Budget and Salary Compensation Transparency Reporting
The Michigan Department of Education(MDE)has developed guidance to standardize the reporting of financial data for all Michigan public school district website reporting. The following link contains the MDE guidance: MDE Guidance for Budget/Salary Transparency Reporting
In addition, Intermediate School Districts must comply with Public Act 413 of 2004 (Enrolled House Bill 5475) which amended the Revised School Code by adding section 620 (MCL 380.620)- That legislation requires each intermediate school district (ISD) to post certain information on its website by December 31 of each year beginning in 2006.
The Michigan Department of Education (MDE)has provided the following guidance related to the form and manner for the posting of the report: MDE Guidance on ISD Annual Website Report
Each ISD is required to maintain the report for the most recent reporting period on its website and to also maintain paper copies of previous reports for at least 10 years. MDE is required to include a link on its website to the pages of each of the ISDs' websites that contain the report. ISDs have provided the following information to the website links on their Financial Information Database report (see State School Aid Act section 18(3), MCL 388.1618(3)).
