public school
academy is located and the public school academy shall enter into a written
agreement with the intermediate district in which the pupil resides for the
purpose of providing the pupil with a free appropriate public education, and
the written agreement must include at least an agreement on the responsibility
for the payment of the added costs of special education programs and services
for the pupil. If the public school academy that enrolls the pupil does not
enter into an agreement under this subsection, the public school academy shall
not charge the pupil’s resident intermediate district or the intermediate
district in which the public school academy is located the added costs of
special education programs and services for the pupil, and the public school
academy is not eligible for any payouts based on the funding formula outlined
in the resident or nonresident intermediate district’s plan. If a pupil is not
enrolled in a public school academy under this subsection, the provision of
special education programs and services and the payment of the added costs of
special education programs and services for a pupil described in this
subsection are the responsibility of the district and intermediate district in
which the pupil resides.
(15) For the purpose of receiving its federal allocation under
part B of the individuals with disabilities education act, Public Law 108-446,
a public school academy that is a cyber school, as defined in section 551 of
the revised school code, MCL 380.551, and is in compliance with section 553a of
the revised school code, MCL 380.553a, directly receives the federal allocation
under part B of the individuals with disabilities education act, Public Law
108-446, from the intermediate district in which the cyber school is located,
as the subrecipient. If the intermediate district does not distribute the funds
described in this subsection to the cyber school by the part B application due
date of July 1, the department may distribute the funds described in this
subsection directly to the cyber school according to the formula prescribed in
34 CFR 300.705 and 34 CFR 300.816.
(16) For a public school academy that is a cyber school, as
defined in section 551 of the revised school code, MCL 380.551, and is in
compliance with section 553a of the revised school code, MCL 380.553a, that
enrolls a pupil under this section, the intermediate district in which the
cyber school is located shall ensure that the cyber school complies with sections
1701a, 1703, 1704, 1751, 1752, 1756, and 1757 of the revised school code, MCL
380.1701a, 380.1703, 380.1704, 380.1751, 380.1752, 380.1756, and 380.1757;
applicable rules; and the individuals with disabilities education act, Public
Law 108-446. From the general fund appropriation under subsection (1), for
2018-2019 only the department shall provide appropriate administrative funding
to the intermediate district in which that cyber school is located for the
purpose of ensuring that compliance.
(17) For the purposes of this section, the department or the
center shall only require a district or intermediate district to report
information that is not already available from the financial information
database maintained by the center.
Sec. 51c. As required by the court in the consolidated cases known
as Durant v State of Michigan, 456 Mich 175 (1997), from the allocation under
section 51a(1), there is allocated each for fiscal year for
2018-2019 and for 2019-2020 2020-2021
the amount necessary, estimated at $663,500,000.00 for 2018-2019 and
$689,100,000.00 for 2019-2020, $718,600,000.00, for payments to
reimburse districts for 28.6138% of total approved costs of special education
excluding costs reimbursed under section 53a, and 70.4165% of total approved
costs of special education transportation. Funds allocated under this
section that are not expended in the state fiscal year for which they were
allocated, as determined by the department, may be used to supplement the
allocations under sections 22a and 22b in order to fully fund those calculated
allocations for the same fiscal year.
Sec. 51d. (1) From the federal funds appropriated in section 11,
there is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021
all available federal funding, estimated at $61,000,000.00, $71,000,000.00, for special education
programs and services that are funded by federal grants. The department shall
distribute all federal funds allocated under this section in accordance with
federal law. Notwithstanding section 17b, the department shall make payments of
federal funds to districts, intermediate districts, and other eligible entities
under this section on a schedule determined by the department.
(2) From the federal funds allocated under subsection (1), the
following amounts are allocated for 2019-2020: 2020-2021:
(a) An amount estimated at
$14,000,000.00 for handicapped infants and toddlers, funded from DED-OSERS,
handicapped infants and toddlers funds.
(b) An amount estimated at $12,000,000.00 $14,000,000.00 for preschool grants
(Public Law 94-142), funded from DED-OSERS, handicapped preschool incentive
funds.
(c) An amount estimated at $35,000,000.00 $43,000,000.00 for special education
programs funded by DED-OSERS, handicapped program, individuals with
disabilities act funds.
(3) As used in this section, “DED-OSERS” means the United States
Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative
Services.
Sec. 51f. (1) From the funds appropriated under section 11, there
is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021
an amount not to exceed $60,207,000.00 $120,207,000.00 for payments to districts and intermediate
districts to increase the level of reimbursement of costs associated with
providing special education services required under state and federal law.
(2) A district’s or intermediate district’s allocation under this
section is equal to the level percentage multiplied by each district’s or
intermediate district’s costs reported to the center on the special education
actual cost report, known as “SE-4096” as referred to under section 18(6), as
approved by the department.
(3) The total reimbursement under this section and under section
51c must not exceed the total reported costs for a district or intermediate
district.
(4) For 2019-2020, 2020-2021
the level percentage is estimated at 2.0%. 4.1%.
(5) For the purposes of this section, “level percentage” means the
percentage calculated by dividing the allocation in subsection (1) by the total
of costs reported to the center on the special education actual cost report,
known as “SE-4096” as referred to under section 18(6), as approved by the
department.
Sec. 53a. (1) For districts, reimbursement for pupils described in
subsection (2) is 100% of the total approved costs of operating special
education programs and services approved by the department and included in the
intermediate district plan adopted pursuant to article 3 of the revised school
code, MCL 380.1701 to 380.1761, minus the district’s foundation allowance
calculated under section 20 and minus the district's per-pupil allocation under
section 20m. For intermediate districts, the department shall calculate
reimbursement for pupils described in subsection (2) in the same manner as for
a district, using the foundation allowance under section 20 of the pupil’s
district of residence, not to exceed the target foundation allowance under
section 20 for the current fiscal year, and that district's per-pupil
allocation under section 20m.
(2) Reimbursement under subsection (1) is for the following
special education pupils:
(a) Pupils assigned to a district or intermediate district through
the community placement program of the courts or a state agency, if the pupil
was a resident of another intermediate district at the time the pupil came
under the jurisdiction of the court or a state agency.
(b) Pupils who are residents of institutions operated by the
department of health and human services.
(c) Pupils who are former residents of department of community
health institutions for the developmentally disabled who are placed in
community settings other than the pupil’s home.
(d) Pupils enrolled in a department-approved on-grounds
educational program longer than 180 days, but not longer than 233 days, at a
residential child care institution, if the child care institution offered in
1991-92 an on-grounds educational program longer than 180 days but not longer
than 233 days.
(e) Pupils placed in a district by a parent for the purpose of
seeking a suitable home, if the parent does not reside in the same intermediate
district as the district in which the pupil is placed.
(3) Only those costs that are clearly and directly attributable to
educational programs for pupils described in subsection (2), and that would not
have been incurred if the pupils were not being educated in a district or
intermediate district, are reimbursable under this section.
(4) The costs of transportation are funded under this section and
are not reimbursed under section 58.
(5) The department shall not allocate more than $10,500,000.00 of
the allocation for 2019-2020 2020-2021
in section 51a(1) under this section.
Sec. 54. Each intermediate district receives an amount per-pupil
for each pupil in attendance at the Michigan schools for the deaf and blind.
The amount is proportionate to the total instructional cost at each school. The
department shall not allocate more than $1,688,000.00 of the allocation for 2019-2020
2020-2021 in section 51a(1)
under this section.
Sec. 54b. (1) From the general fund appropriation in section 11,
there is allocated an amount not to exceed $1,600,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021
to continue the implementation of the recommendations of the special
education reform task force published in January 2016.
(2) The department shall use funds allocated under this section
for the purpose of piloting statewide implementation of the Michigan Integrated
Behavior and Learning Support Initiative (MiBLSI), a nationally recognized
program that includes positive behavioral intervention and supports and
provides a statewide structure to support local initiatives for an integrated
behavior and reading program. With the assistance of the intermediate districts
involved in MiBLSI, the department shall identify a number of intermediate
districts to participate in the pilot that is sufficient to ensure that MiBLSI
can be implemented statewide with fidelity and sustainability. In addition, the
department shall identify an intermediate district to act as a fiscal agent for
these funds.
Sec. 54d. (1) From the appropriations in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $7,150,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 to intermediate districts for
the purpose of providing state early on services pilot programs for
children from birth to 3 years of age with a developmental delay or a
disability, or both, and their families, as described in the early on Michigan
state plan, as approved by the department.
(2) To be eligible to receive grant funding under this section,
each intermediate district shall apply in a form and manner determined by the
department.
(3) The grant funding allocated under this section must be used to
increase early on services and resources available to children that demonstrate
developmental delays to help prepare them for success as they enter school.
State early on services include evaluating and providing early intervention
services for eligible infants and toddlers and their families to address
developmental delays, including those affecting physical, cognitive,
communication, adaptive, social, or emotional development. Grant funds must not
be used to supplant existing services that are currently being provided.
(4) The department shall distribute the funds allocated under
subsection (1) to intermediate districts according to the department’s early on
funding formula utilized to distribute the federal award to Michigan under part
C of the individuals with disabilities education act. Funds received under this
section must not supplant existing funds or resources allocated for early on
early intervention services. An intermediate district receiving funds under
this section shall maximize the capture of Medicaid funds to support early on
early intervention services to the extent possible.
(5) Each intermediate district that receives funds under this
section shall report data and other information to the department in a form,
manner, and frequency prescribed by the department to allow for monitoring and
evaluation of the pilot projects program and to ensure that the
children described in subsection (1) received appropriate levels and types of
services delivered by qualified personnel, based on the individual needs of the
children and their families.
(6) Notwithstanding section 17b, the department shall make
payments under this section on a schedule determined by the department.
Sec. 56. (1) For the purposes of this section:
(a) “Membership” means for a particular fiscal year the total
membership for the immediately preceding fiscal year of the intermediate
district and the districts constituent to the intermediate district.
(b) “Millage levied” means the millage levied for special
education pursuant to part 30 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1711 to
380.1741, including a levy for debt service obligations.
(c) “Taxable value” means the total taxable value of the districts
constituent to an intermediate district, except that if a district has elected
not to come under part 30 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1711 to 380.1741,
membership and taxable value of the district are not included in the membership
and taxable value of the intermediate district.
(2) From the allocation under section 51a(1), there is allocated $40,008,100.00
for 2018-2019 and an amount not to exceed $40,008,100.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 to reimburse intermediate
districts levying millages for special education pursuant to part 30 of the
revised school code, MCL 380.1711 to 380.1741. The purpose, use, and
expenditure of the reimbursement are limited as if the funds were generated by
these millages and governed by the intermediate district plan adopted pursuant
to article 3 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1701 to 380.1761. As a
condition of receiving funds under this section, an intermediate district
distributing any portion of special education millage funds to its constituent
districts shall submit for departmental approval and implement a distribution
plan.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, reimbursement
for those millages levied in 2017-2018 is made in 2018-2019 at an amount per
2017-2018 membership pupil computed by subtracting from $193,900.00 the
2017-2018 taxable value behind each membership pupil and multiplying the
resulting difference by the 2017-2018 millage levied, and then subtracting from
that amount the 2017-2018 local community stabilization share revenue for
special education purposes behind each membership pupil for reimbursement of
personal property exemption loss under the local community stabilization
authority act, 2014 PA 86, MCL 123.1341 to 123.1362. Reimbursement in 2018-2019
for an intermediate district whose 2017-2018 allocation was affected by the
operation of subsection (5) is an amount equal to 102.5% of the 2017-2018
allocation to that intermediate district.
(3) (4)
Except as otherwise
provided in this subsection, reimbursement for those millages levied in 2018-2019
2019-2020 is made in 2019-2020
2020-2021 at an amount per 2018-2019
2019-2020 membership pupil
computed by subtracting from $201,800.00 $207,100.00 the 2018-2019 2019-2020 taxable value behind each membership pupil and
multiplying the resulting difference by the 2018-2019 2019-2020 millage levied, and then
subtracting from that amount the 2018-2019 2019-2020 local community stabilization share revenue for special
education purposes behind each membership pupil for reimbursement of personal
property exemption loss under the local community stabilization authority act,
2014 PA 86, MCL 123.1341 to 123.1362. Reimbursement in 2019-2020 2020-2021 for an intermediate district
whose 2017-2018 allocation was affected by the operation of subsection (5) (4)
is an amount equal to 102.5% of the 2017-2018 allocation to that intermediate
district.
(4) (5)
The department shall
ensure that the amount paid to a single intermediate district under this
section does not exceed 62.9% of the total amount allocated under subsection
(2).
(5) (6)
The department shall
ensure that the amount paid to a single intermediate district under this
section is not less than 75% of the amount allocated to the intermediate
district under this section for the immediately preceding fiscal year.
Sec. 61a. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $37,611,300.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 to reimburse on an added cost
basis districts, except for a district that served as the fiscal agent for a
vocational education consortium in the 1993-94 school year and that has a
foundation allowance as calculated under section 20 greater than the minimum
foundation allowance under that section, and secondary area
vocational-technical education centers for secondary-level career and technical
education programs according to rules approved by the superintendent.
Applications for participation in the programs must be submitted in the form
prescribed by the department. The department shall determine the added cost for
each career and technical education program area. The department shall
prioritize the allocation of added cost funds based on the capital and program
expenditures needed to operate the career and technical education programs
provided; the number of pupils enrolled; the advancement of pupils through the
instructional program; the existence of an articulation agreement with at least
1 postsecondary institution that provides pupils with opportunities to earn
postsecondary credit during the pupil’s participation in the career and
technical education program and transfers those credits to the postsecondary
institution upon completion of the career and technical education program; and
the program rank in student placement, job openings, and wages, and shall
ensure that the allocation does not exceed 75% of the added cost of any
program. Notwithstanding any rule or department determination to the contrary,
when determining a district’s allocation or the formula for making allocations
under this section, the department shall include the participation of pupils in
grade 9 in all of those determinations and in all portions of the formula. With
the approval of the department, the board of a district maintaining a secondary
career and technical education program may offer the program for the period
from the close of the school year until September 1. The program shall use
existing facilities and must be operated as prescribed by rules promulgated by
the superintendent.
(2) Except for a district that served as the fiscal agent for a
vocational education consortium in the 1993-94 school year, the department
shall reimburse districts and intermediate districts for local career and
technical education administration, shared time career and technical education
administration, and career education planning district career and technical
education administration. The superintendent shall adopt guidelines for the
definition of what constitutes administration and shall make reimbursement
pursuant to those guidelines. The department shall not distribute more than
$800,000.00 of the allocation in subsection (1) under this subsection.
(3) A career and technical education program funded under this
section may provide an opportunity for participants who are eligible to be
funded under section 107 to enroll in the career and technical education
program funded under this section if the participation does not occur during
regular school hours.
Sec. 61b. (1) From the funds appropriated under section 11, there
is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021
an amount not to exceed $8,000,000.00
from the state school aid fund appropriation for CTE early/middle college
and CTE dual enrollment programs authorized under this section and for planning
grants for the development or expansion of CTE early/middle college programs.
The purpose of these programs is to increase the number of Michigan residents
with high-quality degrees or credentials, and to increase the number of
students who are college and career ready upon high school graduation.
(2) From the funds allocated under subsection (1), the department
shall allocate an amount as determined under this subsection to each
intermediate district serving as a fiscal agent for state-approved CTE
early/middle college and CTE dual enrollment programs in each of the prosperity
regions and subregions career education planning districts
identified by the department. An intermediate district shall not use more than
5% of the funds allocated under this subsection for administrative costs for
serving as the fiscal agent.
(3) To be an eligible fiscal agent, an intermediate district must
agree to do all of the following in a form and manner determined by the
department:
(a) Distribute funds to eligible CTE early/middle college and CTE
dual enrollment programs in a prosperity region or subregion career
education planning district as described in this section.
(b) Collaborate with the career and educational advisory council that
is located in the prosperity region or subregion in the workforce
development board service delivery area to develop a one regional
strategic plan under subsection (4) that aligns CTE programs and services into
an efficient and effective delivery system for high school students. The
department will align career education planning districts, workforce
development board service delivery areas, and intermediate districts for the
purpose of creating one regional strategic plan for each workforce development
board service delivery area.
(c) Implement a regional process to rank career clusters in the prosperity
region or subregion workforce development board service delivery area as
described under subsection (4). Regional processes must be approved by the
department before the ranking of career clusters.
(d) Report CTE early/middle college and CTE dual enrollment
program and student data and information as prescribed by the department and
the center.
(4) A regional strategic plan must be approved reviewed by
the career and educational advisory council. before submission to the
department. A regional strategic plan must include, but is not limited to,
the following:
(a) An identification of regional employer need based on a ranking
of all career clusters in the prosperity region or subregion workforce
development board service delivery area ranked by 10-year job openings
projections and median wage for each standard occupational code in each career
cluster as obtained from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Standard
occupational codes within high-ranking clusters also may be further ranked by
median wage. The career and educational advisory council located in the prosperity
region or subregion workforce development board service delivery area
shall review the rankings and modify them if necessary to accurately reflect
employer demand for talent in the prosperity region or subregion. workforce
development board service delivery area. A career and educational advisory
council shall document that it has conducted this review and certify that it is
accurate. These career cluster rankings must be determined and updated once
every 4 years.
(b) An identification of educational entities in the prosperity
region or subregion workforce development board service delivery area
that will provide eligible CTE early/middle college and CTE dual enrollment
programs including districts, intermediate districts, postsecondary institutions,
and noncredit occupational training programs leading to an industry-recognized
credential.
(c) A strategy to inform parents and students of CTE early/middle
college and CTE dual enrollment programs in the prosperity region or
subregion. workforce development board service delivery area.
(d) Any other requirements as defined by the department.
(5) An eligible CTE program is a program that meets all of the
following:
(a) Has been identified in the highest 5 career cluster rankings
in any of the 10 regional 16 workforce development board service
delivery area strategic plans jointly approved by the Michigan talent
investment agency in the department of labor and economic opportunity and
the department.
(b) Has a coherent sequence of courses that will allow a student
to earn a high school diploma and achieve at least 1 of the following in a
specific career cluster:
(i) An associate degree.
(ii) An industry-recognized technical certification
approved by the Michigan talent investment agency in the department of
labor and economic opportunity.
(iii) Up to 60 transferable college credits.
(iv) Participation in a registered apprenticeship,
pre-apprenticeship, or apprentice readiness program.
(c) Is aligned with the Michigan merit curriculum.
(d) Has an articulation agreement with at least 1 postsecondary
institution that provides students with opportunities to receive postsecondary
credits during the student’s participation in the CTE early/middle college or
CTE dual enrollment program and transfers those credits to the postsecondary
institution upon completion of the CTE early/middle college or CTE dual
enrollment program.
(e) Provides instruction that is supervised, directed, or
coordinated by an appropriately certificated CTE teacher or, for concurrent
enrollment courses, a postsecondary faculty member.
(f) Provides for highly integrated student support services that
include at least the following:
(i) Teachers as academic advisors.
(ii) Supervised course selection.
(iii) Monitoring of student progress and completion.
(iv) Career planning services provided by a local one-stop
service center as described in the Michigan Works! one-stop service center
system act, 2006 PA 491, MCL 408.111 to 408.135, or by a high school counselor
or advisor.
(g) Has courses that are taught on a college campus, are college
courses offered at the high school and taught by college faculty, or are
courses taught in combination with online instruction.
(6) The department shall distribute funds to eligible CTE
early/middle college and CTE dual enrollment programs as follows:
(a) The department shall determine statewide average CTE costs per
pupil for each CIP code program by calculating statewide average costs for each
CIP code program for the 3 most recent fiscal years.
(b) The distribution to each eligible CTE early/middle college or
CTE dual enrollment program is the product of 50% of CTE costs per pupil times
the current prior year pupil enrollment of each eligible CTE
early/middle college or CTE dual enrollment program.
(7) In order to receive funds under this section, a CTE
early/middle college or CTE dual enrollment program shall furnish to the
intermediate district that is the fiscal agent identified in subsection (2), in
a form and manner determined by the department, all information needed to
administer this program and meet federal reporting requirements; shall allow
the department or the department’s designee to review all records related to
the program for which it receives funds; and shall reimburse the state for all
disallowances found in the review, as determined by the department.
(8) There is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 from the funds under subsection (1) an amount not to
exceed $500,000.00 from the state school aid fund allocation for grants to
intermediate districts or consortia of intermediate districts for the purpose
of planning for new or expanded early/middle college programs. Applications for
grants must be submitted in a form and manner determined by the department. The
amount of a grant under this subsection must not exceed $150,000.00. $50,000.00.
To be eligible for a grant under this subsection, an intermediate district or
consortia of intermediate districts must provide matching funds equal to the
grant received under this subsection. Notwithstanding section 17b, the
department shall make payments under this subsection in the manner determined
by the department.
(9) Funds distributed under this section may be used to fund
program expenditures that would otherwise be paid from foundation allowances. A
program receiving funding under section 61a may receive funding under this
section for allowable costs that exceed the reimbursement the program received
under section 61a. The combined payments received by a program under section
61a and this section must not exceed the total allowable costs of the program.
A program provider shall not use more than 5% of the funds allocated under this
section to the program for administrative costs.
(10) If the allocation under subsection (1) is insufficient to
fully fund payments as otherwise calculated under this section, the department
shall prorate payments under this section on an equal percentage basis.
(11) If pupils enrolled in a career cluster in an eligible CTE
early/middle college or CTE dual enrollment program qualify to be reimbursed
under this section, those pupils continue to qualify for reimbursement until
graduation, even if the career cluster is no longer identified as being in the
highest 5 career cluster rankings.
(12) As used in this section:
(a) “Allowable costs” means those costs directly attributable to
the program as jointly determined by the Michigan talent investment agency department
of labor and economic opportunity and the department.
(b) “Career and educational advisory council” means an advisory
council to the local workforce development boards located in a prosperity
region workforce development board service delivery area consisting
of educational, employer, labor, and parent representatives.
(c) “CIP” means classification of instructional programs.
(d) “CTE” means career and technical education programs.
(e) “CTE dual enrollment program” means a 4-year high school
program of postsecondary courses offered by eligible postsecondary educational
institutions that leads to an industry-recognized certification or degree.
(f) “Early/middle college program” means a 5-year high school
program.
(g) “Eligible postsecondary educational institution” means that
term as defined in section 3 of the career and technical preparation act, 2000
PA 258, MCL 388.1903.
(13) The funds allocated under subsection (8) for 2019-2020 are a
work project appropriation, and any unexpended funds for 2019-2020 are carried
forward into 2020-2021. The
purpose of the work project is to continue providing CTE opportunities
described in subsection (8). The estimated completion date of the work project
is September 30, 2021.
Sec. 61d. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed
$5,000,000.00 from the state school aid fund for additional payments to
districts for career and technical education programs for the purpose of
increasing the number of Michigan residents with high-quality degrees or
credentials, and to increase the number of pupils who are college- and
career-ready upon high school graduation.
(2) The department shall calculate payments to districts under
this section in the following manner:
(a) A payment of $50.00 $25.00 multiplied by the
number of pupils in grades 9 to 12 who are counted in membership in the
district and are enrolled in at least 1 career and technical education program.
(b) An additional payment of $50.00 $25.00
multiplied by the number of pupils in grades 9 to 12 who are counted in
membership in the district and are enrolled in at least 1 career and technical
education program that provides instruction in critical skills and high-demand
career fields.
(4) As used in this section:
(a) “Career and technical education program” means a
state-approved career and technical education program, as determined by the
department.
(b) “Career and technical education program that provides
instruction in critical skills and high-demand career field” means a career and
technical education program classified under any of the following 2-digit
classification of instructional programs (CIP) codes:
(i) 01, which refers to “agriculture, agriculture
operations, and related sciences”.
(ii) 03, which refers to “natural resources and
conservation”.
(iii) 10 through 11, which refers to “communications
technologies/technicians and support services” and “computer and information
sciences and support services”.
(iv) 14 through 15, which refers to “engineering” and
“engineering technologies and engineering-related fields”.
(v) 26, which refers to “biological and biomedical
sciences”.
(vi) 46 through 48, which refers to “construction trades”,
“mechanic and repair technologies/technicians”, and “precision production”.
(vii) 51, which refers to “health professions and related
programs”.
Sec. 62. (1) For the purposes of this section:
(a) “Membership” means for a particular fiscal year the total
membership for the immediately preceding fiscal year of the intermediate
district and the districts constituent to the intermediate district or the
total membership for the immediately preceding fiscal year of the area
vocational-technical program.
(b) “Millage levied” means the millage levied for area
vocational-technical education pursuant to sections 681 to 690 of the revised
school code, MCL 380.681 to 380.690, including a levy for debt service
obligations incurred as the result of borrowing for capital outlay projects and
in meeting capital projects fund requirements of area vocational-technical
education.
