The Florida Senate
BILL ANALYSIS AND FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT
(This document is based on the provisions contained in the legislation as of the latest date listed below.)
Prepared By: The Professional Staff of the Committee on Education
BILL: SB 1048
INTRODUCER: Senator Diaz
SUBJECT: Student Assessments
DATE: January 10, 2022
ANALYST STAFF DIRECTOR REFERENCE ACTION
1. Palazesi Bouck ED Pre-meeting
2. AED
3. AP
I. Summary:
SB 1048 substantially modifies Florida’s statewide standardized assessment program to include a
computer-based progress monitoring tool and an end-of-year comprehensive assessment in
English Language Arts and mathematics. The bill specifies that progress monitoring results must
provide teachers and parents with actionable feedback to tailor instruction and develop programs
and supports, and the end-of-year assessment must be used for all existing accountability
purposes specified in law. The bill provides for a one-year transition period to the new statewide
standardized assessments, which will hold students and schools harmless during the transition.
The bill also requires the Commissioner of Education to provide recommendations on additional
ways to streamline testing.
The bill enumerates a list of rights that a parent possesses in order to be notified of his or her
student’s educational progress. The bill further specifies the requirements of school districts in
notifying parents of their student’s academic progress.
The bill has an indeterminate fiscal impact.
The bill takes effect July 1, 2022.
II. Present Situation:
Voluntary Prekindergarten through Grade 8 Progress Monitoring Tool
Children who enrolled in a private or public Voluntary Prekindergarten Program (VPK), for the
2021-2022 school year and prior school years, are assessed with the Florida VPK Assessment.
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The Florida VPK Assessment is a progress monitoring tool that measures a child abilities in print
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Rule 6A-1.09433, F.A.C.
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knowledge, phonological awareness, mathematics, and oral language/vocabulary area that are
aligned with the Early Learning and Developmental standards: 4 Years old to Kindergarten
(2017).
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The Florida VPK assessment consists of a pre- and post-assessment:
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The Pre-assessment or Assessment Period 1 is administered within the first thirty calendar
days of the VPK class schedule.
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The Post-assessment or Assessment Period 3 is administered within the last thirty calendar
days of the VPK class schedule.
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Students who enrolled in kindergarten in a public school for the 2021-2022 school year and prior
school years, were assessed with the Florida Kindergarten Readiness Screener within the first 30
school days of the 2021-2022 school year.
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The Florida Kindergarten Readiness Screener is a
computer adaptive assessment, which is completed by students in less than 20 minutes and
measures student proficiency in three broad domains:
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Word knowledge and skills;
Comprehension strategies and constructing meaning; and
Numbers and operations.
There is not a federal requirement for states to administer a Kindergarten through grade 2
assessment system. As of 2019, Florida was one of 12 states that didn’t offer a statewide
Kindergarten through grade 2 assessment system or a list of approved Kindergarten through
grade 2 assessment systems for school districts.
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In 2021, the legislature created a new statewide
VPK through grade 8 coordinated screening and progress monitoring program that includes
grades Kindergarten through grade 2.
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Beginning with the 2022-2023 school year, private and public VPK providers and public schools
in Florida will be required to participate in a coordinated screening and progress monitoring
system (CSPM) for students in VPK through grade 8, the CSPM tool must be administered three
times.
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The system is required to:
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Measure student progress in VPK
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-grade 8 in meeting the appropriate expectations in early
literacy and mathematic skills and in English Language Arts and mathematic standards.
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Office of Early Learning, About Assessments in VPK and Kindergarten Screening,
http://www.floridaearlylearning.com/vpk/vpk-providers/assessments-flkrs, (last visited 11/16/2021).
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Rule 6M-8.620, F.A.C. VPK providers can also choose to administer the Middle Assessment (AP2) to provide mid-year
information about a child’s progress.
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Rule 6M-8.620, F.A.C.
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Rule 6M-8.620, F.A.C
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Section 1002.68(3)(a), F.S.
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Florida Department of Education, Assessment for reading, language and vocabulary, and numeracy,
https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/18494/urlt/StarEarlyLiteracy.pdf (last visited 11/16/2021).
