Michigan Compiled Laws
Article I - State Aid to Public Schools, Early Childhood, and Adult Education (388.1601...388.1772)
Section 388.1631c - Literacy Tutoring Services and Enrichment Programs; Eligible Vendor; Application; Requirements; Work Project; "Eligible Vendor" Defined.

Sec. 31c.
(1) Subject to subsection (6), from the general fund money appropriated in section 11, there is allocated $12,000,000.00 for 2022-2023 to an eligible vendor to, subject to subsections (3), (4), and (5), provide literacy tutoring services and enrichment programs to districts or intermediate districts or both districts and intermediate districts.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in this section, to receive money under this section, an eligible vendor must apply for the money in a form and manner prescribed by the department. In its application described in this subsection, the eligible vendor must pledge to, subject to subsections (3) and (4), use the money it receives under this section to provide literacy tutoring services and enrichment programs to districts or intermediate districts or both districts and intermediate districts for the 2022-2023, 2023-2024, and 2024-2025 fiscal years.
(3) An eligible vendor that receives money under this section shall ensure that, at a minimum, all of the following criteria apply to the literacy tutoring services provided as described in subsection (1):
(a) The services include the provision of assessments that, with the advice of the district or intermediate district receiving the services, includes the identification of students for participation in individualized literacy intervention programs.
(b) The services include certified testers who assess students pre- and postintervention through the literacy tutoring services described in this subsection and the provision of a literacy prescription for students.
(c) The services include reading tutors who are trained in 1 or more methods that are adapted for students' individual literacy prescriptions as described in subdivision (b).
(d) Each tutor provided through the services must provide 1-on-1 reading tutoring 1 hour each day, 5 times each week for the duration the tutor is to provide services to a student as prescribed in the student's individual literacy prescription as described in subdivision (b).
(e) Through the services, based on each student's individual literacy prescription as described in subdivision (b), each student must participate in either or both of the following:
(i) Intervention in 1 or more of the following areas:
(A) Foundational phonemic awareness.
(B) Multisensory structured literacy.
(C) Upper morphology, vocabulary, and comprehension.
(ii) Reading and writing programs focused on college and career readiness. The programs described in this subparagraph must be made available only to students enrolled in high school. As used in this subparagraph, "high school" means a school that offers at least 1 of grades 9 to 12.
(4) An eligible vendor that receives money under this section shall ensure that, at a minimum, all of the following criteria apply to the enrichment programs provided as described in subsection (1):
(a) The programs include, for students enrolled in any of grades K to 6, a publishing center that helps students write and edit original stories that are bound into hardcover books.
(b) The programs include, for students enrolled in any of grades 7 to 12, a variety of fun opportunities to improve writing skills using the fundamental principles of essay writing.
(c) The programs include lessons about master artists that cover the topics of history, geography, and artistic techniques as applicable to those master artists and that students can utilize in a variety of projects.
(d) The programs provide for international art and writing opportunities that allow school children from around the world to creatively express their interpretation of the year's theme through paintings or writing essays that are shared with other participants.
(5) An eligible vendor that receives money under this section shall use the money to, subject to subsections (3) and (4), provide literacy tutoring services and enrichment programs to districts or intermediate districts or both districts and intermediate districts as required under subsection (1) for the 2022-2023, 2023-2024, and 2024-2025 fiscal years.
(6) All of the following criteria apply to payments of money allocated under subsection (1):
(a) The department may make payments to the eligible vendor in an amount not to exceed 1/3 of the amount allocated in subsection (1) for services described in subsection (3) and programs described in subsection (4) provided to the first 1,000 students served by the eligible vendor that receives money under this section.
(b) The department shall make subsequent payments, in addition to the payments described in subdivision (a), or, if payments are not made as described in subdivision (a), all payments, to the eligible vendor for services described in subsection (3) and programs described in subsection (4) based on the number of students served in addition to the students served as described in subdivision (a), or, if payments are not made as described in subdivision (a), based on the number of students served, in a manner determined by the department.
(7) By not later than September 30, 2025, the eligible vendor that receives money under this section shall provide a report to the house and senate subcommittees on K to 12 school aid, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director, concerning the reading readiness outcomes for students that received services with money received by the eligible vendor under this section. The report described in this subsection must include aggregated results from pre- and postassessments of reading readiness, best practices for implementing similar services and programs statewide to the services and programs implemented by the eligible vendor, and identifications of barriers to the successful implementation of the services provided by the eligible vendor to students with money received under this section.
(8) The funds allocated under this section for 2022-2023 are a work project appropriation, and any unexpended funds for 2022-2023 are carried forward into 2023-2024. The purpose of the work project is to continue the support of the implementation of literacy tutoring services and enrichment programs described in this section. The estimated completion date of the work project is September 30, 2025.
(9) As used in this section, "eligible vendor" means a vendor to which both of the following apply:
(a) It provides literacy tutoring services that meet the criteria described in subsection (3) and enrichment programs that meet the criteria described in subsection (4).
(b) It meets both of the following:
(i) In its application described in subsection (2), it has submitted to the department an implementation plan that includes, at a minimum, all of the following:
(A) An identification of at least 3 geographically diverse districts that will receive services from money received under this section.
(B) A plan to serve at least 3,000 students from the 2022-2023 fiscal year to the 2024-2025 fiscal year with services from money received under this section.
(C) Methods to collect and report to the department pre- and postassessments of reading readiness by students receiving services from money received under this section.
(D) A plan to provide data-based outcome metrics to the department in a form, time frame, and manner determined by the department.
(ii) The department has approved the implementation plan described in subparagraph (i).
History: Add. 2022, Act 212, Imd. Eff. Oct. 12, 2022 Compiler's Notes: Former MCL 388.1631c, which pertained to programs to improve public safety, reduce number of youth in gang-related activity, and increase high school graduation rates, was repealed by Act 108 of 2017, Eff. Oct. 1, 2017.

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