Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2
                        Barcode 733318
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11  The Committee on Education Appropriations (Wise) recommended
12  the following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 55, lines 18-31, delete those liens
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18         (h)  Identify all nationally norm-referenced test that
19  are comparable to the norm-referenced test portions of the
20  Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).
21         (i)  Select an independent private research
22  organization to which participating private schools must
23  report the scores of participating students on the nationally
24  norm-referenced tests administered by the private school. The
25  independent private research organization must annually report
26  to the Department of Education on the year-to-year
27  improvements of participating students; must analyze and
28  report student performance data in a manner that protects the
29  rights of students and parents as mandated in 20 U.S.C. s.
30  1232g; and must not dissaggregate data to a level that will
31  disclose the academic level of individual students or of
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    Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2
                        Barcode 733318
 1  individual schools. To the extent possible, the organization
 2  must accumulate historical performance data on students from
 3  the Department of Education and private schools to describe
 4  baseline performance and conduct longitudinal studies. To
 5  minimize costs and reduce time required for third-party
 6  analysis and evaluation, the Department of Education shall
 7  conduct analyses of matched students from public school
 8  assessment data and calculate control group learning gains
 9  using an agreed-upon methodology outlined in the contract with
10  the third-party evaluator. The sharing of student data must be
11  in accordance with 20 U.S.C. 1232g, and shall be for the sole
12  purpose of conducting the evaluation. All parties must
13  preserve the confidentiality of such information as required
14  by law.
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18  And the title is amended as follows:
19         On page 10, line 12, delete that line
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22         to select a private research organization to
23         analyze student performance data; providing
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