Sec. 22p.

In order to receive funding under section 22b, a district or public school academy that has a signed partnership agreement with the department must meet both of the following:

(a) Adopts a partnership agreement that includes measurable academic outcomes that will be achieved after 18 months and after 36 months from the date the agreement was originally signed. Measurable academic outcomes under this subdivision must include outcomes that put pupils on track to meet or exceed grade level proficiency and must be based on district needs identified as required under section 21h.

(b) Adopts a partnership agreement that includes accountability measures to be imposed if the district or public school academy does not achieve the measurable academic outcomes under subdivision (a) for a school subject to a partnership agreement. Accountability measures under this subdivision may include the closure of the school at the end of the current school year or the reconstitution of the school. For a public school academy that adopts a partnership agreement under this subdivision, the agreement must include a requirement that if reconstitution is imposed on a school that is operated by the public school academy and that is subject to the partnership agreement, the school must be reconstituted as described in section 507 of the revised school code, MCL 380.507. For a district that adopts a partnership agreement under this subdivision, the agreement must include a requirement that if reconstitution is imposed on a school that is operated by the district and that is subject to the partnership agreement, all of the following apply:

(i) The district shall make significant changes to the instructional and noninstructional programming of the school based on the needs identified through a comprehensive review of data in compliance with section 21h.

(ii) The district shall replace the principal of the school, unless the current principal has been in place for less than 3 years and the board of the district determines that it is in the best interests of the district to retain current school leadership.

(iii) The reconstitution plan for the school shall require the adoption of goals similar to the goals included in a partnership agreement, with a limit of 5 years to achieve the goals. If the goals are not achieved within 5 years, the superintendent of public instruction shall either impose a second reconstitution plan on the school or close the school.

History: Add. 2018, Act 265, Eff. Oct. 1, 2018 ;-- Am. 2019, Act 58, Eff. Oct. 1, 2019