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VOTE ON 1997 CABINET MEETING DATES
6 ADMINISTRATION COMMISSION
STATE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION
7 DIVISION OF BOND FINANCE
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY SAFETY
8 AND MOTOR VEHICLES
DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT
9 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
STATE BOARD OF CAREER EDUCATION
10 TRUSTEES OF THE INTERNAL
IMPROVEMENT TRUST FUND
11 MARINE FISHERIES COMMISSION
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The above agencies came to be heard before
13 THE FLORIDA CABINET, Honorable Governor Chiles
presiding, in the Cabinet Meeting Room, LL-03,
14 The Capitol, Tallahassee, Florida, on Thursday,
November 7, 1996, commencing at approximately
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Registered Professional Reporter
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Notary Public in and for
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1 APPEARANCES:
2 Representing the Florida Cabinet:
3 LAWTON CHILES
Governor
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BOB CRAWFORD
5 Commissioner of Agriculture
6 SANDRA B. MORTHAM
Secretary of State
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BILL NELSON
8 Treasurer
9 BOB BUTTERWORTH
Attorney General
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FRANK T. BROGAN
11 Commissioner of Education
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1 I N D E X
2 ITEM ACTION PAGE
3 VOTE ON 1997 CABINET MEETING DATES:
4 1 Approved 7
5 ADMINISTRATION COMMISSION:
(Presented by Robert B. Bradley, Ph.D.,
6 Secretary)
7 1 Approved 8
2 Approved 8
8 3 Approved 8
4 Approved 9
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STATE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION:
10 (Presented by Barbara L. Jarriel, CFA,
Acting Executive Director)
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1 Approved 10
12 2 Approved 10
3 Approved 11
13 4 Approved 11
5 Approved 11
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DIVISION OF BOND FINANCE:
15 (Presented by J. Ben Watkins, III,
Director)
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1 Approved 13
17 2 Approved 13
3 Approved 14
18 4 Approved 14
5 Approved 14
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DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY SAFETY AND MOTOR VEHICLES:
20 (Presented by Fred O. Dickinson, III,
Executive Director)
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1 Approved 15
22 2 Approved 15
3 Approved 16
23 4 Approved 16
5 Approved 16
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1 I N D E X
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DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT:
4 (Presented by James T. Moore,
Executive Director)
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1 Approved 20
6 2 Approved 20
3 Approved 20
7 4 Report 20
5 Approved 28
8 6 Approved 28
9 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION:
(Presented by Robert L. Bedford, Ph.D.,
10 Deputy Commissioner)
11 1 Approved 29
2 Report 29
12 3 Report 39
4 Approved 69
13 5 Approved 69
6 Approved 69
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STATE BOARD OF CAREER EDUCATION:
15 (Presented by Robert L. Bedford, Ph.D.,
Deputy Commissioner)
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1 Approved 71
17 2 Approved 71
18 BOARD OF TRUSTEES,
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT
19 TRUST FUND:
(Presented by Virginia B. Wetherell,
20 Secretary)
21 1 Approved 82
Substitute 2 Approved 82
22 Substitute 3 Approved 82
4 Approved 83
23 5 Approved 83
Substitute6 Approved 85
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1 I N D E X
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MARINE FISHERIES COMMISSION:
4 (Presented by Russell S. Nelson, Ph.D.,
Executive Director)
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A Approved 88
6 B Approved 88
C Approved 89
7 D Approved 89
E Approved 89
8 F Approved 154
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1 INDEX TO EXHIBITS
2 NUMBER DESCRIPTION PAGE
(All Exhibits Filed with
3 Original Transcript)
4 1 Letter dated November 7, 1996,
to Governor Lawton Chiles and
5 Cabinet from J. Patrick Floyd
with attachments 155
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2 Transcript of Jorge Ernesto Laguna
7 dated November 4, 1996 155
8 3 Transcript of
Russell S. Nelson, Ph.D., dated
9 November 5, 1996 155
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CERTIFICATE OF REPORTER 156
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1 P R O C E E D I N G S
2 (The agenda items commenced at 10:03 a.m.)
3 (Treasurer Nelson not present in the room.)
11:02 4 GOVERNOR CHILES: We need a motion on the
11:02 5 1997 Cabinet meeting dates.
11:02 6 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: So move.
11:02 7 GOVERNOR CHILES: Been moved and -- is
11:02 8 there a second?
11:02 9 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Second.
11:02 10 GOVERNOR CHILES: Second.
11:02 11 Without objection, they're approved.
11:02 12 Commissioner Brogan's going to give us an
11:02 13 update on the Florida State Employees Charitable
11:02 14 Campaign.
11:02 15 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Thank you, Governor.
16 (Discussion not reported.)
17 (The Vote on the 1997 Cabinet Meeting Dates
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11:05 1 GOVERNOR CHILES: And I want to take out of
11:05 2 order, if I might, the Administration
11:05 3 Commission, take them first.
11:05 4 DR. BRADLEY: Thank you very much.
11:06 5 Item number 1, recommend approval of the
11:06 6 minutes of the meeting held October 22nd, 1996.
11:06 7 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Move approval.
11:06 8 ATTORNEY GENERAL BUTTERWORTH: Second.
11:06 9 GOVERNOR CHILES: It's moved and seconded.
11:06 10 Without objection, it's approved.
11:06 11 DR. BRADLEY: Item number 2 is recommend
11:06 12 the approval of transfers of general revenue
11:06 13 appropriations in the Department of Corrections.
11:06 14 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Move approval.
11:06 15 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Second.
11:06 16 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
11:06 17 Without objection, it's approved.
11:06 18 DR. BRADLEY: Item number 3 is recommend
11:06 19 the approval of the transfer of general revenue
11:06 20 appropriations in the Justice Administrative
11:06 21 Commission.
11:06 22 ATTORNEY GENERAL BUTTERWORTH: Motion.
11:06 23 COMMISSIONER CRAWFORD: Second.
11:06 24 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
11:06 25 Without objection, it's approved.
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11:06 1 DR. BRADLEY: Recommend -- Item number 3,
11:06 2 recommend the approval of the transfer of
11:06 3 general revenue appropriations in the Department
11:06 4 of Juvenile Justice.
11:06 5 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Move approval.
11:06 6 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Second.
11:06 7 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
11:06 8 Without objection, that's approved.
11:06 9 DR. BRADLEY: Thank you very much.
11:06 10 GOVERNOR CHILES: Thank you, sir.
11 (The Administration Commission Agenda was
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11:06 1 GOVERNOR CHILES: State Board of
11:06 2 Administration.
11:06 3 MS. JARRIEL: The first item is approval of
11:07 4 the minutes of the meeting held on October 22nd.
11:07 5 TREASURER NELSON: Move it.
11:07 6 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
11:07 7 Without objection, it's approved.
11:07 8 MS. JARRIEL: Second item, a recommendation
11:07 9 to approve fiscal sufficiency not to exceed
11:07 10 nineteen million four hundred and fifty-five
11:07 11 thousand Board of Regents, University of
11:07 12 Central Florida Housing Revenue Bonds.
11:07 13 TREASURER NELSON: Move it.
11:07 14 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved.
11:07 15 COMMISSIONER CRAWFORD: Second.
16 GOVERNOR CHILES: Seconded.
11:07 17 Without objection, it's approved.
11:07 18 MS. JARRIEL: Item number 3, a
11:07 19 recommendation to approve fiscal sufficiency not
11:07 20 to exceed forty million three hundred and
11:07 21 ninety-five thousand Board of Regents University
11:07 22 System Improvement Revenue Bonds, series 97.
11:07 23 TREASURER NELSON: Move it.
11:07 24 Since there's only you and me here --
11:07 25 GOVERNOR CHILES: Then I second --
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11:07 1 TREASURER NELSON: -- you have to --
11:07 2 GOVERNOR CHILES: Yeah.
11:07 3 And without objection, it's approved.
11:07 4 MS. JARRIEL: Item number 4, a
11:07 5 recommendation to approve fiscal sufficiency not
11:07 6 to exceed nine million six hundred thousand
11:07 7 Department of Management Services, Division of
11:07 8 Facilities Management, Florida Facilities Pool
11:07 9 Revenue Bonds, Series 1996B.
11:07 10 TREASURER NELSON: Move it.
11:07 11 GOVERNOR CHILES: Seconded.
11:08 12 Without objection, it's approved.
11:08 13 MS. JARRIEL: Item number 5, a
11:08 14 recommendation to approve fiscal sufficiency not
11:08 15 to exceed ten million five hundred thousand
11:08 16 Board of Regents, University of South Florida
11:08 17 Housing Facility Revenue Bonds.
