Community Budget
Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1415FY0001 Project CHILD - Class Size Research: Phase III |
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Requester: |
Sally Butzin, Dr. |
Organization: |
Institue for School Innovation. |
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Project Title: |
Project CHILD - Class Size Research: Phase III |
Date Submitted: |
2/9/01 12:04:07 PM |
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sponsors: |
Heather Fiorentino, Jerry Melvin |
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Statewide Interest: |
Meets documented need &statewide interest to provide a cost-effective remedy to teacher shortages |
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Recipient: |
Institute for School Innovation |
Contact: |
Barbara Palmer |
||||||
|
1355 E. Tennessee St. |
Contact Phone: |
(850) 877-6631 |
||||||
|
|
Tallahassee 32208 |
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Counties: |
{Statewide} |
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Service Area: |
Private Organization |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Project Description: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
final phase and summative evaluation of research to investigate the effects of class size on learning. Test scores for students in 5 diverse elementary schools participating in enhanced Project CHILD classrooms with 30 students each are being compared to students participating in traditional self-contained classrooms of 20 students each. Florida TaxWatch is conducting an evaluation to determine academic outcomes and cost-beneift issues. |
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
|
|
|
|
|
||||
This research will inform policy makers on funding education. Predicted statewide savings and/or cost avoidance using the enhanced Project CHILD model are estimated at $4.4 billion. The Project CHILD results are already showing improved test scores for reading, writing, and mathematics. |
|||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$1,500,000 |
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Identify item(s) in the Appropriations Bill to be reduced: |
|
|
|
|
|||||
Specific Appropriation #: |
1, 5A |
|
|
|
|
||||
Specific Appropriation Title: |
Specia Categoirs, Grants & Aids- Assistance to Low Performing Schools from Educational Enhancement Trust Fund |
|
|
||||||
Amount to be reduced: |
$1,500,000 |
|
|
|
|
||||
Fund Source: |
Trust Fund |
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total cost of the project: |
$4,500,000 |
|
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Request has been made to fund: |
Operations |
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Type of funding match: |
None |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Was this project previously funded by the State? |
|
Yes |
|
||||||
|
Fiscal Year: |
2000-2001 |
Amount: |
$1,500,000 |
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
|
No |
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
|
No |
|
||||||
Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
No |
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Is there a documented need for this project? |
|
Yes |
|
||||||
|
Documentation: |
Continuing poor student performance on FCAT requires new learning strategies. |
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? |
Yes |
|
|||||||
|
Hearing Body: |
Florida Legislature, Seate Education Committee |
|||||||
|
Meeting Date: |
3/20/00 |
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|