Require reporting of certain expenditures.

All other personnel costs, including, but not limited to, the total amount of expenses incurred by board members or employees that are reimbursed by the district.

Provide for limitations on certain uses of school district funds.

"Public funds" would NOT include voluntary contributions made for a specific purpose by a school district or intermediate school district board member, a school district or intermediate school district employee, another individual, or a private entity.

Revise age of consent for sexual contact between school employee and student

Provide for single teaching certificate that does not require continuing education

Increase per-pupil funding formula by $100.

PROHIBIT requiring child to receive influenza vaccination to attend school;

Revise to provide greater equity per-pupil funding formula

Third-party accrediting of schools; allow, and provide that department establish list of approved private accreditors

Provide for approval requirement for a new public school academy to be located within school district that has had boundaries changed by consolidation or annexation

If the boundaries of a school district have changed within the 3 immediately preceding calendar years by a consolidation under part 9, an annexation under part 10, or an annexation and transfer under part 10a, an authorizing body shall not issue an initial contract for a public school academy to be located within the boundaries of the school district without approval of the contract by a majority of the intermediate school board of the intermediate school district in which the school district is located.

Provide for pupils meeting certain alternative requirements opt-out provision for arts and foreign language requirements for high s

Expand to include preschool prohibition on issuing a liquor license within 500 feet of a school.

Provide for credit for expenditures by certain school teachers for certain supplies.

Require celebrate freedom week to be observed in all public schools

Allow certain individuals to carry concealed pistols on school property in certain circumstances.

School building site approval by local unit of government; require for certain school buildings and prescribe criteria for site plan approval by superintendent of public instruction

Provide funding for mileage reimbursement for busing students to school for education

Allow and prohibit censorship of certain American heritage instruction and documents

Revise strandards for counting of qualifying professional development time as pupil instruction time

Modify certain requirements for high school diploma and eliminate foreign language requirements

Adds computer science, or other appropriate concentration as determined by the department to substitute for Algebra II.

Removes the following

In addition to the requirements under subsection (1),  beginning with pupils entering grade 3 in 2006, the board of a school district or board of directors of a public school academy shall not award a high school diploma to a pupil unless the pupil has successfully completed during grades 9 to 12 at least 2 credits, as determined by the department, in a language other than English, or the pupil has successfully completed at any time during grades K to 12 course work or other learning experiences that are substantially equivalent to 2 credits in a language other than English, based on guidelines developed by the department. For the purposes of this subsection, all of the following apply:

     (a) American sign language is considered to be a language other than English.

     (b) The pupil may meet all or part of this requirement with online course work.

Allow teachers, administrators, and employees to carry concealed pistols in school and on school property under certain circumstances

A teacher, administrator, or other employee of a school is not precluded from carrying a concealed pistol in that school or on that school property if the chief executive officer of the school has authorized that individual to carry a concealed pistol in that school or on that school property. The chief executive officer shall condition his or her approval upon the requirement that the teacher, administrator, or other employee successfully complete training considered appropriate by the chief executive officer. The training may be in addition to the training required under section 5j. If an individual authorized to carry a concealed pistol under this subparagraph does not carry the pistol on his or her person, that pistol shall be placed in a container that is securely locked to prevent anyone other than that individual from gaining unauthorized access to that pistol.

Requires cyber-bullying to be defined and addressed in anti-bullying policy and require certain reporting

A statement prohibiting bullying of a pupil. Beginning not after than the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year, this statement shall include cyber-bullying as a form of bullying and shall define cyber-bullying.

Cyber schools, require posting educational materials on website and submission to department

Sec. 553b. (1) A school of excellence that is a cyber school shall provide to the department and shall post and maintain on its website, with a link from the homepage, all of the instructional materials that it uses or has its pupils use as part of the educational program offered by the cyber school. These instructional materials shall include, but are not limited to, all texts, worksheets, study aides, or similar material.

(2) The department shall post on its website all of the instructional materials received from cyber schools under subsection (1) and shall notify all public and nonpublic schools in this state of the availability of these instructional materials.

Provide for per-pupil funding formula based on prior year's pupil count

...the number of full-time equated pupils in grades K to 12 actually enrolled and in regular daily attendance on the pupil membership count day for the immediately preceding school year.

Provide for revisions to mathematics, applied arts, and foreign language Michigan merit standard curriculum requirements for high school diploma.

Revise Michigan merit curriculum

Significant changes to the curriculum requirements previously enacted

Allow completion of certain vocational technical or career and technical education in lieu of certain state high school diploma requirements

For a pupil who successfully completes at least 1 full school year while in high school in a planned program of vocational-technical education or career and technical educationthat is approved by the pupil's parent or legal guardian, or by the pupil if the pupil is at least age 18 or is an emancipated minor, and by the pupil's school district or public school academy, both of the following apply:

Require adoption of local policy concerning political activities by employees that includes prohibiting the use of school resources or students for lobbying

1) Not later than January 1, 2014, the board of a school district or intermediate school district or board of directors of a public school academy shall adopt and implement a policy concerning the use of public resources for political activities. At a minimum, the policy shall prohibit employees, board members, and volunteers from doing any of the following:

(a) Engaging in any lobbying during school hours or other paid work time.

(b) Expending public funds of the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy or using a computer, computer program, telecommunications device, electronicmail system, office supply, vehicle, or any other public resourceowned or under the control of the school district, intermediateschool district, or public school academy for any lobbying.

Require written parental consent to place student in a classroom with a teacher rated ineffective on most recent year-end evaluation