| Issue |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
 P-3 |
Adopted 10/2012 |
P-12 |
Standardizes screenings of children enrolled in the School Readiness Program. https://www.flrules.org/gateway/notice_Files.asp?ID=12219495
Title: FL ADC 6M-4.720
Source: www.flrules.org |
Postsecondary |
Issued 05/2012 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform. Provides the responsibilities of the task force include, but are not limited to:
(1) Cataloging and consolidating the recommendations of the various efforts related to Florida's state university system
(2) Assessing strengths and weaknesses of the state university system's governance model related to its constitutional charge
(3) Analyzing the ability of state universities to contribute to the state university system's 2012-2025 strategic plan
(4) Recommending strategies, such as incentive systems and governance improvements, to encourage cooperation between institutions leading to reduced duplication and improved efficiencies
(5) Recommending amendments to statutes and regulations necessary to improve state universities' accountability and transparency to the board of governors, and the board of governors' accountability and transparency to the legislature and governor
(6) Conducting a review and analysis of efforts to achieve national preeminence and academic and research excellence by Florida universities, including elements that may be considered for future legislation to advance higher education.
Directs the task force, no later than November 15, 2012, to provide a written report to the governor, senate president, and speaker of the house detailing assessments and recommendations related to the above. Provides task force continues in existence until May 4, 2013. http://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/orders/2012/12-104-blueribbon.pdf
Title: E.O. 12-104
Source: www.flgov.com |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
For the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years, requires each district with one or more of the 100 lowest-performing elementary schools based on the state reading assessment to use specified funds to provide intensive reading instruction during an additional hour of instruction beyond the normal school day each day of the school year. Specifies this hour of instruction may only be provided by teachers or reading specialists who are effective in teaching reading. Makes participation in additional hour of reading instruction optional for students who have level 5 assessment scores. Specifies criteria that additional reading instruction must meet.
Additionally amends provisions related to broader allocation of funds for research-based reading instruction. Previous policy permitted funds to be allocated to provide reading coaches, summer reading camps, intensive interventions for middle and high school students, and other purposes. New amendment includes the aforementioned additional hour a day in 100 lowest-performing elementary schools as another permitted allocation, as well as K-5 reading intervention teachers during the school day. Specifies that reading coaches are intended to support teachers in making instructional decisions based on student data and improve teacher delivery of effective reading instruction, intervention, and reading in the content areas. Specifies that summer reading camps are to be provided to all K-2 students demonstrating a reading deficiency, and to students in grades 3-5 scoring at Level 1 on FCAT Reading. Expands "intensive interventions" to make all K-12 students identified by FCAT as having a reading deficiency or reading below grade level. Existing provision required districts receiving reading funds to adopt and implement a district plan. New amendment directs the department to monitor implementation of each district plan, including conducting site visits and collecting specified data, and to report its findings annually to the legislature.
Pages 26-33 of 41: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5101 - Reading Instruction
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires a school improvement plan to include strategies for improving student achievement if a school has a significant student achievement gap for one or more subgroups, has not significantly decreased the percentage of students scoring below satisfactory on statewide assessments, or has significantly lower graduation rates for a subgroup compared to the state's graduation rate. Revises provisions requiring a charter school to implement a school improvement plan to raise student achievement. Revises corrective actions to be selected and implemented by a low-performing charter school. Provides requirements for implementation of corrective actions and intervention and support strategies identified in a charter school's school improvement plan. Provides for termination of a charter school not making continuous improvement unless it meets specified criteria. Revises provisions relating to the state board's authority to enforce public school improvement, to require the state board to comply with the federal flexibility waiver approved by the U.S. secretary of education. Beginning with the 2011-12 school year, directs the department of education to annually identify each public school in need of intervention and support to improve student academic performance. Defines all schools earning a grade of "D" or "F" as schools in need of intervention and support. Directs the state board to adopt by rule a differentiated matrix of intervention and support strategies for assisting traditional public schools and rules for assisting a charter school that has earned a "D" or "F." Specifies that the state board must apply the most intense intervention and support strategies to schools earning an "F" grade. Deletes department duties relating to the categorization of low-performing schools. Provides state board, district, and school requirements for implementing strategies and turnaround options to improve school performance. Revises turnaround options available to a district, and requires state board approval of the option selected for implementation. Directs the state board to adopt rules relating to plans for implementing turnaround options. Requires districts, for the 2012-13 school year, to use 15% of their Title I funds to meet supplemental educational services requirements. Requires that supplemental educational services be provided in Title I schools to students performing at Level 1 or Level 2 on the FCAT. Requires each district to contract with department-approved supplemental educational service providers. Revises the contents of the annual report of statewide assessment program results. Requires school report cards to include the percent of students performing at or above grade level and making a year's learning growth in a year's time in reading and math. Revises certain criteria on which school letter grades are based, including permitting more than 50% of a high school's grade to be based on specified factors (previous legislation made specified factors 50% of a high school's letter grade). Includes Postseconary Education Readiness Test as part of calculation of high school's letter grade. Amends methodology for calculating a school district's grade. Requires district grades to be calculated using student performance and learning gains data on statewide assessments for students enrolled in a district for a full school year. http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7127er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7127&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7127 - School Improvement and Education Accountability
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
From final bill analysis: Provides that a full-time student, co-enrolled in a K-12 education program and an adult general education program, may be reported for funding for two courses per year in an adult education program in Fiscal Year 2012-2013. Limits enrollment to core coursework, and only for credit recovery and dropout prevention purposes. Only applies for students who do not have a pattern of excessive absenteeism or habitual truancy or a history of disruptive behavior in school. Bill text (pages 66-67 of 72): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Final bill analysis (page 16 of 22): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5201z.HEAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Funding for ABE and K-12 Education Student
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Assessment--End-of-Course |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that students enrolled in an Algebra I, geometry, or Biology I course or an equivalent course with a statewide, standardized end-of-course assessment are not required to take the corresponding grade-level FCAT assessment. Pages 12-13 of 48: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7127er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7127&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7127 - End-of-Course Assessments
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits required course in career planning to be taken in grade 6. Requires that such course (1) result in a personalized academic and career plan for the student, (2) emphasize technology or the application of technology in career fields, (3) and, beginning in 2014-15 school year, include information from the department of economic opportunity's economic security report. Repeals provisions of required middle grades career planning course that related to (1) career exploration using Florida CHOICES or comparable program, and (2) educational planning using FACTS.org. Requires required personalized academic and career plan to inform students of career-themed course opportunities. Deletes a required parent meeting.
Bill text (pages 11-14 of 71): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7059er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7059&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h7059z.KINS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=7059&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7059 - Academic and Career Planning in Middle Grades
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Defines "career-themed course" as a course or series of courses leading to industry certification, and aligned with priority workforce needs established by the regional workforce board or the department of economic opportunity. Permits two or more districts to collaborate to offer career-themed courses. Requires the offering of secondary-level career-themed courses to be coordinated with the relevant industry. Requires department of education to collect and analyze student achievement data in career-themed courses. Permits a career and professional academy to be aligned with priority workforce needs established by the department of economic opportunity (previously could only be aligned with needs established by the regional workforce board). Requires districts to offer at least two career-themed courses, and encourages each secondary school to offer at least one career-themed course. Encourages the Florida Virtual School to offer rigorous career-themed courses as appropriate. Requires students completing a career-themed course to be provided opportunities to earn postsecondary credit for the course if the course credit can be articulated to an approved postsecondary institution in the state. Makes goals of career adn professional academies also applicable to career-themed courses. Requires career academy and career-themed courses to be in high-wage, high-skill, high-demand careers (previous provision specified only "high-demand" careers). Permits a career academy to offer courses in more than one occupational cluster. Makes various other provisions that are applicable to a career academy also applicable to career-themed courses and schools offering career-themed courses, including related to middle school career and professional academy courses and career-themed courses. Directs the state board to adopt rules to identify industry certifications in STEM offered in middle school to be included on the Industry Certified Funding List and that are eligible for additional full-time equivalent membership. Amends provisions related to curriculum review committee (i.e., committee to ensure rigor of proposed and existing core secondary courses).
Existing provision requires districts to develop a strategic 5-year plan, in collaboration with regional workforce boards, economic development agencies, and postsecondary institutions, to address and meet local and regional workforce needs. BIll amends scope of plan to 3-year strategic plan, and revises strategic plan requirements to incorporate career-themed courses, address student advisement, include plans to sustain and improve career-themed courses and career and professional academies, include strategies to recruit students into career-themed courses, and strategies to redirect appropriated career funding in secondary and postsecondary institutions to support career academies and career-themed courses that lead to industry certification. Provides that if passage rate on an industry certification exam related to a career academy or career-themed course falls below 50%, the 3-year strategic plan must be amended to include strategies to improve passage rate (and repeals previous sanctions for low passage rates on industry certification exams). Removes requirement that strategic plans include establishment of student eligibility criteria in career and professional academies.
Provides for calculation of additional full-time equivalent membership based on completion of career-themed courses.
Bill text (page 19-33, 68-70 of 71): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7059er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7059&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h7059z.KINS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=7059&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7059 - Career Themed Courses, Career Academies, and Workforce Alignment
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
From bill analysis: Reduces the 5% charter school administrative fee charged by school districts for schools that have an exceptional student enrollment that is 75% or greater of the total school enrollment. Bases the fee for affected schools on unweighted FTE rather than weighted FTE.
Bill text (page 10 of 41): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Final bill analysis (pages 3-5 of 13): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5101z.PKAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5101 - Charter School Administrative Fee
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Revises definition of low-performing school for purposes of student eligibility to attend a higher-perfoming public school under the opportunity scholarship program. Defines "low-performing school" as school that has earned an "F" grade or 3 consecutive "D" grades. Pages 4, 10 of 48: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7127er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7127&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7127 - Opportunity Scholarships
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Requires students seeking an associate of arts degree to demonstrate competency in a foreign language.
Page 18 of 31: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7135er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7135&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7135 - Foreign Language in Associate Degree Programs
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Directs the department of economic opportunity to prepare an economic security report of employment and earning outcomes for degrees or certificates earned at public postsecondary educational institutions. Requires that the report be easily accessible to and readable by the public and be made available online. Requires the report to include specified data on postsecondary graduates' employment (including by degree or certificate program), earnings, and student loan debt. Beginning in the 2014-15 school year, directs the state board and the board of governors to require Florida College System institutions and state university institutions, respectively, to provide students, prior to registration, with electronic access to the economic security report of employment and earning outcomes prepared by the department of economic opportunity. Beginning in the 2014-15 school year, requires each middle and high school student or student's parent, prior to registration, to be provided a two-page summary of the department of economic opportunity's economic security report of employment and earning outcomes, and electronic access to the report.
Pages 4, 11, 13, 30-31 of 31: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7135er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7135&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7135 - Economic Security Report of Employment and Earning Outcomes
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Finance--Bonds |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Extends the allowable time period for school district bonds from 20 years to 30 years. Streamlines the language defining when bonds are to be made recallable. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0465er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0465&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 465
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
From bill summary: Requires the Auditor General to notify each member of the governing body of a district board, charter school, or charter technical career center of certain fund balance deficits. Removes a condition under which local governmental entities, charter schools, charter technical career centers, and district boards are subject to certain review and oversight by the governor, the charter school sponsor, the charter technical career center sponsor, or the commissioner of education. Requires a district board to provide requested information within a specified period of time. Authorizes a financial emergency board for a district board to consult with other governmental entities for the consolidation of administrative direction and support services. Authorizes the governor or commissioner of education to require a district board to include provisions implementing the consolidation, sourcing or discontinuance of all administrative direction and support services in certain plans. Provides that the members of a district board who fail to resolve a state of financial emergency are subject to suspension or removal from office. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_s0368er.DOCX&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0368&Session=2012
Title: S.B. 368
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Directs the Auditor General to notify the legislative auditing committee of any financial or operational audit report that indicates that a state university or Florida College System institution has failed to take full corrective action in response to a recommendation included in the two preceding financial or operational audit reports. Provides that if an audit (including of a school district) contains a significant finding, the district school board, Florida College System institution board of trustees, or the university board of trustees must conduct an audit overview during a public meeting.
Bill text (pages 7-8 and 66): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Final bill analysis (page 2): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5201z.HEAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Audits (Including of School Districts and Postsecondary Institutions)
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Establishes for the 2012-13 fiscal year the K-12 Public School Facility Funding Task Force. Identifies task force membership. Requires the task force to convene by July 31, 2012 to make recommendations to the legislature for more equitable facility funding for charter schools and district-operated schools, including on five enumerated issues. Directs the task force to complete its work and submit recommendations to specified legislative leaders by December 1, 2012. Abolishes the task force June 30, 2013. Pages 37-39 of 41: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5101 - K-12 Public School Facility Funding Task Force
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
From bill analysis: Delays the increased class size penalty (from 50% to the full amount of the base student allocation) until 2014-2015, including a retroactive adjustment of the 2011-2012 penalty calculation.
Bill text (pages 17-18 of 41): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Final bill analysis (pages 5-7 of 13): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5101z.PKAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5101 - Delay of Class Size Penalty
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Calcifies the amount of state and local funding to which juvenile justice education programs are entitled.
Pages 18-20 of 41: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5101 - Funding for Juvenile Justice Education Programs
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Finance--Resource Efficiency |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires each local board to enter into an interlocal agreement to establish the School District Consortium to maximize the purchasing power for goods and services. Provides a consortium may be statewide or regional, as appropriate to achieve the lowest cost.
