| 1 | Representative Fresen offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 652 and 653, insert: |
| 5 | Section 17. Subsections (2), (3), (4), and (7) of section |
| 6 | 1003.429, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: |
| 7 | 1003.429 Accelerated high school graduation options.- |
| 8 | (2) Prior to selecting a program described in paragraph |
| 9 | (1)(b) or paragraph (1)(c), a student and the student's parent |
| 10 | should must meet with designated school personnel to receive an |
| 11 | explanation of the relative requirements, advantages, and |
| 12 | disadvantages of each program option, and the student must also |
| 13 | receive the written consent of the student's parent. If an |
| 14 | effort to meet with the student's parent fails and that effort |
| 15 | has been documented by designated school personnel, the student |
| 16 | may select a program described in paragraph (1)(b) or paragraph |
| 17 | (1)(c) with the written consent of the student's parent. A |
| 18 | student may select a program described in paragraph (1)(b) or |
| 19 | paragraph (1)(c) without the written consent of the student's |
| 20 | parent if the student is 18 years of age or older. |
| 21 | (3) Beginning with the 2011-2012 2006-2007 school year, |
| 22 | each district school board shall provide each student in grades |
| 23 | 6 through 12 9 and their parents with information concerning the |
| 24 | 3-year and 4-year high school graduation options listed in |
| 25 | subsection (1), including the respective curriculum requirements |
| 26 | for those options, so that the students and their parents may |
| 27 | select the program that best fits their needs. The information |
| 28 | must include a timeframe for achieving each graduation option. |
| 29 | (4) Selection of one of the graduation options listed in |
| 30 | subsection (1) may must be completed by the student at any time |
| 31 | during grades 9 through 12 prior to the end of grade 9 and is |
| 32 | exclusively up to the student and parent, subject to the |
| 33 | requirements in subsection (2). Each district school board shall |
| 34 | establish policies for extending this deadline to the end of a |
| 35 | student's first semester of grade 10 for a student who entered a |
| 36 | Florida public school after grade 9 upon transfer from a private |
| 37 | school or another state or who was prevented from choosing a |
| 38 | graduation option due to illness during grade 9. If the student |
| 39 | and parent fail to select one of the accelerated high school |
| 40 | graduation options a graduation option, the student shall be |
| 41 | considered to have selected the general requirements for high |
| 42 | school graduation pursuant to paragraph (1)(a). |
| 43 | (7) If, at the end of each grade 10, a student is not on |
| 44 | track to meet the credit, assessment, or grade-point-average |
| 45 | requirements of the accelerated graduation option selected, the |
| 46 | school shall notify the student and parent of the following: |
| 47 | (a) The requirements that the student is not currently |
| 48 | meeting. |
| 49 | (b) The specific performance necessary in grade 11 for the |
| 50 | student to meet the accelerated graduation requirements. |
| 51 | (c) The right of the student to change to the 4-year |
| 52 | program set forth in s. 1003.428 or s. 1003.43, as applicable. |
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| 56 | T I T L E A M E N D M E N T |
| 57 | Remove line 58 and insert: |
| 58 | circumstances; amending s. 1003.429, F.S.; revising provisions |
| 59 | relating to the selection of accelerated high school graduation |
| 60 | options; amending s. 1003.491, F.S.; revising |