HOUSE BILL No. 6455


     September 24, 2002, Introduced by Reps. Hart, Godchaux and Scranton and referred to the Committee on Education.


        A bill to amend 1970 PA 38, entitled

   "An act to provide for assessment and remedial assistance pro-
   grams of students in reading, mathematics and vocational
   education,"

   by amending sections 1, 2, and 6 (MCL 388.1081, 388.1082, and

   388.1086).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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               Sec. 1.  A statewide program of assessment of educational

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          progress and remedial assistance in the basic skills of students

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          in reading, mathematics, language arts,  and/or  OR other general

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          subject areas is established in the department of education.

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           which  THIS program shall DO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:

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               (a) Establish meaningful achievement goals in the basic

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          skills for students, and identify those students with the

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          greatest educational need in these skills.




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               (b) Provide the state with the information needed to

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          allocate state funds and professional services in a manner best

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          calculated to equalize educational opportunities for students to

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          achieve competence in  such  THOSE basic skills.

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               (c) Provide school systems with strong incentives to intro-

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          duce educational programs to improve the education of students in

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           such  THOSE basic skills and model programs to raise the level

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          of achievement of students.

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               (d) Develop a system for educational self-renewal that would

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          continuously evaluate the programs and by this means help each

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          school to discover and introduce program changes that are most

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          likely to improve the quality of education.

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               (e) Provide the public periodically with information con-

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          cerning the progress of the state system of education.   Such

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          programs  THIS PROGRAM shall extend  current  OTHER department of

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          education efforts to conduct periodic and comprehensive assess-

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          ment of educational progress.

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               Sec. 2.  (1) The statewide assessment program of educational

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          progress shall cover all students annually  at two  IN AT LEAST 2

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          grade levels in public schools.

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               (2) The department of education, hereinafter referred to as

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          the department, shall develop and conduct the program, and may

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          utilize the assistance of appropriate testing organizations

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           and/or  OR testing  specialist  SPECIALISTS.   The
     program shall

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          expand the current basic skills testing inventory in grades 4 and

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          7 coordinated by the department.





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               (3) The program shall assess competencies in the basic

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          skills and collect and utilize other relevant information

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          essential to the assessment program.

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               (4) Based on information from the program, students shall be

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          identified who have extraordinary need for assistance to improve

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          their competence in the basic skills.

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               (5) Information from the program shall be given to each

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          school as soon as possible to assist it in its efforts to improve

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          the achievement of students in the basic skills.

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               Sec. 6.  The department shall promulgate rules necessary to

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          carry out the provisions of this act  ,  in accordance with  and

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          subject to the provisions of Act No.  306 of the Public Acts of

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          1969, being sections 24.201 to 24.313 of the Compiled Laws of

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          1948  THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES ACT OF 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL

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          24.201 TO 24.328.

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               Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take

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          effect unless all of the following bills of the 91st Legislature

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          are enacted into law:

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               (a) Senate Bill No. _______ or House Bill No. 6457

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          (request no. 07890'02).

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               (b) Senate Bill No. _______ or House Bill No. 6458

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          (request no. 07908'02).

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               (c) Senate Bill No. _______ or House Bill No. 6456

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          (request no. 07909'02 a).









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