school accountability under the rug—most notably, voting to repeal the third-grade reading law and easy-to-
understand A-F standards. My amendment would simply require, at minimum, a school to post and distribute
where a school ranks on the state assessments. We cannot begin to move Michigan schools from the
bottom ten in the nation to the top ten without accountability. I ask for a “yes” vote on my amendment.
Senator Cherry’s statement is as follows:
I just want to say, as an Arab American, I find that insinuation insulting.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4679, entitled
A bill to amend 1933 PA 94, entitled “The revenue bond act of 1933,” by amending section 18
(MCL 141.118), as amended by 1987 PA 229.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows: