Bill Text: FL S0154 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Juvenile Justice Education Programs

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-07 - Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration [S0154 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-S0154-Introduced.html
       Florida Senate - 2011                                     SB 154
       
       
       
       By Senator Bullard
       
       
       
       
       39-00177-11                                            2011154__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to juvenile justice education
    3         programs; amending s. 1003.52, F.S.; requiring that
    4         the Department of Education submit to the Legislature
    5         an annual report that includes student learning gains
    6         and student progression in juvenile justice education
    7         programs and details the methodology that the
    8         department uses to ensure that the student performance
    9         data is complete and reliable; providing an effective
   10         date.
   11  
   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   13  
   14         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section
   15  1003.52, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   16         1003.52 Educational services in Department of Juvenile
   17  Justice programs.—
   18         (3) The district school board of the county in which the
   19  residential or nonresidential care facility or juvenile
   20  assessment facility is located shall provide appropriate
   21  educational assessments and an appropriate program of
   22  instruction and special education services.
   23         (b) By October 1, 2004, The Department of Education, with
   24  the assistance of the school districts, shall select a common
   25  student assessment instrument and protocol for measuring student
   26  learning gains and student progression while a student is in a
   27  juvenile justice education program. The assessment instrument
   28  and protocol must be implemented in all juvenile justice
   29  education programs in this state by January 1, 2005. The
   30  Department of Education shall submit to the Legislature an
   31  annual status report that includes the results of the assessment
   32  for measuring student learning gains and student progression and
   33  details the methodology that the department uses to ensure that
   34  the student performance data is complete and reliable.
   35         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.

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