Bill Text: FL S1124 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Instructional Materials for K-12 Public Education [SPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Education Pre-K - 12 [S1124 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S1124-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 1124 
 
By Senator Altman 
24-00955-10                                           20101124__ 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to instructional materials for K-12 
3         public education; amending s. 1006.28, F.S.; including 
4         computer hardware in the definition of the term 
5         “adequate instructional materials”; requiring each 
6         district school board to provide technology as needed 
7         for its educational program; amending s. 1006.40, 
8         F.S.; authorizing the use of certain funds for the 
9         purchase of computer hardware by district school 
10         boards; providing restrictions; providing an effective 
11         date. 
12 
13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
14 
15         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 1006.28, Florida 
16  Statutes, is amended to read: 
17         1006.28 Duties of district school board, district school 
18  superintendent; and school principal regarding K-12 
19  instructional materials.— 
20         (1) DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD.—The district school board has 
21  the duty to provide adequate instructional materials for all 
22  students in accordance with the requirements of this part. The 
23  term “adequate instructional materials” means a sufficient 
24  number of textbooks or sets of materials that are available in 
25  bound, unbound, kit, or package form and may consist of hard 
26  backed or soft-backed textbooks, consumables, learning 
27  laboratories, manipulatives, electronic media, and computer 
28  hardware, courseware, or software that serve as the basis for 
29  instruction for each student in the core courses of mathematics, 
30  language arts, social studies, science, reading, and literature, 
31  except for instruction for which the school advisory council 
32  approves the use of a program that does not include a textbook 
33  as a major tool of instruction. The district school board has 
34  the following specific duties: 
35         (a) Courses of study; adoption.—Adopt courses of study for 
36  use in the schools of the district. 
37         (b) Textbooks.—Provide for proper requisitioning, 
38  distribution, accounting, storage, care, and use of all 
39  instructional materials furnished by the state and furnish such 
40  other instructional materials as may be needed. The district 
41  school board shall assure that instructional materials used in 
42  the district are consistent with the district goals and 
43  objectives and the curriculum frameworks adopted by rule of the 
44  State Board of Education, as well as with the state and district 
45  performance standards provided for in s. 1001.03(1). 
46         (c) Other instructional materials.—Provide such other 
47  technology and teaching accessories and aids as are needed for 
48  the school district’s educational program. 
49         (d) School library media services; establishment and 
50  maintenance.—Establish and maintain a program of school library 
51  media services for all public schools in the district, including 
52  school library media centers, or school library media centers 
53  open to the public, and, in addition such traveling or 
54  circulating libraries as may be needed for the proper operation 
55  of the district school system. 
56         Section 2. Subsection (4) of section 1006.40, Florida 
57  Statutes, is amended to read: 
58         1006.40 Use of instructional materials allocation; 
59  instructional materials, library books, and reference books; 
60  repair of books.— 
61         (4) The funds described in subsection (3) which district 
62  school boards may use to purchase materials not on the state 
63  adopted list shall be used for the purchase of instructional 
64  materials or other items having intellectual content which 
65  assist in the instruction of a subject or course. These items 
66  may be available in bound, unbound, kit, or package form and may 
67  consist of hardbacked or softbacked textbooks, replacements for 
68  items which were part of previously purchased instructional 
69  materials, consumables, learning laboratories, manipulatives, 
70  electronic media, computer hardware, courseware, or software, 
71  and other commonly accepted instructional tools as prescribed by 
72  district school board rule. The funds available to district 
73  school boards for the purchase of materials not on the state 
74  adopted list may not be used to purchase electronic or computer 
75  hardware unless even if such hardware is bundled with software 
76  or other electronic media, nor may such funds be used to 
77  purchase equipment or supplies. However, when authorized to do 
78  so in the General Appropriations Act, a school or district 
79  school board may use a portion of the funds available to it for 
80  the purchase of materials not on the state-adopted list to 
81  purchase science laboratory materials and supplies. 
82         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.