(c) “Taxable value” means the total taxable value of the districts
constituent to an intermediate district or area vocational-technical education
program, except that if a district has elected not to come under sections 681
to 690 of the revised school code, MCL 380.681 to 380.690, the membership and
taxable value of that district are not included in the membership and taxable
value of the intermediate district. However, the membership and taxable value
of a district that has elected not to come under sections 681 to 690 of the
revised school code, MCL 380.681 to 380.690, are included in the membership and
taxable value of the intermediate district if the district meets both of the
following:
(i) The district operates the area vocational-technical
education program pursuant to a contract with the intermediate district.
(ii) The district contributes an annual amount to the
operation of the program that is commensurate with the revenue that would have
been raised for operation of the program if millage were levied in the district
for the program under sections 681 to 690 of the revised school code, MCL
380.681 to 380.690.
(2) From the appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an
amount not to exceed $9,190,000.00 each fiscal year for 2018-2019 and for
2019-2020 for fiscal year 2020-2021 to reimburse intermediate
districts and area vocational-technical education programs established under
section 690(3) of the revised school code, MCL 380.690, levying millages for
area vocational-technical education pursuant to sections 681 to 690 of the
revised school code, MCL 380.681 to 380.690. The purpose, use, and expenditure
of the reimbursement are limited as if the funds were generated by those
millages.
(3) Reimbursement for those millages levied in 2017-2018 is made
in 2018-2019 at an amount per 2017-2018 membership pupil computed by
subtracting from $205,700.00 the 2017-2018 taxable value behind each membership
pupil and multiplying the resulting difference by the 2017-2018 millage levied,
and then subtracting from that amount the 2017-2018 local community
stabilization share revenue for area vocational technical education behind each
membership pupil for reimbursement of personal property exemption loss under
the local community stabilization authority act, 2014 PA 86, MCL 123.1341 to
123.1362.
(3) (4)
Reimbursement for those
millages levied in 2018-2019 2019-2020
is made in 2019-2020 2020-2021
at an amount per 2018-2019 2019-2020
membership pupil computed by subtracting from $211,000.00 $216,500.00 the 2018-2019 2019-2020 taxable value behind each
membership pupil and multiplying the resulting difference by the 2018-2019 2019-2020 millage levied, and then
subtracting from that amount the 2018-2019 2019-2020 local community stabilization share revenue for area
vocational technical education behind each membership pupil for reimbursement
of personal property exemption loss under the local community stabilization
authority act, 2014 PA 86, MCL 123.1341 to 123.1362.
(4) (5)
The department shall
ensure that the amount paid to a single intermediate district under this
section does not exceed 38.4% of the total amount allocated under subsection
(2).
(5) (6)
The department shall
ensure that the amount paid to a single intermediate district under this
section is not less than 75% of the amount allocated to the intermediate
district under this section for the immediately preceding fiscal year.
Sec. 65. (1) From the appropriation under section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $400,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for a pre-college engineering
K-12 educational program that is focused on the development of a diverse future
Michigan workforce, that serves multiple communities within southeast Michigan,
that enrolls pupils from multiple districts, and that received funds
appropriated for this purpose in the appropriations act that provided the
Michigan strategic fund budget for 2014-2015.
(2) To be eligible for funding under this section, a program must
have the ability to expose pupils to, and motivate and prepare pupils for,
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers and postsecondary
education with special attention given to groups of pupils who are at-risk and
underrepresented in technical professions and careers.
Sec. 67. (1) From the general fund amount appropriated in section
11, there is allocated an amount not to exceed $3,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for college access programs.
The programs funded under this section are intended to inform students of
college and career options and to provide resources intended to increase the
number of pupils who are adequately prepared with the information needed to
make informed decisions on college and career. The funds appropriated under
this section are intended to be used to increase the number of Michigan
residents with high-quality degrees or credentials. Funds appropriated under
this section must not be used to supplant funding for counselors already funded
by districts.
(2) The talent investment agency of the department of labor
and economic opportunity shall administer funds allocated under this section in
collaboration with the Michigan college access network. These funds may be used
for any of the following purposes:
(a) Michigan college access network operations, programming, and
services to local college access networks.
(b) Local college access networks, which are community-based
college access/success partnerships committed to increasing the college
participation and completion rates within geographically defined communities
through a coordinated strategy.
(c) The Michigan college advising program, a program intended to
place trained, recently graduated college advisors in high schools that serve
significant numbers of low-income and first-generation college-going pupils.
State funds used for this purpose may not exceed 33% of the total funds
available under this subsection.
(d) Subgrants of up to $5,000.00 to districts with comprehensive
high schools that establish a college access team and implement specific
strategies to create a college-going culture in a high school in a form and
manner approved by the Michigan college access network and the Michigan talent
investment agency. department of labor and economic opportunity.
(e) The Michigan college access portal, an online one-stop portal
to help pupils and families plan and apply for college.
(f) Public awareness and outreach campaigns to encourage low-income
and first-generation college-going pupils to take necessary steps toward
college and to assist pupils and families in completing a timely and accurate
free application for federal student aid.
(g) Subgrants to postsecondary institutions to recruit, hire, and
train college student mentors and college advisors to assist high school pupils
in navigating the postsecondary planning and enrollment process.
(3) For the purposes of this section, “college” means any
postsecondary educational opportunity that leads to a career, including, but
not limited to, a postsecondary degree, industry-recognized technical
certification, or registered apprenticeship.
Sec. 74. (1) From the amount appropriated in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $3,772,900.00 $3,814,500.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for the purposes of this section.
(2) From the allocation in subsection (1), there is allocated for
each fiscal year the amount necessary for payments to state supported colleges
or universities and intermediate districts providing school bus driver safety
instruction under section 51 of the pupil transportation act, 1990 PA 187, MCL
257.1851. The department shall make payments in an amount determined by the
department not to exceed the actual cost of instruction and driver compensation
for each public or nonpublic school bus driver attending a course of
instruction. For the purpose of computing compensation, the hourly rate allowed
each school bus driver must not exceed the hourly rate received for driving a
school bus. The department shall make reimbursement compensating the driver
during the course of instruction to the college or university or intermediate
district providing the course of instruction.
(3) From the allocation in subsection (1), there is allocated for 2019-2020
2020-2021 the amount necessary
to pay the reasonable costs of nonspecial education auxiliary services
transportation provided under section 1323 of the revised school code, MCL
380.1323. Districts funded under this subsection do not receive funding under
any other section of this article for nonspecial education auxiliary services
transportation.
(4) From the funds allocated in subsection (1), there is allocated
an amount not to exceed $1,747,900.00 $1,789,500.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for reimbursement to districts and intermediate districts
for costs associated with the inspection of school buses and pupil
transportation vehicles by the department of state police as required under
section 715a of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.715a, and
section 39 of the pupil transportation act, 1990 PA 187, MCL 257.1839. The
department of state police shall prepare a statement of costs attributable to
each district for which bus inspections are provided and submit it to the department
and to an intermediate district serving as fiduciary in a time and manner
determined jointly by the department and the department of state police. Upon
review and approval of the statement of cost, the department shall forward to
the designated intermediate district serving as fiduciary the amount of the
reimbursement on behalf of each district and intermediate district for costs
detailed on the statement within 45 days after receipt of the statement. The
designated intermediate district shall make payment in the amount specified on
the statement to the department of state police within 45 days after receipt of
the statement. The total reimbursement of costs under this subsection must not
exceed the amount allocated under this subsection. Notwithstanding section 17b,
the department shall make payments to eligible entities under this subsection
on a schedule prescribed by the department.
Sec. 81. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021
to the intermediate districts the sum necessary, but not to exceed $69,138,000.00,
$71,212,200.00, to provide state
aid to intermediate districts under this section.
(2) The amount allocated under this section to each intermediate
district is an amount equal to 101% 103%
of the amount allocated to the intermediate district under this section for 2018-2019.
2019-2020. An intermediate
district shall use funding provided under this section to comply with
requirements of this article and the revised school code that are applicable to
intermediate districts, and for which funding is not provided elsewhere in this
article, and to provide technical assistance to districts as authorized by the
intermediate school board.
(3) Intermediate districts receiving funds under this section
shall collaborate with the department to develop expanded professional
development opportunities for teachers to update and expand their knowledge and
skills needed to support the Michigan merit curriculum.
(4) From the allocation in subsection (1), there is allocated to
an intermediate district, formed by the consolidation or annexation of 2 or
more intermediate districts or the attachment of a total intermediate district
to another intermediate school district or the annexation of all of the
constituent K-12 districts of a previously existing intermediate school
district which has disorganized, an additional allotment of $3,500.00 each
fiscal year for each intermediate district included in the new intermediate
district for 3 years following consolidation, annexation, or attachment.
(5) In order to receive funding under this section, an
intermediate district shall do all of the following:
(a) Demonstrate to the satisfaction of the department that the
intermediate district employs at least 1 person who is trained in pupil
accounting and auditing procedures, rules, and regulations.
(b) Demonstrate to the satisfaction of the department that the
intermediate district employs at least 1 person who is trained in rules,
regulations, and district reporting procedures for the individual-level student
data that serves as the basis for the calculation of the district and high
school graduation and dropout rates.
(c) Comply with sections 1278a and 1278b of the revised school
code, MCL 380.1278a and 380.1278b.
(d) Furnish data and other information required by state and
federal law to the center and the department in the form and manner specified
by the center or the department, as applicable.
(e) Comply with section 1230g of the revised school code, MCL
380.1230g.
Sec. 94. (1) From the general fund appropriation in section 11,
there is allocated to the department for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed
$1,000,000.00 for efforts to increase the number of pupils who participate and
succeed in advanced placement and international baccalaureate programs, and to
support the college-level examination program (CLEP).
(2) From the funds allocated under this section, the department
shall award funds to cover all or part of the costs of advanced placement test
fees or international baccalaureate test fees and international baccalaureate
registration fees for low-income pupils who take an advanced placement or an
international baccalaureate test and CLEP fees for low-income pupils who take a
CLEP test.
(3) The department shall only award funds under this section if
the department determines that all of the following criteria are met:
(a) Each pupil for whom payment is made meets eligibility
requirements of the federal advanced placement test fee program under section
1701 of the no child left behind act of 2001, Public Law 107-110, or under a
corresponding provision of the every student succeeds act, Public Law 114-95.
(b) The tests are administered by the college board, the
international baccalaureate organization, or another test provider approved by
the department.
(c) The pupil for whom payment is made pays at least $5.00 toward
the cost of each test for which payment is made.
(4) The department shall establish procedures for awarding funds
under this section.
(5) Notwithstanding section 17b, the department shall make
payments under this section on a schedule determined by the department.
Sec. 94a. (1) There is created within the state budget office in
the department of technology, management, and budget the center for
educational performance and information. The center shall do all of the
following:
(a) Coordinate the collection of all data required by state and
federal law from districts, intermediate districts, and postsecondary
institutions.
(b) Create, maintain, and enhance this state’s P-20 longitudinal
data system and ensure that it meets the requirements of subsection (4).
(c) Collect data in the most efficient manner possible in order to
reduce the administrative burden on reporting entities, including, but not
limited to, electronic transcript services.
(d) Create, maintain, and enhance this state’s web-based
educational portal to provide information to school leaders, teachers,
researchers, and the public in compliance with all federal and state privacy
laws. Data must include, but are not limited to, all of the following:
(i) Data sets that link teachers to student information,
allowing districts to assess individual teacher impact on student performance
and consider student growth factors in teacher and principal evaluation
systems.
(ii) Data access or, if practical, data sets, provided for
regional data hubs that, in combination with local data, can improve teaching
and learning in the classroom.
(iii) Research-ready data sets for researchers to perform
research that advances this state’s educational performance.
(e) Provide data in a useful manner to allow state and local
policymakers to make informed policy decisions.
(f) Provide public reports to the residents of this state to allow
them to assess allocation of resources and the return on their investment in
the education system of this state.
(g) Other functions as assigned by the state budget director.
(2) Each state department, officer, or agency that collects
information from districts, intermediate districts, or postsecondary
institutions as required under state or federal law shall make arrangements
with the center to ensure that the state department, officer, or agency is in
compliance with subsection (1). This subsection does not apply to information
collected by the department of treasury under the uniform budgeting and
accounting act, 1968 PA 2, MCL 141.421 to 141.440a; the revised municipal
finance act, 2001 PA 34, MCL 141.2101 to 141.2821; the school bond
qualification, approval, and loan act, 2005 PA 92, MCL 388.1921 to 388.1939; or
section 1351a of the revised school code, MCL 380.1351a.
(3) The center may enter into any interlocal agreements necessary
to fulfill its functions.
(4) The center shall ensure that the P-20 longitudinal data system
required under subsection (1)(b) meets all of the following:
(a) Includes data at the individual student level from preschool
through postsecondary education and into the workforce.
(b) Supports interoperability by using standard data structures,
data formats, and data definitions to ensure linkage and connectivity in a
manner that facilitates the exchange of data among agencies and institutions
within the state and between states.
(c) Enables the matching of individual teacher and student records
so that an individual student may be matched with those teachers providing
instruction to that student.
(d) Enables the matching of individual teachers with information
about their certification and the institutions that prepared and recommended
those teachers for state certification.
(e) Enables data to be easily generated for continuous improvement
and decision-making, including timely reporting to parents, teachers, and
school leaders on student achievement.
(f) Ensures the reasonable quality, validity, and reliability of
data contained in the system.
(g) Provides this state with the ability to meet federal and state
reporting requirements.
(h) For data elements related to preschool through grade 12 and
postsecondary, meets all of the following:
(i) Contains a unique statewide student identifier that
does not permit a student to be individually identified by users of the system,
except as allowed by federal and state law.
(ii) Contains student-level enrollment, demographic, and
program participation information.
(iii) Contains student-level information about the points
at which students exit, transfer in, transfer out, drop out, or complete
education programs.
(iv) Has the capacity to communicate with higher education
data systems.
(i) For data elements related to preschool through grade 12 only,
meets all of the following:
(i) Contains yearly test records of individual students for
assessments approved by DED-OESE for accountability purposes under section
1111(b) of the elementary and secondary education act of 1965, 20 USC 6311,
including information on individual students not tested, by grade and subject.
(ii) Contains student-level transcript information,
including information on courses completed and grades earned.
(iii) Contains student-level college readiness test scores.
(j) For data elements related to postsecondary education only:
(i) Contains data that provide information regarding the
extent to which individual students transition successfully from secondary
school to postsecondary education, including, but not limited to, all of the
following:
(A) Enrollment in remedial coursework.
(B) Completion of 1 year’s worth of college credit applicable to a
degree within 2 years of enrollment.
(ii) Contains data that provide other information
determined necessary to address alignment and adequate preparation for success
in postsecondary education.
(5) From the general fund appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $16,457,200.00 $16,848,900.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 to the department of technology, management, and
budget to support the operations of the center. In addition, from the federal
funds appropriated in section 11, there is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 the amount necessary,
estimated at $193,500.00, to support the operations of the center and to
establish a P-20 longitudinal data system necessary for state and federal
reporting purposes. The center shall cooperate with the department to ensure
that this state is in compliance with federal law and is maximizing
opportunities for increased federal funding to improve education in this state.
(6) From the funds allocated in subsection (5), the center may use
an amount determined by the center for competitive grants for 2019-2020 2020-2021 to support collaborative
efforts on the P-20 longitudinal data system. All of the following apply to
grants awarded under this subsection:
(a) The center shall award competitive grants to eligible
intermediate districts or a consortium of intermediate districts based on criteria
established by the center.
(b) Activities funded under the grant must support the P-20
longitudinal data system portal and may include portal hosting, hardware and
software acquisition, maintenance, enhancements, user support and related
materials, and professional learning tools and activities aimed at improving
the utility of the P-20 longitudinal data system.
(c) An applicant that received a grant under this subsection for
the immediately preceding fiscal year has priority for funding under this section.
However, after 3 fiscal years of continuous funding, an applicant is required
to compete openly with new applicants.
(7) Funds allocated under this section that are not expended in
the fiscal year in which they were allocated may be carried forward to a
subsequent fiscal year and are appropriated for the purposes for which the
funds were originally allocated.
(8) The center may bill departments as necessary in order to
fulfill reporting requirements of state and federal law. The center may also
enter into agreements to supply custom data, analysis, and reporting to other
principal executive departments, state agencies, local units of government, and
other individuals and organizations. The center may receive and expend funds in
addition to those authorized in subsection (5) to cover the costs associated
with salaries, benefits, supplies, materials, and equipment necessary to
provide such data, analysis, and reporting services.
(9) As used in this section:
(a) “DED-OESE” means the United States Department of Education
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.
(b) “State education agency” means the department.
Sec.
97a. (1) From the general fund appropriation in section 11, there is allocated
an amount not to exceed $40,000,000.00 for 2020-2021 only for grants to
districts for infrastructure upgrades that protect student health, safety, and
well-being.
(2)
A district seeking a grant under this section shall apply to the department in
a form and manner prescribed by the department not later than December 1, 2020.
The department shall select districts for grants and make notification not
later than February 1, 2021.
(3)
The department, in collaboration with the department of treasury, shall award
grants under this section on a competitive basis to geographically diverse
areas of the state, including urban, suburban, and rural districts. The
department shall give priority to districts that meet any of the following:
(a)
The district is required to submit a deficit elimination plan or an enhanced
deficit elimination plan under section 1220 of the revised school code, MCL
380.1220.
(b)
The district is low-achieving academically, as determined by the department.
(c)
The district has established a community engagement
advisory committee in partnership with the department of treasury.
(4)
The amount of a grant under this section to any 1 district shall not exceed
$500,000.00.
(5)
A grant under this section shall be used to modify instructional facilities
through the purchase of materials and labor for any of the following:
(a)
Purchase and installation of air filters, water filters, or both.
(b)
Purchase and installation of hydration stations, which are fixtures designed to
deliver drinking water through existing water lines and are capable of
receiving a filter that removes lead and other contaminants from drinking
water.
(c)
Lead abatement, asbestos abatement, or both.
(d)
Heating and cooling modifications necessary to provide students with a
comfortable learning environment.
(e)
School security measures.
(f)
Roof repair, if the condition of the current roof creates a health concern for
students or negatively impacts the learning environment.
(g)
Purchase and installation of light modifications to increase energy efficiency.
(h)
Other modifications necessary to protect student health, safety, and
well-being, as determined by the department.
(6)
Districts are encouraged to engage local businesses and philanthropic
organizations to maximize the impact of funds awarded under this section.
(7)
Notwithstanding section 17b, grant payments to districts under this section
shall be paid on a schedule determined by the department.
Sec. 98. (1) From the general fund money appropriated in section
11, there is allocated an amount not to exceed $6,312,500.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for the purposes described in
this section. The Michigan Virtual University shall provide a report to the
legislature not later than November 1 of each year that includes its mission,
its plans, and proposed benchmarks it must meet, including a plan to achieve
the organizational priorities identified in this section, in order to receive
full funding for 2020-2021. 2021-2022. Not later than March 1 of
each year, the Michigan Virtual University shall provide an update to the house
and senate appropriations subcommittees on school aid to show the progress
being made to meet the benchmarks identified.
(2) The Michigan Virtual University shall operate the Michigan
Virtual Learning Research Institute. The Michigan Virtual Learning Research
Institute shall do all of the following:
(a) Support and accelerate innovation in education through the
following activities:
(i) Test, evaluate, and recommend as appropriate new
technology-based instructional tools and resources.
(ii) Research, design, and recommend virtual education
delivery models for use by pupils and teachers that include age-appropriate
multimedia instructional content.
(iii) Research, develop, and recommend annually to the
department criteria by which cyber schools and virtual course providers should
be monitored and evaluated to ensure a quality education for their pupils.
(iv) Based on pupil completion and performance data
reported to the department or the center from cyber schools and other virtual
course providers operating in this state, analyze the effectiveness of virtual
learning delivery models in preparing pupils to be college- and career-ready
and publish a report that highlights enrollment totals, completion rates, and
the overall impact on pupils. The Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute
shall submit the report to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on
state school aid, the state budget director, the house and senate fiscal
agencies, the department, districts, and intermediate districts not later than
March 31 of each year.
(v) Provide an extensive professional development program
to at least 30,000 educational personnel, including teachers, school
administrators, and school board members, that focuses on the effective
integration of virtual learning into curricula and instruction. The Michigan
Virtual Learning Research Institute is encouraged to work with the MiSTEM
advisory MI-STEM council created under section 99s Executive
Order No. 2019-13 to coordinate professional development of teachers in
applicable fields. In addition, the Michigan Virtual Learning Research
Institute and external stakeholders are encouraged to coordinate with the
department for professional development in this state. Not later than December
1 of each year, the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute shall submit a
report to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on state school
aid, the state budget director, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the
department on the number of teachers, school administrators, and school board
members who have received professional development services from the Michigan
Virtual University. The report must also identify barriers and other
opportunities to encourage the adoption of virtual learning in the public
education system.
(vi) Identify and share best practices for planning,
implementing, and evaluating virtual and blended education delivery models with
intermediate districts, districts, and public school academies to accelerate
the adoption of innovative education delivery models statewide.
(b) Provide leadership for this state’s system of virtual learning
education by doing the following activities:
(i) Develop and report policy recommendations to the
governor and the legislature that accelerate the expansion of effective virtual
learning in this state’s schools.
(ii) Provide a clearinghouse for research reports, academic
studies, evaluations, and other information related to virtual learning.
(iii) Promote and distribute the most current instructional
design standards and guidelines for virtual teaching.
(iv) In collaboration with the department and interested
colleges and universities in this state, support implementation and
improvements related to effective virtual learning instruction.
(v) Pursue public/private partnerships that include districts
to study and implement competency-based technology-rich virtual learning
models.
(vi) Create a statewide network of school-based mentors
serving as liaisons between pupils, virtual instructors, parents, and school
staff, as provided by the department or the center, and provide mentors with
research-based training and technical assistance designed to help more pupils
be successful virtual learners.
(vii) Convene focus groups and conduct annual surveys of
teachers, administrators, pupils, parents, and others to identify barriers and
opportunities related to virtual learning.
(viii) Produce an annual consumer awareness report for
schools and parents about effective virtual education providers and education
delivery models, performance data, cost structures, and research trends.
(ix) Provide an internet-based platform that educators can
use to create student-centric learning tools and resources for sharing in the
state’s open educational resource repository and facilitate a user network that
assists educators in using the content creation platform and state repository
for open educational resources. As part of this initiative, the Michigan
Virtual University shall work collaboratively with districts and intermediate
districts to establish a plan to make available virtual resources that align to
Michigan’s K-12 curriculum standards for use by students, educators, and
parents.
(x) Create and maintain a public statewide catalog of
virtual learning courses being offered by all public schools and community
colleges in this state. The Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute shall
identify and develop a list of nationally recognized best practices for virtual
learning and use this list to support reviews of virtual course vendors,
courses, and instructional practices. The Michigan Virtual Learning Research
Institute shall also provide a mechanism for intermediate districts to use the
identified best practices to review content offered by constituent districts.
The Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute shall review the virtual
course offerings of the Michigan Virtual University, and make the results from
these reviews available to the public as part of the statewide catalog. The
Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute shall ensure that the statewide catalog
is made available to the public on the Michigan Virtual University website and
shall allow the ability to link it to each district’s website as provided for
in section 21f. The statewide catalog must also contain all of the following:
(A) The number of enrollments in each virtual course in the
immediately preceding school year.
(B) The number of enrollments that earned 60% or more of the total
course points for each virtual course in the immediately preceding school year.
(C) The pass rate for each virtual course.
(xi) Support registration, payment services, and transcript
functionality for the statewide catalog and train key stakeholders on how to
use new features.
(xii) Collaborate with key stakeholders to examine district
level accountability and teacher effectiveness issues related to virtual
learning under section 21f and make findings and recommendations publicly
available.
(xiii) Provide a report on the activities of the Michigan
Virtual Learning Research Institute.
(3) To further enhance its expertise and leadership in virtual
learning, the Michigan Virtual University shall continue to operate the
Michigan Virtual School as a statewide laboratory and quality model of
instruction by implementing virtual and blended learning solutions for Michigan
schools in accordance with the following parameters:
(a) The Michigan Virtual School must maintain its accreditation
status from recognized national and international accrediting entities.
(b) The Michigan Virtual University shall use no more than $1,000,000.00
of the amount allocated under this section to subsidize the cost paid by
districts for virtual courses.
(c) In providing educators responsible for the teaching of virtual
courses as provided for in this section, the Michigan Virtual School shall
follow the requirements to request and assess, and the department of state
police shall provide, a criminal history check and criminal records check under
sections 1230 and 1230a of the revised school code, MCL 380.1230 and 380.1230a,
in the same manner as if the Michigan Virtual School were a school district
under those sections.
(4) From the funds allocated under subsection (1), the Michigan
Virtual University shall allocate up to $500,000.00 to support the expansion of
new online and blended educator professional development programs.
(5) If the course offerings are included in the statewide catalog
of virtual courses under subsection (2)(b)(x), the Michigan Virtual School
operated by the Michigan Virtual University may offer virtual course offerings,
including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(a) Information technology courses.
