Florida's career standard, criterion by criterion: 6 of 25 matched, 19 not claimed.

Florida compels a middle-grades career plan by law. This is the strongest middle-grades mandate on the hub, and the only one that is a promotion gate. Section 1003.4156(1), Florida Statutes, opens: "In order for a student to be promoted to high school from a school that includes middle grades 6, 7, and 8, the student must successfully complete the following courses" — and paragraph (e) is "One course in career and education planning to be completed in grades 6, 7, or 8, which may be taught by any member of the instructional staff. The course must be Internet-based, customizable to each student, and include research-based assessments to assist students in determining educational and career options and goals." A Florida eighth-grader who does not complete it is not promoted. The statute then goes on to describe this product’s category in its own words — Internet-based, customizable per student, research-based assessments — which is why the counts below matter more here than anywhere else on the hub: Florida has written the requirement in terms a platform can be measured against, and on twenty-five benchmarks we close six. One caution a reviewer should have from us rather than from a surprise: an FLDOE course framework still published on fldoe.org states that "Effective July 1, 2017, there is no longer a promotion requirement for middle grades students to complete a Career and Education Planning course." That sentence is not consistent with the statutory text in the editions we read — 2016, 2020, 2022 and 2026 all place paragraph (e) inside the same "must successfully complete" list — and we quote the statute above rather than the framework. Verify against the enacted text before relying on either. Current text dates from s. 8, ch. 2024-163.

Career and Education Planning Course Standards — the four standards and twenty-five benchmarks Florida publishes for the course required by s. 1003.4156(1)(e), F.S., read from the State Board Approved course description (CPALMS course 0800025, M/J Health & Career Planning Grade 8 Year), published by Florida Department of Education / CPALMS course directory, grades 6-8. Florida publishes these standards inside course descriptions rather than as a standalone standards document, and on 2026-09-06 two different editions of the same named standard were both live in the state’s own directory. We read the State Board Approved one. Both editions are named on this page, with their course numbers, rather than the conflict being resolved silently — because a district may well have the other one in front of it. Two levels, and the state numbers them separately: a Standard printed as "01.0" through "04.0", then benchmarks printed beneath it as a bare "01", "02", "03". Four standards, twenty-five benchmarks — four, six, six and nine. ⚠ TWO LIVE EDITIONS OF THE SAME NAMED STANDARD. Course 1700060 ("M/J Career and Education Planning", Course Status "Course Approved", semester, grades 6-7-8) prints an older list of eight standards with no benchmarks at all — "Describe the influences that societal, economic, and technological changes have on employment trends and future training", and seven more of that shape. Course 0800025 ("M/J Health & Career Planning Grade 8 Year", Course Status "State Board Approved", year, grade 8) prints the four-standard, twenty-five-benchmark list crosswalked here, whose wording tracks the statute the older list predates. We crosswalk the State Board Approved edition and name the other rather than pretending the directory is consistent. One transcription note: the source prints "Iifestyle" with a capital i in benchmark 01.03; we render it "lifestyle" and record the single-character normalisation here rather than ship what reads as our own typo. And one drift worth knowing: the course description still credits the "Department of Economic Opportunity’s economic security report" where the 2026 statute says "Department of Commerce’s".

It means the platform produces the artefact the criterion asks for with nothing a teacher has to add. No Florida criterion is closed that way, and the count on this page is zero rather than absent. Every claim below is the weaker kind, and each row says so.

It means the platform supplies the data or the assessment result and a teacher runs the classroom half — it is weaker, and it is labelled separately for that reason. 6 criteria are closed this way: 01.01, 01.02, 01.04, 02.01, 02.04 and 04.03. A plan a system wrote for the student would not satisfy the standard, and claiming it would not be worth much either.

Because the 0 and the 6 are different kinds of evidence — one is work the software does on its own, the other is work a teacher does with something the software supplies — and merging them into one headline number would flatter the platform at your expense. Every row states which of the two it is, and the counts are shown as separate pills rather than added together.

We make no claim on them. No JobCannon surface — assessment, career-page field or glossary entry — addresses them, and they are listed exactly as plainly as the 6 we do claim: same row format, same visual weight, a stated "not claimed" rather than an absence.

The codes in the left-hand column are OURS, not Florida’s, and cannot be cited back to the state as printed. Florida numbers the standard "01.0" and the benchmark beneath it "01" — two independent sequences. A row here reading "01.03" is our join of the two so that every one of the twenty-five has a unique handle on one table; the state never prints that string. Cite Florida as "Career and Education Planning Course Standards, Standard 01.0, benchmark 03". Every criterion text in the right-hand column is verbatim from the State Board Approved course description, save a single capitalisation typo in benchmark 01.03 that we correct and record where the standard is described on this page.

Read 2026-09-06. Standards text from CPALMS course 0800025 (State Board Approved), the Career and Education Planning Course Standards as Florida currently publishes them. Statutory text read in the 2026 Florida Statutes on leg.state.fl.us and checked against the 2016, 2020 and 2022 editions — paragraph (1)(e) is present in all four, inside the promotion list each time. The document itself is linked at the top of the table, so you can check any row against the source rather than take our word for it.