AGENDA
                                
                    STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

                          April 9, 1996

                            MEMBERS

                     Governor Lawton Chiles
                  Commissioner Frank T. Brogan
              Secretary of State Sandra B. Mortham
                Attorney General Bob Butterworth
                 Comptroller Robert F. Milligan
                     Treasurer Bill Nelson
                   Commissioner Bob Crawford
9:30 A.M.                                              ROOM LL-03
                                                          CAPITOL

ITEM      SUBJECT                                  RECOMMENDATION

ADMINISTRATION

  1.   Minutes  of the meeting held February 13 and February  27,
1996.

    (Attachment 1)                                      APPROVAL


2.   Recommendations in Critical Teacher Shortage Areas.

     (Attachment 2)                                      APPROVAL


3.   Area   Vocational-Technical  Center  Designation  of  Orange
     Technical Education Centers - Westside Tech.

     (Attachment 3)                                      APPROVAL


4.   Area   Vocational-Technical  Center  Designation  of  Orange
     Technical Education Centers - Winter Park Tech.

     (Attachment 4)                                      APPROVAL


5.   Presentation  of  Proposed  Statewide  System   of   content
     standards and benchmarks for Language Arts and Mathematics.

     (Deferred  from the March 28, 1996 State Board of  Education
     agenda.)

                                                  FOR INFORMATION


6.   Proposed  Contract  for  the  Development  of  the   Florida
     Comprehensive Assessment.

     (Deferred  from the March 28, 1996 State Board of  Education
     agenda;  please refer to your previously distributed back-up
     material).

                                                         APPROVAL





RULES

7.   6A-6.0571 Amendment:
                          Criteria  for Qualification of  Special
               Vocational-Technical Education Program Courses.

     (Attachment 7)                                      APPROVAL