Florida Senate - 2024 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 1026
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
02/09/2024 .
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The Appropriations Committee on Education (Grall) recommended
the following:
1 Senate Amendment to Amendment (389728) (with title
2 amendment)
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4 Delete lines 73 - 82
5 and insert:
6 1002.68, Florida Statutes, is amended, and paragraph (c) of
7 subsection (4) of that section is republished, to read:
8 1002.68 Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program
9 accountability.—
10 (4)
11 (c) The program assessment composite score and performance
12 metric must be calculated for each private prekindergarten or
13 public school site.
14 (6)
15 (d) A good cause exemption may not be granted to any
16 private prekindergarten provider or public school that has any
17 class I violations or three two or more of the same class II
18 violations, as defined by rule of the Department of Children and
19 Families, within the 2 years preceding the provider’s or
20 school’s request for the exemption.
21 Section 5. Upon the expiration and reversion of the
22 amendments made to section 1002.68, Florida Statutes, pursuant
23 to section 6 of chapter 2023-240, Laws of Florida, paragraphs
24 (a) and (f) of subsection (4) of section 1002.68, Florida
25 Statutes, are amended, and subsection (5) and paragraph (e) of
26 subsection (6) of that section are republished, to read:
27 1002.68 Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program
28 accountability.—
29 (4)(a) Beginning with the 2023-2024 2022-2023 program year,
30 the department shall adopt a methodology for calculating each
31 private prekindergarten provider’s and public school provider’s
32 performance metric, which must be based on a combination of the
33 following:
34 1. Program assessment composite scores under subsection
35 (2), which must be weighted at no less than 50 percent.
36 2. Learning gains operationalized as change-in-ability
37 scores from the initial and final progress monitoring results
38 described in subsection (1).
39 3. Norm-referenced developmental learning outcomes
40 described in subsection (1).
41 (f) The department shall adopt procedures to annually
42 calculate each private prekindergarten provider’s and public
43 school’s performance metric, based on the methodology adopted in
44 paragraphs (a) and (b), and assign a designation under paragraph
45 (d). Beginning with the 2024-2025 2023-2024 program year, each
46 private prekindergarten provider or public school shall be
47 assigned a designation within 45 days after the conclusion of
48 the school-year Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program
49 delivered by all participating private prekindergarten providers
50 or public schools and within 45 days after the conclusion of the
51 summer Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program delivered by
52 all participating private prekindergarten providers or public
53 schools.
54 (5)(a) If a public school’s or private prekindergarten
55 provider’s program assessment composite score for its
56 prekindergarten classrooms fails to meet the minimum program
57 assessment composite score for contracting adopted in rule by
58 the department, the private prekindergarten provider or public
59 school may not participate in the Voluntary Prekindergarten
60 Education Program beginning in the consecutive program year and
61 thereafter until the public school or private prekindergarten
62 provider meets the minimum composite score for contracting. A
63 public school or private prekindergarten provider may request
64 one program assessment per program year in order to requalify
65 for participation in the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education
66 Program, provided that the public school or private
67 prekindergarten provider is not excluded from participation
68 under ss. 1002.55(6), 1002.61(10)(b), 1002.63(9)(b), or
69 paragraph (5)(b) of this section. If a public school or private
70 prekindergarten provider would like an additional program
71 assessment completed within the same program year, the public
72 school or private prekindergarten provider shall be responsible
73 for the cost of the program assessment.
74 (b) If a private prekindergarten provider’s or public
75 school’s performance metric or designation falls below the
76 minimum performance metric or designation, the early learning
77 coalition shall:
78 1. Require the provider or school to submit for approval to
79 the early learning coalition an improvement plan and implement
80 the plan.
81 2. Place the provider or school on probation.
82 3. Require the provider or school to take certain
83 corrective actions, including the use of a curriculum approved
84 by the department under s. 1002.67(2)(c) and a staff development
85 plan approved by the department to strengthen instructional
86 practices in emotional support, classroom organization,
87 instructional support, language development, phonological
88 awareness, alphabet knowledge, and mathematical thinking.
89 (c) A private prekindergarten provider or public school
90 that is placed on probation must continue the corrective actions
91 required under paragraph (b) until the provider or school meets
92 the minimum performance metric or designation adopted by the
93 department. Failure to meet the requirements of subparagraphs
94 (b)1. and 3. shall result in the termination of the provider’s
95 or school’s contract to deliver the Voluntary Prekindergarten
96 Education Program for a period of at least 2 years but no more
97 than 5 years.
98 (d) If a private prekindergarten provider or public school
99 remains on probation for 2 consecutive years and fails to meet
100 the minimum performance metric or designation, or is not granted
101 a good cause exemption by the department, the department shall
102 require the early learning coalition to revoke the provider’s
103 eligibility and the school district to revoke the school’s
104 eligibility to deliver the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education
105 Program and receive state funds for the program for a period of
106 at least 2 years but no more than 5 years.
107 (6)
108 (e) A private prekindergarten provider or public school
109 granted a good cause exemption shall continue to implement its
110 improvement plan and continue the corrective actions required
111 under paragraph (5)(b) until the provider or school meets the
112 minimum performance metric.
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115 And the title is amended as follows:
116 Delete line 320
117 and insert:
118 exemption may not be granted; revising requirements
119 with respect to performance metric methodology and the
120 assignment of designations under the Voluntary
121 Prekindergarten Education Program; republishing
122 reverted provisions of law pursuant to chapter 2023
123 240, Laws of Florida; amending s. 1002.71,