SENATE BILL No. 453

 

 

April 22, 2009, Introduced by Senator CLARKE and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

(MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1280e.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1280e. (1) If the department determines that a school

 

district is operating at least 1 school that has been unaccredited

 

under section 1280 for 3 consecutive years or has failed to achieve

 

the federal pupil performance standard for 5 or more consecutive

 

years, and the school district has the greatest number of pupils in

 

membership among all school districts in this state, the department

 

shall notify the board of the school district that the school

 

district is required to comply with this section. Beginning with

 

the next school year that begins after this notification, the board

 


shall initiate a pilot project in at least 1 of the schools that

 

implements a method of compensation for employees at the school

 

that is based on job performance and job accomplishments, as

 

described in section 1250, and that is based in part on improvement

 

in the average daily attendance of pupils and specified employees

 

at the school. The board shall ensure that this method of

 

compensation provides financial incentives for teachers at the

 

school based on factors that include, at a minimum, improvement in

 

pupil performance, assignment to teach in subject areas for which

 

there is a shortage of teachers, and participation in voluntary

 

professional development.

 

     (2) As used in this section, "failed to achieve the federal

 

pupil performance standard" means that the department has

 

determined that the school has failed to achieve adequate yearly

 

progress under the no child left behind act of 2001, Public Law

 

107-110, or has failed to meet a successor federal standard that

 

the superintendent of public instruction has identified as being a

 

standard established by the federal government that is based on

 

pupil performance and is required to be met in order to receive

 

full federal funding.