Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 926
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/03/2017           .                                
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       The Committee on Education (Simmons) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (578028) (with directory
    2  and title amendments)
    3  
    4         Delete line 59
    5  and insert:
    6         (a) Statewide, standardized comprehensive assessments.—The
    7  statewide, standardized Reading assessment shall be administered
    8  annually in grades 3 through 10. The statewide, standardized
    9  Writing assessment shall be administered annually at least once
   10  at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. When the
   11  Reading and Writing assessments are replaced by English Language
   12  Arts (ELA) assessments, ELA assessments shall be administered to
   13  students in grades 3 through 10. Retake opportunities for the
   14  grade 10 Reading assessment or, upon implementation, the grade
   15  10 ELA assessment must be provided. Students taking the ELA
   16  assessments may shall not take the statewide, standardized
   17  assessments in Reading or Writing. ELA assessments shall be
   18  administered online unless the provisions of paragraph (d) are
   19  implemented. The statewide, standardized Mathematics assessments
   20  shall be administered annually in grades 3 through 8, and shall
   21  be administered online unless the provisions of paragraph (d)
   22  are implemented. Students taking a revised Mathematics
   23  assessment may shall not take the discontinued assessment. The
   24  statewide, standardized Science assessment shall be administered
   25  annually at least once at the elementary and middle grades
   26  levels. In order to earn a standard high school diploma, a
   27  student who has not earned a passing score on the grade 10
   28  Reading assessment or, upon implementation, the grade 10 ELA
   29  assessment must earn a passing score on the assessment retake or
   30  earn a concordant score as authorized under subsection (8).
   31         (d) Nonelectronic option.—The commissioner shall make
   32  available an alternative, nonelectronic option for all statewide
   33  assessments, including the statewide, standardized ELA
   34  assessment, including the Writing assessment; the statewide,
   35  standardized Mathematics assessment; the statewide, standardized
   36  Science assessment; and the statewide, standardized EOC
   37  assessments. The nonelectronic option shall be made available to
   38  reduce the time spent on assessments; increase instructional
   39  time for students; and ensure that students demonstrate more
   40  successfully a mastery of the standards being measured, that
   41  students have the time to develop the word processing and
   42  computer skills necessary to take any statewide, standardized
   43  assessment, and that school districts have the capacity at both
   44  the school and district levels to administer the assessments
   45  online.
   46         (f)(e) Assessment scores and achievement levels.—
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   48  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   49  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   50         Delete lines 32 - 36
   51  and insert:
   52         Section 2. Present paragraphs (d) through (g) of subsection
   53  (3) of section 1008.22, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as
   54  paragraphs (e) through (h), respectively, paragraph (a) and
   55  present paragraph (e) of that subsection are amended, and a new
   56  paragraph (d) is added to that subsection, paragraph (b) of
   57  subsection (7) of that section is amended, present paragraphs
   58  (c) through (f) and present paragraph (g) of subsection (7) of
   59  that section are redesignated as paragraphs (e) through (h) and
   60  paragraph (j), respectively, present paragraph (f) of that
   61  section is amended, and new
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   64  And the title is amended as follows:
   65         Delete lines 11 - 13
   66  and insert:
   67         F.S.; providing an exception to the requirement that
   68         ELA assessments be administered online; requiring that
   69         Mathematics assessments be administered online;
   70         providing an exception; revising provisions relating
   71         to achievement levels for certain statewide,
   72         standardized assessments; requiring the commissioner
   73         to make an alternative, nonelectronic assessment
   74         option available for statewide assessments; providing
   75         requirements for administration