ACTION ITEM: FLORIDA - CONGRESS CONTACT - EDUCATION - INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

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      Press Release— Feb 27^th, 2017

Bill Status:  3/7/17 was filed and will be headed to committee.

 

For Immediate Release:  2017 Instructional Materials companion bills filed in the Florida House and Senate.

 

WHAT:  SB 1210 and HB 989 companion bills were filed last week by Sen. Tom Lee and Rep. Byron Donalds. These are “fixit” companion bills to a very “well-intentioned” Senate Bill passed into law in 2014, but not implemented by a single school district.  The original intent was to establish each school board to be constitutionally responsible for the instruction materials used in their respective districts and to establish an open, transparent process for reviewing, raising objections to and approving instructional materials used with K-12 students.
Executive Summary

Bill text ( SB1210)

 

When passed this fixit bill will:

- Require that each school district shall implement a transparent Policy/Process within their District whether they acquire from the State list or create their individual acquisition program.
- Provide a definition of quality materials and requirement for providers to
meet Florida existing laws.
 - Tighten the definition of instructional materials to include “on-line” materials.
 - Give each District School Board greater flexibility to use instructional materials that meets or exceed current Florida Standards.
 - Expand a parent’s right to object to include the rights of all taxpayers.

ACTION ITEM:

Please call the following members and ask that they support this bill.

 FOR THE CHILDREN

 Education Committee

            Chair:

Senator Dorothy L. Hukill (R) -

[phone] or [phone]

 Vice Chair:

Senator Debbie Mayfield (R)

[phone] or [phone]

Senator Gary M. Farmer, Jr. (D)

[phone] or [phone]

Senator Bill Galvano (R)

[phone] or [phone]

Senator Tom Lee (R)

[phone]

Senator David Simmons (R)

[phone] or [phone]

Senator Wilton Simpson (R)

[phone] or [phone]

Senator Linda Stewart (D)

[phone] or [phone]

Senator Perry E. Thurston, Jr. (D)

[phone] or [phone]

 

 "The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things."

Jean Piaget