Senate Bill sb2724

    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 2724

    By Senator Rich





    34-1163-06                                              See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to education accountability;

  3         creating s. 1008.47, F.S.; requiring the

  4         Department of Education to annually report the

  5         state's ranking in a state-by-state comparison

  6         in specified educational measures; providing

  7         legislative goals; requiring rulemaking;

  8         providing an effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Section 1008.47, Florida Statutes, is

13  created to read:

14         1008.47  Annual accountability reporting.--

15         (1)  The Department of Education shall annually report

16  to the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of

17  the House of Representatives, and the general public the

18  state's ranking in a state-by-state comparison in each of the

19  following measures:

20         (a)  Reading and mathematics scores of public school

21  4th grade students as reported in the National Assessment of

22  Educational Progress.

23         (b)  Reading and mathematics scores of public school

24  8th grade students as reported in the National Assessment of

25  Educational Progress.

26         (c)  Reading and mathematics scores of public high

27  school students as reported by the Manhattan Institute for

28  Policy Research.

29         (d)  SAT scores of public school students.

30         (e)  ACT scores of public school students.

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 2724
    34-1163-06                                              See HB




 1         (f)  Median student-to-teacher ratio in public school

 2  kindergarten through grade 3 as reported by the National

 3  Center for Education Statistics.

 4         (g)  Average public school teacher salary adjusted for

 5  cost of living reported in Education Week.

 6         (h)  Average public school beginning teacher salary

 7  adjusted for cost of living reported in Education Week.

 8         (i)  Students receiving baccalaureate degrees within 6

 9  years after enrolling in college as reported by the National

10  Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.

11         (j)  Students returning for the second year of study at

12  2-year colleges as reported by the National Center for Public

13  Policy and Higher Education based on the ACT Institutional

14  Data Questionnaire.

15         (k)  Total state and local expenditures per student

16  based on fall enrollment as reported by the National Center

17  for Education Statistics.

18         (l)  State appropriations for higher education per

19  $1,000 of personal income reported by the National Center for

20  Public Policy and Higher Education.

21         (2)  It is the goal of the Legislature that the state

22  rank in the top two quartiles in at least half of the

23  measures, and not rank in the lowest quartile in any measure,

24  reported according to this section.

25         (3)  The State Board of Education shall adopt rules

26  pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the

27  provisions of this section.

28         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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