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Council of Chief State School Officers, K-2 Assessments: An Update on State Adoption and Implementation, at 6 (2019),
available at https://ccsso.org/sites/default/files/2019-06/K-2%20Assessments%20Paper%20FINAL.pdf. An analysis of the
2021-22 district assessment calendars that were submitted to the Department of Education showed that 61 school districts
intended to use a progress monitoring tool that included grades K-2 for the 2021-22 school year.
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Section 15, ch. 2021-9, L.O.F.
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Section 1008.25(8), F.S.
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Section 1008.25(8)(a)1.-5., F.S.
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Section 1008.2125, (2)(a), F.S., requires that students in VPK and kindergarten be assessed with the coordinated screening
and progress monitoring system within the first 30 days after enrollment, midyear, and within the last 30 days of the program
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Measure student performance in oral language development, phonological and phonemic
awareness, knowledge of print and letters, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and
comprehension, as applicable by grade level.
Be valid, reliable, and developmentally appropriate computer-adaptive that identifies
students who have a substantial deficiency in reading, including identifying students with
characteristics of dyslexia.
Provide data that can be used for VPK Program accountability requirements.
Provide VPK program providers, school districts, schools and teacher with data and
resources that enhance instruction and parental communication.
Provide information to the department to aid in the development of educational programs,
policies and supports for VPK providers and school districts.
Beginning with the 2022-2023 program year, each private prekindergarten provider and public
school in the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program must participate in a program
assessment of each voluntary prekindergarten education classroom.
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The Florida Department of
Education (FDOE) must adopt a methodology for calculating each private prekindergarten
provider’s and public school provider’s performance metric, which includes program assessment
scores and the initial and final CSPM results.
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The Council for Early Grades Success
In 2021, the legislature created the Council for Early Grades Success (Council) within the
FDOE
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. The Council is responsible for reviewing the implementation of, training for, and
outcomes from the coordinated screening and progress monitoring (CSPM) program to provide
recommendations to the FDOE that support grade 3 students reading at or above grade level.
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Florida’s Statewide Student Assessment Program
Federal Requirements
The Elementary and Secondary Act (ESEA) was signed into law in 1965
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and was reauthorized
by the No Child Left behind (NCLB) act in 2002 and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in
2015.
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The Every Student Succeeds Act provides flexibility in state accountability systems, but kept the
assessment requirements of NCLB. Under ESSA, states receiving Title I funding are still
required to administer the math and reading or language arts assessments annually to students in
grades 3-8 and once in high school.
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In addition, states are required to measure student
proficiency in science at least once in grades 3 through 5; grades 6 through 9; and grades 10
through 12.
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However, ESSA amended NCLB to allow for a state or a consortia of states to use
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Section 1002.68(2), F.S.
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Section 1002.68(4)(a)1., F.S.
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Section 65, ch. 2021-10, L.O.F.
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Section 1008.2125(4)(a), F.S.
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Pub. L 89-10 (April 11, 1965).
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U.S. Department of Education, Every Student Succeeds Act (https://www.ed.gov/essa?src=rn) (last visited Nov. 12, 2021).
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34 C.F.R. s. 200.5(a)(1)(i).
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34 C.F.R. s. 200.5(a)(1)(ii). BILL: SB 1048 Page 4
multiple statewide interim assessments
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that results in a single summative score,
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or a state can
use a single summative assessment.
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In addition, ESSA amended NCLB to allow states to
administer a computer adaptive assessments for the purposes of meeting federal requirements.
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Florida Standards Assessments and Next Generation Sunshine State Standards Assessments
The primary purpose of the student assessment program is to provide student academic
achievement and learning gains data to students, parents, teachers, school administrators, and
school district staff.
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The Florida Standards Assessments (FSA) and Next Generation Sunshine
State Standards (NGSSS) assessments measure student achievement of the standards contained
in the Florida Standards and the NGSSS, respectively. Florida’s educational standards were
developed with the goal of providing all students with an education based on high expectations.
The statewide assessments program also provides feedback and accountability indicators to
Florida educators, policy makers, students, and other citizens.
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The Commissioner of Education (commissioner) is required to design and implement a statewide
standardized assessment program aligned to the core curricular content established in the
NGSSS.
