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Introduced in the Senate on January 26, 2005, to delete provisions in the Revised School Code regarding the minimum required number of hours of pupil instruction and instead require that school districts and charter schools provide at least the minimum number of hours of pupil instruction each school year required under the State School Aid Act

The vote was 37 in favor, 0 opposed and 1 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 440 at Senate Journal 54)

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All the kids can have Friday off while the parents are still at work. Don't worry, they'll just be enjoying some time on the streets with the drug dealers. Have faith, they won't go getting into trouble.

not only does it raise the question what are the students doing (and who are they with), but it will also screw up sport schedules. besides, a lot of students have a hard enough time paying attention during a regular 6hr school day making it longer will only make it harder to instruct them and get the concepts to be 'absorbed'. personally, i am all for school all year round...

1098 hours of work per year plus benefits, which are the cadillac of benefits. The average teacher in Michigan makes over $50,000 a 'year'. Divide the hours required by $50,000, and you get $45.50 per hour. Then add the benefits which is at least another third. That ain't bad wages folks!

and buy MANY of their own things

Ours is no longer an agrarian society and there is now air conditioning. Now may be the time to use our school building year round. That does not mean students would have to attend year round. The teachers and the gross number of administrators would have full time employment.

in mine. It's on that thing we call the WISH LIST.

Introduced by Sen. Valde Garcia on January 26, 2005, to revise provision of the school code that requires a minimum of 180 days of instruction in schools as a condition of state funding, to instead require 1,098 hours of instruction per year (which comes to 6.1 hours a day over 180 days. Also, to remove requirements for incremental yearly increases in the number of school days and hours of instruction. Referred to the Senate Education Committee on January 26, 2005. Reported in the Senate on May 30, 2006, with the recommendation that the bill pass. Substitute offered in the Senate on May 31, 2006, to replace the previous version of the bill with one that revises details but does not change the substance of the bill as previously described. The substitute passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 31, 2006. Passed in the Senate (37 to 0) on June 1, 2006. [Vote Details and Comments] This is not the problem! There is no air conditioning in most of these schools! You have had this bill for a YEAR and you VOTE on it right when teachers get out. VERY CLASSY!

2005 Senate Bill 95 (Revise school year length criteria ) Introduced by Sen. Valde Garcia on January 26, 2005, to revise provision of the school code that requires a minimum of 180 days of instruction in schools as a condition of state funding, to instead require 1,098 hours of instruction per year (which comes to 6.1 hours a day over 180 days. Also, to remove requirements for incremental yearly increases in the number of school days and hours of instruction. Referred to the Senate Education Committee on January 26, 2005. Reported in the Senate on May 30, 2006, with the recommendation that the bill pass. Substitute offered in the Senate on May 31, 2006, to replace the previous version of the bill with one that revises details but does not change the substance of the bill as previously described. The substitute passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 31, 2006. Passed in the Senate (37 to 0) on June 1, 2006. [Vote Details and Comments]

2005 Senate Bill 95 (Revise school year length criteria ) (Senate Roll Call 440) Passed in the Senate (37 to 0) on June 1, 2006. [History, Amendments & Comments] The vote was 37 in favor, 0 opposed, and 1 not voting (Senate Roll Call 440 at Senate Journal 54) [Comment on this vote | View others' comments] Vote Support Oppose Not Voting Undecided Legislators (Republican) 100% 0% 0% 22 total votes Legislators (Democrat) 93% 0% 6% 16 total votes again, the length of the school year IS NOT THE PROBLEM. It is that we don't have enough leadership and understanding in the area of dyslexia. It's about being more EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE D-U-R-I-N-G the school year. Just extend the school year. Right. If school were manufacturing you would hire a quality control engineer to look at the common tasks an employee did during the work day to produce the given product, ideally a quality product. The engineer would watch and make suggestions to decrease the number of steps and do quality control on the product (testing/screening.) You wouldn't extend the work day of the worker. Are you going to PAY them more? Pay more for the energy and the busing, etc.

This one seems ok.

sorry

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2006 House Bill 6025 (Increase school instruction hours ) [History, Amendments & Comments] [Text and Analysis] [Add to Watch List] Introduced by Rep. Bruce Caswell on May 2, 2006, to increase the minimum number of hours of instruction public schools must provide from 1,098 hours per year to 1,140 per year. AND RIGHT BEFORE TEACHERS GET OUT? RESPECT? NOPE POLITICS? YES SPIRIT OF COOPERATION AND PROBLEM SOLVING? NOPE

No gradual steps, just increase school length? That would be reactive, not proactive to the REAL problem in our schools.

