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By the Committee on Education; and Senator Baker
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to career education; creating
3 s. 1003.416, F.S.; providing for the Department
4 of Education to review the Sunshine State
5 Standards for high school; providing purposes;
6 requiring the Commissioner of Education to make
7 recommendations to the State Board of
8 Education; providing for rulemaking; providing
9 duties of the department relating to teacher
10 preparation for the purpose of ensuring
11 instructional relevance; defining the term
12 "career and professional academy"; describing
13 the curriculum and providing criteria for
14 implementation and student participation;
15 amending ss. 1006.02 and 1006.025, F.S.;
16 requiring each public school's guidance report
17 to document that students have used certain
18 career planning tools; requiring the department
19 to conduct and complete an articulation audit
20 for postsecondary vocational education by a
21 specified deadline; providing requirements for
22 the audit; requiring the Department of
23 Education to determine if courses or programs
24 in career education of the career and
25 professional academies should be weighted;
26 requiring recommendations to the Governor and
27 the Legislature; requiring the Council for
28 Education Policy Research and Improvement to
29 study how career and professional academies are
30 implemented; requiring that a report and
31 recommendations be submitted to the Governor
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1 and the Legislature; providing an effective
2 date.
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4 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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6 Section 1. Section 1003.416, Florida Statutes, is
7 created to read:
8 1003.416 Academic standards; review; improvement in
9 rigor and career relevance; career academies; rules;
10 enforcement.--
11 (1) PURPOSE AND INTENT.--The purpose of this section
12 is to provide added focus and rigor to academics in the high
13 school so that all students graduate from high school ready
14 for postsecondary education and work. Every high school
15 student should receive rigorous academic instruction through
16 challenging curricula delivered with relevance to application
17 in unpredictable settings presented by highly qualified
18 teachers in small-school or school-within-a-school
19 environments, and supported by informed parents and engaged
20 postsecondary-education, business, and community partners. It
21 is the intent of the Legislature that every student graduate
22 from high school ready for postsecondary education and work.
23 (2) CURRICULA AND COURSES.--The Department of
24 Education shall review the Sunshine State Standards for high
25 school to ensure that they incorporate the appropriate rigor
26 and relevance so that students leave high school prepared for
27 both postsecondary education and the workplace. The
28 Commissioner of Education shall make recommendations to the
29 State Board of Education regarding changes to high school
30 standards and curricula based on research-based programs that
31 have been proven to be effective. The State Board of Education
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1 shall, by March 1, 2006, adopt rules based upon the
2 commissioner's recommendations. The department shall review
3 current high school graduation requirements and course
4 enrollments of high school students to determine the effect of
5 increasing high school graduation requirements to include four
6 credits in math and science and eliminate the options for
7 satisfying Algebra I. By December 1, 2006, the Commissioner of
8 Education shall submit to the President of the Senate, the
9 Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Governor, and the
10 State Board of Education recommendations to increase the
11 academic rigor of high school graduation requirements for
12 implementation to be phased in beginning by the 2008-2009
13 school year.
14 (3) INSTRUCTIONAL RELEVANCE.--The department shall
15 review teaching practices and recommend pedagogy in all
16 teacher-preparation pathways to ensure that future teachers
17 are able to deliver rigorous instruction in a relevant manner
18 using real-world work experiences to teach specific skills.
19 The department shall develop professional development for
20 current teachers which focuses on student-centered
21 instructional strategies that move students from the early
22 learning stage of awareness to higher learning stages of
23 analysis, adaptation, and application of knowledge.
24 (4) CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIES.--
25 (a) Effective July 1, 2005, the term "career and
26 professional academy" means a research-based rigorous career
27 education community that combines relevant academic and
28 technical curricula around a career theme.
29 1. A career and professional academy may only be
30 offered by a school district or collaborating school districts
31 for the purpose of providing an instructional delivery system
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1 that incorporates relevant and rigorous combined academic and
2 technical curricula programs.
3 2. Use of the title career and professional academy
4 may be employed by one or more programs within a high school,
5 a school within a high school, or a technical high school, but
6 may be used only when each program using the title is fully
7 compliant with the criteria in paragraph (c).
8 (b) The curriculum of a career and professional
9 academy must take into consideration multiple styles of
10 student learning, promote learning by doing through
11 application and adaptation, maximize relevance of the subject
12 matter, enhance each student's capacity to excel, and include
13 an emphasis on work habits and work ethics. Such instruction
14 may include diversified cooperative education, work
15 experience, on-the-job training, and dual enrollment.
16 (c) Each career and professional academy must:
17 1. Provide a rigorous and relevant standards-based
18 academic curriculum through a career-based theme, using
19 instruction in ways relevant to the career, and which includes
20 instruction in work habits and work ethics.
21 2. Include one or more partnerships with businesses,
22 employers, industry economic-development agencies, or other
23 appropriate sectors of the local community. Such a partnership
24 should include the opportunity for persons who are highly
25 skilled in the targeted subject matter of an academy program
26 to provide instruction for the academy.
27 3. Include one or more partnerships with a private or
28 public postsecondary educational institution accredited by a
29 regional accrediting agency. The educational partner must
30 agree to articulate coursework in order to ensure the maximum
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1 appropriate transferability of credit and must participate in
2 the common course numbering system.
3 4. Include program offerings that correlate directly
4 with career and industry certifications; with targeted
5 high-priority local business and career opportunities; or with
6 high-growth, high-demand, and high-pay occupations identified
7 on the statewide targeted occupations list of the Workforce
8 Estimating Conference.
9 5. Establish eligibility criteria for student
10 participation. While recognizing that rigorous academic
11 performance will be expected of all students participating in
12 an academy, initial eligibility criteria should not be so
13 rigid as to preclude opportunities for students who have not
14 yet shown that they can meet the academic requirements but do
15 show other characteristics that might prove them viable
16 candidates to achieve success in a career and professional
17 academy. The aim of an academy should be to serve not only
18 students who are already succeeding but who would succeed if
19 the proper teaching and motivational opportunities are
20 provided.
