Senate Bill sb2472

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 2472

    By Senator Wasserman Schultz





    34-1203-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to postsecondary feedback of

  3         information to high schools; amending s.

  4         1008.37, F.S.; requiring each postsecondary

  5         educational institution periodically to

  6         electronically transmit to each district school

  7         board a report of the academic performance of

  8         each student enrolled in that institution who

  9         graduated from high school in that district;

10         providing for rulemaking; providing an

11         effective date.

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

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15         Section 1.  Subsection (6) is added to section 1008.37,

16  Florida Statutes, to read:

17         1008.37  Postsecondary feedback of information to high

18  schools.--

19         (6)  Each public postsecondary educational institution

20  in this state shall, each semester, electronically provide to

21  each district school board in this state information about the

22  college grades and performance of each student enrolled in

23  that educational institution who graduated from high school in

24  that district. The purpose of this report is to provide each

25  school district with information that can be used to evaluate

26  how well the instructional programs in that district have

27  prepared students for postsecondary education. The information

28  that must be electronically transmitted from each educational

29  institution to the appropriate school district must include

30  data elements that are already gathered at the postsecondary

31  level, including, but not limited to, the individual student's

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 2472
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 1  first and second major courses of study and minor courses, if

 2  applicable; cumulative grade point average; cumulative credits

 3  attempted and earned; and degree earned. The State Board of

 4  Education shall adopt rules necessary to administer this

 5  subsection.

 6         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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10    Requires each postsecondary educational institution
      periodically to electronically transmit to each district
11    school board a report of the academic performance of each
      student enrolled in that institution who graduated from
12    high school in that district. Provides for the State
      Board of Education to adopt rules.
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