{"id":9219,"date":"2018-01-25T10:56:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=9219"},"modified":"2024-12-20T11:05:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T17:05:23","slug":"michigan-sb727-passes-senate-floor-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/michigan-sb727-passes-senate-floor-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan SB727 Passes Senate Floor Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislature.mi.gov\/(S(c4hiikpxt4kzjsvkyj1kx5ii))\/mileg.aspx?page=getObject&amp;objectName=2017-SB-0727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 727<\/a>\u00a0to eliminate the requirement for the SAT as a Basic Skills test has passed the initial floor vote in the Senate. It is called first and second read and the bill passed with no amendments!<\/p>\n<p>That is great news for potential new teachers in Michigan. We have so many great candidates ready to teach who are standing by hoping they don&#8217;t have to go sit in a high school gym and take the SAT in March.<\/p>\n<p>It is moving fast enough that you might not have to take the SAT as your basic skills test.\u00a0 I would risk paying the late registration fee of $29 to register on February 28th &#8211; by then we should know if SB727 has passed.<\/p>\n<p>Third and final read in the Senate is on January 30, 2018. Then on to the<a href=\"https:\/\/house.michigan.gov\/mhrpublic\/CommitteeInfo.aspx?comkey=418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> House Education Committee <\/a>&#8211; we will send out information on how to send support emails to the committee once we know the date of our hearing.\u00a0 Thanks all for the support to help Michigan Teachers<\/a> ensure every child has a great teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Senate Bill 727\u00a0to eliminate the requirement for the SAT as a Basic Skills test has passed the initial floor vote in the Senate. It is called first and second &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":8794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-02-11 22:24:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47148,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219\/revisions\/47148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}