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The statewide standardized assessment program for students in grades 3 through 10 is
as follows:
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Florida Standards Assessments:
o English Language Arts (ELA): grades 3-10.
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o Mathematics: grades 3–8.
o End-of-Course (EOC) assessments for students who are enrolled in the corresponding
course:
o Algebra 1.
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o Geometry.
NGSSS Assessments:
o Grade 5 and grade 8 science.
o EOC assessments for students who are enrolled in the corresponding course:
o Biology I.
o United States History.
o Civics.
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An interim assessment is used to evaluate students’ knowledge and skills relative to a specific set of academic goals.
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34 C.F.R. s. 200.2(b)(10)(i)(ii).
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A summative assessment is generally administered once, typically at the end of the school year to evaluate performance
against a set of content standards.
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34 C.F.R. s. 200.2(c)(1).
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Section 1008.22(1), F.S.
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Florida Department of Education, Florida Statewide Assessments: Statewide Assessments Guide 2020-2021, at 1, (2021),
available at https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/5663/urlt/swapig.pdf.
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Section 1008.22(3), F.S.
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Section 1008.22(3)(a)(b), F.S.
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Section 1008.22 (9), F.S. provides for Grade 10 ELA retakes for students who have not achieved the passing score needed
for graduation requirements. Students can earn a concordant score on an ACT or SAT to satisfy the graduation requirement.
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Section 1008.22 (10), F.S. Required for high school graduation under s. 1002.4282(3)(b), F.S. Students can earn a
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Florida Standards Assessment and End-of-Course Assessments: Test Administration and Test
Schedule
The FSA in ELA and Mathematics for grades 3 through 6 are currently administered in a paper-
based format.
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Statewide EOC assessments,
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the grade 7 and 8 FSA Mathematics, and grades 7
through 10 FSA ELA assessments are administered in a computer-based format.
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The grade 3 ELA assessment and the writing portion of the statewide standardized ELA
assessment must be administered no earlier than April 1 each year.
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The spring administration
of the FSA ELA in grades 4 through 10, FSA Mathematics grades 3 through 8, and EOC
assessments must be administered no earlier than May 1 of each year.
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The commissioner is
required to establish schedules for the administration of statewide, standardized assessments and
the reporting of student assessment results.
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For school year 2021-2022, the FSA and EOC
administration schedule is below.
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The commissioner must also publish on the department’s website a uniform testing calendar that
is provided to school districts,
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so that school districts can populate the calendar with the state-
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Section 1008.22(3)(a), F.S.
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Section 1008.22(3)(b)5., F.S.
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Florida Department of Education, Florida Statewide Assessments: Statewide Assessments Guide 2020-2021, at 35, (2021),
available at https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/5663/urlt/swapig.pdf.
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Section 1008.22(7)(c)1. F.S. The test administration window can’t exceed 2 weeks.
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Section 1008.22(7)(c)2.-3., F.S. The test administration window for paper-based assessments can’t exceed 2 weeks. The
test administration for computer-based assessments can’t exceed 4 weeks.
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Section 1008.22(7)(a), F.S.
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Florida Department of Education, Florida Statewide Assessment Program 2021-22 Schedule,
https://info.fldoe.org/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-8789/dps-2019-197a.pdf, (last visited Dec. 14, 2021).
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and district-required assessments.
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School districts are required to publish the uniform testing
calendar on their website each school year.
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Florida Standards Assessment and End-of-Course Assessments: Reporting of Results and
Achievement Levels
Results for the FSA and EOC assessments must be made available no later than June 30, except
for the results for the grade 3 statewide standardized ELA assessment which must be available
no later than May 31.
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The results for the FSA and EOC assessments, must be reported in an
easy-to-read and understandable format and delivered in time to provide useful, actionable
information to students, parents, and each student’s current teacher of record and teacher of
record for the subsequent school year. The school district must provide the assessment results
within 1 week after receiving the results from the FDOE.
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All statewide, standardized EOC assessments and ELA, Mathematics, and Science assessments
must use scaled scores and achievement levels.
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Achievement levels range from 1 through 5,
with level 1 being the lowest achievement level, level 5 being the highest achievement level, and
level 3 indicating satisfactory performance on an assessment.
