Comprehensive Health
Develop a model program for implementation of a Comprehensive Health Education Policy to address mental and emotional health education, suicide prevention, substance use and abuse prevention, dating violence and abusive behavior, human trafficking, teenage pregnancy, injury prevention and safety, Internet safety, personal health, community health, consumer health, family life, nutrition, prevention and control of disease.
Tier 1 Proposal: A model program requiring all middle school students, grades 6-8, to take a minimum of one semester of health each year.
- Number of middle school students in grades 6-8: 20,000
- The district will need to hire an additional 34 teachers to teach the one-semester course annually – $2,408,058
- Florida Department of Education subject area certification test fee (health) and training cost: $5,100.00
- Subject Area Curriculum Text: $131,661.60
- Total: $2,545,219.60
- Approximate Cost Per Student: $127.26
Tier 2 Proposal: A model program requiring middle school students in grades 7 & 8 to take a minimum of one semester of health. (This option continues district-funded 6th grade health.)
- Number of middle school students in grades 7 and 8: 13,334
- The district will need to hire an additional 24 teachers to teach the one-semester course annually - $1,700,088.00
- Florida Department of Education subject area certification test fee (health) and training cost: $3,600.00
- Subject Area Curriculum Text: $92,937.60
- Total: $1,796,625.60
- Approximate Cost Per Student: $134.74
Tier 3 Proposal: A model program requiring middle school students in grade 8 to take a minimum of one semester of health. (This option continues district-funded 6th grade health.)
- Number of middle school students in grade 8: 6,666
- The district will need to hire an additional 12 teachers to teach the one-semester course annually - $850,044.00
- Florida Department of Education subject area certification test fee (health) and training cost: $1,800.00
- Subject Area Curriculum Text: $46,468.80
- Total: $898,312.80
- Approximate Cost Per Student: $134.76