Florida Senate - 2006 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. PCS for SB 2048 (300232)
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11 The Committee on Education (Baker) recommended the following
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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16 page 22, line 15, delete those lines
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18 and insert: Paragraph (f) of subsection (4) and subsection
19 (16) of section 1001.42, Florida Statutes, are amended, and
20 paragraph (c) of subsection (5) of that section, is repealed,
21 to read:
22 1001.42 Powers and duties of district school
23 board.--The district school board, acting as a board, shall
24 exercise all powers and perform all duties listed below:
25 (4) ESTABLISHMENT, ORGANIZATION, AND OPERATION OF
26 SCHOOLS.--Adopt and provide for the execution of plans for the
27 establishment, organization, and operation of the schools of
28 the district, including, but not limited to, the following:
29 (f) Opening and closing of schools; fixing uniform
30 date.--Adopt policies for the opening and closing of schools
31 and fix uniform dates. The opening date of the school year for
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1 schools in the district shall be no earlier than 7 days before
2 Labor Day each year; however, the district school board may,
3 with a supermajority vote after a public hearing, establish an
4 earlier opening date that shall be no earlier than August 8 or
5 establish a different opening date for a school on a
6 year-round or an extended calendar.
7 (5) PERSONNEL.--
8 (c) Fully support and cooperate in the application of
9 the guiding principles of Better Educated Students and
10 Teachers (BEST) Florida Teaching, pursuant to s. 1000.041.
11 (16) IMPLEMENT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT AND
12 ACCOUNTABILITY.--Maintain a system of school improvement and
13 education accountability as provided by statute and State
14 Board of Education rule. This system of school improvement and
15 education accountability shall be consistent with, and
16 implemented through, the district's continuing system of
17 planning and budgeting required by this section and ss.
18 1008.385, 1010.01, and 1011.01. This system of school
19 improvement and education accountability shall include, but is
20 not limited to, the following:
21 (a) School improvement plans.--Annually approve and
22 require implementation of a new, amended, or continuation
23 school improvement plan for each school in the district.
24 except that A district school board may establish a district
25 school improvement plan that includes all schools in the
26 district operating for the purpose of providing educational
27 services to youth in Department of Juvenile Justice programs.
28 Such plan shall be designed to achieve the state education
29 priorities pursuant to s. 1000.03(5) and student performance
30 standards. Each plan must emphasize budget allocations and
31 professional development based on an analysis of student
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1 achievement and other school performance data and must
2 include:
3 1. Professional development that supports enhanced and
4 differentiated instructional strategies to improve teaching
5 and learning.
6 2. Continuous use of disaggregated student achievement
7 data to determine effectiveness of instructional strategies.
8 3. Ongoing informal and formal assessments to monitor
9 individual student progress, including progress toward mastery
10 of the Sunshine State Standards, and to redesign instruction
11 if needed.
12 4. Alternative instructional delivery methods to
13 support remediation, acceleration, and enrichment strategies.
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15 District school boards shall require schools to address other
16 matters of resource allocation as appropriate, such as
17 instructional materials and technologies that enhance teaching
18 and learning, staffing, student support services, school
19 safety and discipline strategies, student health and fitness,
20 and parental involvement. In addition, any school required to
21 implement a rigorous reading requirement pursuant to s.
22 1003.415 must include such component in its school improvement
23 plan. Each plan shall also address issues relative to budget,
24 training, instructional materials, technology, staffing,
25 student support services, specific school safety and
26 discipline strategies, student health and fitness, including
27 physical fitness, parental information on student health and
28 fitness, and indoor environmental air quality, and other
29 matters of resource allocation, as determined by district
30 school board policy, and shall be based on an analysis of
31 student achievement and other school performance data.
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1 (b) Approval process.--Develop a process for approval
2 of a school improvement plan presented by an individual school
3 and its advisory council. In the event a district school board
4 does not approve a school improvement plan after exhausting
5 this process, the Department of Education shall be notified of
6 the need for assistance.
7 (c) Assistance and intervention.--
8 1. Develop a 2-year plan of increasing individualized
9 assistance and intervention for each school in danger of not
10 meeting state standards or making adequate progress, as
11 defined pursuant to statute and State Board of Education rule,
12 toward meeting the goals and standards of its approved school
13 improvement plan.
14 2. Provide assistance and intervention to a school
15 that is designated with a identified as being in performance
16 grade of category "D" pursuant to s. 1008.34 and is in danger
17 of failing.
18 3. Develop a plan to encourage teachers with
19 demonstrated mastery in improving student performance to
20 remain at or transfer to a school with a designated as
21 performance grade of category "D" or "F" or to an alternative
22 school that serves disruptive or violent youths. If a
23 classroom teacher, as defined by s. 1012.01(2)(a), who meets
24 the definition of teaching mastery developed according to the
25 provisions of this paragraph, requests assignment to a school
26 designated with a as performance grade of category "D" or "F"
27 or to an alternative school that serves disruptive or violent
28 youths, the district school board shall make every practical
29 effort to grant the request.
30 4. Prioritize, to the extent possible, the
31 expenditures of funds received from the supplemental academic
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1 instruction categorical fund under s. 1011.62(1)(f) to improve
2 student performance in schools that receive a performance
3 grade category designation of "D" or "F."
4 (d) After 2 years.--Notify the Commissioner of
5 Education and the State Board of Education in the event any
6 school does not make adequate progress toward meeting the
7 goals and standards of a school improvement plan by the end of
8 2 years of failing to make adequate progress and proceed
9 according to guidelines developed pursuant to statute and
10 State Board of Education rule. School districts shall provide
11 intervention and assistance to schools in danger of being
12 designated with a as performance grade of category "F,"
13 failing to make adequate progress.
14 (e) Public disclosure.--Provide information regarding
15 performance of students and educational programs as required
16 pursuant to ss. 1008.22 and 1008.385 and implement a system of
17 school reports as required by statute and State Board of
18 Education rule that shall include schools operating for the
19 purpose of providing educational services to youth in
20 Department of Juvenile Justice programs, and for those
21 schools, report on the elements specified in s. 1003.52(19).
22 Annual public disclosure reports shall be in an easy-to-read
23 report card format and shall include the school's student and
24 school performance grade, high school graduation rate
25 calculated without GED tests, disaggregated by student
26 ethnicity, category designation and performance data as
27 specified in state board rule.
28 (f) School improvement funds.--Provide funds to
29 schools for developing and implementing school improvement
30 plans. Such funds shall include those funds appropriated for
31 the purpose of school improvement pursuant to s. 24.121(5)(c).
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2 And the title is amended as follows:
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