Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. PCS for SB 2480 (561464)
Barcode 165358
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11 The Committee on Education (Wilson) recommended the following
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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16 page 78, line 20, delete those lines
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19 (2) SCHOOL PERFORMANCE GRADE CATEGORIES.--The annual
20 report shall identify schools as being in one of the following
21 performance grade categories defined according to rules of the
22 State Board of Education:
23 (a) "A," Schools making excellent progress.
24 (b) "B," Schools making above average progress.
25 (c) "C," Schools making satisfactory progress.
26 (d) "D," Schools making less than satisfactory
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28 (e) "F," Schools failing to make adequate progress.
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30 Each school designated in performance grade category "A,"
31 making excellent progress, or having improved at least two
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1 performance grade categories, shall have greater authority
2 over the allocation of the school's total budget generated
3 from the FEFP, state categoricals, lottery funds, grants, and
4 local funds, as specified in state board rule. The rule must
5 provide that the increased budget authority shall remain in
6 effect until the school's performance grade declines.
7 (3) DESIGNATION OF SCHOOL PERFORMANCE GRADE
8 CATEGORIES.--School performance grade category designations
9 itemized in subsection (2) shall be based on the following:
10 (a) Timeframes.--
11 1. School performance grade category designations
12 shall be based on the school's current year performance and
13 the school's annual learning gains.
14 2. A school's performance grade category designation
15 shall be based on a combination of student achievement scores,
16 student learning gains as measured by annual FCAT assessments
17 in grades 3 through 10, and improvement of the lowest 25th
18 percentile of students in the school in reading, math, or
19 writing on the FCAT, unless these students are performing
20 above satisfactory performance.
21 (b) Student assessment data.--Student assessment data
22 used in determining school performance grade categories shall
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24 1. The aggregate scores of all eligible students
25 enrolled in the school who have been assessed on the FCAT.
26 2. The aggregate scores of all eligible students
27 enrolled in the school who have been assessed on the FCAT,
28 including Florida Writes, and who have scored at or in the
29 lowest 25th percentile of students in the school in reading,
30 math, or writing, unless these students are performing above
31 satisfactory performance.
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2 The Department of Education shall study the effects of
3 mobility on the performance of highly mobile students and
4 recommend programs to improve the performance of such
5 students. The State Board of Education shall adopt appropriate
6 criteria for each school performance grade category. The
7 criteria must also give added weight to student achievement in
8 reading. Schools designated as performance grade category "C,"
9 making satisfactory progress, shall be required to demonstrate
10 that adequate progress has been made by students in the school
11 who are in the lowest 25th percentile in reading, math, or
12 writing on the FCAT, including Florida Writes, unless these
13 students are performing above satisfactory performance.
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17 And the title is amended as follows:
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19 page 6, line 2, delete those lines
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22 school grading system; removing letter grades
23 from the performance grade categories by which
24 schools must be identified in the Commissioner
25 of Education's annual report of the results of
26 the statewide assessment program; requiring the
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