Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SPB 7202
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/01/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget (Wise and Gaetz) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 20071 and 20072
    4  insert:
    5         (2)(a) Each private prekindergarten provider, including
    6  faith-based providers, and public school may select or design
    7  the curriculum that the provider or school uses to implement the
    8  Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program, except as otherwise
    9  required for a provider or school that is placed on probation
   10  under paragraph (3)(c).
   11         (b) Each private prekindergarten provider’s and public
   12  school’s curriculum must be developmentally appropriate and
   13  must:
   14         1. Be designed to prepare a student for early literacy;
   15         2. Enhance the age-appropriate progress of students in
   16  attaining the performance standards adopted by the department
   17  under subsection (1); and
   18         3. Prepare students to be ready for kindergarten based upon
   19  the statewide kindergarten screening administered under s.
   20  1002.69.
   21         (c) The department shall review and approve curricula for
   22  use by private prekindergarten providers and public schools that
   23  are placed on probation under paragraph (3)(c). The department
   24  shall allow a faith-based provider to continue to use the
   25  provider’s choice of curriculum while the provider is on
   26  probation. The department shall maintain a list of the curricula
   27  approved under this paragraph. Each approved curriculum must
   28  meet the requirements of paragraph (b).
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   30  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   31         And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   32         Delete lines 20058 - 20059
   33  and insert:
   34         Section 356. Section 1002.67, Florida Statutes, is amended
   35  to read: