Bill > H7011

Introduced Session

An act relating to student literacy; amending s. 1001.215, F.S.; revising and providing duties for the Just Read, Florida! Office within the Department of Education; amending s. 1001.42, F.S.; revising a district school board's duty to implement a school improvement plan for certain low-performing schools to conform to changes made by the act; amending s. 1002.33, F.S.; conforming a provision to changes made by the act; amending s. 1002.55, F.S.; revising requirements for prekindergarten instructors relating to the completion of emergent literacy training courses; amending s. 1002.59, F.S.; requiring the Office of Early Learning to adopt minimum standards for such courses in collaboration with the Just Read, Florida! Office; requiring such courses to be consistent with certain strategies identified by the Just Read, Florida! Office and reviewed; amending s. 1002.67, F.S.; requiring certain private prekindergarten providers and public schools to participate in a certain coordinated screening and progress monitoring system; amending s. 1002.69, F.S.; prohibiting the use of results from the statewide kindergarten screening in the calculation of readiness rates for a specified program year; requiring that hb7011-03-er ENROLLED , Engrossed 1 2021 Legislature certain prekindergarten providers and public schools participate in the coordinated screening and progress monitoring system; requiring that system results be used for specified purposes; providing that readiness rates calculated for a specified program year are for informational purposes only; prohibiting the use of such rates for the purpose of imposing sanctions or penalties; amending s. 1002.83, F.S.; requiring early learning coalitions to adopt best-practices plans for transitioning prekindergarten students into kindergarten; providing requirements for such plans; requiring the Office of Early Learning to provide certain guidelines to assist early learning coalitions, schools districts, charter schools, and parents; amending s. 1003.57, F.S.; requiring a school district to notify the parents of certain students of certain available scholarship options within a specified timeframe; amending ss. 1002.995 and 1003.621, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 1004.04, F.S.; providing requirements for certain candidates entering a teacher preparation program in a specified school year; revising provisions relating to teacher preparation programs; removing provisions authorizing the waiver of certain admission requirements for such programs; hb7011-03-er ENROLLED , Engrossed 1 2021 Legislature requiring certain school district and instructional personnel to have a certificate or endorsement in reading beginning in a specified school year; amending s. 1004.85, F.S.; providing requirements for certain candidates entering an educator preparation institute in a specified school year; amending s. 1006.28, F.S.; requiring each school district to provide certain training to school librarians and media specialists; amending s. 1008.25, F.S.; requiring certain students to participate in a certain coordinated screening and progress monitoring system; prohibiting a school from waiting until a certain evaluation is completed to provide specified interventions for certain students; requiring that such interventions be initiated upon receipt of certain documentation; requiring a school to immediately begin collecting evidence for portfolios for certain students under specified conditions; requiring schools to communicate with parents at least monthly regarding the progress of certain students; providing requirements for such communication; requiring the department to compile resources that school districts must incorporate into read-at-home plans; providing requirements for such resources; requiring that a parent be provided a hardcopy of such resources upon request; requiring the hb7011-03-er ENROLLED , Engrossed 1 2021 Legislature department, in collaboration with the Office of Early Learning, to procure and require the use of a certain coordinated screening and progress monitoring system; providing requirements for such system; requiring private Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program providers and public schools to participate in such system beginning in a specified school year; providing the frequency with which such system must be administered during the program year or school year, as applicable; providing that certain prekindergarten students may be eligible for certain instruction and interventions; authorizing a school district to pay for such instruction and interventions using certain funds; requiring screening and progress monitoring system results to be reported to the department and maintained in a specified department warehouse; requiring such results to be provided to a student's teacher and parent; requiring the department, in collaboration with the Office of Early Learning, to provide certain training and support; amending s. 1008.345, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; creating s. 1008.365, F.S.; providing a short title; establishing the Reading Achievement Initiative for Scholastic Excellence Program within the department; providing a purpose; requiring the department to hb7011-03-er ENROLLED , Engrossed 1 2021 Legislature establish a specified number of literacy support regions and regional support teams for a certain purpose; requiring a regional literacy support director to meet certain criteria; providing duties and requirements for such teams; authorizing the department to establish criteria for identifying schools that need supports; requiring such schools to implement or amend a certain plan, as applicable; requiring the department to provide progress monitoring data to such teams regarding the implementation of supports; providing requirements for such supports; providing that certain schools are not required to implement a turnaround option or take other corrective actions; authorizing a school to discontinue receiving supports and implementing a school improvement plan under certain circumstances; requiring the department to establish a tutoring program and develop certain training to prepare high school students to tutor certain students; providing eligibility criteria for high school students to participate in the tutoring program; requiring school districts that wish to participate in such program to recruit, train, and deploy eligible high school students; providing requirements for such program; requiring the department to designate certain high hb7011-03-er ENROLLED , Engrossed 1 2021 Legislature school students as New Worlds Scholars; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt rules; amending s. 1011.62, F.S.; renaming the research-based reading instruction allocation as the evidence-based reading instruction allocation; requiring such allocation to be used to provide comprehensive reading instruction to certain prekindergarten students; requiring a school district's K-12 comprehensive reading plan to be developed with input from certain personnel and provide for certain interventions delivered by certain instructional personnel; requiring the department to annually release to certain school districts their allocations of appropriated funds by a specified date; requiring the department to annually report certain findings and recommendations to the State Board of Education by a specified date; providing a definition; amending s. 1011.67, F.S.; authorizing school districts to purchase certain instructional materials with specified funds without undergoing certain adoption procedures; amending s. 1012.56, F.S.; providing requirements for certain candidates entering a competency-based professional development certification program in a specified school year; amending s. 1012.585, F.S.; revising requirements for the renewal of a professional certificate in certain hb7011-03-er ENROLLED , Engrossed 1 2021 Legislature areas; providing a limitation on earning certain inservice points; amending s. 1012.586, F.S.; requiring the department to adopt competency-based pathways for instructional personnel to earn a reading endorsement by the beginning of a specified school year; providing requirements for such pathways; providing requirements for the department in adopting such pathways; requiring school districts to resubmit certain programs to the department for approval by a specified date; prohibiting instructional personnel from earning a reading endorsement solely by achieving a passing score on a specified assessment; amending s. 1012.98, F.S.; requiring the department to identify certain professional development opportunities to be implemented by school districts, with priority given to certain training; amending s. 1012.986, F.S.; revising the goals of the William Cecil Golden Professional Development Program for School Leaders to include support for instructional personnel who provide reading instruction and interventions; providing an effective date.

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Vance Aloupis (R)*,  Erin Grall (R),  Thomas Leek (R),  Stan McClain (R),  Jim Mooney (R),  Michelle Salzman (R),  Kaylee Tuck (R),  Susan L. Valdés (R), 

Other Sponsors (2)

Chapter No. 2021-9 (on 05/06/2021)

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