Bill Text: MI HB5780 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; other; school climate surveys; require department of education to create to assess and collect data from parents, students, teachers, and staff. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1293.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-12 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 04/11/2018 [HB5780 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB5780-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5780

 

 

April 11, 2018, Introduced by Rep. Kosowski and referred to the Committee on Education Reform.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

(MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1293.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1293. (1) Not later than November 1, 2019, the department

 

shall develop or adopt, and make available to schools, appropriate

 

school climate surveys for each of the following groups:

 

     (a) Pupils in grades 3 to 5.

 

     (b) Pupils in grades 6 to 8.

 

     (c) Pupils in grades 9 to 12.

 

     (d) Teachers and school staff.

 

     (e) Parents of pupils.

 

     (f) Community members.

 

     (2) The school climate surveys developed or adopted under

 

subsection (1) must be designed to provide schools with formative

 

and summative school climate data for use in needs assessments,

 

program development, and short- and long-term planning, and must

 

measure at least all of the following:

 

(a) Social and emotional learning.

 

(b) Pupil support.

 

(c) High expectations and academic rigor and challenge.

 

(d) Safe and respectful school climate.

 

     (3) A school district, intermediate school district, or public

 

school academy may administer 1 or more of the school climate

 

surveys developed or adopted under subsection (1). A school

 

district, intermediate school district, or public school academy

 

that administers a school climate survey under this subsection

 

shall maintain the results on a secure website and shall not share

 

the results with the department. The results of a school climate

 

survey administered under this subsection are the sole property of

 

the school district, intermediate school district, or public school

 

academy that administered the survey.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.