Senate Bill 0086c1

    Florida Senate - 1998                             CS for SB 86

    By the Committee on Education and Senator Kirkpatrick





    304-1275-98

  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 identified as such a student and

25  reported in the regular-program funding category for his or

26  her grade, rather than in the dropout-prevention funding

27  category, in the funding period that follows the 12 months of

28  participation. Upon receiving notice that a student's academic

29  performance has not improved through the dropout-prevention

30  program, the school must evaluate its services to the student

31  and report to the district school board its plan for improving

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    Florida Senate - 1998                             CS for SB 86
    304-1275-98




  1  those services. The school must continue to serve the student

  2  in an educational program that is appropriate for his or her

  3  academic needs.

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

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  6          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  7                          Senate Bill 86

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  9  The Committee Substitute differs from Senate Bill 86 in that
    it would require a school to:
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    Identify any student whose academic performance in a dropout
11  prevention program does not improve.

12  Continue its services to such a student.

13  Plan and report improvements to the services.

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