Title 388, SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL AID

Sec. 99s. (1) From state school aid fund money appropriated under section 11, there is allocated for 2026-2027 an amount not to exceed $8,000,000.00 for Michigan science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs. Programs funded under this section are intended to increas…

Sec. 101. (1) To be eligible to receive state aid under this article, not later than the fifth Wednesday after the pupil membership count day and not later than the fifth Wednesday after the supplemental count day, each district superintendent shall submit and certify to the cent…

Sec. 102. (1) If a district or intermediate district is required to submit a deficit elimination plan under section 1220 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1220, and the district or intermediate district fails to submit a deficit elimination plan or the deficit elimination plan …

Sec. 104. (1) To receive state aid under this article, a district shall comply with sections 1249, 1278a, 1278b, 1279g, and 1280b of the revised school code, MCL 380.1249, 380.1278a, 380.1278b, 380.1279g, and 380.1280b, and 1970 PA 38, MCL 388.1081 to 388.1086. Subject to subsect…

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-STE…

Sec. 104h. (1) From the state school aid fund money appropriated under section 11, there is allocated for 2026-2027 an amount not to exceed $11,500,000.00 to districts to implement benchmark assessments during the 2026-2027 school year. All of the following apply to the benchmark…

Sec. 105. (1) In order to avoid a penalty under this section, and in order to count a nonresident pupil residing within the same intermediate district in membership without the approval of the pupil's district of residence, a district must comply with this section. (2) Except as …

Sec. 105c. (1) In order to avoid a penalty under this section, and in order to count a nonresident pupil residing in a district located in a contiguous intermediate district in membership without the approval of the pupil's district of residence, a district must comply with this …

Sec. 106. A pupil enrolled in a public school program organized under federal or state supervision and in which the teaching costs are fully subsidized from federal or state funds shall not be counted in membership.

Sec. 107. (1) From the state school aid fund appropriation in section 11, there is allocated an amount not to exceed $42,525,000.00 for 2026-2027 for adult education programs authorized under this section. Except as otherwise provided under subsections (14) and (15), funds alloca…

Sec. 109. (1) Subject to subsection (2), in order to receive funds under this article, each district or intermediate district shall provide appropriate instructional services, as determined by the district or intermediate district, to an enrolled pupil who is certified by the pup…

Sec. 111. A district having tuition pupils enrolled on the pupil membership count day of each year may charge the district of residence an amount for tuition that does not exceed the tuition rate computed under section 1401 of the revised school code, MCL 380.1401. The rate charg…

Sec. 112. A district receiving funds under this act shall not charge tuition or any other fee for full-day kindergarten for a pupil who is eligible to enroll in the district.

Sec. 118. (1) Subject to subsection (3), a district shall not be allotted or paid a sum under this act unless that district pays the agreed-upon amount of tuition or other payment for pupils educated outside the boundaries of the pupil's district of residence. (2) A district that…

Sec. 121. (1) The valuation of a whole or fractional district must be the total taxable value of the property contained in the whole or fractional district as last determined by the state tax commission and placed on the ad valorem tax roll. For purposes of computations made unde…

Sec. 122. The valuation of property assessed under Act No. 189 of the Public Acts of 1953, as amended, being sections 211.181 to 211.182 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, shall be deducted from the total valuation of a district if school taxes levied against the property are not col…

Sec. 124. (1) If taxes levied for operating purposes against property constituting at least 5% of the valuation of a district are paid under protest and, therefore, are unavailable to the district, the total valuation of the district for the purposes of this act shall be reduced …

Sec. 147. (1) The allocation for 2026-2027 for the public school employees' retirement system pursuant to the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437, is made using the individual projected benefit entry age normal cost method of valuat…

Sec. 147a. From the state school aid fund money appropriated under section 11, there is allocated an amount not to exceed $379,900,000.00 for 2025-2026 and an amount not to exceed $351,100,000.00 for 2026-2027 for payments to participating districts and intermediate districts and…

Sec. 147b. (1) The MPSERS retirement obligation reform reserve fund is created as a separate account within the state school aid fund. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the MPSERS retirement obligation reform reserve fund. …

Sec. 147c. (1) From the state school aid fund money appropriated in section 11, there is allocated for 2025-2026 an amount not to exceed $1,536,500,000.00 and there is allocated for 2026-2027 an amount not to exceed $1,454,400,000.00 for payments to districts and intermediate dis…

Sec. 147e. (1) From the state school aid fund money appropriated in section 11, there is allocated for 2025-2026 an amount not to exceed $71,000,000.00 and there is allocated for 2026-2027 an amount not to exceed $88,800,000.00 for payments to participating entities. (2) The paym…

Sec. 151. (1) The treasurer of each county shall furnish to the department, on or before August 1 of each year following the receipt of assessment rolls, a statement of the taxable value of each district and fraction of a district within the county, using forms furnished by the d…