11:08 18 TREASURER NELSON: And I move it.
11:08 19 GOVERNOR CHILES: Seconded.
11:08 20 Without objection, it's approved.
11:08 21 MS. JARRIEL: And that concludes SBA's
11:08 22 agenda.
11:08 23 GOVERNOR CHILES: Thank you, ma'am.
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1 (The State Board of Administration Agenda
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November 7, 1996
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11:08 1 GOVERNOR CHILES: Division of
11:08 2 Bond Finance.
11:08 3 MR. WATKINS: Item number 1 is approval of
11:08 4 the minutes of the October 22nd meeting.
11:08 5 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Move approval.
6 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Second.
11:08 7 ATTORNEY GENERAL BUTTERWORTH: Second.
11:08 8 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
11:08 9 Without objection, they're approved.
11:08 10 MR. WATKINS: Item number 2 is a resolution
11:08 11 authorizing the competitive sale of up to
11:08 12 10.5 million dollars of Board of Regents Revenue
11:08 13 Bonds for the University of South Florida.
11:08 14 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Move approval.
11:08 15 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Second.
11:08 16 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
11:08 17 Without objection, it's approved.
11:08 18 MR. WATKINS: Item number 3 is a resolution
11:08 19 authorizing the competitive sale of up to
11:08 20 nineteen million four hundred fifty-five
11:08 21 thousand Board of Regents Revenue Bonds for the
11:08 22 University of Central Florida.
11:08 23 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Move approval.
11:08 24 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Second.
11:09 25 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
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11:09 1 Without objection, it's approved.
11:09 2 MR. WATKINS: Item number 4 is a resolution
11:09 3 authorizing the competitive sale of up to
11:09 4 9.6 million dollars of facilities revenue bonds
11:09 5 for the satellite office complex here in
11:09 6 Tallahassee.
11:09 7 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Move approval.
11:09 8 ATTORNEY GENERAL BUTTERWORTH: Second.
11:09 9 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
11:09 10 Without objection, it's approved.
11:09 11 MR. WATKINS: Item number 5 is a resolution
11:09 12 authorizing the competitive sale of up to
11:09 13 forty million three hundred ninety-five thousand
11:09 14 Board of Regents Revenue Bonds for improvements
11:09 15 to the State University System.
11:09 16 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Move approval.
11:09 17 ATTORNEY GENERAL BUTTERWORTH: Second.
11:09 18 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Second.
11:09 19 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
11:09 20 Without objection, it's approved.
21 (The Division of Bond Finance Agenda was
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11:09 1 GOVERNOR CHILES: Highway Safety.
11:09 2 MR. DICKINSON: Good morning.
11:09 3 Item number 1 is approval of the minutes
11:09 4 from the September 26th meeting.
11:09 5 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Move it.
11:09 6 ATTORNEY GENERAL BUTTERWORTH: Second.
11:09 7 GOVERNOR CHILES: They're moved and
11:09 8 seconded.
11:09 9 Without objection, they're approved.
11:09 10 MR. DICKINSON: Item number 2 is a
11:09 11 reappointment of the following doctors on the
11:10 12 Medical Advisory Committee.
11:10 13 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Move approval.
11:10 14 ATTORNEY GENERAL BUTTERWORTH: Second.
11:10 15 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
11:10 16 Without objection, they're approved.
11:10 17 MR. DICKINSON: Item 3 is to request
11:10 18 approval to contract for a customer friendly
11:10 19 service wing as you enter our building. It's
11:10 20 also part of our workplace safety.
11:10 21 We're going to try to get everybody that's
11:10 22 coming to our building for a nonworking purpose
11:10 23 to be housed right there at the front door where
11:10 24 you come in so you can get your driver license,
11:10 25 tag, anything like that right there as you walk
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11:10 1 in the door.
11:10 2 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Move approval.
11:10 3 ATTORNEY GENERAL BUTTERWORTH: Second.
11:10 4 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
11:10 5 Without objection, it's approved.
11:10 6 MR. DICKINSON: Item 4 is a revision.
11:10 7 We're going from a five-year to a -- request
11:10 8 approval to go from a five-year to a one-year
11:10 9 contracts on the motorcycle training contracts
11:10 10 that we have around the state.
11:10 11 ATTORNEY GENERAL BUTTERWORTH: Motion.
11:10 12 GOVERNOR CHILES: It's been moved.
11:10 13 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Second.
11:10 14 GOVERNOR CHILES: Seconded.
11:10 15 Without objection, it's approved.
11:10 16 MR. DICKINSON: And Item 5 is our
11:10 17 legislative package. Request approval.
11:10 18 ATTORNEY GENERAL BUTTERWORTH: Motion.
11:10 19 GOVERNOR CHILES: There's a motion?
11:10 20 ATTORNEY GENERAL BUTTERWORTH: Motion.
11:11 21 GOVERNOR CHILES: Second.
11:11 22 Without objection, it's --
11:11 23 ATTORNEY GENERAL BUTTERWORTH: I moved and
11:11 24 seconded that.
11:11 25 GOVERNOR CHILES: You did.
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1 ATTORNEY GENERAL BUTTERWORTH: Yes.
11:11 2 GOVERNOR CHILES: That's what I thought.
11:11 3 ATTORNEY GENERAL BUTTERWORTH: Okay.
11:11 4 GOVERNOR CHILES: Did it well.
11:11 5 ATTORNEY GENERAL BUTTERWORTH: I think so.
11:11 6 MR. DICKINSON: Governor, if I might, we
11:11 7 have a gentleman visiting today from Lithuania.
11:11 8 He's the Vice Mayor of Siauliai, Lithuania.
11:11 9 And our local tax collector, John Chafin,
11:11 10 has been his host. Alfred-- Mr. Alfredas
11:11 11 Jonuska has been over here with three of his
11:11 12 colleagues to look at some of the ways we do
11:11 13 things in our democracies here in the states.
11:11 14 As you know, they became independent some
11:11 15 six years ago, I believe, and --
11:11 16 MR. CHAFIN: Correct.
17 MR. DICKINSON: -- are still putting their
11:11 18 infrastructure together for taxation.
11:11 19 Of course, they looked at us, at our driver
11:11 20 licensing and tagging. I believe they've been
11:11 21 to some of your offices, as well as some other
11:11 22 State agencies. And --
11:11 23 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Let me get this
11:11 24 straight. They're looking at the United States
11:11 25 upon which to build their tax structure?
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11:12 1 MR. CHAFIN: No, sir, Your Honor. They're
11:12 2 looking at how we fund our services, and,
11:12 3 you know, what type of services we provide.
11:12 4 They have spent some time with the Governor's
11:12 5 staff a couple of weeks ago, Governor, and
6 they've spent some time with all the State
11:12 7 agencies that the tax collectors represent.
11:12 8 Mr. Inzer, with the City, and I have been
11:12 9 spending about three weeks with him now. They
11:12 10 are looking at our democracy and how we're
11:12 11 structured and how we fund our services.
11:12 12 So this is Mr. Alfredas Jonuska from
11:12 13 Siauliai, Lithuania.
11:12 14 GOVERNOR CHILES: We're delighted to have
11:12 15 you here. We know that Lithuania has had a very
11:12 16 long and sometimes tragic history. We know that
11:12 17 there has always been a very strong Lithuanian
11:12 18 community in the United States. And the
11:12 19 United States has long looked with yearning to
11:12 20 see Lithuania become free again.
11:12 21 We're delighted to see that you're -- that
11:12 22 you now have your independent status, and we
11:13 23 wish you well in everything that you're doing.
11:13 24 MR. JONUSKA: Thank you. We appreciate for
11:13 25 this.
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1 GOVERNOR CHILES: Yes, sir.
11:13 2 MR. JONUSKA: We wasn't independent till
11:13 3 '94, but after that, was annexed. And from
11:13 4 1990, now independence is restored.
11:13 5 GOVERNOR CHILES: Terrific.
11:13 6 MR. JONUSKA: We appreciate it.
7 GOVERNOR CHILES: Thank you, sir.
11:13 8 MR. CHAFIN: If I could just add, he
11:13 9 attended his first football game ever, the
11:13 10 FSU-Virginia game a couple of weeks ago. And
11:13 11 he's kind of gotten into the sport.
11:13 12 So I had a chance to introduce him to
11:13 13 Coach Bowden yesterday, and tour the facilities
11:13 14 out there. So we're fast converting him to a
11:13 15 football fan.
11:13 16 GOVERNOR CHILES: Terrific.