(b) College level equivalent courses, as defined in section 1471
of the revised school code, MCL 380.1471.
(c) Courses and dual enrollment opportunities.
(d) Programs and services for at-risk pupils.
(e) High school equivalency test preparation courses for
adjudicated youth.
(f) Special interest courses.
(g) Professional development programs for teachers, school
administrators, other school employees, and school board members.
(6) If a home-schooled or nonpublic school student is a resident
of a district that subscribes to services provided by the Michigan Virtual
School, the student may use the services provided by the Michigan Virtual
School to the district without charge to the student beyond what is charged to
a district pupil using the same services.
(7) Not later than December 1 of each fiscal year, the Michigan
Virtual University shall provide a report to the house and senate
appropriations subcommittees on state school aid, the state budget director,
the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the department that includes at least
all of the following information related to the Michigan Virtual School for the
preceding state fiscal year:
(a) A list of the districts served by the Michigan Virtual School.
(b) A list of virtual course titles available to districts.
(c) The total number of virtual course enrollments and information
on registrations and completions by course.
(d) The overall course completion rate percentage.
(8) In addition to the information listed in subsection (7), the
report under subsection (7) must also include a plan to serve at least 600
schools with courses from the Michigan Virtual School or with content available
through the internet-based platform identified in subsection (2)(b)(ix).
(9) The governor may appoint an advisory group for the Michigan
Virtual Learning Research Institute established under subsection (2). The
members of the advisory group serve at the pleasure of the governor and without
compensation. The purpose of the advisory group is to make recommendations to
the governor, the legislature, and the president and board of the Michigan
Virtual University that will accelerate innovation in this state’s education
system in a manner that will prepare elementary and secondary students to be
career and college ready and that will promote the goal of increasing the
percentage of residents of this state with high-quality degrees and credentials
to at least 60% by 2025.
(10) Not later than November 1 of each year, the Michigan Virtual
University shall submit to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on
state school aid, the state budget director, and the house and senate fiscal
agencies a detailed budget for that fiscal year that includes a breakdown on
its projected costs to deliver virtual educational services to districts and a
summary of the anticipated fees to be paid by districts for those services. Not
later than March 1 each year, the Michigan Virtual University shall submit to
the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on state school aid, the
state budget director, and the house and senate fiscal agencies a breakdown on
its actual costs to deliver virtual educational services to districts and a
summary of the actual fees paid by districts for those services based on
audited financial statements for the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(11) As used in this section:
(a) “Blended learning” means a hybrid instructional delivery model
where pupils are provided content, instruction, and assessment, in part at a
supervised educational facility away from home where the pupil and a teacher
with a valid Michigan teaching certificate are in the same physical location
and in part through internet-connected learning environments with some degree
of pupil control over time, location, and pace of instruction.
(b) “Cyber school” means a full-time instructional program of
virtual courses for pupils that may or may not require attendance at a physical
school location.
(c) “Virtual course” means a course of study that is capable of
generating a credit or a grade and that is provided in an interactive learning
environment in which the majority of the curriculum is delivered using the
internet and in which pupils are separated from their instructor or teacher of
record by time or location, or both.
(12) It is the intent of the legislature not to allocate an amount
greater than $6,342,500.00 for 2020-2021 for the purposes of this section.
Sec. 98a. (1) From the appropriations in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $5,000,000.00 for 2020-2021 only to eligible
districts and intermediate districts for the development of peer-to-peer
learning networks or university-partnered professional development.
(2) To be eligible for funding under this section, a district or
intermediate district shall apply in a form and manner determined by the
department. The department shall determine the amount of each grant awarded
under this section. When making this determination, the department must
consider factors that include, but are not limited to, the number of teachers
that would be served by the peer-to-peer learning network or the
university-partnered professional development, the type of training being
funded, and the scope of training. The department shall consider at least both
the following when selecting recipients for grants funded under this section:
(a) The level to which the program encourages collaboration
between districts, community colleges, universities, and professional organizations.
(b) The level to which the program identifies the training needs
of teachers and students in the district or districts being served by the
grant.
(3) Grants awarded under this section must be used for either of
the following:
(a) Developing and implementing a peer-to-peer learning network
that allows qualified professional practitioners to provide professional
development to educators. This professional development must provide training
to educators using evidence-based best practices and using content approved or
developed by either the department or partner organizations of the department.
As used in this section, a qualified professional practitioner is a person who
holds a Michigan professional certificate and who has completed a recognized
leadership or adult learning theory training program, as determined by the
department; or a person who holds a Michigan advanced professional certificate.
(b) Developing and implementing university-partnered professional
development opportunities. These partnerships must provide teachers with
evidenced-based professional development on current instructional best
practices.
(4) Notwithstanding section 17b, the department shall make
payments under this section on a schedule determined by the department.
Sec. 98b. (1) From the state school
aid fund money appropriated in section 11, there is allocated for 2020-2021 an
amount not to exceed $1,500,000.00 for grants to districts to create or expand
teacher cadet programs. This funding shall supplement existing local, state,
and federal resources available for teacher cadet programs. Grants funded under
this section are intended to enhance the teacher talent pipeline and improve
teacher recruitment.
(2) A district seeking a grant
under this section shall apply to the department in a form and manner
determined by the department. The amount of a grant awarded under this section
shall not exceed $100,000.00. The department shall award grants to districts in
geographically diverse areas of the state, including rural and urban areas, and
shall give priority to those districts that have any of the following, as
determined by the department:
(a) A high percentage of
economically disadvantaged students.
(b) A high percentage of students
from population groups underrepresented in the statewide teaching workforce.
(c) A teacher shortage caused by a
low number of quality applicants.
(3) Districts receiving grants
under this section shall use the funding to implement or expand a teacher cadet
program that contains all of the following:
(a) A partnership with a
state-approved education preparation provider. This partnership must provide
information and mentoring to program participants on the process of becoming a
teacher and must allow participants to build professional connections with
professors and education majors on college campuses.
(b) Coursework and experiential
learning in the field of education. Coursework must include education in the
science of learning and the professional expectations and responsibility of a
teacher. Experiential learning must include observational time in elementary,
middle, and high school classrooms.
(c) Dual enrollment opportunities
that allow participants to complete entry-level educator preparation program
coursework while still in high school.
(d) Prioritized employment
opportunities with the district for participants who become certified teachers.
(e) All other requirements
determined by the department to be best practices for teacher cadet programs.
(4) The department shall identify
both of the following:
(a) Standards and best practices
for teacher cadet programs, developed through an analysis of successful state
and local programs. These best practices must be updated and published annually
and must be used to determine program requirements under subsection (3).
(b) State policy barriers that
prevent the successful implementation of teacher cadet programs. If the
department determines that barriers exist in statute or administrative rule,
the department shall recommend statutory changes to legislature or shall amend
administrative rules, as applicable.
(5) Notwithstanding section 17b,
the department shall make payments under this section on a schedule determined
by the department.
Sec. 98c. (1) From the funds appropriated in section 11, there is
allocated for 2020-2021 only an amount not to exceed $25,000,000.00 for
payments to districts to distribute funding to classroom teachers to purchase,
on behalf of the district, classroom materials and supplies. Payments under
this section shall be used to supplement and shall not be used to supplant the
materials and supplies otherwise available to classroom teachers.
(2) The department shall distribute funding allocated under this
section to districts on an equal amount per full-time equated classroom teacher
employed by the district or assigned to regularly and continuously work under
contract in a school operated by the district, as defined in section 1230e of
the revised school code, MCL 380.1230e, and reported to the center in the immediately
preceding fiscal year, in a form and manner determined by the department in
collaboration with the center. The department must distribute funding allocated
under this section not later than October 31, 2020.
(3) Districts shall distribute money to classroom teachers in an
equal amount per full-time equated classroom teacher in the district for the
purchase of classroom materials and supplies on behalf of the district. The
district may distribute funds to classroom teachers by any means determined appropriate
by the district, including, but not limited to, direct deposit, check, debit
card, or purchasing card. Districts are encouraged to assist classroom teachers
in ensuring purchases with funding under this section utilize all applicable
sales and use tax exemption forms. Districts are encouraged to help classroom
teachers track expenditures and verify that funds are being used on eligible
purchases. Classroom materials and supplies purchased with funds under this
section belong to the district in which the classroom teacher was working at
the time of purchase.
(4) Each classroom teacher receiving funds allocated under this
section shall sign, and the district distributing funds to the classroom
teacher shall retain for no less than 4 years, a statement that includes all of
the following:
(a) An acknowledgment of the receipt of funds.
(b) An agreement to retain receipts for no less than 4 years for
all materials and supplies purchased on behalf of the district.
(c) An agreement to pay any federal, state, or local tax due if
receipts for purchases are not retained or if any item purchased with funds
under this section is determined to be disallowed under this section.
(d) An agreement to reimburse the district for purchases
determined to be disallowed under this section.
(e) An agreement to return all unused funds to the district at the
end of the regular school year.
(5) Districts shall return any unexpended funds to the department
not later than September 30, 2021 in a manner prescribed by the department.
(6) Classroom teachers may opt out of receiving funds allocated
under this section.
(7) Districts may retain up to 2% of funds received under
subsection (2) for the purposes of administering this section.
(8) Notwithstanding section 17b, grant payments under this section
shall be paid on a schedule determined by the department.
(9) As used in this section:
(a) “Classroom materials and supplies” means day-to-day items used
for instruction and student learning. This includes, but is not limited to,
paper, pens, pencils, pencil sharpeners, highlighters, classroom books,
worksheets, arts and crafts materials, charts, maps, globes, posters, flash
cards, ink and toner for printers, and flash drives. Equipment, furniture, and
electronics are not considered classroom materials and supplies for the
purposes of this section.
(b) “Classroom teacher” means a full-time or part-time teacher
with an assigned class. For the purposes of this section, classroom teacher
does not include substitute teachers, paraprofessionals, support staff, or
administrators, as determined by department in collaboration with the center.
Sec. 99h. (1) From the state school aid fund appropriation in
section 11, there is allocated an amount not to exceed $4,700,000.00 for 2019-2020
2020-2021 for competitive grants
to districts and intermediate districts, that provide pupils in grades K to 12
with expanded opportunities to improve mathematics, science, and technology
skills by participating in events hosted by a science and technology
development program known as FIRST (for inspiration and recognition of science
and technology) Robotics, including JR FIRST Lego League, FIRST Lego League,
FIRST Tech challenge, and FIRST Robotics competition, or other competitive
robotics programs, including VEX and those hosted by the Robotics Education and
Competition (REC) Foundation. Programs funded under this section are intended
to increase the number of pupils demonstrating proficiency in science and
mathematics on the state assessments and to increase the number of pupils who
are college- and career-ready upon high school graduation. Notwithstanding
section 17b, the department shall make grant payments to districts, and intermediate
districts under this section on a schedule determined by the department. The
department shall set maximum grant awards for each different level of programming
and competition in a manner that both maximizes the number of teams that
will be able to receive funds and expands the geographical distribution of
teams.
(2) A district, or intermediate district applying for a grant
under this section shall submit an application in a form and manner determined
by the department. To be eligible for a grant, a district, or intermediate
district shall demonstrate in its application that the district, or
intermediate district has established a partnership for the purposes of the
robotics program with at least 1 sponsor, business entity, higher education
institution, or technical school, shall submit a spending plan, and shall pay
provide a local in-kind or cash match from other private or local funds
of at least 25% of the cost of the robotics program award.
(3) The department shall distribute the grant funding under this
section for the following purposes:
(a) Grants to districts, or intermediate districts to pay for
stipends not to exceed $1,500.00 for 1 coach per team. per building
for coaching.
(b) Grants to districts, or intermediate districts for event registrations,
materials, travel costs, and other expenses associated with the preparation for
and attendance at robotics events and competitions. Each grant recipient
shall provide a local match from other private or local funds for the funds
received under this subdivision equal to at least 50% of the costs of
participating in an event.
(c) Grants to districts, or intermediate districts for awards to
teams that advance to the state and world championship competitions. next
levels of competition, as determined by the department. The department
shall determine an equal amount per team for those teams that advance. to
the state championship and a second equal award amount to those teams that
advance to the world championship.
(6) The funds allocated under this section for 2018-2019 are a
work project appropriation, and any unexpended funds for 2018-2019 are carried
forward into 2019-2020. The purpose of the work project is to continue support
of FIRST Robotics and must not be used to support other robotics competitions.
The estimated completion date of the work project is September 30, 2021.
Sec. 99s. (1) From the funds appropriated under section 11, there
is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021
an amount not to exceed $7,634,300.00 from the state school aid fund
appropriation and an amount not to exceed $300,000.00 from the general fund
appropriation for Michigan science, technology, engineering, arts, and
mathematics (MiSTEM) (MiSTEAM) programs. In addition, from the
federal funds appropriated in section 11, there is allocated to the
department for 2019-2020 2020-2021
an amount estimated at $235,000.00 from DED-OESE, title II, mathematics and
science partnership grants. The MiSTEM MiSTEAM network may receive funds from private sources. If the MiSTEM
MiSTEAM network receives
funds from private sources, the MiSTEM MiSTEAM network shall expend those funds in alignment with the
statewide STEM STEAM
strategy. Programs funded under this section are intended to increase the
number of pupils demonstrating proficiency in science and mathematics on the
state assessments, and to increase the number of pupils who are
college- and career-ready upon high school graduation, and to promote
certificate and degree attainment in STEAM fields. Notwithstanding section
17b, the department shall make payments under this section on a schedule
determined by the department.
(2) All of the following apply to the MiSTEM advisory
council:
(a) The MiSTEM advisory council is created. The MiSTEM
advisory council shall provide to the governor, legislature, department of
labor and economic opportunity, and department recommendations designed to
improve and promote innovation in STEM education and to prepare students for
careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
(b) The MiSTEM advisory council created under subdivision
(a) consists of the following members:
(i) The governor shall appoint 11 voting members who are
representative of business sectors that are important to Michigan's economy and
rely on a STEM-educated workforce, nonprofit organizations and associations
that promote STEM education, K-12 and postsecondary education entities involved
in STEM-related career education, or other sectors as considered appropriate by
the governor. Each of these members serves at the pleasure of the governor and
for a term determined by the governor.
(ii) The senate majority leader shall appoint 2 members of
the senate to serve as nonvoting, ex-officio members of the MiSTEM advisory
council, including 1 majority party member and 1 minority party member.
(iii) The speaker of the house of representatives shall
appoint 2 members of the house of representatives to serve as nonvoting,
ex-officio members of the MiSTEM advisory council, including 1 majority party
member and 1 minority party member.
(iv) The governor shall appoint 1 state officer or employee
to serve as a nonvoting, ex-officio member of the MiSTEM advisory council.
(c) Each member of the MiSTEM advisory council serves
without compensation.
(d) The MiSTEM advisory council annually shall review and
make recommendations to the governor, the legislature, and the department
concerning changes to the statewide strategy adopted by the council for
delivering STEM education-related opportunities to pupils. The MiSTEM advisory
council shall use funds received under this subsection to ensure that its
members or their designees are trained in the Change the Equation STEMworks
rating system program for the purpose of rating STEM programs.
(2) (e) The MiSTEM advisory MI-STEM council shall make
specific funding recommendations for the funds allocated under subsection (3)
by December 15 of each fiscal year. Each specific funding recommendation must
be for a program approved by the MiSTEM advisory MI-STEM council.
(a) To be eligible for MiSTEM advisory MI-STEM council
approval, a program must satisfy all of the following:
(i) Align with this state's academic standards.
(ii) Have STEMworks certification.
(iii) Provide project-based experiential learning,
student programming, or educator professional learning experiences.
(iv) Focus predominantly on classroom-based STEM STEAM
experiences or professional learning experiences.
(b) (f) The MiSTEM advisory MI-STEM council
shall approve programs that represent all network regions and include a diverse
array of options for students and educators and at least 1 program in each of
the following areas:
(i) Robotics.
(ii) Computer science or coding.
(iii) Engineering or bioscience.
(c) (g) The MiSTEM advisory MI-STEM council is
encouraged to work with the MiSTEM MiSTEAM network to develop
locally and regionally developed programs and professional learning experiences
for the programs on the list of approved programs.
(d) (h) If the MiSTEM advisory MI-STEM council is unable
to make specific funding recommendations by December 15 of a fiscal year, the
department shall award and distribute the funds allocated under subsection (3)
on a competitive grant basis that at least follows the statewide STEM STEAM
strategy plan and rating system recommended by the MiSTEM advisory MI-STEM
council. Each grant must provide STEM education-related opportunities for
pupils.
(i) The MiSTEM advisory council shall work with the
executive director of the MiSTEM network to implement the statewide STEM
strategy adopted by the MiSTEM advisory council.
(e) The MI-STEM council shall work with the department of
labor and economic opportunity to implement a statewide STEAM strategy.
(3) From the state school
aid fund money allocated under subsection (1), there is allocated for 2019-2020
2020-2021 an amount not to
exceed $3,050,000.00 for the purpose of funding programs under this section for
2019-2020, 2020-2021, as
recommended by the MiSTEM advisory MI-STEM council.
(4) From the school aid fund allocation under subsection (1),
there is allocated an amount not to exceed $3,834,300.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 to support the activities and
programs of the MiSTEM MiSTEAM
network regions. In addition, from the federal funds allocated under subsection
(1), there is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount estimated at $235,000.00 from DED-OESE, title
II, mathematics and science partnership grants, for the purposes of this
subsection. From the money allocated under this subsection, the department
shall award the fiscal agent for each MiSTEM MiSTEAM network region $200,000.00 for the base operations of each
region. The department shall distribute the remaining funds to each fiscal
agent in an equal amount per pupil, based on the number of K to 12 pupils
enrolled in districts within each region in the immediately preceding fiscal
year.
(5) A MiSTEM MiSTEAM
network region shall do all of the following:
(a) Collaborate with the career and educational advisory council
that is located in the MiSTEM MiSTEAM
network region to develop a regional strategic plan for STEM STEAM education that creates a robust
regional STEM STEAM culture,
that empowers STEM STEAM
teachers, that integrates business and education into the STEM STEAM network, and that ensures
high-quality STEM STEAM
experiences for pupils. At a minimum, a regional STEM STEAM strategic plan should do all of
the following:
(i) Identify regional employer need for STEM. STEAM.
(ii) Identify processes for regional employers and
educators to create guided pathways for STEM STEAM careers that include internships or externships,
apprenticeships, and other experiential engagements for pupils.
(iii) Identify educator professional development learning
opportunities, including internships or externships and apprenticeships, that
integrate this state’s science standards into high-quality STEM STEAM experiences that engage pupils.
(b) Facilitate regional STEM STEAM events such as educator and employer networking and STEM STEAM career fairs to raise STEM STEAM awareness.
(c) Contribute to the MiSTEM MiSTEAM website and engage in other MiSTEM MiSTEAM network functions to further
the mission of STEM STEAM in
this state in coordination with the MiSTEM advisory MI-STEM
council and its executive director. the department of labor and
economic opportunity.
(d) Facilitate application and implementation of state and federal
funds under this subsection and any other grants or funds for the MiSTEM MiSTEAM network region.
(e) Work with districts to provide STEM STEAM programming and professional
learning.
(f) Coordinate recurring discussions and work with the career and
educational advisory council to ensure that feedback and best practices are
being shared, including funding, program, professional learning opportunities,
and regional strategic plans.
(6) From the school aid funds allocated under subsection (1), the
department shall distribute for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed $750,000.00, in a form and manner
determined by the department, to those MiSTEAM network regions
able to provide curriculum and professional development support to assist
districts in implementing the Michigan merit curriculum components for
mathematics and science. further the statewide STEAM strategy
recommended by the MI-STEM council.
(7) In order to receive state or federal funds under subsection
(4) or (6), or to receive funds from private sources as authorized under
subsection (1), a grant recipient must allow access for the department or the
department’s designee to audit all records related to the program for which it
receives those funds. The grant recipient shall reimburse the state for all
disallowances found in the audit.
(8) In order to receive state funds under subsection (4) or (6), a
grant recipient must provide at least a 10% local match from local public or
private resources for the funds received under this subsection.
(9) Not later than July 1, 2019 and July 1 of each year,
thereafter, a MiSTEM MiSTEAM
network region that receives funds under subsection (4) shall report to the executive
director of the MiSTEM network department of labor and economic
opportunity in a form and manner prescribed by the executive director department
of labor and economic opportunity on performance measures developed by the MiSTEM
MiSTEAM network regions and
approved by the executive director. department of labor and economic
opportunity. The performance measures must be designed to ensure that the
activities of the MiSTEM MiSTEAM
network are improving student academic outcomes.
(10) Not more than 5% of a MiSTEM MiSTEAM network region grant under subsection (4) or (6) may be
retained by a fiscal agent for serving as the fiscal agent of a MiSTEM MiSTEAM network region.
(11) From the general fund allocation under subsection (1), there
is allocated an amount not to exceed $300,000.00 to the department of technology,
management, and budget labor and economic opportunity to support the
functions of the executive director and executive assistant the staff
for the MiSTEM MiSTEAM network, and for administrative, training,
and travel costs related to the MiSTEM advisory MI-STEM council.
The executive director and executive assistant staff for the MiSTEM
MiSTEAM network shall do all of
the following:
(a) Serve as a liaison among and between the department, the
department of technology, management, and budget, labor and economic
opportunity, the MiSTEM advisory MI-STEM council, the
governor’s future talent council, the MiSTEM MiSTEAM regions, and any other relevant organization or entity in a
manner that creates a robust statewide STEM STEAM culture, that empowers STEM STEAM teachers, that integrates business and education into the STEM
STEAM network, and that ensures
high-quality STEM STEAM
experiences for pupils.
(b) Coordinate the implementation of a marketing campaign,
including, but not limited to, a website that includes dashboards of outcomes,
to build STEM STEAM awareness
and communicate STEM STEAM
needs and opportunities to pupils, parents, educators, and the business
community.
(c) Work with the department and the MiSTEM advisory MI-STEM
council to coordinate, award, and monitor MiSTEM MiSTEAM state and federal grants to the MiSTEM MiSTEAM network regions and conduct
reviews of grant recipients, including, but not limited to, pupil experience
and feedback.
(d) Report to the governor, the legislature, the department, and
the MiSTEM advisory MI-STEM council
annually on the activities and performance of the MiSTEM MiSTEAM network regions.
(e) Coordinate recurring discussions and work with regional staff
to ensure that a network or loop of feedback and best practices are shared,
including funding, programming, professional learning opportunities, discussion
of MiSTEM MiSTEAM strategic
vision, and regional objectives.
(f) Coordinate major grant application efforts with the MiSTEM
advisory MI-STEM council to assist regional staff with grant
applications on a local level. The MiSTEM advisory MI-STEM council
shall leverage private and nonprofit relationships to coordinate and align
private funds in addition to funds appropriated under this section.
(g) Train state and regional staff in the STEMworks rating system,
in collaboration with the MiSTEM advisory MI-STEM council and the
department.
(h) Hire MiSTEM MiSTEAM
network region staff in collaboration with the network region fiscal agent.
(12) As used in this section:
(a) “Career and educational advisory council” means an advisory
council to the local workforce development boards located in a prosperity
region consisting of educational, employer, labor, and parent representatives.
(b) “DED” means the United States Department of Education.
(c) “DED-OESE” means the DED Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.
(d) “MI-STEM council” means the Michigan Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics Education Advisory Council created under Executive
Order, No. 2019-13.
(e) (d)
“STEM” “STEAM” means science, technology, engineering, arts,
and mathematics delivered in an integrated fashion using cross-disciplinary
learning experiences that can include language arts, performing and fine
arts, and career and technical education.
Sec. 101. (1) To be eligible to receive state aid under this article,
not later than the fifth Wednesday after the pupil membership count day and not
later than the fifth Wednesday after the supplemental count day, each district
superintendent shall submit and certify to the center and the intermediate
superintendent, in the form and manner prescribed by the center, the number of
pupils enrolled and in regular daily attendance, including identification of
tuition-paying pupils, in the district as of the pupil membership count day and
as of the supplemental count day, as applicable, for the current school year.
In addition, a district maintaining school during the entire year shall submit
and certify to the center and the intermediate superintendent, in the form and
manner prescribed by the center, the number of pupils enrolled and in regular
daily attendance in the district for the current school year pursuant to rules
promulgated by the superintendent. Not later than the sixth Wednesday after the
pupil membership count day and not later than the sixth Wednesday after the supplemental
count day, the district shall resolve any pupil membership conflicts with
another district, correct any data issues, and recertify the data in a form and
manner prescribed by the center and file the certified data with the
intermediate superintendent. If a district fails to submit and certify the
attendance data, as required under this subsection, the center shall notify the
department and the department shall withhold state aid due to be distributed
under this article from the defaulting district immediately, beginning with the
next payment after the failure and continuing with each payment until the
district complies with this subsection. If a district does not comply with this
subsection by the end of the fiscal year, the district forfeits the amount
withheld. A person who willfully falsifies a figure or statement in the
certified and sworn copy of enrollment is subject to penalty as prescribed by
section 161.