SB-0095, As Passed Senate, June 1, 2006 SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE BILL NO. 95 A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled "The revised school code," by amending section 1284 (MCL 380.1284), as amended by 1997 PA 53. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT: Sec. 1284. (1) The board of a school district or of a public school academy shall determine the length of the school term year. However, except as otherwise provided in subsections (2) and (3), if the board does not want the school district's or public school academy's state school aid payments to be withheld as described in section 101 of the state school aid act of 1979, MCL 388.1701, the board shall ensure that the minimum number of days of pupil instruction in a school year is 180 through the 1996-1997 school year and is 181 in the 1997-1998 school year, 182 in the 1998-1999 school year, 183 in the 1999-2000 school year, 184 in the 2000-2001 school year, 185 in the 2001-2002 school year, 186 in the 2002-2003 school year, 187 in the 2003-2004 school year, 188 in the 2004-2005 school year, 189 in the 2005-2006 school year, and 190 in the 2006- 2007 school year and each succeeding school year, and shall ensure that the minimum number of hours of pupil instruction in a school year is 900 for the 1994-95 school year, 990 for the 1995-96 and 1996-97 school years, 1,041 for the 1997-1998 school year, 1,047 for the 1998-1999 school year, 1,098 for the 1999-2000 school year, 1,104 for the 2000-2001 school year, 1,110 for the 2001-2002 school year, 1,116 for the 2002-2003 school year, 1,122 for the 2003-2004 school year, 1,128 for the 2004-2005 school year, 1,134 for the 2005-2006 school year, and 1,140 for the 2006-2007 school year and each succeeding school year school district or public school academy provides at least the minimum number of hours of pupil instruction during each school year required under section 101 of the state school aid act of 1979, MCL 388.1701. (2) For a particular school year, if the department determines that the percentage growth in the basic foundation allowance under section 20 of the state school aid act of 1979, MCL 388.1620, for the state fiscal year in which the school year begins, as compared to the basic foundation allowance for the immediately preceding state fiscal year, is less than the percentage increase in the average United States consumer price index for all urban consumers, as determined by the United States bureau of labor statistics, for the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year in which the school year begins as compared to the second preceding calendar year before the calendar year in which the school year begins, then there shall be no increase in the required minimum number of days or hours of pupil instruction under subsection (1) for that particular school year. For the next school year after a school year for which there is no increase in the required minimum number of days and hours of pupil instruction under subsection (1) because of the operation of this subsection, and if the first sentence of this subsection does not apply, the increase in the required minimum number of days and hours of pupil instruction shall only be 1 day and the corresponding number of hours. This subsection shall apply and shall operate to limit increases under subsection (1) until the required minimum number of days and hours of pupil instruction under this section is 190 days and 1,140 hours. (3) The board of a school district or public school academy, by resolution, may choose to provide less than the number of days of pupil instruction required under subsection (1), but shall provide at least 180 days of pupil instruction and at least the number of hours of pupil instruction required under subsection (1). (2) (4) Not later than August 1 of each year, the board of each school district and the board of directors of each public school academy shall certify to the state board the number of days and hours of pupil instruction in the previous school year. (3) (5) Days lost Hours in which there is no pupil instruction because of strikes or teachers' conferences shall not be counted as days hours of pupil instruction. (4) (6) The state board superintendent of public instruction shall promulgate rules for the implementation of this section.

There is NO air conditioning at my school. I'm lucky to have a fan. The recorded temperature in the classroom next door to me (lucky enough to have 2 fans) at the start of last week was 87. Tell me -- is your workplace that hot? I doubt it.

"Are you going to PAY them more?" They get paid for a year and only work 9 months. They should pay us more.

Where am I right now? At school, own time, school ended last week. And we take work home all the time. And we take our required classes during the summer to keep up on our certificate and we buy MOST of our own supplies and we go to workshops in the summer, some of which we pay for on our own. We are not sacrificial lambs. And if there were more men in this field this myth would not exist and this sort of thing of paying for your own stuff to make it work would not fly!

! KNOCK IT OFF.

You are very misinformed and have probably never spent a week in the shoes of an educator, let alone nine months. Effective teachers work a minimum of 60 hours per week during the school year which always includes time away from their families on every weekend and "breaks" during the school year. As a result, effective teachers not only work more hours than most people in other occupations, they accomplish that work in 9 months and not 12. Furthermore, the accumliation of mental and physical fatigue generated from being responsible for 30 to 180 young people for nine months takes it toll with which non-educators are unable to identify. Please make an effort to get accurate information before claiming something to be factual. Effective teachers work more than one year in nine months with inadeuate compensation compared to other significant professions.

Your statement that teachers work for 9 months and get paid for a year is incorrect. We get paid for the time that we work (although not for the time we work at home and no more). We have the option of taking that pay spread out over the entire year or of taking that pay only during the school year.

the person who wrote the comment about teachers getting paid $45.5 per hour must have NO idea about what teaching entails. teaching includes preparation, grading and possibly student/parent contact other than the in-class teaching hours. count those in and see how much the hourly wage is. need help with the math? go ask a teacher, maybe she can help if she has any free time.

Stfu bitchez

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