Florida, state file 09

Coverage summary

• NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.
• Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program.

• 82Units in frameExhaustive frame
• 82Readable subsetThe frame less NOT VERIFIABLE and NOT AUDITED: every unit whose pages were read
• 19PROGRAM rows with a weak-evidence flag

As of September 28, 2026, the release date of this version.

District coverage

One row per unit in frame. The table opens on each unit's coverage code and flags; Detailed adds the evidence note, the source, how the page was read, the pass at which the code was set, and every other column. Search, filter by code or agency type, and page through every row.

• NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.
• Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program.

Operator silence

Counted in both directions for each statewide provider: the provider's own published count, and the agencies in frame that name the provider as a Deaf and hard of hearing service mechanism, named outright.

As of September 28, 2026, the release date of this version.

Publication against identified population

Identified population

3,963 SY 2024-25 Source 1

In agencies that publish a program

3,681 SY 2024-25 Source 1

The state's suppression rule, printed on every MPES sheet: groups under 10 are shown as asterisks; a district absent from a sheet is recorded as not listed, never as zero. Visible district counts sum to 3,878 across the 46 frame units that print a number, 23 further cells carry the mark, and the residual of 85 against the state total of 3,963 is consistent with suppression of small counts. The measure is high because Florida's large districts publish: every unit reporting ten or more identified deaf or hard of hearing students while publishing nothing (NONE FOUND) is named on the Summary sheet (Bay 36, Highlands 17, Suwannee 14, Sumter 11, Florida Virtual School 11).

As of September 28, 2026, the release date of this version.

Identified population by agency

Each unit with an identified count the state publishes or suppresses, with its coverage code, so the measure above can be recounted from the file. A mark such as an asterisk is the state's suppression mark, as published; an empty cell is a count the state does not publish for the unit.

• NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.
• Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program.

State indicators

As of September 28, 2026, the release date of this version.

Identified population over time

The count of identified students with hearing impairment and with deaf-blindness as the primary category, for each year the state publishes, as published. Where two instruments give a count for the same year, both rows are shown with their sources. No change between years is computed.

As of September 28, 2026, the release date of this version.

Fiscal channels

The channels at FRM-003, each with its status. Amounts are as published, nominal, and marked enacted or appropriated; they are not added across channels, and no per-pupil figure is computed.

Every figure a channel carries

Where a channel carries a series, each fiscal year as published with its basis (actual, revised, enacted, appropriated, or as the instrument names it). The figures are not added across years or channels.

As of September 28, 2026, the release date of this version.

Workforce

The standards and the supply behind a Deaf child's classroom: the qualification the state requires of an educational interpreter, the training and preparation programs, the teacher of the deaf credential, shortage designations, the paraprofessional, intervener, and audiologist standards, and the special education workforce. Each figure is as published; no ratio is computed.

As of September 28, 2026, the release date of this version.

Schools and programs

As of September 28, 2026, the release date of this version.

The remaining columns (ages or grades, communication and language approach, ASL availability, residential service, enrollment, cost to family, governance basis, accreditation, leadership, notes, and primary source) are part of the licensed state file. Access tiers and the licence request route

The frame

82 units: the 81 districts with a district office row in the department's Master School ID (MSID) 2026-27 Active Schools file plus one district that the entry page's district select lists and the Active Schools file does not (88 SUCCESS ACAD, a school of hope operator LEA with a district office opened 07/01/2026 and no active school, coded NOT OPERATING under D-045). The 81 are the 67 county school districts (01 to 67) and fourteen special districts: 68 DEAF/BLIND (the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, its own district in state data), 71 FL VIRTUAL, the four university developmental research school districts (72 FAU LAB SCH, 73 FSU LAB SCH, 74 FAMU LAB SCH, 75 UF LAB SCH), 80 IDEA PUB SCH (a school of hope operator LEA under s. 1002.333(6)(a)), 81 TSC, 82 FSU BAY, 85 MDC CHARTERS, 86 PHSC K12 and 87 UWF (college and university charter sponsor LEAs under s. 1002.33(5)(b)6), 83 DJJ DISTRICT (the Department of Juvenile Justice's education district) and 84 KIPP SOUTH (a school of hope operator LEA). The roster was fixed from the MSID Active Schools file (4,786 rows, 38 columns; every one of the 81 has a district office row and at least one active school) and checked against the department's School Districts list (80 entries; omits 80 and 88) and the charter portal's Sponsoring Entities list (74 rows); the three instruments do not agree above district 67 and the MSID file was ruled the roster instrument by the program lead on 27 September 2026. No unit is OUT OF FRAME, none is NOT AUDITED, none is NOT VERIFIABLE after attempt one, and one is NOT OPERATING. Against v1.0's frame of 77: 84, 85, 86 and 87 are new LEAs under the two statutory carve-outs and 88 is new and not operating; every one is a frame change with cause re-audit in the delta table. Florida has no regional special education unit that operates programs: the 18 FDLRS associate centers (s. 1006.03) carry no deaf or hard of hearing function and are carried as the regional_unit of every county district row rather than as audit units. Private schools, including the listening and spoken language sector and the one ASL-medium private school, are not local educational agencies and are documented as entities (FL-011 to FL-015) and as the market layer's destinations, not audited as units; no count of private schools serving DHH students is published (the administrator's fact sheet counts 2,076 participating private schools of every kind, source 125).