Page 8 of 41: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5101 - School District Consortium to Increase Purchasing Power
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
From bill analysis: Provides flexibility for districts in scheduling elections of a school board chair by amending the existing requirement that a district board elect a chair on the third Tuesday after the first Monday of November. Instead the bill requires that the election be held in November. Also provides that in a general election year, the election of a school board chair must comply with the statutory requirements for a general election. Bill text: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1357er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1357&Session=2012
Bill analysis: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h1357z.KCOS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=1357&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 1357
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires independent sanctioning authorities for youth athletic teams and the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) to (1) adopt guidelines to educate coaches, youth athletes and their parents, and other stakeholders on the nature and risk of concussion and head injury, (2) adopt bylaws or policies requiring parents to sign an informed consent on the nature and risk of concussion and head injury, (3) adopt bylaws or policies requiring immediate removal from play of a student suspected of sustaining a concussion or head injury, and (4) prohibiting return to play until the student submits written medical clearance from an appropriate health care practitioner. Directs the FHSAA to adopt bylaws for the establishment and duties of a sports medicine advisory committee with specified membership.
Bill text: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0291er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0291&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h0291z.KINS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=0291&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 291
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Revises language concerning child abuse reporting. Requires any person with knowledge or reasonable suspicion of child abuse by person other than parent or caregiver to report such knowledge/suspicion. Requires similar reporting of knowledge or suspicion of childhood sexual abuse or that child is victim of known or suspected juvenile sexual offender. Requires department of children and families (DCF) to provide for reports to be made via web-based chat. Requires all reports of child abuse by person other than parent or caregiver to be made immediately to DCF's central abuse hotline via any of specified means. Directs DCF to update the web form used for reporting child abuse, abandonment, or neglect to incorporate specified changes, and requires the report to be made available to the counselors as needed to update the Florida Safe Families Network. Directs the department to conduct a feasibility study on using text and short message formats to receive and process reports of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect. Directs DCF to conduct public awareness campaign regarding the central abuse hotline. Increases failure to report child abuse, abandonment, or neglect (or knowingly and willingly preventing another person from making such a report) from first-degree misdemeanor to third-degree felony. Directs the department of education to require teachers in grades 1-12 to participate in continuing education training provided by the DCF on identifying and reporting child abuse and neglect.
Directs DCF to collect and analyze, in separate statistical reports, reports of child abuse and sexual abuse reported from or occurred on the campus of any public or nonpublic postsecondary institution. Provides that any public or nonpublic postsecondary institution whose administrators or law enforcement agency fail to report known or suspected child abuse, abandonment, or neglect occurring on a campus or at a campus-sponsored event are subject to fines of $1 million for each such failure. Provides for challenges to findings of such determinations.
Provides for upward reclassification of certain prostitution offenses involving minors. Adds new provisions providing for relocation assistance for victims of sexual battery, and providing criteria for awards. Defines "mental injury" with respect to offenses of abuse, aggravated abuse, and neglect of a child. Requires a physician or psychologist providing expert testimony regarding mental abuse in a criminal child abuse case to have certain credentials. Includes in definition of crime a felony or misdemeanor child abuse offense, committed by adult or juvenile, that results in mental injury. Makes an appropriation.
Bill text: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1355er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1355&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h1355z.HHSC.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=1355&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 1355
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Repeals 1007.235 related to district interinstitutional articulation agreements, and replaces references to district interinstitutional articulation agreements with references to "dual enrollment articulation agreements." Provides requirements for the development and contents of a district and Florida College System institution dual enrollment articulation agreement. Requires the department of education to develop an electronic submission system for dual enrollment articulation agreements and to review agreements for compliance. Authorizes dual enrollment articulation agreements with state universities, eligible independent colleges and universities, and private secondary schools. Requires each district's comprehensive plan for student progression to list, or incorporate by reference, all dual enrollment courses in the district's dual enrollment articulation agreement. Repeals 1007.272, which provided for joint dual enrollment and advanced placement instruction (one course being provided to meet both dual enrollment and AP expectations).
Prohibits a student projected to graduate from high school before the scheduled completion date of a postsecondary course from enrolling in the course through dual enrollment. Removes provision requiring the department of education to adopt guidelines aimed at achieving inter-district comparability of student and teacher qualifications for dual enrollment. Amends student eligibility requirements for initial dual enrollment participation, and adds eligibility requirements for continued enrollment in dual enrollment courses. Provides that a student who is disruptive to the learning process may lose the opportunity to participate in dual enrollment. Amends initial and continued eligibility requirements for enrollment in career certificate dual enrollment courses. Provides that exemptions to the grade point average requirement may be offered only on an individual student basis, and that Florida College System institutions may establish additional initial (not continuing) student eligibility requirements only. Permits a Florida College System institution to limit dual enrollment participation based on capacity. Establishes requirements for faculty members providing dual enrollment instruction, and for each president (or designee) of a postsecondary institution offering a dual enrollment course. Specifies standards for the rigor of dual enrollment courses, including, among others, that courses taught at a high school meet the same competencies required for courses taught on the postsecondary campus. Prohibits dual enrollment courses taught at a high school from being combined with any noncollege credit high school course. Amends provision requiring all secondary students to be notified of dual enrollment opportunities to require all parents of secondary students to be notified as well. Requires local boards to provide data on demand for dual enrollment to each partnering postsecondary institution. Existing law establishes some postsecondary institution requirements enrolling a home education student in a dual enrollment program. New amendments require a home education student wishing to participate in a dual enrollment program to sign a home education articulation agreement, and delineates existing and new obligations as the home education articulation agreement. Requires a postsecondary institution to assign letter grades to each dually-enrolled student, to be posted to the student's high school transcript.
Requires high schools to notify all students of early admission courses (by which high school students enroll in a postsecondary institution on a full-time basis for high school and postsecondary credit) and early graduation options. Establishes a minimum and maximum number of college credit hours for participation in an early admission program.
From bill analysis: Also eliminates the exemption from Florida College System admission standards for secondary students taking a college-level course outside of the dual enrollment program. By eliminating this exemption, the bill prohibits the practice of "credit in escrow," which allows a high school student, who does not qualify for dual enrollment, to enroll in and pay for college courses that do not count toward high school graduation.
Bill text (pages 8-9, 15, 17-18, 34-50, 63 of 71): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7059er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7059&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h7059z.KINS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=7059&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7059 - Dual Enrollment, Early Admission
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Beginning with the 2012-2013 school year, requires that the end-of-course assessment in Algebra I be administered four times annually. completion of a full academic year, which begins with the fall term. Provides district reporting requirements for a full-time equivalent student in courses requiring certain statewide, standardized end-of-course assessments and for a student who passes a statewide, standardized end-of-course assessment without being enrolled in the corresponding course.
Bill text (pages 52, 65-68 of 71): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7059er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7059&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h7059z.KINS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=7059&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7059 - End-of-Course Assessments
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Defines "early graduation." Establishes provisions to allow a student to graduate high school in fewer than 8 semesters while completing 24 credits. Requires local boards to adopt a policy that allows a high school student to graduate early. Requires student and parental notification of options for early or accelerated high school graduation, and notification when a student is eligible to graduate early. Also requires each district's comprehensive plan for student progression to advise parents and students of the early and accelerated graduation options. Permits a student who graduates early to participate in school events and participate in graduation events with the student's cohort. Provides a student who graduates midyear is eligible for a Bright Futures Scholarship in the spring term following graduation. Provides requirements for funding high school credits. Requires a student who graduates mid-year to apply by August 31 of the student's graduation year to be eligible for a Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program award for the current academic year. Provides a calculation of additional full-time equivalent membership based on early high school graduation.
Bill text (pages 11, 15-16, 63-64, 71 of 71): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7059er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7059&Session=2012
FInal bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h7059z.KINS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=7059&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7059 - Early Graduation
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Prohibits a school from requiring a student to complete the online course requirement for high school graduation outside the school day or in addition to a student's courses for a given semester. Specifies that this requirement does not apply to a student with an individual education plan that indicates that an online course would be inappropriate or a student who enrolls in a Florida high school and has less than 1 academic year remaining in high school. Bill text (page 11 of 21): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7063er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7063&Session=2012
Final bill analysis (page 5 of 11): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h7063z.KINS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=7063&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7063 - Online Course for High School Graduation
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that if a district enters into a contract or employment agreement with an officer, agent, employee or contractor that includes a severance pay provision, the agreement must include the provisions of s. 215.425 (http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0200-0299/0215/Sections/0215.425.html) (reducing severance package language from maximum of one year's salary to a maximum of 20 weeks' compensation). Amends separate section to require district school superintendent contracts, if they contain severance pay provisions, to include the provisions of s. 215.425.
Bill text (pages 8-9 of 41): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5101z.PKAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5101 - Severance Pay
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides Florida Virtual School (FVS) full-time students who meet specified academic and conduct requirements are eligible to participate in extracurricular activities at the public school to which the student would be assigned or could choose to attend, provided the student meets specified eligibility criteria. Clarifies eligibility criteria for students transfering into and out of FVS full-time program. Prohibits any person from taking an online course or examination on behalf of another person for compensation; provides a penalty. Clarifies definition of "blended learning." Requires students in a blended learning course offered by a district to be full-time students of the school and receive the online instruction in a classroom setting at the school. Provides the funding, performance, and accountability requirements for blended learning courses are the same as those for traditional courses. Authorizes the FVS to provide part-time instruction for students in grades K-3 (statute already permitted FVS to provide part-time instruction for grades 4-12). Provides student eligibility requirements for part-time instruction in grades K-5 for FVS. Removes requirement that each elementary school principal notify the parent of a student scoring at Level 4 or Level 5 on FCAT Reading or FCAT Mathematics of the option for the student to take accelerated courses through the FVS. Requires FVS students to take statewide assessments at the school to which the student would be assigned. Requires a district virtual instruction program to include part-time virtual instruction for K-12 students (previously part-time instruction requirement was only for students in grades 9-12). Requires a provider of virtual instruction programs to have an annual financial audit of its accounts. Revises provisions relating to eligibility requirements for virtual instruction and virtual instruction options. Requires full-time virtual instruction programs provided by FVS and under statute 1002.45 http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=1000-1099/1002/Sections/1002.45.html to fulfill district obligations for exceptional students enrolled in a full-time virtual instruction program.
Bill text: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7063er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7063&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h7063z.KINS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=7063&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7063 - Online and Blended Learning
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
P-3 Preschool |
Vetoed 04/2012 |
P-12 |
From final bill analysis: Conforms applicable statutes to the appropriations provided in the General Appropriations Act for the school readiness program for the 2012-2013 fiscal year. Defines terms for purposes of the School Readiness Act. Requires definitions for expenditures and reports for (1) direct expenditures for services to children; (2) administrative costs; (3) nondirect expenditures; and (4) quality. Requires the Office of Early Learning to: (1) adopt a list of approved curricula; (2) identify a preassessment and postassessment for School Readiness participants; (3) adopt a statewide, standardized contract to be used by coalitions with each school readiness provider; (4) coordinate with other agencies to perform data matches on individuals or families participating in the school readiness program; and (5) submit annually a recommended allocation of funds to the School Readiness Allocation Conference including payment rates, parent co-payment percentages, and the Gold Seal premium rate percentage. Revises procurement and expenditure requirements by early learning coalitions. Requires coalitions to merge if they are unable to comply with expenditure requirements. Allows the Office of Early Learning to provide a waiver for merging coalitions for the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 years if justification for excess expenditures is provided. Revises the eligibility criteria for the enrollment of children in the school readiness program:
o First priority is a child under 13 from a working family receiving TANF;
o Second priority is an at-risk child under 9;
o Third priority is a child under 6 from an economically disadvantaged family, and children younger than 6 who are disabled;
o Fourth priority is a child ages 9 through 13 who is a sibling of a younger child in the school readiness program through the at-risk provision;
o Fifth priority is a child ages 6 through 13 who is a sibling of a younger child in the school readiness program through the economically disadvantaged provision; and
o Last priority is for a child who is also concurrently enrolled in the Head Start program and the Voluntary Prekindergarten Program.
Provides for the allocation of school readiness funds as specified in the General Appropriations Act. For 2012-2013, requires the Office of Early Learning to submit by May 31, 2012, a recommended allocation of School Readiness Program funds, including standardized provider payment rates, Gold Seal premium rate percentages, and a parent co-payment percentage to the School Readiness Allocation Conference for review. Requires recalculation of the funding allocations quarterly by the Office of Early Learning. Provides for fraud investigations and provides penalties for school readiness providers and parents who knowingly submit false information related to child eligibility and attendance in a school readiness program. Creates the School Readiness Allocation Conference, are to review allocation recommendations by the Office of Early Learning. Establishes a due date for school readiness providers to submit market rates to be used as part of the prevailing market rate schedule.
Bill text: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5103er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5103&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5103z.PKAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5103&Session=2012
Governor's veto message: http://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/4.20.12-HB-5103-Veto-Letter.pdf
Title: H.B. 5103
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
P-3 Preschool |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires each private prekindergarten provider and public school in the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program to implement an evidence-based pre- and post-assessment approved by the state board of education. Requires the approved assessment to be valid, reliable, developmentally appropriate, and designed to measure student progress in early literacy, numeracy and language. Repeals provisions basing private providers' and public schools' "kindergarten readiness rate" on the results of the statewide kindergarten screening for students completing the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program. Adds provision requiring kindergarten readiness rates to include student learning gains when available, calculated using a value-added measure. Eliminates certain provisions related to the good cause exemption for private providers otherwise deemed ineligible to deliver and receive state funds for the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program. Requires each coalition to report student enrollment monthly, and prohibits a student enrollment count for the prior fiscal year from being amended after December 31 of the subsequent fiscal year.
