1 | A bill to be entitled |
2 | An act relating to district school board policies and |
3 | procedures; amending s. 1001.43, F.S.; providing |
4 | legislative intent to recognize student academic |
5 | achievement; encouraging each district school board to |
6 | adopt policies and procedures that provide for an annual |
7 | "Academic Scholarship Signing Day"; providing an effective |
8 | date. |
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10 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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12 | Section 1. Subsection (14) is added to section 1001.43, |
13 | Florida Statutes, to read: |
14 | 1001.43 Supplemental powers and duties of district school |
15 | board.--The district school board may exercise the following |
16 | supplemental powers and duties as authorized by this code or |
17 | State Board of Education rule. |
18 | (14) RECOGNITION OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT.-- |
19 | (a) The Legislature recognizes the importance of promoting |
20 | student academic achievement, motivating students to attain |
21 | academic achievement, and providing positive acknowledgment for |
22 | that achievement. It is the intent of the Legislature that |
23 | school districts bestow the same level of recognition to the |
24 | state's academic scholars as to its athletic scholars. |
25 | (b) The district school board is encouraged to adopt |
26 | policies and procedures to provide for a student "Academic |
27 | Scholarship Signing Day" by declaring the third Tuesday in April |
28 | each year as "Academic Scholarship Signing Day." The "Academic |
29 | Scholarship Signing Day" shall recognize the outstanding |
30 | academic achievement of high school seniors who sign a letter of |
31 | intent to accept an academic scholarship offered to the student |
32 | by a postsecondary educational institution. District school |
33 | board policies and procedures may include, but not be limited |
34 | to, conducting assemblies or other appropriate public events in |
35 | which students offered academic scholarships assemble and sign |
36 | actual or ceremonial documents accepting those scholarships. The |
37 | district school board may encourage holding such events in an |
38 | assembly or gathering of high school freshmen or sophomores as a |
39 | means of making academic success and recognition visible to |
40 | these students. |
41 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010. |