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Senator Gaetz moved the following amendment:

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     Senate Amendment (with title amendment)

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     Between line(s) 1029 and 1030,

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insert:

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     Section 17.  Subsection (3) of section 1008.30, Florida

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Statutes, is amended to read:

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     1008.30  Common placement testing for public postsecondary

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education.--

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

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would require high schools to give the common placement test

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prescribed in this section, or an equivalent test identified by

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the State Board of Education, at the beginning of the tenth grade

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year before enrollment in the eleventh grade year in public high

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school for the purpose of obtaining remedial instruction prior to

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entering public postsecondary education. The Department of

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Education shall purchase or develop assessments to evaluate the

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college readiness of eleventh grade students who may be at risk

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of needing remediation in reading or mathematics prior to

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enrollment in postsecondary institutions. The department shall

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work with school districts to administer the assessments during

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the 2008-2009 school year. To the maximum extent practicable, a

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school district shall provide twelfth grade students who need

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remediation and who indicate an interest in postsecondary

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education with access to appropriate remediation courses to

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mitigate remediation at the postsecondary level.

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================ T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================

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And the title is amended as follows:

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     On line(s) 86, after the first semicolon,

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insert:

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amending s. 1008.30, F.S.; requiring the Department of

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Education to purchase or develop assessments to evaluate

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the college readiness of certain students before

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enrollment in a postsecondary institution; requiring a

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school district to provide certain students access to

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appropriate remediation courses;

4/28/2008  9:48:00 PM     4-08926-08