Florida Senate - 2014                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1702
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Legg moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 1789 and 1790
    4  insert:
    5         Section 30. The Office of Early Learning shall conduct a 2
    6  year pilot project to study the impact of assessing the early
    7  literacy skills of Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program
    8  participants who are English Language Learners, in both English
    9  and Spanish. The assessments must include, at a minimum, the
   10  first administration of the Florida Assessments for Instruction
   11  in Reading in kindergarten and an appropriate alternative
   12  assessment in Spanish. The study must include a review of the
   13  kindergarten screening results for 2009-2010 and 2010-2011
   14  program participants and their subsequent Florida Comprehensive
   15  Assessment Test scores. The office shall annually report its
   16  findings to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the
   17  Speaker of the House of Representatives by July 1, 2015, and
   18  July 1, 2016.
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   20  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   21  And the title is amended as follows:
   22         Delete line 78
   23  and insert:
   24         an early learning coalition; requiring the Office of
   25         Early Learning to conduct a pilot project to study the
   26         impact of assessing the early literacy skills of
   27         certain VPK program participants; requiring the office
   28         to report its findings to the Governor and Legislature
   29         by specified dates; providing an