Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (577432) for CS for SB 980
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/25/2013           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Bean) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 54 and 55
    4  insert:
    5         Section 3. Subsection (6) is added to section 1012.2315,
    6  Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         1012.2315 Assignment of teachers.—
    8         (6) ASSIGNMENT OF TEACHERS BASED UPON PERFORMANCE
    9  EVALUATIONS.—
   10         (a) If a high school or middle school student is currently
   11  taught by a classroom teacher who, during the current school
   12  year, receives a performance evaluation rating of “needs
   13  improvement” or “unsatisfactory” under s. 1012.34, the student
   14  may not be assigned in the next school year to a classroom
   15  teacher in the same subject area who received a performance
   16  evaluation rating of “needs improvement” or “unsatisfactory” in
   17  the preceding school year.
   18         (b) If an elementary school student is currently taught by
   19  a classroom teacher who, during the current school year,
   20  receives a performance evaluation rating of “needs improvement”
   21  or “unsatisfactory” under s. 1012.34, the student may not be
   22  assigned in the next school year to a classroom teacher who
   23  received a performance evaluation rating of “needs improvement”
   24  or “unsatisfactory” in the preceding school year.
   25         (c) For a student enrolling in an extracurricular course as
   26  defined in s. 1003.01, a parent may choose to have the student
   27  taught by a teacher who received a performance evaluation of
   28  “needs improvement” or “unsatisfactory” in the preceding school
   29  year if the student and the student’s parent receive an
   30  explanation of the impact of teacher effectiveness on student
   31  learning and the principal receives written consent from the
   32  parent.
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   34  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   35         And the title is amended as follows:
   36         Delete line 12
   37  and insert:
   38         of Education; amending s. 1012.2315, F.S.; prohibiting
   39         a student from being assigned in a classroom in the
   40         following school year to a teacher who received a
   41         performance evaluation rating of “needs improvement”
   42         or “unsatisfactory” in the preceding school year under
   43         certain circumstances; authorizing a parent to choose
   44         to have a student who is enrolling in an
   45         extracurricular course that is taught by a teacher who
   46         received a performance evaluation of “needs
   47         improvement” or “unsatisfactory” in the preceding
   48         school year under certain circumstances; providing an
   49         effective date.