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Michigan Law Requires Schools and ISD's to Draw up Plans to
Encourage Parent Involvement for 2004-2005 School Year
Bridges4Kids, May 2004
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Senate Bill 0307 (2003)
Public Act 107 of 2004
Sponsors Nancy Cassis - (primary)
Tony Stamas, Laura Toy, Michelle McManus, Jason Allen, Mike
Goschka, Irma Clark-Coleman
Categories Education, other; Education, school districts
Education; other; parent involvement plan; create. Amends 1976
PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1294.
Text: Act No.
107
Public Acts of 2004
Approved by the Governor: May 20, 2004
Filed with the Secretary of State: May 20, 2004
EFFECTIVE DATE: May 20, 2004
STATE OF MICHIGAN 92ND LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION OF 2004
Introduced by Senators Cassis, Stamas, Toy, McManus, Allen,
Goschka and Clark-Coleman
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 307
AN ACT to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled "An act to provide a
system of public instruction and elementary and secondary
schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating
to elementary and secondary education; to provide for the
organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools, school
districts, public school academies, intermediate school
districts, and other public school entities; to prescribe
rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school
districts, public school academies, intermediate school
districts, and other public school entities; to provide for the
regulation of school teachers and certain other school
employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe
powers and duties with respect thereto; to provide for the levy
and collection of taxes; to provide for the borrowing of money
and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; to
establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; to
provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state
departments, the state board of education, and certain other
boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding
schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of
acts," (MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1294.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1294. (1) Not later than January 1, 2005, the board of a
school district or intermediate school district or the board of
directors of a public school academy shall adopt and implement a
parent involvement plan designed to encourage parental
participation.
(2) The board or board of directors shall provide a copy of the
parent involvement plan to the parent or legal guardian of each
pupil. The board or board of directors may provide the copy of
the policy by including the policy in its student handbook or a
similar publication that is distributed to all pupils and
parents.
(3) The board or board of directors shall provide a copy of the
parent involvement plan to the department upon request by the
department.
(4) The department shall review parental involvement practices
that have been implemented by public schools in this state and
elsewhere and shall post information at the department website
about successful parental involvement policies and practices.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
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