17 MR. CHAFIN: Thank you.
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11:13 1 GOVERNOR CHILES: Florida Department of Law
11:13 2 Enforcement.
11:13 3 MR. MOORE: Governor, Item 1 is the minutes
11:13 4 from the September 10 Cabinet meeting.
11:13 5 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Move approval.
11:13 6 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Second.
11:13 7 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
11:13 8 Without objection, they're approved.
9 MR. MOORE: Item 2 is the Department's
11:13 10 quarterly report for July through September of
11:13 11 '96.
11:13 12 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Move approval.
11:13 13 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Second.
11:13 14 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
11:14 15 Without objection, it's approved.
11:14 16 MR. MOORE: Item 3 is the Department's
11:14 17 Legislative Budget Request and our 1977
11:14 18 legislative proposals, summarized, request
11:14 19 approval to transmit.
11:14 20 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Move approval.
11:14 21 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Second.
11:14 22 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
11:14 23 Without objection, that's approved.
11:14 24 MR. MOORE: Governor, Item 4, as you know,
11:14 25 is -- grew out of a tragic situation better than
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11:14 1 a year ago with the death and the heinous murder
11:14 2 of Jimmy Ryce.
11:14 3 And out of that, you signed an
11:14 4 Executive Order directing certain things to
11:14 5 happen. And as a result of that, along with
11:14 6 Commissioner Brogan and others, legislation was
11:14 7 filed and passed that -- that has been called
11:14 8 the Jimmy Ryce Child Safety Act.
11:14 9 And we've done several things in that
11:14 10 regard. Through interest expressed by all the
11:14 11 Cabinet offices, and your office as well, we
11:14 12 thought it very appropriate to give you a typed
11:14 13 status report on what we're doing in that area.
11:14 14 We've made a lot of progress. Much remains to
11:14 15 be done on that very critical and sensitive
11:14 16 area.
11:14 17 I'd like to ask Ms. Donna Uzzell, who was
11:14 18 recently promoted, by the way, to our Director
11:14 19 of Criminal Justice Information, to come up and
11:14 20 give us a very brief status report on our
11:14 21 progress.
11:15 22 GOVERNOR CHILES: All right.
11:15 23 MS. UZZELL: Thank you. I appreciate the
11:15 24 opportunity to speak to you today regarding the
11:15 25 implementation of the Jimmy Ryce Child Safety
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11:15 1 Action Plan, and the subsequent passage of the
11:15 2 Jimmy Ryce Act.
11:15 3 I commend each of you for the leadership
11:15 4 you have shown on this issue, and the priorities
11:15 5 you have placed when it comes to the safety and
11:15 6 the protection of our children.
11:15 7 And I truly believe that as a result of
11:15 8 your actions, and the efforts of people such as
11:15 9 Don and Claudine Ryce, that we are making a
11:15 10 difference in the way we respond to missing
11:15 11 children cases, at the local level, at the State
11:15 12 level, and at the national level.
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11:15 14 Commissioner said, to highlight some of the
11:15 15 things that we've been able to accomplish.
11:15 16 Our first issue was to develop a fully
11:15 17 staffed and equipped law enforcement response
11:15 18 team. To that effect, we have assembled the
11:15 19 capabilities around this entire state to respond
11:15 20 to assist local law enforcement with a variety,
11:15 21 or menu, if you will, of services that they can
11:15 22 choose from.
11:15 23 Among these services are things like a
11:15 24 mobile -- fully mobile and technologically
11:15 25 equipped command post; investigative assistance;
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11:16 1 case tracking software; access to tracking dogs
11:16 2 via our mutual aid agreements with local
11:16 3 law enforcement, but also through an agreement
11:16 4 that we arranged with the Department of
11:16 5 Corrections, using their tracking dogs around
11:16 6 our State facilities. Analytical resources, and
11:16 7 then staffing resources.
11:16 8 Additionally, we've entered into a
11:16 9 partnership with the Office of Juvenile Justice
11:16 10 and Delinquency Prevention at the Federal level,
11:16 11 and we've provided three regional trainings
11:16 12 around our state to missing person
11:16 13 investigators.
11:16 14 To date, over 150 law enforcement
11:16 15 investigators have received a specialized
11:16 16 training, and we'll be hosting our fourth
11:16 17 regional workshop in Jacksonville this January.
11:16 18 We have also provided numerous in-service
11:16 19 trainings at the agency level on the services
11:16 20 that we provide at our state clearinghouse. And
11:16 21 we have distributed to every agency a list of
11:16 22 resources that we have available.
11:16 23 A second issue was the implementation of an
11:16 24 Executive Order requiring all State agencies to
11:16 25 post photos of missing children. In May of
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11:16 1 1996, each State office building began to
11:17 2 display flyers of missing children on bulletin
11:17 3 boards. And a total of 2,393 facilities
11:17 4 participate now in this endeavor.
11:17 5 The photograph and the information of six
11:17 6 missing children are selected and sent to each
11:17 7 agency every other month.
11:17 8 The third issue that I'd like to mention is
11:17 9 the creation of a Missing Children Information
11:17 10 Clearinghouse Advisory Board. This Board is
11:17 11 comprised of members from community and
11:17 12 nonprofit organizations, business leaders, local
11:17 13 law enforcement, school administrators, and
11:17 14 parents. It's actually chaired by
11:17 15 Mike Vasilinda, who represents the important
11:17 16 role that the media plays on these issues.
11:17 17 The Board has met twice, and in just a
11:17 18 short period of time they've developed an
11:17 19 additional list of ten action items that we will
11:17 20 be addressing in the near future.
11:17 21 I mentioned earlier the resources available
11:17 22 to local law enforcement. With your support,
11:17 23 and with that of the Legislature, the
11:17 24 Clearinghouse has enhanced our staffing
11:17 25 resources to include hiring four additional
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11:17 1 analysts, upgrading our technology, which we now
11:17 2 have posted our missing children faces on the
11:18 3 home page, and we thank the Attorney General for
11:18 4 use of his home page during the period when we
11:18 5 didn't have one.
11:18 6 We have faxed the faces of these missing
11:18 7 children in emergency cases to every local
11:18 8 law enforcement agency in our state, and within
11:18 9 minutes, we have the capability now to do that.
11:18 10 And I might add that these resources that
11:18 11 we have in place now have helped us to directly
11:18 12 recover three to four children a month in our --
11:18 13 in our Clearinghouse. Not to mention the
11:18 14 numerous assists we've been involved in with
11:18 15 local law enforcement.
11:18 16 We have added several tools to that
11:18 17 investigative process to include the sexual
11:18 18 predator database. We have posted the names and
11:18 19 photos of sexual predators on the Internet. And
11:18 20 since the inception of that program, we've
11:18 21 received approximately 3200 inquiries on our
11:18 22 home page, specifically accessing sexual
11:18 23 predator information.
11:18 24 And we continue to work with
11:18 25 law enforcement to develop protocol and
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11:18 1 procedures for community notification of sexual
11:18 2 predators.
11:18 3 Another issue that we developed through the
11:18 4 J.R. -- the Jimmy Ryce Act is the flagging of
11:19 5 school records. Children who are reported
11:19 6 missing to our Clearinghouse will now have
11:19 7 the -- their educational records flagged in the
11:19 8 event that they are reenrolled in another
11:19 9 school.
11:19 10 We appreciate, Commissioner Brogan, your
11:19 11 assistance in that effort, and we anticipate the
11:19 12 ability to track noncustodial abductions with
11:19 13 this mechanism in the near future.
11:19 14 Finally, the plan calls for intensive eye
11:19 15 and prevention programs. We believe we must
11:19 16 continue to create an atmosphere in our
17 communities that prevent the abduction of these
11:19 18 children in the first place.
11:19 19 We look forward to working with the
11:19 20 advisory board on these issues, and with the
11:19 21 Department of Education on identifying
11:19 22 successful curriculum programs in our schools.
11:19 23 I thank you for the opportunity to be here
11:19 24 today, and I want to thank each and every one of
11:19 25 you for standing up for our children, whose
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11:19 1 faces and names continually remind us of why we
11:19 2 must keep striving to make a difference.
11:19 3 Thank you.
11:19 4 GOVERNOR CHILES: Thank you.
11:19 5 Thank you for all your efforts in that
6 regard.
11:19 7 MR. MOORE: Good job, Donna. And
11:19 8 thank you.
11:19 9 Governor, if I might comment, you know,
11:19 10 we've had -- we had one of the first missing
11:19 11 children information clearinghouses in the
11:19 12 country back in the late '70s and early '80s
11:20 13 when it was created.
