Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1360
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                 Comm: UNFAV           .                                
                  02/11/2016           .                                
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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 609 - 640
    4  and insert:
    5  course (EOC) assessment constitutes 10 30 percent of the
    6  student’s final course grade. A student must pass the statewide,
    7  standardized Algebra I EOC assessment, or earn a comparative
    8  score, in order to earn a standard high school diploma. A
    9  student’s performance on the statewide, standardized Geometry
   10  EOC assessment constitutes 10 30 percent of the student’s final
   11  course grade. If the state administers a statewide, standardized
   12  Algebra II assessment, a student selecting Algebra II must take
   13  the assessment, and the student’s performance on the assessment
   14  constitutes 10 30 percent of the student’s final course grade. A
   15  student who earns An industry certification attained by a
   16  student for which there is a statewide college credit
   17  articulation agreement approved by the State Board of Education
   18  shall may substitute the certification for one mathematics
   19  credit. Substitution may occur for up to two mathematics
   20  credits, except for Algebra I and Geometry.
   21         (c) Three credits in science.—Two of the three required
   22  credits must have a laboratory component. A student must earn
   23  one credit in Biology I and two credits in equally rigorous
   24  courses. The statewide, standardized Biology I EOC assessment
   25  constitutes 10 30 percent of the student’s final course grade. A
   26  student who earns An industry certification attained by a
   27  student for which there is a statewide college credit
   28  articulation agreement approved by the State Board of Education
   29  shall may substitute the certification for one science credit,
   30  except for Biology I.
   31         (d) Three credits in social studies.—A student must earn
   32  one credit in United States History; one credit in World
   33  History; one-half credit in economics, which must include
   34  financial literacy; and one-half credit in United States
   35  Government. The United States History EOC assessment constitutes
   36  10 30 percent of the student’s final course grade.
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   38  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   39  And the title is amended as follows:
   40         Delete line 73
   41  and insert:
   42         by a specified date; revising the requirements for a
   43         standard high school diploma; revising the percentage
   44         of a student’s performance on an end-of-course
   45         assessment which constitutes the student’s final
   46         course grade; revising the online course