To revise the uniform assessment calendar template that is incorporated in this Rule in response to changes made during the 2022 Legislative session. The amendment will add “progress monitoring” to the list of terms defined ....

 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

State Board of Education

RULE NO.:RULE TITLE:

6A-1.094224Uniform Assessment Calendar

PURPOSE AND EFFECT: To revise the uniform assessment calendar template that is incorporated in this Rule in response to changes made during the 2022 Legislative session. The amendment will add “progress monitoring” to the list of terms defined in the template, in accordance with s. 1008.22(7)(i), Florida Statutes (F.S.), as amended during the 2022 Legislative session. The amendment will also revise the total testing time table included in the template to allow districts to provide to the Department, by grade level, the range and median number of minutes per school year, including as a percentage of net instructional time, students in prekindergarten through grade 5 spend on district-required assessments and coordinated screening and progress monitoring and state-required assessments and coordinated screening and progress monitoring, to allow the Department to collect the information required by Senate Bill 2524 (2022).

SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Uniform Assessment Calendar.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: 1001.02(1), (2)(n), 1002.23(5), 1008.22(7)(i), (13), F.S.

LAW IMPLEMENTED: 1002.23(5), 1008.22(7), F.S.

IF REQUESTED IN WRITING AND NOT DEEMED UNNECESSARY BY THE AGENCY HEAD, A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE NOTICED IN THE NEXT AVAILABLE FLORIDA ADMINISTRATIVE REGISTER.

THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Vince Verges, Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Division of Accountability, Research, and Measurement, Office of Assessment, 325 W. Gaines Street, Suite 414, Tallahassee, FL 32399, [phone]. To comment on this rule development or to request a rule development workshop, please go to https://web02.fldoe.org/rules or contact: Chris Emerson, Director, Office of Executive Management, Department of Education, [phone] or email [e-mail].

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS: Available at https://web02.fldoe.org/rules.