6th Grade Teacher Certification now for middle level

AN ACT to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled “An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and
secondary schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating to elementary and secondary education; to provide
for the organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school
districts, and other public school entities; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts,
public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to provide for the regulation of
school teachers and certain other school employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties
with respect thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes; to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance
of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; to
provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain
other boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and
parts of acts,” (MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1531g.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1531g. Notwithstanding any rule to the contrary, if an individual holds a valid Michigan secondary level teaching
certificate, the individual is certified to teach grade 6 in the subject areas in which he or she has endorsements on the
teaching certificate.