Bill Text: MI HJRDDD | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Education; school districts; maintenance of certain specified types of schools; require in each district, and require high-quality free and safe quality public education in this state. Amends sec. 2, art. VIII of the state constitution.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-12-11 - Printed Joint Resolution Filed 12/07/2012 [HJRDDD Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-HJRDDD-Introduced.html
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION DDD
December 6, 2012, Introduced by Reps. Lipton, Brown, Tlaib, Barnett, Slavens, Irwin, Bauer, Stapleton, Dillon and Oakes and referred to the Committee on Education.
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state
constitution of 1963, by amending section 2 of article VIII, to
require a system of high-quality free and safe public schools, to
require that at least one school in each school district is
governed by a locally elected board, and to require that there is
at least one school in each school district where pupils can
physically attend school and interact in person with teachers and
other pupils. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state
constitution of 1963, to require a system of high-quality free and
safe public schools, to require that at least one school in each
school district is governed by a locally elected board, and to
require that there is at least one school in each school district
where pupils can physically attend school and interact in person
with teachers and other pupils, is proposed, agreed to, and
submitted to the people of the state:
ARTICLE VIII
Sec. 2. The legislature shall maintain and support a system of
high-quality free and safe public elementary and secondary schools
as defined by law. Every school district shall provide for the
education of its pupils without discrimination as to religion,
creed, race, color or national origin. For pupils at every grade
level, at least one school in every school district shall be
governed by a local publicly elected school board. For pupils at
every grade level, each school district shall provide at least one
school building where pupils can physically attend school and
interact in person with teachers and other pupils. If this state or
an appointee of this state takes over the governance of any local
school district, this state or its appointee shall ensure that, for
pupils at every grade level, there is at least one school building
maintained in the school district where pupils can physically
attend school and interact in person with teachers and other
pupils.
No public monies or property shall be appropriated or paid or
any public credit utilized, by the legislature or any other
political subdivision or agency of the state directly or indirectly
to aid or maintain any private, denominational or other nonpublic,
pre-elementary, elementary, or secondary school. No payment,
credit, tax benefit, exemption or deductions, tuition voucher,
subsidy, grant or loan of public monies or property shall be
provided, directly or indirectly, to support the attendance of any
student or the employment of any person at any such nonpublic
school or at any location or institution where instruction is
offered in whole or in part to such nonpublic school students. The
legislature may provide for the transportation of students to and
from any school.
Resolved further, That the foregoing amendment shall be
submitted to the people of the state at the next general election
in the manner provided by law.
