Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1702
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/16/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Rules (Burgess) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 287 and 288
    4  insert:
    5         Section 8. Section 1012.586, Florida Statutes, is amended
    6  to read:
    7         1012.586 Additions or changes to certificates; duplicate
    8  certificates; reading and mathematics endorsement pathways.—
    9         (1) A school district may process via a Department of
   10  Education website certificates for the following applications of
   11  public school employees:
   12         (a) Addition of a subject coverage or endorsement to a
   13  valid Florida certificate on the basis of the completion of the
   14  appropriate subject area testing requirements of s.
   15  1012.56(5)(a) or the completion of the requirements of an
   16  approved school district program or the inservice components for
   17  an endorsement.
   18         1. To reduce duplication, the department may recommend the
   19  consolidation of endorsement areas and requirements to the State
   20  Board of Education.
   21         2. At least once every 5 years, the department shall
   22  conduct a review of existing subject coverage or endorsement
   23  requirements in the elementary, reading, and exceptional student
   24  educational areas. The review must include reciprocity
   25  requirements for out-of-state certificates and requirements for
   26  demonstrating competency in the reading instruction professional
   27  learning topics listed in s. 1012.98(5)(b)11. The review must
   28  also consider the award of an endorsement to an individual who
   29  holds a certificate issued by an internationally recognized
   30  organization that establishes standards for providing evidence
   31  based interventions to struggling readers or who completes a
   32  postsecondary program that is accredited by such organization.
   33  Any such certificate or program must require an individual who
   34  completes the certificate or program to demonstrate competence
   35  in reading intervention strategies through clinical experience.
   36  At the conclusion of each review, the department shall recommend
   37  to the state board changes to the subject coverage or
   38  endorsement requirements based upon any identified instruction
   39  or intervention strategies proven to improve student reading
   40  performance. This subparagraph does not authorize the state
   41  board to establish any new certification subject coverage.
   42         (b) A reissued certificate to reflect a name change.
   43         (c) A duplicate certificate to replace a lost or damaged
   44  certificate.
   45  
   46  The employing school district shall charge the employee a fee
   47  not to exceed the amount charged by the Department of Education
   48  for such services. Each district school board shall retain a
   49  portion of the fee as defined in the rules of the State Board of
   50  Education. The portion sent to the department shall be used for
   51  maintenance of the technology system, the web application, and
   52  posting and mailing of the certificate.
   53         (2)(a) By the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year, the
   54  department shall adopt one or more statewide, competency-based
   55  pathways by which instructional personnel may earn a reading
   56  endorsement. A pathway adopted by the department must allow a
   57  candidate to complete coursework online and demonstrate mastery
   58  of each endorsement competency either in person or remotely.
   59         (b) As part of adopting a pathway pursuant to paragraph
   60  (a), the department shall review the competencies for the
   61  reading endorsement and subject area examinations for educator
   62  certificates identified pursuant to s. 1012.585(3)(f) for
   63  alignment with evidence-based instructional and intervention
   64  strategies rooted in the science of reading and identified
   65  pursuant to s. 1001.215(7) and recommend changes to the State
   66  Board of Education. Recommended changes must address
   67  identification of the characteristics of conditions such as
   68  dyslexia, implementation of evidence-based classroom instruction
   69  and interventions, including evidence-based reading instruction
   70  and interventions specifically for students with characteristics
   71  of dyslexia, and effective progress monitoring. By July 1, 2023,
   72  each school district reading endorsement add-on program must be
   73  resubmitted for approval by the department consistent with this
   74  paragraph.
   75         (c) Beginning July 1, 2024, instructional personnel may not
   76  earn a reading endorsement solely by achieving a passing score
   77  on the K-12 reading certification subject area assessment.
   78         (3)(a) By the beginning of the 2027-2028 school year, the
   79  department shall adopt one or more statewide, competency-based
   80  pathways by which instructional personnel may earn a mathematics
   81  endorsement. A pathway adopted by the department must allow a
   82  candidate to complete coursework online and demonstrate mastery
   83  of each endorsement competency either in person or remotely.
   84         (b) As part of adopting a pathway pursuant to paragraph
   85  (a), the department shall establish the competencies for the
   86  mathematics endorsement and subject area examinations for
   87  educator certificates identified pursuant to s. 1012.585(3)(f)
   88  for alignment with evidence-based instructional and intervention
   89  strategies and recommend changes to the State Board of
   90  Education. Established competencies for the mathematics
   91  endorsement must include competency to teach numbers and
   92  operations, fractions, algebraic reasoning, measurement,
   93  geometric reasoning, and data analysis and probability at the
   94  elementary or secondary level.
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   96  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   97  And the title is amended as follows:
   98         Delete line 27
   99  and insert:
  100         insurance; amending s. 1012.586, F.S.; requiring the
  101         Department of Education to adopt pathways within a
  102         specified timeframe for instructional personnel to
  103         earn a mathematics endorsement; requiring the
  104         department to establish competencies for the
  105         mathematics endorsement and for educator certificates;
  106         specifying requirements for the mathematics
  107         endorsement; requiring the Commissioner of Education
  108         to