MME; STATE SCHOOL AID                                                           H.B. 4037 (H-1), 4038 (S-1), & 4538 (S-2):

                                                                                                                                                                                                      SUMMARY OF BILL

                                                                                                                                                                        REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE

House Bill 4037 (Substitute H-1 as reported without amendment)

House Bill 4038 (Substitute S-1 as reported)

House Bill 4538 (Substitute S-2 as reported)

Sponsor:   Representative Pamela Hornberger

House Committee:   Education

Senate Committee:   Education and Career Readiness

CONTENT

House Bill 4038 (S-1) would amend the Revised School Code to do the following:

 --       Specify that the Michigan Merit Examination (MME) would consist of a college entrance test and the Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP).

 --       Delete a requirement that the MME include a workforce readiness assessment and a writing component in which the pupil produces an extended writing sample.

 --       Require the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), to the extent it determined that additional test items beyond those included on the college entrance component of the MME were required in a subject area, to ensure that all test items in that subject area were scaled and merged to produce an MME subject area score.

 --       Require the MDE, after each test administration, to provide a report of the questions per standard so teachers would know the content that would be covered in the MME.

 --       Require the MME to be administered to certain pupils enrolled in a middle college program.

 --       Require the MDE to include the statewide assessment and the graduation rates for consortium pupils with the scores for the school building in the participating district in which the consortium pupil was enrolled or otherwise would attend.    

The bill also would add Section 1279i to the Code to do the following:

 --       Prohibit a school district or public school academy (PSA) from requiring the administration of a workforce readiness assessment.  

 --       Allow a school district or PSA to provide pupils with the opportunity to take an assessment described above.

 --       Modify the dates the MME would have to be administered.

 --       Require the MDE to submit to the Legislature, by June 1 each year, a report regarding the number of pupils who took and the number of school districts that administered the MME.

House Bill 4037 (H-1) would amend the State School Aid Act to do the following:

 --       Delete a requirement that the MME include a work skills test and a workforce readiness assessment.

 --       Prohibit the MDE from requiring, as a condition of receiving State aid under the Act, the administration by a district of an assessment described in Section 1279i of the Revised School Code, which House Bill 4038 (S-1) would add.

House Bill 4538 (S-2) would amend the State School Aid Act to do the following: