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CHAMBER ACTION
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11 Senator Lynn moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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15 page 21, line 6, delete those lines
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18 Section 11. Paragraph (c) of subsection (5) of section
19 1001.42, Florida Statutes, is repealed, paragraph (f) of
20 subsection (4), subsection (16), paragraph (d) of subsection
21 (17), and subsection (18) of that section are amended, present
22 subsection (22) is redesignated as subsection (23), and a new
23 subsection (22) is added to that section, to read:
24 1001.42 Powers and duties of district school
25 board.--The district school board, acting as a board, shall
26 exercise all powers and perform all duties listed below:
27 (4) ESTABLISHMENT, ORGANIZATION, AND OPERATION OF
28 SCHOOLS.--Adopt and provide for the execution of plans for the
29 establishment, organization, and operation of the schools of
30 the district, including, but not limited to, the following:
31 (f) Opening and closing of schools; fixing uniform
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1 date.--Adopt policies for the opening and closing of schools
2 and fix uniform dates; however, beginning with the 2007-2008
3 school year, the opening date for schools in the district may
4 not be earlier than 14 days before Labor Day each year.
5 (5) PERSONNEL.--
6 (c) Fully support and cooperate in the application of
7 the guiding principles of Better Educated Students and
8 Teachers (BEST) Florida Teaching, pursuant to s. 1000.041.
9 (16) IMPLEMENT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT AND
10 ACCOUNTABILITY.--Maintain a system of school improvement and
11 education accountability as provided by statute and State
12 Board of Education rule. This system of school improvement and
13 education accountability shall be consistent with, and
14 implemented through, the district's continuing system of
15 planning and budgeting required by this section and ss.
16 1008.385, 1010.01, and 1011.01. This system of school
17 improvement and education accountability shall include, but is
18 not limited to, the following:
19 (a) School improvement plans.--Annually approve and
20 require implementation of a new, amended, or continuation
21 school improvement plan for each school in the district.
22 except that A district school board may establish a district
23 school improvement plan that includes all schools in the
24 district operating for the purpose of providing educational
25 services to youth in Department of Juvenile Justice programs.
26 Such plan shall be designed to achieve the state education
27 priorities pursuant to s. 1000.03(5) and student performance
28 standards. Each plan must emphasize budget allocations and
29 professional development based on an analysis of student
30 achievement and other school performance data and must
31 include:
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1 1. Professional development that supports enhanced and
2 differentiated instructional strategies to improve teaching
3 and learning.
4 2. Continuous use of disaggregated student achievement
5 data to determine effectiveness of instructional strategies.
6 3. Ongoing informal and formal assessments to monitor
7 individual student progress, including progress toward mastery
8 of the Sunshine State Standards, and to redesign instruction
9 if needed.
10 4. Alternative instructional delivery methods to
11 support remediation, acceleration, and enrichment strategies.
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13 District school boards shall require schools to address other
14 matters of resource allocation as appropriate, such as
15 instructional materials and technologies that enhance teaching
16 and learning, staffing, student support services, school
17 safety and discipline strategies, student health and fitness,
18 and parental involvement. In addition, any school required to
19 implement a rigorous reading requirement pursuant to s.
20 1003.415 must include such component in its school improvement
21 plan. Each plan shall also address issues relative to budget,
22 training, instructional materials, technology, staffing,
23 student support services, specific school safety and
24 discipline strategies, student health and fitness, including
25 physical fitness, parental information on student health and
26 fitness, and indoor environmental air quality, and other
27 matters of resource allocation, as determined by district
28 school board policy, and shall be based on an analysis of
29 student achievement and other school performance data.
30 (b) Approval process.--Develop a process for approval
31 of a school improvement plan presented by an individual school
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1 and its advisory council. In the event a district school board
2 does not approve a school improvement plan after exhausting
3 this process, the Department of Education shall be notified of
4 the need for assistance.
5 (c) Assistance and intervention.--
6 1. Develop a 2-year plan of increasing individualized
7 assistance and intervention for each school in danger of not
8 meeting state standards or making adequate progress, as
9 defined pursuant to statute and State Board of Education rule,
10 toward meeting the goals and standards of its approved school
11 improvement plan.
12 2. Provide assistance and intervention to a school
13 that is designated with a identified as being in performance
14 grade of category "D" pursuant to s. 1008.34 and is in danger
15 of failing.
