SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. SB 94

    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 420308

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11  Senator Miller moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 2, line 4, delete that line

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17         (4)(a)  The state should not mandate specific

18  commercial or noncommercial reading programs but, instead,

19  should encourage schools to use the Florida reading program

20  standards in designing, evaluating, selecting, and

21  implementing reading programs. School districts and schools

22  must address a number of factors in selecting commercial or

23  district-developed reading programs, materials, and resources.

24  As reflected in the Florida reading program standards, the

25  program being considered must:

26         1.  Have a body of scientifically based reading

27  research that supports the effectiveness of the program in

28  improving student performance in reading or, at the very

29  least, supports the components and strategies that constitute

30  the program;

31         2.  Provide scientifically based reading research

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  1  indicating that the program has a probability of success with

  2  the specific target population;

  3         3.  Complement the district's comprehensive design for

  4  reading;

  5         4.  Demonstrate a clear alignment to the Sunshine State

  6  Standards for reading; and

  7         5.  Be supported by sufficient and appropriate

  8  professional development to ensure the integrity of

  9  implementation.

10         (b)  School districts and schools must ensure that

11  their reading programs:

12         1. Provide that:

13         a.  All students are administered a screening;

14         b.  Struggling students are assessed using diagnostic

15  instruments in order to prescribe appropriate intervention;

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17         c.  All students are provided with progress monitoring

18  in order to improve instruction, and teachers are trained in

19  the use of the instruments and analysis of the data they

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21         2.  Provide students a minimum of 90 minutes of daily

22  instruction in reading.

23         3.  Are implemented as designed.

24         (5)  The Department of Education shall provide

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28  And the title is amended as follows:

29         On page 1, line 7, after the semicolon

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  1         providing guidelines for selecting reading

  2         programs; providing criteria that reading

  3         programs must satisfy;

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