Florida Senate - 2009                                    SB 2386
       
       
       
       By Senator Dean
       
       
       
       
       3-01785-09                                            20092386__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to educational assessment; providing
    3         for discontinuation at the end of the 2008-2009 school
    4         year of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test in
    5         science administered to students in grade 11;
    6         requiring the science assessment administered at the
    7         high school level to be one or more end-of-course
    8         examinations; specifying requirements for an end-of
    9         course examination; providing an effective date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Notwithstanding s. 1008.22, Florida Statutes, or
   14  any other provision of the law to the contrary, the Florida
   15  Comprehensive Assessment Test in science administered to
   16  students in grade 11 shall be discontinued at the end of the
   17  2008-2009 school year. Beginning with the 2009-2010 school year,
   18  the science assessment administered at the high school level
   19  shall be one or more end-of-course examinations. The
   20  Commissioner of Education shall select one or more nationally
   21  developed comprehensive assessments for use as end-of-course
   22  examinations. An end-of-course examination must be rigorous and
   23  standardized, approved by the State Board of Education, and
   24  administered statewide. The content knowledge and skills
   25  assessed by an end-of-course examination must be aligned to the
   26  core curricular content established in the Sunshine State
   27  Standards.
   28         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.