11:20 14 I'd like to take one moment, and just ask
11:20 15 the men and women and the members of our
11:20 16 organization who staff that day in and day out
11:20 17 to stand up and be recognized for the good job
11:20 18 they do.
11:20 19 If you members would stand, I would -- I
11:20 20 would appreciate that. Thank you.
11:20 21 (Applause.)
11:20 22 GOVERNOR CHILES: We thank you all very,
11:20 23 very much for your efforts in that regard.
11:20 24 MR. MOORE: Thank you very much, Governor
11:20 25 and Cabinet.
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11:20 1 Item 5 is proposed amendments to the
11:20 2 Division of Criminal Justice Standards and
11:20 3 Training administrative rules that we are still
11:20 4 required by law, it says shall have these
11:20 5 rules. And we're --
11:20 6 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Move approval.
11:20 7 MR. MOORE: -- moving to clean that up, but
8 we need to pass this rule --
11:20 9 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Second.
10 MR. MOORE: -- to pass --
11:20 11 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
11:20 12 Without objection, it's approved.
11:20 13 MR. MOORE: Final item is Item 6. It's
11:20 14 some similar rules dealing with our Implied
11:20 15 Consent Program in the Division of Local Law
11:20 16 Enforcement Assistance.
11:20 17 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Move approval.
11:20 18 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Second.
11:20 19 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
11:20 20 Without objection, that's approved.
11:20 21 MR. MOORE: Thank you, Governor.
11:20 22 GOVERNOR CHILES: Thank you.
23 (The Florida Department of Law Enforcement
24 Agenda was concluded.)
25 *
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11:20 1 GOVERNOR CHILES: State Board of Education.
11:20 2 DR. BEDFORD: Governor Chiles, members of
11:21 3 the State Board of Education, good morning.
11:21 4 Item 1, quarterly reports for the period
11:21 5 ending September 30th, 1996.
11:21 6 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Move approval.
11:21 7 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Second.
11:21 8 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
11:21 9 Without objection, it's approved.
11:21 10 DR. BEDFORD: Item 2 is a presentation for
11:21 11 your information, a presentation of the
11:21 12 Department of Education process of planning for
11:21 13 organizational improvement.
11:21 14 With us from -- representing Department,
11:21 15 Hal Thomas.
11:21 16 MR. THOMAS: Good morning, and thank you
11:21 17 for this opportunity to share a brief overview
11:21 18 of the work we're doing in the Department in an
11:21 19 effort to improve the services we deliver to the
20 State of Florida.
11:21 21 When Commissioner Brogan came to the
11:21 22 Department, he brought with him a strong belief
11:21 23 that business practices that were being used in
11:21 24 organizations throughout this country to produce
11:21 25 high performance could be utilized in the
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11:21 1 delivery of educational services as well.
11:21 2 The first step in his plan to poise the
11:22 3 Department of Education to be in a position to
11:22 4 fulfill our changing role in this state
11:22 5 education system was the reorganization of our
11:22 6 agency, which was a 1995 priority.
11:22 7 The emphasis beginning this year is to
11:22 8 systematically define that role, and improve the
11:22 9 Department's effectiveness.
11:22 10 In September of 1995, Commissioner Brogan
11:22 11 and executive leadership met to discuss
11:22 12 strategies for making the reorganized Department
11:22 13 of Education more responsive to the needs and
11:22 14 requirements of schools and districts.
15 (Secretary Mortham exited the room.)
16 MR. THOMAS: Their vision for how the
11:22 17 Department should operate would include these
11:22 18 factors:
11:22 19 First, a more structured business approach
11:22 20 to education; secondly, the efficient and
11:22 21 effective use of physical and human resources;
11:22 22 third, a clear focus for the Department of
23 Education.
11:22 24 A part of that was that that focus had to
11:22 25 increase support and flexibility to districts
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11:22 1 and schools.
11:22 2 The commitment that was made: First of
11:23 3 all, the systems thinking in the DOE.
11:23 4 The DOE must come to understand its role as
11:23 5 a subsystem of the State education system. And
11:23 6 then all the systems within our agency must
11:23 7 begin to understand how they relate and
11:23 8 interrelate with each other, and how they impact
11:23 9 each other as they operate.
11:23 10 The second commitment was to the principles
11:23 11 of total quality management. Research has shown
11:23 12 that high performing organizations, including
11:23 13 those with the service orientation, have
11:23 14 achieved this level of performance by
11:23 15 integrating quality management principles into
11:23 16 their organization.
11:23 17 Third, do a systematic approach to change.
11:23 18 Many organizations, including our agency, have
11:23 19 struggled with this issue of total quality
11:23 20 management. A lot of unsuccessful efforts to
11:23 21 implement total quality management throughout
11:23 22 the country have been the result of failing to
11:23 23 address critical aspects of the organization's
11:23 24 operation.
11:23 25 To be successful in implementing total
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11:23 1 quality management principles in a traditionally
11:24 2 bureaucratic organization, Commissioner Brogan
11:24 3 needed to use a system which ensured a
11:24 4 comprehensive and systematic effort.
11:24 5 Pinellas County, the school system there,
11:24 6 is recognized nationally now as a leader in
11:24 7 implementing quality management in the education
11:24 8 setting through the implementation of an
11:24 9 integrated management system.
11:24 10 Working with their quality academy, the
11:24 11 Commissioner and executive leadership made the
11:24 12 decision to implement in DOE such a system.
13 (Secretary Mortham entered the room.)
14 MR. THOMAS: This system would use the
15 Baldridge or the Sterling Award Criteria and
16 self-assessment process to bring about
17 systematic and continuous improvement in the
18 Department of Education. I think you've been
19 given an overview of the Sterling categories,
20 and those items, those standards, which bring
21 about high performance.
22 The first steps which had to be taken to
23 provide a foundation for the system were: First
24 of all, the mission of public education had to
25 be articulated.
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1 Following that, the Commissioner's vision
2 for public education and the mission of the
3 Department of Education had to be clearly
4 stated.
5 The core values necessary to guide the
6 organization had to be identified.
7 And, lastly, DOE's key customer
8 requirements, and a strategic plan to meet them,
9 had to be developed.
10 Commissioner Brogan, his executive and
11 senior leadership team, and over 100 Department
12 of Education employees, and their customers,
13 have been in the process which began on
14 January 4th, with an executive retreat, and has
15 led to a clear articulation of the strategic
16 direction for the public education system, and
17 for the Department of Education, including the
18 mission, vision, values, and strategic plan.
19 The implementation of that plan is being
20 coordinated by seven cross-departmental teams,
21 each led by a manager with accountability for
22 measuring and reporting results on a regular
23 basis.
24 The information I'm about to go over is
25 included in the second overview of the
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1 Department of Education's strategic direction,
2 which you've been provided.
3 The Department of Education exists to help
4 facilitate the mission of Florida's
5 public education system.
6 And that mission is to provide the
7 opportunity for all Floridians to attain the
8 knowledge and skills necessary for lifelong
9 learning, and to become self-sufficient,
10 contributing members of society.
11 The vision describes what the Department of
12 Education would like to be like in the future:
13 A high performing, customer focused organization
14 that provides leadership and support to a world
15 class education system for all Florida
16 citizens.
17 There's key -- three key things there:
18 High performing, customer focused, providing
19 leadership and support.
20 Our mission statement describes what we
21 must accomplish, for whom it must be
22 accomplished, and how we approach the
23 accomplishment of this mission that is to
24 provide leadership and support for Florida's
25 public education system by establishing
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1 standards, providing technical assistance,
2 guiding assessment, and reporting results.
3 This statement reflects priorities
4 expressed by the Department's primary customer
5 groups, including teachers, school district
6 administrators, parents, legislators, and the
7 business community.
8 Our strategic issues are those issues on
9 which our customers have told us we should focus
10 our efforts.
11 The three issues, as included in the
12 Agency's legislative budget request, which
13 you've approved, are as follows: High student
14 achievement. All students must be given the
15 chance to attain the highest possible levels of
16 academic achievement.
17 Safe learning environment. Florida's
18 school sites and settings must be safe and
19 secure places in which to learn.
20 The third, increased government
21 efficiency. Florida's public education system
22 will work with all stakeholders to maximize its
23 effectiveness in meeting the needs of its
24 citizens.
25 The first strategic issue, high student
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1 achievement, has identified three strategic
2 goals. The first: Academic and employment
3 skills. Each student will be assured an equal
4 opportunity to attain the highest levels of
5 educational achievement, and prepare to
6 successfully participate in the work force and
7 pursue postsecondary education. It's this area
8 which aligns with the academic goals from school
9 improvement and accountability.