(2) To be eligible to receive state aid under this article, not
later than the twenty-fourth Wednesday after the pupil membership count day and
not later than the twenty-fourth Wednesday after the supplemental count day, an
intermediate district shall submit to the center, in a form and manner
prescribed by the center, the audited enrollment and attendance data for the
pupils of its constituent districts and of the intermediate district. If an
intermediate district fails to submit the audited data as required under this
subsection, the department shall withhold state aid due to be distributed under
this article from the defaulting intermediate district immediately, beginning
with the next payment after the failure and continuing with each payment until
the intermediate district complies with this subsection. If an intermediate
district does not comply with this subsection by the end of the fiscal year,
the intermediate district forfeits the amount withheld.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (11) and (12), all
of the following apply to the provision of pupil instruction:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, each district
shall provide at least 1,098 hours and 180 days of pupil instruction.
If a collective bargaining
agreement that provides a complete school calendar was in effect for employees
of a district as of June 24, 2014, and if that school calendar is not in
compliance with this subdivision, then this subdivision does not apply to that
district until after the expiration of that collective bargaining agreement. A
district may apply for a waiver under subsection (9) from the requirements of
this subdivision.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this article, a district
failing to comply with the required minimum hours and days of pupil instruction
under this subsection forfeits from its total state aid allocation an amount
determined by applying a ratio of the number of hours or days the district was
in noncompliance in relation to the required minimum number of hours and days
under this subsection. Not later than August 1, the board of each district
shall either certify to the department that the district was in full compliance
with this section regarding the number of hours and days of pupil instruction
in the previous school year, or report to the department, in a form and manner
prescribed by the center, each instance of noncompliance. If the district did
not provide at least the required minimum number of hours and days of pupil
instruction under this subsection, the department shall make the deduction of
state aid in the following fiscal year from the first payment of state school
aid. A district is not subject to forfeiture of funds under this subsection for
a fiscal year in which a forfeiture was already imposed under subsection (6).
(c) Hours or days lost because of strikes or teachers’ conferences
are not counted as hours or days of pupil instruction.
(d) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (e) and (f), if a
district does not have at least 75% of the district’s membership in attendance
on any day of pupil instruction, the department shall pay the district state
aid in that proportion of 1/180 that the actual percent of attendance bears to
75%.
(e) If a district adds 1 or more days of pupil instruction to the
end of its instructional calendar for a school year to comply with subdivision
(a) because the district otherwise would fail to provide the required minimum
number of days of pupil instruction even after the operation of subsection (4)
due to conditions not within the control of school authorities, then
subdivision (d) does not apply for any day of pupil instruction that is added
to the end of the instructional calendar. Instead, for any of those days, if
the district does not have at least 60% of the district’s membership in
attendance on that day, the department shall pay the district state aid in that
proportion of 1/180 that the actual percentage of attendance bears to 60%. For
any day of pupil instruction added to the instructional calendar as described
in this subdivision, the district shall report to the department the percentage
of the district’s membership that is in attendance, in the form and manner
prescribed by the department.
(f) At the request of a district that operates a
department-approved alternative education program and that does not provide
instruction for pupils in all of grades K to 12, the superintendent shall grant
a waiver from the requirements of subdivision (d). The waiver must provide that
an eligible district is subject to the proration provisions of subdivision (d)
only if the district does not have at least 50% of the district’s membership in
attendance on any day of pupil instruction. In order to be eligible for this
waiver, a district must maintain records to substantiate its compliance with
the following requirements:
(i) The district offers the minimum hours of pupil
instruction as required under this section.
(ii) For each enrolled pupil, the district uses appropriate
academic assessments to develop an individual education plan that leads to a
high school diploma.
(iii) The district tests each pupil to determine academic
progress at regular intervals and records the results of those tests in that
pupil’s individual education plan.
(g) All of the following apply to a waiver granted under
subdivision (f):
(i) If the waiver is for a blended model of delivery, a
waiver that is granted for the 2011-2012 fiscal year or a subsequent fiscal
year remains in effect unless it is revoked by the superintendent.
(ii) If the waiver is for a 100% online model of delivery
and the educational program for which the waiver is granted makes educational
services available to pupils for a minimum of at least 1,098 hours during a
school year and ensures that each pupil participates in the educational program
for at least 1,098 hours during a school year, a waiver that is granted for the
2011-2012 fiscal year or a subsequent fiscal year remains in effect unless it
is revoked by the superintendent.
(iii) A waiver that is not a waiver described in
subparagraph (i) or (ii) is valid for 1 3 fiscal year
years and must be renewed annually at the end of the
three-year period to remain in effect, unless it is revoked by the
superintendent.
(h) The superintendent shall promulgate rules for the
implementation of this subsection.
(4) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the first 6
days or the equivalent number of hours for which pupil instruction is not
provided because of conditions not within the control of school authorities,
such as severe storms, fires, epidemics, utility power unavailability, water or
sewer failure, or health conditions as defined by the city, county, or state
health authorities, are counted as hours and days of pupil instruction. For
2018-2019 only, in addition to these 6 days, if pupil instruction is not
provided on 1 or more days that are included in a period for which the governor
has issued an executive order declaring a state of emergency across this state,
upon request by a district to the superintendent of public instruction, in a
form and manner prescribed by the department, that 1 or more of those days and
the equivalent number of hours count as days and hours of pupil instruction,
the department shall count those requested days and the equivalent number of
hours as days and hours of pupil instruction for the purposes of this section.
For 2018-2019, the days included in the executive order are January 29, 2019 to
February 2, 2019. With the approval of the superintendent of public
instruction, the department shall count as hours and days of pupil instruction
for a fiscal year not more than 3 additional days or the equivalent number of
additional hours for which pupil instruction is not provided in a district due
to unusual and extenuating occurrences resulting from conditions not within the
control of school authorities such as those conditions described in this subsection.
Subsequent such hours or days are not counted as hours or days of pupil
instruction.
(5) A district does not forfeit part of its state aid
appropriation because it adopts or has in existence an alternative scheduling
program for pupils in kindergarten if the program provides at least the number
of hours required under subsection (3) for a full-time equated membership for a
pupil in kindergarten as provided under section 6(4).
(6) In addition to any other penalty or forfeiture under this
section, if at any time the department determines that 1 or more of the
following have occurred in a district, the district forfeits in the current
fiscal year beginning in the next payment to be calculated by the department a
proportion of the funds due to the district under this article that is equal to
the proportion below the required minimum number of hours and days of pupil
instruction under subsection (3), as specified in the following:
(a) The district fails to operate its schools for at least the
required minimum number of hours and days of pupil instruction under subsection
(3) in a school year, including hours and days counted under subsection (4).
(b) The board of the district takes formal action not to operate
its schools for at least the required minimum number of hours and days of pupil
instruction under subsection (3) in a school year, including hours and days
counted under subsection (4).
(7) In providing the minimum number of hours and days of pupil
instruction required under subsection (3), a district shall use the following
guidelines, and a district shall maintain records to substantiate its
compliance with the following guidelines:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a pupil must
be scheduled for at least the required minimum number of hours of instruction,
excluding study halls, or at least the sum of 90 hours plus the required
minimum number of hours of instruction, including up to 2 study halls.
(b) The time a pupil is assigned to any tutorial activity in a
block schedule may be considered instructional time, unless that time is
determined in an audit to be a study hall period.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, a pupil in
grades 9 to 12 for whom a reduced schedule is determined to be in the
individual pupil’s best educational interest must be scheduled for a number of
hours equal to at least 80% of the required minimum number of hours of pupil
instruction to be considered a full-time equivalent pupil. A pupil in grades 9
to 12 who is scheduled in a 4-block schedule may receive a reduced schedule
under this subsection if the pupil is scheduled for a number of hours equal to
at least 75% of the required minimum number of hours of pupil instruction to be
considered a full-time equivalent pupil.
(d) If a pupil in grades 9 to 12 who is enrolled in a cooperative
education program or a special education pupil cannot receive the required
minimum number of hours of pupil instruction solely because of travel time
between instructional sites during the school day, that travel time, up to a
maximum of 3 hours per school week, is considered to be pupil instruction time
for the purpose of determining whether the pupil is receiving the required
minimum number of hours of pupil instruction. However, if a district
demonstrates to the satisfaction of the department that the travel time
limitation under this subdivision would create undue costs or hardship to the
district, the department may consider more travel time to be pupil instruction
time for this purpose.
(e) In grades 7 through 12, instructional time that is part of a
Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program is considered to be pupil
instruction time regardless of whether the instructor is a certificated teacher
if all of the following are met:
(i) The instructor has met all of the requirements
established by the United States Department of Defense and the applicable
branch of the armed services for serving as an instructor in the Junior Reserve
Officer Training Corps program.
(ii) The board of the district or intermediate district
employing or assigning the instructor complies with the requirements of
sections 1230 and 1230a of the revised school code, MCL 380.1230 and 380.1230a,
with respect to the instructor to the same extent as if employing the
instructor as a regular classroom teacher.
(8) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (11) and (12), the
department shall apply the guidelines under subsection (7) in calculating the
full-time equivalency of pupils.
(9) Upon application by the district for a particular fiscal year,
the superintendent shall waive for a district the minimum number of hours and
days of pupil instruction requirement of subsection (3) for a
department-approved alternative education program or another innovative program
approved by the department, including a 4-day school week. If a district
applies for and receives a waiver under this subsection and complies with the
terms of the waiver, the district is not subject to forfeiture under this
section for the specific program covered by the waiver. If the district does
not comply with the terms of the waiver, the amount of the forfeiture is
calculated based upon a comparison of the number of hours and days of pupil
instruction actually provided to the minimum number of hours and days of pupil instruction
required under subsection (3). A district shall report pupils enrolled in a
department-approved alternative education program under this subsection to the
center in a form and manner determined by the center. All of the following
apply to a waiver granted under this subsection:
(a) If the waiver is for a blended model of delivery, a waiver
that is granted for the 2011-2012 fiscal year or a subsequent fiscal year
remains in effect unless it is revoked by the superintendent.
(b) If the waiver is for a 100% online model of delivery and the
educational program for which the waiver is granted makes educational services
available to pupils for a minimum of at least 1,098 hours during a school year
and ensures that each pupil is on track for course completion at proficiency
level, a waiver that is granted for the 2011-2012 fiscal year or a subsequent
fiscal year remains in effect unless it is revoked by the superintendent.
(c) A waiver that is not a waiver described in subdivision (a) or
(b) is valid for 1 3 fiscal year years and must be
renewed annually at the end of the three-year period to remain in
effect, unless it is revoked by the superintendent.
(10) A district may count up to 38 hours of qualifying
professional development for teachers as hours of pupil instruction.
All of the following apply
to the counting of qualifying professional development as pupil instruction
under this subsection:
(a) If qualifying professional development exceeds 5 hours in a
single day, that day may be counted as a day of pupil instruction.
(b) At least 8 hours of the qualifying professional development
counted as hours of pupil instruction under this subsection must be recommended
by a districtwide professional development advisory committee appointed by the
district board. The advisory committee must be composed of teachers employed by
the district who represent a variety of grades and subject matter
specializations, including special education; nonteaching staff; parents; and
administrators. The majority membership of the committee shall be composed of
teaching staff.
(c) Professional development provided online is allowable and
encouraged, as long as the instruction has been approved by the district. The
department shall issue a list of approved online professional development
providers, which must include the Michigan Virtual School.
(d) Qualifying professional development may only be counted as
hours of pupil instruction for the pupils of those teachers scheduled to
participate in the qualifying professional development.
(e) For professional development to be considered qualifying
professional development under this subsection, the professional development
must meet all of the following:
(i) Is aligned to the school or district improvement plan
for the school or district in which the professional development is being
provided.
(ii) Is linked to 1 or more criteria in the evaluation tool
developed or adopted by the district or intermediate district under section
1249 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1249.
(iii) Has been approved by the department as counting for
state continuing education clock hours. The number of hours of professional
development counted as hours of pupil instruction may not exceed the number of
state continuing education clock hours for which the qualifying professional
development was approved.
(iv) Not more than a combined total of 10 hours of the
professional development takes place before the first scheduled day of school
for the school year ending in the fiscal year and after the last scheduled day
of school for that school year.
(v) No more than 10 hours of qualifying professional
development takes place in a single month.
(vi) At least 75% of teachers scheduled to participate in
the professional development are in attendance.
(11) Subsections (3) and (8) do not apply to a school of
excellence that is a cyber school, as defined in section 551 of the revised
school code, MCL 380.551, and is in compliance with section 553a of the revised
school code, MCL 380.553a.
(12) Subsections (3) and (8) do not apply to eligible pupils
enrolled in a dropout recovery program that meets the requirements of section
23a. As used in this subsection, “eligible pupil” means that term as defined in
section 23a.
(13) At least every 2 years the superintendent shall review the
waiver standards set forth in the pupil accounting and auditing manuals to
ensure that the waiver standards and waiver process continue to be appropriate
and responsive to changing trends in online learning. The superintendent shall
solicit and consider input from stakeholders as part of this review.
Sec. 104. (1) In order to receive state aid under this article, a
district shall comply with sections 1249, 1278a, 1278b, 1279, 1279g, and 1280b
of the revised school code, MCL 380.1249, 380.1278a, 380.1278b, 380.1279,
380.1279g, and 380.1280b, and 1970 PA 38, MCL 388.1081 to 388.1086. Subject to
subsection (2), from the state school aid fund money appropriated in section
11, there is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed $32,009,400.00 for payments on
behalf of districts for costs associated with complying with those provisions
of law. In addition, from the federal funds appropriated in section 11, there
is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021
an amount estimated at $6,250,000.00,
funded from DED-OESE, title VI, state assessment funds, and from DED-OSERS,
section 504 of part B of the individuals with disabilities education act,
Public Law 94-142, plus any carryover federal funds from previous year
appropriations, for the purposes of complying with the every student succeeds
act, Public Law 114-95.
(2) The results of each test administered as part of the Michigan
student test of educational progress (M-STEP), including tests administered to
high school students, must include an item analysis that lists all items that
are counted for individual pupil scores and the percentage of pupils choosing
each possible response. The department shall work with the center to identify
the number of students enrolled at the time assessments are given by each
district. In calculating the percentage of pupils assessed for a district’s
scorecard, the department shall use only the number of pupils enrolled in the
district at the time the district administers the assessments and shall exclude
pupils who enroll in the district after the district administers the
assessments.
(3) The department shall distribute federal funds allocated under
this section in accordance with federal law and with flexibility provisions
outlined in Public Law 107-116, and in the education flexibility partnership
act of 1999, Public Law 106-25.
(4) From the funds allocated in subsection (1), there is allocated
an amount not to exceed $2,500,000.00 to an intermediate district described in
this subsection for statewide implementation of the Michigan kindergarten entry
observation tool (MKEO) beginning in the fall of 2019, utilizing the
Maryland-Ohio observational tool, also referred to as the Kindergarten
Readiness Assessment, as piloted under this subsection in 2017-2018 and
implemented in 2018-2019 and 2019-2020. The funding in this subsection is
allocated to an intermediate district in prosperity region 9 with at least
3,000 kindergarten pupils enrolled in its constituent districts. All of the
following apply to the implementation of the kindergarten entry observation
tool under this subsection:
(a) The department, in collaboration with all intermediate
districts, shall ensure that the Michigan kindergarten entry observation tool
is administered in each kindergarten classroom to either the full census of
kindergarten pupils enrolled in the classroom or to a representative sample of
not less than 35% of the total kindergarten pupils enrolled in each classroom.
If a district elects to administer the Michigan kindergarten entry observation
tool to a random sample of pupils within each classroom, the district’s
intermediate district shall select the pupils who will receive the assessment
based on the same random method. Beginning in 2020, the The
observation tool must be administered within 45 days after the start of the
school year.
(b) The intermediate district that receives funding under this
subsection, in collaboration with all other intermediate districts, shall
implement a “train the trainer” professional development model on the usage of the
Michigan kindergarten entry observation tool. This training model must provide
training to intermediate district staff so that they may provide similar
training for staff of their constituent districts. This training model must
also ensure that the tool produces reliable data and that there are a
sufficient number of trainers to train all kindergarten teachers statewide.
(c) By March 1, 2021, and each year thereafter, the department and
the intermediate district that receives funding under this subsection shall
report to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on school aid, the
house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director on the results
of the statewide implementation, including, but not limited to, an evaluation
of the demonstrated readiness of kindergarten pupils statewide and the
effectiveness of state and federal early childhood programs that are designed
for school readiness under this state’s authority, including the great start
readiness program and the great start readiness/Head Start blended program, as
referenced under section 32d. By September 1, 2021, and each year thereafter,
the department and the center shall provide a method for districts and public
school academies with kindergarten enrollment to look up and verify their
student enrollment data for pupils who were enrolled in a publicly funded early
childhood program in the year before kindergarten, including the individual
great start readiness program, individual great start readiness/Head Start
blended program, individual title I preschool program, individual section 31a
preschool program, individual early childhood special education program, or
individual developmental kindergarten or program for young 5-year-olds in which
each tested child was enrolled. A participating district shall analyze the data
to determine whether high-performing children were enrolled in any specific
early childhood program and, if so, report that finding to the department and
to the intermediate district that receives funding under this subsection.
(d) The department shall approve the language and literacy domain
within the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment for use by districts as an initial
assessment that may be delivered to all kindergarten pupils to assist with
identifying any possible area of concern for a pupil in English language arts.
(e) As used in this subsection:
(i) “Kindergarten” includes a classroom for young
5-year-olds, commonly referred to as “young 5s” or “developmental
kindergarten”.
(ii) “Representative sample” means a sample capable of
producing valid and reliable assessment information on all or major subgroups
of kindergarten pupils in a district.
(5) The department may recommend, but may not require, districts
to allow pupils to use an external keyboard with tablet devices for online
M-STEP testing, including, but not limited to, open-ended test items such as
constructed response or equation builder items.
(6) Notwithstanding section 17b, the department shall make
payments on behalf of districts, intermediate districts, and other eligible
entities under this section on a schedule determined by the department.
(7) From the allocation in subsection (1), there is allocated an
amount not to exceed $500,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for the operation of an online reporting tool to provide
student-level assessment data in a secure environment to educators, parents,
and pupils immediately after assessments are scored. The department and the
center shall ensure that any data collected by the online reporting tool do not
provide individually identifiable student data to the federal government.
(8) As used in this section:
(a) “DED” means the United States Department of Education.
(b) “DED-OESE” means the DED Office of Elementary and Secondary
Education.
(c) “DED-OSERS” means the DED Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services.
Sec. 107. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated an amount not to exceed $30,000,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for adult education programs
authorized under this section. Except as otherwise provided under subsections
(14) and (15), funds allocated under this section are restricted for adult
education programs as authorized under this section only. A recipient of funds
under this section shall not use those funds for any other purpose.
(2) To be eligible for funding under this section, an eligible
adult education provider shall employ certificated teachers and qualified
administrative staff and shall offer continuing education opportunities for
teachers to allow them to maintain certification.
(3) To be eligible to be a participant funded under this section,
an individual must be enrolled in an adult basic education program, an adult
secondary education program, an adult English as a second language program, a
high school equivalency test preparation program, or a high school completion
program, that meets the requirements of this section, and for which instruction
is provided, and the individual must be at least 18 years of age and the
individual’s graduating class must have graduated.
(4) By April 1 of each fiscal year, the intermediate districts
within a prosperity region or subregion shall determine which intermediate
district will serve as the prosperity region’s or subregion’s fiscal agent for
the next fiscal year and shall notify the department in a form and manner
determined by the department. The department shall approve or disapprove of the
prosperity region’s or subregion’s selected fiscal agent. From the funds
allocated under subsection (1), an amount as determined under this subsection
is allocated to each intermediate district serving as a fiscal agent for adult
education programs in each of the prosperity regions or subregions identified
by the department. An intermediate district shall not use more than 5% of the
funds allocated under this subsection for administration costs for serving as
the fiscal agent. Beginning in 2019-2020, the The allocation
provided to each intermediate district serving as a fiscal agent is an amount
equal to what the intermediate district received in 2018-2019. The funding
factors for this section are as follows:
(a) Sixty percent of this portion of the funding is distributed
based upon the proportion of the state population of individuals between the
ages of 18 and 24 that are not high school graduates that resides in each of
the prosperity regions or subregions, as reported by the most recent 5-year
estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) from the United States
Census Bureau.
(b) Thirty-five percent of this portion of the funding is
distributed based upon the proportion of the state population of individuals
age 25 or older who are not high school graduates that resides in each of the
prosperity regions or subregions, as reported by the most recent 5-year
estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) from the United States
Census Bureau.
(c) Five percent of this portion of the funding is distributed
based upon the proportion of the state population of individuals age 18 or
older who lack basic English language proficiency that resides in each of the
prosperity regions or subregions, as reported by the most recent 5-year
estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) from the United States
Census Bureau.
(5) To be an eligible fiscal agent, an intermediate district must
agree to do the following in a form and manner determined by the department:
(a) Distribute funds to adult education programs in a prosperity
region or subregion as described in this section.
(b) Collaborate with the career and educational advisory council,
which is an advisory council of the workforce development boards located in the
prosperity region or subregion, or its successor, to develop a regional
strategy that aligns adult education programs and services into an efficient
and effective delivery system for adult education learners, with special
consideration for providing contextualized learning and career pathways and
addressing barriers to education and employment.
(c) Collaborate with the career and educational advisory council,
which is an advisory council of the workforce development boards located in the
prosperity region or subregion, or its successor, to create a local process and
criteria that will identify eligible adult education providers to receive funds
allocated under this section based on location, demand for services, past
performance, quality indicators as identified by the department, and cost to
provide instructional services. The fiscal agent shall determine all local
processes, criteria, and provider determinations. However, the local processes,
criteria, and provider services must be approved by the department before funds
may be distributed to the fiscal agent.
(d) Provide oversight to its adult education providers throughout
the program year to ensure compliance with the requirements of this section.
(e) Report adult education program and participant data and
information as prescribed by the department.
(6) An adult basic education program, an adult secondary education
program, or an adult English as a second language program operated on a
year-round or school year basis may be funded under this section, subject to
all of the following:
(a) The program enrolls adults who are determined by a
department-approved assessment, in a form and manner prescribed by the
department, to be below twelfth grade level in reading or mathematics, or both,
or to lack basic English proficiency.
(b) The program tests individuals for eligibility under
subdivision (a) before enrollment and upon completion of the program in
compliance with the state-approved assessment policy.
(c) A participant in an adult basic education program is eligible
for reimbursement until 1 of the following occurs:
(i) The participant’s reading and mathematics proficiency
are assessed at or above the ninth grade level.
(ii) The participant fails to show progress on 2 successive
assessments after having completed at least 450 hours of instruction.
(d) A participant in an adult secondary education program is
eligible for reimbursement until 1 of the following occurs:
(i) The participant’s reading and mathematics proficiency
are assessed above the twelfth grade level.
(ii) The participant fails to show progress on 2 successive
assessments after having at least 450 hours of instruction.
(e) A funding recipient enrolling a participant in an English as a
second language program is eligible for funding according to subsection (9)
until the participant meets 1 of the following:
(i) The participant is assessed as having attained basic
English proficiency as determined by a department-approved assessment.
(ii) The participant fails to show progress on 2 successive
department-approved assessments after having completed at least 450 hours of
instruction. The department shall provide information to a funding recipient
regarding appropriate assessment instruments for this program.
(7) A high school equivalency test preparation program operated on
a year-round or school year basis may be funded under this section, subject to
all of the following:
(a) The program enrolls adults who do not have a high school
diploma or a high school equivalency certificate.
(b) The program administers a pre-test approved by the department
before enrolling an individual to determine the individual’s literacy levels, administers
a high school equivalency practice test to determine the individual’s potential
for success on the high school equivalency test, and administers a post-test
upon completion of the program in compliance with the state-approved assessment
policy.
(c) A funding recipient receives funding according to subsection
(9) for a participant, and a participant may be enrolled in the program until 1
of the following occurs:
(i) The participant achieves a high school equivalency
certificate.
(ii) The participant fails to show progress on 2 successive
department-approved assessments used to determine readiness to take a high
school equivalency test after having completed at least 450 hours of
instruction.
(8) A high school completion program operated on a year-round or
school year basis may be funded under this section, subject to all of the
following:
(a) The program enrolls adults who do not have a high school
diploma.
(b) The program tests participants described in subdivision (a)
before enrollment and upon completion of the program in compliance with the
state-approved assessment policy.
(c) A funding recipient receives funding according to subsection
(9) for a participant in a course offered under this subsection until 1 of the
following occurs:
(i) The participant passes the course and earns a high
school diploma.
(ii) The participant fails to earn credit in 2 successive
semesters or terms in which the participant is enrolled after having completed
at least 900 hours of instruction.
(9) The department shall make payments to a funding recipient
under this section in accordance with all of the following:
(a) Statewide allocation criteria, including 3-year average
enrollments, census data, and local needs.
