THE STATE SCHOOL AID ACT OF 1979 (EXCERPT)
Act 94 of 1979388.1619 Compliance with state and federal reporting requirements; report of graduation and dropout rates; appeal; educational personnel; limitation; failure to comply with requirements; list of school or district accountability designations; appeal of determination; publication of list; implementation of statewide standard reporting requirements.Sec. 19.
(1) A district or intermediate district shall comply with all applicable reporting requirements specified in state and federal law. Data provided to the center, in a form and manner prescribed by the center, must be aggregated and disaggregated as required by state and federal law. In addition, a district or intermediate district shall cooperate with all measures taken by the center to establish and maintain a statewide P-20 longitudinal data system.
(2) Each district shall furnish to the center not later than 5 weeks after the pupil membership count day and by the last business day in June of the school fiscal year ending in the fiscal year, in a manner prescribed by the center, the information necessary for the preparation of the district and high school graduation report, information regarding completion of early middle college credentials obtained and postsecondary credits obtained in any college acceleration program, and information necessary for the preparation of the state and federal accountability reports. This information must meet requirements established in the pupil auditing manual approved and published by the department. The center shall calculate an annual graduation and pupil dropout rate for each high school, each district, and this state, in compliance with nationally recognized standards for these calculations. The center shall report all graduation and dropout rates to the senate and house education committees and appropriations committees, the state budget director, and the department not later than 30 days after the publication of the list described in subsection (5). Before reporting these graduation and dropout rates, the department shall allow a school or district to appeal the calculations. The department shall consider and act upon the appeal within 30 days after it is submitted and shall not report these graduation and dropout rates until after all appeals have been considered and decided.
(3) By the first business day in December and by the last business day in June of each year, a district shall furnish to the center, in a manner prescribed by the center, information related to educational personnel and personnel vacancies as necessary for reporting required by state and federal law. For the purposes of this subsection, the center shall only require districts and intermediate districts to report information that is not already available from the office of retirement services in the department of technology, management, and budget.
(4) If a district or intermediate district fails to meet the requirements of this section, the department shall withhold 5% of the total funds for which the district or intermediate district qualifies under this article until the district or intermediate district complies with this section. If the district or intermediate district does not comply with this section by the end of the fiscal year, the department shall place the amount withheld in an escrow account until the district or intermediate district complies with this section.
(5) Before publishing a list of school or district accountability designations as required by the no child left behind act of 2001, Public Law 107-110, or the every student succeeds act, Public Law 114-95, and utilizing data that were certified as accurate and complete after districts and intermediate districts adhered to deadlines, data quality reviews, and correction processes leading to local certification of final student data in subsection (2), the department shall allow a school or district to appeal any calculation errors used in the preparation of accountability metrics. The department shall consider and act upon the appeal within 30 days after it is submitted and shall not publish the list until after all appeals have been considered and decided.
(6) The department shall implement statewide standard reporting requirements for education data approved by the department in conjunction with the center. The department shall work with the center, intermediate districts, districts, and other interested stakeholders to implement this policy change. A district or intermediate district shall implement the statewide standard reporting requirements not later than 2017-2018 or when a district or intermediate district updates its education data reporting system, whichever is later.
(7) A district or intermediate district shall collect and submit to the center tribal affiliation data for all students and staff and the identification of student participation in federal programs funded under 20 USC 7401 to 7546 and participation in federal programs funded under the Johnson-O'Malley Supplemental Indian Education Program Modernization Act, Public Law 115-404. The data must be reported in a form and manner prescribed by the center in consultation with the federally recognized Indian tribes in this state and the department in adherence to the department's tribal consultation policy. A district or intermediate district shall begin completion of the reporting requirement under this subsection by not later than the 2024-2025 fiscal year.