10 High performing workforce. Employees
11 throughout the State's educational system will
12 perform at the highest levels of effectiveness
13 and efficiency, and will understand how their
14 jobs support high student achievement.
15 It's this area which aligns with the
16 workforce goal from school improvement
17 accountability.
18 The third: Choice in school selection.
19 All students will be provided equal enrollment
20 access and resources to attend the school which
21 will most effectively and efficiently meet their
22 educational needs.
23 Our second strategic issue, safe learning
24 environment. At this point, there's only one
25 strategic goal that we're focusing our efforts
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1 on, and that is personal safety.
2 Florida students will have a safe and
3 secure place in which to learn. It is this area
4 which aligns with the environmental safety goal
5 from the school improvement accountability.
6 Our third strategic issue, increased
7 government efficiency, has three strategic goals
8 as well: Partnerships will be developed among
9 state, district, school, and community resources
10 to encourage and ensure that all groups work
11 together to improve student achievement, and
12 promote a safe learning environment. And this
13 area which aligns with the newest state goals on
14 parental involvement.
15 The second, local control. Control and
16 decision making authority critical to the
17 effective and efficient delivery of educational
18 programs will be retained to the greatest
19 possible degree at the level closest to the
20 learner.
21 And lastly, the issue that we're -- we've
22 provided a brief overview this morning is the
23 integrated management system. The education
24 system in Florida will use an integrated
25 management system to ensure that all resources
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1 effectively and efficiently promote high student
2 achievement in a safe and secure learning
3 environment. This system has been the topic of
4 this presentation.
5 The Sterling criteria serve as a map for
6 the journey to organizational excellence. Their
7 effectiveness has been verified by a growing
8 number of organizations, including those with a
9 service orientation who have aggressively
10 pursued an integrated management system based
11 upon them. They are a prescription of how to
12 do, not what to do.
13 On a more personal note, after 23 years as
14 an educator in the state of Florida, as a
15 teacher, as a local administrator, and as a
16 district administrator, now as a Department of
17 Education employee for the last eight years, I
18 truly believe that these criteria in an
19 integrated management system, can be a highly
20 effective tool in bringing about true education
21 reform.
22 And once again, I thank you for the
23 opportunity to share this information with you.
24 DR. BEDFORD: Thank you, Hal.
25 GOVERNOR CHILES: Thank you, sir.
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1 DR. BEDFORD: Thank you, Hal.
2 That item was for information.
3 Item 3, the annual report from the Florida
4 Commission on Educational Reform and
5 Accountability.
6 We have with us Dr. Michael Biance, the
7 Executive Director of the Accountability
8 Commission.
9 Mike.
10 DR. BIANCE: Governor, members of the
11 State Board, it's a pleasure to be able to
12 present to you the Accountability Commission's
13 annual report.
14 What I would like to do today is to just
15 hit on some of the highlights of the report, and
16 some areas that I believe need to be
17 specifically considered. Probably the -- the
18 most -- single most important accomplishment in
19 this past year was the completion of the design
20 of Florida's system of school improvement and
21 accountability.
22 That was the result of an arduous
23 five years. If you take a look at it, you will
24 see the eight goals are in place, standards for
25 the eight goals, assessments and reporting
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1 mechanism through the accountability
2 indicators.
3 You'll see some new accountability
4 indicators, new reporting data. For the first
5 time this year, you will see results on whether
6 or not students really are ready to start
7 school. We have never had assessment data that
8 would tell us whether or not students coming in
9 were meeting the State level expectations.
10 But I'd like to emphasize Goal 3. If you
11 look at the Goal 3, which is the student
12 performance, you'll notice that those standards
13 are the SCANS standards. Came from the business
14 community, in terms of what students need to
15 know and be able to do to be competitive in the
16 21st century.
17 You'll also notice that the revised
18 curriculum frameworks, which you've been made
19 aware of and the Sunshine State Standards are
20 the embodiment of those SCANS standards and what
21 goes on in our classrooms on a day-to-day
22 basis.
23 And they are assessed, as you can see,
24 through the Florida Writes, and the upcoming
25 F-CAT test.
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1 One of the other responsibilities of the
2 Commission is the area of oversight. And the
3 Commission has been very fortunate to have the
4 support of the Office of Program Policy Analysis
5 and Government Accountability.
6 And some of the highlights, if you will,
7 what they found in a review of five districts,
8 19 schools, first of all, that schools are
9 implementing the initiatives to improve student
10 performance.
11 And secondly, stakeholders are beginning to
12 see improvements, but they need help in
13 evaluating initiatives. That's really
14 significant.
15 We have gone from that first year -- first
16 few years, where schools were saying, when are
17 you going to send us the school improvement
18 plans, to a whole other level of sophistication,
19 where they're asking for the evaluation skills
20 to be able to look at that data and tell whether
21 or not these strategies are really working or
22 not.
23 Third, there's a framework in place for
24 school improvement. However, it has not
25 affected the resource allocation and decision
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1 making at the school and district level. And
2 that's an area that needs to be pursued.
3 And last, the SAC membership problems have
4 not improved. The Commission made a
5 recommendation last year to the Legislature, a
6 bill was filed to deal with that issue. And it
7 will be refiled again this year.
8 Another area of responsibility of the
9 Commission is the annual feedback report. There
10 is no other agency that has a report card done
11 on it.
12 The results of the feedback survey
13 conducted by the Commission of 276 schools, sent
14 to the principals, sent to the School Advisory
15 Council chair, and also to the district offices,
16 was extremely positive. Our biggest problem in
17 the analysis of the data was, which was the most
18 positive? The school accountability reports, we
19 are finding, are much more accurate than they've
20 ever been.
21 However, there's concern about the limited
22 number of waivers at the School Board policy
23 level, which is another area that the Commission
24 needs to pursue.
25 And last --
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1 GOVERNOR CHILES: What do you mean by
2 that? I mean, what -- what does that mean?
3 DR. BIANCE: It was the number of -- of
4 requests for waivers of local School Board
5 policy was very limited. Approximately a third
6 of the principals, and the School Advisory
7 Council chairs, had stated that they had
8 submitted waiver -- requests for waivers at the
9 School Board level.
10 Now, a lot of times those waivers -- what
11 is eligible to waive and what is not eligible to
12 waive is locally determined.
13 But from the -- from first glance on that
14 data, we need to take a closer look at what are
15 the areas, and -- and you'll see as we go along,
16 you know, what are the barriers to those
17 implement-- that implementation. What are the
18 obstacles that -- we may not see it at the State
19 level because we have this list and we have
20 waivers submitted to the Commissioner, but is
21 that really occurring at the district level.
22 But in general, I -- I feel compelled to
23 make this comment in reference to the Department
24 as a result -- more than just this annual
25 feedback survey. And that is, this past year,
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1 we have seen a tremendous amount of
2 follow-through and the recommendations the
3 Commission has made and the Cabinet's approved.
4 First of all, the curriculum framework
5 revision and the Sunshine State Standards, the
6 F-CAT was major, and is being recognized
7 throughout the country for that bold move that
8 Florida has made.
9 But also something that may seem
10 insignificant, but if you notice -- if you
11 recall over the years, our document's pretty
12 complex. That's been revised.
13 But they've also done a version that's more
14 user friendly, excerpts from it. That kind of
15 proactivity, I believe, is going to pay
16 dividends in the next couple of years.
17 The future direction of the Commission is
18 different. We've gotten through the design
19 phase, the developmental phase. And the
20 Commission needs to turn its energies to the
21 area of monitoring and implementation.
22 And I'd like to hit just a few of those
23 areas.
24 The first area that the Commission will be
25 dealing with is a recommendation on raising the
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1 exit level requirements for a Florida diploma to
2 meet the work force readiness and college
3 entrance requirements.
4 Here we've got 24 credits, a 1.5 GPA, and a
5 high school competency test that's roughly
6 ninth grade, and we have a remediation problem
7 at the community college level.
8 And that ties in to the secondary -- a
9 development of a seamless K-16. So that we look
10 at what the exit levels are, but we also look at
11 what the placement levels in college are, and
12 what the levels that are expected for a student
13 who leaves high school and goes directly into
14 the work force. And so that alignment needs to
15 be -- be dealt with.
16 The third area is the area of performance
17 based budgeting. There's a tremendous amount of
18 discussion about it right now. The concern is
19 that the performance based budgeting be
20 synchronized with Florida's system of school
21 improvement and accountability.
22 If not, there's the possibility of sending
23 schools in two different directions. And we've
24 been working very closely with the (G2??) /*
25 GAP Commission in that area.
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1 Further, we need to take a look at the
2 redesign of the annual feedback report. Again,
3 to shift from just the development and initial
4 implementation of school reform and
5 accountability, to more deal directly with those
6 infrastructure and implementation type issues
7 that the Governor was questioning earlier.