Frame count

82

Frame

Exhaustive

The deaf and blind boundary decision

Florida runs one school for both populations on one campus under one board, one statute (s. 1002.36), one appropriation line, one boarding program and one Parent Infant Program with two arms; FLDOE's own school list gives the campus five schools, three deaf-side (Deaf Elementary, Deaf Middle, Deaf High) and two blind-side (Blind Elementary/Middle, Blind High), with an Early Learning Center. The boundary therefore runs inside the institution: separable are the MPES exceptionality counts for district 68 (334 deaf or hard of hearing, 148 visually impaired, 28 dual sensory impaired in 2024-25), the Board report's departmental enrollment (331 Deaf Department, 146 Blind Department, 11 ELC as of 09/08/2026) and the two Parent Infant Program counts (626 DHH, 237 Blind as of 9/4/2026); not separable are the appropriation (SA 107 and 113), the capital lines, the boarding and transportation programs, the staff and the accreditation. The state's exceptionality split and the school's departmental split are held side by side and never reconciled. Outside the campus, the blind counterparts are FIMC-VI (inside Hillsborough County Public Schools, funded at 270,987 on the same Specific Appropriation as RMTC-DHH) and the Division of Blind Services (inside the department); both are documented only to the extent needed to justify their exclusion (FL-023, FL-024). Dual sensory impairment is its own eligibility (Rule 6A-6.03022) and the federal deaf-blind project (FAVI, FL-009) is documented as the technical assistance provider, not a school.

Reference years and frameworks

Enrollment and child count

SY 2024-25 (the MPES February survey, Final Survey 2; the 2025-26 workbook, the federal 618 fall count and the school's own statements are carried beside it in the notes, never in its place)

Fiscal

FY 2024-25 enacted (chapter 2024-231, the state fiscal year funding SY 2024-25); FY 2025-26 enacted and the 2026-27 request carried as the series; no FY 2026-27 act on the run date

Institutional framework

As read on 2026-09-27 (the 2025 Florida Statutes; rules as in force on that date)

Frameworks applied

FRM-001 1.0, FRM-002 1.0, FRM-003 1.0, FRM-004 1.0, FRM-005 1.0, STD-002 1.2

The method as applied

Normalizations in force

Every normalization applied in this run: the FRM-004 set and the state's own standing false positives, as the file records them.

• federal nutrition boilerplate naming ASL is not hearing content
• website accessibility boilerplate is not hearing content
• an eligibility definition or Child Find category list without a service model codes MENTION
• a staffing, job or salary document naming a DHH position codes PROGRAM with a weak-evidence flag
• school nurse screening codes MENTION
• public budget or tax hearing notices and due-process hearing officer text are standing false positives for the term hearing
• ELL and world-language interpreters are not DHH staff; a world-language ASL course is recorded in the asl_course field and is not a DHH program
• every acronym hit is opened before it is counted
• a district page describing RMTC-DHH, FDLRS or FSDB services codes MENTION with the provider in the mechanism column; a bare link codes NONE FOUND with the provider recorded
• PROGRAM on a district row requires the district's own staff or program; the weak flag qualifies PROGRAM only
• procedural safeguards text is a standing false positive
• D-037: a service named only as an item in a list is recorded with its evidence form; a category or eligibility list, a placement continuum, a regulatory definition, a generic related service item, a screening or nondiscrimination notice, or an undifferentiated reference to an outside body is MENTION at most; a named DHH staff position on the unit's own staff is PROGRAM on weak evidence; a described program, department page or site is PROGRAM
• the framework ground (flag F-06): a recital of the State Board's eligibility definition (Rule 6A-6.03013) or of the exceptionality list, with nothing of the unit's own, codes NONE FOUND; fourteen v1.0 MENTION codes moved to NONE FOUND on this ground
• a charter school's page reached from a sponsoring district's site is the district's content only where the page is the district's own (the seven Escambia charters listed at escambiaschools.org); a charter's own page is out of frame
• the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind's own district row (68) codes PROGRAM as the state school, not on weak evidence

