House Bill 9533

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HR 9533

        By Representative Murman






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution urging a recommitment to Florida's

  3         system of school improvement and

  4         accountability.

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  6         WHEREAS, legislation specifying state education goals,

  7  which passed with bipartisan support, required the development

  8  of a system of school improvement and accountability including

  9  standards, measures, reports, definitions of adequate

10  progress, rewards, and guidelines for action, and

11         WHEREAS, thousands of parents, business people, and

12  community members actively participate in the school

13  improvement process required by the system, which received

14  approval by the State Board of Education in June 1995 and is

15  now viewed as one of the most comprehensive and far reaching

16  in the nation, and

17         WHEREAS, the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test was

18  implemented in January 1998, and the Sunshine State Standards,

19  Florida's new kindergarten through grade 12 curriculum guides,

20  are being established in every public school in Florida and

21  include skills that prepare students for success in higher

22  education and in their professional lives, and

23         WHEREAS, the system already has begun to positively

24  impact the achievement of millions of Florida's public school

25  children and, during the summer of 1998, the State Board of

26  Education will determine action to improve schools

27  consistently identified as low performing, and

28         WHEREAS, the success of the system requires a steadfast

29  commitment to the principle that all children can and must be

30  successful learners, NOW, THEREFORE,

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HR 9533

    583-139A-98






  1  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

  2  Florida:

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  4         That the House of Representatives pauses in its

  5  deliberations to applaud the efforts of all those whose

  6  responsibility it is to successfully educate Florida's

  7  children and to recommit themselves to the full implementation

  8  and maintenance of the state's system of school improvement

  9  and accountability.

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