8 And last, the Commission believes that it
9 needs to measure, through an evaluation design,
10 to get data on specific issues related to
11 implementation, but particularly up-front,
12 proactive research to deal with some of these
13 problem areas.
14 The organization -- to take a look at the
15 organizational change in the school. Changes in
16 the schools, and the districts.
17 Also to take a closer look at the teacher
18 education programs and whether or not they are
19 truly changing as we raise the level of
20 requirements of student performance. We're also
21 raising the level of requirement of instruction
22 in the classroom.
23 And lastly, to deal with the whole issue of
24 waivers and the deregulation and the charters.
25 In closing, there has been a tremendous
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1 amount of stakeholder involvement. We currently
2 have over 53,000 people involved in 2600 School
3 Advisory Councils. There has been consistency
4 of policy in this state for the last five years,
5 and it's beginning to pay off.
6 And an indicator of that was last summer,
7 the Education Commission of the States asked
8 Kentucky and Florida to present in a national
9 forum. And the topic was: Sustaining systemic
10 reform.
11 Thank you for the opportunity to present
12 the report to you.
13 GOVERNOR CHILES: Thank you very much,
14 Michael.
15 Question.
16 Yes, sir.
17 Hold on just a minute.
18 TREASURER NELSON: I think you're really
19 going in the right direction. I commend you for
20 that.
21 There's one seeming inconsistency here that
22 I need you to explain to me. One of the
23 recommendations in the report is to replace the
24 high school competency test, I think, with a
25 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, F-CAT.
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1 Or Florida Writes -- and/or Florida Writes.
2 Later in the agenda on the State Board of
3 Education, Item 6 is a proposal for us to
4 approve a 1.9 million dollar contract for
5 administering the high school competency test.
6 Tell -- tell me.
7 DR. BIANCE: Well, the F-CAT is in
8 development right now. It'll be field tested
9 next year. And what's -- what'll have to be
10 done after that field testing, particularly if
11 you're going to set a cut score for the exit
12 level, there's going to need to be a -- there's
13 going to need to be a -- some baseline data,
14 for instance, run on it. But, also, especially
15 to get through that field testing to set that
16 level.
17 And so we're kind of in a transition period
18 right now. And the high school competency test
19 is still a statutory requirement of a Florida
20 diploma.
21 TREASURER NELSON: When will F-CAT be
22 ready?
23 DR. BIANCE: If --
24 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: We'll use F-CAT --
25 field test this year; next year, baseline data;
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1 the following year would be the first full
2 administration for accountability purposes.
3 TREASURER NELSON: For F-CAT.
4 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Which would make
5 it --
6 TREASURER NELSON: Two years ago away?
7 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Yeah.
8 TREASURER NELSON: So this 1.9 million
9 dollar contract would be for two years.
10 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Actually three,
11 I believe, to make sure that we've got it.
12 Let me see if my testing people are out
13 there.
14 Hold up a number of appropriate fingers.
15 MR. HEIDORN: The contract is for two
16 years --
17 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Two years.
18 MR. HEIDORN: -- with the possibility of a
19 one-year extension.
20 DR. BIANCE: I believe it's in sync.
21 TREASURER NELSON: Okay.
22 (Commissioner Crawford exited the room.)
23 DR. BEDFORD: Thank you, Mike.
24 Thank you, Mike.
25 That was Item 3 for information.
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1 Item 4 and Item 5 together are
2 recommendations of the Florida Education
3 Standards Commission.
4 And with us today, we have Dr. Charlotte
5 Minnick Boroto to make a presentation regarding
6 these two items.
7 DR. MINNICK BOROTO: Good morning,
8 Governor, members of the State Board of
9 Education.
10 I'm pleased to be here today, along with
11 several members of the Standards Commission, to
12 present to you their recommendations. And these
13 recommendations deal with standards for
14 teachers, and standards for teacher education
15 programs, those of which Mike Biance was
16 speaking earlier.
17 Our recommendations deal with several
18 issues. The first are performance standards for
19 continued approval of teacher education programs
20 in colleges and universities in the state of
21 Florida. These do include the Educator
22 Accomplished Practices.
23 Our next recommendation has to do with
24 standards for providing prospective teachers
25 with the instruction necessary to teach students
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1 having limited proficiency in English.
2 I have the privilege --
3 (Commissioner Crawford entered the room.)
4 DR. MINNICK BOROTO: -- today of
5 introducing three members of the Commission.
6 They will present to you their recommendations,
7 present any implications, and answer questions.
8 I'd like them to come up.
9 First is Dr. Rod McDavis. He is the Dean
10 of the College of Education at the
11 University of Florida.
12 Second, Dr. William L. Proctor. He is the
13 President of Flagler College.
14 And, third, Mr. Steve Bouzianis. Steve is
15 the School Personnel Officer in Seminole County
16 and is the President of the Florida School
17 Personnel Association.
18 Dr. McDavis will speak to you about the
19 Educator Accomplished Practices.
20 DR. McDAVIS: Good morning,
21 Governor Chiles, Commissioner Brogan, and
22 Honorable members of the Cabinet.
23 It's a pleasure for me to be with you today
24 to talk about the Educator Accomplished
25 Practices. I'm here today to essentially
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1 present two recommendations from our Education
2 Standards Commission.
3 First will be the Educator Accomplished
4 Practices, and the second will be the standards
5 for providing prospective teachers with the
6 instruction necessary to teach students having
7 limited proficiency in English.
8 I am presenting the Educator Accomplished
9 Practices first, because they form the basis for
10 the other two recommendations of the Education
11 Standards Commission.
12 The 1993 Legislature, through language and
13 specific appropriation 312, directed the Florida
14 Education Standards Commission to develop
15 competencies for teachers related to the goals
16 of the Education Accountability Act.
17 The Education Standards Commission
18 developed the Educator Accomplished Practices,
19 using the following framework: One, high
20 expectations for teachers, not minimums; two,
21 continuous quality improvement; and three,
22 performance based and results oriented
23 standards, rather than seat time and
24 completion. The goal being to improve the
25 quality of the product.
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1 What the Commission has identified,
2 therefore, are the knowledge and skills
3 necessary by needed -- by teachers to
4 effectively implement Florida's system of school
5 improvement and accountability.
6 These practices are common to all teachers
7 at all grade levels and all subject areas. The
8 Education Standards Commission developed a set
9 of accomplished practices regarding what Florida
10 teachers should know and be able to do at three
11 benchmark levels: Preprofessional, the first
12 level, the point at which the individual
13 graduates from a pre-service teacher education
14 program.
15 The second level: Professional. These are
16 competencies teachers should be able to
17 demonstrate between the three- and five-year
18 mark in their professional careers, and
19 accomplish the third level. This is the level
20 that every educator wants to achieve. You're
21 constantly seeking to improve yourself, because
22 continuous improvement will always be necessary
23 as a teacher.
24 Governor and Commissioner Brogan, several
25 school districts have already adopted these
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1 accomplished practices for the evaluation of
2 their teachers, Leon and Lee Counties, to name
3 two. Many other school districts have
4 incorporated the accomplished practices into
5 their master in-service plans.
6 Moreover, several universities, both public
7 and private, have incorporated the accomplished
8 practices into their teacher education programs,
9 and are using them to coach, guide, and evaluate
10 their teacher interns.
11 The Standards Commission believes the
12 accomplished practices clearly are a shift from
13 minimum competencies to high expectations and
14 standards for all teachers.
15 At this point, I'll stop and take any
16 questions that you might have on the Educator
17 Accomplished Practices.
18 GOVERNOR CHILES: Well, I'm just trying to
19 think now -- right now you say that a couple of
20 school districts have -- have agreed --
21 you know, have accepted these.
22 In the legislation that was set forward
23 that required y'all to do this, does there need
24 to be an acceptance by the School Board, is that
25 just something that they can or can't decide
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1 whether they want?
2 DR. McDAVIS: I think on the front end,
3 several school districts wanted to begin to
4 incorporate --
5 GOVERNOR CHILES: Yeah.
6 DR. McDAVIS: -- these into their
7 evaluation plans on a voluntary basis.
8 GOVERNOR CHILES: Right.
9 DR. McDAVIS: I think once they are
10 approved by this Board, I think all of the
11 school districts will incorporate them into
12 their evaluation plans.
