Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2480
Barcode 601294
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11 Senators Wilson and Bullard moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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15 page 83, line 2, delete those lines
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18 (2) SCHOOL PERFORMANCE GRADE CATEGORIES.--The annual
19 report shall identify schools as being in one of the following
20 performance grade categories defined according to rules of the
21 State Board of Education:
22 (a) "A," Schools making excellent progress.
23 (b) "B," Schools making above average progress.
24 (c) "C," Schools making satisfactory progress.
25 (d) "D," Schools making less than satisfactory
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27 (e) "F," Schools failing to make adequate progress.
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29 Each school designated in performance grade category "A,"
30 making excellent progress, or having improved at least two
31 performance grade categories, shall have greater authority
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1 over the allocation of the school's total budget generated
2 from the FEFP, state categoricals, lottery funds, grants, and
3 local funds, as specified in state board rule. The rule must
4 provide that the increased budget authority shall remain in
5 effect until the school's performance grade declines.
6 (3) DESIGNATION OF SCHOOL PERFORMANCE GRADE
7 CATEGORIES.--School performance grade category designations
8 itemized in subsection (2) shall be based on the following:
9 (a) Timeframes.--
10 1. School performance grade category designations
11 shall be based on the school's current year performance and
12 the school's annual learning gains.
13 2. A school's performance grade category designation
14 shall be based on a combination of student achievement scores,
15 student learning gains as measured by annual FCAT assessments
16 in grades 3 through 10, and improvement of the lowest 25th
17 percentile of students in the school in reading, math, or
18 writing on the FCAT, unless these students are performing
19 above satisfactory performance.
20 (b) Student assessment data.--Student assessment data
21 used in determining school performance grade categories shall
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23 1. The aggregate scores of all eligible students
24 enrolled in the school who have been assessed on the FCAT.
25 2. The aggregate scores of all eligible students
26 enrolled in the school who have been assessed on the FCAT,
27 including Florida Writes, and who have scored at or in the
28 lowest 25th percentile of students in the school in reading,
29 math, or writing, unless these students are performing above
30 satisfactory performance.
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1 The Department of Education shall study the effects of
2 mobility on the performance of highly mobile students and
3 recommend programs to improve the performance of such
4 students. The State Board of Education shall adopt appropriate
5 criteria for each school performance grade category. The
6 criteria must also give added weight to student achievement in
7 reading. Schools designated as performance grade category "C,"
8 making satisfactory progress, shall be required to demonstrate
9 that adequate progress has been made by students in the school
10 who are in the lowest 25th percentile in reading, math, or
11 writing on the FCAT, including Florida Writes, unless these
12 students are performing above satisfactory performance.
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16 And the title is amended as follows:
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18 page 6, line 2, delete those lines
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21 school grading system; removing letter grades
22 from the performance grade categories by which
23 schools must be identified in the Commissioner
24 of Education's annual report of the results of
25 the statewide assessment program; requiring the
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