Section 380.376 - School district accountability board; creation; membership; chairperson; powers and duties of board; limitation; business conducted at public meeting; writings subject to open meetin - Michigan Statutes

THE REVISED SCHOOL CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 451 of 1976

380.376 School district accountability board; creation; membership; chairperson; powers and duties of board; limitation; business conducted at public meeting; writings subject to open meetings act.

Sec. 376.

(1) The school district accountability board is created in the department. The school district accountability board consists of the following 5 members:

(a) The superintendent of public instruction.

(b) The state treasurer.

(c) The state budget director.

(d) Two members of the general public appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate.

(2) The state treasurer shall serve as chairperson of the school district accountability board.

(3) The school district accountability board shall do all of the following with respect to a qualifying school district in which a school reform board has been established under this part:

(a) Receive and review the district improvement plan submitted under section 373.

(b) Monitor the progress being made by the school reform board in achieving the goals and benchmarks identified in the district improvement plan submitted under section 373.

(c) Based on the experience of the school reform board in its efforts to achieve reform, make recommendations to the governor for additional resources for the qualifying school district and on changes in statute or rule, if any, needed to achieve reform.

(4) The powers and duties of the school district accountability board are limited to a qualifying school district in which a school reform board is in place.

(5) The business that the school district accountability board may perform shall be conducted at a public meeting of the school district accountability board held in compliance with the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275.

(6) A writing prepared, owned, used, in the possession of, or retained by the school district accountability board in the performance of an official function is subject to the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.

History: Add. 1999, Act 10, Imd. Eff. Mar. 26, 1999
Compiler's Notes: Enacting section 1 of Act 230 of 2000 provides:“Enacting section 1. The amendments made by this amendatory act to sections 371, 372, 373, 374a, and 402 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.371, 380.372, 380.373, 380.374a, and 380.402, are intended to reaffirm the legislature's initial intent to apply those sections and part 5a and sections 449 and 471a of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.371 to 380.376, 380.449, and 380.471a, to any school district that was a qualifying school district under part 5a of the revised school code at the time of enactment of 1999 PA 10 or that may thereafter become a qualifying school district under part 5a of the revised school code.”For abolishment of the school district accountability board and transfer of its powers and duties to the state board of education, see E.R.O. No. 2007-19, compiled at MCL 388.999.
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