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 Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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    3         Delete line 59
    4  and insert:
    5         (a) Statewide, standardized comprehensive assessments.—The
    6  statewide, standardized Reading assessment shall be administered
    7  annually in grades 3 through 10. The statewide, standardized
    8  Writing assessment shall be administered annually at least once
    9  at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. When the
   10  Reading and Writing assessments are replaced by English Language
   11  Arts (ELA) assessments, ELA assessments shall be administered to
   12  students in grades 3 through 10. Retake opportunities for the
   13  grade 10 Reading assessment or, upon implementation, the grade
   14  10 ELA assessment must be provided. Students taking the ELA
   15  assessments may shall not take the statewide, standardized
   16  assessments in Reading or Writing. ELA assessments shall be
   17  administered online unless the provisions of paragraph (d) are
   18  implemented. The statewide, standardized Mathematics assessments
   19  shall be administered annually in grades 3 through 8, and shall
   20  be administered online unless the provisions of paragraph (d)
   21  are implemented. Students taking a revised Mathematics
   22  assessment may shall not take the discontinued assessment. The
   23  statewide, standardized Science assessment shall be administered
   24  annually at least once at the elementary and middle grades
   25  levels. In order to earn a standard high school diploma, a
   26  student who has not earned a passing score on the grade 10
   27  Reading assessment or, upon implementation, the grade 10 ELA
   28  assessment must earn a passing score on the assessment retake or
   29  earn a concordant score as authorized under subsection (8).
   30         (d) Nonelectronic option.—The commissioner shall make
   31  available an alternative, nonelectronic option for all statewide
   32  assessments, including the statewide, standardized ELA
   33  assessment, including the Writing assessment; the statewide,
   34  standardized Mathematics assessment; the statewide, standardized
   35  Science assessment; and the Algebra I and Biology I EOC
   36  assessments. The nonelectronic option shall be made available to
   37  reduce the time spent on assessments; increase instructional
   38  time for students; and ensure that students demonstrate more
   39  successfully a mastery of the standards being measured, that
   40  students have the time to develop the word processing and
   41  computer skills necessary to take any statewide, standardized
   42  assessment, and that school districts have the capacity at both
   43  the school and district levels to administer the assessments
   44  online.
   45         (f)(e) Assessment scores and achievement levels.—
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   47  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   48  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   49         Delete lines 32 - 36
   50  and insert:
   51         Section 2. Present paragraphs (d) through (g) of subsection
   52  (3) of section 1008.22, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as
   53  paragraphs (e) through (h), respectively, paragraph (a) and
   54  present paragraph (e) of that subsection are amended, and a new
   55  paragraph (d) is added to that subsection, paragraph (b) of
   56  subsection (7) of that section is amended, present paragraphs
   57  (c) through (f) and present paragraph (g) of subsection (7) of
   58  that section are redesignated as paragraphs (e) through (h) and
   59  paragraph (j), respectively, present paragraph (f) of that
   60  section is amended, and new
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   62  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   63  And the title is amended as follows:
   64         Delete lines 11 - 13
   65  and insert:
   66         F.S.; providing an exception to the requirement that
   67         ELA assessments be administered online; requiring that
   68         Mathematics assessments be administered online;
   69         providing an exception; revising provisions relating
   70         to achievement levels for certain statewide,
   71         standardized assessments; requiring the commissioner
   72         to make an alternative, nonelectronic assessment
   73         option available for statewide assessments; providing
   74         requirements for administration