Florida Senate - 2024                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1026
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
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                  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)
    3  
    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.
  113  
  114  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
  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,