April 26, 2011, Introduced by Senator HILDENBRAND and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 1937 (Ex Sess) PA 4, entitled
"An act relative to continuing tenure of office of certificated
teachers in public educational institutions; to provide for
probationary periods; to regulate discharges or demotions; to
provide for resignations and leaves of absence; to create a state
tenure commission and to prescribe the powers and duties thereof;
and to prescribe penalties for violation of the provisions of this
act,"
by amending section 4 of article II (MCL 38.84).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
ARTICLE II
Sec.
4. (1) Articles 4, 5, and 6 shall do not
apply to any
teacher
deemed to be who is in a probationary
period. of probation.
(2) If a probationary teacher is assigned to teach in a school
of innovation and is rated as effective or highly effective on the
annual year-end performance evaluation required under section 3a of
this article and section 1249 of the revised school code, 1976 PA
451, MCL 380.1249, then a teacher on continuing tenure does not
have any greater right under this act to employment than the
probationary teacher and the probationary teacher is not subject to
being displaced from his or her teaching assignment by a teacher on
continuing tenure solely because the other teacher has continuing
tenure. As used in this section, "school of innovation" means a
school, or a program within a school, that meets all of the
following:
(a) The school or program is operated by a school district, as
that term is defined in section 6 of the revised school code, 1976
PA 451, MCL 380.6, that meets both of the following:
(i) The school district is located in whole or in part in a
city with a population of at least 150,000 but less than 600,000 as
of the most recent decennial census.
(ii) The percentage of pupils enrolled in the school district
who are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is at least 70%.
(b) The school or program is subject to an order to implement
some type of school improvement measure under section 1280 or 1280c
of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1280 and
380.1280c, or under the no child left behind act of 2001, Public
Law 107-110, or any other similar state or federal school reform
law.