The Department is revising requirements of the District K-12 Comprehensive Evidence-Based Reading Plan based on changes included in House Bills 7039 and 5101. Revised requirements include: additional screening, required ....

 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

State Board of Education

RULE NO.:RULE TITLE:

6A-6.053District K-12 Comprehensive Evidence-Based Reading Plan

PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The Department is revising requirements of the District K-12 Comprehensive Evidence-Based Reading Plan based on changes included in House Bills 7039 and 5101. Revised requirements include: additional screening, required parent notification, and definition of dyslexia-specific interventions for students who show characteristics of dyslexia; notification to parents of eligible students for New Worlds Scholarship Accounts; prioritization of highly effective teachers in K-2 classrooms; assignment of literacy coaches; ensuring reading instruction and professional learning are grounded in the science of reading; prohibition of three-cueing in the teaching of word reading; and inclusion of all district schools; include charter schools, unless a charter school elects to submit a plan to the sponsoring LEA independently from the school district that complies with all of the plan requirements.

SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Reading.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: 1001.02(1), (2)(n), 1008.25(10), 1011.62(8), F.S.

LAW IMPLEMENTED: 1001.215, 1003.4201, 1008.25, 1011.62, F.S.

A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE SHOWN BELOW:

DATE AND TIME: September 12, 2023, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., ET or upon conclusion of business, whichever is earlier

PLACE: Microsoft Teams Meeting: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MWNmNzQ2ZmQtZjM0Yi00ZWFlLWEzNjgtMDY2MzAzZGIxOTM2%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2263bf107b-cb6f-4173-8c1c-1406bb5cb794%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22741a8977-4f06-4eb9-8857-0f59c1a1910d%22%7d

THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Melinda Webster, Executive Director of Just Read, Florida! – [e-mail] or [phone]. To comment on this rule development workshop, please go to https://web02.fldoe.org/rules or contact: Chris Emerson, Director, Office of Executive Management, [phone] or email [e-mail].

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE.