Bill Text: MI SB0778 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; teachers; salary increase for teachers; require consideration of achievement of advanced degrees. Amends sec. 1250 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1250).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-25 - Referred To Committee On Education [SB0778 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB0778-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 778

 

 

January 25, 2018, Introduced by Senators KNEZEK, GREGORY, BIEDA, HOOD, YOUNG, HOPGOOD, ANANICH, CONYERS, HERTEL, WARREN and JOHNSON and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

by amending section 1250 (MCL 380.1250), as amended by 2016 PA 192.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1250. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a

 

school district, public school academy, or intermediate school

 

district shall implement and maintain a method of compensation for

 

its teachers and school administrators that includes job

 

performance and job accomplishments as a significant factor in

 

determining compensation and additional compensation. The

 

assessment of job performance shall incorporate a rigorous,

 

transparent, and fair evaluation system that evaluates a teacher's

 

or school administrator's performance at least in part based upon

 

data on student growth as measured by assessments and other

 

objective criteria.

     (2) If a collective bargaining agreement is in effect for

 

teachers or school administrators of a school district, public

 

school academy, or intermediate school district as of January 4,

 

2010, and if that collective bargaining agreement prevents

 

compliance with subsection (1), then subsection (1) does not apply

 

to that school district, public school academy, or intermediate

 

school district until after the expiration of that collective

 

bargaining agreement.

 

     (3) For teachers and school administrators who are hired by a

 

community district after the accountability system under section

 

390 has been implemented, the community district shall implement

 

and maintain a method of compensation that includes job performance

 

and job accomplishments as the primary factor in determining

 

compensation and additional compensation. A teacher's or school

 

administrator's job performance shall be evaluated based on the

 

teacher's annual evaluation under section 1249 or the school

 

administrator's annual evaluation under section 1249b, as

 

applicable. The community district shall also consider achievement

 

of an advanced degree as a factor in determining compensation and

 

additional compensation.

 

     (4) For teachers and school administrators who are hired by a

 

community district after the accountability system under section

 

390 has been implemented, the community district shall not use

 

length of service or achievement of an advanced degree as a factor

 

in compensation levels or adjustments in compensation. except as

 

follows:

 

     (a) For a teacher with a secondary level teaching certificate

who has a subject area endorsement and who teaches in that subject

 

area, an advanced degree achieved in that subject area may be

 

considered as a factor in the teacher's base compensation.

 

     (b) For a teacher with an elementary level teaching

 

certificate who teaches in an elementary grade, an advanced degree

 

in elementary education may be considered as a factor in the

 

teacher's base compensation.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.