Florida Senate - 2024                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for HB 537
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             03/06/2024 09:41 AM       .      03/07/2024 05:58 PM       
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       Senator Burgess moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (766044) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    5  and insert:
    6         Section 1. Section 1003.482, Florida Statutes, is created
    7  to read:
    8         1003.482 mSCALES Pilot Program.—
    9         (1)(a) The Music-based Supplemental Content to Accelerate
   10  Learner Engagement and Success (mSCALES) Pilot Program is
   11  created within the Department of Education. The purpose of the
   12  pilot program is to assist districts in adopting music-based
   13  supplemental materials that support STEM courses for middle
   14  school students.
   15         (b) The music-based supplemental materials must be used by
   16  teachers who are certified to teach mathematics pursuant to s.
   17  1012.55(1)(c). The supplemental materials must be used at a
   18  minimum twice per week to supplement mathematics instruction.
   19         (c) Classes that use the supplemental materials are subject
   20  to the class size requirements of s. 1003.03.
   21         (d) The school districts in Alachua, Marion, and Miami-Dade
   22  Counties are eligible to participate in the pilot program.
   23  District school superintendents may contact the Department of
   24  Education, in a format prescribed by the department, for their
   25  district to participate in the pilot program. Subject to
   26  legislative appropriation, the department may approve a school
   27  district to participate in the pilot program if sufficient
   28  funding is available.
   29         (e) Participating school districts shall receive $6 per
   30  student. Eligible middle schools must be in the same attendance
   31  zone as an elementary school that participated in the Early
   32  Childhood Music Education Incentive Program.
   33         (f) To maintain eligibility for the pilot program, a
   34  participating school district must annually certify to the
   35  department, in a format prescribed by the department, that each
   36  participating middle school within the district meets the
   37  requirements of paragraphs (b) and (c).
   38         (2)(a) The College of Education at the University of
   39  Florida shall continuously evaluate the program’s effectiveness.
   40  The College of Education must annually share the findings of its
   41  evaluations with the department and the Legislature.
   42         (b) The College of Education at the University of Florida
   43  shall prepare a comprehensive final report of the program’s
   44  overall effectiveness. The report must be presented, no later
   45  than October 1, 2026, to the department, the Legislature, and
   46  the Florida Center for Partnerships in Arts-Integrated Teaching.
   47         (3) This section expires June 30, 2026.
   48         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.
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   50  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   51  And the title is amended as follows:
   52         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   53  and insert:
   54                        A bill to be entitled                      
   55         An act relating to student achievement; creating s.
   56         1003.482, F.S.; creating the Music-based Supplemental
   57         Content to Accelerate Learner Engagement and Success
   58         (mSCALES) Pilot Program within the Department of
   59         Education; providing the purpose of the pilot program;
   60         providing requirements for the pilot program;
   61         providing eligibility; authorizing district school
   62         superintendents to contact the department for their
   63         district to participate in the pilot program;
   64         providing funding requirements, subject to legislative
   65         appropriation; requiring participating school
   66         districts to maintain eligibility; requiring the
   67         College of Education at the University of Florida to
   68         evaluate the pilot program’s effectiveness and
   69         annually share its findings with the department and
   70         the Legislature; requiring the college to submit a
   71         final report to specified entities by a specified
   72         date; providing for expiration of the pilot program;
   73         providing an effective date.