Senate Bill sb1740

    Florida Senate - 2002                                  SB 1740

    By Senator Cowin





    11-764-02

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the education of exceptional

  3         students; creating a grant program to enable

  4         regular-education teachers in specified

  5         counties to participate in inclusive

  6         educational programs for

  7         exceptional-student-education students who have

  8         developmental disabilities; providing for the

  9         Florida Inclusion Network to train the teachers

10         and other service providers; providing for

11         exceptional-student-education support for the

12         program; providing for administering surveys;

13         providing an effective date.

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

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17         Section 1.  Exceptional student education; grants for

18  inclusive educational programs.--

19         (1)  There is created a grant program for the purpose

20  of recruiting 15 regular-education teachers from each of five

21  school districts, in Citrus County, Lake County, Marion

22  County, Pasco County, and Polk County, to participate in

23  inclusive educational programs for one

24  exceptional-student-education (ESE) student who has a

25  developmental disability per regular classroom for the

26  2002-2003 school year.

27         (2)  Before the 2002-2003 school year, the Florida

28  Inclusion Network (FIN) shall provide, at no cost to the

29  school districts, mandatory training to regular-education

30  teachers who participate in the grant program under subsection

31  (1) and to other providers of services to designated ESE

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    Florida Senate - 2002                                  SB 1740
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  1  students. Participating teachers and service providers must

  2  attend a FIN summer institute at which the training will be

  3  provided.

  4         (3)  ESE support for the program created under

  5  subsection (1) must be provided in accordance with each

  6  participating student's individual education plan (IEP).

  7         (4)  Pre-surveys and post-surveys developed by FIN must

  8  be completed by participating regular-education teachers.

  9         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

10  law.

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13                          SENATE SUMMARY

14    Creates a grant program to enable 15 regular-education
      teachers in each of five specified counties to
15    participate, during the 2002-2003 school year, in
      inclusive educational programs for
16    exceptional-student-education (ESE) students who have
      developmental disabilities. Provides for the Florida
17    Inclusion Network to conduct a summer workshop to train
      the teachers and service providers who participate in the
18    program. Provides for ESE support for the program.
      Provides for administering surveys before the program
19    begins and after it ends.

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