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Passing scores for each statewide,
standardized assessment are designated by the State Board of Education (SBE) in rule.
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If the
commissioner seeks to modify performance level scores on a statewide, standardized assessment,
the commissioner must provide a copy of the proposed scores and implementation plan to the
Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate at least 90 days before
submission to the SBE for review.
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Optional Progress Monitoring Tool
Progress monitoring (PM) tools are a type of formative assessments that allow teachers to
continuously evaluate student learning and monitor the effectiveness of their instruction.
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The FDOE allocated $20 million from the CARES Act
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funds for PM and data informed
supports.
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From October 1, 2020, through February 19, 2021, the FDOE made available to all
public schools on a voluntary basis a new progress monitoring tool developed by Cambium
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Section 1008.22(7)(d), F.S.
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Id.
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Section 1008.22(7)(a), F.S.
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Section 1008.22(7)(h), F.S.
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Section 1008.22(3)(e)1., F.S.
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Id.
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Section 1008.22(3)(e)2., F.S.
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Section 1008.22(3)(e)3., F.S.
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The Iris Center, Peabody College Vanderbilt University, How can teachers systematically identify when to adjust
instruction for struggling students?, https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/pmr/cresource/q1/p02/ (last visited Dec. 20,
2021).
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The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was passed by Congress March 27, 2020. The CARES
Act provided funding in four education related categories: Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund,
Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund, Higher Education Emergency Relief fund, Child Care Development Block
Grant.
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Florida Department of Education, Reopening Florida’s Schools and the CARES Act, available at
http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/19861/urlt/FLDOEReopeningCARESAct.pdf, at 102, (last visited Dec. 20, 2021). BILL: SB 1048 Page 7
Assessment, Inc., to serve as a connective support between the foundational skills that students
seek to acquire and their progress through early education years and drive informed teaching
practices and curriculum decisions.
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The progress monitoring tool was computer adaptive, made
available for multiple administrations and was aligned to the state standards for grades 3 through
10 Reading and grades 3 through 8 Mathematics.
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Public schools participating in the optional
progress monitoring tool were recommended to provide students between 45 and 60 minutes to
complete each assessment.
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In school year 2020-21, 59 school districts administered the progress monitoring tool.
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The 59
school districts that accessed the progress monitoring tool, administered 322,030 Reading
assessments and 226,122 Mathematics assessments. In school year 2021-22, as of Dec. 13, 2021,
54 school districts have accessed the progress monitoring tool and administered 110,787 Reading
assessments and 56,237 Mathematics assessments.
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School District Assessment Programs
The measurement of student performance is the responsibility of school districts, except in those
subjects and grade levels measured under the statewide, standardized assessment program.
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School districts are required to annually, by October 1, post the uniform assessment calendars
that delineate which assessments are statewide, standardized assessments and district-required
assessments.
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For the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years, the FDOE required that school
districts submit progress monitoring results to the FDOE for assessments they were
administering during the school year.
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For the 2020-2021 school year, only two school districts reported using no PM tool, other school
districts reported the following:
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22 school districts reported use of one PM tool.
29 school districts reported use of two PM tools.
18 school districts reported use of three PM tools.
2 school districts reported use of four PM tools.
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Florida Department of Education, Free Optional Progress Monitoring Tool Available to Public Schools (Dec. 28, 2021),
available at http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/19861/urlt/CambiumProgressMonitoring2020-21.pdf.
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Id.
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Florida Department of Education, Adaptive Progress Monitoring (APM) Administration Manual, 2021-22, at 3 (2021),
available at https://fsassessments.org/-/media/project/client-portals/florida/pdf/apm/apm-administration-manual-081921-
final.pdf.
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Email, Jessica Fowler, Deputy Legislative Affairs Director, Florida Department of Education (Dec. 17, 2021) (on file with
the Senate Committee on Education).
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Id.
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Section 1008.22(6), F.S.
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Section 1008.22(7)(d), F.S.
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Florida Department of Education Emergency Order 2020-EO-06.
