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Superintendents’ Future Learning Council urges Michigan shift from seat-time to competency-based learning
Summary
Presenters from the Future Learning Council told a House appropriations subcommittee the state’s seat-time funding model impedes personalized, competency-based instruction and asked lawmakers to support small strategic grants, pilot districts and policy changes to scale the approach.
Chairman Kelly convened the House Appropriations Subcommittee on School Aid and the Department of Education hearing with a series of presentations on K‑12 innovation, and members of the Future Learning Council used their time to press for a statewide move away from seat-time funding toward competency-based mastery learning.
An Unidentified Speaker representing the Future Learning Council said the network began about eight years ago, now includes roughly 80 school districts and intermediate districts, and…
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