December 2, 2009, Introduced by Senator BIRKHOLZ and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend 1979 PA 94, entitled
"The state school aid act of 1979,"
(MCL 388.1601 to 388.1772) by adding section 93.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 93. (1) If this state receives funds for the purposes of
this section from the federal incentive grant program created under
sections 14005 and 14006 of title XIV of the American recovery and
reinvestment act of 2009, Public Law 111-5, known as the "race to
the top" grant program, then those funds are appropriated to the
department to establish and implement a grant program for districts
as described in subsection (2).
(2) If the department receives funding as described in
subsection (1), the department shall establish and implement a
competitive grant program for districts that will enable a
recipient district to implement a teacher performance evaluation
system designed to ensure that evaluations measure a teacher's
effectiveness in promoting student achievement, with evaluation
processes and standards to further this goal. The grant program
shall require teacher performance evaluations to be based primarily
on objective evidence of student learning and student improvement,
which shall include at least student assessment results and a
measure of comparative student performance and improvement in the
context of the demographics of the teacher's students.
(3) Notwithstanding section 17b, payments to eligible
districts under this section shall be paid on a schedule determined
by the department.