Introduced
by
To increase the cap on the number of charter schools, to give priority to academies that set measurable educational goals and benchmarks (including plans to close student achievement gaps based on race, gender, or socioeconomic status), exempt charter schools employees from collective bargaining agreements that apply to other schools in the district, require special education programs at charters, require financial and other disclosures about educational management organizations contracted to operate charter schools, and specify the provisions of such contracts, and to allow changes in enrollment, personnel, borrowing, bonding, legal, and school board procedures.
Referred to the Committee on Education
Substitute offered
To replace the previous version of the bill with one which incorporates the recommendations of the McPherson Charter School Commission, authorized by the governor to find a "compromise" between opponents and supporters of charter schools regarding raising the existing cap of 150 university-chartered schools. This would allow 55 additional charter schools to be created, five in 2002, and 10 per year through 2007. Only one new charter per year would be allowed in Detroit. An additional 175 "special purpose" charter schools would be allowed by 2017, at least 50 percent of whose students must be considered “at risk.” In return, charter schools would be subject to many more state regulations, would have to adopt the same collective bargaining agreements as intermediate school districts under certain conditions, and would be subject to the same or similar comprehensive reporting requirements as regular public schools regarding management, supervisory, and teaching personnel; curriculum; leases; contracts; management contracts with private educational management companies; budgets; and more. Other new regulations would require open enrollment periods, and outreach efforts to special education pupils. If a charter closed, all property and assets it owned would revert to the state. The ability of Bay Mills Community College to create an unlimited number of charters would be limited to the area of the Upper Peninsula it now serves, rather than the entire state. (Bay Mills Community College technically serves Indians across the state, so under current law can establish charter schools anywhere in the state).
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
by
To authorize a legislator to initiate a state investigation of a charter school.
The amendment failed 41 to 54 (details)
Amendment offered
by
To allow more than one new charter school per year for Detroit.
The amendment failed 29 to 73 (details)
Amendment offered
by
To require the Department of Education to conduct a long term study of the role and performance record of charter schools.
The amendment passed 88 to 15 (details)
Amendment offered
by
To not include special education students among those that would be required to comprise 50 percent of the enrollment of the proposed "special purpose" charter schools.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
by
To require the Department of Education to conduct study of the role and performance record of charter schools to be completed by May 1, 2007, and to let the law authorizing charter schools expire on July 1, 2007, unless its sunset is extended by the legislature.
The amendment failed 54 to 47 (details)
Amendment offered
by
To require the Department of Education to conduct study of the role and performance record of charter schools to be completed by May 1, 2007, and to let the proposed provision authorizing additional charter schools expire on July 1, 2007, unless its sunset is extended by the legislature.
The amendment failed 54 to 46 (details)
Amendment offered
by
To reconsider the vote by which the House did not adopt the amendments offered by Minore.
The amendment failed 47 to 55 (details)
Amendment offered
by
To eliminate a provision of the law requiring a charter school created by a school district to operate under the same collective bargaining agreement as the one covering regular public schools, and eliminate a proposed provision requiring a charter school created by an intermediate school district (ISD) that is a conversion of an existing program of the ISD (such as a special purpose charter school intended to serve “at risk” or special education pupils) to operate under the same collective bargaining agreement as the one covering the existing program in the ISD.
The amendment failed 17 to 86 (details)
Amendment offered
by
To allow more than one new charter school per year for Detroit.
The amendment failed 23 to 80 (details)
Amendment offered
by
To allow more than one new charter school per year for the Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, and Utica school districts.
The amendment failed 22 to 83 (details)
Amendment offered
by
To require that if a charter school contracts with a private management company, it must have a different auditor from the one used by the management company.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
by
To allow Wayne County Community College to authorize charter schools.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Failed in the House 54 to 52 (details)
To amend the charter school law to incorporate the recommendations of the McPherson Charter School Commission, authorized by the governor to find a "compromise" between opponents and supporters of charter schools regarding raising the existing cap of 150 university-chartered schools. This would allow 55 additional charter schools to be created, five in 2002, and 10 per year through 2007. Only one new charter per year would be allowed in Detroit. An additional 175 "special purpose" charter schools would be allowed by 2017, at least 50 percent of whose students must be considered “at risk.” In return, charter schools would be subject to many more state regulations, would have to adopt the same collective bargaining agreements as intermediate school districts under certain conditions, and would be subject to the same or similar comprehensive reporting requirements as regular public schools regarding management, supervisory, and teaching personnel; curriculum; leases; contracts; management contracts with private educational management companies; budgets; and more. Other new regulations would require open enrollment periods, and outreach efforts to special education pupils. If a charter closed, all property and assets it owned would revert to the state. The ability of Bay Mills Community College to create an unlimited number of charters would end, and it would be covered by the same cap that applies to state universities. (Bay Mills Community College technically serves Indians across the state, so under current law can establish charter schools anywhere in the state).
Received
Substitute offered
by
To reconsider the vote by which the House did not pass the bill.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
by
The amendment passed by voice vote
