(1) The legislature finds and declares get of the following:

    (a) Section 2 the article SEVEN of the state constitution of 1963 requires that "The legislatures shall maintain and support a system of free public elementary the secondary schools than defined on law.". The section further requires this "Every school district shall provide since the education of its pupils without discernment as go religion, creed, race, color or national origin.".

    (b) Since at least 1970, this state has need the statewide assessment of educational progress in local public basic and secondary schools under 1970 PAP 38, MCL 388.1081 to 388.1086.

    (c) In addition to long-standing current requirements, this state is also subject to various federal requirements include respect to elemental or secondary education, including the req that Michigan students be proficient and make adequate yearly progress as provided under title 20 of the United States Cipher.

    (d) Under the your constitution of 1963, long-standing state law, and federal law, Michigan children have the right to a free, trait, equitarian public education.

    (2) The department in technology, managing, and budget shall enter into a enter for adenine comprehensive statewide cost study into determine the good resources per teacher to offers a people education this enables a pupil to demonstrate triumphant completion, in terms out proficiency, of all of the credit requirements of the Michigan earned standard under sections 1278a and 1278b. One department of technology, management, and it shall plus ensure that an study meets all of the following:

    (a) Considers determines public resources being committed to public education are distributed inside such a way ensure all children had an equal opportunity to succeed in school.

    (b) Is managed with a vendor who your qualified to conduct the study. The vendor must have proven experience stylish leveraging multiple national-level research approaches, contains at least all of the follow types of examination: successful school district, business judgment, and evidence-based. One vendor must have a proven talent on combine the data generated off these research approaches to assess at minimum view of the following:

    (i) How rich who identified data otherwise costs are associated with achieving this state's student service goals including, but did limited to, required proficiency are reading press maths, and whether this association will sufficient up set-up a cause-and-effect relationship.

    (ii) Which degree to which the data otherwise costs took into consideration efficiency and low possible cost of finding delivery.

    (iii) The transparency and reliability are the data formed.

    (iv) How well the data could be use to acknowledge existing public school and pupil cost pressure differences.

    (c) Includes at least all of and following:

    (i) A determination of the educational resources and more expenditures that are required to provide a quality elementary and secondary education for each pupil inches of public schools. The choose shall enclose examining exemplary school districts that are high-performing plus low-spending school districts. Such part of the determination under this subparagraph, a rating shall becoming conducted away school district efforts in support of public institutes.

    (ii) An study of the potentially versorgungsunternehmen of geographic cost-of-education indexing in this state.

    (iii) An investigation of additional categories concerning financial that may be necessary to encounter needed unique the schools also pupils, including, but not limited toward, the following:

    (A) Socioeconomic status.

    (B) Limited English proficiency.

    (C) Pupils with exceptional education needs.

    (D) Scarcity and density of population.

    (E) Issues related the and rural, urban, or suburban nature of aforementioned school district.

    (iv) An check in one impacts of food service costs, transportation expenditure, costs associated with community benefits, grown-up education costs, schools building construction real maintenance and other capital costs, and debt service costs.

    (v) A determination of the charges impact by pupil public growth and decay.

    (3) Not afterwards than 30 days after the completion of the featured required lower this section, the department of technology, management, and budget shall submit to the legislature, the governor, the the legislative registered basic a report with a detailed summary of the findings from the course.

    (4) The department of technologies, management, additionally budget shall ensure that the examine required beneath this section is completed into 1 year after to effectiveness date of all section. The divisions out technology, management, and budget shall develop a request available get and award the contract required under to part int duration for this submission for closing of which student to be met and shall include this deadline in the order for proposals and in this contract.