Bill Text: MI HB5559 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; public school academies; enrollment priority for local residents of certain geographic areas for public school academy located within that area; provide for under certain circumstances. Amends sec. 504 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.504).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-25 - Printed Bill Filed 04/25/2012 [HB5559 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB5559-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5559

 

April 24, 2012, Introduced by Rep. Heise and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

by amending section 504 (MCL 380.504), as amended by 2011 PA 277.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 504. (1) A public school academy may be located in all or

 

part of an existing public school building. A public school academy

 

shall not operate at a site other than the site or sites requested

 

for the configuration of age or grade levels that will use the site

 

or sites, as specified in the contract. Under a contract, an

 

authorizing body may permit a public school academy to operate the

 

same configuration of age or grade levels at more than 1 site, and

 

a public school academy may operate the same configuration of age

 

or grade levels at more than 1 site, as long as the public school

 

academy is operating in compliance with its contract and is making

 

measurable progress toward meeting its educational goals. For a

 

contract for a new public school academy, an authorizing body may

 

permit a public school academy to operate the same configuration of

 

age or grade levels at more than 1 site, and a public school

 

academy may operate the same configuration of age or grade levels

 

at more than 1 site, if the applicant for the proposed public

 

school academy presents documentation to the authorizing body

 

demonstrating that the applicant's proposed educational model has

 

resulted in schools making measurable progress toward meeting their

 

education goals.

 

     (2) A public school academy shall not charge tuition and shall

 

not discriminate in its pupil admissions policies or practices on

 

the basis of intellectual or athletic ability, measures of

 

achievement or aptitude, status as a student with a disability, or

 

any other basis that would be illegal if used by a school district.

 

However, a public school academy may limit admission to pupils who

 

are within a particular range of age or grade level or on any other

 

basis that would be legal if used by a school district and may give

 

enrollment priority as provided in subsection (4).

 

     (3) Except for a foreign exchange student who is not a United

 

States citizen, a public school academy shall not enroll a pupil

 

who is not a resident of this state. For a public school academy

 

authorized by a school district, intermediate school district, or

 

community college, enrollment in the public school academy may be

 

open to all individuals who reside in this state who meet the

 

admission policy and shall be open to all pupils who reside within

 

the geographic boundaries of that authorizing body who meet the

 

admission policy, except that admission to a public school academy

 

authorized by the board of a community college to operate, or

 

operated by the board of a community college, on the grounds of a

 

federal military installation, as described in section 502(2)(c),

 

shall be open to all pupils who reside in the county in which the

 

federal military installation is located. For a public school

 

academy authorized by a state public university, enrollment shall

 

be open to all pupils who reside in this state who meet the

 

admission policy. Subject to subsection (4), if there are more

 

applications to enroll in the public school academy than there are

 

spaces available, pupils shall be selected to enroll using a random

 

selection process. A public school academy shall allow any pupil

 

who was enrolled in the public school academy in the immediately

 

preceding school year to enroll in the public school academy in the

 

appropriate grade unless the appropriate grade is not offered at

 

that public school academy.

 

     (4) A public school academy may give enrollment priority to 1

 

or more of the following who meet the admission policy:

 

     (a) A sibling of a pupil enrolled in the public school

 

academy.

 

     (b) A pupil who transfers to the public school academy from

 

another public school pursuant to a matriculation agreement between

 

the public school academy and other public school that provides for

 

this enrollment priority, if all of the following requirements are

 

met:

 

     (i) Each public school that enters into the matriculation

 

agreement remains a separate and independent public school.

 

     (ii) The public school academy that gives the enrollment

 

priority selects at least 5% of its pupils for enrollment using a

 

random selection process.

 

     (iii) The matriculation agreement allows any pupil who was

 

enrolled at any time during elementary school in a public school

 

that is party to the matriculation agreement and who was not

 

expelled from the public school to enroll in the public school

 

academy giving enrollment priority under the matriculation

 

agreement.

 

     (c) A child of a person who is employed by or at the public

 

school academy or who is on the board of directors of the public

 

school academy. As used in this subdivision and subdivision (d),

 

"child" includes an adopted child or a legal ward.

 

     (d) If a public school academy is located in a designated

 

urban opportunity academy zone, if the contract authorizing the

 

public school academy includes fostering population density and

 

neighborhood economic stabilization among the stated purposes of

 

the public school academy, and if the boundaries of the designated

 

urban opportunity academy zone are prescribed in the contract or in

 

another agreement between the public school academy and its

 

authorizing body, a child of a person who resides within the

 

designated urban opportunity academy zone. However, a public school

 

academy that gives enrollment priority under this subdivision shall

 

select at least 10% of its pupils for enrollment using a random

 

selection process. As used in this subdivision, "designated urban

 

opportunity academy zone" means a geographic area that meets all of

 

the following:

 

     (i) As of the date that the public school academy's contract is

 

issued, has a population density of less than 8 persons per acre

 

and has a publicly supported plan to increase population density to

 

16 persons per acre.

 

     (ii) As of the date the public school academy's contract is

 

issued, has a socioeconomic profile with a median household income

 

less than 80% of the median household income for households within

 

the school district in which it is located.

 

     (iii) Has 1 or more business institutional anchors that have

 

designated and committed resources to the designated urban

 

opportunity academy zone and have assumed a partnership role with

 

the public school academy.

 

     (5) A public school academy may include any grade up to grade

 

12 or any configuration of those grades, including kindergarten and

 

early childhood education, as specified in its contract. If

 

specified in its contract, a public school academy may also operate

 

an adult basic education program, adult high school completion

 

program, or general education development testing preparation

 

program. The authorizing body may approve amendment of a contract

 

with respect to ages of pupils or grades offered.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect April 1,

 

2012.