(b) Participant completion of the adult basic education objectives
by achieving an educational gain as determined by the national reporting system
levels; for achieving basic English proficiency, as determined by the
department; for achieving a high school equivalency certificate or passage of 1
or more individual high school equivalency tests; for attainment of a high
school diploma or passage of a course required for a participant to attain a
high school diploma; for enrollment in a postsecondary institution, or for
entry into or retention of employment, as applicable.
(c) Participant completion of core indicators as identified in the
innovation and opportunity act.
(d) Allowable expenditures.
(10) A person who is not eligible to be a participant funded under
this section may receive adult education services upon the payment of tuition.
In addition, a person who is not eligible to be served in a program under this
section due to the program limitations specified in subsection (6), (7), or (8)
may continue to receive adult education services in that program upon the
payment of tuition. The local or intermediate district conducting the program
shall determine the tuition amount.
(11) An individual who is an inmate in a state correctional
facility is not counted as a participant under this section.
(12) A funding recipient shall not commingle money received under
this section or from another source for adult education purposes with any other
funds and shall establish a separate ledger account for funds received under
this section. This subsection does not prohibit a district from using general
funds of the district to support an adult education or community education
program.
(13) A funding recipient receiving funds under this section may
establish a sliding scale of tuition rates based upon a participant’s family
income. A funding recipient may charge a participant tuition to receive adult
education services under this section from that sliding scale of tuition rates
on a uniform basis. The amount of tuition charged per participant must not
exceed the actual operating cost per participant minus any funds received under
this section per participant. A funding recipient may not charge a participant
tuition under this section if the participant’s income is at or below 200% of
the federal poverty guidelines published by the United States Department of
Health and Human Services.
(14) In order to receive funds under this section, a funding
recipient shall furnish to the department, in a form and manner determined by
the department, all information needed to administer this program and meet
federal reporting requirements; shall allow the department or the department’s
designee to review all records related to the program for which it receives
funds; and shall reimburse the state for all disallowances found in the review,
as determined by the department. In addition, a funding recipient shall agree
to pay to a career and technical education program under section 61a the amount
of funding received under this section in the proportion of career and
technical education coursework used to satisfy adult basic education
programming, as billed to the funding recipient by programs operating under
section 61a. In addition to the funding allocated under subsection (1), there
is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021
an amount not to exceed $500,000.00 to reimburse funding recipients for
administrative and instructional expenses associated with commingling
programming under this section and section 61a. The department shall make
payments under this subsection to each funding recipient in the same proportion
as funding calculated and allocated under subsection (4).
(15) From the amount appropriated in subsection (1), an amount not
to exceed $4,000,000.00 is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for grants to adult education or state approved career
technical center programs that connect adult education participants with
employers as provided under this subsection. The department shall determine the
amount of the grant to each program under this subsection, not to exceed
$350,000.00. To be eligible for funding under this subsection, a program must
provide a collaboration linking adult education programs within the county, the
area career technical center, and local employers. To receive funding under
this subsection, an eligible program must satisfy all of the following:
(a) Connect adult education participants directly with employers
by linking adult education, career and technical skills, and workforce
development.
(b) Require adult education staff to work with Michigan Works!
agency to identify a cohort of participants who are most prepared to
successfully enter the workforce. Participants identified under this subsection
must be dually enrolled in adult education programming and in at least 1 state
approved technical course at the area career and technical center.
(c) Employ an individual staffed as an adult education navigator
who will serve as a caseworker for each participant identified under
subdivision (b). The navigator shall work with adult education staff and
potential employers to design an educational program best suited to the
personal and employment needs of the participant and shall work with human
service agencies or other entities to address any barrier in the way of
participant access.
(d) Enroll adult education participants that are actively working
toward obtaining a high school diploma or a high school equivalency
certificate. Up to 10% of participants may already have a high school diploma
or a high school equivalency certificate at the time of enrolling and are
seeking remediation services.
(16) A program that was a pilot program in 2017-2018 and that
was funded under this section in 2017-2018 is funded in 2019-2020 unless the
program ceases operation. The intermediate district in which that pilot
program was funded is the fiscal agent for that program and shall apply for
that program’s funding under subsection (15).
(17) Each program funded under subsection (15) will receive
funding for 3 years. After 3 years of operations and funding, a program must
reapply for funding.
(18) Not later than December 1, 2020, By December 1 of
each year, a program funded under subsection (15) shall provide a report to
the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on school aid, to the senate
and house fiscal agencies, and to the state budget director identifying the
number of participants, graduation rates, and a measure of transition to
employment.
(19) The department shall approve at least 3 high school
equivalency tests and determine whether a high school equivalency certificate
meets the requisite standards for high school equivalency in this state.
(20) As used in this section:
(a) “Career and educational advisory council” means an advisory
council to the local workforce development boards located in a prosperity
region consisting of educational, employer, labor, and parent representatives.
(b) “Career pathway” means a combination of rigorous and
high-quality education, training, and other services that comply with all of
the following:
(i) Aligns with the skill needs of industries in the
economy of this state or in the regional economy involved.
(ii) Prepares an individual to be successful in any of a
full range of secondary or postsecondary education options, including
apprenticeships registered under the act of August 16, 1937 (commonly known as
the “national apprenticeship act”), 29 USC 50 et seq.
(iii) Includes counseling to support an individual in
achieving the individual’s education and career goals.
(iv) Includes, as appropriate, education offered
concurrently with and in the same context as workforce preparation activities
and training for a specific occupation or occupational cluster.
(v) Organizes education, training, and other services to
meet the particular needs of an individual in a manner that accelerates the
educational and career advancement of the individual to the extent practicable.
(vi) Enables an individual to attain a secondary school
diploma or its recognized equivalent, and at least 1 recognized postsecondary
credential.
(vii) Helps an individual enter or advance within a
specific occupation or occupational cluster.
(c) “Department” means the department of labor and economic
opportunity.
(d) “Eligible adult education provider” means a district,
intermediate district, a consortium of districts, a consortium of intermediate
districts, or a consortium of districts and intermediate districts that is
identified as part of the local process described in subsection (5)(c) and
approved by the department.
Sec. 147. (1) The allocation for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for the public school
employees’ retirement system pursuant to the public school employees retirement
act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437, is made using the individual
projected benefit entry age normal cost method of valuation and risk
assumptions adopted by the public school employees retirement board and the
department of technology, management, and budget.
(2) The annual level percentage of payroll contribution rates for
the 2019-2020 2020-2021
fiscal year, as determined by the retirement system, are estimated as follows:
(a) For public school employees who first worked for a public
school reporting unit before July 1, 2010 and who are enrolled in the health
premium subsidy, the annual level percentage of payroll contribution rate is
estimated at 39.91%, 42.72%,
with 27.50% 28.21% paid
directly by the employer.
(b) For public school employees who first worked for a public
school reporting unit on or after July 1, 2010 and who are enrolled in the
health premium subsidy, the annual level percentage of payroll contribution
rate is estimated at 36.96%, 39.76%,
with 24.55% 25.25% paid
directly by the employer.
(c) For public school employees who first worked for a public
school reporting unit on or after July 1, 2010 and who participate in the
personal healthcare fund, the annual level percentage of payroll contribution
rate is estimated at 36.44%, 38.90%,
with 24.03% 24.39% paid
directly by the employer.
(d) For public school employees who first worked for a public
school reporting unit on or after September 4, 2012, who elect defined
contribution, and who participate in the personal healthcare fund, the annual
level percentage of payroll contribution rate is estimated at 33.37% 35.47% with 20.96% paid directly by the
employer.
(e) For public school employees who first worked for a public
school reporting unit before July 1, 2010, who elect defined contribution, and
who are enrolled in the health premium subsidy, the annual level percentage of
payroll contribution rate is estimated at 33.89% 36.33% with 21.48% 21.82%
paid directly by the employer.
(f) For public school employees who first worked for a public
school reporting unit before July 1, 2010, who elect defined contribution, and
who participate in the personal healthcare fund, the annual level percentage of
payroll contribution rate is estimated at 33.37%, 35.47%, with 20.96% paid directly by the employer.
(g) For public school employees who first worked for a public
school reporting unit before July 1, 2010 and who participate in the personal
healthcare fund, the annual level percentage of payroll contribution rate is
estimated at 39.39%, 41.86%,
with 26.98% 27.35% paid
directly by the employer.
(h) For public school employees who first worked for a public
school reporting unit after January 31, 2018 and who elect to become members of
the MPSERS plan, the annual level percentage of payroll contribution rate is
estimated at 39.57% 41.67%
with 27.16% paid directly by the employer.
(3) In addition to the employer payments described in subsection
(2), the employer shall pay the applicable contributions to the Tier 2 plan, as
determined by the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300,
MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437.
(4) The contribution rates in subsection (2) reflect an
amortization period of 19 18 years for 2019-2020. 2020-2021. The public school employees’
retirement system board shall notify each district and intermediate district by
February 28 of each fiscal year of the estimated contribution rate for the next
fiscal year.
Sec. 147a. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021
an amount not to exceed $100,000,000.00 for payments to participating
districts. A participating district that receives money under this subsection
shall use that money solely for the purpose of offsetting a portion of the
retirement contributions owed by the district for the fiscal year in which it
is received. The amount allocated to each participating district under this
subsection is based on each participating district’s percentage of the total
statewide payroll for all participating districts for the immediately preceding
fiscal year. As used in this subsection, “participating district” means a
district that is a reporting unit of the Michigan public school employees’
retirement system under the public school employees retirement act of 1979,
1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437, and that reports employees to the Michigan
public school employees’ retirement system for the applicable fiscal year.
(2) In addition to the allocation under subsection (1), from the
state school aid fund money appropriated under section 11, there is allocated
an amount not to exceed $171,986,000.00 $180,136,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for payments to participating districts and intermediate
districts and from the general fund money appropriated under section 11, there
is allocated an amount not to exceed $83,000.00 $70,000.00 for 2019-2020 2020-2021 for payments to participating district libraries. The
amount allocated to each participating entity under this subsection is based on
each participating entity’s percentage of the total statewide payroll for
that type of participating entity for the immediately preceding fiscal year. reported
quarterly payroll for members that became Tier 1 prior to February 1, 2018 for
the current fiscal year. A participating entity that receives money under
this subsection shall use that money solely for the purpose of offsetting a
portion of the normal cost contribution rate. As used in this subsection:
(a) “District library” means a district library established under
the district library establishment act, 1989 PA 24, MCL 397.171 to 397.196.
(b) “Participating entity” means a district, intermediate
district, or district library that is a reporting unit of the Michigan public
school employees’ retirement system under the public school employees
retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437, and that reports
employees to the Michigan public school employees’ retirement system for the
applicable fiscal year.
Sec. 147c. From the appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021
an amount not to exceed $1,030,400,000.00 $1,219,300,000.00 from the state school aid fund for payments to
districts and intermediate districts that are participating entities of the
Michigan public school employees’ retirement system. In addition, from the
general fund money appropriated in section 11, there is allocated for 2019-2020
2020-2021 an amount not to
exceed $500,000.00 for payments to district libraries that are participating
entities of the Michigan public school employees’ retirement system. All of the
following apply to funding under this subsection:
(a) For 2019-2020, 2020-2021,
the amounts allocated under this subsection are estimated to provide an average
MPSERS rate cap per pupil amount of $693.00 $827.00 and are estimated to provide a rate cap per pupil for
districts ranging between $4.00 $5.00
and $4,000.00.
(b) Payments made under this subsection are equal to the
difference between the unfunded actuarial accrued liability contribution rate
as calculated pursuant to section 41 of the public school employees retirement
act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1341, as calculated without taking into
account the maximum employer rate of 20.96% included in section 41 of the
public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1341, and
the maximum employer rate of 20.96% included in section 41 of the public school
employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1341.
(c) The amount allocated to each participating entity under this
subsection is based on each participating entity’s proportion of the total
covered payroll for the immediately preceding fiscal year for the same type of
participating entities. A participating entity that receives funds under this
subsection shall use the funds solely for the purpose of retirement
contributions as specified in subdivision (d).
(d) Each participating entity receiving funds under this
subsection shall forward an amount equal to the amount allocated under
subdivision (c) to the retirement system in a form, manner, and time frame
determined by the retirement system.
(e) Funds allocated under this subsection should be considered
when comparing a district’s growth in total state aid funding from 1 fiscal
year to the next.
(f) Not later than December 20, 2019, 2020, the
department shall publish and post on its website an estimated MPSERS rate cap
per pupil for each district.
(g) The office of retirement services shall first apply funds
allocated under this subsection to pension contributions and, if any funds remain
after that payment, shall apply those remaining funds to other postemployment
benefit contributions.
(h) As used in this section:
(i) “District library” means a district library established
under the district library establishment act, 1989 PA 24, MCL 397.171 to
397.196.
(ii) “MPSERS rate cap per pupil” means an amount equal to
the quotient of the district’s payment under this subsection divided by the
district’s pupils in membership.
(iii) “Participating entity” means a district, intermediate
district, or district library that is a reporting unit of the Michigan public
school employees’ retirement system under the public school employees
retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437, and that reports
employees to the Michigan public school employees’ retirement system for the
applicable fiscal year.
(iv) “Retirement board” means the board that administers
the retirement system under the public school employees retirement act of 1979,
1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437.
(v) “Retirement system” means the Michigan public school
employees’ retirement system under the public school employees retirement act
of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437.
Sec. 147e. (1) From the appropriation in section 11, there is
allocated for 2018-2019 an amount not to exceed $30,000,000.00 from the
MPSERS retirement obligation reform reserve fund, and there is allocated for
2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount
not to exceed $1,900,000.00 from the MPSERS retirement obligation reform
reserve fund and $40,671,000.00 $51,400,000.00
from the state school aid fund for payments to participating entities.
(2) The payment to each participating entity under this section is
the sum of the amounts under this subsection as follows:
(a) An amount equal to the contributions made by a participating
entity for the additional contribution made to a qualified participant’s Tier 2
account in an amount equal to the contribution made by the qualified
participant not to exceed 3% of the qualified participant’s compensation as
provided for under section 131(6) of the public school employees retirement act
of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1431.
(b) Beginning October 1, 2017, an amount equal to the
contributions made by a participating entity for a qualified participant who is
only a Tier 2 qualified participant under section 81d of the public school
employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1381d, not to exceed 4%,
and, beginning February 1, 2018, not to exceed 1%, of the qualified
participant’s compensation.
(c) An amount equal to the increase in employer normal cost
contributions under section 41b(2) of the public school employees retirement
act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1341b, for a member that was hired after
February 1, 2018 and chose to participate in Tier 1, compared to the employer
normal cost contribution for a member under section 41b(1) of the public school
employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1341b.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) “Member” means that term as defined under the public school
employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437.
(b) “Participating entity” means a district, intermediate
district, or community college that is a reporting unit of the Michigan public
school employees’ retirement system under the public school employees
retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437, and that reports
employees to the Michigan public school employees’ retirement system for the
applicable fiscal year.
(c) “Qualified participant” means that term as defined under
section 124 of the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300,
MCL 38.1424.
Sec. 152a. (1) As required by the court in the consolidated cases
known as Adair v State of Michigan, 486 Mich 468 (2010), from the state school
aid fund money appropriated in section 11, there is allocated for 2019-2020 2020-2021 an amount not to exceed
$38,000,500.00 to be used solely for the purpose of paying necessary costs
related to the state-mandated collection, maintenance, and reporting of data to
this state.
(2) From the allocation in subsection (1), the department shall
make payments to districts and intermediate districts in an equal amount
per-pupil based on the total number of pupils in membership in each district
and intermediate district. The department shall not make any adjustment to
these payments after the final installment payment under section 17b is made.
Sec. 163. (1) Except as provided in the revised school code, the
board of a district or intermediate district shall not permit any of the
following:
(a) Except for an individual engaged to teach under section
1233b of the revised school code, MCL 380.1233b, an An individual
who does not hold a is not appropriately placed under a valid
certificate, or who is not working under a valid substitute
permit, authorization, or approval issued under rules promulgated by the
department to teach in an elementary or secondary school.
(b) An individual who does not satisfy the requirements of section
1233 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1233, and rules promulgated by the
department to provide school counselor services to pupils in an elementary or
secondary school.
(c) An individual who does not satisfy the requirements of section
1246 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1246, or who is not working under a
valid substitute permit issued under rules promulgated by the department, to be
employed as a superintendent, principal, or assistant principal, or as an
individual whose primary responsibility is to administer instructional programs
in an elementary or secondary school, or in a district or intermediate
district.
(2) Except as provided in the revised school code, a district or
intermediate district employing individuals in violation of this section shall
have deducted the sum equal to the amount paid the individuals for the period
of employment. Each intermediate superintendent shall notify the department of
the name of the individual employed in violation of this section, and the
district employing that individual and the amount of salary the individual was
paid within a constituent district.
(3) If a school official is notified by the department that he or
she is employing an individual in violation of this section and knowingly
continues to employ that individual, the school official is guilty of a
misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $1,500.00 for each incidence. This penalty
is in addition to all other financial penalties otherwise specified in this
article.
Article II
State Aid to Community
Colleges
Sec. 201. (1) Subject to the
conditions set forth in this article, the amounts listed in this section are
appropriated for community colleges for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020
2021, from the funds indicated in this section. The following is a
summary of the appropriations in this section:
(a) The gross appropriation is $414,719,000.00
$433,792,400.00. After deducting total interdepartmental grants and
intradepartmental transfers in the amount of $0.00, the adjusted gross
appropriation is $414,719,000.00 $433,792,400.00.
(b) The sources of the adjusted
gross appropriation described in subdivision (a) are as follows:
(i) Total
federal revenues, $0.00.
(ii) Total local
revenues, $0.00.
(iii) Total
private revenues, $0.00.
(iv) Total other
state restricted revenues, $414,719,000.00 $433,792,400.00.
(v) State
general fund/general purpose money, $0.00.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), the
amount appropriated for community college operations is $325,473,400.00 $333,564,800.00,
allocated as follows:
(a) The appropriation for Alpena
Community College is $5,772,600.00 $5,953,600.00, $5,696,800.00
$5,753,300.00 for operations, $56,500.00 $181,000.00
for performance funding, and $19,300.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(b) The appropriation for Bay de
Noc Community College is $5,740,700.00 $5,955,300.00, $5,548,600.00
$5,602,800.00 for operations, $54,200.00 $214,600.00 for
performance funding, and $137,900.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(c) The appropriation for Delta
College is $15,201,400.00 $15,548,300.00, $15,058,600.00 $15,160,500.00
for operations, $101,900.00 $346,900.00 for performance funding,
and $40,900.00 for costs incurred under the North American Indian tuition
waiver.
(d) The appropriation for Glen Oaks
Community College is $2,652,400.00 $2,768,400.00, $2,616,600.00
$2,651,200.00 for operations, $34,600.00 $116,000.00
for performance funding, and $1,200.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(e) The appropriation for Gogebic
Community College is $4,933,600.00 $5,077,300.00, $4,828,700.00
$4,873,700.00 for operations, $45,000.00 $143,700.00
for performance funding, and $59,900.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(f) The appropriation for Grand
Rapids Community College is $19,013,400.00 $19,499,900.00, $18,628,700.00
$18,773,100.00 for operations, $144,400.00 $486,500.00
for performance funding, and $240,300.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(g) The appropriation for Henry
Ford College is $22,574,700.00 $23,067,200.00, $22,382,000.00 $22,533,100.00
for operations, $151,100.00 $492,500.00 for performance funding,
and $41,600.00 for costs incurred under the North American Indian tuition
waiver.
(h) The appropriation for Jackson
College is $12,802,900.00 $13,065,200.00, $12,679,800.00 $12,756,200.00
for operations, $76,400.00 $262,300.00 for performance funding,
and $46,700.00 for costs incurred under the North American Indian tuition
waiver.
(i) The appropriation for Kalamazoo
Valley Community College is $13,155,900.00 $13,465,100.00, $13,009,500.00
$13,099,900.00 for operations, $90,400.00 $309,200.00
for performance funding, and $56,000.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(j) The appropriation for Kellogg
Community College is $10,346,500.00 $10,580,300.00, $10,199,600.00
$10,267,100.00 for operations, $67,500.00 $233,800.00
for performance funding, and $79,400.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(k) The appropriation for Kirtland
Community College is $3,393,000.00 $3,486,000.00, $3,311,600.00
$3,358,400.00 for operations, $46,800.00 $93,000.00
for performance funding, and $34,600.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(l) The appropriation for
Lake Michigan College is $5,714,000.00 $5,868,000.00, $5,663,300.00
$5,702,700.00 for operations, $39,400.00 $154,000.00 for
performance funding, and $11,300.00 for costs incurred under the North American
Indian tuition waiver.
(m) The appropriation for Lansing
Community College is $33,005,900.00 $33,675,500.00, $32,652,300.00
$32,852,000.00 for operations, $199,700.00 $669,600.00
for performance funding, and $153,900.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(n) The appropriation for Macomb
Community College is $34,312,100.00 $35,093,600.00, $34,043,100.00
$34,276,100.00 for operations, $233,000.00 $781,500.00
for performance funding, and $36,000.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(o) The appropriation for Mid
Michigan Community College is $5,324,500.00 $5,595,300.00, $5,100,400.00
$5,184,400.00 for operations, $84,000.00 $270,800.00
for performance funding, and $140,100.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(p) The appropriation for Monroe
County Community College is $4,747,100.00 $4,869,900.00, $4,706,500.00
$4,746,200.00 for operations, $39,700.00 $122,800.00
for performance funding, and $900.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(q) The appropriation for Montcalm
Community College is $3,576,300.00 $3,718,000.00, $3,541,400.00
$3,570,600.00 for operations, $29,200.00 $141,700.00
for performance funding, and $5,700.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(r) The appropriation for C.S. Mott
Community College is $16,453,400.00 $16,824,500.00, $16,325,800.00
$16,440,000.00 for operations, $114,200.00 $371,100.00
for performance funding, and $13,400.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(s) The appropriation for Muskegon
Community College is $9,366,400.00 $9,569,800.00, $9,230,500.00
$9,289,100.00 for operations, $58,600.00 $203,400.00
for performance funding, and $77,300.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(t) The appropriation for North
Central Michigan College is $3,567,200.00 $3,669,000.00, $3,358,100.00
$3,389,300.00 for operations, $31,200.00 $101,800.00
for performance funding, and $177,900.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(u) The appropriation for
Northwestern Michigan College is $9,813,800.00 $10,031,200.00, $9,503,400.00
$9,567,100.00 for operations, $63,700.00 $217,400.00
for performance funding, and $246,700.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(v) The appropriation for Oakland
Community College is $22,235,400.00 $22,792,300.00, $22,033,100.00
$22,211,700.00 for operations, $178,600.00 $556,900.00
for performance funding, and $23,700.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(w) The appropriation for
Schoolcraft College is $13,263,200.00 $13,620,000.00, $13,080,600.00
$13,196,200.00 for operations, $115,600.00 $356,800.00
for performance funding, and $67,000.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(x) The appropriation for
Southwestern Michigan College is $7,019,100.00 $7,156,600.00, $6,932,700.00
$6,979,400.00 for operations, $46,700.00 $137,500.00
for performance funding, and $39,700.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(y) The appropriation for St. Clair
County Community College is $7,393,700.00 $7,588,100.00, $7,329,600.00
$7,385,200.00 for operations, $55,600.00 $194,400.00
for performance funding, and $8,500.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(z) The appropriation for Washtenaw
Community College is $13,886,900.00 $14,327,600.00, $13,730,300.00
$13,855,900.00 for operations, $125,600.00 $440,700.00
for performance funding, and $31,000.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(aa) The appropriation for Wayne County
Community College is $17,601,900.00 $18,005,800.00, $17,459,700.00
$17,593,400.00 for operations, $133,700.00 $403,900.00
for performance funding, and $8,500.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(bb) The appropriation for West
Shore Community College is $2,605,400.00 $2,693,000.00, $2,566,100.00
$2,585,600.00 for operations, $19,500.00 $87,600.00
for performance funding, and $19,800.00 for costs incurred under the North
American Indian tuition waiver.
(3) The amount appropriated in
subsection (2) for community college operations is $325,473,400.00 $333,564,800.00
and is appropriated from the state school aid fund.
(4) From the appropriations
described in subsection (1), both of the following apply:
(a) Subject to section 207a, the
amount appropriated for fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021 to offset
certain fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021 retirement contributions
is $1,733,600.00, appropriated from the state school aid fund.
(b) For fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021,
there is allocated an amount not to exceed $12,212,000.00 $12,394,000.00
for payments to participating community colleges, appropriated from the
state school aid fund. A community college that receives money under this
subdivision shall use that money solely for the purpose of offsetting the
normal cost contribution rate.
(5) From the appropriations
described in subsection (1), subject to section 207b, the amount appropriated
for payments to community colleges that are participating entities of the
retirement system is $73,100,000.00 $83,900,000.00, appropriated
from the state school aid fund.
