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Notice: 23947959

Notice of Proposed Rule

Department:

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Division:

State Board of Education

Chapter:

SPECIAL PROGRAMS I

Overview

RULE:

6A-6.05282

College Reach-Out Program

PURPOSE:

To clarify and update the academic and economic criteria sections which include specific criteria that participating postsecondary educational institutions use to determine the eligibility of a middle or high school student to participate in the College Reach-Out Program. In the academic criteria section, the academic year that a student’s cumulative grade point average is below 2.5 will be removed and replaced with language that the student must meet this criterion at the time the student applies for participation in the program. The academic criteria in which a student earned an academic course grade of a “C” or below in specific courses will be revised to include English Language Arts (ELA) and social studies. This revision will remove the criteria of a student needing a course grade of a “C” or below in math and science courses and replaces it with the option to consider a student’s course grade in any of the four core subject areas — ELA, math, science, and social studies, which will broaden opportunities for additional students to be eligible to participate in the program. A student’s performance in ELA and mathematics will be revised to expand the options of consideration and will allow a student’s performance on the Florida Standards Assessments (FSA), or on the Algebra I End-of-Course (EOC) Assessment to be considered. Criteria that relates to grade retention, school suspension or expulsion, truancy and a student’s participation in a Dropout Prevention Program will be removed. In the economic criteria section of the rule, “Free and Reduced-Price Lunch Program” will be removed and replaced with “school lunch program” to align with the eligibility descriptions under the federal Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act [42 U.S.C. §1758(b)(1)(A)]. The economic criteria related to a student’s family receiving “public assistance” will remove the calendar year that a student’s family receives such assistance and be replaced with the focus on the current status of a student’s family receiving public assistance. The outdated terminology used to describe a student as an “orphan or ward of the court with no taxable income” will be removed and replaced with updated terminology that describes such student as one who is “currently placed, or during the previous fiscal year was placed, in foster care.” The effect of this proposal is to clarify, update and provide more flexibility regarding the academic and economic criteria sections that are used to determine the eligibility of a student to participate in the College Reach-Out Program.

SUMMARY:

The proposed rule revises the academic and economic criteria sections by which participating postsecondary educational institutions will use to determine the eligibility of a student to participate in the College Reach-Out Program.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

1001.02(2)(n), 1007.34, F.S.

LAW:

1007.34, F.S.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

12/8/2020 Vol. 46/237

COMMENTS:

From 12/8/2020 To 12/29/2020 (21 Days)
The public comment period for this notice has already expired.

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

No reference(s).

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