May 17, 2011, Introduced by Rep. Genetski and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 1937 (Ex Sess) PA 4, entitled
"An act relative to continuing tenure of office of certificated
teachers in public educational institutions; to provide for
probationary periods; to regulate discharges or demotions; to
provide for resignations and leaves of absence; to create a state
tenure commission and to prescribe the powers and duties thereof;
and to prescribe penalties for violation of the provisions of this
act,"
by amending section 1 of article II (MCL 38.81), as amended by 1993
PA 59.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
ARTICLE II
Sec. 1. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), a teacher is
in
a probationary period during his or her first 4 7 full
school
years of employment.
(2) A teacher under contract but not on continuing tenure as
of
the effective date of the 2011 amendatory act that added amended
this subsection is in a probationary period during his or her first
2
4 full school years of employment.
(3) A teacher on continuing tenure as of the effective date of
the
2011 amendatory act that added amended this
subsection
continues to be on continuing tenure even if the teacher has not
served
for at least 4 7 full school years of employment.