Introduced
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To place responsibility for the Golden Apple Award program with the Michigan Assessment Governing Board established in House Bill 5879, and set the award at $1,000. Currently the award consists of $1,000 per each full-time employee who works in an eligible public elementary school, plus $10,000, to be allocated to the principal for the school for school improvements. The bill also requires that beginning in 2005, the social studies assessment test, which can include cultural issues which are potentially more subjective, would be replaced with a civics test, limited to American and Michigan history and government. The bill also makes the Michigan Assessment Governing Board responsible for design and administration of assessment tests, rather than Department of Education and the state superintendent of public instruction. See also House Bills 5879 and 5880.
Referred to the Committee on Education
Substitute offered
Would remove a provision in the original bill that, beginning in 2005, the social studies assessment test would be replaced with a civics test, including American and Michigan history and government, and it eliminates the monetary award of $1000 for each full-time elementary school employee that accompanies the “Golden Apple Award” designation, and would use the money that now goes to the awards for school accreditation purposes.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Substitute offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one which uses this as a legislative "vehicle" for an appropriation to the school aid fund of proceeds from a proposed 50-cent increase in the current 75-cents per pack cigarette tax (and proportionate increases on all other tobacco taxes). Of the additional 50-cent tax, 20.2 cents would go to the state's school aid fund. The bill would establish that in the 2003-2004 school year the basic school foundation allowance would be $6,700 per-pupil, and all so called “categorical” line items would remain the same as those proposed for 2002-2003. The bill also would remove a provision in the original bill that, beginning in 2005, would replace the social studies assessment test with a civics test, including American and Michigan history and government. Finally, it eliminates the monetary award of $1000 for each full-time elementary school employee that accompanies the “Golden Apple Award” designation, and would use the money that now goes to the awards for school accreditation purposes.
The substitute passed 55 to 48 (details)
Amendment offered
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To allow for three-year average pupil counts for certain Upper Peninsula school districts with declining enrollment. State funding is based on a formula combining current year and prior year counts. Lower Equivalent lower peninsula schools are aleady allowed to do this.
The amendment passed 64 to 36 (details)
Amendment offered
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To remove the provision which makes the 2003-2004 school aid funding appropriations contingent on passage of a 50-cent increase in the current 75-cents per pack cigarette tax (and proportionate increases on all other tobacco taxes).
The amendment failed 54 to 47 (details)
Amendment offered
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To prohibit any state funding for public school academies (charter schools) chartered by Bay Mills Community College. Bay Mills technically serves Indians across the state, not just in its Upper Peninsula area, so under current law can establish an unlimited number of charter schools anywhere in the state (potentially blowing the lid off of existing caps on the number of new charter schools).
The amendment failed 53 to 41 (details)
Amendment offered
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To prohibit any state funding for public school academies (charter schools) chartered by Bay Mills Community College. Bay Mills technically serves Indians across the state, so under current law can establish an unlimited number of charter schools anywhere in the state (potentially blowing the lid off of existing caps on the number of new charter schools).
The amendment failed 54 to 46 (details)
Failed in the House 53 to 49 (details)
To use this bill as a legislative "vehicle" for an appropriation to the school aid fund of proceeds from a proposed 50-cent increase in the current 75-cents per pack cigarette tax (and proportionate increases on all other tobacco taxes). Of the additional 50-cent tax, 20.2 cents would go to the state's school aid fund. The bill would establish that in the 2003-2004 school year the basic school foundation allowance would be $6,700 per-pupil, and all so called “categorical” line items would remain the same as those proposed for 2002-2003. The bill also would remove a provision in the original bill that, beginning in 2005, would replace the social studies assessment test with a civics test, including American and Michigan history and government. Finally, it eliminates the monetary award of $1000 for each full-time elementary school employee that accompanies the “Golden Apple Award” designation, and would use the money that now goes to the awards for school accreditation purposes.
Received
Substitute offered
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To reconsider the vote by which the House did not pass the bill.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Substitute offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one which uses it as a legislative "vehicle" for an appropriation to the school aid fund of 20 cents from a 50-cent per pack cigarette tax increase (see House Bill 5248). The bill would establish that in the 2003-2004 school year the basic school foundation allowance would be $6,700 per-pupil, and all so called “categorical” line items would remain the same as those proposed for 2002-2003. The bill also grants an additional $15 million to the Detroit school district, which was first granted this amount in the context of the 1999 replacement of the Detroit school board with a reform board. Upper Peninsula schools with declining enrollment would get an additional $3.5 million. The bill also has elements related to its original purpose, but would remove a provision in the original that, beginning in 2005, would replace the social studies assessment test with a civics test, including American and Michigan history and government. Finally, it eliminates the monetary award of $1000 for each full-time elementary school employee that accompanies the “Golden Apple Award” designation, and would use the money that now goes to the awards for school accreditation purposes.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the state center for educational performance and information to provide a cost and funding source report to the legislature before it may implement any proposed electronic data collection or submission system for local school districts related to various pupil information, counts, and permanent records.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To allow those age 16 and above who have been expelled from school and are not enrolled in any other alternative education program to qualify for state-funded adult education classes.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 94 to 6 (details)
To appropriate to the School Aid Fund the proceeds from a 20-cents portion of a 50-cent per pack cigarette tax increase (see House Bill 5248). The bill would establish that in the 2003-2004 school year the basic school foundation allowance would be $6,700 per-pupil, and all so called “categorical” line items would remain the same as those proposed for 2002-2003. The bill also grants an additional $15 million to the Detroit school district, which was first granted this amount in the context of the 1999 replacement of the Detroit school board with a reform board. Upper Peninsula schools with declining enrollment would get an additional $3.5 million. The bill also has elements related to its original purpose, but would remove a provision in the original that, beginning in 2005, would replace the social studies assessment test with a civics test, including American and Michigan history and government. Finally, it eliminates the monetary award of $1000 for each full-time elementary school employee that accompanies the “Golden Apple Award” designation, and would use the money that now goes to the awards for school accreditation purposes.
Amendment offered
To make the appropriation of $15 million to the Detroit School District contingent on the district remaining under the control of the reform board imposed by the state in 1999.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 35 to 1 (details)
To appropriate to the School Aid Fund the proceeds from a 20-cents portion of a 50-cent per pack cigarette tax increase (see House Bill 5248). The bill would establish that in the 2003-2004 school year the basic school foundation allowance would be $6,700 per-pupil, and all so called “categorical” line items would remain the same as those proposed for 2002-2003. The bill also grants an additional $15 million to the Detroit school district, which was first granted this amount in the context of the 1999 replacement of the Detroit school board with a reform board, contingent on the district remaining under the reform board. Upper Peninsula schools with declining enrollment would get an additional $3.5 million. The bill also has elements related to its original purpose, but would remove a provision in the original that, beginning in 2005, would replace the social studies assessment test with a civics test, including American and Michigan history and government. Finally, it eliminates the monetary award of $1000 for each full-time elementary school employee that accompanies the “Golden Apple Award” designation, and would use the money that now goes to the awards for school accreditation purposes.