History: Add. 1988, Act 318, Eff. Oct. 1, 1988
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Am. 1989, Act 197, Eff. Oct. 1, 1989
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Am. 1989, Act 235, Imd. Eff. Dec. 21, 1989
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Am. 1990, Act 207, Eff. Oct. 1, 1990
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Am. 1991, Act 118, Imd. Eff. Oct. 11, 1991
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Am. 1992, Act 148, Eff. Oct. 1, 1992
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Am. 1993, Act 175, Eff. Oct. 1, 1993
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Am. 1993, Act 336, Eff. Oct. 1, 1994
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Am. 1994, Act 283, Eff. Oct. 1, 1994
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Am. 1995, Act 130, Eff. Oct. 1, 1995
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Am. 1996, Act 300, Eff. Oct. 1, 1996
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Am. 2000, Act 297, Imd. Eff. July 26, 2000
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Am. 2002, Act 191, Eff. Oct. 1, 2002
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Am. 2003, Act 158, Eff. Oct. 1, 2003
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Am. 2004, Act 351, Eff. Oct. 1, 2004
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Am. 2005, Act 155, Eff. Oct. 1, 2005
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Am. 2007, Act 137, Imd. Eff. Nov. 8, 2007
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Am. 2008, Act 268, Eff. Oct. 1, 2008
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Am. 2009, Act 121, Imd. Eff. Oct. 19, 2009
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Am. 2010, Act 110, Eff. Oct. 1, 2010
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Am. 2012, Act 201, Eff. Oct. 1, 2012
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Am. 2013, Act 60, Eff. Oct. 1, 2013
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Am. 2014, Act 196, Eff. Oct. 1, 2014
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Am. 2016, Act 249, Eff. Oct. 1, 2016
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Am. 2016, Act 533, Eff. Apr. 9, 2017
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Am. 2018, Act 265, Eff. Oct. 1, 2018
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Am. 2021, Act 48, Eff. Oct. 1, 2021
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Am. 2023, Act 103, Eff. Oct. 1, 2023
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Am. 2025, Act 15, Imd. Eff. Oct. 7, 2025
Compiler's Notes: For transfer of powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of the department of education regarding educational reports to the center for educational performance and information by type II transfer, see E.R.O. No. 2000-6, compiled at MCL 388.996 of the Michigan compiled laws.Enacting section 1 of Act 351 of 2004 provides:“Enacting section 1. In accordance with section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, total state spending in this amendatory act from state sources for fiscal year 2004-2005 is estimated at $11,173,900,000.00 and state appropriations to be paid to local units of government for fiscal year 2004-2005 are estimated at $11,113,650,400.00.”Enacting section 1 of 2005 PA 155 provides:"Enacting section 1. In accordance with section 30 of article I of the state constitution of 1963, total state spending in this amendatory act and in House Bill No. 4831 of the 93rd Legislature from state sources for fiscal year 2005-2006 is estimated at $11,364,814,000.00 and state appropriations to be paid to local units of government for fiscal year 2005-2006 are estimated at $11,341,913,100.00."Enacting section 1 of Act 137 of 2007 provides:"Enacting section 1. In accordance with section 30 of article I of the state constitution of 1963, total state spending in this amendatory act from state sources for fiscal year 2007-2008 is estimated at $11,527,973,800.00 and state appropriations to be paid to local units of government for fiscal year 2007-2008 are estimated at $11,458,493,300.00."Enacting section 1 of Act 268 of 2008 provides:"Enacting section 1. In accordance with section 30 of article I of the state constitution of 1963, total state spending in this amendatory act from state sources for fiscal year 2008-2009 is estimated at $11,816,898,200.00 and state appropriations to be paid to local units of government for fiscal year 2008-2009 are estimated at $11,602,465,900.00."Enacting section 1 of Act 121 of 2009 provides:"Enacting section 1. In accordance with section 30 of article I of the state constitution of 1963, total state spending in this amendatory act from state sources for fiscal year 2009-2010 is estimated at $10,825,754,100.00 and state appropriations to be paid to local units of government for fiscal year 2009-2010 are estimated at $10,718,801,700.00."