An act to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled “An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and secondary schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating to elementary and secondary education; to provide for the organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to provide for the regulation of school teachers and certain other school employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties with respect thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes; to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; to make appropriations for certain purposes; to provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 1279g (MCL 380.1279g), as amended by 2016 PA 170.
Senate Bill No. 349 amends Michigan's school code to allow high school students to opt out of the workforce readiness test in the Michigan Merit Examination via a parent-signed waiver, while maintaining rigorous standards, reporting, and curriculum alignment for the exam.
Co-sponsored by Sens.
Referred to the Committee on Education
Reported with substitute S-3
Referred to the Committee of the Whole
Reported with substitute S-3
Substitute S-3 concurred in by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 33 to 0 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Government Operations
Reported without amendment
Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce
Reported with substitute H-1
Substitute H-1 concurred in by voice vote
Passed in the House 101 to 0 (details)
Motion to give immediate effect
by
The motion prevailed by voice vote
Substitute H-1 concurred in 35 to 0 (details)