Florida Senate - 2010 SB 1124
By Senator Altman
24-00955-10 20101124__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to instructional materials for K-12
3 public education; amending s. 1006.28, F.S.; including
4 computer hardware in the definition of the term
5 “adequate instructional materials”; requiring each
6 district school board to provide technology as needed
7 for its educational program; amending s. 1006.40,
8 F.S.; authorizing the use of certain funds for the
9 purchase of computer hardware by district school
10 boards; providing restrictions; providing an effective
11 date.
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13 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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15 Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 1006.28, Florida
16 Statutes, is amended to read:
17 1006.28 Duties of district school board, district school
18 superintendent; and school principal regarding K-12
19 instructional materials.—
20 (1) DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD.—The district school board has
21 the duty to provide adequate instructional materials for all
22 students in accordance with the requirements of this part. The
23 term “adequate instructional materials” means a sufficient
24 number of textbooks or sets of materials that are available in
25 bound, unbound, kit, or package form and may consist of hard
26 backed or soft-backed textbooks, consumables, learning
27 laboratories, manipulatives, electronic media, and computer
28 hardware, courseware, or software that serve as the basis for
29 instruction for each student in the core courses of mathematics,
30 language arts, social studies, science, reading, and literature,
31 except for instruction for which the school advisory council
32 approves the use of a program that does not include a textbook
33 as a major tool of instruction. The district school board has
34 the following specific duties:
35 (a) Courses of study; adoption.—Adopt courses of study for
36 use in the schools of the district.
37 (b) Textbooks.—Provide for proper requisitioning,
38 distribution, accounting, storage, care, and use of all
39 instructional materials furnished by the state and furnish such
40 other instructional materials as may be needed. The district
41 school board shall assure that instructional materials used in
42 the district are consistent with the district goals and
43 objectives and the curriculum frameworks adopted by rule of the
44 State Board of Education, as well as with the state and district
45 performance standards provided for in s. 1001.03(1).
46 (c) Other instructional materials.—Provide such other
47 technology and teaching accessories and aids as are needed for
48 the school district’s educational program.
49 (d) School library media services; establishment and
50 maintenance.—Establish and maintain a program of school library
51 media services for all public schools in the district, including
52 school library media centers, or school library media centers
53 open to the public, and, in addition such traveling or
54 circulating libraries as may be needed for the proper operation
55 of the district school system.
56 Section 2. Subsection (4) of section 1006.40, Florida
57 Statutes, is amended to read:
58 1006.40 Use of instructional materials allocation;
59 instructional materials, library books, and reference books;
60 repair of books.—
61 (4) The funds described in subsection (3) which district
62 school boards may use to purchase materials not on the state
63 adopted list shall be used for the purchase of instructional
64 materials or other items having intellectual content which
65 assist in the instruction of a subject or course. These items
66 may be available in bound, unbound, kit, or package form and may
67 consist of hardbacked or softbacked textbooks, replacements for
68 items which were part of previously purchased instructional
69 materials, consumables, learning laboratories, manipulatives,
70 electronic media, computer hardware, courseware, or software,
71 and other commonly accepted instructional tools as prescribed by
72 district school board rule. The funds available to district
73 school boards for the purchase of materials not on the state
74 adopted list may not be used to purchase electronic or computer
75 hardware unless even if such hardware is bundled with software
76 or other electronic media, nor may such funds be used to
77 purchase equipment or supplies. However, when authorized to do
78 so in the General Appropriations Act, a school or district
79 school board may use a portion of the funds available to it for
80 the purchase of materials not on the state-adopted list to
81 purchase science laboratory materials and supplies.
82 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.