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The Florida Senate
                                HOUSE MESSAGE SUMMARY
                 Prepared By: The Professional Staff of the Committee on Education Pre-K -12
                                                                                      [2024s07004.hms.ed]
BILL:                  CS/SB 7004
INTRODUCER:            Fiscal Policy Committee; Education Pre-K -12 Committee; and Senators Simon
                       and Osgood
SUBJECT:               Deregulation of Public Schools/Assessment and Accountability, Instruction, and
                       Education Choice
DATE:                  February 29, 2024
 I.Amendments Contained in Message:
        House Amendment – 471783 (body with title)
II.Summary of Amendments Contained in Message:
        House Amendment – 471783 removes from the Senate bill the provisions that:
         Change the assessment requirements for high school graduation.
         Extend the timeline from 2 to 4 years for district-managed turnaround plans under school
          improvement.
         Specify that the value-added model (VAM) may not be used a sole determinate for bonus
          funding and teacher recruitment for schools that are in turnaround.
         Use the initial and mid-year progress monitoring assessment scores to meet the grade three
          retention requirement.
         Change the district calculation of capacity for controlled open enrollment.
         Require the Department of Education (DOE) to adopt a timeline to disburse federal school
          improvement funds.
         Remove the requirement for school districts to offer summer voluntary prekindergarten
          (VPK).
         Remove early learning coalition (ELC) oversight of district VPK programs.
         Authorize school districts to use other VPK attendance methods.
         Modify the timing in adoption cycles relating to school district instructional materials
          purchasing.
         Remove the uniform K-12 assessment calendar.
         Modify the timing for seeking an extraordinary exemption from assessments for exceptional
          student education students.
        The amendment modifies provisions in the Senate bill that:
         Require the DOE to publish an initial list of state-adopted instructional materials, but makes
           changes to the required dates.
         Authorize a school district to meet turnaround options in law by implementing a community
           partnership school, but changes the timeline requirements to specify that the State Board of
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          Education (SBE) may provide additional time to a school in school turnaround, if the school
          has received a community school grant.
         Allow a student to take the GED at age 16 or 17, but requires the student to file a formal
          declaration of intent to terminate school enrollment.
         Authorize a school district to satisfy the requirement to offer a summer VPK program by
          contracting with a private VPK provider, rather than removing the requirement for a district
          to offer such program.
         Remove additional requirements in the Department of Juvenile Justice education
          accountability programs.
      The amendment adds to the Senate bill provisions that:
       Delete SBE responsibility for establishing the tuition and out-of-state fees for developmental
         education and college-credit instruction.
       Delete the requirement for the SBE to establish performance metrics for the Florida College
         System (FCS).
       Require the DOE to review each ELC’s school readiness program every 3 years instead of 2.
       Require each ELC to submit a school readiness program every 3 years instead of 2.
       Delete the requirement that automotive service technology education programs be accredited.
       Delete outdated language related to the authorization for St. Petersburg College to establish
         one or more bachelor’s degrees.
       Delete outdated language related to the annual evaluation of the executive director of the
         FCS.
       Authorize, rather than require, school districts to offer virtual school options, and remove the
         requirement that approved virtual instruction providers are non-sectarian.
Statutes affected: 
S 7004 pb: 1002.31, 1002.311, 1002.34, 1002.53, 1002.63, 1003.433, 1003.435, 1003.455, 1003.4935, 1003.49965, 1003.621, 1006.283, 1006.33, 1006.34, 1006.40, 1008.212, 1008.332, 1000.05
S 7004 Filed: 1002.31, 1002.311, 1002.34, 1002.53, 1002.63, 1003.433, 1003.435, 1003.455, 1003.4935, 1003.49965, 1003.621, 1006.283, 1006.33, 1006.34, 1006.40, 1008.212, 1008.332, 1000.05
S 7004 c1: 1002.31, 1002.311, 1002.34, 1002.53, 1002.63, 1003.433, 1003.435, 1003.4935, 1003.49965, 1003.621, 1006.283, 1006.33, 1006.34, 1006.40, 1008.212, 1008.332, 1000.05
S 7004 e1: 1002.31, 1002.311, 1002.34, 1002.53, 1002.63, 1003.433, 1003.435, 1003.4935, 1003.49965, 1003.621, 1006.283, 1006.33, 1006.34, 1006.40, 1008.212, 1008.332, 1000.05
S 7004 e2: 1001.02, 1001.03, 1002.311, 1002.34, 1002.61, 1002.82, 1002.85, 1003.435, 1003.4935, 1003.49965, 1003.621, 1006.283, 1006.33, 1007.33, 1008.31, 1008.33, 1008.332, 1008.34, 1008.45, 1000.05, 1002.31, 1002.321, 1008.37, 1013.841
S 7004 er: 1001.02, 1001.03, 1002.311, 1002.34, 1002.61, 1002.82, 1002.85, 1003.435, 1003.4935, 1003.49965, 1003.621, 1006.283, 1006.33, 1007.33, 1008.31, 1008.33, 1008.332, 1008.34, 1008.45, 1000.05, 1002.31, 1002.321, 1008.37, 1013.841