Florida Senate - 2017 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 438 Ì125328/Î125328 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Education (Stewart) recommended the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 2 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;orhas 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 75 76 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 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;