Future Learning Council urges Michigan shift from seat time to competency-based learning

Oct 29, 2025

Superintendents from the Future Learning Council told a House appropriations subcommittee they want Michigan to move away from time-based pupil accounting and toward personalized, competency-based learning, asking for modest strategic grants and policy support to scale demonstration districts.

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The Future Learning Council urged the House Appropriations Subcommittee on School Aid and Department of Education on Oct. 21 to pursue competency-based, personalized learning and to change Michigan’s pupil-accounting structures that tie funding to seat time rather than demonstrated mastery.

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