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Email, Jessica Fowler, Deputy Legislative Affairs Director, Florida Department of Education (Dec. 17, 2021) (on file with
the Senate Committee on Education). Some school districts use different progress monitoring tools for different grade bands,
i.e. K-5, 6-8, and 9-12. Examples of progress monitoring tools that are used by Florida’s school districts include: I-Ready,
STAR assessments, MAP assessments, Cambium Progress Monitoring tool, and Achieve 3000. BILL: SB 1048 Page 8
For school year 2021-22, school districts reported the following to the FDOE:
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15 school districts have no PM data reported through the platform.
38 school districts reported use of one PM tool.
17 school districts reported use of two PM tools.
3 school districts reported use of three PM tools.
K-12 Assessment and Accountability Transitions
When a new assessment is administered, new cut scores must be adopted through a standard
setting process, which occurs after the initial administration of the assessment.
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Setting cut
scores is the process whereby FDOE “draw the lines” that separate the test scores into various
achievement levels.
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Achievement levels from the statewide standardized assessment are used in
calculating school grades,
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school improvement ratings,
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third grade retention/promotion,
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and
high school graduation requirements.
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In school year 2014-15, the FDOE transitioned from the FCAT 2.0 to the FSA. To assist in the
transition to the FSA in 2014-15, school grades and school improvement ratings for the 2014-15
school year served as an informational baseline for schools to work toward improved
performance in future years.
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In addition, schools were not required to select and implement a
turnaround option based on the 2014-15 school grade or school improvement rating.
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Finally, to
ensure students were held harmless, grade 3 retention and assessments required for high school
graduation were linked to the 2013-14 student performance expectations.
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Parental Rights and Notifications
School districts are required to notify parents of their student’s academic progress. Specifically,
schools districts must:
Parents be provided results, in a timely manner, of evaluations used to monitor a student’s
progress in grades K-12.
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Parents be notified of the process to request grade promotion
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, advised on the Academically
Challenging Curriculum to Enhance Learning options
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and options for early high school
graduation.
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Id. An analysis of the 2021-22 district assessment calendars that were submitted to the Department of Education showed
that 61 school districts intended to use a progress monitoring tool for the 2021-22 school year.
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Florida Department of Education, Assessment and Accountability Presentation to the State Board of Education, at 6 (Oct.
27, 2015) available at https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/13143/urlt/acct.pdf.
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Id.
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Section 1008.34(3)(b), F.S.
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Section 1008.341, F.S.
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Section 1008.25, F.S.
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Section 1003.4284(3), F.S.
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Section 1, Ch. 2014-23, L.O.F.
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Id.
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Id.
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Section 1008.25(2)(a), F.S.
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Section 1008.25(2)(b)2., F.S.
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Section 1002.3105, F.S.
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Parents be notified in writing if their student exhibits a substantial deficiency in reading.
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Parents be provided written notification that their grade 3 student who is retained has not met
the proficiency level required for promotion and reasons the student is not eligible for a good
cause exemption.
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Parents receive an annual report of their child’s progress toward achieving state and district
expectations for proficiency in English Language Arts, science, social studies and
mathematics.
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Parents receive screening and progress monitoring results in a timely manner.
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III. Effect of Proposed Changes:
SB 1048 substantially changes Florida’s statewide standardized assessment program to include a
statewide coordinated screening and progress monitoring (CSPM) tool. The bill specifies that
progress monitoring results must provide teachers and parents with actionable feedback to tailor
instruction and develop programs and supports, and the end-of-year assessment must be used for
all existing accountability purposes specified in law. The bill provides for a one-year transition
period to the new statewide standardized assessments. Further, the bill clarifies a school district’s
responsibilities in regards to specified parental rights in accessing their student’s academic
performance.
Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten (VPK) through Grade 2 Progress Monitoring
The bill modifies the VPK to grade 3 CSPM system to VPK to grade 2, and accordingly updates
oversight of the system by the Council for Early Grades Success. The bill requires the VPK
through grade 2 progress monitoring instrument be computer-based and measure grade-level
student performance in:
Oral language development;
Phonological and phonemic awareness;
Knowledge of print and letters;
Decoding and encoding;
Fluency;
Vocabulary; and
Comprehension.
The progress monitoring instrument must identify students who have a substantial deficiency in
reading, including identifying students with characteristics of dyslexia.