13 DR. BEDFORD: Yes.
14 GOVERNOR CHILES: Good.
15 DR. McDAVIS: So it won't be a maybe or a
16 we'll see --
17 GOVERNOR CHILES: Right.
18 DR. McDAVIS: -- or that sort of thing.
19 GOVERNOR CHILES: Again, once the Board
20 makes its finding and accepts them, then will
21 all of at least the public universities accept
22 them?
23 DR. McDAVIS: Without question.
24 GOVERNOR CHILES: All right.
25 DR. McDAVIS: We have already at the
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1 University of Florida incorporated many of the
2 Educator Accomplished Practices into our teacher
3 education program. And I think I can speak for
4 my colleagues, both at public and private
5 universities in the state who are already doing
6 the same kind of thing.
7 So we are excited as a group of teacher
8 educators, and as a group of deans and directors
9 of teacher education programs in the state of
10 Florida, to take a leadership role in
11 incorporating these into our programs, because
12 we think that we're one complete unit, that
13 there should not be a gap between those teachers
14 in the field, and what we're doing in colleges
15 of education across the state. So we're excited
16 about these accomplished practices.
17 The second recommendation that I would like
18 to share with you has to do with the E-S-O-L
19 pre-service training. Section 231.17, the
20 Florida Statutes, states that: The State Board
21 of Education shall adopt rules to require
22 colleges of education in the State University
23 System to provide prospective teachers with the
24 instruction necessary to enable -- to enable
25 them to teach students having limited
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1 proficiency in English. The instruction must be
2 a required part of the teacher preparation
3 program in each college.
4 The rules must be based on the
5 recommendations of the Education Standards
6 Commission, and shall take effect with the
7 1997-98 academic year.
8 (Attorney General Butterworth exited the
9 room.)
10 DR. McDAVIS: The Education Standards
11 Commission undertook extensive data gathering
12 efforts, including, but not limited to, working
13 with the Multicultural Education Training
14 Advocacy, META, attorneys, and the ESOL
15 profession, and holding the -- and holding five
16 regional public hearings to develop standards
17 for such rules.
18 The following are the recommendations of
19 the Education Standards Commission: One, that
20 the educator accomplish practices at the
21 preprofessional benchmark level be the
22 knowledge, skills -- be the knowledge, skills,
23 and dispositions to be included or incorporated
24 into pre-service teacher preparation programs.
25 Two, that the pre-service teacher
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1 preparation programs embodying recommendation
2 number 1 shall have fulfilled the statutory
3 requirements set forth in Section 231.17 of the
4 Florida Statutes. These are the two
5 recommendations that the Standards Commission
6 makes relative to the responsibility that we
7 were given.
8 And what this essentially means is that we
9 have incorporated into the Educator Accomplished
10 Practices those aspects that were given to us --
11 those recommendations that were given to us, to
12 help prepare teachers to deal with E-S-O-L
13 students.
14 So rather than having a separate set of
15 practices, we believe that inclusion or
16 incorporation was the way to go.
17 (Attorney General Butterworth entered the
18 room.)
19 DR. McDAVIS: And so that's what we're
20 recommending.
21 DR. BEDFORD: I wonder -- if I could just
22 interrupt a minute --
23 GOVERNOR CHILES: Yes.
24 DR. BEDFORD: -- I might be able to stop
25 some of the confusion.
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1 We will be coming back to you with rules to
2 implement their recommendations. Today we're
3 accepting their reports. We will come back with
4 specific rules.
5 GOVERNOR CHILES: Fine.
6 Any other questions?
7 Thank you, Dean.
8 TREASURER NELSON: Governor, I'd just say
9 that I think y'all are doing important work
10 here. And I commend you. Because reforming the
11 colleges of education, I think, has been long
12 overdue.
13 Now, are you getting the cooperation that
14 you all need from the colleges of education?
15 DR. McDAVIS: I --
16 DR. BEDFORD: They are --
17 DR. McDAVIS: Yes.
18 TREASURER NELSON: I know you're --
19 DR. McDAVIS: I feel --
20 TREASURER NELSON: -- going to say yes.
21 DR. McDAVIS: Yes. Yes, sir.
22 TREASURER NELSON: I know you're going to
23 say yes.
24 But what about the rest of them?
25 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Definitely at the
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1 University of Florida.
2 DR. McDAVIS: Yes. With the -- the
3 colleges of education are cooperating. There
4 are a number of faculty and others in the
5 colleges that are working very closely with the
6 Standards Commission, as well as with the
7 Accountability Commission so that we move
8 forward as a -- as a total entity in the state
9 of Florida.
10 I think it's critical at this juncture with
11 the Sunshine State Standards and the other
12 initiatives, that under Commissioner Brogan's
13 leadership, coming through the Department of
14 Education, that all of us work together, because
15 we have the same goal, and that is to improve
16 the education of young children in this state.
17 TREASURER NELSON: Do we have the clear
18 capability today of hiring, for example, as a
19 chemistry teacher someone who has not gone
20 through an educational curriculum, and might
21 have a Ph.D. in chemistry?
22 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: The answer to that
23 is, yes, Commissioner, but. The "yes, but" is
24 that currently while we can hire someone with
25 that kind of a background, I still feel as
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1 though the process as it exists today, and we're
2 looking to change, is that we don't give enough
3 credit for lifetime experience, state of the art
4 knowledge, et cetera. And too often we treat
5 those people in the system much like we treat an
6 eighteen year old who will start at the
7 University of Florida's College of Education
8 this year. That's one of the reforms in
9 certification that we want to make.
10 There's a great deal to be said for real
11 world experience and a state of the art
12 knowledge. And that keeps good people out, by
13 the way.
14 TREASURER NELSON: I'll never forget, when
15 I was at Melbourne High School, they had the
16 first Chinese course taught in the state of
17 Florida. And you know who it was taught by? A
18 medical missionary from China who spoke fluent
19 Chinese.
20 And yet I remember my -- my principal,
21 Dr. B. Frank Brown, having to go through all
22 kind of hoops --
23 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: B. Frank Brown.
24 TREASURER NELSON: -- to get Dr. Fellows, a
25 medical doctor, so that he could teach Chinese
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1 at Melbourne High School in 1959.
2 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: And while it got
3 somewhat better, it is still not where it needs
4 to be. That is still one of the things we need
5 to change.
6 I also want to pick up on something.
7 Dr. McDavis has talked largely about
8 pre-service, as well he should. These are
9 primarily targeted at pre-service, how do we
10 prepare people to become teachers.
11 But as he also mentioned, and the Governor
12 brought up in his remarks, the important
13 residual is the fact that ultimately this will
14 change the evaluation process of educators all
15 across the state of Florida.
16 And by virtue of that fact then, change how
17 we go about staff development activities with
18 educators so that ultimately, not only will we
19 be producing educators from our public and
20 private universities who have these skills, this
21 will have the effect of ultimately changing the
22 skill level of all educators in the state. And
23 that's an important part of the residual impact
24 it'll have.
25 GOVERNOR CHILES: Dean, this is a more
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1 specific question, and I recognize that.
2 But we have just begun the wiring of all of
3 our schools in Florida. I think all of us
4 recognize that one of our problems today is that
5 basically our core of teachers that are out
6 there are a little bit afraid of the
7 technologies there. They don't exactly know how
8 to deal with the fact that the students know a
9 hell of a lot more about the computers -- or
10 some of them do -- than they do. That's part of
11 what happens with the whole thing.
12 And we know that we've got to have a
13 tremendous effort to train and retrain even the
14 teachers that we have out there.
15 But are we doing something in the -- in the
16 curriculum now, in the courses we're taking, to
17 see that all of the new teachers that come out
18 are proficient, have sort of self-reliance that
19 they're going to be able to cope with, and be
20 able to start moving as the software and all of
21 this continues to just balloon and mushroom as
22 it goes forward.
23 DR. McDAVIS: Yes, Governor, we are. As a
24 matter of fact, this fall, for the first time,
25 all of the teacher education majors in state
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1 universities are required to take at least one
2 course in instructional technology, which deals
3 with the subject matter that you've referenced.
4 But beyond that, what colleges of education
5 are doing all over the state is integrating
6 technology throughout the entire teacher
7 education curriculum.
8 We think that's important. We think we
9 have to move as fast as we can to, number one,
10 integrate it into the curriculum. But beyond
11 that, we think we need to get out front. And
12 that's what we're working hard to do.
13 So we understand the importance and the
14 value of technology as we move into the
15 21st century. And what we're doing through our
16 colleges and schools of education across the
17 state is talking with one another, collaborating
18 and cooperating, trying to share our ideas,
19 trying to help one another move ahead so that we
20 can be out on the front end of the technology
21 curve.
