To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental school aid appropriation for Fiscal Year 2012-2013. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To spend $1.8 million for a contract to provide schools a “sustainable, interactive health and nutrition education platform and personal responsibility health behavior record” that would collect “personal use health behavior data that are cumulative and accessible in real time only to the user and those authorized by the user through a secure online dashboard.” It would also include “age- and developmentally appropriate self-monitoring through the recording of health habits, including, but not limited to, dietary intake and physical activity…that provides a personal responsibility health record,” and more. Parents would have to “opt in” for their children to be included.

To require the proposal to provide students with "information technology education opportunities" be distributed to all community colleges.

To appropriate $2 million for a year-round school pilot program.

To spend an extra $30 million various programs targeted at "at risk" students.

To make a few additional districts eligible for already-approved supplemental funding in excess of what the standard funding formula provides.

To increase the amount the bill would appropriate for transition costs related to dissolving the fiscally failed Buena Vista and Inkster school districts.

To increase the amount the bill would appropriate for transition costs related to dissolving the fiscally failed Buena Vista and Inkster school districts.

To not authorize using extra Buena Vista and Inkster school district dissolution money to tear down buildings.

To not limit the extra Buena Vista and Inkster school district dissolution money to $2.5 million each.

To require all districts eligible for extra Buena Vista and Inkster school district dissolution money the bill authorizes to get some of it.

To not appropriate $1.8 million for the student nutrition and behavior tracking software proposed by the previous Rogers amendment, but instead authorize the program while leaving the actual amount to be decided later.

To combine the two previous Rogers amendments inserting a nominal "placeholder" appropriation for a student nutrition and behavior tracking software program.

To make adjustments to the school aid budget for the current fiscal year to reflect lower than expected student counts, and appropriate extra money for various purposes, including a $51.7 federal "early learning challenge grant" the state applied for. This will pay for government programs that are "culturally, linguistically, and developmentally appropriate...for high-needs children from birth to kindergarten entry" and that "promote children’s physical, social, and emotional health" among other things; training for employees who perform these activities; monitoring systems and more. The bill also authorizes a student nutrition and behavior tracking software program for schools. It appropriates $5 million for transition costs related to dissolving the fiscally failed Buena Vista and Inkster school districts; $2 million for a year-round school pilot program; $3.9 million for contracts to provide students "information technology education opportunities; and more.

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To adopt a version of the bill that does not permit school districts to reduce the required number of days and hours of instruction in the 2013-2014 school year due to harsh winter weather, and does not include a student nutrition and behavior tracking software program authorized by the House.

To make adjustments to the school aid budget for the current fiscal year to reflect lower than expected student counts, and appropriate extra money for various purposes, including a $51.7 federal "early learning challenge grant" the state applied for. This will pay for government programs that are "culturally, linguistically, and developmentally appropriate...for high-needs children from birth to kindergarten entry" and that "promote children’s physical, social, and emotional health" among other things; training for employees who perform these activities; monitoring systems and more. It appropriates $5 million for transition costs related to dissolving the fiscally failed Buena Vista and Inkster school districts; $2 million for a year-round school pilot program; $2 million for class size reductions; $3.9 million for contracts to provide students "information technology education opportunities; and more.

To add back the $30 million in extra spending approved by the Senate but removed by the House for grants to schools with more "at risk" students, and make some other changes in school funding formula details.

To add back the $2 million the Senate added and the House removed for class size reduction grants.

To adopt a version of the bill that does not contain $30 million in extra spending approved by the Senate for grants to schools with more "at risk" students, or $2 million the Senate added for class size reduction grants. This version also increases to $750,000 a cap on how much a single school district can get from a year-round school pilot program grant the bill funds, and does not authorize a student nutrition and behavior tracking software program for schools included in the original House version.

To add back the $2 million the Senate added and the House removed for class size reduction grants.

The vote by which the amendments were adopted.

To add back the $2 million the Senate added and the House removed for class size reduction grants.

To add back the $30 million in extra spending approved by the Senate but removed by the House for grants to schools with more "at risk" students, and make some other changes in school funding formula details.

To concur with the House-passed version of the bill.