Sec. 98b.
(1) In order to receive state aid under this article for 2021-2022, a district must do all of the following:
(a) By not later than the first meeting of the board that occurs in February of 2022 and by not later than the last day of the 2021-2022 school year, the district superintendent or chief administrator of the district, as applicable, shall present both of the following at a public meeting of the board:
(i) Subject to state and federal privacy laws, the results from benchmark assessments and local benchmark assessments, as applicable, administered under section 104a.
(ii) For each school operated by the district, each school's progress toward meeting the educational goals described in subdivision (d).
(b) The district shall ensure that the information presented under subdivision (a) is disaggregated by grade level, by student demographics, and by the mode of instruction received by the pupils to which the information applies.
(c) The information presented under subdivision (a) must also be compiled into a report that the district shall make available through the transparency reporting link located on the district's website.
(d) The district shall ensure that, by not later than September 15, 2021, each school building leader of each school operated by the district, in conjunction with all teachers and school administrators of the school, establishes educational goals expected to be achieved for the 2021-2022 school year for the school. The goals described in this subdivision must specify which educational goals are expected to be achieved by not later than the middle of the school year and which goals are expected to be achieved by not later than the last day of the 2021-2022 school year. All the following apply to the educational goals described in this subdivision:
(i) The goals must include increased pupil achievement or, if growth can be validly and reliably measured using a benchmark assessment or benchmark assessments or a local benchmark assessment, growth on a benchmark assessment or benchmark assessments or a local benchmark assessment described in subparagraph (ii) in the aggregate and for all subgroups of pupils broken down by grade level, student demographics, and mode of instruction.
(ii) The goals must include an assurance that the district shall select a benchmark assessment or benchmark assessments or a local benchmark assessment that are aligned to state standards and an assurance that the district shall administer the benchmark assessment or benchmark assessments or local benchmark assessment to all pupils as prescribed under section 104a to determine whether pupils are making meaningful progress toward mastery of these standards.
(iii) The goals must be measurable through a benchmark assessment or benchmark assessments or a local benchmark assessment described in subparagraph (ii).
(iv) For districts that provided instruction under an approved extended COVID-19 learning plan under section 98a, the goals must correlate to the educational goals that were included in the district's COVID-19 learning plan under section 98a for the 2020-2021 school year.
(e) In implementing a benchmark assessment system under section 104a, the district ensures that it is in compliance with section 104a(1)(f).
(2) The department shall create a statewide uniform template for districts to utilize in the development of educational goals under subsection (1)(d) and shall make this template available to all districts by not later than June 30, 2022.
(3) By not later than June 15, 2022, subject to state and federal privacy laws, the superintendent of public instruction shall submit a report to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on school aid and the house and senate standing committees on education that includes the results of benchmark assessments administered under section 104a that the superintendent of public instruction has received from districts. All of the following apply to the data included in the report described in this subsection:
(a) It must be disaggregated by grade level, student demographics, and the modes of instruction received by pupils.
(b) It must be broken down so as to show a comparison of growth among pupils within a grade level, within certain student demographics, and based on the modes of instruction received by the pupils.
(4) If requested to do so by the chairs of the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on school aid and the chairs of the house and senate standing committees on education, the superintendent of public instruction shall present his or her report submitted under subsection (3) in person to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on school aid and the house and senate standing committees on education.
History: Add. 2021, Act 48, Eff. Oct. 1, 2021
Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to freedom to learn program.Former MCL 388.1698b, which pertained to freedom to learn program was repealed by Act 92 of 2007, Imd. Eff. Oct. 1, 2007.