| 1 | Representative(s) Pickens offered the following: | 
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| 3 | Amendment to Amendment (092171) | 
| 4 | Remove line(s) 884-896 and insert: | 
| 5 | (j)  Select an independent research organization, which may | 
| 6 | be a public or private entity or university, to which | 
| 7 | participating private schools must report the scores of | 
| 8 | participating students on the nationally norm-referenced tests | 
| 9 | administered by the private school. The independent research | 
| 10 | organization must annually report to the Department of Education | 
| 11 | on the year-to-year improvements of participating students. The | 
| 12 | independent research organization must analyze and report | 
| 13 | student performance data in a manner that protects the rights of | 
| 14 | students and parents as mandated in 20 U.S.C. s. 1232g, the | 
| 15 | Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, and must not | 
| 16 | disaggregate data to a level that will disclose the academic | 
| 17 | level of individual students or of individual schools. To the | 
| 18 | extent possible, the independent research |