Florida Senate - 2015                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1552
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Hays moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 1265 and 1266
    4  insert:
    5         Section 8. Present subsections (10) and (11) of section
    6  1008.22, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (11)
    7  and (12), respectively, and a new subsection (10) is added to
    8  that section, to read:
    9         1008.22 Student assessment program for public schools.—
   10         (10) ALTERNATIVE STANDARDS.—Notwithstanding any other
   11  provision of law, a district school board may elect to use the
   12  Florida Sunshine State Standards that were effective in 2010 as
   13  the standards for the schools in its district.
   14         (a)1. The school district shall choose a nationally norm
   15  referenced assessment in use before 2010 from the list required
   16  under s. 1002.395(9)(i) which is designed to measure student
   17  progress for use with the 2010 Florida Sunshine State Standards
   18  to determine school and district grades. This assessment may be
   19  administered in hard copy if the district school board so
   20  chooses.
   21         2. A school district that elects to use the 2010 standards
   22  under this subsection shall use the nationally norm-referenced
   23  assessment tool identified in subparagraph 1. to evaluate
   24  teacher effectiveness. Student progress measurement tools may
   25  not make up more than 15 percent of the teacher effectiveness
   26  score.
   27         (b) A school district may not be penalized in any way for
   28  electing to use the 2010 Florida Sunshine State Standards or a
   29  nationally norm-referenced assessment under this subsection.
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   32  And the title is amended as follows:
   33         Delete line 97
   34  and insert:
   35         Education; amending s. 1008.22, F.S.; authorizing a
   36         district school board to use certain standards for
   37         schools within its district; requiring the school
   38         district to identify certain assessment tools;
   39         requiring a school district to use such assessment
   40         tools to evaluate teacher effectiveness; prohibiting a
   41         school district from being penalized for using such
   42         standards or assessment tools; creating s. 1011.6202,
   43         F.S.; creating the