Bill Amendment: FL S0616 | 2015 | Regular Session

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Education Accountability

Status: 2015-04-01 - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 7069 (Ch. 2015-6) [S0616 Detail]

Download: Florida-2015-S0616-Senate_Committee_Amendment_842392.html

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       Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 616
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Education (Bullard) recommended
       the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 92 - 136
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 2. Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section
    6  1008.22, Florida Statutes, is amended, paragraph (i) is added to
    7  that subsection, and subsection (6) of that section is amended,
    8  to read:
    9         1008.22 Student assessment program for public schools.—
   10         (3) STATEWIDE, STANDARDIZED ASSESSMENT PROGRAM.—The
   11  Commissioner of Education shall design and implement a
   12  statewide, standardized assessment program aligned to the core
   13  curricular content established in the Next Generation Sunshine
   14  State Standards. The commissioner also must develop or select
   15  and implement a common battery of assessment tools that will be
   16  used in all juvenile justice education programs in the state.
   17  These tools must accurately measure the core curricular content
   18  established in the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards.
   19  Participation in the assessment program is mandatory for all
   20  school districts and all students attending public schools,
   21  including adult students seeking a standard high school diploma
   22  under s. 1003.4282 and students in Department of Juvenile
   23  Justice education programs, except as otherwise provided by law.
   24  If a student does not participate in the assessment program, the
   25  school district must notify the student’s parent and provide the
   26  parent with information regarding the implications of such
   27  nonparticipation. The statewide, standardized assessment program
   28  shall be designed and implemented as follows:
   29         (a) Statewide, standardized comprehensive assessments.—The
   30  statewide, standardized Reading assessment shall be administered
   31  annually in grades 3 through 10. The statewide, standardized
   32  Writing assessment shall be administered annually at least once
   33  at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. When the
   34  Reading and Writing assessments are replaced by English Language
   35  Arts (ELA) assessments, ELA assessments shall be administered to
   36  students in grades 3 through 10 11. Retake opportunities for the
   37  grade 10 Reading assessment or, upon implementation, the grade
   38  10 ELA assessment must be provided. Students taking the ELA
   39  assessments shall not take the statewide, standardized
   40  assessments in Reading or Writing. ELA assessments shall be
   41  administered online. The statewide, standardized Mathematics
   42  assessments shall be administered annually in grades 3 through
   43  8. Students taking a revised Mathematics assessment shall not
   44  take the discontinued assessment. The statewide, standardized
   45  Science assessment shall be administered annually at least once
   46  at the elementary and middle grades levels. In order to earn a
   47  standard high school diploma, a student who has not earned a
   48  passing score on the grade 10 Reading assessment or, upon
   49  implementation, the grade 10 ELA assessment must earn a passing
   50  score on the assessment retake or earn a concordant score as
   51  authorized under subsection (7).
   52         (i) Opt out.—Notwithstanding any other law, the parent of a
   53  student who does not pass an assessment required under this
   54  subsection may choose to have the student’s concordant score on
   55  a norm-referenced test used in lieu of the student’s score on
   56  the assessment.
   57  
   58  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   59  And the title is amended as follows:
   60         Delete line 10
   61  and insert:
   62         grade 11; authorizing the parent of a student who does
   63         not pass specified assessments to choose to have the
   64         student’s concordant score on a norm-referenced test
   65         used in lieu of the student’s score on the assessment;
   66         prohibiting a school district from