Florida Senate - 2013                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/CS/HB 7009, 2nd Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             04/30/2013 03:31 PM       .      05/02/2013 11:23 AM       
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       Senator Flores moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 1068 and 1069
    4  insert:
    5         Section 4. Subsection (6) is added to section 1012.2315,
    6  Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         1012.2315 Assignment of teachers.—
    8         (6) ASSIGNMENT OF TEACHERS BASED UPON PERFORMANCE
    9  EVALUATIONS.—
   10         (a) If a high school or middle school student is currently
   11  taught by a classroom teacher who, during that school year,
   12  receives a performance evaluation rating of “needs improvement”
   13  or “unsatisfactory” under s. 1012.34, the student may not be
   14  assigned the following school year to a classroom teacher in the
   15  same subject area who received a performance evaluation rating
   16  of “needs improvement” or “unsatisfactory” in the preceding
   17  school year.
   18         (b) If an elementary school student is currently taught by
   19  a classroom teacher who, during that school year, receives a
   20  performance evaluation rating of “needs improvement” or
   21  “unsatisfactory” under s. 1012.34, the student may not be
   22  assigned the following school year to a classroom teacher who
   23  received a performance evaluation rating of “needs improvement”
   24  or “unsatisfactory” in the preceding school year.
   25         (c) For a student enrolling in an extracurricular course as
   26  defined in s. 1003.01(15), a parent may choose to have the
   27  student taught by a teacher who received a performance
   28  evaluation of “needs improvement” or “unsatisfactory” in the
   29  preceding school year if the student and the student’s parent
   30  receive an explanation of the impact of teacher effectiveness on
   31  student learning and the principal receives written consent from
   32  the parent.
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   34  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   35         And the title is amended as follows:
   36         Delete line 60
   37  and insert:
   38         as a high-performing charter school system; amending
   39         s. 1012.2315, F.S.; providing that a student may not
   40         be assigned to an unsatisfactory teacher, particularly
   41         in a single subject if the student is in high school
   42         or middle school, for two consecutive school years;
   43         allowing a parent to choose for his or her child to be
   44         taught by a particular teacher in an extracurricular
   45         course under certain circumstances; requiring