(6) From the appropriations
described in subsection (1), subject to section 207c, the amount appropriated
for renaissance zone tax reimbursements is $2,200,000.00, appropriated from the
state school aid fund. Each community college receiving funds in this
subsection shall accrue these payments to its institutional fiscal year ending
June 30, 2021.
Sec. 202a. As used in this article:
(a) "Center" means the center
for educational performance and information created in section 94a.
(b) "Michigan renaissance zone
act" means the Michigan renaissance zone act, 1996 PA 376, MCL 125.2681 to
125.2696.
(c) "Participating
college" means a community college that is a reporting unit of the
retirement system and that reports employees to the retirement system for the
state fiscal year.
(d) "Retirement board"
means the board that administers the retirement system under the public school
employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437.
(e) "Retirement system"
means the Michigan public school employees' retirement system under the public
school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437.
(f) "Workforce development
agency" means the workforce development agency within the department of
talent and economic development--talent investment agency
Sec. 203. Unless otherwise
specified, a community college that receives appropriations in section 201,
the workforce development agency, and the center shall use the internet to
fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This requirement may include
transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients identified for
each reporting requirement or it may include placement of reports on an
internet or intranet site.
Sec. 204. To the extent possible
under MCL 388.1804:
(a) Funds
appropriated in section 201 shall not be used for the purchase of foreign goods
or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality
American goods or services, or both, are available.
(b) Preference
should be given to goods or services, or both, manufactured or provided by
Michigan businesses, if they are competitively priced and of comparable
quality.
(c) In addition,
preference Preference should be given to goods or
services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses that
are owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of
comparable quality.
Sec. 205. The To the
extent possible under 388.1805, the principal executive officer of each
community college that receives appropriations in section 201 shall take all
reasonable steps to ensure businesses in deprived and depressed communities
compete for and perform contracts to provide services or supplies, or both.
Each principal executive officer shall strongly encourage businesses with which
the community college contracts to subcontract with certified businesses in
depressed and deprived communities for services or supplies, or both.
Sec. 206. (1) The funds
appropriated in section 201 are appropriated for community colleges with fiscal
years ending June 30, 2020 2021 and shall be paid out of the
state treasury and distributed by the state treasurer to the respective
community colleges in 11 monthly installments on the sixteenth of each month,
or the next succeeding business day, beginning with October 16, 2019 2020.
Each community college shall accrue its July and August 2020 2021 payments
to its institutional fiscal year ending June 30, 2020 2021. Each
community college receiving funds in section 201 (6) for renaissance zone tax
reimbursements shall accrue these payments to its institutional fiscal year
ending June 30, 2021.
(2) If the state budget director
determines that a community college failed to submit any of the information
described in subdivisions (a) to (f) in the form and manner specified by the
center, the state treasurer shall, subject to subdivision (g), withhold the
monthly installments from that community college until those data are
submitted:
(a) The Michigan community colleges
verified data inventory data for the preceding academic year to the center by
the first business day of November of each year as specified in section 217.
(b) The college credit opportunity
data set as specified in section 209.
(c) The longitudinal data set for
the preceding academic year to the center as specified in section 219.
(d) The annual independent audit as
specified in section 222.
(e) Tuition and mandatory fees
information for the current academic year as specified in section 225.
(f) The number and type of
associate degrees and other certificates awarded during the previous academic
year as specified in section 226.
(g) The state budget director shall
notify the chairs of the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on
community colleges at least 10 days before withholding funds from any community
college.
Sec. 207a. All of the following
apply to the allocation of the fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021 appropriations
described in section 201(4):
(a) A community college that
receives money under section 201(4) shall use that money solely for the purpose
of offsetting a portion of the retirement contributions owed by the college for
that fiscal year.
(b) The amount allocated to each
participating community college under section 201(4) shall be based on each
college’s percentage of the total covered payroll for all community colleges
that are participating colleges in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
Sec. 207b. All of the following
apply to the allocation of the fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021 appropriations
described in section 201(5) for payments to community colleges that are
participating entities of the retirement system:
(a) The amount of a payment under
section 201(5) shall be the difference between the unfunded actuarial accrued
liability contribution rate as calculated under section 41 of the public school
employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1341, as calculated
without taking into account the maximum employer rate of 20.96% included in
section 41 of the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300,
MCL 38.1341, and the maximum employer rate of 20.96% under section 41 of the
public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1341.
(b) The amount allocated to each
community college under section 201(5) shall be based on each community
college’s percentage of the total covered payroll for all community colleges
that are participating colleges in the immediately preceding fiscal year. A
community college that receives funds under this subdivision shall use the
funds solely for the purpose of retirement contributions under section 201(5).
(c) Each participating college that
receives funds under section 201(5) shall forward an amount equal to the amount
allocated under subdivision (b) to the retirement system in a form and manner
determined by the retirement system.
Sec. 207c. All of the following
apply to the allocation of the appropriations described in section 201(6) to
community colleges described in section 12(3) of the Michigan renaissance zone
act, 1996 PA 376, MCL 125.2692:
(a) The amount allocated to each
community college under section 201(6) for fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021
shall be based on that community college’s proportion of total revenue lost
by community colleges as a result of the exemption of property taxes levied in 2019
2020 under the Michigan renaissance zone act, 1996 PA 376, MCL
125.2681 to 125.2696.
(b) The appropriations described in
section 201(6) shall be made to each eligible community college within 60 days
after the department of treasury certifies to the state budget director that it
has received all necessary information to properly determine the amounts
payable to each eligible community college under section 12 of the Michigan
renaissance zone act, 1996 PA 376, MCL 125.2692.
Sec. 209. (1) Within 30 days after
the board of a community college adopts its annual operating budget for the
following fiscal year, or after the board adopts a subsequent revision to that
budget, the community college shall make all of the following available through
a link on its website homepage:
(a) The annual operating budget and
subsequent budget revisions.
(b) A link to the most recent
“Michigan Community College Data Inventory Report”.
(c) General fund revenue and
expenditure projections for the current fiscal year and the next fiscal year.
(d) A listing of all debt service
obligations, detailed by project, anticipated payment of each project, and
total outstanding debt for the current fiscal year.
(e) Links to all of the following
for the community college:
(i) The current
collective bargaining agreement for each bargaining unit.
(ii) Each health
care benefits plan, including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision,
disability, long-term care, or any other type of benefits that would constitute
health care services, offered to any bargaining unit or employee of the
community college.
(iii) Audits and financial reports for
the most recent fiscal year for which they are available.
(iv) A copy of the board of trustees
resolution regarding compliance with best practices for the local strategic
value component described in section 230(2).
(f) A map that includes the
boundaries of the community college district.
(2) For statewide consistency and
public visibility, community colleges must use the icon badge provided by the
department of technology, management, and budget consistent with the
icon badge developed by the department of education for K-12 school districts.
It must appear on the front of each community college’s homepage. The size of
the icon may be reduced to 150 x 150 pixels.
(3) The state budget director shall
determine whether a community college has complied with this section. The state
budget director may withhold a community college’s monthly installments
described in section 206 until the community college complies with this
section. The state budget director shall notify the chairs of the house and
senate appropriations subcommittee on community colleges at least 10 days
before withholding funds from any community college.
(4) Each community college shall report the following
information to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on community
colleges, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget office by
November 15 of each fiscal year and post that information on its website as
required under subsection (1):
(a) Budgeted current fiscal year
general fund revenue from tuition and fees.
(b) Budgeted current fiscal year
general fund revenue from state appropriations.
(c) Budgeted current fiscal year
general fund revenue from property taxes.
(d) Budgeted current fiscal year
total general fund revenue.
(e) Budgeted current fiscal year
total general fund expenditures.
(5)
By
the first business day of November of each year, a community college shall
report the following information to the center and post the information on its
website under the budget transparency icon badge:
(a) Opportunities for earning
college credit through the following programs:
(i) State
approved career and technical education or a tech prep articulated program of
study.
(ii) Direct
college credit or concurrent enrollment.
(iii) Dual
enrollment.
(iv) An early
college/middle college program.
(b) For each program described in
subdivision (a) that the community college offers, all of the following
information:
(i) The number
of high school students participating in the program.
(ii) The number
of school districts that participate in the program with the community college.
(iii) Whether a
college professor, qualified local school district employee, or other
individual teaches the course or courses in the program.
(iv) The total
cost to the community college to operate the program.
(v) The cost
per credit hour for the course or courses in the program.
(vi) The
location where the course or courses in the program are held.
(vii)
Instructional resources offered to the program instructors.
(viii) Resources
offered to the student in the program.
(ix)
Transportation services provided to students in the program.
Sec. 209a. (1) A public community
college shall develop, maintain, and update a “campus safety information and
resources” link, prominently displayed on the homepage of its website, to a
section of its website containing all of the information required under
subsection (2).
(2) The “campus safety information
and resources” section of a public community college’s website shall include,
but not be limited to, all of the following information:
(a) Emergency contact numbers for
police, fire, health, and other services.
(b) Hours, locations, phone
numbers, and electronic mail contacts for campus public safety offices and
title IX offices.
(c) A list of safety and security
services provided by the community college, including transportation, escort
services, building surveillance, anonymous tip lines, and other available
security services.
(d) A public community college’s
policies applicable to minors on community college property.
(e) A directory of resources
available at the community college or surrounding community for students or
employees who are survivors of sexual assault or sexual abuse.
(f) An electronic copy of “A
Resource Handbook for Campus Sexual Assault Survivors, Friends and Family”,
published in 2018 by the office of the governor in conjunction with the first
lady of Michigan.
(g) Campus security policies and crime
statistics pursuant to the student right-to-know and campus security act,
Public Law 101-542, 104 Stat 2381. Information shall include all material
prepared pursuant to the public information reporting requirements under the
crime awareness and campus security act of 1990, title II of the student
right-to-know and campus security act, Public Law 101-542, 104 Stat 2381.
(3) A community college shall
certify to the state budget director by October 1, 2019 and the last
business day of each August thereafter, 2020 that it is in
compliance with this section. The state budget director may withhold a public
community college’s monthly installments described in section 206 until the
public community college complies with this section.
Sec. 217. (1) The center shall do
all of the following:
(a) Establish, maintain, and
coordinate the state community college database commonly known as the “Michigan
Community College Data Inventory”.
(b) Collect data concerning
community colleges and community college programs in this state, including data
required by law.
(c) Establish procedures to ensure
the validity and reliability of the data and the collection process.
(d) Develop model data collection
policies, including, but not limited to, policies that ensure the privacy of
any individual student data. Privacy policies shall ensure that student social
security numbers are not released to the public for any purpose.
(e) Provide data in a useful manner
to allow state policymakers and community college officials to make informed
policy decisions.
(f) Compile and publish
electronically the demographic enrollment profile.
(g) Compile and publish the
community college performance improvement and performance completion rate data
to support the performance funding formula metrics specified in section
230(1)(c) and (e).
(2) There is created within the
center the Michigan Community College Data Inventory advisory committee. The
committee shall provide advice to the director of the center regarding the
management of the state community college database, including, but not limited
to:
(a) Determining what data are
necessary to collect and maintain to enable state and community college
officials to make informed policy decisions.
(b) Defining the roles of all
stakeholders in the data collection system.
(c) Recommending timelines for the
implementation and ongoing collection of data.
(d) Establishing and maintaining
data definitions, data transmission protocols, and system specifications and
procedures for the efficient and accurate transmission and collection of data.
(e) Establishing and maintaining a
process for ensuring the accuracy of the data.
(f) Establishing and maintaining
policies related to data collection, including, but not limited to, privacy
policies related to individual student data.
(g) Ensuring that the data are made
available to state policymakers and citizens of this state in the most useful
format possible.
(h) Addressing other matters as
determined by the director of the center or as required by law.
(3) The Michigan Community College
Data Inventory advisory committee created in subsection (2) shall consist of
the following members:
(a) One representative from the
house fiscal agency, appointed by the director of the house fiscal agency.
(b) One representative from the
senate fiscal agency, appointed by the director of the senate fiscal agency.
(d) One representative from the
center, appointed by the director of the center.
(e) One representative from the
state budget office, appointed by the state budget director.
(f) One representative from the
governor’s policy office, appointed by that office.
(g) Four representatives of the
Michigan Community College Association, appointed by the president of the
association, that represent a diverse mix of college sizes.
Sec. 225. Each community college
shall report to the center by the last business day of August of each year the
tuition and mandatory fees paid by a full-time in-district student and a
full-time out-of-district student as established by the college governing board
for the current academic year. This report should also include the annual
cost of tuition and fees based on a full-time course load of 30 credits. This
report must also specify the amount that tuition and fees have increased for
each institution from the prior academic year. Each community college shall
also report any revisions to the reported current academic year tuition and
mandatory fees adopted by the college governing board to the center within 15
days of being adopted. The center shall provide this information and any
revisions to the house and senate fiscal agencies and the state budget
director.
Sec. 226. Each community college
shall report to the center by October 15 of each year the numbers and type of
associate degrees and other certificates awarded by the community college
during the previous academic year using the for inclusion in the
statewide P-20 longitudinal data system.
Sec. 229a. Included in the fiscal
year 2019-2020 2020-2021 appropriations for the department of
technology, management, and budget are appropriations totaling $34,181,600.00
$35,696,200.00 to provide funding for the state share of costs for
previously constructed capital projects for community colleges. Those
appropriations for state building authority rent represent additional state
general fund support for community colleges, and the following is an estimate
of the amount of that support to each community college:
(a) Alpena Community College, $702,500.00
$701,800.00.
(b) Bay de Noc Community College, $679,000.00
$686,600.00.
(c) Delta College, $3,905,300.00
$3,845,000.00.
(d) Glen Oaks Community College, $123,400.00
$124,700.00.
(e) Gogebic Community College,
$56,200.00 $56,800.00.
(f) Grand Rapids Community College,
$2,208,700.00 $2,604,800.00.
(g) Henry Ford College, $1,031,000.00
$1,042,600.00.
(h) Jackson College, $2,170,400.00
$2,194,800.00.
(i) Kalamazoo Valley Community
College, $1,947,700.00 $1,969,600.00.
(j) Kellogg Community College, $715,300.00
$688,600.00.
(k) Kirtland Community College, $639,100.00
$228,200.00.
(l) Lake Michigan College, $532,300.00
$1,032,500.00.
(m) Lansing Community College, $1,144,300.00
$1,157,200.00.
(n) Macomb Community College, $1,653,900.00
$1,672,400.00.
(o) Mid Michigan Community College,
$1,619,700.00 $1,637,900.00.
(p) Monroe County Community
College, $1,604,900.00 $1,585,200.00.
(q) Montcalm Community College, $973,900.00
$984,800.00.
(r) C.S. Mott Community College, $1,808,300.00
$2,157,600.00.
(s) Muskegon Community College, $1,076,800.00
$996,000.00.
(t) North Central Michigan College,
$490,900.00 $694,700.00.
(u) Northwestern Michigan College, $1,471,300.00
$1,857,000.00.
(v) Oakland Community College, $466,400.00
$471,600.00.
(w) Schoolcraft College, $1,550,600.00
$1,770,800.00.
(x) Southwestern Michigan College, $890,100.00
$834,200.00.
(y) St. Clair County Community College,
$799,300.00 $758,600.00.
(z) Washtenaw Community College, $1,680,900.00
$1,699,800.00.
(aa) Wayne County Community
College, $1,466,300.00 $1,482,800.00.
(bb) West Shore Community College, $773,100.00
$759,600.00.
Sec. 230. (1) Money included in the
appropriations for community college operations under section 201(2) in fiscal
year 2019-2020 2020-2021 for performance funding is distributed
based on the following formula:
(a) Allocated proportionate to
fiscal year 2018-2019 2019-2020 base appropriations, 30%.
(b) Based on a weighted student
contact hour formula as provided for in the 2016 recommendations of the
performance indicators task force, 25%.
(c) Based on the performance
improvement as provided for in the 2016 recommendations of the performance
indicators task force and based on data provided by the center, 10%.
(d) Based on the performance
completion number as provided for in the 2016 recommendations of the
performance indicators task force, 10%.
(e) Based on the performance
completion rate as provided for in the 2016 recommendations of the
performance indicators task force and based on data provided by the center,
10%.
(f) Based on administrative costs,
5%.
(g) Based on the local strategic
value component, as developed in cooperation with the Michigan Community
College Association and described in subsection (2), 5%.
(h) Based on the 6 community
colleges with the lowest taxable values in the 2017-2018 Michigan community
college data inventory report, weighted by fiscal year equated students, 5%.
(2) Money included in the
appropriations for community college operations under section 201(2) for local
strategic value shall be allocated to each community college that certifies to
the state budget director, through a board of trustees resolution on or before
October 15, 2019 2020, that the college has met 4 out of 5 best
practices listed in each category described in subsection (3). The resolution
shall provide specifics as to how the community college meets each best
practice measure within each category. One-third of funding available under the
strategic value component shall be allocated to each category described in
subsection (3). Amounts distributed under local strategic value shall be on a
proportionate basis to each college’s fiscal year 2018-2019 operations funding.
Payments to community colleges that qualify for local strategic value funding
shall be distributed with the November installment payment described in section
206.
(3) For purposes of subsection (2),
the following categories of best practices reflect functional activities of
community colleges that have strategic value to the local communities and
regional economies:
(a) For Category A, economic development
and business or industry partnerships, the following:
(i) The
community college has active partnerships with local employers including
hospitals and health care providers.
(ii) The
community college provides customized on-site training for area companies,
employees, or both.
(iii) The
community college supports entrepreneurship through a small business assistance
center or other training or consulting activities targeted toward small
businesses.
(iv) The
community college supports technological advancement through industry
partnerships, incubation activities, or operation of a Michigan technical
education center or other advanced technology center.
(v) The
community college has active partnerships with local or regional workforce and
economic development agencies.
(b) For Category B, educational
partnerships, the following:
(i) The
community college has active partnerships with regional high schools,
intermediate school districts, and career-tech centers to provide instruction
through dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, direct credit, middle college,
or academy programs.
(ii) The community college hosts,
sponsors, or participates in enrichment programs for area K-12 students, such
as college days, summer or after-school programming, or Science Olympiad.
(iii) The community college provides,
supports, or participates in programming to promote successful transitions to
college for traditional age students, including grant programs such as talent
search, upward bound, or other activities to promote college readiness in area
high schools and community centers.
(iv) The
community college provides, supports, or participates in programming to promote
successful transitions to college for new or reentering adult students, such as
adult basic education, a high school equivalency test preparation program and
testing, or recruiting, advising, or orientation activities specific to adults.
As used in this subparagraph, “high school equivalency test preparation
program” means that term as defined in section 4.
(v) The
community college has active partnerships with regional 4-year colleges and
universities to promote successful transfer, such as articulation, 2+2, or
reverse transfer agreements or operation of a university center.
(c) For Category C, community
services, the following:
(i) The
community college provides continuing education programming for leisure,
wellness, personal enrichment, or professional development.
(ii) The
community college operates or sponsors opportunities for community members to
engage in activities that promote leisure, wellness, cultural or personal
enrichment such as community sports teams, theater or musical ensembles, or
artist guilds.
(iii) The
community college operates public facilities to promote cultural, educational,
or personal enrichment for community members, such as libraries, computer labs,
performing arts centers, museums, art galleries, or television or radio
stations.
(iv) The
community college operates public facilities to promote leisure or wellness
activities for community members, including gymnasiums, athletic fields, tennis
courts, fitness centers, hiking or biking trails, or natural areas.
(v) The
community college promotes, sponsors, or hosts community service activities for
students, staff, or community members.
(4) Payments for performance
funding under section 201(2) shall be made to a community college only if that
community college actively participates in the Michigan Transfer Network
sponsored by the Michigan Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions
Officers and submits timely updates, including updated course equivalencies at
least every 6 months, to the Michigan transfer network. The state budget
director shall determine if a community college has not satisfied this
requirement. The state budget director may withhold payments for performance
funding until a community college is in compliance with this section.
Sec. 231. (1) Payments under section 230 for
performance funding for fiscal year 2020-2021 shall only be made to a public
community college that certifies to the state budget director by the last
business day of August that its board will not adopt an increase in tuition and
fee rates for in-district undergraduate students for the 2020-2021 academic
year that is greater than 4.25%. As used in this subsection:
(a) "Fee" means any board-authorized
fee that will be paid by more than 1/2 of all in-district students at least
once during their enrollment at a public community college. A community college
increasing a fee that applies to a specific subset of students or courses shall
provide sufficient information to prove that the increase applied to that
subset will not cause the increase in the average amount of board-authorized
total tuition and fees paid by in-district students in the 2020-2021 academic
year to exceed the limit established in this section.
(b) "Tuition and fee rate" means the
average of full-time rates paid by a majority of students in each undergraduate
class, based on an unweighted average of the rates authorized by the community
college board and actually charged to students, deducting any uniformly rebated
or refunded amounts, for the 2 semesters with the highest levels of full-time
equated in-district enrollment during the academic year.
(2) The state budget director shall implement
uniform reporting requirements to ensure that a public community college
receiving a payment under section 230 for performance funding has satisfied the
tuition restraint requirements of this section. The state budget director shall
have the sole authority to determine if a public community college has met the
requirements of this section. Information reported by a public community
college to the state budget director under this subsection shall also be
reported to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on community
colleges and the house and senate fiscal agencies.
ARTICLE III
State Aid for Universities and Student
Financial Aid
Sec. 236. (1) Subject to the conditions set forth in
this article, the amounts listed in this section are appropriated for higher
education for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020 2021,
from the funds indicated in this section. The following is a summary of the
appropriations in this section:
(a) The gross appropriation is $1,691,395,000.00 $1,743,845,600.00.
After deducting total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental transfers
in the amount of $0.00, the adjusted gross appropriation is $1,691,395,000.00
$1,743,845,600.00.
(b) The sources of the adjusted gross appropriation
described in subdivision (a) are as follows:
(i) Total federal revenues, $134,026,400.00
$116,026,400.00.
(ii) Total local revenues, $0.00.
(iii) Total private revenues, $0.00.
(iv) Total other state restricted
revenues, $349,419,300.00 $356,063,300.00.
(v) State general fund/general purpose
money, $1,207,949,300.00 $1,271,755,900.00.
(2) Amounts appropriated for public universities are
as follows:
(a) The appropriation for Central Michigan
University is $89,227,800.00 $91,418,500.00, $87,096,900.00 $87,629,700.00
for operations, $532,800.00 $2,190,700.00 for performance
funding student affordability funding, and $1,598,100.00 for costs
incurred under the North American Indian tuition waiver.
(b) The appropriation for Eastern Michigan
University is $77,556,000.00 $79,487,300.00, $76,816,500.00 $77,253,700.00
for operations, $437,200.00 $1,931,300.00 for performance
funding student affordability funding, and $302,300.00 for
costs incurred under the North American Indian tuition waiver.
(c) The appropriation for Ferris State University is
$56,032,800.00 $57,408,400.00, $54,732,400.00 $55,025,500.00
for operations, $293,100.00 $1,375,600.00 for performance
funding student affordability funding, and $1,007,300.00 for
costs incurred under the North American Indian tuition waiver.
(d) The appropriation for Grand Valley State
University is $73,388,500.00 $75,196,300.00, $71,780,400.00 $72,313,500.00
for operations, $533,100.00 $1,807,800.00 for performance
funding student affordability funding, and $1,075,000.00 for
costs incurred under the North American Indian tuition waiver.
(e) The appropriation for Lake Superior State
University is $14,361,000.00 $14,696,200.00, $13,349,300.00 $13,407,000.00
for operations, $57,700.00 $335,200.00 for performance funding
student affordability funding, and $954,000.00 for costs
incurred under the North American Indian tuition waiver.
(f) The appropriation for Michigan State University
is $353,872,800.00 $362,682,900.00, $285,805,100.00 $287,331,700.00
for operations, $1,526,600.00 $7,183,300.00 for performance
funding student affordability funding, $1,467,700.00 for
costs incurred under the North American Indian tuition waiver, $34,937,300.00
$35,810,700.00 for MSU AgBioResearch, and $30,136,100.00 $30,889,500.00
for MSU Extension.
(g) The appropriation for Michigan Technological
University is $50,568,100.00 $51,820,600.00, $49,835,300.00 $50,101,600.00
for operations, $266,300.00 $1,252,500.00 for performance
funding student affordability funding, and $466,500.00 for
costs incurred under the North American Indian tuition waiver.
(h) The appropriation for Northern Michigan University
is $48,909,100.00 $50,104,300.00, $47,576,200.00 $47,809,100.00
for operations, $232,900.00 $1,195,200.00 for performance
funding student affordability funding, and $1,100,000.00 for
costs incurred under the North American Indian tuition waiver.
(i) The appropriation for Oakland University is $53,432,500.00
$54,761,200.00, $52,719,900.00 $53,147,400.00 for
operations, $427,500.00 $1,328,700.00 for performance funding
student affordability funding, and $285,100.00 for costs
incurred under the North American Indian tuition waiver.
