Bill Text: FL S1342 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

Florida Senate Bill 1342 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Career and Education Planning [SPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Commerce [S1342 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S1342-Comm_Sub.html

 
Florida Senate - 2010                             CS for SB 1342 
 
By the Committee on Education Pre-K - 12; and Senator Smith 
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1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to career and education planning; 
3         amending s. 1003.4156, F.S.; revising the general 
4         requirements for middle grades promotion to require 
5         that a course in career and education planning explore 
6         the National Career Clusters; providing an effective 
7         date. 
8 
9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
10 
11         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 
12  1003.4156, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
13         1003.4156 General requirements for middle grades 
14  promotion.— 
15         (1) Beginning with students entering grade 6 in the 2006 
16  2007 school year, promotion from a school composed of middle 
17  grades 6, 7, and 8 requires that: 
18         (a) The student must successfully complete academic courses 
19  as follows: 
20         1. Three middle school or higher courses in English. These 
21  courses shall emphasize literature, composition, and technical 
22  text. 
23         2. Three middle school or higher courses in mathematics. 
24  Each middle school must offer at least one high school level 
25  mathematics course for which students may earn high school 
26  credit. 
27         3. Three middle school or higher courses in social studies, 
28  one semester of which must include the study of state and 
29  federal government and civics education. 
30         4. Three middle school or higher courses in science. 
31         5. One course in career and education planning to be 
32  completed in 7th or 8th grade. The course may be taught by any 
33  member of the instructional staff; must include career 
34  exploration aligned to the National Career Clusters supported by 
35  Florida’s Career Clusters Initiative; must include career 
36  exploration using CHOICES for the 21st Century or a comparable 
37  cost-effective program; must include educational planning using 
38  the online student advising system known as Florida Academic 
39  Counseling and Tracking for Students at the Internet website 
40  FACTS.org; and shall result in the completion of a personalized 
41  academic and career plan. 
42 
43  Each school must hold a parent meeting either in the evening or 
44  on a weekend to inform parents about the course curriculum and 
45  activities. Each student shall complete an electronic personal 
46  education plan that must be signed by the student; the student’s 
47  instructor, guidance counselor, or academic advisor; and the 
48  student’s parent. By January 1, 2007, the Department of 
49  Education shall develop course frameworks and professional 
50  development materials for the career exploration and education 
51  planning course. The course may be implemented as a stand-alone 
52  course or integrated into another course or courses. The 
53  Commissioner of Education shall collect longitudinal high school 
54  course enrollment data by student ethnicity in order to analyze 
55  course-taking patterns. 
56         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.