Florida Senate - 2009                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for HB 453
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             04/27/2009 06:03 PM       .                                
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       Senators Deutch, Wilson, and Rich moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
    2  
    3         Between lines 242 and 243
    4  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 FCAT and the nationally norm
    9  referenced tests administered by the private school. The
   10  independent research organization must annually report to the
   11  Department of Education on the year-to-year improvements of
   12  participating students. The independent research organization
   13  must analyze and report student performance data in a manner
   14  that protects the rights of students and parents as mandated in
   15  20 U.S.C. s. 1232g, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy
   16  Act, and may must not disaggregate data to a level that will
   17  disclose the academic level of individual students or of
   18  individual schools. To the extent possible, the independent
   19  research organization must accumulate historical performance
   20  data on students from the Department of Education and private
   21  schools to describe baseline performance and to conduct
   22  longitudinal studies. To minimize costs and reduce time required
   23  for third-party analysis and evaluation, the Department of
   24  Education shall conduct analyses of matched students from public
   25  school assessment data and calculate control group learning
   26  gains using an agreed-upon methodology outlined in the contract
   27  with the third-party evaluator. The sharing of student data must
   28  be in accordance with requirements of 20 U.S.C. s. 1232g, the
   29  Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, and shall be for the
   30  sole purpose of conducting the evaluation. All parties must
   31  preserve the confidentiality of such information as required by
   32  law.
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   34  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   35         And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   36         Delete lines 45 - 46
   37  and insert:
   38  paragraphs (a), (b), (j), (l), and (n) of subsection (9) of
   39  section 220.187, Florida Statutes, are amended, paragraph (e) is
   40  added
   41  
   42  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   43         And the title is amended as follows:
   44         Delete line 14
   45  and insert:
   46         against the corporate income tax; revising the
   47         Department of Education’s obligations, to conform to
   48         changes made by the act; imposing an additional