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- Introduced by Sen. Samuel B. Thomas, III (D) on July 21, 2010, to increase the minimum number of hours of instruction that public schools must provide from 1,098 hours per year to 200 days per year.
- Referred to the Senate Education Committee on July 21, 2010.
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1) Re: 2010 Senate Bill 1420 (Increase school instruction hours ) by MTH on July 23, 2010No Point !
Seeing as you won't increase funding on a per diem basis to increase the mandated attendance from 184 to 200 days... this is assinine.
This is legislators doing "make work" to believ that they have some real impact. Let it go.
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If this is mandated, will it be FULLY funded? What will be the source of this FULL funding? How about requiring parent involvement with their child(ren) for an hour per week during the school year? THAT might make a bigger impact on education in Michigan. Look at research and find that LEARNING can happen without instruction but instruction does not necessarily imply learning. Find ways of FACILITATING learning rather than mandating more of the same.
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I see good and bad in this proposal. The good is that there would be more time for classes to cover the Merit Curriculum thoroughly, the bad is that it would add close to an extra month of running buses, lighting rooms, paying support staff wages, etc. Where is the money for that supposed to come from?
Plus, I've seen that the state of Michigan has adopted the common cores curriculum, and there is draft language out for new national standards for science education. I'm assuming that the Merit Curriculum will soon be due for some revision - and it is looking like it will be for deeper coverage of less content. Might not really need the extra days in the school year after all.
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