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Education board okays grading changes, degree program
Associated Press
Published March 22, 2006
TALLAHASSEE - The state Board of Education Tuesday approved adding a science component to the grading system used to evaluate Florida's public schools beginning with the 2006-07 school year.
The same year, schools can also be rewarded by showing learning gains among the bottom quarter of their mathematics students.
Schools can also earn bonus points if more than half of the juniors and seniors successfully retake the 10th-grade Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test that students have to pass to graduate, Board of Education Chairman Phil Handy said.
In other business, the panel approved a four-year safety management degree for Miami-Dade College.
The community college, which already offers a bachelor's degree in education, would provide a 120-hour degree program requiring 36 general education hours and a language component.
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