Bill text (pages 12-16 of 41): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Final bill analysis (page 5 of 13): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5101z.PKAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5101 - Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Vetoed 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Provides these provisions may be cited as the "State Universities of Academic and Research Excellence and National Preeminence Act." Establishes a collaborative partnership between the Board of Governors of the State University System and the Legislature to elevate the academic and research excellence and national preeminence of the highest-performing state research universities. Beginning with the 2012-2013 academic year, authorizes a state research university that has substantially met at least 11 of 14 academic and research excellence standards to establish student tuition and fees at differentiated and market rates. Provides certain conditions for implementing tuition and fee increases. Provides that a qualified beneficiary with a prepaid advance payment contract in effect prior to the first year a state university receives tuition and fee authority is exempt from the payment of any increase to tuition and fees assessed through these provisions. Provides a qualified beneficiary with a prepaid advance payment contract that is entered into the first year a state university receives tuition and fee authority through these provisions, or thereafter, is liable for the difference between the highest rate of tuition and fees covered by the advance payment contract and the tuition and fees assessed through these provisions. Specifies requirements relating to debt service obligations. Establishes procedures to obtain certain budget authorization for the 2012-2013 fiscal year. Establishes procedures for institutional legislative budget requests for certain tuition and fee increases. Authorizes state universities of national preeminence to require its incoming first-time-in college students to take a 9-to-12-credit set of courses determined by the university. Encourages the Board of Governors to identify and grant additional authority and flexibilities to achieve state university and State University System goals, and recommend to the legislature flexibilities to improve the national rankings of programs of excellence. Requires the Board of Governors to oversee implementation of these provisions.
Bill text: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7129er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7129&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h7129z1.EDC.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=7129&Session=2012
Governor's veto message: http://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/4.27.12-HB-7129-Veto-Letter.pdf
Title: H.B. 7129
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Directs the state board to identify enrollment and graduation expectations by baccalaureate degree program, and requires this and other tasks to be annually submitted to the legislature as part of the board's legislative budget request. Directs the board of governors to require universities to provide students with electronic access to the top 25% and bottom 10% of degrees reported by the university in terms of full-time job placement and highest average annualized earnings in the year after degree completion. Requires the state board's strategic plan for the Florida College System to clarify the mission statements for each Florida College System institution and the system as a whole. Requires degree programs specified in the plan to be in accordance with the coordinated 5-year plan. Requires strategic plans to consider reports and recommendations of the higher education coordinating council and the articulation coordinating committee. Requires state board procedures for trustees' evaluation of Florida College System presidents to include the extent to which presidents serve both institutional and system goals. Requires state board criteria for modifying district boundary lines for Florida College System institutions to include criteria for service delivery areas of Florida College System institutions authorized to grant baccalaureate degrees.
Directs the state board, by July 1, 2013, to identify performance metrics for the Florida College System and develop a plan that specifies goals and objectives for each system institution. Requires the plan to include performance metrics and standards, both for the system and for each institution depending on institutional core mission, and student enrollment and performance data delineated by method of instruction, including traditional, online, and distance learning. Permits the commissioner of education or designee to review or investigate any Florida College System institution's practices, procedures, or actions that appear to be inconsistent with sound financial, management, or academic practice.
Provides additional requirements for the board of governors' strategic plan specifying goals and objectives for the state university system and each university and its accountability plan. Permits the board of governors to consider waiving its regulations and waive or modify the tuition differential use requirements. Permits the board of governors to request authority from the legislature to waive or modify specific statutory requirements in order to reduce barriers and support the attainment of goals identified in institutional plans, as necessary for advancing system priorities and unique institutional priorities. Requires such flexibilities authorized or requested by the board of governors to be included in its accountability plan. Requires the board of governors to implement a plan for working on a regular basis with the higher education coordinating council and the articulation coordinating committee. Authorizes the board of governors to revoke or modify the scope of any power or duty it has delegated.
Amends reporting requirement for the higher education coordinating council. Directs the commission for independent education to collect, and all institutions licensed by the commission to report, student-level data for each student who receives state funds. At a minimum, requires data to be reported annually and include retention rates, transfer rates, completion rates, graduation rates, employment and placement rates, and earnings of graduates.
http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7135er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7135&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7135 - Postsecondary Planning and Performance
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
From final bill analysis: Shortens the length of time from 3 years to 2 years that a student is eligible to accept the initial Bright Futures Scholarship after high school graduation. Clarifies that students enrolled in the Spring/Summer University of Florida pilot program are authorized to receive a Bright Futures Scholarship award for only two semesters each year. Clarifies that students are required to annually submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Limits allowable uses for the Bright Futures Gold Seal Vocational Scholarship.
Bill text (search bill for "Bright Futures" for relevant sections): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Final bill analysis (pages 11-12 of 22): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5201z.HEAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program Eligibility
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
From final bill analysis: Requires annual financial reporting by the Florida Education Fund (FEF). Deletes obsolete language regarding the Minority Participation in Legal Education fund which is no longer funded. Amends match requirements for specified matching grant scholarship programs.
Bill text (primarily pages 59-66 of 72): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Final bill analysis (see in particular pages 13-16 of 22): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5201z.HEAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Florida Education Fund
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires a student who graduates mid-year to apply by August 31 of the student's graduation year to be eligible for a Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program award for the current academic year. Requires that a student who receives an initial award during the spring term must be evaluated for scholarship renewal after the completion of a full academic year, which begins with the fall term.
Bill text (pages 63-64 of 71): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7059er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7059&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h7059z.KINS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=7059&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7059 - Bright Futures Scholarship Program
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
From final bill analysis: Increases the surcharge for excess credit hours. Bill text (pages 47-48 of 72): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5201z.HEAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Surcharge for Excess Credit Hours
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
From final bill analysis: Allows colleges to increase the fee up to 20% of tuition or the sum of tuition and out-of-state fees. Implements a new fee structure for universities allowing them to increase the Capital Improvement Trust Fund fee up to 10% of tuition or the sum of tuition and out-of-state fees as approved by a fee committee and the board of trustees. Permits the fee to increase no more than $2 per credit hour over the prior year for resident students. Also stipulates the fee may be used to fund any project or real property acquisition and any reduction must undergo review of the State Board of Administration, Division of Bond Finance. Bill text (primarily pages 41-44 of 72): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Final bill analysis (page 10 of 22): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5201z.HEAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Capital Improvement Fee
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Amends definition of "limited-access records" for Florida College System. Requires records maintained for investigating employee misconduct to become public either after the investigation ceases to be active, the institution has concluded the investigation, or the institution has issued a letter of discipline. Defines circumstances under which an investigation is to be considered active. Also requires records maintained for purposes of (1) a disciplinary proceeding against an employee and (2) a grievance proceeding brought by an employee for enforcement of a collective bargaining agreement or contract to become public after a final decision is made in the proceeding. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_s0878er.DOCX&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0878&Session=2012
Title: S.B. 878
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
Vetoed 04/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Authorizes the University of Florida Board of Trustees, in lieu of participation in state group insurance programs, to provide health insurance and other self-insurance or insurance programs. Establishes parameters for such program should the board choose to implement. Bill text: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5009er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5009&Session=2012
Governor's veto message: http://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/4.20.12-HB-5009-Veto-Letter.pdf
Title: H.B. 5009
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Revises employer contributions for members of (1) FRS who are employees of public community colleges or charter technical career centers sponsored by public community colleges, (2) optional retirement program for State University System, and (3) State Community College System Optional Retirement Program. Requires both the employer and employee to make larger contributions to the state's retirement program to address unfunded actuarial liabilities of the system. http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5005er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5005&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5005
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
From final bill analysis: Revises severance pay language for colleges and universities to conform to s. 215.425, F.S., providing that on or after July 1, 2011, a unit of government that enters into a contract or employment agreement, or renewal or renegotiation of an existing contract or employment agreement, that contains a provision for severance pay with an officer, agent, employee, or contractor must include the following provisions in the contract: (1) A requirement that severance pay provided may not exceed an amount greater than 20 weeks of compensation; and (2) A prohibition of provision of severance pay when the officer, agent, employee, or contractor has been fired for misconduct, as defined in statute. Bill text (pages 9-10 of 72): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Severance Pay at Colleges and Universities
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
From final bill analysis: Authorizes the Board of Governors to transfer unused Student and Other Fees Trust Fund authority between institutions, and restricts universities' ability to transfer funds to and from satellite campuses in excess of $2 million for the current fiscal year and $1 million for the subsequent years. Bill text (pages 11-12 of 72): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5201z.HEAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Postsecondary Finance
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Directs each board of trustees of a Florida College System institution to use purchasing agreements and state term contracts or enter into consortia and cooperative agreements to maximize purchasing power for goods and services. Provides a consortium may be statewide, regional, or a combination of institutions, as appropriate to achieve the lowest cost, with the goal of achieving a 5% cost savings on existing contract prices. Directs the board of governors to adopt regulations requiring universities to use purchasing agreements or state term contracts or enter into consortia and cooperative agreements to this end.
Bill text (pages 10-11 of 72): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Final billl analysis (especially page 4 of 22): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5201z.HEAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Consortia and Cooperative Agreements
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
For the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 fiscal years, directs the board of governors to review and rank each state university that applies for performance funding based on a formula that bases (1) 25% of a university's score on the percentage of employed graduates who have earned degrees in specified technology/computer-related programs, (2) 25% on the percentage of graduates who have earned degrees in the aforementioned programs and who have earned industry certifications in a related field from a Florida College System institution or state university prior to graduation, and (3) 50% of a state university's score on factors determined by the board of governors to relate to the probability that program graduates will be employed in high-skill, high-wage, high-demand jobs. Directs the board of governors to annually award up to $15 million to the highest-ranked state universities. Directs the board of governors to annually report the rankings and award distributions to the governor and house and senate leadership.
Pages 28-30 of 31: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7135er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7135&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7135 - Performance Funding for State Universities
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
For the 2012-13 fiscal year, permits a state university to enter into a local development agreement with an affected host local government to identify specific projects in the university's campus master plan to be constructed by the university for purposes of negotiating mitigation of the impact of such projects on the host local government.
Bill text (page 72 of 72): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Final bill analysis (see in particular pages 17-18 of 22): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5201z.HEAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Local Development Agreement with Host Local Government
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
From final bill analysis: removes the exemption from state board of education approval for baccalaureate degree programs to be offered by a Florida College System Institution. All baccalaureate degree programs will have to be approved by the state board of education.
Bill text (pages 38-41 of 72): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Final bill analysis (esp. pages 9-10): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5201z.HEAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Baccalaureate Degree Programs
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Requires a Florida College System institution's notice of intent to propose a baccalaureate degree program to include, as part of description of workforce demand and unmet need for graduates of the program, evidence from entities independent of the institution. Requires notice of intent to also include evidence that the institution engaged in need, demand, and impact discussions with the state university and other regionally accredited postsecondary education providers in its service district. Amends other procedures related to program approval. As part of the baccalaureate program approval process, requires the Florida College System institution to annually, and upon request of the state board or other entities, to report its status using specified performance and compliance indicators. Deletes provisions relating to exemption from state board approval of certain baccalaureate degree programs.
Pages 19-26 http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7135er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7135&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7135 - Approval of Baccalaureate Degree Programs
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
From final bill analysis: Maintains the salary limitation on the amount of state funds that may be used for salaries of Florida College System and State University presidents and administrative employees in Fiscal Year 2012-2013. Bill text (pages 68-71 of 72): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5201z.HEAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Salary Limitations for Presidents and Administrative Employees
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
Adopted 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Proposes amendment to s. 7, Art. IX of State Constitution to revise selection process for student member of Board of Governors of State University System. From final bill analysis: If approved by 60 percent of the voters in the 2012 general election, the resolution will take effect on January 8, 2013.
Bill text: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0931er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0931&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h0931z.KINS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=0931&Session=2012
Title: H.J.R. 931
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
From final bill analysis: Establishes the Florida Virtual Campus to provide access to online student and library support services and serve as a statewide resource and clearinghouse for postsecondary education distance learning courses and degree programs and to increase student access and completion of degrees. Replaces certain references to "Center for Library Automation", the "College Center for Library Automation" and "Distance Learning Consortium" with references to Florida Virtual Campus. Bill text (primarily pages 24-32 of 72): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5201z.HEAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Florida Virtual Campus
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Students--Adults |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
From final bill analysis: Establishes a Degree Completion Pilot Program to recruit, recover, and retain adult learners and assist them in completing degrees aligned to high-wage, high-skill, and workforce needs. Bill text (pages 33-36 of 72): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5201z.HEAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Degree Completion Pilot Program
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Requires each Florida College System institution and state university that offers priority course registration for a segment of the student population, or upon implementation of priority course registration for a segment of the student population, to provide priority course registration for veterans receiving GI Bill educational benefits, or veterans' spouse/dependents to whom the GI Bill benefits have been transferred.
http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0045er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0045&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 45
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Requires the board of governors and the state board of education to adopt regulations & rules, respectively, that enable U.S. Armed Forces servicemembers to earn college credit at public postsecondary institutions for college-level training and education acquired in the military. http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0347er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0347&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 347
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Establishes August 7th of each year as "Purple Heart Day," and encourages schools to commemorate Purple Heart Day and honor those wounded or killed while serving in any branch of the U.S. Armed Services. Requires each Florida College System institution and state university that offers priority course registration for a segment of the student population, or upon implementation of priority course registration for a segment of the student population, to provide priority course registration for each veteran receiving GI Bill educational benefits or for the spouse or dependent children of the veteran to whom the GI Bill educational benefits have been transferred. Encourages each independent postsecondary educational institution offering priority course registration to provide priority course registration for each veteran or spouse/dependents using GI Bill educational benefits. http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_s0922er.DOCX&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0922&Session=2012
Title: S.B. 922
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Reduces maximum number of credits in associate of arts, Florida College System, and state university general education core from 36 to 30, effective with students entering a system institution in 2014-15. Directs the chair of the state board of education and chair of the board of governors, or designees, to jointly appoint faculty committees to identify statewide general education core course options. Requires that general core course options consist of a maximum of five courses in each of the subject areas of communication, math, social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. Beginning with students entering a Florida College System institution or state university in 2014-2015 and thereafter, requires each student to complete at least one identified core course in each subject area as part of the general education course requirements, and requires all public postsecondary education institutions to offer and accept these courses as meeting general education core course requirements. Requires remaining general education course requirements to be identified by each institution and reported to the department.
