The purpose of the rule development is to eliminate the restriction on the allowed number of testing attempts for public high school students, by ensuring student privacy protection of their educational records under federal and state laws, and by recognizing the public high school transcript as an official transcript for college applications. The effect is to accommodate the expanding uses of PERT at the public high school level for demonstrating college readiness, for meeting initial eligibility for Dual Enrollment status, and for initial qualifying for Florida Gold Seal Vocational Scholarships; to ensure the protection of public student privacy rights; and to allow public high school transcripts to serve as official documents for submitting test scores to colleges and universities.