To specify exclusionary and inclusionary criteria of a student who is eligible to participate in the administration of the Statewide Standardized Alternate Assessment. The proposed change will establish a definition for ....

 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

State Board of Education

RULE NO.:RULE TITLE:

6A-1.0943Statewide Assessment for Students with Disabilities

PURPOSE AND EFFECT: To specify exclusionary and inclusionary criteria of a student who is eligible to participate in the administration of the Statewide Standardized Alternate Assessment. The proposed change will establish a definition for most significant cognitive disability.

SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Assessment eligibility for students with disabilities.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: 1001.02(1), (2)(n), 1003.01, 1003.57, 1003.571, 1008.212, 1008.22(3), (10), (12), F.S.

LAW IMPLEMENTED: 1003.01, 1003.571, 1008.212, 1008.22, F.S.

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

DATE AND TIME: April 20, 2021, 2:00 p.m. EDT.

PLACE: Join via telephone [phone] code 1720825 and Adobe room at http://tlc-flmtss.adobeconnect.com/auditorium.

THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Victoria Gaitanis, Chief, Bureau of Exceptional Student Education, 325 West Gaines Street, Tallahassee, FL 32399-0400, [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, Department of Education, [phone] or email [e-mail].

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