Florida Senate - 2011 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1696
Barcode 675854
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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Floor: 4/AD/2R .
05/02/2011 03:54 PM .
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Senator Wise moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 683 and 684
4 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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55 And the title is amended as follows:
56 Delete line 62
57 and insert:
58 circumstances; amending s. 1003.429, F.S.; revising
59 provisions relating to the selection of accelerated
60 high school graduation options; amending s. 1003.491,
61 F.S.; revising