SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. SB 128

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Rossin moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment 

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18         (c)  Specifying the federal waivers that are necessary,

19  and which the departments are pursuing, to achieve the

20  provisions of this section and to accomplish the foregoing

21  recommendations.

22         (d)  Providing sanctions for each school district and

23  each service district in the Department of Children and Family

24  Services for programs specified in subsection (1) if there is

25  not an established plan toward meeting the minimum set of

26  performance standards and if there is not measurable progress

27  toward meeting the standards.

28         (e)  Proposing procedures to develop a local plan to

29  assist each school district in meeting the first state

30  education goal, readiness to start school.  The procedures

31  must provide guidelines to enable each school board and the

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. SB 128

    Amendment No.    





  1  health and human services board for the service area of the

  2  school district to develop and jointly approve a plan that

  3  includes:

  4         1.  A method to implement the performance standards for

  5  early childhood programs developed by the Department of

  6  Education and the Department of Children and Family Services;

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  8         2.  A report of the number of 4-year-old children in

  9  the school district who are eligible for a publicly supported

10  preschool program and a schedule for serving all eligible

11  4-year-old children in programs of quality by the 2000-2001

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