Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 616
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  03/23/2015           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Education (Bullard) recommended
       the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (587488) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Between lines 813 and 814
    5  insert:
    6         Section 10. Notwithstanding any other law, each district
    7  school board shall implement a program that studies and assesses
    8  the effectiveness of using statewide, standardized comprehensive
    9  examinations to achieve the purpose of the student assessment
   10  program for public schools specified in s. 1008.22(1), Florida
   11  Statutes. Before a statewide, standardized comprehensive
   12  examination is administered, each district school board and the
   13  Department of Education must concur in the effectiveness of the
   14  examination as an accurate and reliable assessment tool.
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   17  And the title is amended as follows:
   18         Delete line 1106
   19  and insert:
   20         providing for expiration; requiring district school
   21         boards to implement a program studying and assessing
   22         the effectiveness of using statewide, standardized
   23         comprehensive examinations; requiring each district
   24         school board and the Department of Education to concur
   25         in the effectiveness of an examination before
   26         administration; requiring the Office of