Pages 6, 8, 16-19 of 31: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7135er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7135&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7135 - General Education Core
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Requires the statewide articulation agreement, beginning with students initially entering a Florida College System institution in 2013-2014, to require each student seeking an associate in arts degree to indicate a baccalaureate degree program offered by an institution of interest by the time the student earns 30 semester hours. Requires the institution in which the student is enrolled to inform the student of the prerequisites for the baccalaureate degree program offered by an institution of interest.
Pages 15-16 of 31: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7135er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7135&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7135 - Transfer from Associate- to Baccaureate Program
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Proficiency-Based Approaches |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits students other than secondary students to participate in the Credit Acceleration Program (through which a student not enrolled in a course may earn credit via a passing score on a state end-of-course assessment). Provides district reporting requirements (for FTE reimbursement) for a student who passes a statewide, standardized end-of-course assessment without being enrolled in the corresponding course. Bill text: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7059er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7059&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h7059z.KINS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=7059&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7059 - Credit for Passing Score on EOC w/o Taking Course
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Special Education--Transition |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Establishes a two-year Adults with Disabilities Workforce Education Pilot Program in four counties to make scholarships available for students with disabilities (age 22-30) who are receiving instruction in a private school to meet state-set high school graduation requirements, and who receive "supported employment services", i.e., employment provided or located in an integrated work setting with earnings paid on a commensurate wage basis and for which continued support is needed for job maintenance. Defines "student with a disability" for purposes of the pilot. Establishes eligibility requirements for participating private schools and providers of supported employment services. Establishes procedures for scholarship payments. Bill text (pages 19-23 of 72): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5201z.HEAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Adults with Disabilities Workforce Education Pilot Program
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Establishes legislative intent that students have access to academically challenging coursework or accelerated instruction. Defines Academically Challenging Curriculum to Enhance Learning (ACCEL) options as educational options providing academically challenging curriculum or accelerated instruction to eligible public school students in grades K-12. Requires each school to offer, at a minimum, specified ACCEL options: whole-grade and midyear promotion, subject-matter acceleration, virtual instruction in higher grade level subjects, and the Credit Acceleration Program. Specifies additional ACCEL options schools may offer. Specifies which ACCEL options must have principal-developed vs. district-developed student eligibility requirements. Identifies issues principals and districts must consider in establishing student eligibility requirements. Requires principals to inform parents and students of ACCEL options and student eligibility requirements, and requires principals and districts to establish a process for parents to request student participation in specified ACCEL options. If a student participates in an ACCEL option pursuant to a parental request, requires a performance contract to be executed. Requires parents to be notified if a principal initiates a student's participation in an ACCEL option. Requires the comprehensive student progression plan to include information for students and parents on accelerated educational options.
Bill text: Pages 1-8, 61-63 of 71: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7059er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7059&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h7059z.KINS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=7059&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7059 - ACCEL (Academically Challenging Curriculum to Enhance Learning) Options
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Requires colleges and universities eligible to participate in the William L. Boyd, IV, Florida Resident Access Grant Program to report student-level data for each student who receives state funds. At a minimum, requires data to be reported annually to the department and to include retention rates, transfer rates, completion rates, graduation rates, employment and placement rates, and earnings of graduates.
http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7135er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7135&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7135 - Private Institutions' Reporting of Performance Data
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
From bill analysis: Creates the Digital Instructional Materials Work Group. The purpose of the 8 member group is to plan and monitor the implementation of the transition to digital instructional materials. Directs the group to submit a plan to the legislature by March 1, 2013, for meeting the deadline of transition to digital instructional materials as provided in ss. 1006.29(3) and 1006.40(3)(a), Florida Statutes, and requires the plan to include specified components, including teacher training and professional development, and funding.
Pages 40-41 of 41: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5101 - Digital Instructional Materials Work Group
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
STEM |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Directs the state board, in consultation with the baord of governors and the department of economic opportunity, to adopt a unified state plan to improve K-20 STEM education and prepare students for high-skill, high-wage, and high-demand employment in STEM and STEM-related fields.
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Title: H.B. 7135 - K-20 STEM Education Plan
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Authorizes high schools, including charter schools, virtual schools, and home education cooperatives, to become members of the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA). Prohibits FHSAA from denying or discouraging interscholastic competition between FHSAA-member and -nonmember Florida schools, and from taking retributory or discriminatory action against any of its member schools under certain circumstances. Prohibits FHSAA from withholding approval of any other athletic organization that governs athletic competition in the state. Requires FHSAA to adopt bylaws to allow a student who transfers schools to be eligible to participate in athletics if certain conditions are met. Authorizes certain penalties for a recruiting violation. Requiring the FHSAA to adopt bylaws to regulate investigators and sanction coaches who commit major violations. Specifies sanctions and procedures. Requires the FHSAA to adopt bylaws establishing the process and standards by which determinations of eligibility are made. Authorizes the FHSAA, as an alternative to adopting bylaws regarding process and standards for eligibility determinations, to adopt bylaws providing certain procedural safeguards. Prohibits FHSAA bylaws from prospectively limiting the competition of certain student athletes and from unfairly punishing student athletes for violations perpetrated by a teammate, coach, or administrator. Provides parameters for the forfeiture of contests due to eligibility or recruiting violations. Requires an expedited appeals process on determinations of ineligibility. Authorizes a school or student athlete filing an appeal to present certain information and evidence. Provides requirements for de novo decisions on appeal. Provides background screening exceptions for certain FHSAA investigators.
Bill text: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1403er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1403&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h1403z.EDC.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=1403&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 1403
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits districts to provide a policy under which sick leave time may be donated to another district employee. Provides standards for a sick leave transfer policy. http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0285er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0285&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 285
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
From final bill analysis: Requires the Florida Fund for Minority Teachers to annually report to the department of education the balance of the corporation's assets and cash reserves. Also, to enable better collection of defaulted scholarships, requires the Florida Fund for Minority Teachers to use a contingency collection agency. Bill text (pages 58-59 of 72): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h5201z.HEAS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=5201&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 5201 - Florida Fund for Minority Teachers
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Technology--Funding Issues |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits a student in grades K-5 to be counted as a full-time equivalent (FTE) in a virtual instruction program (policy previously allowed FTE count only of students in grades 6-12). Requires district providing instruction to report FTE students, rather than district of residence, if these are not the same. Amends definition of full-time equivalent student for students enrolled full- or part-time in the Florida Virtual School, in a full-time or part-time virtual instruction program, a virtual charter school. Clarifies that a full-time virtual instruction program is eligible to report FTE student membership in the ESOL program.
Bill text (pages 9, 15-21 of 21): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7063er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7063&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 7063 - Funding Online/Blended Learning
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Amends provisions related to district purchases of instructional materials with state allocation. Provides that for the 2012-13 mathematics adoption, districts using a comprehensive mathematics instructional materials program adopted in 2009-10 is deemed in compliance with s. 1006.40 (http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=1000-1099/1006/Sections/1006.40.html) if the district provides each student with additional state-adopted materials as necessary to align the previously adopted comprehensive program with Common Core State Standards and other criteria of the 2012-13 mathematics adoption.
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Title: H.B. 5101 - Math Instructional Materials and Common Core Standards
Source: myfloridahouse.gov |
Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Revises student eligibility requirements to allow a student entering any grades K-5 and who was not enrolled in a public school the previous year to participate. Removes requirement that family of participating foster child meet specified income requirements. Increases the tax credit cap amount applicable to the program. Provides that participating schools may administer statewide assessments to students in grades 3-10 as alternate means of fulfilling academic accountability requirements. Establishes requirements for a district to coordinate with a participating private school in administration of state assessments. Repeals provision that department of education site visits to participating schools be random; adds provision that the department may make additional site visits to any school that has received a notice of noncompliance or notice of proposed action within the past two years. Permits the commissioner of education to deny, suspend or revoke a private school's participation in the program if the private school's owner or operator has exhibited a previous pattern of failure to comply with specified provisions. Extends list of factors the commissioner may take into consideration in making such a determination. Also permits the commissioner of education to suspend payment of scholarship funds to a private school if there is probable cause that there is a previous pattern of failure to comply with specified provisions.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0859er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0859&Session=2012
Title: H.B. 859
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Religion--Prayer/Meditation |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a local board to adopt a policy that allows an inspirational message to be delivered by students at a student assembly. Provides policy requirements. http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0098/BillText/er/PDF
Title: S.B. 98
Source: www.flsenate.gov |
Accountability |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
From House of Representatives Staff Analysis: Expands the definition of a failing school for purposes of student eligibility for the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) (Created in 1999 as part of a broad education reform package known as the A+ Plan; Designed to provide parents of public school students in failing schools the opportunity to send their children to another public school performing satisfactorily or to an eligible private school), by changing the classification of a failing school from a school receiving two "F's" in a four-year period to a school that receives a "D" or an "F" in the prior year and is in one of the two lowest categories of differentiated accountability. Expands the authorization parents currently have to choose a higher-performing public school that has space available in an adjacent school district to allow a parent to choose a higher-performing public school in any other school district in the state. Provides that if a parent chooses a higher-performing public school within the assigned district, the school district is required to provide transportation. Repeals all portions of the law relating to the OSP private school choice options to comply with existing case law that found this portion of the OSP unconstitutional. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1331er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1331&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 1331
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Assessment |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Allows a principal to waive the civics end-of-course (EOC) assessment requirement for a transfer student who already completed a civics course (Sec. 25). Establishes an exemption from the intensive reading course requirement for certain students (Sec. 16, 18). Provides the commissioner limited flexibility in reporting student results on statewide assessments and eliminates the 3-week EOC administration window (Sec.25). Requires high schools to evaluate the college readiness of each student who scores a certain level on statewide assessments (Sec. 26).
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1255er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1255&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 1255 - Sec. 16, 18, 25, 26
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Assessment--Computer Based |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Creates Digital Learning Now Act. Requires school districts to establish virtual instruction options. Authorizes establishment of virtual charter schools. Authorizes blended learning courses. Authorizes Florida Virtual School (FLVS) to provide full-time instruction to students in kindergarten through grade 12 and provides additional requirements for FLVS. Provides funding and accountability requirements. Requires high school students entering grade 9 in the 2011-12 school year to complete at least one online course within the 24 credit requirement for high school graduation. Redefines FTE student for purposes of virtual instruction. Requires the Department of Education (DOE) to issue a report identifying and explaining the best methods and strategies for increasing student access to digital learning. Requires the DOE to develop an evaluation method for providers of part-time virtual programs. Provides that all statewide end-of-course assessments be administered online by the 2014-15 school year. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7197er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7197&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 7197
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
From Legislative Staff Summary: Creates the College-Preparatory Boarding Academy Pilot Program (Academy) for at-risk students. Defines the key elements of the program and establishes "at-risk" student eligibility criteria consistent with eligibility standards for a range of non-educational federal and state programs that support needy families, children, and youth. Provides that an "eligible student" is a student who is a resident of the state and entitled to attend school, is at risk of academic failure, is currently enrolled in grade 5 or 6, is from a family whose income is below 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines, and who meets at least two additional risk factors, which are specified in the bill. Outlines a process for the State Board of Education to select an experienced, qualified operator and prescribes the qualifications and obligations of the operator. Directs the Academy to enroll up to 80 students beginning in August 2012, and to grow to a student capacity of 400 students. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-236.pdf
Title: S.B. 404
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Authorizes school districts to provide a digital curriculum for students in grades 6 through 12 (Sec. 17). Requires a district's strategic plan to include plans to implement a middle school career and professional academy (Sec. 20). Eliminates the requirement that a student choose the 18 credit accelerated graduation option no later than ninth grade (Sec. 19). Authorizes school districts to select premethods and postmethods for determining student learning gains for supplemental educational service providers (Sec. 28).
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1255er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1255&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 1255 - Sec. 17, 19, 20, 28
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes criteria for high-performing charter schools (virtual or cyber charters are not eligible) and high-performing charter school systems. Authorizes a high-performing charter school to increase enrollment, expand grade levels served, submit a quarterly financial statement, consolidate the charters of certain charter schools, and receive certain modification or renewal of its charter. Provides that student capacity of a high-performing charter school be determined annually by the governing board. Encourages systems to work with disadvantaged students by authorizing certain charter schools more time to turn around a low-performing school. Abolishes the Charter School Review Panel. Requires the state Department of Education to study various issues, including finance, relating to charter schools. authorizes a charter school's governing board to request a hearing regarding charter nonrenewal or termination, including
immediate termination; authorizes the sponsor to choose to provide a direct hearing or a hearing before an administrative law judge; authorizes the award of costs and attorney's fees to a charter school if certain criteria are met; authorizes quarterly financial reporting for certain charter schools; establishes additional student enrollment preferences; prohibits a sponsor from limiting or requiring waiver of certain high-performing charter school benefits as a condition of charter approval or renewal;provides that student capacity of a high-performing charter school shall be determined annually by the governing board.Adds tto the list of eligible students to include: Students who are the children of an employee of the business partner of a charter school-in-theworkplace or a resident of the municipality in which such charter school is located; a resident of a municipality that operates a charter school-in-amunicipality; students who have successfully completed a voluntary prekindergarten education program provided by the charter school or the charter school's governing board during the previous year; students who are the children of an active-duty member of any branch of the United States Armed Forces.