The method and its known limitations

Every unit was read twice on 27 September 2026: a first pass by a fetch fleet (seventeen chunks FL01 to FL17, two agents at a time, WebFetch only, briefs read from disk, honest failure rows; 80 first-pass rows) and a closure pass in the owner's rendered Chrome with the Florida closure probe (fl_closure_probe_v1_2026-09-27.js: the home page read live, then same-origin fetches of linked pages, with client-side shells rendered in a same-origin frame; 137 probe payloads ingested). Every code rests on the rendered read; the fetch row's code is kept in the closure rows file's code history (41 changes against the fetch pass, 22 of them from NOT VERIFIABLE). Apptegy-hosted sites render staff lists, accordion panels and some list blocks by script after load, so the closure added a live render sweep (fl_live_sweep_v2_2026-09-27.js: every page in a same-origin frame with scripts run and panels expanded) over the 24 Apptegy-hosted units (flag F-07); hash-routed pages (dhh.dadeschools.net) and accordion pages (Okaloosa job descriptions, Martin contacts, Sarasota disabilities list, Monroe ESE staff) were captured from the live tab after the panels were opened by script; job description PDFs were fetched same-origin on their file hosts and held as served with digests and text renderings; Chrome throttles timers in a background tab, so the live sweeps ran one at a time in the foreground tab. Container shell HTTP is prohibited by session policy and was not used; no agent used web search; the compiler ran the D-039 search for two units whose listed address was missing or failed (83 DJJ District; 87 UWF, whose MSID school row host serves a TLS hostname mismatch that was not bypassed). Route and click depth: the fetch pass recorded the visible navigation labels to the page it read and its depth, and those are carried where the closure code rests on the same page or the code is NONE FOUND; where the closure code rests on a page the probe reached by a sitemap or a linked-page link, the route field is empty and the depth is not measured. Staff positions are counted from the pages the code rests on, not from a full directory read, so staffing-based PROGRAM evidence may be undercounted in districts whose directories are client-side applications. The ASL course column was not measured (course catalogs were not read) and carries not found on every read unit with that caveat; the one charter-published ASL course is in the charter sweep. The identified counts are the MPES 2024-25 Final Survey 2 district table, in which 23 district cells are suppressed (groups under 10) and 13 frame units are absent; the 2025-26 workbook is carried beside it. The charter sweep over the 745 could not read 120 rows (58 addresses dead or misdirected, 7 malformed, 1 not tried in the browser, 54 with no address in MSID) and its finding is about publication at the listed address. Three v1.0-era reads were not repeated on the run date and are recorded as such: the ed.gov IDEA allocation tables and the OCR resolutions pages refuse the fetch tool and were not read in the browser; the classroominterpreting.org state page and the 2019-20 Gardiner report were not re-read (flag F-17). One secondary page (the Fort Myers deaf service center) was read but its DOM download was blocked by the browser, so it is not a source.

Disclosure

None contacted. No body named in this file has been contacted by the Index, and no client, licensee, State Partner or funder relationship exists with any of them. Declared by the program lead under GOV-004 Rule 3 on 27 September 2026 (the session's run was performed by Heather M. Grizzle, program lead); the program lead confirms this statement at release.

Compiled

October 29, 2026

Notice and correction record

Notice sent

October 9, 2026

Window closed

October 26, 2026

Responses

No response was received before the window closed.

Contact of record

Notice, comment, and correction on this state file reach the Index at the contact of record the file names.