21 6. Establish relationships with business partners for
22 utilization of state-of-the-art equipment in the instructional
23 program of each academy.
24 (d) A course offered by the Florida Virtual School
25 related to a career and professional academy program shall
26 give priority for enrollment to public school students in a
27 career and professional academy that does not have the
28 specific career or professional course offering.
29 (e) Middle schools are encouraged to develop curricula
30 and classes that will prepare students to easily and
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1 seamlessly enter high school career and professional
2 academies.
3 (5) STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION AUTHORITY.--
4 (a) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules
5 under ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to administer the provisions
6 of this section.
7 (b) The State Board of Education, pursuant to s.
8 1008.32, shall enforce the provisions of this section.
9 Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 1006.02, Florida
10 Statutes, is amended to read:
11 1006.02 Provision of information to students and
12 parents regarding school-to-work transition.--
13 (1) To facilitate each student's ability to easily and
14 seamlessly combine academic and career classes throughout the
15 educational experience, each public school district shall
16 document as part of its guidance report that every middle and
17 high school student has used existing free computerized and
18 web-based career planning tools provided by the Department of
19 Education to introduce each student to the career planning
20 process and to conduct career exploration. The report must
21 include the manner in which the school has All public K-12
22 schools shall document the manner in which they have prepared
23 students to enter the workforce, including information
24 regarding the provision of accurate, timely career and
25 curricular counseling to students. This information must shall
26 include a delineation of available career opportunities,
27 educational requirements associated with each career,
28 educational institutions that prepare students to enter each
29 career, and student financial aid available to enable students
30 to pursue any postsecondary instruction required to enter that
31 career. This information must shall also delineate school
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1 procedures for identifying individual student interests and
2 aptitudes which enable students to make informed decisions
3 about the curriculum that best addresses their individual
4 interests and aptitudes while preparing them to enroll in
5 postsecondary education and enter the workforce. This
6 information must shall include recommended high school
7 coursework that prepares students for success in college-level
8 work. The information must shall be made known to parents and
9 students annually through inclusion in the school's handbook,
10 manual, or similar documents or other communications regularly
11 provided to parents and students.
12 Section 3. Paragraph (f) of subsection (2) of section
13 1006.025, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
14 1006.025 Guidance services.--
15 (2) The guidance report shall include, but not be
16 limited to, the following:
17 (f) Actions taken to provide information to students
18 for the school-to-work transition and documentation that every
19 middle and high school student has used existing free
20 computerized and web-based career planning tools provided by
21 the Department of Education to introduce each student to the
22 career planning process and to conduct career exploration
23 pursuant to s. 1006.02.
24 Section 4. (1) The Department of Education shall
25 conduct an articulation audit for postsecondary vocational
26 education which:
27 (a) Is focused on courses and programs within the
28 industry sectors that have been targeted by Enterprise Florida
29 for economic development;
30 (b) Identifies specific areas of improvement needed to
31 maximize credit given to public postsecondary students; and
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1 (c) Identifies local articulation agreements that
2 could be replicated statewide.
3 (2) The audit required under subsection (1) must be
4 completed by December 31, 2005.
5 Section 5. The Department of Education shall identify
6 whether there is a need for cost categories in the Florida
7 Education Finance Program for courses or programs in career
8 education within the career and professional academies that
9 use technology, equipment, materials, and consumable supplies
10 reflective of industry requirements or industry certification
11 requirements. If the department determines there is a need to
12 weight enrollment in such courses or programs, the department
13 shall recommend weighted enrollment funding for each proposed
14 cost category for use in the Florida Education Finance Program
15 by December 1, 2005, to the Governor, the President of the
16 Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
17 Section 6. The Council for Education Policy Research
18 and Improvement shall monitor and study how career and
19 professional academies are implemented in the state. The
20 following shall be the major focus of the study: determine
21 whether and how much postsecondary course credit is awarded to
22 students and whether that credit is transferable to other
23 institutions besides the postsecondary partner, determine the
24 extent to which courses are articulating to higher
25 certificates and degrees, determine if there is a better way
26 to coordinate a seamless progression for students in a career
27 and professional academy program from middle school through
28 high school and postsecondary education, and make
29 recommendations for future changes for oversight and
30 coordination of career education courses and programs. The
31 report and recommendations shall be submitted to the Governor,
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1 the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
2 Representatives by December 1, 2007.
3 Section 7. This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.
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5 STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
6 Senate Bill 2138
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8 The Committee Substitute adds language which defines a career
and professional academy, describes the curriculum at such an
9 academy, and provides criteria for implementation of and for
student participation at an academy. Priority for career
10 courses offered by the Florida Virtual School is given to
students in a career and professional academy which does not
11 offer the specific course.
12 Middle schools are encouraged to develop curricula and classes
which prepare students to enter a career and professional
13 academy.
14 Language clarifying the use by all middle and high school
students of the existing free computerized and web-based
15 career planning tools is added.
16 Two sections are added to the bill. The first directs the
Department of Education to identify whether there is a need to
17 include a weight in the Florida Education Finance Program for
courses or programs offered by a career and professional
18 academy. The department is to make its recommendations on
such weighting to the Governor and Legislature by December 1,
19 2005.
20 The second new section directs the Council for Education
Policy Research and Improvement to monitor the implementation
21 of the career and professional academies in the state,
identify successes and problems, and report its findings to
22 the Governor and Legislature by December 1, 2007
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