Ch. 2011-232 LAWS OF FLORIDA Ch. 2011-232
13http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-232.pdf
Title: S.B. 1546
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
From Legislative Staff Summary: Eliminates a current restriction for the corporate income tax credit and insurance premium tax, that eligible contributions made to eligible scholarship-funding organizations may not exceed 75% of the taxpayer's tax due for the taxable year.. Currently, a taxpayer may rescind all or part of an approved tax credit. The amount rescinded may become available to another eligible taxpayer during that fiscal year under certain circumstances. One current restriction on those amounts becoming available to another taxpayer is that the taxpayer rescinding all or part of an approved tax credit may not have previously rescinded any or all of its approved tax credits more than once in the previous three tax years. The bill removes this restriction. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0965er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0965&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 965
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Expands eligibility for the John M. McKay Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program to students with disabilities who have 504 accommodation plan issued under federal law (previously the only students eligible were those with an individual educational plan has been written in accordance with rules of the State Board of Education). Provides that parent may choose to enroll student in public school in adjacent district under certain conditions. Provides for scholarship amounts.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1329er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1329&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 1329
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.govt |
Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Adds Internet safety to the list of health education topics which public schools are required to cover. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0251er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0251&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 251
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Creates the Department of Economic Opportunity. Transfers the functions and trust funds of the Agency for Workforce Innovation to other agencies. Transfers the Ready to Work program from the Department of Education (DOE) to the Department of Economic Opportunity. Transfers the Office of Early Learning Services to the DOE and provides that the DOE may not impose requirements or standards on early learning programs beyond those authorized in law for voluntary prekindergarten (Sec. 12). Consolidates public-private economic development partnerships. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-142.pdf
Title: S.B. 2156
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the Higher Education Coordinating Council and directs the council to make recommendations on: (1) The primary core mission of public and nonpublic postsecondary education institutions in the context of state access demands and economic development goals; (2) Performance outputs and outcomes designed to meet annual and long-term state goals, including, but not limited to, increased student access, preparedness, retention, transfer, and completion; (3) The state's articulation policies and practices to ensure that cost benefits to the state are maximized without jeopardizing quality; and (4) A plan for workforce development education.
Directs the Commissioner of Education, in consultation with the Chancellor of the State University System, to establish the Articulation Coordinating Committee which will make recommendations related to statewide articulation policies to the Higher Education Coordination Council, the State Board of Education, and the Board of Governors. Details the duties of the committee.
Requires Department of Education to utilize student performance data in subsequent coursework to determine appropriate Advanced Placement, Advanced International Certificate of Education examination, and International Baccalaureate examination scores for the receipt of college credit. Repeals the exemption from the state university system summer term enrollment requirement for students who have earned 9 or more credits through acceleration mechanisms. Requires the State Board of Education to specify by rule provisions for alternative remediation opportunities and retesting policies. Provides access to postsecondary education for individuals with intellectual disabilities, by allowing for reasonable substitution for admission and graduation requirements. Repeals the Florida Business and Education Collaborative and the University Concurrency Trust Fund.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7151er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7151&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 7151
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Removes the requirement that the commissioner of education review the budgets for school districts and Florida College System institutions. Removes the requirement that the state department of education approve school board budgets. Requires school districts to post certain budget information on their websites. Revises the gift ban law for school board members and relatives.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1255er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1255&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 1255 - Sec. 6, 29
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the budget of each school district (and other city and county entities) to be posted on the district's website. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-144.pdf
Title: S.B. 224
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Creates the Welfare Transition Trust Fund within the Department of Education (this trust fund is needed in order to implement the transfer of programs to the department as proposed in 2011 legislation; specifically, the School Readiness Program, proposed for transfer from the Agency for Workforce Innovation to the Department of Education as part of the creation of the Department of Economic Opportunity) Provides for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-157.pdf
Title: S.B. 2162
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides an exception to the state's preemption of smoking regulation to authorize district school boards to restrict smoking by persons on school district property. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-108.pdf
Title: S.B. 1430
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Creates the Healthy Schools for Healthy Lives Act. Transfers and reassigns functions and responsibilities, including records, personnel, property, and unexpended balances of appropriations and other resources for the administration of the school food and nutrition programs from the state Department of Education to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Requires the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to conduct, supervise, and administer all school food and nutrition programs. http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2011/1312/BillText/er/PDF
Title: S.B. 1312
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov |
P-3 Kindergarten |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Revises requirements for a good cause exemption for a Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) Program provider who fails to meet minimum student readiness rates for kindergarten. Eliminates the cap on the percentage of VPK providers who may fail to meet student readiness rates for kindergarten. Permits nonpublic schools to administer the statewide kindergarten screening to each kindergarten student in a nonpublic school who was enrolled in the VPK program.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1255er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1255&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 1255 - Sec. 12
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/ |
Private Schools |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Allows a student attending a private middle school or high school to participate in interscholastic or intrascholastic sports at a public school that is zoned for the physical address at which the student resides if the private school does not offer an athletic program and is not a member of the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA). http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0797er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0797&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 797
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
School Safety--Code of Conduct |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the district school board to include in the code of student conduct adopted by the board an explanation of the responsibilities of each student with regard to appropriate dress and respect for self and others and the role that appropriate dress and respect for self and others has on an orderly learning environment. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-103.pdf
Title: S.B. 228
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
Postsec. |
From Legislative Budget Committee Summary:
Coenrollment in Public Schools and Adult Education Programs
Prohibits funding for coenrollment in public schools and adult general education programs, except that for the 2011-2012 fiscal year students may enroll in core courses for credit recovery or dropout prevention for up to two courses. Provides that high school students are exempt from the payment of block tuition for general adult education programs.
Facilities
Expands the class size reduction lottery bond program to include other educational facilities. Suspends temporarily the state match for facilities and operating challenge grant programs for colleges and universities, effective July 1, 2011. Provides that existing eligible donations will remain eligible for future match and that the suspension may be removed once $200 million of the grant backlog has been matched. Allows a university board of trustees to expend carry-forward balances from prior year operational appropriations on legislatively approved fixed capital outlay projects authorized for the establishment of a new campus.
Finance
Streamlines library operations through consolidation and joint purchasing. Requires creation of a union catalog for higher education. Requires the Florida College System Council of Presidents to develop and recommend an equitable funding formula for the distribution of certain state funds to the college system institutions. Provides for the use of a funding formula to ensure equitable distribution of district workforce funds. Provides a $200,000 limit on the amount of state funds that may be paid for salaries of college and university presidents and administrative employees. Terminates the University Concurrency Trust Fund.
Finanical Aid/Scholarships
Increases the Florida Medallion Scholarship test scores in 2013-2014, from 1050 to 1170 for SAT, including the applicable home school test scores. Increases or establishes required community service hours for Bright Futures applicants. Requires applicants for Bright Futures, and certain other programs to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid prior to disbursement of funds. Prioritizes state student financial aid to the neediest (Pell eligible) students for the Florida Work Experience Program and the First Generation in College Program.
Northwest Regional Data Center
Designates the Northwest Regional Data Center as a primary data center.
Student Enrollment Pilot Program
Authorizes a spring and summer term student enrollment pilot program at the University of Florida for the purpose of aligning student enrollment and the availability of instructional facilities. Authorizes Bright Futures scholarships in the summer for these students.
Transient Student Admission
Authorizes the implementation of a transient student admission application process through the Florida Academic Counseling Tracking for Students system to include admissions, readmissions, financial aid, and transfer of credit functions. Authorizes a fee of $5 to support the system.
Tuition
Provides an exemption from the 30 percent need-based expenditure requirement from the tuition differential fee if the university has covered the entire tuition and fee costs of all resident students who are eligible for need-based aid. Authorizes alternative documentation for tuition fee waivers for Purple Heart veterans. Increases the tuition surcharge for excess hours to 100 percent in excess of 115 percent of the credit hours required for a degree. Requires a block tuition and corresponding out-of-state fee for students enrolled in adult general education courses. Removes fee exemptions for certain students and requires residency of students to be documented. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-063.pdf
Title: S.B. 2150
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Assessment--End-of-Course |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Repeals provisions relating to programs that were never implemented or are no longer funded. The programs are: Digital Divide Council and the associated Pilot Project for Discounted Computers and Internet Access for Low-Income Students; the Institute on Urban Policy and Commerce; the Community and Faith-based Organizations Initiative; the Community and Library Technology Access Partnership; the Community computer access grant program; Adult Literacy Centers; the Florida Literacy Corps; Preteacher and Teacher Education Pilot programs, the Teacher Education Pilot Programs for High-Achieving Students; the Merit Award Program; the Critical Teacher Shortage Program, which includes: the Florida Teacher Scholarship and Forgivable Loan Program, the Critical Teacher Shortage Tuition Reimbursement Program, and the Critical Teacher Shortage Student Loan Forgiveness Program.
The legislation also repeals professional service contracts for instructional staff and the requirement for students who took Algebra I in the middle grades from 2007-2008 through 2009-2010 to take the Algebra I end-of-course assessment in the 2010-2011 school year.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 7087
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Sec. 16 - Requires, beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, each district school board, in collaboration with regional workforce boards, economic development agencies, and state-approved postsecondary institutions, to include plans to implement a career and professional academy in at least one middle school in the district as part of the strategic 5-year plan. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-055.pdf
Title: S.B. 2120 - Sec. 16
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Sec. 8 - Adjusts the charter school enrollment process such that students living in a development that provides the facility and related property with an appraised value of at least $10 million for a charter school in the development shall be entitled to 50 percent of the enrollment in the charter school. Provides that charter school systems may be designated as local education agencies for the purpose of receiving federal funds.
Sec. 11 & 12 - Increases the number of students that may be assigned to an instructor in the school year Pre-kindergarten program from 11 to 12, and from 18 to 20 for an instructor plus an assistant.
Sec. 14 - Redefines the term "core curricula courses" for the purpose of designating classes subject to the maximum class size requirements and requires the state Department of Education to maintain a list of such courses.
Sec. 15 - Provides flexibility for school districts to implement class size requirements when additional students enroll in a school after the October survey and for students in grades 4 to 8 who take high school courses. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-055.pdf
Title: S.B. 2120 - Sec. 8, 11, 12, 14, 15
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires charter schools and charter technical career centers to post their financial information on the Transparency Florida website. Requires the Auditor General to annually submit to the Legislature a list of any school districts, charter schools, charter technical career centers, colleges, state universities, and water management districts that have failed to comply with the transparency requirements. Requires the Chief Financial Officer to make a state contract management system publically available that includes information and documentation relating to contracts procured by state governmental entities. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-049.pdf
Title: S.B. 2096
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Sec. 21 - Requires the state Commissioner of Education, by April 15 of each school year, to appoint three state or national experts in the content areas submitted for adoption to review the instructional materials and evaluate the content for alignment with the applicable Next Generation Sunshine State Standards. Provides that the reviewers will be designated as state instructional materials reviewers and will review the materials for the level of instructional support and the accuracy and appropriateness of progression of introduced content. Revises statutes related to instructional materials for public schools requiring that by 2015-2016, all adopted instructional materials for K-12 students are to be in electronic or digital format. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-055.pdf
Title: S.B. 2120 - Sec. 21
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Data-Driven Improvement |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Defines "local instructional improvement system" as a system that uses electronic and digital tools that provide teachers, administrators, students, and parents with data and resources to systematically manage continuous instructional improvement. The system supports relevant activities such as instructional planning, information gathering and analysis, rapid-time reporting, decisionmaking on appropriate instructional sequence, and evaluating the effectiveness of instruction. Requires the system to integrate instructional information with student-level data to provide predictions of future student achievement. Requires that each school district provide teachers, administrators, students, and parents with access to such information. Added provision that requires system to including the ability to connect student assessment data with electronic and digital instructional materials, to enable district staff to plan, create, and manage professional development and to connect professional development with staff information
and student performance data, and to provide the ability to seamlessly connect the local instructional improvement system to
electronic and digital content. Requires the state board to adopt rules to administer this section.
http://laws.flrules.org/2011/55
Title: S.B. 2150 - Sec. 19
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires, beginning October 1, 2011, the Chief Financial Officer to conduct workshops with state agencies, local governments, educational entities, and entities of higher education to gather information pertaining to uniform reporting requirements. Requires the Chief Financial Officer to accept comments from state agencies, local governments, educational entities, entities of higher education, and interested parties regarding proposed charts of account by a certain date. Requires, by January 15, 2014, the CFO to will present a report to the Governor, President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives recommending a uniform chart of accounts, which requires specific enterprise-wide information related to revenues and expenditures of state agencies, local governments, educational entities, and entities of higher education. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-044.pdf
Title: S.B. 1292
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Health--Suicide Prevention |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Eliminates language requiring the approval role of the Office of Drug Control for materials provided to school districts relating to suicide prevention educational resources. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-051.pdf/files/Ch_2011-051.pdf
Title: S.B. 2104
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
From Legislative Staff Summary: Aligns laws governing the State Fire Marshal with educational laws governing firesafety inspections on educational property. Clarifies the firesafety inspection process for charter schools and for public colleges. Requires all public education boards to use only certified firesafety inspectors and other inspectors who have been certified by the State Fire Marshal in monitoring compliance with the Florida Building Code, the Florida Fire Prevention Code, and the State Requirements for Educational Facilities. Requires a public education board to submit for approval the site plan for new construction to the local entity providing fire-protection services to the facility, and outlines the compliance process.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0331er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0331&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 331
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires that a local governmental entity or the governing body of a charter school or charter technical career center make certain elections regarding benefits at the time the entity or governing body joins the Florida Retirement System. Requires employer and employee contributions to the retirement system. Modifies the early retirement benefit calculation for those members retiring on or after a certain date or before the normal retirement date to reflect the change in normal retirement age. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-068.pdf
Title: S.B. 2100
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Sec. 20 - Authorizes school districts to establish pilot program schools to implement the transition to instructional materials that are in an electronic or a digital format. Requires each school board designated as a pilot to, by September 1 of each year, beginning in 2012, report to the state Department of Education, the Governor, and the Legislature on successful practices and lessons learned, the average amount of online Internet time needed by a student to access and use the school's electronic or digital instructional materials, the level of investment and cost-effectiveness, and impacts on student performance. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-055.pdf
Title: S.B. 2120 - Sec. 20
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that before transferring a teacher, the district superintendent must provide the principal of the receiving school with the teacher's student performance records. Permits a principal to refuse the placement unless the instructor has a performance rating of effective or highly effective.
http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-001.pdf
Title: S.B. 736 - Teacher Transfers
Source: laws.flrules.org |
Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Repeals existing language related to local salary schedules. Directs local boards to establish a grandfathered salary schedule for all employees hired before July 1, 2014. By July 2014, requires local boards to adopt a performance salary schedule that provides annual salary adjustments for instructional personnel and administrators based on performance. Employees must be compensated based on performance after they have received a performance evaluation as revised through this legislation. Establishes salary adjustments for highly effective or effective performance. Provides an employee receiving a rating other than highly effective or effective will not receive an annual salary adjustment for that year. Also directs local boards to provides for salary supplements for assignment to a Title I or low-performing school, certification and teaching in a critical teacher shortage area, or assignment of additional academic responsibilities. Provides that if budget constraints in any given year limit a local board's ability to fully fund all adopted salary schedules, the performance salary schedule may not be reduced on the basis of total cost or the value of individual awards in a manner that is proportionally greater than reductions to any other salary schedules adopted by the district. Existing legislation defines "critical teacher shortage area" as math, science and career education; this legislation directs the state board to identify critical teacher shortage areas.