Mailbox

notice@ndedi.org

Postal address

Novara Consulting Group LLC, 18140 Zane St NW #159, Elk River, MN 55330

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Version history

• v2.0

  September 28, 2026, cause: re-audit

  Rebuilt at SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025) (the MPES February survey, Final Survey 2) under the third-generation prompt. The frame reached 82 units: the 81 districts with a district office row in the department's MSID 2026-27 file (67 county and 14 special districts) plus one school of hope operator opening in 2027-28, coded NOT OPERATING; every readable unit read twice on one day, by a fetch fleet and in the rendered browser, coded 41 PROGRAM (19 weak), 13 MENTION, 27 NONE FOUND, zero NOT VERIFIABLE and zero NOT AUDITED. Against v1.0: 10 rows up, 15 down (14 on the framework ground that a recital of the state's eligibility definition is not the unit's own content), 10 flag changes, 5 rows new (the delta table, trail section 12); publication against identified population 92.9 percent (3,681 of 3,963) on the 2024-25 base, against v1.0's 92.0 on the 2025-26 base. New in this version: the 2024-25 MPES workbook opened for the first time and every count re-based to it (statewide 3,963, FSDB 334, with 2025-26 beside); the federal IDEA 618 environments and personnel files read at data.ed.gov; both enacted General Appropriations Acts read in full for the school's line (68,302,007 for 2024-25 and 80,273,729 for 2025-26); Rule 6D-3.002 read from the rule text, moving the school's admission criteria to their rule; the two listening and spoken language lines traced to their instruments; the Auditor General's four reports read directly; the charter class exclusion tested over all 745 charter rows; the workforce block, the plain-language summary, the fiscal series on every channel, the per-row collection under the contract and the D-043 directory route fields (12 flagged); 131 sources with 72 archive snapshots. Corrections to v1.0: the audiometric criteria v1.0 quoted for Rule 6A-6.03013 are in Rule 6D-3.002 (cause: source version); v1.0's reconciliation of the school's departmental split with the state's exceptionality split rested on a document no longer linked.

Checks record

Release checklist version

1.4

Run date

October 30, 2026

Reconciliation output

09_Florida_reconciliation_output_2026-10-30.txt

Run ledger identifiers

R-2026-09-27-01, R-2026-09-27-02, R-2026-09-27-03, R-2026-09-27-04, R-2026-09-27-05, R-2026-09-27-06, R-2026-09-27-07, R-2026-09-27-08, R-2026-09-27-09, R-2026-09-27-10

Custody and report checks

Report checks output

09_Florida_report_checks_2026-10-29.txt

UK spellings in the Index's own prose

0

Files in the evidence manifest

1,531

Evidence manifest check

Pass

Sources with an archive snapshot

76

Sources with no archive snapshot

52

Archive lookups that failed

0

Deposit

DOI for version 2.0

10.5281/zenodo.23253506

DOI for every version (resolves to the newest)

10.5281/zenodo.23253505

Deposit record

zenodo.org/records/23253506

Deposited

October 9, 2026

Licence on the record

Summary layer under the free terms; the licensed files are restricted on the record (STD-004 v1.0 section 3) (licensed files restricted; metadata and the summary export open)

SHA-256 of the package as imported

3be2976b575e5bb95c637a8d3d8a6fddc13645c0c1b57b2e40f331588a53e232

Sources

Each source with its access date and its Internet Archive status as the archive status file recorded it at the run: a snapshot found, with its date and address; no snapshot; a lookup that failed; or not requested.

Gaps a records request could close

Each gap this file records that a request to a public body could close, with the record requested, the route, and the request as the file records it. A gap with an identifier has been asked; a gap without one has not yet been asked. The gap stands until the record is published.

As of September 28, 2026, the release date of this version.

The narrative profile

What the narrative covers

• 1. In plain language
• 2. Summary of findings
• 3. Governance and legal framework
• 4. The state school
• 5. Communication and language approach
• 6. The statewide outreach and early intervention layer
• 7. The local education agency layer and regional programs
• 8. The private and listening and spoken language sector
• 9. The market layer
• 10. What local education agencies publish
• 11. Data, and what the state does not measure
• 12. Fiscal allocation and legislative context
• 13. The workforce
• 14. Open items
• 15. Notice and correction
• 16. Sources
• 17. Annex A. How to read this file (ANX-001 v1.0, reproduced verbatim)
• What this file is
• The one sentence that governs everything else
• The coverage codes
• The weak evidence flag
• The frame, and why it is printed
• Why coverage is given twice
• What the file never does
• Some terms the file uses
• If you think something here is wrong
• How to cite

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The frame, the tallies, the operator silence counts, the indicators, and the fiscal channels of this version. With them, every other part of this page that is free: the plain-language summary, the method as applied, the identified population over time, the workforce, the Schools and Programs directory, the records requests, the contact of record, and the archive status of the sources. The District Coverage rows and the identified population by agency are viewable on this page and are not in the export.

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