232.2481 Graduation and promotion requirements for publicly operated schools.--
(1) Each state or local public agency, including the 1Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, the Department of Corrections, the Board of Regents, boards of trustees of community colleges, and the Board of Trustees of the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, which agency is authorized to operate educational programs for students at any level of grades kindergarten through 12 shall be subject to all applicable requirements of ss. 232.245, 232.246, 232.247, and 232.248. Within the content of these cited statutes each such state or local public agency shall be considered a "district school board."
(2) The Commissioner of Education shall establish procedures to extend the state-administered assessment program to school programs operated by such state or local public agencies in the same manner and to the same extent as such program is administered in each district school system.
History.--s. 7, ch. 79-213; s. 3, ch. 87-298; s. 11, ch. 95-325.
1Note.--The Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services was redesignated as the Department of Children and Family Services by s. 5, ch. 96-403, and the Department of Health was created by s. 8, ch. 96-403.
