Florida Senate - 2017 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 438
Ì125328/Î125328
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: WD .
02/21/2017 .
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The Committee on Education (Stewart) recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete lines 41 - 56
4 and insert:
5 Section 2. Paragraph (a) of subsection (18) of section
6 1001.42, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
7 1001.42 Powers and duties of district school board.—The
8 district school board, acting as a board, shall exercise all
9 powers and perform all duties listed below:
10 (18) IMPLEMENT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
11 Maintain a system of school improvement and education
12 accountability as provided by statute and State Board of
13 Education rule. This system of school improvement and education
14 accountability shall be consistent with, and implemented
15 through, the district’s continuing system of planning and
16 budgeting required by this section and ss. 1008.385, 1010.01,
17 and 1011.01. This system of school improvement and education
18 accountability shall comply with the provisions of ss. 1008.33,
19 1008.34, 1008.345, and 1008.385 and include the following:
20 (a) School improvement plans.—
21 1. The district school board shall annually approve and
22 require implementation of a new, amended, or continuation school
23 improvement plan for each school in the district. If a school
24 has a significant gap in achievement on statewide, standardized
25 assessments administered pursuant to s. 1008.22 by one or more
26 student subgroups, as defined in the federal Elementary and
27 Secondary Education Act (ESEA), 20 U.S.C. s.
28 6311(b)(2)(C)(v)(II); has not significantly increased the
29 percentage of students passing statewide, standardized
30 assessments; has not significantly increased the percentage of
31 students demonstrating Learning Gains, as defined in s. 1008.34
32 and as calculated under s. 1008.34(3)(b), who passed statewide,
33 standardized assessments; or has significantly lower graduation
34 rates for a subgroup when compared to the state’s graduation
35 rate; or has a significantly higher rate of in-school and out
36 of-school suspensions when compared to the statewide average,
37 that school’s improvement plan shall include strategies for
38 improving these results. The state board shall adopt rules
39 establishing thresholds and for determining compliance with this
40 subparagraph.
41 2. A school that includes any of grades 6, 7, or 8 shall
42 include annually in its school improvement plan information and
43 data on the school’s early warning system required under
44 paragraph (b), including a list of the early warning indicators
45 used in the system, the number of students identified by the
46 system as exhibiting two or more early warning indicators, the
47 number of students by grade level that exhibit each early
48 warning indicator, and a description of all intervention
49 strategies employed by the school to improve the academic
50 performance of students identified by the early warning system.
51 In addition, a school that includes any of grades 6, 7, or 8
52 shall describe in its school improvement plan the strategies
53 used by the school to implement the instructional practices for
54 middle grades emphasized by the district’s professional
55 development system pursuant to s. 1012.98(4)(b)9.
56 Section 3. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section
57 1006.07, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
58 1006.07 District school board duties relating to student
59 discipline and school safety.—The district school board shall
60 provide for the proper accounting for all students, for the
61 attendance and control of students at school, and for proper
62 attention to health, safety, and other matters relating to the
63 welfare of students, including:
64 (1) CONTROL OF STUDENTS.—
65 (a) Adopt rules for the control, discipline, in-school
66 suspension, suspension, and expulsion of students and decide all
67 cases recommended for expulsion. Once every 3 years, the
68 district school board shall review its rules authorizing out-of
69 school suspension as a form of discipline during a district
70 school board meeting held pursuant to s. 1001.372. The review
71 must include available school district resources for
72 implementing student systems of support contained in a school
73 improvement plan adopted pursuant to s. 1001.42(18)(a) and
74 school district data regarding the disability
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77 And the title is amended as follows:
78 Between lines 5 and 6
79 insert:
80 amending s. 1001.42, F.S.; requiring certain district
81 school board’s school improvement plans to include
82 strategies for improving rates of in-school and out
83 of-school suspension in its district;