FL S0104

Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, high schools may offer students two credits in computer coding courses that, combined with a related industry certification, satisfy two credits of sequential foreign language instruction.

Florida College System institutions and state universities must recognize computer coding credits as foreign language credits, but students and parents must sign a statement acknowledging the credits may not meet out-of-state college and university foreign language requirements.

Computer coding courses identified by the commissioner must be included in the Course Code Directory, and the Florida Virtual School may offer these courses to students whose school districts do not.

The Department of Education must annually report to the Board of Governors and the Legislature the identified computer coding courses and the number of students enrolled in them by district.