Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1402
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/17/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Education Pre-K - 12 (Yarborough) recommended
       the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (7) of section
    6  1002.45, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         1002.45 Virtual instruction programs.—
    8         (7) ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY.—
    9         (a) Each approved virtual instruction program provider
   10  contracted pursuant to this section must:
   11         1. Participate in the statewide assessment program under s.
   12  1008.22 and in the state’s education performance accountability
   13  system under s. 1008.31.
   14         2. Receive a school grade under s. 1008.34 or a school
   15  improvement rating under s. 1008.341, as applicable, for each
   16  district with which it contracts, based on the assessment scores
   17  of all students served within the school district. The school
   18  improvement rating received by each approved virtual instruction
   19  program provider shall be based upon the aggregated assessment
   20  scores of all students served by the provider statewide. Each
   21  approved virtual instruction program provider shall receive a
   22  district grade pursuant to s. 1008.34 based upon the aggregated
   23  assessment scores of all students served by the provider
   24  statewide and a separate school grade or school improvement
   25  rating for each school district with which it contracts based
   26  upon the assessment scores of all students served within the
   27  school district. A virtual instruction program provider
   28  operating exclusively as a dropout retrieval program as
   29  described in s. 1003.53(7) is exempt from the district grade
   30  requirement of this paragraph. The department shall publish the
   31  school grade or school improvement rating received by each
   32  approved virtual instruction program provider on its Internet
   33  website. The department shall develop an evaluation method for
   34  providers of part-time programs which includes the percentage of
   35  students making learning gains, the percentage of students
   36  successfully passing any required end-of-course assessment, the
   37  percentage of students taking Advanced Placement examinations,
   38  and the percentage of students scoring 3 or higher on an
   39  Advanced Placement examination.
   40         Section 2. Present subsection (7) of section 1003.53,
   41  Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (8), and a new
   42  subsection (7) is added to that section, to read:
   43         1003.53 Dropout prevention and academic intervention.—
   44         (7) Dropout retrieval programs serve students who have
   45  officially withdrawn from high school before graduation and who
   46  are not engaged in the education system at the time of
   47  enrollment in the program.
   48         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
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   50  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   51  And the title is amended as follows:
   52         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   53  and insert:
   54                        A bill to be entitled                      
   55         An act relating to students enrolled in dropout
   56         retrieval programs; amending s. 1002.45, F.S.;
   57         revising assessment and accountability requirements
   58         for a virtual instruction program provider; providing
   59         that a virtual instruction program provider operating
   60         exclusively as a dropout retrieval program is exempt
   61         from specified requirements; amending s. 1003.53,
   62         F.S.; providing that dropout retrieval programs serve
   63         a specified group of students; providing an effective
   64         date.