Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (114168) for SB 468
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Stargel) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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    3         Delete lines 41 - 96
    4  and insert:
    5         (3) Train prekindergarten through grade 5 K-12 teachers and
    6  reading coaches school principals on effective research-based
    7  content-area-specific reading strategies and intervention
    8  strategies for all students, the integration of content-rich
    9  texts from other core subject areas into reading instruction,
   10  evidence-based reading strategies identified in subsection (7),
   11  and technology tools to improve student reading performance.
   12  Contingent upon legislative appropriation, this training must be
   13  designed to be consistently delivered statewide in an
   14  appropriate format. The office shall collaborate with the Office
   15  of Early Learning and the Florida Center for Reading Research to
   16  develop the training. For secondary teachers, emphasis shall be
   17  on technical text. These strategies must be developed for all
   18  content areas in the grade 4-12 K-12 curriculum.
   19         (7) Work with the Florida Center for Reading Research to
   20  identify evidence-based reading instructional and intervention
   21  programs that incorporate explicit, systematic, and sequential
   22  approaches to teaching phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary,
   23  fluency, and text comprehension and incorporate decodable or
   24  phonetic text instructional to provide information on research
   25  based reading programs and effective reading in the content area
   26  strategies.
   27         (8) Work with the Florida Center for Reading Research to
   28  develop and provide access to sequenced curriculum programming,
   29  instructional practices, and resources that help elementary
   30  schools use state-adopted instructional materials and content
   31  rich texts to increase students’ background knowledge and
   32  literacy skills consistent with the state academic standards.
   33         (9)(8) Periodically review the Next Generation Sunshine
   34  State Standards for reading at all grade levels.
   35         (10)(9) Periodically review teacher certification
   36  examinations, including alternative certification exams, to
   37  ascertain whether the examinations measure the skills needed for
   38  research-based reading instruction and instructional strategies
   39  for teaching reading in the content areas.
   40         Section 2. Subsection (8) is added to section 1002.51,
   41  Florida Statutes, to read:
   42         1002.51 Definitions.—As used in this part, the term:
   43         (8) “Public school prekindergarten provider” includes a
   44  charter school that is
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   46  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   47  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   48         Delete lines 35 - 36
   49  and insert:
   50         Section 1. Present subsections (8) through (11) of section
   51  1001.215, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (9)
   52  through (12), respectively, subsections (3) and (7) and present
   53  subsections (8) and (9) of that section are amended, and a new
   54  subsection (8) is added to that section, to read:
   55  
   56  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   57  And the title is amended as follows:
   58         Delete line 6
   59  and insert:
   60         through grade 5 with specified training; requiring the