(j) The appropriation for Saginaw Valley State
University is $30,807,700.00 $31,572,300.00, $30,456,500.00 $30,583,800.00
for operations, $127,300.00 $764,600.00 for performance
funding student affordability funding, and $223,900.00 for
costs incurred under the North American Indian tuition waiver.
(k) The appropriation for University of Michigan –
Ann Arbor is $322,773,600.00 $330,822,900.00, $320,255,800.00 $321,970,100.00
for operations, $1,714,300.00 $8,049,300.00 for performance
funding student affordability funding, and $803,500.00 for
costs incurred under the North American Indian tuition waiver.
(l) The appropriation for University of
Michigan – Dearborn is $26,327,200.00 $26,981,400.00, $25,986,400.00
$26,167,000.00 for operations, $180,600.00 $654,200.00
for performance funding student affordability funding, and
$160,200.00 for costs incurred under the North American Indian tuition waiver.
(m) The appropriation for University of Michigan –
Flint is $23,893,200.00 $24,483,600.00, $23,493,800.00 $23,616,200.00
for operations, $122,400.00 $590,400.00 for performance
funding student affordability funding, and $277,000.00 for
costs incurred under the North American Indian tuition waiver.
(n) The appropriation for Wayne State University is $203,413,900.00
$208,488,800.00, $202,112,700.00 $202,996,700.00 for
operations, $884,000.00 $5,074,900.00 for performance funding
student affordability funding, and $417,200.00 for costs
incurred under the North American Indian tuition waiver.
(o) The appropriation for Western Michigan
University is $112,290,100.00 $115,078,200.00, $110,976,000.00
$111,522,200.00 for operations, $546,200.00 $2,788,100.00
for performance funding student affordability funding, and
$767,900.00 for costs incurred under the North American Indian tuition waiver.
(3) The amount appropriated in subsection (2) for
public universities is $1,536,854,300.00 $1,575,002,900.00,
appropriated from the following:
(a) State school aid fund, $343,168,300.00.
(b) State general fund/general purpose money, $1,193,686,000.00
$1,231,834,600.00.
(4) The amount appropriated for Michigan public
school employees’ retirement system reimbursement is $5,017,000.00 $11,695,000.00,
appropriated from the state school aid fund.
(5) The amount appropriated for state and regional
programs is $315,000.00, appropriated from general fund/general purpose money
and allocated as follows:
(a) Higher education database modernization and
conversion, $200,000.00.
(b) Midwestern Higher Education Compact, $115,000.00.
(6) The amount appropriated for the Martin Luther King,
Jr. - Cesar Chavez - Rosa Parks program is $2,691,500.00, appropriated from
general fund/general purpose money and allocated as follows:
(a) Select student support services, $1,956,100.00.
(b) Michigan college/university partnership program,
$586,800.00.
(c) Morris Hood, Jr. educator development program, $148,600.00.
(7) Subject to subsection (8), the amount
appropriated for grants and financial aid is $145,283,200.00 $152,941,200.00,
allocated as follows:
(a) State competitive scholarships, $38,361,700.00.
(b) Tuition grants, $38,021,500.00 $32,021,500.00.
(c) Tuition incentive program, $64,300,000.00 $67,958,000.00.
(d) Children of veterans and officer’s survivor
tuition grant programs, $1,400,000.00.
(e) Project GEAR-UP, $3,200,000.00.
(f) Michigan student loan refinance program,
$10,000,000.00.
(8) The money appropriated in subsection (7) for
grants and financial aid is appropriated from the following:
(a) Federal revenues under the United States
Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, GEAR-UP
program, $3,200,000.00.
(b) Federal revenues under the social security act,
temporary assistance for needy families, $130,826,400.00 $112,826,400.00.
(c) State general fund/general purpose money, $11,256,800.00
$36,914,800.00.
(9) For fiscal year 2019-2020 only 2020-2021,
in addition to the allocation under subsection (4), from the appropriations
described in subsection (1), there is allocated an amount not to exceed $1,234,000.00
$1,200,000.00 for payments to participating public universities,
appropriated from the state school aid fund. A university that receives money
under this subsection shall use that money solely for the purpose of offsetting
the normal cost contribution rate. As used in this subsection, “participating
public universities” means public universities that are a reporting unit of the
Michigan public school employees’ retirement system under the public school
employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437, and that
pay contributions to the Michigan public school employees’ retirement system
for the state fiscal year.
Sec. 236b. In addition to the funds appropriated in
section 236, there is appropriated for grants and financial aid in fiscal year 2019-2020
2020-2021 an amount not to exceed $6,000,000.00 for federal
contingency funds. These funds are not available for expenditure until they
have been transferred under section 393(2) of the management and budget act,
1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393, for another purpose under this article.
Sec. 236c. In addition to the funds appropriated for
fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021 in section 236, appropriations to
the department of technology, management, and budget in the act
providing general appropriations for fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021 for
state building authority rent, totaling an estimated $144,995,300.00 $145,848,500.00,
provide funding for the state share of costs for previously constructed
capital projects for state universities. These appropriations for state
building authority rent represent additional state general fund support
provided to public universities, and the following is an estimate of the amount
of that support to each university:
(a) Central Michigan University, $12,141,800.00 $13,078,900.00.
(b) Eastern Michigan University, $7,673,600.00 $7,074,300.00.
(c) Ferris State University, $8,434,200.00 $7,939,200.00.
(d) Grand Valley State University, $6,752,400.00 $7,229,800.00.
(e) Lake Superior State University, $1,856,100.00
$1,805,200.00.
(f) Michigan State University, $15,514,900.00 $15,199,500.00.
(g) Michigan Technological University, $6,912,500.00
$6,805,300.00.
(h) Northern Michigan University, $7,449,600.00 $7,334,200.00.
(i) Oakland University, $12,908,600.00 $12,708,600.00.
(j) Saginaw Valley State University, $10,670,900.00
$7,907,100.00.
(k) University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, $9,795,900.00
$9,644,100.00.
(l) University of Michigan - Dearborn, $9,522,700.00
$11,106,100.00.
(m) University of Michigan - Flint, $4,128,900.00
$6,413,000.00.
(n) Wayne State University, $16,008,000.00 $16,610,900.00.
(o) Western Michigan University, $15,225,200.00 $14,989,300.00.
Sec. 237b. As used in this article:
(a) "Center" means the
center for educational performance and information created in section 94a.
(b) "Workforce development agency" means
the workforce development agency within the department of talent
and economic development--talent investment agency.
Sec. 241. (1) Subject to sections 244 and 265a, the
funds appropriated in section 236 to public universities shall be paid out of
the state treasury and distributed by the state treasurer to the respective
institutions in 11 equal monthly installments on the sixteenth of each month,
or the next succeeding business day, beginning with October 16, 2019 2020.
Except for Wayne State University, each institution shall accrue its July and
August 2020 2021 payments to its institutional fiscal year ending
June 30, 2020 2021.
(2) All public universities shall submit higher
education institutional data inventory (HEIDI) data and associated financial
and program information requested by and in a manner prescribed by the state
budget director. For public universities with fiscal years ending June 30, 2019
2020, these data shall be submitted to the state budget director by
October 15, 2019 2020. Public universities with a fiscal year
ending September 30, 2019 2020 shall submit preliminary HEIDI
data by November 15, 2019 2020 and final data by December 15, 2019
2020. If a public university fails to submit HEIDI data and
associated financial aid program information in accordance with this reporting
schedule, the state treasurer may withhold the monthly installments under subsection
(1) to the public university until those data are submitted.
Sec. 242. Funds received by the state from the
federal government or private sources for the use of a college or university
are appropriated for the purposes for which they are provided. The
acceptance and use of federal or private funds do not place an obligation on
the legislature to continue the purposes for which the funds are made
available.
Sec. 245. (1) A public university shall maintain a
public transparency website available through a link on its website homepage.
The public university shall update this website within 30 days after the
university’s governing board adopts its annual operating budget for the next
academic year, or after the governing board adopts a subsequent revision to
that budget.
(2) The website required under subsection (1) shall
include all of the following concerning the public university:
(a) The annual operating budget and subsequent
budget revisions.
(b) A summary of current expenditures for the most
recent fiscal year for which they are available, expressed as pie charts in the
following 2 categories:
(i) A chart of personnel expenditures,
broken into the following subcategories:
(A) Earnings and wages.
(B) Employee benefit costs, including, but not
limited to, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and long-term care
benefits.
(C) Retirement benefit costs.
(D) All other personnel costs.
(ii) A chart of all current
expenditures the public university reported as part of its higher education
institutional data inventory data under section 241(2), broken into the same
subcategories in which it reported those data.
(c) Links to all of the following for the public
university:
(i) The current collective bargaining
agreement for each bargaining unit.
(ii) Each health care benefits plan,
including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, disability, long-term
care, or any other type of benefits that would constitute health care services,
offered to any bargaining unit or employee of the public university.
(iii) Audits and financial reports for
the most recent fiscal year for which they are available.
(d) A list of all positions funded partially or
wholly through institutional general fund revenue that includes the position
title and annual salary or wage amount for each position.
(d) (e) General fund
revenue and expenditure projections for the current fiscal year and the next
fiscal year.
(e) (f) A listing of
all debt service obligations, detailed by project, anticipated fiscal year
payment for each project, and total outstanding debt for the current fiscal
year.
(f) (g) The
institution’s policy regarding the transferability of core college courses
between community colleges and the university.
(g) (h) A listing of
all community colleges that have entered into reverse transfer agreements with
the university.
(3) On the website required under subsection (1), a
public university shall provide a dashboard or report card demonstrating the
university’s performance in several “best practice” measures. The dashboard or
report card shall include at least all of the following for the 3 most recent
academic years for which the data are available:
(a) Enrollment.
(b) Student retention rate.
(c) Six-year graduation rates.
(d) Number of Pell grant recipients and graduating
Pell grant recipients.
(e) Geographic origination of students, categorized
as in-state, out-of-state, and international.
(f) Faculty to student ratios and total university
employee to student ratios.
(g) Teaching load by faculty classification.
(h) Graduation outcome rates, including employment
and continuing education.
(4) For statewide consistency and public visibility,
public universities must use the icon badge provided by the department of
technology, management, and budget consistent with the icon badge
developed by the department of education for K-12 school districts. It must
appear on the front of each public university’s homepage. The size of the icon
may be reduced to 150 x 150 pixels. The font size and style for this reporting
must be consistent with other documents on each university’s website.
(5) The state budget director shall determine
whether a public university has complied with this section. The state budget
director may withhold a public university’s monthly installments described in
section 241 until the public university complies with this section.
(6) By the
first business day of November of each year, a public university shall report
the following information to the center and post the information on its website
under the budget transparency icon badge:
(a) Opportunities for earning college credit through
the following programs:
(i) State approved career and
technical education or a tech prep articulated program of study.
(ii) Direct college credit or
concurrent enrollment.
(iii) Dual enrollment.
(iv) An early college/middle college
program.
(b) For each program described in subdivision (a)
that the public university offers, all of the following information:
(i) The number of high school students
participating in the program.
(ii) The number of school districts
that participate in the program with the public university.
(iii) Whether a university professor,
qualified local school district employee, or other individual teaches the
course or courses in the program.
(iv) The total cost to the public
university to operate the program.
(v) The cost per credit hour for the
course or courses in the program.
(vi) The location where the course or
courses in the program are held.
(vii) Instructional resources offered to
the program instructors.
(viii) Resources offered to the student
in the program.
(ix) Transportation services provided
to students in the program.
(5) (7) A public
university shall collect and report the number and percentage of all enrolled
students who complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, broken out
by undergraduate and graduate/professional classifications, to the center and
post the information on its website under the budget transparency icon badge.
Sec. 245a. (1) A public university shall develop,
maintain, and update a “campus safety information and resources” link,
prominently displayed on the homepage of its website, to a section of its
website containing all of the information required under subsection (2).
(2) The “campus safety information and resources”
section of a public university’s website shall include, but not be limited to,
all of the following information:
(a) Emergency contact numbers for police, fire,
health, and other services.
(b) Hours, locations, phone numbers, and electronic
mail contacts for campus public safety offices and title IX offices.
(c) A listing of safety and security services
provided by the university, including transportation, escort services, building
surveillance, anonymous tip lines, and other available security services.
(d) A public university’s policies applicable to
minors on university property.
(e) A directory of resources available at the
university or surrounding community for students or employees who are survivors
of sexual assault or sexual abuse.
(f) An electronic copy of “A Resource Handbook for
Campus Sexual Assault Survivors, Friends and Family”, published in 2018. by the office of the governor in conjunction
with the first lady of Michigan.
(g) Campus security policies and crime statistics
pursuant to the student right-to-know and campus security act, Public Law
101-542, 104 Stat 2381. Information shall include all material prepared
pursuant to the public information reporting requirements under the crime
awareness and campus security act of 1990, title II of the student
right-to-know and campus security act, Public Law 101-542, 104 Stat 2381.
(3) A public university shall certify to the state
budget director by October 1, 2020 and the last business day of each
August thereafter that it is in compliance with this section. The state
budget director may withhold a public university’s monthly installments
described in section 241 until the public university complies with this
section.
(2) As used in this
section:
(a)
"Department" means the department of
treasury.
(b)
"Discharge" means to pay off a federal or nonfederal student loan and
originate a new loan under the program created in subsection (3).
(c)
"Fund" means the Michigan student loan refinance fund created under section 248a.
(d)
"Michigan refinanced student loan" means a loan issued under subsection (3) to discharge
or reduce the sum of the unpaid
principal, accrued unpaid interest, and unpaid late charges of a qualified student loan.
(e)
"Michigan student loan refinance program" means the loan refinance program created under
subsection (3).
(f)
"Institution of higher education" means any of the following:
(i) A state university described in
section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII
of the state constitution of 1963.
(ii) A community college established
under the community college act of
1966, 1966 PA 331, MCL 389.1 to 389.195, or
under part 25 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1601 to 380.1607.
(iii)
An independent nonprofit college or university in the state as
described in Section 1 of 1966 PA 313, MCL 390.991.
(g)
"Qualified borrower" means an individual who meets all of the
following:
(i) Has a qualified student loan.
(ii) Incurred the qualified student loan
to help pay school expenses for
attendance at an institution of higher
education.
(iii) Has resided in this state for the
12 months prior to the date of his
or her application for refinancing of the qualified
student loan under subsection (3).
(iv) Has been current on payments on the
qualified student loan for the 3
years prior to the date of his or her application for refinancing the qualified student loan under subsection
(3), and is in good standing on the
qualified student loan as of that date.
(h)
"Qualified student loan" means a loan issued to a student under a federal student loan program supported
by the federal government or a
nonfederal loan issued by a lender such as a bank, savings and loan association, or credit union to
help students pay school expenses for attendance at an institution of higher education.
(i)
"Reduce” means to pay down the balance of a federal or nonfederal student
loan until the terms described in subsection (3)(a) are met.
(3) The
Michigan student loan refinance program is
created in the department and is to be administered by the department. Upon application of a qualified borrower
who has a qualified student loan,
the department, subject to subsection (4), may issue the borrower a loan under this section in accordance with all of the following:
(a) The
amount of the loan issued under this section must be a minimum of $5,000.00 but
may not exceed the lesser of the following:
(i) The sum of the unpaid principal,
accrued unpaid interest, and unpaid
late charges of the qualified student loan.
(ii) $50,000.00.
(b) The
department shall pay the proceeds of the loan
issued under this section to the lender of the qualified student loan, in order to discharge or reduce the
outstanding balance of the qualified
student loan described in subdivision (a)(i).
(c) The
interest rate for the Michigan refinanced student loan is a fixed rate applicable to all Michigan refinanced
student loans issued under this
section during the current fiscal year, which
the department shall establish as minimally necessary to recoup the costs of the Michigan student loan
refinance program, including any
start-up costs incurred to implement or grow the program and to ensure the growth and ongoing sustainability of
the program.
(4) The
total of all loans issued to a qualified borrower
as Michigan refinanced student loans under subsection (3) may not be less than
$5,000.00 and may not exceed
$50,000.00.
(5)
Student loans originated under this section are not eligible to be discharged
in bankruptcy.
(6) This
section does not guarantee an individual a
right to the benefits provided under this section.
(7) The
department shall promulgate any rules necessary to implement and administer the Michigan student loan refinance program. The department shall
promulgate those rules under the administrative
procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328.
(8) By
December 1 of each year, the department shall submit a report to the state budget director, the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on
community colleges and higher education,
and the house and senate fiscal agencies for
the preceding fiscal year on all of the
following:
(a) The
total number of Michigan refinanced student
loans issued and the total amount loaned.
(b) The
interest rate applied to those loans.
(c) The
range of interest rates that were applicable to the refinanced qualified student loans.
(d)
Default rates on Michigan refinanced student
loans.
(e) The
financial status of the Michigan student loan
refinance program.
Sec.
248a. (1) The Michigan student loan refinance fund is created within the state treasury.
(2) The
state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the fund including repayments
of loans made from the fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund. The state treasurer
shall credit to the fund interest
and earnings from fund investments.
(3) Money
in the fund at the close of the fiscal year
remains in the fund and does not lapse to the general fund.
(4) The
department is the administrator of the fund for
auditing purposes.
(5) All
funds in the restricted Michigan student loan refinance fund are appropriated
and available for expenditure to support the Michigan student loan refinance
program.
(6) For
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021 only, $10,000,000.00 in state general
fund/general purpose money appropriated in section 236 shall be deposited into
the fund to pay start-up costs incurred by the Michigan student loan refinance
program.
(7) Any
unexpended and unencumbered funds remaining on September, 30, 2021 from the
amounts appropriated in section 236 for the Michigan student loan refinance
program for fiscal year 2020-2021 do not lapse on September 30, 2021, but
continue to be available for expenditure for the Michigan student loan
refinance program in the 2021-2022 fiscal year under a work project account.
Sec. 252. (1) The amounts appropriated in section
236 for the state tuition grant program shall be distributed pursuant to 1966
PA 313, MCL 390.991 to 390.997a.
(2) Tuition grant awards shall be made to all
eligible Michigan residents enrolled in undergraduate degree programs who are
qualified and who apply by March 1 of each year for the next academic year.
(3) Pursuant to section 5 of 1966 PA 313, MCL
390.995, and subject to subsections (6) and (7), the department of treasury
shall determine an actual maximum tuition grant award per student, which shall
be no less than $2,800.00, that ensures that the aggregate payments for the
tuition grant program do not exceed the appropriation contained in section 236
for the state tuition grant program. If the department determines that
insufficient funds are available to establish an award amount equal to $2,800.00,
the department shall immediately report to the house and senate appropriations
subcommittees on higher education, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and
the state budget director regarding the estimated amount of additional funds
necessary to establish a $2,800.00 award amount. If the department determines
that sufficient funds are available to establish an award amount equal
to $2,800.00, the department shall immediately report to the house and senate
appropriations subcommittees on higher education, the house and senate fiscal
agencies, and the state budget director regarding the award amount established
and the projected amount of any projected year-end appropriation balance based
on that award amount. By February 18 of each fiscal year, the department shall
analyze the status of award commitments, shall make any necessary adjustments,
and shall confirm that those award commitments will not exceed the
appropriation contained in section 236 for the tuition grant program. The
determination and actions shall be reported to the state budget director and
the house and senate fiscal agencies no later than the final day of February of
each year. If award adjustments are necessary, the students shall be notified
of the adjustment by March 4 of each year.
(4) The department of treasury shall continue
a proportional tuition grant award level for recipients enrolled less than
full-time in a given semester or term.
(5) If the department of treasury increases
the award per eligible student from that provided in the previous fiscal year,
it shall not have the effect of reducing the number of eligible students
receiving awards in relation to the total number of eligible applicants. Any
increase in the grant shall be proportional for all eligible students receiving
awards for that fiscal year.
(6) The department of treasury shall not
award more than $4,800,000.00 in tuition grants to eligible students enrolled
in the same independent nonprofit college or university in this state. Any
decrease in the grant shall be proportional for all eligible students enrolled
in that college or university, as determined by the department. The limit
described in this subsection does not apply to any other student financial aid
program or in combination with any other student financial aid program.
(7) The department of treasury shall not award
tuition grants to otherwise eligible students enrolled in an independent
college or university that does not report, in a form and manner directed by
and satisfactory to the department of treasury, by October 31 of each year, all
of the following:
(a) The number of students in the most recently
completed academic year who in any academic year received a state tuition grant
at the reporting institution and successfully completed a program or graduated.
(b) The number of students in the most recently completed
academic year who in any academic year received a state tuition grant at the
reporting institution and took a remedial education class.
(c) The number of students in the most recently
completed academic year who in any academic year received a Pell grant at the
reporting institution and successfully completed a program or graduated.
(8) By February of each year, each
independent college and university participating in the tuition grant program
shall report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on higher
education, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director
on its efforts to develop and implement sexual assault response training for
the institution's title IX coordinator, campus law enforcement personnel,
campus public safety personnel, and any other campus personnel charged with
responding to on-campus incidents, including information on sexual assault
response training materials and the status of implementing sexual assault
response training for institutional personnel.
Sec. 256. (1) The funds appropriated in section 236
for the tuition incentive program shall be distributed as provided in this
section and pursuant to the administrative procedures for the tuition incentive
program of the department of treasury.
(2) As used in this section:
(a) “Phase I” means the first part of the tuition
incentive program defined as the academic period of 80 semester or 120 term
credits, or less, leading to an associate degree or certificate. Students must
be enrolled in a certificate or associate degree program and taking classes
within the program of study for a certificate or associate degree. Tuition will
not be covered for courses outside of a certificate or associate degree
program.
(b) “Phase II” means the second part of the tuition
incentive program which provides assistance in the third and fourth year of
4-year degree programs.
(c) “Department” means the department of treasury.
(d) “High school equivalency certificate” means that
term as defined in section 4.
(3) An individual shall meet the following basic
criteria and financial thresholds to be eligible for tuition incentive program
benefits:
(a) To be eligible for phase I, an individual shall
meet all of the following criteria:
(i) Apply for certification to the
department any time after he or she begins the sixth grade but before August 31
of the school year in which he or she graduates from high school or before
achieving a high school equivalency certificate.
(ii) Be less than 20 years of age at
the time he or she graduates from high school with a diploma or certificate of
completion or achieves a high school equivalency certificate or, for students
attending a 5-year middle college approved by the Michigan department of
education, be less than 21 years of age when he or she graduates from high
school.
(iii) Be a United States citizen and a
resident of this state according to institutional criteria.
(iv) Be at least a half-time student,
earning less than 80 semester or 120 term credits at a participating
educational institution within 4 years of high school graduation or achievement
of a high school equivalency certificate. All program eligibility expires 6
years from high school graduation or achievement of a high school equivalency
certificate.
(v) Meet the satisfactory academic
progress policy of the educational institution he or she attends.
(b) To be eligible for phase II, an individual shall
meet either of the following criteria in addition to the criteria in
subdivision (a):
(i) Complete at least 56 transferable
semester or 84 transferable term credits.
(ii) Obtain an associate degree or
certificate at a participating institution.
(c) To be eligible for phase I or phase II, an
individual must be financially eligible as determined by the department. An
individual is financially eligible for the tuition incentive program if he or
she was eligible for Medicaid from this state for 24 months within the 36
consecutive months before application. The department shall accept
certification of Medicaid eligibility only from the department of health and
human services for the purposes of verifying if a person is Medicaid eligible
for 24 months within the 36 consecutive months before application.
Certification of eligibility may begin in the sixth grade.
(4) For phase I, the department shall provide
payment on behalf of a person eligible under subsection (3). The department shall
only accept standard per-credit hour tuition billings and shall reject billings
that are excessive or outside the guidelines for the type of educational
institution.
(5) For phase I, all of the following apply:
(a) Payments for associate degree or certificate
programs shall not be made for more than 80 semester or 120 term credits for
any individual student at any participating institution.
(b) For persons enrolled at a Michigan community
college, the department shall pay the current in-district tuition and mandatory
fees. For persons residing in an area that is not included in any community
college district, the out-of-district tuition rate may be authorized.
(c) For persons enrolled at a Michigan public
university, the department shall pay lower division resident tuition and mandatory
fees for the current year. and a per-credit payment that does not
exceed 2.5 times the average community college in-district per-credit tuition
rate as reported on the last business day of August, for the immediately
preceding academic year.
(d) For persons enrolled at a Michigan independent,
nonprofit degree-granting college or university, or a Michigan federal tribally
controlled community college, or Focus: HOPE, the department shall pay
mandatory fees for the current year and a per-credit payment that does not
exceed the average community college in-district per-credit tuition rate as
reported on August 1 by the last business day of August, for the
immediately preceding academic year.
(6) A person participating in phase II may be
eligible for additional funds not to exceed $500.00 per semester or $400.00 per
term up to a maximum of $2,000.00 subject to the following conditions:
(a) Credits are earned in a 4-year program at a
Michigan degree-granting 4-year college or university.
