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Report and Recommendations

The complete report and recommendations of the Paper Reduction Task Force (PDF, ) is available.

The task force made the following recommendations to reduce the paperwork burden: Academic Improvement Plans, Section 1008.25(4), Florida Statutes

  1. Repeal the Academic Improvement Plan and consolidate other individualized student plans to provide school districts with flexibility. Allow districts to determine whether a struggling student will have (1) an individual progress monitoring plan or (2) be part of a school-wide progress monitoring system. An additional individualized student plan is not required if the student already has a federally required plan, such as the IEP or LEP Plan.
School Improvement Plans, section 1001.42, Florida Statutes
  1. Schools with a grade above a C shall not be required to complete a school improvement plan by the state, unless required by federal law. District school boards may still locally determine that these schools will still submit a School Improvement Plan.
  2. Amend statute so that the School Improvement Plan shall focus strictly on student achievement and that current plan requirements not relating to student achievement shall be addressed in other appropriate sections of the K-20 education code.
Sunshine Connections
  1. Sunshine Connections should continue to be developed and implemented with a core goal of reducing paperwork and the burden of electronic data input for teachers. The Sunshine Connections Statewide Advisory Committee should review the findings of this task force and work to develop strategies within the functionality of each release to alleviate the paper and electronic burden hours placed on teachers. Furthermore, this task force endorses the development of an electronic, pre-populated statewide IEP as a part of Sunshine Connections.
District Actions
  1. School boards are not to exceed paperwork and reporting requirements mandated by the state without extensive public hearings, input from local paper reduction task forces, and detailed analysis of “burden hours” needed to complete the paperwork (hard copy and electronic) for the proposed mandate.
  2. Require that each district school board create a task force, comprised predominantly of teachers, to reduce the paper and electronic reporting requirements in their district and to report their actions to the Department of Education.
Future Legislation
  1. The official analysis of legislation by either legislative chamber shall include an estimation of the “burden hours” created by the proposed legislation.
Continuation of Paperwork Reduction at the State Level
  1. The Department of Education will annually review the progress of school and district implementation of recommendations, and will review the results of the district task forces.

For more information on the Paper Reduction Task Force, please call (850) 245-0509.