Florida Administrative Code › 6 - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › 6A - State Board of Education › Chapter 6A-19 - EDUCATIONAL EQUITY › Section 6A-19.002 - Treatment of Students - General

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
All guidance, counseling, financial assistance, academic,
				  career and vocational programs, services and activities offered by each
				  institution shall be offered without regard to race, sex, national origin,
				  marital status or handicap. There shall be no discrimination in recreational,
				  athletic, co-curricular or extracurricular activities.
(1) Guidance and Counseling. Each institution
				shall assure that, in guidance and counseling practices, there is no
				discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, marital status or
				handicap. Factors of race, sex, national origin, marital status or handicap
				shall not be used to encourage or discourage a student's enrollment in a
				particular program or participation in a particular activity or to measure or
				predict a student's prospects for success in any career, occupation, program,
				course or activity.
(a) If particular programs
				or disciplines have disproportionate enrollments of male or female students,
				minority or nonminority students, or handicapped students, the institution
				shall examine its policies, procedures and practices to determine whether the
				disproportion is the result of discriminatory counseling activities.
(b) Qualified handicapped students shall not
				be counseled toward more restrictive career or academic objectives than
				nonhandicapped students with similar abilities and interest. This requirement
				does not preclude the providing of factual information, at the postsecondary
				level, about licensing or certification requirements that may present obstacles
				to handicapped persons in their pursuit of particular careers.
(c) Counselors shall communicate with
				national origin minority students having limited-English-language skills and
				with students having hearing impairments. This requirement may be satisfied by
				having interpreters available.
(d)
				Counseling materials and other publications used by the institution shall not
				state or imply through text or illustration, that applicants, students or
				employees are treated differently on the basis of race, sex, national origin,
				marital status or handicap. This does not prohibit the inclusion of information
				designed to meet the needs of national origin minority students with
				limited-English-language skills, handicapped students needing special services
				or as may be appropriate for affirmative action purposes.
(e) Appraisal instruments selected by the
				institution shall not discriminate based on race, sex, national origin, marital
				status or handicap. Counseling tests and instruments, which result in
				disproportionate enrollment in any course or program, shall be examined by the
				institution for discrimination in the instrument or in its application.
				Institutions are not required to conduct additional examination of
				state-required instruments.
(f)
				Institutions which use testing or other materials for appraising or counseling
				students shall not use different materials for students on the basis of sex or
				use materials which permit or require different treatment of students on this
				basis unless these different materials cover the same occupations and interest
				areas and the use of these different materials is shown to be essential to
				eliminate sex bias.
(g) Promotional
				efforts, including activities of school officials, counselors, instructional
				staff, school-related parent groups, school-related community or business
				groups, shall not be conducted in a manner that states or implies that the
				institution restricts access to its programs, activities or services on the
				basis of race, sex, national origin, marital status or handicap. Promotional
				efforts include, but are not limited to, career awareness activities, open
				houses, parent programs, shop and laboratory demonstrations, student
				visitations and summer camps.
(h)
				Promotional or counseling materials and activities shall not state or imply,
				through text or illustration, that access to those programs, services or
				activities is restricted on the basis of race, sex, national origin, marital
				status or handicap.
(i) Student
				recruitment activities shall be conducted so as not to exclude or limit
				opportunities on the basis of race, sex, national origin, marital status or
				handicap.