Requires instructional personnel on annual contract as of July 2014 to be placed on the performance salary schedule. Permits instructional personnel on continuing contract or professional service contract to opt into the performance salary schedule if the employee relinquishes such contract and agrees to be employed on an annual contract. Directs districts, in developing the grandfathered salary schedule for instructional staff, to base a portion of each employee's compensation on performance, and to provide differentiated pay for both instructional personnel and school administrators based on district-determined factors, including additional responsibilities, school demographics, critical shortage areas and level of job performance difficulties.
Prohibits local boards from using advanced degrees in setting a salary schedule for instructional staff or administrators, unless the advanced degree is held in the individual's area of certification and is only a salary supplement. Requires that a superintendent's primary consideration in recommending an individual for a promotion be the individual's demonstrated effectiveness.
Exempts a Race to the Top district from specified salary schedule and performance pay provisions for the 2011-12 school year and annually thereafter based on annual approval by the state board, provided specified criteria are met. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-001.pdf
http://laws.flrules.org/2011/1
Title: S.B. 736 - Performance Salary Schedule
Source: laws.flrules.org |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Enacts the "Student Success Act". Requires each district superintendent to annually report the results of instructional staff and administrator evaluations to the department of education. Directs the department to monitor implementation of each district's teacher and administrator evaluation systems for compliance with state law.
By December 2012, directs the commissioner of education to report to the governor and legislative leaders the approval and implementation status of each district's teacher and administrator evaluation systems. Beginning in 2012, requires the commissioner to annually report to the governor and legislative leaders each district's teacher and administrator performance evaluation results and the status of any evaluation system revisions.
Clarifies that local teacher and administrator evaluation systems must adhere to common parameters. Clarifies that teacher and administrator evaluation systems must be designed to support effective instruction and student learning growth, and that performance evaluation results must be used when developing district and school level improvement plans. Requires performance evaluation results to be used when identifying professional development. Requires that evaluation systems include a mechanism to examine performance data from multiple sources. Requires evaluation systems to differentiate among four levels of performance. Directs the commissioner of education to consult with experts, instructional personnel, administrators and education stakeholders in developing the criteria for the performance levels. Provides that peer assistance process may be a part of the regular evaluation system or used to assist employees placed on performance probation, newly hired classroom teachers, or employees who request assistance. Requires that teacher and administrator evaluation systems include a process for monitoring and evaluating the effective and consistent use of the evaluation criteria by employees with evaluation responsibilities, and a process for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the system itself in improving instruction and student learning. Requires newly hired classroom teachers to be observed and evaluated at least twice in their first year of teaching in the district. Repeals most existing criteria included in employee evaluations. Requires at least 50% of performance evaluations for instructional personnel and administrators to be based on data and indicators of student learning growth as measured by state assessments (or district assessments for subjects and grades not measured by state assessments). Directs districts to use a formula for calculating student growth for all courses associated with statewide assessments, and to select a formula for measuring student growth in all other courses and grades. Requires growth for classroom teachers, other instructional personnel and administrators to take into account at least three years of student data, when available. Requires that evaluation criteria used when annually observing classroom teachers include indicators based on each of the Florida Educator Accomplished Practices adopted by the state board. Requires that evaluation criteria for administrators include indicators based on each of the leadership standards adopted by the state board, including specified practices and other practices that result in student learning growth. Permits the evaluation system to include a means to give parents and instructional personnel an opportunity to provide input into the administrator's performance evaluation. Requires professional responsibilities other than instructional practice for teachers and instructional leadership for administrators to be included in the performance evaluation, as adopted by the state board. Permits local boards to include additional professional responsibilities. Permits evaluation systems to provide for the evaluator to consider input from other personnel trained to conduct employee evaluations.
Clarifies that superintendents must annually notify the department of any teachers or administrators who receive two unsatisfactory evaluations, or who have been given notice of intent to terminate or not renew.
Directs the commissioner of education, by June 2011, to approve a formula to measure individual student learning growth on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT), which must include prior academic performance. Directs the commissioner, in developing the formula, to also consider other factors, such as a student's attendance record, disability status or status as an English language learner. Directs the commissioner to select additional formulas for other statewide tests and new tests as they are adopted. Beginning in the 2011-12 school year, requires districts to measure student learning growth using the commissioner-approved formulas for courses associated with the FCAT. Beginning in the 2014-15 school year, for grades and subjects not assessed by statewide assessments, requires districts to measure student growth using locally-approved formulas. Directs the department to provide models for measuring student learning growth that districts may adopt. Provides alternatives for measuring classroom teacher performance in courses not measured by a statewide assessment. Beginning with the 2014-15 school year, directs districts to administer locally-approved assessments for each course offered in the district. Provides these may include statewide assessments, other standardized assessments (including nationally recognized standardized assessments), industry certification exams or district-developed or -selected end-of-course exams. Directs the commissioner of education to identify methods to help districts develop and select such assessments.
Provides that charter schools are not exempt from these provisions. Permits a Race to the Top district to be awarded an exemption in 2011-12 such that 40% rather than 50% of instructional personnel and administrator performance evaluations are based on student growth, provided specified criteria are met.
By July 2012, directs the department of education to annually report the performance rating data required under Section 1012.34 of this Act. Requires that the report include the percentage of classroom teachers, instructional personnel, and school administrators receiving each performance rating aggregated by district and by school. Requires each district to annually report to the parent of any student who is assigned to a
classroom teacher or school administrator having two consecutive annual performance evaluation ratings of unsatisfactory, two annual performance evaluation ratings of unsatisfactory within a 3-year
period, or three consecutive annual performance evaluation ratings of needs improvement or a combination of needs improvement and unsatisfactory.
Pages 1-11, 18 and 24-25 of 25: http://laws.flrules.org/2011/1
Title: S.B. 736 - Teacher and Administrator Evaluations
Source: laws.flrules.org |
Postsecondary Institutions |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Substitutes the term ''Florida College System Institution" for the terms ''Florida college," ''community college," and ''junior college" where those terms appear in the Florida K-20 Education Code. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-005.pdf
Title: S.B. 946
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Repeals Section 1012.52 relating to the attributes of effective educators.
Page 23 of 25: http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-001.pdf
Title: S.B. 736 - Effective Educators
Source: laws.flrules.org |
Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Repeals existing provisions requiring that workforce reductions be made pursuant to collective bargaining agreements, where such exist. Provides that if workforce reduction is needed, local boards must retain employees based on educational program needs and performance evaluations of employees in the affected program areas. Provides that within the program areas requiring reduction, the employee with the lowest performance evaluations must be the first to be released. Prohibits a local board board from prioritizing retention of employees based on seniority. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-001.pdf
Title: S.B. 736 - Workforce Reductions
Source: laws.flrules.org |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Repeals existing language in section 1012.33 regarding procedures after employee performance deficiencies have been identified. Provides that effective July 2011, each new district employee hired as instructional personnel must be awarded a probationary contract, and that an annual contract may be awarded upon successful completion of the probationary contract. Establishes criteria for award of an annual contract, including that the employee has not received two consecutive annual performance evaluation ratings of unsatisfactory, two annual performance evaluation ratings of unsatisfactory within a 3-year period, or three consecutive annual performance evaluation ratings of needs improvement or a combination of needs improvement and unsatisfactory. (Provides elsewhere that such performance is included in the definition of just cause.) Provides that instructional personnel who accept a written offer from the local board and who leave their positions without prior release from the local board are subject to the jurisdiction of the Education Practices Commission. Provides that any instructional personnel with an annual contract may be suspended or dismissed at any time during the contract for just cause. Directs the state board to adopt rules to define "just cause". Provides for suspension and reinstatement of instructional personnel on an annual contract, and hearing processes.
Provides that charter schools are not exempt from these provisions.
http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-001.pdf
Title: S.B. 736 - Teacher Contracts
Source: laws.flrules.org |
Class Size |
Rejected by voters 11/2010 |
P-12 |
Proposed amendment to the constitution to revise class size requirements for public schools as follows: (1) For grades Pre-kindergarten through 3, the maximum number of students assigned to each teacher in an individual classroom must not exceed 21; (2) For grades 4 through 8, the maximum number of students assigned to each teacher in an individual classroom must not exceed 27; and (3) For grades 9 through 12, the maximum number of students assigned to each teacher in an individual classroom must not exceed 30.
http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2010/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0002.pdf
Title: Constitutional Amendment 8; SJR 2
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov |
Accountability--Rewards |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 |
Repeals Subsection (5) of section 1003.413, which directed the commissioner of education to implement the Secondary School Improvement Award Program to reward secondary schools that demonstrate continuous student academic improvement and show the greatest student achievement gains in reading and math. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7037er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7037&Session=2010
Title: HB 7037 - Sec 25
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 |
Repeals Section 1002.335 creating the Florida Schools of Excellence Commission. Repeals provision related to appealing charter school applications to the Florida Schools of Excellence Commission. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7037er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7037&Session=2010
Title: HB 7037 - Sec 23
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 |
Repeals 1003.62, which authorized the state board to enter into performance contracts with districts to establish them as academic performance-based charter school districts. Repeals references elsewhere in the education code to academic performance-based charter school districts. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7037er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7037&Session=2010
Title: HB 7037 - Sec 26
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 |
Repeals the SMART Schools Clearinghouse. Directs the Office of Educational Facilities (rather than the SMART Schools Clearinghouse) to monitor district facilities work programs. Establishes priority criteria for awarding of School Infrastructure Thrift (SIT) Awards to districts. Increases minimum construction costs that make a site eligible for a SIT Program award. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7037er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7037&Session=2010
Title: HB 7037 - Secs. 11-20
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12 |
Repeals 1003.63, which created the deregulated public schools pilot program. Also repeals subsection (7) of section 1008.345, which allowed schools earning an "A" grade in the state accountability system to receive deregulated status upon the school's request. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7037er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7037&Session=2010
Title: HB 7037 - Sec 29 and 30
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
Postsec. |
Repeals 1006.67, which required each postsecondary institution to submit an annual report of campus crime statistics to the department of education. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7037er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7037&Session=2010
Title: HB 7037 - Sec 31
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Repeals 1009.64, which created the Certified Education Paraprofessional Welfare Transition Program. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7037er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7037&Session=2010
Title: HB 7037 - Sec 33
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
Postsec. |
Repeals Section 1004.87 creating the Florida College System Task Force. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7037er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7037&Session=2010
Title: HB 7037 - Sec 22
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 07/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Directs the Division of Statutory Revision of the Office of Legislative Services to substitute the term "Florida College System institution" for the terms "Florida college," "community college," and "junior college" where those terms appear in the Florida K-20 Education Code, to conform the code to 2008 legislation that created the Florida college system, and 2009 legislation that renamed the "Division of Community Colleges" as the "Division of Florida Colleges" and defined the term "Florida college."http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7037er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7037&Session=2010
Title: HB 7037 - Sec 21
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Assessment |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Establishes a waiver from the results of end of course (EOC) assessments for certain students with disabilities. Requires restraint or seclusion incident reports to include age, grade, and ethnicity. Establishes an auditory-oral education program. Adds services by a certified listening and spoken language specialist to the special education services that may be provided to a child with disabilities. Requires the state department of education to review and revise the matrix of services for exceptional students and implement any changes by the 2012-13 school year.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1255er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1255&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 1255 - Sec. 8, 10, 15, 16
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Assessment |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Amends the formula for calculating school grades to include end-of-course (EOC) assessments taken by middle school students and middle school student attainment of industry certification. Provides that student performance on statewide assessments determine school grades for purposes of differentiated accountability and Opportunity Scholarship Program eligibility (Sec. 6). Requires that performance of students designated as hospital/homebound be assigned to their home school (Sec. 29).
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1255er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1255&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 1255 - Sec. 6, 29
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/ |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Revises provisions relating to John M. McKay Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program; authorizes the commissioner of education to deny, suspend, or revoke private school's participation in the scholarship program if owner or operator of such school has operated educational institution in this state or another in manner contrary to health, safety, or welfare of public, etc. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1505er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1505&Session=2010
Title: H.B. 1505 - Sec. 1
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Class Size |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Section 11 - Requires each local school board, before adoption of the district school budget for 2010-2011, to hold public hearings and provide information to parents on the district's website, and through any other means by which the district provides information to parents and the public, on the district's strategies to meet maximum class size requirements; While the bill provides penalties for lack of compliance with Florida's class size requirements, a district may get relief from the penalties by submitting a school board-certified plan by February 15 that indicates the planned actions necessary to achieve full compliance with class size requirements for the following year.