The bill authorizes the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) to consider including progress
monitoring results from the new grade 3 progress monitoring assessment for the purposes of
adopting a methodology for VPK performance metrics.
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Section 1008.25(5)(d), F.S.
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Section 1008.25(7)(b)1., F.S.
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Section 1008.25(8), F.S.
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Statewide Standardized Assessment Program
The bill modifies the statewide standardized assessment program to include a CSPM system. In
addition, the bill deletes the requirement that the standardized statewide assessment system offer
a paper-based administration, except for students who require such administration as an
accommodation.
The bill specifies the implementation of the new statewide standardized assessment and CSPM
system in English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics, beginning in the 2022-2023 school
year.
The ELA assessment and progress monitoring in grades 3-10 must include:
A screening and progress monitoring assessment administered at the beginning and middle of
the school year, which must:
o Measure student progress in meeting ELA standards.
o Be a computer-based assessment that can identify students who have a substantial
deficiency in reading, including identifying students with characteristics of dyslexia.
o Provide results to teachers within 1 week and parents within 2 weeks.
An end-of-year assessment administered in the spring, the results of the end-of-year
assessment will replace the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) to be used for
accountability purposes in grade three retention, high school graduation, school grades, and
school improvement ratings.
The mathematics assessment and progress monitoring in grades 3-8, must include:
A screening and progress monitoring assessment administered at the beginning and middle of
the school year, which must:
o Measure student progress in meeting mathematics standards.
o Be a computer-based assessment that can identify students who have a substantial
deficiency in mathematics.
o Provide results to teachers within 1 week and parents within 2 weeks.
An end-of-year assessment administered in the spring, the results of the end-of-year
assessment will replace the FSA to be used for accountability purposes in school grades and
school improvement ratings.
The bill does not modify the requirement for the statewide standardized science assessment,
which must continue to be administered annually at least once at the elementary and middle
grade levels, or the requirement for end-of-course (EOC) assessments in Algebra 1, Geometry,
Biology I, United States History, and Civics.
The bill requires results for ELA and mathematics to provide actionable feedback that allows for
tailored instruction throughout the school year. The results must also provide information to the
FDOE to assist in the development of educational programs, policies, and supports. As a result of
a new assessment being administered, the FDOE will need to go through a standard setting
process to propose new cut scores for the achievement levels that indicate grade-level
performance, to be adopted by the State Board of Education (SBE). The bill reduces the amount
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submit the proposed scores and implementation plan to the Speaker of the House of
Representatives and the President of the Senate, before SBE review.
The bill requires the SBE to adopt a new assessment schedule for the coordinated screening and
progress monitoring that incorporates the beginning and middle of the year administrations, and
the comprehensive end-of-year assessment. The SBE will also be required to adopt rules for the
development of the uniform assessment calendar that defines and describes various assessment
terms, specifically summative assessment, formative assessment, interim assessment and
progress monitoring.
The bill streamlines and standardizes progress monitoring tools for school districts. School
districts that choose to not offer additional progress monitoring tools, in addition to the statewide
coordinated progress monitoring tool, could see a reduction in testing time by not administering
additional assessments. Further, the statewide progress monitoring tool will provide standardized
assessment results for students who transfer into a different school district in the middle of the
year, providing the receiving school district with the most up-to-date data on where that student
is in comparison to their peers.
School District Requirements
The bill clarifies requirements for school districts in reporting statewide and district-required
local assessment results to students, teachers, parents, and the public. The bill requires school
districts to provide results from district-required local assessments to parents and teachers within
one week of the administrations. When reporting the results from statewide, standardized
assessments, the bill requires the results be easy to comprehend, and allows school districts to
include a personalized video to assist parents in understanding the results. Further, the bill
requires school districts to provide a written report from the CSPM system that can be accessed
in a printed or electronic format. The report must be included in a web-based option and a mobile
device compatible portal for parents and students to securely access student assessment data and
review their student’s individual student reports. Finally, the bill requires school districts to
annually report, to the FDOE, the strategies they implemented to comply with the parental
reporting requirements outlined in the bill.
