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Act No. 11
Public Acts of 2026
Approved by the Governor
May 14, 2026
Filed with the Secretary of State
May 14, 2026
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 30, 2026
STATE OF MICHIGAN
103RD LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2026
Introduced by Reps. Koleszar, Weiss, Johnsen and Kunse
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4557
AN ACT to amend 1979 PA 94, entitled “An act to make appropriations to aid in the support of the public
schools, the intermediate school districts, community colleges, and public universities of the state; to make
appropriations for certain other purposes relating to education; to provide for the disbursement of the
appropriations; to authorize the issuance of certain bonds and provide for the security of those bonds; to prescribe
the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and
officials; to create certain funds and provide for their expenditure; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and
parts of acts,” by amending sections 22p and 104c (MCL 388.1622p and 388.1704c), section 22p as amended by
2025 PA 15 and section 104c as amended by 2021 PA 48; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 22p. (1) Subject to subsection (2), to receive funding under section 22b, a district or public school academy
that is assigned by the superintendent of public instruction as a partnership district must have a signed 3 -year
partnership district agreement with the department that includes all of the following:
(a) Measurable benchmarks that the district or public school academy will achieve for each school operated by
the district or public school academy that is subject to the partnership district agreement after 18 months and
after 36 months from the date the agreement was originally signed. Measurable benchmarks under this
subdivision must include all of the following:
(i) Pupils on track to meet or exceed grade level proficiency, with consideration for district or public school
academy needs identified as required under section 21h.
(ii) Either of the following, as applicable:
(A) At least 1 proficiency or growth benchmark based on state assessments described in section 104c.
(B) At least 1 proficiency or growth benchmark based on a benchmark assessment described in section 104h.
(iii) Improved high school graduation rates, as applicable.
(iv) Attendance rates.
(b) Accountability measures to be imposed if the district or public school academy does not achieve the
measurable benchmarks described in subdivision (a) or section 21h(2)(b) for each school operated by the district
or public school academy that is subjec t to the partnership district agreement. For a district assigned as a
partnership district as described in this subsection, accountability measures under this subdivision must include
the reconstitution of the school. For a public school academy assigned a s a partnership district as described in
this subsection, accountability measures under this subdivision may include the reconstitution of the school.
(c) For a public school academy assigned as a partnership district as described in this subsection, 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 district agreement, the school must be reconstituted as described in section 507, 528, or 561, as
applicable, of the revised school code, MCL 380.507, 380.528, and 380.561.
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(d) For a district assigned as a partnership district as described in this subsection, a provision that, if
reconstitution is imposed on a school that is operated by the district and that is subject to the partnership district
agreement, reconstitution may require closure of the school building, but, if the school building remains open,
reconstitution must include, but is not limited to, all of the following:
(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 review whether the current principal of the school should remain as principal or be
replaced.
(iii) The reconstitution plan for the school must require the adoption of goals similar to the measurable
benchmarks included in the partnership district agreement, with a limit of 3 years to achieve the goals. If the
goals are not achieved within 3 years, the superintendent of public instruction shall impose a second reconstitution
plan.
(2) If a district or public school academy is assigned as a partnership district as described in subsection (1)
during the current fiscal year, it shall ensure that it has a signed partnership district agreement as described in
subsection (1) in place by n ot later than 90 days after the date that it is assigned as a partnership district. If a
district or public school academy described in this subsection does not comply with this subsection, the department
shall withhold funding under section 22b for that d istrict or public school academy until the district or public
school academy has a signed partnership district agreement as described in subsection (1) in place.
Sec. 104c. (1) In order to receive state aid under this article, a district shall administer the state assessments
described in this section.
(2) For the purposes of this section, the department shall develop and administer the Michigan student test of
educational progress (M-STEP) assessments in English language arts and mathematics. These assessments shall
be aligned to state standards.
