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  SECTION 1002.57. Prekindergarten director credential.  


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  • 1(1) 2The office, in consultation with the Department of Children and Families, shall adopt minimum standards for a credential for prekindergarten directors of private prekindergarten providers delivering the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program. The credential must encompass requirements for education and onsite experience.
    43(2) 44The educational requirements must include training in the following:
    53(a) 54Professionally accepted standards for prekindergarten programs, early learning, and strategies and techniques to address the age-appropriate progress of prekindergarten students in attaining the performance standards adopted by the department under s. 851002.67;
    86(b) 87Strategies that allow students with disabilities and other special needs to derive maximum benefit from the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program; and
    108(c) 109Program administration and operations, including management, organizational leadership, and financial and legal issues.
    122(3) 123The prekindergarten director credential must meet or exceed the requirements of the Department of Children and Families for the child care facility director credential under s. 149402.305(2)(g), 150and successful completion of the prekindergarten director credential satisfies these requirements for the child care facility director credential.
    168(4) 169The department shall, to the maximum extent practicable, award credit to a person who successfully completes the child care facility director credential under s. 193402.305(2)(g) 194for those requirements of the prekindergarten director credential which are duplicative of requirements for the child care facility director credential.
History.-s. 1, ch. 2004-484; s. 5, ch. 2013-252; s. 365, ch. 2014-19; s. 30, ch. 2018-103.

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