Florida Senate - 2023                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 290
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/14/2023           .                                
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       The Committee on Education Pre-K -12 (Jones) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 41 - 83
    4  and insert:
    5  eligible to receive instruction in early literacy skills
    6  intensive reading interventions before participating in
    7  kindergarten. A student with an individual education plan who
    8  has been retained pursuant to paragraph (2)(g) and has
    9  demonstrated a substantial deficiency in early literacy skills
   10  must receive instruction in early literacy skills. Such
   11  instruction in early literacy skills intensive reading
   12  interventions shall be paid for using funds from the district’s
   13  evidence-based reading instruction allocation in accordance with
   14  s. 1011.62(8).
   15         (6) ELIMINATION OF SOCIAL PROMOTION.—
   16         (b) The district school board may only exempt students from
   17  mandatory retention, as provided in paragraph (5)(c), for good
   18  cause. A student who is promoted to grade 4 with a good cause
   19  exemption shall be provided intensive reading instruction and
   20  intervention that include specialized diagnostic information and
   21  specific reading strategies to meet the needs of each student so
   22  promoted. The school district shall assist schools and teachers
   23  with the implementation of explicit, systematic, and
   24  multisensory reading instruction and intervention strategies for
   25  students promoted with a good cause exemption which research has
   26  shown to be successful in improving reading among students who
   27  have reading difficulties. Good cause exemptions are limited to
   28  the following:
   29         1. Limited English proficient students who have had less
   30  than 2 years of instruction in an English for Speakers of Other
   31  Languages program based on the initial date of entry into a
   32  school in the United States.
   33         2. Students with disabilities whose individual education
   34  plan indicates that participation in the statewide assessment
   35  program is not appropriate, consistent with the requirements of
   36  s. 1008.212.
   37         3. Students who demonstrate an acceptable level of
   38  performance on an alternative standardized reading or English
   39  Language Arts assessment approved by the State Board of
   40  Education.
   41         4. A student who demonstrates through a student portfolio
   42  that he or she is performing at least at Level 2 on the
   43  statewide, standardized English Language Arts assessment.
   44         5. Students with disabilities who take the statewide,
   45  standardized English Language Arts assessment and who have an
   46  individual education plan or a Section 504 plan that reflects
   47  that the student has received intensive instruction in reading
   48  or English Language Arts for more than 2 years but still
   49  demonstrates a deficiency and was previously retained in
   50  prekindergarten, kindergarten,
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   52  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   53  And the title is amended as follows:
   54         Delete lines 7 - 8
   55  and insert:
   56         discretion of a student’s parent; authorizing certain
   57         prekindergarten students to receive instruction in
   58         early literacy skills, rather than intensive reading
   59         interventions; requiring certain prekindergarten
   60         students to receive such instruction;