2001 Senate Bill 143 ↩

Senate Roll Call 1097: Failed

To concur with the House amendment, which would allow and require three new charter schools to be established in Detroit by the mayor in each of the next five years, for a total of 15 new charters. These would all be high schools. Detroit schools would get $2.5 million a year for three years to compensate for declining enrollment. The bill also gives the mayor the authority to appoint all the members of the Detroit schools reform board, removing the governor's one appointment. It also would allow an intermediate school board to refer a resolution or petition for the transfer of territory from one school district to another directly to the Superintendent of Public Instruction.