Section 12 - Effective upon approval by the electors of Senate Joint Resolution 2 in the 2010 General Election and retroactive to the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year the average number of students at the school level may not exceed the following limits:
- Pre-K through 3rd Grade - 18 students
- 4th Grade through 8th Grade - 22 students
- 9th Grade through 12th Grade - 25 students
The bill also provides flexibility to allow some class sizes to increase, as long as the school-wide average remains in compliance with the current restrictions.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2010
Title: H.B. 5101
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Provides that comprehensive health education taught in public schools shall include component on teen dating violence and abuse for students in grades 7-12; requires district school boards to adopt and implement dating violence and abuse policy; requires the state department of education to develop model policy; requires school personnel training. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0467er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0467&Session=2010
Title: H.B. 467
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Allows a student who has experienced or is at risk for pancreatic insufficiency or who has been diagnosed as having cystic fibrosis may carry and self-administer a prescribed pancreatic enzyme supplement while in school, participating in school-sponsored activities, or in transit to or from school or school-sponsored activities if the school has been provided with authorization from the student's parent and prescribing practitioner. Requires the state board of education, in cooperation with the department of health, to adopt rules for the use of prescribed pancreatic enzyme supplements which include provisions to protect the safety of all students from the misuse or abuse of the supplements. Indemnifies a school district, county health department, public-private partner, and their employees and volunteers for any and all liability with respect to the student's use of the supplements. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2010-184.pdf
Title: S.B. 166
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Creates the Florida Farm Fresh Schools Program (the Program) within the state department of education. Requires the Program to comply with the National School Lunch Program. Also requires the department of education to work with the department of agriculture and consumer services (DACS) to develop policies pertaining to school food services which encourage: (1) School districts to buy fresh and high-quality foods grown in this state when feasible; (2) Farmers in this state to sell their products to school districts and schools; (3) School districts and schools to demonstrate a preference for competitively priced organic food products; and (4) School districts and schools to make reasonable efforts to select foods based on a preference for those that have maximum nutritional content. Requires the department of education in collaboration with the DACS to provide outreach, guidance, and training to school districts, schools, school food service directors, parent and teacher organizations, and students about the benefits of fresh food products from farms in this state. http://laws.flrules.org/2010/183
Title: S.B. 140
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Health--Suicide Prevention |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires that district school boards provide access to suicide prevention educational resources, as approved by the Statewide Office of Suicide Prevention, to all instructional and administrative personnel as part of the school district professional development system. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2010-204.pdf
Title: S.B. 434
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
High School |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Encourages school boards to adopt policies and procedures to provide for a student "Academic Scholarship Signing Day" by declaring the third Tuesday in April each year as "Academic Scholarship Signing Day." The "Academic Scholarship Signing Day" will recognize the
outstanding academic achievement of high school seniors who sign a letter of intent to accept an academic scholarship offered to the student by a postsecondary educational institution. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2010-203.pdf
Title: S.B. 206
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Creates a new statutory section regarding specialized instructional services for children with disabilities; details eligibility requirements for specialized instructional services; allows the parent of a child eligible for the prekindergarten program for children with disabilities to select one or more specialized instructional services that are consistent with the child's individual educational plan; requires the state department of education to approve specialized instructional service providers whose servies meet certain standards.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1505er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1505&Session=2010
Title: H.B. 1505 - Sec. 4
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Permits a state university or community college to waive tuition and fees for a classroom teacher, who is employed full-time by a school district and who meets the academic requirements established by the community college or state university, for up to 6 credit hours per term on a space-available basis; limites such courses to undergraduate courses related to special education, mathematics, or science; prohibits the waiver from being used for courses scheduled during the school district's regular school day. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0723er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0723&Session=2010
Title: HB 723
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Adds the director of transportation to the list of individuals required to be notified by the school superintendent when a youth is arrested and formally charged with an alleged felony or violent crime. In addition, the principal is required to immediately notify the youth's assigned bus driver and any other school personnel whose duties include directly supervising the youth. The bill also requires that the principal and other school personnel whose duties include direct supervision of the youth be notified of the disposition of the charges against the youth. The bill authorizes educational agencies, public K-12 schools, centers, or institutions to disclose education records, without prior consent, to parties to an interagency agreement that include the department of juvenile justice, the school, law enforcement authorities, and other agencies. The bill provides the circumstances under which disclosure is permitted and the limitations on the further disclosure of the information.http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2010-192.pdf
Title: S.B. 1058
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Establishes standards and procedures regarding the use, monitoring, and documentation and reporting of seclusion and restraint on students with disabilities; prohibits school personnel from using a mechanical physical restraint on a student or manual physical restraint that restricts a student's breathing; also prohibits school personnel from closing, locking, or physically blocking a student in a room that is unlit and does not meet the rules of the state fire marshal for seclusion time-out rooms; requires a school to prepare an incident report within 24 hours after a student is released from a restraint or seclusion; requires incident reports to be provided to the department of education each month that the school is in session; requires schools to notify the parent or guardian of the student in writing before the end of the school day each time restraint or seclusion is used; requires school districts to develop policies and procedures regarding incident-reporting, data collection, and monitoring and reporting of data collected; requires each school district to provide the required policies and procedures to the department of education no later than January 31, 2011. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1073er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1073&Session=2010
Title: H.B. 1073 - Sec. 4
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires regional autism centers (located at 7 state colleges and universities) to coordinate and disseminate local and regional information regarding available services for children with developmental disabilities; requires autism centers to support state agencies in developing training for early child care providers and educators regarding developmental disabilities. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1073er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1073&Session=2010
Title: H.B. 1073 - Sec. 5
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the commissioner of education to develop recommendations for incorporating training related to autism and other developmental disabilities into continuing education or inservice training requirements for instructional personnel; requires recommendations to address specific topics and beginning with the 2010-2011 school year; requires the department of education to incorporate the course curricula recommended by the commissioner into existing requirements for the continuing education and inservice training of instructional personnel; grants the state board of education rulemaking authority for the continuing education and inservice requirements related to teaching students with developmental disabilities. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1073er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1073&Session=2010
Title: H.B. 1073 - Sec. 6
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
Issued 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Establishes Florida's Task Force on Excellent Teaching. Directs the task force to:
(1) Review performance appraisal systems and teacher certification systems
(2) Identify initiatives and strategies that honor Florida's quality teachers for dedicating their careers to teaching
(3) Examine the positive impact teachers have on the state's ability to compete in a global economy
(4) Identify methods for establishing differential and performance-based merit pay for classroom teachers
(5) Develop workable measures of student learning gains, including special education students
(6) Formulate strategies for identifying and dealing with low-performing teachers
(7) Identifying successful strategies and initiatives for improving the recruitment, development and retention of quality teachers through:
--Reviewing teacher preparation programs
--Identifying linkages between teacher merit and student learning
--Identifying effective peer-delivered professional development and support and the essential components of new teacher support programs
--Identifying, disseminating and replicating effective teaching practices, including strategies for teachers to collaborate
--Identifying technologies proven to support teacher productivity, efficiency and effectiveness
--Identifying effective working conditions to retain beginning teachers
--Examining compensation, benefits and incentive issues
--Examining options to define, recognize and reward effective teachers
By December 2010, directs the task force to provide recommendations to the governor, president of the senate, speaker of the house and state board of education that address the goals and objectives of the task force, including recommendations regarding changes to statute and administrative rule. Provides the task force must continue in existence until its objectives are achieved but no later than June 2011, unless extended by a subsequent executive order. http://flgov.com/pdfs/orders/10-126-teaching.pdf
Title: E.O. 10-126
Source: flgov.com |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Prohibits school boards, administrative personnel, and instructional personnel from taking affirmative action, including, but not limited to, the entry into any agreement, that infringes or waives the rights or freedoms afforded to instructional personnel, school staff, or students by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, in the absence of the express written consent of any individual whose constitutional rightswould be impacted by such infringement or waiver. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0031er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0031&Session=2010
Title: H.B. 31
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Class Size |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Proposes a constitutional amendment to go before voters in November 2010; revises the maximum class size requirements; beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, the maximum number of students who may be assigned to a teacher (while not exceeding the school level average) as follows: (1) 21 students in grades preK-3; (2) 27 students in grades 4-8; and (3) 30 students in grades 9-12. The class size requirements do not apply to virtual classes. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0002er.html&Directory=session/2010/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: SJR 2
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Civics Education [SPSC]; Designates act "Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Civics Education Act"; provides requirement that reading portion of language arts curriculum include civics education content for all grade levels; provides requirements for civics education course that student must successfully complete for middle grades promotion; requires administration of end-of-course assessment in civics education as field test at middle school level,etc. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0105er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0105&Session=2010
Title: H.B. 105
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the the office of program policy analysis and government accountability to conduct a review of the public school adult workforce education programs and the community college and state college workforce education programs for the purpose of identifying and analyzing the positive and negative aspects of merging the school district programs with the community college and state college programs. The results of the review must be submitted to the legislature by December 1, 2010.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2010
Title: HB 5201-Sec. 31
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Prohibits a school district from restricting the assignment of a student who has diabetes to a particular school on the basis that the student has diabetes, that the school does not have a full-time school nurse, or that the school does not have trained diabetes personnel; authorizes a student to manage diabetes while in school, at school-sponsored activities, or in transit to and from school or school-sponsored activities with written authorization from the parent and physician; directs the state board of education, in cooperation with the department of health, to adopt rules (1) to encourage every school in which a student with diabetes is enrolled to have personnel trained in routine and emergency diabetes care and (2) for the management and care of diabetes by students in schools that include provisions to protect the safety of all students from the misuse or abuse of diabetic supplies or equipment; provides indemnification for specified employees, volunteers and entities.
Title: H.B. 747
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
Postsec. |
Creates the Higher Education Coordinating Council (the council) for the purposes of identifying unmet needs and facilitating solutions to disputes regarding the creation of new degree programs and the establishment of new institutes, campuses, or centers; provides that the council serve as an advisory board to the legislature, state board of education, and the board of governors; requires recommendations of the council to be consistent with the following guiding principles: (1) To achieve within existing resources a seamless academic educational system that fosters an integrated continuum of kindergarten through graduate school education; (2) To promote consistent education policy across all educational delivery systems, focusing on students; (3) To promote substantially improved articulation across all educational delivery systems; (4) To promote a system that maximizes educational access and allows the opportunity for a high-quality education for all Floridians; and (5) To promote a system of coordinated and consistent transfer of credit and data collection for improved accountability purposes between the educational delivery systems.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7237er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7237&Session=2010
Title: H.B. 7237 - Sec. 13
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Modifies the Bright Futures Scholarship Program; raises qualifying ACT/SAT scores annually through 2013-2014 for the program's award levels; provides that students still may delay entering college for 3 years after high school graduation, but once they enter college, they may use the award for 5 years (previously, the award could be used for 7 years). http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2010
Title: HB 5201-Sec. 13 and 16
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
Postsec. |
Requires faculty to determine, before a textbook is adopted, the extent to which an open-access textbook may exist and be used; requires polices addressing the availability of required textbooks to students otherwise unalbe to afford the cost to consider the extent to which an open-access textbook may be used; encourages faculty and academic departments to participate in the development, adaptation and review of open-access textbooks, particularly for high-demand general education courses.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2010
Title: HB 5201-Sec. 4
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
Postsec. |
Clarifies exemption from postsecondary student fee requirements provided for a student who is or was at time he or she reached 18 years of age in custody of relative under Relative Caregiver Program or who was adopted from department of children and family services after specified date; provides that exemption includes fees associated with enrollment in career-preparatory instruction. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1363er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1363&Session=2010
Title: H.B. 1363
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
Postsec. |
Revises the powers and duties of the board of governors ("the board"); provides that board has authority to regulate the state university system and may adopt regulation and develop procedure for the board and university boards of trustees to use in implementing constitutional duties and responsibilities; creates the higher education coordinating council; revises provisions for approval of new programs at state universities; authorizes board to approve proposal from university board of trustees to establish new student fee, increase cap for existing fee, or implement flexible tuition policies. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7237er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7237&Session=2010
Title: HB 7237
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
Postsec. |
Requires the the office of program policy analysis and government accountability to conduct a review of the postsecondary educational opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities. The review must include, at a minimum, the following issues: opportunities for postsecondary education and vocational training; transitioning from school to the workforce; best practices for providing such postsecondary education and training services, including any notable public-private partnerships; and the feasibility and cost of establishing a residential vocational institution to provide postsecondary education and vocational training for individuals with developmental disabilities. The results of the review must be submitted to the legislature by February 1, 2010.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5201er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5201&Session=2010
Title: HB 5201-Sec. 32
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 |
In 2008, the Florida Legislature enacted the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. The purpose of the compact is to enable member states to uniformly address educational transition issues faced by military families. This bill repeals the automatic repeal provision in the original compact legislation and adds a new provision automatically repealing the compact legislation three years after the bill takes effect. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0521er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0521&Session=2010
Title: H.B. 521
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Assessment |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Redefines the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test in math and reading as end-of-course exams. Provides that: (1) Beginning with students entering grade 9 in the 2010-2011 school year, in addition to the Algebra I credit requirement, one of the 4 credits in mathematics must be geometry or a series of courses equivalent to geometry as approved by the state board of education; (2) Beginning with students entering grade 9 in the 2010-2011 school year, the end-of-course assessment requirements must be met in order for a student to earn the required credit in Algebra I; (3) Beginning with students entering grade 9 in the 2011-2012 school year, the end-of-course assessment requirements must be met in order for a student to earn the required credit in geometry; and (4) Beginning with students entering grade 9 in the 2012-2013 school year, in addition to the Algebra I and geometry credit requirements, one of the 4 credits in mathematics must be Algebra II or a series of courses equivalent to Algebra II as approved by the state board.
Further provides that: (1) Beginning with students entering grade 9 in the 2011-2012 school year, one of the 3 credits in science must be Biology I or a series of courses equivalent to Biology I as approved by the state board; (2) Beginning with students entering grade 9 in the 2011-2012 school year, the end-of-course assessment requirements must be met in order for a student to earn the required credit in Biology I; and (3) Beginning with students entering grade 9 in the 2013-2014 school year, one of the 3 credits must be Biology I or a series of courses equivalent to Biology I as approved by the state board, one credit must be chemistry or physics or a series of courses equivalent to chemistry or physics as approved by the state board, and one credit must be an equally rigorous course, as determined by the state board.
