Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
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11 The Committee on Education (Wise) recommended the following
12 substitute for amendment (894484):
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 (4) CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIES.--
19 (a) Effective July 1, 2005, the term "Career and
20 Professional Academy" means a research-based rigorous career
21 education community that combines relevant academic and
22 technical curricula around a career theme.
23 1. A career and professional academy may only be
24 offered by a school district or collaborating school districts
25 for the purpose of providing an instructional delivery system
26 that incorporates relevant and rigorous combined academic and
27 technical curricula programs.
28 2. Use of the title career and professional academy
29 may be employed by one or more programs within a high school,
30 a school within a high school, or by a technical high school,
31 but may only be used when each program using the title is
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1 fully compliant with the criteria in paragraph (c).
2 (b) The curriculum of a career and professional
3 academy must take in to consideration multiple styles of
4 student learning; promote learning by doing through
5 application and adaptation; maximize relevance of the subject
6 matter; enhance each student's capacity to excel; and include
7 an emphasis on work habits and work ethics. Such instruction
8 may include diversified cooperative education, work
9 experience, on- the-job training, and dual enrollment.
10 (c) Each career and professional academy must:
11 1. Provide a rigorous and relevant standards-based
12 academic curriculum through a career-based theme, utilizing
13 instruction in ways relevant to the career, and which includes
14 instruction in work habits and work ethics.
15 2. Include one or more partnerships with businesses,
16 employers, industry economic development agencies, or other
17 appropriate sectors of the local community. Such a partnership
18 should include the opportunity for persons who are highly
19 skilled in the targeted subject matter of an academy program
20 to provide instruction for the academy.
21 3. Include one or more partnerships with a private or
22 public postsecondary educational institution accredited by a
23 regional accrediting agency. The educational partner must
24 agree to articulate coursework to ensure the maximum
25 appropriate transferability of credit including participating
26 in the common course numbering system.
27 4. Include program offerings which correlate directly
28 with career and industry certifications; with targeted high
29 priority local business and career opportunities; or with high
30 growth, high demand, and high pay occupations identified on
31 the statewide targeted occupations list of the Workforce
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1 Estimating Conference.
2 5. Establish eligibility criteria for student
3 participation. While recognizing that rigorous academic
4 performance will be expected of all students participating in
5 an academy, initial eligibility criteria should not be so
6 rigid as to preclude opportunities for students who have not
7 yet shown they can meet the academic requirements but do show
8 other characteristics that might prove them viable candidates
9 to achieve in a career and professional academy. The aim of an
10 academy should be to serve not only students who are already
11 succeeding but who would succeed if the proper teaching and
12 motivational opportunities are provided.
13 6. Establish relationships with business partners for
14 utilization of state of the art equipment in the instructional
15 program of each academy.
16 (d) A course offered by the Florida Virtual School
17 related to a career and professional academy program shall
18 give priority for enrollment to public school students in a
19 career and professional academy which does not have the
20 specific career or professional course offering.
21 (e) Middle schools are encouraged to develop curricula
22 and classes which will prepare students to easily and
23 seamlessly enter high school career and professional
24 academies.
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28 And the title is amended as follows:
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1 instructional relevance; defining a Career and
2 Professional Academy, describing the
3 curriculum, and providing criteria for
4 implementation and student participation;
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