Assessment Study and Transition
The bill requires the commissioner to provide recommendations, by January 31, 2025, to the
Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives on
additional way to streamline testing. The report must include an analysis of the correlation
between the first two (beginning and mid-year) administrations of the progress monitoring and
the end-of-year assessment to determine if results from the first two administrations can be used
in lieu of the end-of-year assessment.
The bill provides for a 1-year transition period, during which the calculation of school grades and
school improvement ratings for the 2022-2023 school year are calculated based on the new
statewide, standardized assessments. The 2022-2023 school grades will serve as an informational
baseline for schools to work toward improved performance in future years.
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The bill modifies s. 1008.34, F.S., to provide hold-harmless provisions during the transition,
which specify:
Schools subject to a turnaround option;
Virtual schools or approved virtual instruction providers; and
High performing charter school systems or school districts.
The bill also allows school districts to promote third grade students if the district is able to
determine a student’s performance based on a good cause exemption
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or other means calculated
to provide reliable evidence of a student’s performance.
The bill also modifies s. 1008.341, F.S., to specify that school improvement ratings will not be
calculated for the 2022-2023 school year, and requires the SBE to set the ratings scale for the
2023-2024 school year.
Parental Rights
The bill specifies legislative intent for parental rights regarding information about their student’s
academic progress. The bill restates required parental notifications for academic progress
mentioned from other sections of law into a new subsection. Specifically, the bill requires that
parents:
Be provided results, in a timely manner, of evaluations used to monitor a student’s progress
in grades K-12.
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Be notified of the process to request grade promotion or acceleration
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, including the
Academically Challenging Curriculum to Enhance Learning options,
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and options for early
high school graduation.
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Be notified in writing if their student exhibits a substantial deficiency in reading.
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Be provided written notification that their grade 3 student who is retained has not met the
proficiency level required for promotion and reasons the student is not eligible for a good
cause exemption.
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Receive an annual report of their child’s progress toward achieving state and district
expectations for proficiency in ELA, science, social studies and mathematics.
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Receive screening and progress monitoring results in a timely manner.
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Receive their student’s academic achievement and learning gains.
Be notified of their student’s nonparticipation in the statewide assessment and implications of
nonparticipation.
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Section 1008.25(6)(b)1.-5., F.S. delineates the good cause exemptions for promotions to grade 4 for students who did not
achieve a level 2 or higher on the statewide Grade 3 English Language Arts assessment.
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Section 1008.25(2)(a), F.S.
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Section 1008.25(2)(b)2., F.S.
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Section 1002.3105, F.S.
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Section 1003.4281, F.S.
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Section 1008.25(5)(d), F.S.
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Section 1008.25(7)(b)1., F.S.
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Section 1008.25(8), F.S.
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Be informed, in writing, and provided if their student with a disability or student with limited
English proficiency, is provided with instructional accommodations for statewide
standardized assessments.
Receive analyzed statewide, standardized assessment program performance data.
Provide consent to the school district if the district required local assessments exceed the five
percent test administration limits.
The bill takes effect on July 1, 2022.
IV. Constitutional Issues:
A. Municipality/County Mandates Restrictions:
None.
B. Public Records/Open Meetings Issues:
None.
C. Trust Funds Restrictions:
None.
D. State Tax or Fee Increases:
None.
E. Other Constitutional Issues:
None.
V. Fiscal Impact Statement:
A. Tax/Fee Issues:
None.
B. Private Sector Impact:
None.
C. Government Sector Impact:
School districts that choose to not offer additional progress monitoring tools, in addition
to the statewide coordinated progress monitoring tool, could see a potential cost savings
by not administering additional assessments. The fiscal impact to the state is
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VI. Technical Deficiencies:
None.
VII. Related Issues:
None.
VIII. Statutes Affected:
This bill substantially amends the following sections of the Florida Statutes: 1008.2125, 1008.22,
1008.25, 1008.34, 1008.341, 1008.345, 1008.365, 1011.62.
IX. Additional Information:
A. Committee Substitute – Statement of Changes:
(Summarizing differences between the Committee Substitute and the prior version of the bill.)
None.
B. Amendments:
None.
This Senate Bill Analysis does not reflect the intent or official position of the bill’s introducer or the Florida Senate.