16 3. Develop a plan to encourage teachers with
17 demonstrated mastery in improving student performance to
18 remain at or transfer to a school with a designated as
19 performance grade of category "D" or "F" or to an alternative
20 school that serves disruptive or violent youths. If a
21 classroom teacher, as defined by s. 1012.01(2)(a), who meets
22 the definition of teaching mastery developed according to the
23 provisions of this paragraph, requests assignment to a school
24 designated with a as performance grade of category "D" or "F"
25 or to an alternative school that serves disruptive or violent
26 youths, the district school board shall make every practical
27 effort to grant the request.
28 4. Prioritize, to the extent possible, the
29 expenditures of funds received from the supplemental academic
30 instruction categorical fund under s. 1011.62(1)(f) to improve
31 student performance in schools that receive a performance
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1 grade category designation of "D" or "F."
2 (d) After 2 years.--Notify the Commissioner of
3 Education and the State Board of Education in the event any
4 school does not make adequate progress toward meeting the
5 goals and standards of a school improvement plan by the end of
6 2 years of failing to make adequate progress and proceed
7 according to guidelines developed pursuant to statute and
8 State Board of Education rule. School districts shall provide
9 intervention and assistance to schools in danger of being
10 designated with a as performance grade of category "F,"
11 failing to make adequate progress.
12 (e) Public disclosure.--Provide information regarding
13 performance of students and educational programs as required
14 pursuant to ss. 1008.22 and 1008.385 and implement a system of
15 school reports as required by statute and State Board of
16 Education rule that shall include schools operating for the
17 purpose of providing educational services to youth in
18 Department of Juvenile Justice programs, and for those
19 schools, report on the elements specified in s. 1003.52(19).
20 Annual public disclosure reports shall be in an easy-to-read
21 report card format and shall include the school's student and
22 school performance grade, high school graduation rate
23 calculated without GED tests, disaggregated by student
24 ethnicity, category designation and performance data as
25 specified in state board rule.
26 (f) School improvement funds.--Provide funds to
27 schools for developing and implementing school improvement
28 plans. Such funds shall include those funds appropriated for
29 the purpose of school improvement pursuant to s. 24.121(5)(c).
30 (17) LOCAL-LEVEL DECISIONMAKING.--
31 (d) Adopt policies that assist in giving greater
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1 autonomy, including authority over the allocation of the
2 school's budget, to schools designated with a as performance
3 grade of category "A," making excellent progress, and schools
4 rated as having improved at least two grades performance grade
5 categories.
6 (18) OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS.--Adopt policies
7 allowing students attending schools that have been designated
8 with a as performance grade of category "F," failing to make
9 adequate progress, for 2 school years in a 4-year period to
10 attend a higher performing school in the district or an
11 adjoining district or be granted a state opportunity
12 scholarship to a private school, in conformance with s.
13 1002.38 and State Board of Education rule.
14 (22) REDUCE PAPERWORK AND DATA COLLECTION AND
15 REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.--Beginning with the 2006-2007 school
16 year:
17 (a) Each district school board shall designate a
18 classroom teacher to serve as the teacher representative to
19 speak on behalf of the district's teachers regarding paperwork
20 and data collection reduction.
21 (b) Each district school board must provide the school
22 community with an efficient method for the school community to
23 communicate with the classroom teacher designee regarding
24 possible paperwork and data collection burdens and potential
25 solutions.
26 (c) The teacher designee shall annually report his or
27 her findings and potential solutions to the school board.
28 (d) Each district school board must submit its
29 findings and potential solutions to the State Board of
30 Education by September 1 of each year.
31 (e) The State Board of Education shall prepare a
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1 report of the statewide paperwork and data collection findings
2 and potential solutions and submit the report to the Governor,
3 the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
4 Representatives by October 1 of each year.
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8 And the title is amended as follows:
9 On page 2, line 8, after the semicolon,
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12 requiring each district school board to appoint
13 a classroom teacher to serve as the teacher
14 representative to speak on behalf of the
15 district's teachers regarding paperwork and
16 data collection reduction; requiring the
17 teacher designee to report his or her findings
18 and potential solutions to the school board;
19 requiring each school board to submit its
20 findings and potential solutions to the State
21 Board of Education by a specified date;
22 requiring the State Board of Education to
23 prepare a report of the statewide paperwork and
24 data collection findings and potential
25 solutions and submit the report to the Governor
26 and the Legislature;
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