22 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: And, Governor, we've
23 given you a lot of written information this
24 morning. If you're like me, I like the
25 executive summaries on things.
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1 Contained within your information is a
2 breakdown of what these accomplished practices
3 are that Rod is talking about.
4 And, for example, just as we did the
5 Sunshine State Standards, Accomplish Practice 12
6 is technology, and essentially shows you there
7 exactly what a teacher should know and be
8 expected to do regarding technology, as well as
9 the other accomplished practices. And it's --
10 that's a nice piece of down and dirty work as
11 well.
12 GOVERNOR CHILES: Thank you, Dean.
13 DR. McDAVIS: Quite welcome.
14 I'd like to introduce my colleague,
15 Dr. Bill Proctor, who's going to present the
16 performance standards for continued program
17 approval.
18 DR. PROCTOR: Thank you, Dr. McDavis.
19 Governor Chiles, Commissioner Brogan,
20 members of the State Board.
21 I serve as President of Flagler College,
22 but I also serve as Chairman of the Board of
23 Trustees for the Florida School for the Deaf and
24 the Blind. So I have an interest in both ends,
25 teacher preparation, and also the effectiveness
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1 of teachers that we hire at the school.
2 I'd first like to strongly endorse my
3 colleague's support for the ESOL provisions. At
4 the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind,
5 we have a very complex situation. We have to
6 deal with ESOL in the context of also sometimes
7 language training, teaching of actually two
8 languages dealing with students in that
9 context.
10 So I think the inclusion of the ESOL in the
11 Accomplished Practices is certainly the best way
12 to proceed.
13 Mr. Nelson, you asked about could -- would
14 the schools of education cooperate in the
15 implementation of the accomplished practices.
16 That leads me into the standards for
17 continuing program approval. The accomplished
18 practices are built into those standards. So
19 it's not a question of cooperation, it's a
20 question of whether or not you want to be
21 approved, assuming that these standards are put
22 into regulation. So the answer to your question
23 is yes.
24 Governor Chiles, with technology, it's been
25 pointed out that Item 12 in the Accomplished
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1 Practices is a technological standard.
2 And I would tell you just at a small school
3 such as Flagler, we've also considerably
4 diminished our operating reserves simply to put
5 in additional laboratories for teacher training
6 in that area.
7 The continuing -- the standards for
8 continuing program approval are shifting
9 dramatically. They are shifting from resource
10 and processed analysis, which has been the
11 standard for years, to graduate performance
12 measures.
13 I was thinking today, I started my teaching
14 in Florida some 40 years ago. So educational
15 reforms are not new to me.
16 If I could leave you with -- with one
17 thought, it would be this: That in all the
18 reforms that I have seen come down the pike over
19 those 40 years, I have seen nothing comparable
20 to the accomplished practices, or the continuing
21 program approval standards comparable in the
22 sense that you're making a decided shift from
23 resources, processes, measuring seat time,
24 counting courses, to graduate performance
25 measures, what can the teacher actually do at
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1 the time you certify them.
2 I'd welcome any questions.
3 GOVERNOR CHILES: Thank you.
4 Are there questions?
5 Thank you very much.
6 DR. PROCTOR: Thank you, Governor.
7 MR. BOUZIANIS: Good morning, and it's an
8 honor to become -- come before you today.
9 My name is Steve Bouzianis, and I'm
10 representing my personnel colleagues from around
11 the state. And I would just like to very
12 briefly endorse the comments made by my
13 Standards Commission colleagues, and also my
14 fellow personnel administrators.
15 We feel strongly in all of the
16 recommendations before you, because we feel that
17 a more qualified teacher is going to lead to
18 improved student performance.
19 We are very excited about this, because we
20 feel like these standards are really going to
21 upgrade the teaching profession around the
22 state.
23 Thank you very much.
24 GOVERNOR CHILES: Thank you.
25 Thank you all very much for that --
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1 DR. BEDFORD: Thank you --
2 GOVERNOR CHILES: -- report.
3 DR. BEDFORD: -- Charlotte.
4 Rod, for the record, did you say that this
5 was something that U of F was number 1 in also?
6 DR. McDAVIS: Yes, sir.
7 GOVERNOR CHILES: Let's see. Did we have a
8 motion on that --
9 DR. BEDFORD: We have not had a motion.
10 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: So move, Governor.
11 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Second.
12 GOVERNOR CHILES: Been moved and seconded.
13 Without objection, it's approved.
14 DR. BEDFORD: And same for Item 5, we would
15 need a motion.
16 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: So move.
17 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Second.
18 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
19 Without objection, Item 5 is --
20 DR. BEDFORD: Item 6 is proposed contract
21 for the Florida High School Competency Test.
22 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Move approval,
23 Governor.
24 GOVERNOR CHILES: Moved and seconded.
25 Without objection, it's approved.
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1 DR. BEDFORD: That concludes the State
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3 GOVERNOR CHILES: Thank you.
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1 GOVERNOR CHILES: Career Education.
2 DR. BEDFORD: State Board of Career
3 Education.
4 Item 1 is minutes of the meeting held
5 March 28th, 1996.
6 COMMISSIONER BROGAN: Move approval.
7 SECRETARY MORTHAM: Second.
8 GOVERNOR CHILES: Motion and second.
9 Without objection, it's approved.
10 DR. BEDFORD: Item 2 are reports of the
11 Florida Council on Vocational Education.
12 We have with us in our audience
13 Chuck Kronz, Chairman; and Eloise Sarlo,
14 Vice-Chairman, who will come forward at this
15 time.
16 MR. KRONZ: Good morning, Governor, and
17 Cabinet.
18 I'm Chuck Kronz, current Chairman of
19 Florida Council, Vocational Education.
20 With me this morning is Eloise Sarlo, our
21 Vice-Chair. And in the audience is Hines Boyd,
22 one of our council members; Jim Culligan, our
23 Executive Director; and Bill Roberts from staff.
24 We have three reports in front of you this
25 morning for consideration. We have brief
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1 summaries of the two reports. I will summarize
2 two of them, and Eloise will give you a brief
3 summary on the Council's visit to Lee County.
4 The Council is charged by Federal
5 legislation to advise the State Board on ways to
6 enhance the involvement of local labor
7 organizations in state vocational education
8 programs in order to assess the potential
9 that -- council's conducted a survey of local
10 labor organizations throughout the state of
11 Florida.
12 Results of the survey indicate that members
13 of the organized labor organizations strongly
14 support Commissioner Brogan's push for higher
15 academic standards for graduation, want to
16 participate more fully in education of our young
17 people through such activities as classroom
18 visits, participation in career figures, and
19 monitoring of students.
20 They want to also be invited to -- and want
21 to work in close relationships with the guidance
22 personnel. And they particularly want students
23 to be exposed to the rule of labor in
24 advancement of American society.
25 To get down to specific findings of the
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1 survey, members of the local labor organizations
2 favor the seven period day to allow students to
3 have time for elective courses; endorse
4 qualified examinations of basic skills; believe
5 that every student should earn at least one
6 vocational credit; urge the acceptance of some
7 vocational courses and fulfillment of
8 high school academic requirements; support the
9 idea that every student should have some work
10 experience, either paid or voluntary, while in
11 school.
12 Advocate the certification of vocational
13 teachers by the State. Want computer keyboard
14 skills to be taught to elementary school
15 students. And by an overwhelming majority of
16 94 percent, agree that vocational, slash,
17 applied technology education is helpful to our
18 work force.
19 Having taken into consideration the results
20 of the survey, and the comments that were
21 offered in the open response section, the
22 Council offers to the State Board of Education
23 the recommendations and endorsements found on
24 page 17 of the Council's report.
25 Our second report in front of you for your
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1 consideration is the Council's report on
2 allocation of spending of funds provided to
3 Florida under provisions of the Carl D. Perkins
4 Vocational Applied Technology Education
5 Amendments of 1990.
6 This document provides a breakdown of uses
7 of funds for secondary, postsecondary, consumer,
8 and homemaking, tech prep, and Committee Based
9 Organizations, and correctional education
10 programs in our state.
11 We found that the Florida Department of
12 Education and the Correction Education School
13 Authority have used these funds in an equitable
14 awareness of the State's cultural and geographic
15 diversity, with an operational mode of fairness
16 and service to students and employers.
17 Likewise, we found a clear indication of
18 appreciation for the value of the involvement
19 and innovation.
20 In addition to the numbers, the Council
21 report also contains a description of the tech
22 prep initiatives and the programs operated by
23 Community Based Organizations. Therein lies its
24 uniqueness. We are especially appreciative of
25 the work done by Community Based Organizations
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