SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 1504

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11  Senator Dyer moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 25, between lines 3 and 4,

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17         Section 15.  Section 231.315, Florida Statutes, is

18  created to read:

19         231.315  Peer assistance and review.--

20         (1)  The Legislature, the education community, and the

21  public expect high standards of professional practice from

22  school administrators and instructional staff. To promote high

23  professional standards, administrators and instructional staff

24  must develop a system of shared accountability. Peer

25  assistance and review is a process in which highly skilled

26  instructional personnel serve in a consulting role with their

27  peers to improve the quality of classroom instruction. Peer

28  assistance and review allows administrators and instructional

29  personnel to share the responsibility of mentoring, training,

30  assisting, and reviewing the professional standards and

31  practices of instructional personnel.

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 1         (2)  Peer assistance and review programs must meet the

 2  following minimum standards:

 3         (a)  Program provisions must be developed through the

 4  collective bargaining agreement between the teachers'

 5  association and the school district.

 6         (b)  A joint instructional personnel and school

 7  district governing body must be created with responsibility to

 8  review recommendations of the consulting peer instructional

 9  personnel.

10         (c)  Consulting peer instructional personnel must be

11  recognized by their peers as highly skilled practitioners and

12  must be selected by their peers.

13         (d)  Consulting peer instructional personnel must be

14  properly compensated and trained.

15         (e)  Consulting peer instructional personnel must

16  provide assistance and review for instructional personnel with

17  the same area of expertise as the consulting peer

18  instructional personnel member.

19         (f)  Consulting peer instructional personnel must not

20  be considered administrative personnel and must retain status

21  within the employees' collective bargaining unit.

22         (3)  For fiscal years 1999-2000 and 2000-2001, up to

23  six school districts may be selected to establish model peer

24  assistance and review programs. At least one district selected

25  must have less than 6,000 students and at least one district

26  selected must have more than 100,000 students. Districts that

27  wish to apply for selection must submit an application to the

28  Department of Education by September 1, 1999, which includes

29  the agreement between the teachers' association and the school

30  district. By October 1, 1999, the department shall select the

31  participating districts based on the quality of their

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 1  applications.

 2         (4)  The department shall provide technical assistance

 3  to selected school districts to establish model peer

 4  assistance and review programs.

 5         (5)  The school districts selected to establish model

 6  peer assistance and review programs shall receive an

 7  allocation from the department as established in the General

 8  Appropriations Act.

 9         (6)  During the 2000-2001 fiscal year, the department

10  shall assess the results of the selected model peer assistance

11  and review programs and shall submit a report to the Governor,

12  the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of

13  Representatives by March 1, 2001. The report must include the

14  department's recommendation as to the continuation or

15  expansion of peer assistance and review programs.

16         Section 16.  The sum of $1,000,000 is appropriated for

17  fiscal year 1999-2000 from the General Revenue Fund to the

18  Department of Education to fund the model peer assistance

19  review programs.

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21  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)

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25  And the title is amended as follows:

26         On page 2, line 4, after the semicolon

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29         creating s. 231.315, F.S.; providing for the

30         establishment of model peer assistance and

31         review programs; providing minimum standards;

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