| 1 | Representative Pickens offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment to Amendment (442261) |
| 4 | Remove lines 166-194 and insert: |
| 5 | (e) A school district that terminates its program under |
| 6 | paragraph (d) shall contract with a provider selected and |
| 7 | approved by the department for the provision of virtual |
| 8 | instruction until the school district receives approval from the |
| 9 | department to operate a new school district virtual instruction |
| 10 | program. |
| 11 | (f) A school district virtual instruction program must |
| 12 | have a sufficient number of students enrolled in each grade for |
| 13 | a grade to be assigned to the program pursuant to s. 1008.34 and |
| 14 | State Board of Education rule. |
| 15 | (9) EXCEPTIONS.--A provider of digital or online content |
| 16 | or curriculum that is used to supplement the instruction of |
| 17 | students who are not enrolled in a virtual instruction program |
| 18 | under this section is not required to meet the requirements of |
| 19 | this section. |
| 20 | (10) MARKETING.--Any information provided by a school |
| 21 | district to parents and students regarding the school district's |
| 22 | virtual instruction program must include information about |
| 23 | opportunities available at, and the parent's and student's right |
| 24 | to access courses offered by, the Florida Virtual School under |
| 25 | s. 1002.37. |
| 26 | (11) 2008-2009 SCHOOL DISTRICT VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION |
| 27 | PROGRAM.--For the 2008-2009 school year, each school district in |
| 28 | the state may offer a school district virtual instruction |
| 29 | program to provide full-time virtual courses in kindergarten |
| 30 | through grade 8 or to provide full-time or part-time virtual |
| 31 | courses in grades 9 through 12 as authorized in paragraph |
| 32 | (7)(c). Such program may be operated or contracted as provided |
| 33 | under paragraph (1)(b) and must comply with all requirements of |
| 34 | this section, except that contracts under this subsection may |
| 35 | only be issued for virtual courses in kindergarten through grade |
| 36 | 8 to providers operating under s. 1002.415 or for virtual |
| 37 | courses in grades 9 through 12 as authorized under paragraph |
| 38 | (7)(c) to providers who contracted with a regional consortium in |
| 39 | the 2007-2008 school year to provide such services. |
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