Florida Administrative Code › 6 - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › 6A - State Board of Education › Chapter 6A-1 - FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION › Section 6A-1.099812 - Education Accountability for Department of Juvenile Justice Education Programs

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Purpose. The
				purpose of this rule is to set forth the performance rating system for
				Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) education programs.
(2) Definitions. For the purposes of this
				rule, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) "Common assessment" means the assessment
				required by Section 1003.52(3)(d),
				F.S., and designed to measure student learning gains and academic progress,
				which is administered to students upon entry into and again prior to release
				from DJJ education programs.
(b)
				"Core-curricula courses" means courses in the subject areas defined in Section
				1003.01(14),
				F.S.
(c) "Department of Juvenile
				Justice (DJJ) education program" means a program operated by or under contract
				with the Department of Juvenile Justice that provides educational services to
				students receiving prevention, day treatment, or residential commitment
				services designated within Section
				985.03(44),
				F.S.
(d) "Eligible students" means
				students whose length of stay within the same DJJ education program is at least
				forty (40) calendar days, which can include consecutive stays. Consecutive
				stays in the same program will be treated as a single, continuous program
				enrollment if:
1. Attendance dates
				overlap,
2. Attendance gap between
				stays is thirty (30) days or less, or
3. Attendance gap reflects a summer break and
				the student re-enrolls in the same DJJ education program during the following
				term.
(e) "Employment"
				means that a student with a valid social security number was employed in the
				quarter of release, or during any of the subsequent four reporting quarters
				after release, from a DJJ education program as reflected by the unemployment
				insurance quarterly wage (U/I) data found in the Florida Education and Training
				Placement Information Program (FETPIP) data collection system established under
				Section 1008.39, F.S.
(f) "Learning gains on the common assessment"
				means a student's score increases on the common assessment between the pre- and
				post-test, or a student scores one hundred (100) percent on both the pre- and
				post-tests.
(g) "Learning gains on
				the statewide standardized assessments" means learning gains calculated based
				on the provisions of Rule
				6A-1.099822, F.A.C.
(h) "Program type" means prevention,
				intervention (day treatment), nonsecure residential, and secure residential
				(high-risk residential, maximum-risk residential) based upon the
				restrictiveness level of the DJJ education program as defined by Section
				985.03(44),
				F.S.
(i) "Released students" means
				students who withdrew from a DJJ education program and did not return to the
				same program within thirty (30) days of withdrawal or after summer
				break.
(j) "Statewide standardized
				assessments" means the English language arts and mathematics assessments
				identified in Section
				1008.22(3),
				F.S.
(k) "Subject areas" means the
				areas of English language arts and mathematics.
(l) "Sufficient data" means at least ten (10)
				observations are eligible for inclusion in the denominator of the component
				calculation.