Florida Statute 1008.02 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVIII
EARLY LEARNING-20 EDUCATION CODE

Chapter 1008
ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

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1008.02 Definitions.—As used in this chapter, the term:

(1) “Developmental education” means instruction through which a high school graduate who applies for any college credit program may attain the communication and computation skills necessary to successfully complete college credit instruction. Developmental education may be delivered through a variety of accelerated and corequisite strategies and includes any of the following:

(a) Modularized instruction that is customized and targeted to address specific skills gaps.

(b) Compressed course structures that accelerate student progression from developmental instruction to college-level coursework.

(d) Corequisite developmental instruction or tutoring that supplements credit instruction while a student is concurrently enrolled in a credit-bearing course.

(2) “Gateway course” means the first course that provides transferable, college-level credit allowing a student to progress in his or her program of study.

(3) “Meta-major” means a collection of programs of study or academic discipline groupings that share common foundational skills.

History.—s. 18, ch. 2013-51.

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Kap Sun Bukta v. U.S. Attorney General

827 F.3d 1278, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 12379, 2016 WL 3608672

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | Filed: Jul 5, 2016 | Docket: 3231770

Cited 62 times | Published

the Board’s sua sponte authority. See 8 C.F.R. § 1008.2(a). For reasons discussed in the Board’s

United States v. Michael Wayne Kirkland

12 F.3d 199, 1994 WL 4294, 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 1220

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | Filed: Jan 25, 1994 | Docket: 1031774

Cited 12 times | Published

Service, it simultaneously enacted 39 U.S.C. § 1008, 2 which declares that “[a]ny person, when

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