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Senate Bill 0086
    Florida Senate - 1998                                    SB 86

    By Senator Kirkpatrick





    5-83-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to education; requiring

  3         academic enrichment activities for specified

  4         students; requiring an evaluation of student

  5         academic progress; providing conditions that

  6         require a funding shift; providing an effective

  7         date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  A school district must provide academic

12  enrichment to each student for whom any part of state funding

13  is generated in the dropout-prevention funding category

14  because of the student's placement in an educational

15  alternative pursuant to section 230.2316(4)(a), Florida

16  Statutes. A student whose scores on a nationally normed

17  achievement test show no academic improvement after 12 months

18  of participation may not be reported for further funding in

19  the dropout-prevention funding category unless the school and

20  the student's parent document academic improvement through

21  alternatives such as grades, a portfolio of the student's

22  work, or other measures identified in the school improvement

23  plan. A student whose academic performance does not improve

24  after 12 months must be reported in the regular-program

25  funding category for his or her grade, rather than in the

26  dropout-prevention funding category, in the funding period

27  that follows the 12 months of participation.

28         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1998.

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                    SB 86
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  2                          SENATE SUMMARY

  3    Requires school districts to provide academic enrichment
      for certain students. Requires an evaluation and
  4    prohibits certain funding for students whose academic
      performance does not improve after participating in an
  5    academic enrichment program.

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