Bill Amendment: FL H7055 | 2018 | Regular Session
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Bill Title: Education
Status: 2018-03-12 - Chapter No. 2018-6 [H7055 Detail]
Download: Florida-2018-H7055-Senate_Floor_Amendment_508292_to_Amendment_831300_.html
Bill Title: Education
Status: 2018-03-12 - Chapter No. 2018-6 [H7055 Detail]
Download: Florida-2018-H7055-Senate_Floor_Amendment_508292_to_Amendment_831300_.html
Florida Senate - 2018 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for HB 7055 Ì5082923Î508292 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . Floor: 1c/AD/3R . 03/05/2018 11:41 AM . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Senator Simmons moved the following: 1 Senate Amendment to Amendment (831300) 2 3 Delete lines 3615 - 3650 4 and insert: 5 personnel and school administrators. Each school district that 6 has one or more of the 300 lowest-performing elementary schools 7 based on a 3-year average of the state reading assessment data 8 must use that school’s portion of the allocation to provide an 9 additional hour per day of intensive reading for the students in 10 the school. The additional hour may be provided within the 11 school day. Students enrolled in these schools who earned a 12 level 4 or level 5 score on the statewide, standardized English 13 Language Arts assessment for the previous school year may 14 participate in the extra hour of instruction. For all other 15 schools, the school district’s use of the supplemental academic 16 instruction allocationone or more of the 300 lowest-performing17elementary schools based on the state reading assessment for the18prior year shall use these funds, together with the funds19provided in the district’s research-based reading instruction20allocation and other available funds, to provide an additional21hour of instruction beyond the normal school day for each day of22the entire school year for intensive reading instruction for the23students in each of these schools. This additional hour of24instruction must be provided by teachers or reading specialists25who have demonstrated effectiveness in teaching reading or by a26K-5 mentoring reading program that is supervised by a teacher27who is effective at teaching reading. Students enrolled in these28schools who have level 5 assessment scores may participate in29the additional hour of instruction on an optional basis.30Exceptional student education centers shall not be included in31the 300 schools. The designation of the 300 lowest-performing32elementary schools must be based on the state reading assessment33for the prior year. After this requirement has been met,34supplemental instruction strategiesmay include, but isarenot 35 limited to, the:use of a modified curriculum, reading 36 instruction, after-school instruction, tutoring, mentoring, a 37 reduction in class size, extended school year, intensive skills 38 development in summer school, dropout prevention programs as 39 defined in ss. 1003.52 and 1003.53(1)(a), (b), and (c), and 40 other methods of improving student achievement.