Sec. 152. Except for reports due on other dates specified in this act, each district and intermediate district shall furnish to the center or the department, as applicable, before the first Monday in November of each year those reports the department considers necessary for the d…

Sec. 152a. (1) As required by the court in the consolidated cases known as Adair v State of Michigan, 486 Mich 468 (2010), from the state school aid fund money appropriated in section 11, there is allocated for 2026-2027 an amount not to exceed $41,000,500.00 to be used solely fo…

Sec. 152b. (1) From the general fund money appropriated under section 11, there is allocated an amount not to exceed $1,000,000.00 for 2026-2027 to reimburse actual costs incurred by nonpublic schools in complying with a health, safety, or welfare requirement mandated by a law or…

Sec. 152c. (1) From the state school aid fund money appropriated in section 11, there is allocated for 2026-2027 only an amount not to exceed $2,500,000.00 to Marquette-Alger Regional Educational Agency to develop statewide supports for the federal tribal consultation requirement…

Sec. 160. If a district or intermediate district requests the superintendent to grant a waiver for the district or intermediate district from the requirements of section 1284b of the revised school code, MCL 380.1284b, that district or intermediate district shall use a portion of…

Sec. 161. A school official or member of a board or other person who neglects or refuses to do or perform an act required by this act or who violates or knowingly permits or consents to the violation of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more …

Sec. 161a. If a court determines that a person intentionally violated section 411a of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.411a, by making a false report of the commission of a crime described in section 6(6)(e) knowing the report to be false for the purpose of having a …

Sec. 162. A district or intermediate district that fails through the negligence of school officials to file reports pursuant to this act shall forfeit that proportion of funds to which the district or intermediate district otherwise would be entitled under this act as the delay i…

Sec. 163. (1) Except as otherwise provided in the revised school code or rules promulgated by the department, the board of a district or intermediate district shall not permit any of the following: (a) An individual who is not appropriately placed under a valid certificate, valid…

Sec. 163a. (1) A district shall allow a homeless child who is residing in the district to enroll in the district in accordance with state law and with subtitle B of title VII of the Stewart B. McKinney homeless assistance act, Public Law 100-77, 42 U.S.C. 11431 to 11435. (2) As u…

Sec. 164. A district or intermediate district shall forfeit an amount to which the district or intermediate district otherwise would be entitled under this act equal to the district's or intermediate district's expenditures in the immediately preceding school fiscal year for purc…

Sec. 164a. A district or intermediate district shall not allow a school administrator to receive a monetary payment in lieu of unused vacation or personal leave for the purpose of increasing the school administrator's retirement benefits. If a district or intermediate district vi…

Sec. 164b. (1) The board of a district or intermediate district shall not pay an expense incurred by a member of the board unless the payment is in compliance with section 1254 of the revised school code, being section 380.1254 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. (2) In addition to th…

Sec. 164c. A district or intermediate district shall not use funds appropriated under this act to purchase foreign goods or services, or both, if American goods or services, or both, are available and are competitively priced and of comparable quality. Preference shall be given t…

Sec. 164d. A district or intermediate district shall not expend funds received under this act to adopt or implement a policy or practice, or to make or issue any public statement or directive, that has the effect of any of the following: (a) Denies to a student of a particular st…

Sec. 164e. If a district or an employee of a district discriminates against a person engaging in or seeking to engage in student teaching in the district because the state university in which the person is enrolled serves as the authorizing body for 1 or more public school academ…

Sec. 164f. The intermediate board of an intermediate district, the board of a district, or the board of directors of a public school academy may use funds appropriated under this article to enter into a swap, hedge, derivative, or similar agreement in connection with the procurem…

Sec. 164i. (1) Money appropriated under this act must not be used to restrict or impede a marginalized community's access to government resources, programs, or facilities. (2) From the funds appropriated in this act, districts, intermediate districts, public community colleges, a…

Sec. 164k. (1) If the department receives a report that a district or intermediate district is violating any of the following requirements, and the department confirms the violation, the department shall withhold 5% of the payment the district is eligible to receive under section…

Sec. 164l. (1) Not later than 30 days after the enactment of any amendatory act to this article, the house and senate shall provide to the responsible entity and the state budget director a list of legislatively directed spending items, as defined in sections 364 and 364a of the …

Sec. 164m. (1) Except as otherwise provided in section 22b(3)(g), a district that receives funds under section 22b(4) must do all of the following: (a) Use funds received for purposes including, but not limited to, student achievement and success, literacy, mathematics, and provi…

Sec. 164n. By not later than 6 months after the state budget office issues work project letters, and again on or before April 15, the department and the department of lifelong education, advancement, and potential shall submit an annual report to the senate and house appropriatio…

Sec. 164o. Districts and intermediate districts are encouraged to evaluate and pursue efficiency and cost-containment measures that maximize state funding. Districts and intermediate districts shall identify practices that increase efficiencies, including, but not limited to, est…