(3) For the purposes of this section, the department shall implement a summative assessment system that is
proven to be valid and reliable for administration to pupils as provided under this subsection. The summative
assessment system must meet all of the following requirements:
(a) The summative assessment system must measure student proficiency on the current state standards, must
measure student growth for consecutive grade levels in which students are assessed in the same subject area in
both grade levels, and must be capable of measuring individual student performance.
(b) The summative assessments for English language arts and mathematics must be administered to all public
school pupils in grades 3 to 11, including those pupils as required by the individuals with disabilities education
act, Public Law 108-446, and by title I of the every student succeeds act, Public Law 114-95.
(c) The summative assessments for science must be administered to all public school pupils in at least grades 5
and 8, including those pupils as required by the individuals with disabilities education act, Public Law 108 -446,
and by title I of the every student succeeds act, Public Law 114-95.
(d) The summative assessments for social studies must be administered to all public school pupils in at least
grades 5 and 8, including those pupils as required by the individuals with disabilities education act,
Public Law 108-446, and by title I of the every student succeeds act, Public Law 114-95.
(e) The content of the summative assessments must be aligned to state standards.
(f) The pool of questions for the summative assessments must be subject to a transparent review process for
quality, bias, and sensitive issues involving educator review and comment. The department shall post samples
from tests or retired tests featuring questions from this pool for review by the public.
(g) The summative assessment system must ensure that students, parents, and teachers are provided with
reports that convey individual student proficiency and growth on the assessment and that convey individual
student domain -level performance in each subje ct area, including representative questions, and individual
student performance in meeting state standards.
(h) The summative assessment system must be capable of providing, and the department shall ensure that
students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community members are provided with, reports that convey
aggregate student proficiency and growth data by teacher, grade, school, and district.
(i) The summative assessment system must ensure the capability of reporting the available data to support
educator evaluations.
(j) The summative assessment system must ensure that the reports provided to districts containing individual
student data are available within 60 days after completion of the assessments.
(k) The summative assessment system must ensure that access to individually identifiable student data meets
all the following:
(i) Is in compliance with 20 USC 1232g, commonly referred to as the family educational rights and privacy act
of 1974.
(ii) Except as may be provided for in an agreement with a vendor to provide assessment services, as necessary
to support educator evaluations pursuant to subdivision (i), or for research or program evaluation purposes, is
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available only to the student; to the student’s parent or legal guardian; and to a school administrator or teacher,
to the extent that he or she has a legitimate educational interest.
(l) The summative assessment system must ensure that the assessments are pilot tested before statewide
implementation.
(m) The summative assessment system must ensure that assessments are designed so that the maximum total
combined length of time that schools are required to set aside for a pupil to answer all test questions on all
assessments that are part of the system for the pupil’s grade level does not exceed that maximum total combined
length of time for the previous statewide assessment system or 9 hours, whichever is less. This subdivision does
not limit the amount of time a district may allow a pupil to complete a test.
(n) The total cost of executing the summative assessment system statewide each year, including, but not
limited to, the cost of contracts for administration, scoring, and reporting, must not exceed an amount equal to
2 times the cost of executing the previous statewide assessment after adjustment for inflation.
(o) The summative assessment system must not require more than 3 hours in duration, on average, for an
individual pupil to complete the combined administration of the math and English language arts portions of the
assessment for any 1 grade level.
(p) The summative assessments for English language arts and mathematics for pupils in grades 8 to 10 must
be aligned to the college entrance test portion of the Michigan merit examination required under section 1279g of
the revised school code, MCL 380.1279g.
(4) The department shall offer benchmark assessments in the fall and spring of each school year to measure
English language arts and mathematics in each of grades K to 2. Full implementation must occur not later than
the 2019-2020 school year. These assessments are necessary to determine a pupil’s proficiency level before grade 3.
(5) This section does not prohibit districts from adopting interim assessments.
(6) As used in this section, “English language arts” means that term as defined in section 1279g of the revised
school code, MCL 380.1279g.
Enacting section 1. Section 104b of the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1704b, is repealed.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act takes effect June 30, 2026.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor