Florida Senate - 2025 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 1402
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
03/17/2025 .
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The Committee on Education Pre-K - 12 (Yarborough) recommended
the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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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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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.