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Notice: 12905576

Notice of Proposed Rule

Department:

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Division:

State Board of Education

Chapter:

MISCELLANEOUS

Overview

RULE:

6A-10.0315

Demonstration of Readiness for College-Level Communication and Computation

PURPOSE:

The purpose is to amend the current rule by eliminating the restriction on the allowed number of testing attempts for students, revising retest provisions, ensuring student privacy protection of Florida Postsecondary Education Readiness Test (P.E.R.T.) records and scores, and recognizing the public high school transcript as an official record of P.E.R.T. scores. The effect is to accommodate the expanding uses of P.E.R.T. 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 P.E.R.T. scores. It also establishes policy for alternative remediation and retesting, as required in statute.

SUMMARY:

Changes are proposed to: add the acronym, P.E.R.T.; establish the public high school transcript as an official record of P.E.R.T. scores; delete restrictions on the number of times a student can take P.E.R.T.; add language indicating that P.E.R.T. records and test scores are confidential educational records; and require “alternative remediation opportunities” be defined and included in a written Florida College System institution policy.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

1001.02, 1002.221, 1008.30 Florida Statutes.

LAW:

1002.221, 1008.30 Florida Statutes.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

4/23/2013 Vol. 39/79

COMMENTS:

From 4/23/2013 To 5/14/2013 (21 Days)
The public comment period for this notice has already expired.

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

No reference(s).

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