(b) The tuition reimbursement is for coursework
completed within 30 months of completion of the phase I requirements.
(7) The department shall work closely with
participating institutions to develop an application and eligibility determination
process that will provide the highest level of participation and ensure that
all requirements of the program are met.
(8) Applications for the tuition incentive program
may be approved at any time after the student begins the sixth grade. If a
determination of financial eligibility is made, that determination is valid as
long as the student meets all other program requirements and conditions.
(9) Each institution shall ensure that all known
available restricted grants for tuition and fees are used prior to billing the
tuition incentive program for any portion of a student’s tuition and fees.
(10) The department shall ensure that the tuition
incentive program is well publicized and that eligible Medicaid clients are
provided information on the program. The department shall provide the necessary
funding and staff to fully operate the program.
(11) Any unexpended and unencumbered funds remaining
on September 30, 2020 from the amounts appropriated in section 236 for the
tuition incentive program for fiscal year 2019-2020 do not lapse on September
30, 2020, but continue to be available for expenditure for tuition incentive
program funds under a work project account.
(11) (12) The
department of treasury shall collaborate with the center to use the P-20
longitudinal data system to report the following information for each qualified
postsecondary institution:
(a) The number of phase I students in the most
recently completed academic year who in any academic year received a tuition
incentive program award and who successfully completed a degree or certificate
program. Cohort graduation rates for phase I students shall be calculated using
the established success rate methodology developed by the center in
collaboration with the postsecondary institutions.
(b) The number of students in the most recently
completed academic year who in any academic year received a Pell grant at the
reporting institution and who successfully completed a degree or certificate
program. Cohort graduation rates for students who received Pell grants shall be
calculated using the established success rate methodology developed by the
center in collaboration with the postsecondary institutions.
(13) If a qualified postsecondary institution does
not report the data necessary to comply with subsection (12) to the P-20
longitudinal data system, the institution shall report, in a form and manner
satisfactory to the department of treasury and the center, all of the information
needed to comply with subsection (12) by December 1 2020.
(12) (14) Beginning
in fiscal year 2020-2021, if If a qualified postsecondary
institution does not report the data necessary to complete the reporting in
subsection (12) (11) to the P-20 longitudinal data system by
October 15 for the prior academic year, the department of treasury shall not
award phase I tuition incentive program funding to otherwise eligible students
enrolled in that institution until the data are submitted.
Sec. 263. (1) Included in the appropriation in
section 236 for fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021 for MSU
AgBioResearch is $2,982,900.00 and included in the appropriation in section 236
for MSU Extension is $2,645,200.00 for Project GREEEN. Project GREEEN is
intended to address critical regulatory, food safety, economic, and
environmental problems faced by this state’s plant-based agriculture, forestry,
and processing industries. “GREEEN” is an acronym for Generating Research and
Extension to Meet Environmental and Economic Needs.
(2) The department of agriculture and rural
development and Michigan State University, in consultation with agricultural
commodity groups and other interested parties, shall develop Project GREEEN and
its program priorities.
Sec. 264. Included in the appropriation in section
236 for fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021 for Michigan State
University is $80,000.00 for the Michigan Future Farmers of America
Association. This $80,000.00 allocation shall not supplant any existing support
that Michigan State University provides to the Michigan Future Farmers of
America Association.
Sec. 265. (1) Payments under section 265a for performance
funding student affordability funding for fiscal years 2019-2020,
2020-2021, and 2021-2022 year 2020-2021 shall only be made to a
public university that certifies to the state budget director by October 1, 2019
the last business day of august that its board did not adopt an
increase in tuition and fee rates for resident undergraduate students after
September 1, 2018 2019 for the 2018-2019 2019-2020 academic
year and that its board will not adopt an increase in tuition and fee rates for
resident undergraduate students for the 2019-2020 2020-2021 academic
year that is greater than 4.4% 4.25% or $587.00 $586.00,
whichever is greater. As used in this subsection:
(a) “Fee” means any board-authorized fee that will
be paid by more than 1/2 of all resident undergraduate students at least once
during their enrollment at a public university, as described in the higher
education institutional data inventory (HEIDI) user manual. A university
increasing a fee that applies to a specific subset of students or courses shall
provide sufficient information to prove that the increase applied to that
subset will not cause the increase in the average amount of board-authorized
total tuition and fees paid by resident undergraduate students in the 2019-2020
academic year to exceed the limit established in this subsection.
(b) “Tuition and fee rate” means the average of
full-time rates paid by a majority of students in each undergraduate class,
based on an unweighted average of the rates authorized by the university board
and actually charged to students, deducting any uniformly rebated or refunded
amounts, for the 2 semesters with the highest levels of full-time equated
resident undergraduate enrollment during the academic year, as described in the
higher education institutional data inventory (HEIDI) user manual.
(2) The state budget director shall implement
uniform reporting requirements to ensure that a public university receiving a
payment under section 265a for performance funding student
affordability funding has satisfied the tuition restraint requirements of
this section. The state budget director shall have the sole authority to
determine if a public university has met the requirements of this section.
Information reported by a public university to the state budget director under
this subsection shall also be reported to the house and senate appropriations
subcommittees on higher education and the house and senate fiscal agencies.
(3) Universities that exceed the tuition and fee
rate cap described in subsection (1) shall not receive a planning or
construction authorization for a state-funded capital outlay project in fiscal
years 2020-2021, 2021-2022, or 2022-2023.
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act,
the legislature may at any time adjust appropriations for a university that
adopts an increase in tuition and fee rates for resident undergraduate students
that exceeds the rate cap established in subsection (1).
Sec. 265a. (1) Appropriations to public universities
in section 236 for fiscal years 2019-2020, 2020-2021, and 2021-2022 year
2020-2021 for performance funding student affordability funding shall
be paid only to a public university that complies with section 265 and
certifies to the state budget director, the house and senate appropriations
subcommittees on higher education, and the house and senate fiscal agencies by
October 1, 2019 2020 that it complies with all of the following
requirements:
(a) The university participates in reverse transfer
agreements described in section 286 with at least 3 Michigan community
colleges.
(b) The university does not and will not consider
whether dual enrollment credits earned by an incoming student were utilized
towards his or her high school graduation requirements when making a
determination as to whether those credits may be used by the student toward
completion of a university degree or certificate program.
(c) The university actively participates in and
submits timely updates to the Michigan Transfer Network created as part of the
Michigan Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers transfer
agreement.
(2) Any performance funding student
affordability funding amounts under section 236 that are not paid to a
public university because it did not comply with 1 or more requirements under
subsection (1) are unappropriated and reappropriated for performance funding
student affordability funding to those public universities that meet
the requirements under subsection (1), distributed in proportion to their performance
funding student affordability funding appropriation amounts under
section 236.
(3) The state budget director shall report to the
house and senate appropriations subcommittees on higher education and the house
and senate fiscal agencies by October 15, 2019 2020, regarding
any performance funding student affordability funding amounts
that are not paid to a public university because it did not comply with 1 or
more requirements under subsection (1) and any reappropriation of funds under
subsection (2).
(4) Performance funding Student
affordability funding amounts described in section 236 are distributed based
on the following formula: across-the-board proportional to each
university’s share of total operations funding appropriated in fiscal year
2019-2020.
(a) Proportional to each university’s share of total
operations funding appropriated in fiscal year 2010 2011, 50%.
(b) Based on weighted undergraduate completions in
critical skills areas, 11.1%.
(c) Based on research and development expenditures,
for universities classified in Carnegie classifications as doctoral
universities: moderate research activity, doctoral universities: higher
research activity, or doctoral universities: highest research activity only,
5.6%.
(d) Based on 6-year graduation rate, total degree
completions, and institutional support as a percentage of core expenditures,
and the percentage of students receiving Pell grants, scored against national
Carnegie classification peers and weighted by total undergraduate fiscal year
equated students, 33.3%.
(5) For purposes of determining the score of a
university under subsection (4)(d), each university is assigned 1 of the
following scores:
(a) A university classified as in the top 20%, a
score of 3.
(b) A university classified as above national
median, a score of 2.
(c) A university classified as improving, a score of
2. It is the intent of the legislature that, beginning in the 2020-2021 state
fiscal year, a university classified as improving is assigned a score of 1.
(d) A university that is not included in subdivision
(a), (b), or (c), a score of 0.
(6) As used in this section, “Carnegie
classification” means the basic classification of the university according to
the most recent version of the Carnegie classification of institutions of
higher education, published by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching.
(7) It is the intent of the legislature to allocate
more funding based on an updated set of performance metrics in future years.
Updated metrics will be based on the outcome of joint hearings between the
house and senate appropriations subcommittees on higher education and community
colleges intended to be held in the fall of 2019.
Sec. 265b. (1) Appropriations to public universities
in section 236 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020 2021 for
operations funding shall be reduced by 10% pursuant to the procedures described
in subdivision (a) for a public university that fails to submit certification
to the state budget director, the house and senate appropriations subcommittees
on higher education, and the house and senate fiscal agencies by October 1, 2019
2020 that the university complies with sections 274c and 274d and
that it complies with all of the requirements described in subdivisions (b) to
(i), as follows:
(a) If a university fails to submit certification,
the state budget director shall withhold 10% of that university’s annual
operations funding until the university submits certification. If a university
fails to submit certification by the end of the fiscal year, the 10% of its
annual operations funding that is withheld shall lapse to the general fund.
(b) For title IX investigations of alleged sexual
misconduct, the university prohibits the use of medical experts that have an
actual or apparent conflict of interest.
(c) For title IX investigations of alleged sexual
misconduct, the university prohibits the issuance of divergent reports to
complainants, respondents, and administration and instead requires that
identical reports be issued to them.
(d) Consistent with the university’s obligations
under 20 USC 1092(f), the university notifies each individual who reports
having experienced sexual assault by a student, faculty member, or staff member
of the university that the individual has the option to report the matter to
law enforcement, to the university, to both, or to neither, as the individual
may choose.
(e) The university provides both of the following:
(i) For all freshmen and incoming
transfer students enrolled, an in-person sexual misconduct prevention presentation
or course, which must include contact information for the title IX office of
the university.
(ii) For all students not considered
freshmen or incoming transfer students, an online or electronic sexual
misconduct prevention presentation or course.
(f) The university prohibits seeking compensation
from the recipient of any medical procedure, treatment, or care provided by a
medical professional who has been convicted of a felony arising out of the
medical procedure, treatment, or care.
(g) The university had a third party review its
title IX compliance office and related policies and procedures by the end of
the 2018-2019 academic year. A copy of the third-party review shall be
transmitted to the state budget director, the house and senate appropriations
subcommittees on higher education, and the house and senate fiscal agencies.
After the third-party review has been conducted for the 2018-2019 academic
year, the university shall have a third-party review once every three years and
a copy of the third-party review shall be transmitted to the state budget
director, the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on higher
education, and the house and senate fiscal agencies.
(h) The university requires that the governing board
and the president or chancellor of the university receive not less than
quarterly reports from their title IX coordinator or title IX office. The
report shall contain aggregated data of the number of sexual misconduct reports
that the office received for the academic year, the types of reports received,
including reports received against employees, and a summary of the general
outcomes of the reports and investigations. A member of the governing board may
request to review a title IX investigation report involving a complaint against
an employee, and the university shall provide the report in a manner it
considers appropriate. The university shall protect the complainant’s
anonymity, and the report shall not contain specific identifying information.
(i) If allegations against an employee are made in
more than 1 title IX complaint that resulted in the university finding that no
misconduct occurred, the university requires that the title IX officer promptly
notify the president or chancellor and a member of the university’s governing board
in writing and take all appropriate steps to ensure that the matter is being
investigated thoroughly, including hiring an outside investigator for future
cases involving that employee. A third-party title IX investigation under this
subdivision does not prohibit the university from simultaneously conducting its
own title IX investigation through its own title IX coordinator.
(2) Each public university that receives an
appropriation in section 236 shall also certify that its president or
chancellor and a member of its governing board has reviewed all title IX
reports involving the alleged sexual misconduct of an employee of the
university, and shall send the certification to the house and senate
appropriations subcommittees on higher education, the house and senate fiscal
agencies, and the state budget director by October 1, 2019 2020.
(3) For purposes of this section, “sexual
misconduct” includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:
(a) Intimate partner violence.
(b) Nonconsensual sexual conduct.
(c) Sexual assault.
(d) Sexual exploitation.
(e) Sexual harassment.
(f) Stalking.
Sec. 267. All public universities shall submit the
amount of tuition and fees actually charged to a full-time resident
undergraduate student for academic year 2019-2020 2020-2021 as
part of their higher education institutional data inventory (HEIDI) data by October
1, 2019, and by August 31 of each year thereafter the last business day
of August. A public university shall report any revisions for any semester
of the reported academic year 2019-2020 2020-2021 tuition and fee
charges to HEIDI within 15 days of being adopted.
Sec. 268. (1) For the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2020, it is the intent of the legislature that funds be allocated
for unfunded North American Indian tuition waiver costs incurred by public
universities under 1976 PA 174, MCL 390.1251 to 390.1253, from the general
fund.
(1) (2) By February
15 of each year, the department of civil rights shall annually submit to the
state budget director, the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on
higher education, and the house and senate fiscal agencies a report on North
American Indian tuition waivers for the preceding academic year that includes,
but is not limited to, all of the following information:
(a) The number of waiver applications received and
the number of waiver applications approved.
(b) For each university submitting information under
subsection (3), all of the following:
(i) The number of graduate and
undergraduate North American Indian students enrolled each term for the
previous academic year.
(ii) The number of North American Indian
waivers granted each term, including to continuing education students, and the
monetary value of the waivers for the previous academic year.
(iii) The number of graduate and
undergraduate students attending under a North American Indian tuition waiver
who withdrew from the university each term during the previous academic year.
For purposes of this subparagraph, a withdrawal occurs when a student who has
been awarded the waiver withdraws from the institution at any point during the
term, regardless of enrollment in subsequent terms.
(iv) The number of graduate and
undergraduate students attending under a North American Indian tuition waiver
who successfully complete a degree or certificate program, separated by degree
or certificate level, and the graduation rate for graduate and undergraduate
students attending under a North American Indian tuition waiver who complete a
degree or certificate within 150% of the normal time to complete, separated by
the level of the degree or certificate.
(2) (3) A public
university that receives funds under section 236 shall provide to the
department of civil rights any information necessary for preparing the report
detailed in subsection (2), (1), using guidelines and procedures
developed by the department of civil rights.
(3) (4) The
department of civil rights may consolidate the report required under this
section with the report required under section 223, but a consolidated report
must separately identify data for universities and data for community colleges.
Sec. 269. For fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021,
from the amount appropriated in section 236 to Central Michigan University for
operations, $29,700.00 shall be paid to Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College for the
costs of waiving tuition for North American Indians under 1976 PA 174, MCL
390.1251 to 390.1253.
Sec. 270. For fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021,
from the amount appropriated in section 236 to Lake Superior State University
for operations, $100,000.00 shall be paid to Bay Mills Community College for
the costs of waiving tuition for North American Indians under 1976 PA 174, MCL
390.1251 to 390.1253.
Sec. 276. (1) Included in the appropriation for
fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021 for each public university in
section 236 is funding for the Martin Luther King, Jr. - Cesar Chavez - Rosa
Parks future faculty program that is intended to increase the pool of
academically or economically disadvantaged candidates pursuing faculty teaching
careers in postsecondary education. Preference may not be given to applicants
on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, gender, or national origin.
Institutions should encourage applications from applicants who would otherwise
not adequately be represented in the graduate student and faculty populations.
Each public university shall apply the percentage change applicable to every
public university in the calculation of appropriations in section 236 to the
amount of funds allocated to the future faculty program.
(2) The program shall be administered by each public
university in a manner prescribed by the workforce development agency department
of labor and economic opportunity. The workforce development agency department
of labor and economic opportunity shall use a good faith effort standard to
evaluate whether a fellowship is in default.
Sec. 277. (1) Included in the appropriation for
fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021 for each public university in
section 236 is funding for the Martin Luther King, Jr. - Cesar Chavez - Rosa
Parks college day program that is intended to introduce academically or
economically disadvantaged schoolchildren to the potential of a college
education. Preference may not be given to participants on the basis of race,
color, ethnicity, gender, or national origin. Public universities should
encourage participation from those who would otherwise not adequately be
represented in the student population.
(2) Individual program plans of each public
university shall include a budget of equal contributions from this program, the
participating public university, the participating school district, and the
participating independent degree-granting college. College day funds shall not
be expended to cover indirect costs. Not more than 20% of the university match
shall be attributable to indirect costs. Each public university shall apply the
percentage change applicable to every public university in the calculation of
appropriations in section 236 to the amount of funds allocated to the college
day program.
(3) The program described in this section shall be
administered by each public university in a manner prescribed by the workforce
development agency department of labor and economic opportunity.
Sec. 278. (1) Included in section 236 for fiscal
year 2019-2020 2020-2021 is funding for the Martin Luther King,
Jr. - Cesar Chavez - Rosa Parks select student support services program for
developing academically or economically disadvantaged student retention
programs for 4-year public and independent educational institutions in this
state. Preference may not be given to participants on the basis of race, color,
ethnicity, gender, or national origin. Institutions should encourage
participation from those who would otherwise not adequately be represented in
the student population.
(2) An award made under this program to any 1
institution shall not be greater than $150,000.00, and the amount awarded shall
be matched on a 70% state, 30% college or university basis.
(3) The program described in this section shall be
administered by the workforce development agency department of labor
and economic opportunity.
Sec. 279. (1) Included in section 236 for fiscal
year 2019-2020 2020-2021 is funding for the Martin Luther King,
Jr. - Cesar Chavez - Rosa Parks college/university partnership program between
4-year public and independent colleges and universities and public community
colleges, which is intended to increase the number of academically or
economically disadvantaged students who transfer from community colleges into
baccalaureate programs. Preference may not be given to participants on the
basis of race, color, ethnicity, gender, or national origin. Institutions
should encourage participation from those who would otherwise not adequately be
represented in the transfer student population.
(2) The grants shall be made under the program
described in this section to Michigan public and independent colleges and
universities. An award to any 1 institution shall not be greater than
$150,000.00, and the amount awarded shall be matched on a 70% state, 30%
college or university basis.
(3) The program described in this section shall be
administered by the workforce development agency department of
labor and economic opportunity.
Sec. 280. (1) Included in the appropriation for
fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021 for each public university in
section 236 is funding for the Martin Luther King, Jr. - Cesar Chavez - Rosa
Parks visiting professors program which is intended to increase the number of
instructors in the classroom to provide role models for academically or
economically disadvantaged students. Preference may not be given to
participants on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, gender, or national
origin. Public universities should encourage participation from those who would
otherwise not adequately be represented in the student population.
(2) The program described in this section shall be
administered by the workforce development agency department of
labor and economic opportunity.
Sec. 281. (1) Included in the appropriation for
fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021 in section 236 is funding under the Martin
Luther King, Jr. - Cesar Chavez - Rosa Parks initiative for the Morris Hood, Jr.
educator development program which is intended to increase the number of
academically or economically disadvantaged students who enroll in and complete
K-12 teacher education programs at the baccalaureate level. Preference may not
be given to participants on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, gender, or
national origin. Institutions should encourage participation from those who
would otherwise not adequately be represented in the teacher education student
population.
(2) The program described in this section shall be
administered by each state-approved teacher education institution in a manner
prescribed by the workforce development agency department of
labor and economic opportunity.
(3) Approved teacher education institutions may and
are encouraged to use student support services funding in coordination with the
Morris Hood, Jr. funding to achieve the goals of the program described in this
section.
Sec. 282. Each institution receiving funds for
fiscal year 2019-2020 2020-2021 under section 278, 279, or 281
shall provide to the workforce development agency department
of labor and economic opportunity by April 15, 2020 the unobligated and
unexpended funds as of March 31, 2020 and a plan to expend the remaining funds
by the end of the fiscal year. Notwithstanding the award limitations in
sections 278 and 279, the amount of funding reported as not being expended will
be reallocated to the institutions that intend to expend all funding received
under section 278, 279, or 281.
Sec. 289. (1) At In accordance with
section 299(4) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1299, at
least once every 4 years, the auditor general shall audit higher education
institutional data inventory (HEIDI) data submitted by all public universities
under section 241 and may perform audits of selected public universities if
determined necessary. The audits shall be based upon the definitions,
requirements, and uniform reporting categories established by the state budget
director in consultation with the HEIDI advisory committee. The auditor general
shall submit a report of findings to the house and senate appropriations
committees and the state budget director no later than July 1 of each year an
audit takes place.
(2) Student credit hours reports shall not include
the following:
(a) Student credit hours generated through
instructional activity by faculty or staff in classrooms located outside
Michigan, with the exception of instructional activity related to study-abroad
programs or field programs.
(b) Student credit hours generated through credit by
examination.
(c) Student credit hours generated in new degree
programs created on or after January 1, 1975 and before January 1, 2013, that
were not specifically authorized for funding by the legislature, except
spin-off programs converted from existing core programs, and student credit
hours generated in any new degree programs created after January 1, 2013, that
are specifically excluded from reporting by the legislature under this section.
Article
V
Summary
of Anticipated Appropriations
Sec. 298.
(1) Subject to the conditions set forth in this act, the amounts appropriated
in this act for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021 for the public
schools, intermediate school districts, community colleges and public
universities of this state, and certain other state purposes relating to
education are anticipated to be the same amounts appropriated for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2022, with the following exceptions:
(2)
Appropriations for School Aid (Article I)
Proposal
A Obligation Payment.......................... $ 4,839,000,000 $ 4,746,000,000
Discretionary
Payment.................................. 4,831,000,000 4,813,000,000
Reorganization
and Cooperative Activities Grants...... 5,000,000 0
School
Meals Debt Forgiveness.......................... 1,000,000 0
Special
Education Foundations.......................... 308,000,000 321,700,000 Special
Education Headlee Obligation................... 718,000,000 751,500,000
School
Infrastructure Grants........................... 40,000,000 0
Teacher
Professional Development Grants............... 5,000,000 0
Teacher
Supply Purchasing Program...................... 25,000,000 0
Michigan
Public School Employees Retirement System.... 1,551,406,000 1,653,089,000
(3)
Appropriations for Community Colleges (Article II)
Michigan
Public School Employees Retirement System.... $ 98,027,600 $ 103,844,600
(4) Appropriations
for Universities and Student Financial Aid (Article III)
Michigan Student Loan Refinance Program............... $ 10,000,000 $ 0
Michigan
Public School Employees Retirement System.... $ 12,895,000 $ 14,080,000
Enacting section 1. (1) In
accordance with section 30 of article I of the state constitution of 1963,
total state spending on school aid under article I as amended by this
amendatory act from state sources for fiscal year 2020-2021 is estimated at
$14,116,258,600.00 and state appropriations for school aid to be paid to local
units of government for fiscal year 2020-2021 are estimated at
$13,908,147,100.00.
(2) In accordance with section 30
of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, total state spending from
state sources for community colleges for fiscal year 2020-2021 under article II
as amended by this amendatory act is estimated at $433,792,400.00 and the
amount of that state spending from state sources to be paid to local units of
government for fiscal year 2020-2021 is estimated at $433,792,400.00.
(3) In accordance with section 30
of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, total state spending from
state sources for higher education for fiscal year 2020-2021 under article III
as amended by this amendatory act is estimated at $1,627,819,200.00 and the
amount of that state spending from state sources to be paid to local units of
government for fiscal year 2020-2021 is estimated at $0.
Enacting section 2. Sections 17c,
25f, 25g, 31b, 35b, 35c, 54e, 55, 61c, 61f, 64d, 74a, 95a, 95b, 97, 99t, 99u,
99v, 99w, 99x, 102d, 104d, 152b, 164g, 164h, 166, 201a, 208, 210f, 212, 220,
228, 236a, 261, 265c, 265e, 271a, 274, 275a, 275d, and 291 of the state school
aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1617c, 388.1625f, 388.1625g, 388.1631b,
388.1635b, 388.1635c, 388.1654e, 388.1655, 388.1661c, 388.1661f, 388.1664d,
388.1674a, 388.1695a, 388.1695b, 388.1697 388.1699t, 388.1699u, 388.1699v,
388.1699w, 388.1699x, 388.1702d, 388.1704d, 388.1752b, 388.1764g, 388.1764h,
388.1766, 388.1801a, 388.1808, 388.1810f, 388.1812, 388.1820, 388.1828,
388.1836a, 388.1861, 388.1865c, 388.1865e, 388.1871a, 388.1874, 388.1875a,
388.1875d, and 388.1891 are repealed effective October 1, 2020.
Enacting section 3. Article V of
the state school aid act of 1979, MCL 388.1897 to 388.1897l, is
repealed.
Enacting section 4. (1) Except as
otherwise provided in subsection (2), this amendatory act takes effect October
1, 2020.
(2) Section 31n of the state school
aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1631n, as amended by this amendatory act,
takes effect upon enactment of this amendatory act.