For courses that require statewide, standardized EOC assessments, a minimum of 30% of a student's course grade shall be comprised of performance on the statewide, standardized EOC assessment. A student with a disability, for whom the IEP committee determines that an end-of-course (EOC) assessment cannot accurately measure the student's abilities, taking into consideration all allowable accommodations, must have the EOC assessment results waived for the purpose of determining the student's course grade and credit. In addition, in order to earn high school credit for an Algebra I, Geometry or Biology I course, a middle school student must pass EOC assessments.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0004er.html&Directory=session/2010/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 4 - Sec. 1-4
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov |
Assessment |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Statewide Assessment Program - Discontinues the 9th and 10th grade math Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) and the high school math and science FCAT for the 2011-2012 school year; Requires all students currently enrolled in Algebra l (or equivalent) to take the end-of-course (EOC) assessment (30% of the final grade for 9th graders beginning in 2010-2011); Requires the 2010-2011 writing and science FCAT to be administered at least once in high school, middle school and in elementary school; Requires students enrolled in grades 6-8 in the 2010-2011 school year who earned credit during the 2007-2008 and 2009-2010 school years and have not taken 10th grade math FCAT to Algebra l EOC during the 2010-2011 school year; Provides that beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, 9th graders must pass Algebra I EOC to earn credit; In the 20112012 school year, all students enrolled in Geometry and/or biology must take EOC (will be 30% of final grade for 9th graders beginning in the 2011-2012 school year); Beginning in the 2012-2013 school year, 9th graders must pass EOC in Geometry and/or Biology to earn credit.
Directs the commissioner of education, contingent upon funding, to establish an implementaion schedule for the development and administration of additional statewide, standardized EOC in English/Language Arts II (priority), Algebra II, chemistry, physics, earth/space science, US History, and world history.
Equivalent Scores for EOC Assessments - Directs the commissioner of education to analyze the content and equivalent data sets for nationally recognized high school achievement tests and industry certification tests under the Industry Certification Funding List, pursuant to rules adopted by the state board of Education, to assess if equivalent scores for EOC assessment scores can be determined for passage of an EOC assessment.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0004er.html&Directory=session/2010/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 4 - Sec. 8
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov |
High School |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
The Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) to study: (1) different types of diplomas in different states; (2) criteria for awarding diplomas and endorsements; (3) differences in courses for college-bound and career pathways; (4) advantages and disadvantages of offering diploma options; and (5) any barriers other states have encountered when implementing differentiated diplomas.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0004er.html&Directory=session/2010/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 4 - Sec. 14
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires each high school to advise each student of programs through which a high school student can earn college credit, including Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), Advanced International Certificate of Education, dual enrollment courses, career academy courses, and courses that lead to national industry certification, as well as the availability of course offerings through virtual instruction. Beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, each high school must offer an IB Program, an Advanced International Certificate of Education Program, or a combination of at least 4 courses in dual enrollment or AP (including one course each in English, mathematics, science, and social studies. To meet this requirement, school districts may provide courses through virtual instruction, if the virtual course significantly integrates postsecondary level content for which a student may earn college credit, as determined by the state department of education, and for which a standardized EOC assessment, as approved by the department, is administered.
Creates The Credit Acceleration Program (CAP) for the purpose of allowing a secondary student to earn high school credit in a course that requires a statewide, standardized EOC assessment if the student attains a specified score on the assessment. Notwithstanding other relevant statues, a school district must award course credit to a student who is not enrolled in the course, or who has not completed the course, if the student attains a score indicating satisfactory performance, on the corresponding statewide, standardized EOC assessment. The school district must permit a student who is not enrolled in the course, or who has not completed the course, to take the standardized EOC assessment during the regular administration of the assessment.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0004er.html&Directory=session/2010/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 4 - Sec. 5
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to retirement; redefines certain terms termination; relates to reemployment of retirees; clarifyies when a State Community College System Optional Retirement Program participant is considered a retiree; providing for receipt of credit for past or prior service by charter school and charter technical career center employees; authorizing developmental research schools and charter schools to reemploy certain retired members under specified conditions; deletes provision that prevented persons retired from the public school system from renewing membership in the Florida Retirement System or Teachers' Retirement System upon reemployment by the school system. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0479er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0479&Session=2009
Title: H.B. 479
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to charter schools; provides for a charter technical career center financial recovery plan; provides that charter schools are eligible for federal stimulus moneys and grants; requires full disclosure of the employment of relatives by charter schools; provides for the development of a charter model application form and evaluation instrument for charter schools and charter career centers; details grounds for termination or nonrenewal of a charter.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0278er.html&Directory=session/2009/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 278
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov |
No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to supplemental educational services; requires each school district to report information regarding state-approved supplemental educational services to public school students and parent satisfaction; requires for evaluation of each provider based on such information and the assignment of a service designation; authorizes school districts to use certain funds to meet the requirements of the act; requires reporting in electronic format of student learning gains; requires posting on a public website.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb2538er.html&Directory=session/2009/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 2538
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the legal jurisdiction of campus police; redefines the term mutual aid agreement to authorize state university police officers to enforce laws within a specified jurisdictional area as agreed upon in a mutual aid agreement; authorizes university police officers to enforce traffic violations and to arrest persons for violations committed within a specified distance from property under the supervision or control of the university or a direct-support organization of the university. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0554er.html&Directory=session/2009/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 554
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the State Prepaid College Program; revises provision relating to the transfer of benefits to private and out-of-state colleges and universities and career centers by providing beneficiaries of prepaid contracts greater flexibility in selecting a postsecondary education institution; revises provisions relating to the authorization of certain colleges or universities to register as a professional guardian.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0606er.html&Directory=session/2009/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 606
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
The bill implements some of the recommendations of the Florida College System Task Force and the State College Pilot Project. In particular, the bill:
1. Renames the Division of Community Colleges within the Department of Education as the Division of Florida College System;
- Defines the colleges' service areas.
- Authorizes a community college to change its name to include "college" or "state college" if it has been authorized to grant baccalaureate
degrees and has been accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) to do so, or, alternatively, with
board-of-trustees and State Board of Education (SBE) approval.
- Requires the college to seek a statutory name change in the next regular legislative session following the college's name change.
2. Revises the primary mission of the community colleges (now "Florida colleges") to include upper level instruction and awarding
baccalaureate degrees as authorized by law.
- Provides that a separate and secondary mission of Florida colleges includes adult basic education, adult general education, adult
secondary education and General Educational Development test instruction.
- Requires colleges to maintain associate degree programs after receiving approval to offer a baccalaureate degree.
3. Requires Florida colleges that offer one or more baccalaureate degree programs to:
- Maintain its primary mission (i.e., responsibility for responding to community needs for postsecondary academic education and career
degree education and providing associate degrees that provide access to a university);
- Maintain an open-door admission policy for associate-level degree programs and workforce education programs;
- Continue to provide outreach to underserved populations;
- Continue to provide remedial education;
- Comply with all provisions of statewide articulation agreements relating to 2-year and 4-year public degree-granting institutions;
- Not award graduate credit; and
- Not participate in intercollegiate athletics beyond the 2-year level.
4. The Legislature intends that the primary responsibility of a Florida college, including a Florida college that offers baccalaureate degree
programs, continues to be the provision fo associate degrees that provide access to a university.
5. Provides initial approval of a baccalaureate degree by the SBE.
- Provides criteria for the evaluation of a baccalaureate degree proposal.
- Provides for exceptions from the requirement for SBE approval of baccalaureate degree programs.
http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2009-228.pdf
Title: S.B. 2682
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
School Safety--Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to due process hearings for exceptional students; permits school personnel to consider any unique circumstances on a case-by-case basis when determining whether a change in placement is appropriate for a student who has a disability and violates a district school board's code of student conduct; provides for the removal and placement of such a student in an alternative educational setting if they carry a weapon, possess illegal drugs or inflicts injury upon another person at school or a school function; provides that the State Board of Education will comply with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), as amended, and its implementing regulations after evaluating and determining that the IDEA and its regulations are consistent with certain principles. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7089er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7089&Session=2009
Title: H.B. 7089
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Provides exemption from public records requirements for K-12 education records held by agency, public school, center, institution, or other entity that is part of state's education system; provides the requirements for the release, use, and maintenance of education records; expands exemption from public records requirements for records of students in public postsecondary educational institutions to include education records and applicant records. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7119er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7119&Session=2009
Title: H.B. 7119
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Damaged Textbooks:
- Deletes a provision that requires a public school principal to collect a percentage of a textbook's purchase price from a student who has lost, destroyed, or damaged a textbook.
Service-learning Programs:
- Encourages school districts to initiate, adopt, expand, and institutionalize service-learning programs, activities, and policies in grades K-12.
- Provides that, upon request, the state department of education will assist districts in securing financial assistance for service-learning programs.
- Directs the department of education to develop and adopt elective service-learning courses for inclusion in middle and high school course code directories.
- Provides that the hours that high school students devote to course based service-learning activities may be counted toward meeting community service requirements for high school graduation.
Charter Schools:
- Provides that for charter schools that meet the definition of an alternative school pursuant to State Board of Education rule, the decision to receive a school grade is the decision of the charter school governing board.
Regional Professional Development Academies:
- Amends statute governing regional professional development academies.
- Provides that contracts between district school boards and each regional professional development academy must include certain requirements.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1248er.html&Directory=session/2009/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1248
Source: http://www.flsenate.govt |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Designates the "Florida's Equal Opportunity in Education Act"; revises provisions relating to powers & duties of district school boards to implement state system of school improvement & education accountability; requires that State Board of Education comply with federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA); for the purpose of determining whether a public school requires action to achieve a sufficient level of school improvement, the Department of Education shall annually categorize a public school in one of six categories based on the school's grade, and the level and rate of change in student performance in the areas of reading and mathematics, disaggregated into student subgroups as described in the ESEA.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0991er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0991&Session=2009
Title: H.B. 991
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
Postsec. |
Requires the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability shall submit a report on workforce education programs for occupations not included on specific occupation lists and on funding options, etc. Also provides for a standard high school diploma designation for completed industry certifications.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1616er.html&Directory=session/2009/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1616
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov |
Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Provides an exemption from public records requirements for personally identifiable information of any personnel of any school district or postsecondary educational institution, or any specific allegations of misconduct obtained or reported in connection with an investigation of a testing impropriety conducted by the Department of Education; provides that the exemption applies until the investigation is concluded or becomes inactive; provides for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption under the Open Government Sunset Review Act.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0895er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0895&Session=2009
Title: H.B. 895
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to tax credits for contributions to nonprofit scholarship-finding organizations; specifies that upon the request of any eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organization, a school district shall inform all households within the district receiving free or reduced-priced meals under the National School Lunch Act of their eligibility to apply for a tax credit scholarship.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0453er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0453&Session=2009
Title: H.B. 453
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
High School |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to award a high school diploma to honorably discharged Vietnam War veterans.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0316er.html&Directory=session/2009/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 316
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
Postsec. |
Relates to educational dollars for duty program; removes duties of Board of the Governors of the State University System and State Board of Education with respect to program; authorizes the payment of tuition and fees for current guard members; provides that a member who has obtained a master's degree is ineligible to participate in the program; revising courses not authorized for the program; provides that college preparatory courses are authorized for the program; authorizes the Department of Military Affairs to pay tuition and fees for members enrolled in a nonpublic postsecondary institution or a nonpublic vocational technical program which are equal to the amount required to pay for tuition and fees at a public postsecondary education institution or public vocational-technical.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0685er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0685&Session=2009
Title: H.B. 685
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
Postsec. |
Authorizes an eligible student who receives benefits as a veteran who served on active duty in the Armed Forces after September 11, 2001, to defer college tuition and fees under certain circumstances.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0509er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0509&Session=2009
Title: H.B. 509
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
Postsec. |
Requires the Education Estimating Conference to develop information relating to the national average of state university tuition and fees; revises provisions relating to the use of the student financial aid fee and the establishment of a tuition differential (to be used to promote improvements in the quality of undergraduate education and shall provide financial aid to undergraduate students who exhibit financial need); provides requirements for a university board of trustees to submit a proposal to the Board of Governors to implement a tuition differential; requires the Board of Governors' review and approval of a proposal.
http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2009-098.pdf
Title: S.B. 762
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides that in order to qualify as a resident for community college and state university tuition purposes, a person/parent or guardian must have maintained legal residence in the state for at least 12 consecutive months immediately prior to his or her initial enrollment in an institution of higher education.
To encourage each undergraduate student who enrolls in a state university to complete the student's respective baccalaureate degree program in the most efficient way possible while providing for access to additional college coursework, state universities shall require a student to pay an excess hour surcharge equal to 50 % of the tuition rate for each credit hour in excess.
Permits the Legislature to provide an annual appropriation to support Florida private colleges and universities. Such appropriations may be used to provide access to Florida residents
seeking a postsecondary education, to fulfill the state's need for graduates in specific disciplines, and to support medical research.
http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2009-060.pdf
Title: S.B. 1696
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Creates the Florida Qualified School Construction Bond Allocation Act; requires the Office of Technology and Information Services (under supervision of the state board) to develop a systemwide technology plan, making budget recommendations to the commissioner, providing data collection and management for the system, assisting school districts in securing Internet access and telecommunications services, including those eligible for funding under the Schools and Libraries Program of the federal Universal Service Fund, and coordinating
services with other state, local, and private agencies; requires the Office of Technology and Information Services to develop a method to address the need for a statewide approach to planning and operations of library and information services to achieve a single K-20 education system library information portal and a unified higher education library management system.
Provides for the Virtual instruction program - a program of instruction provided in an interactive learning environment created through technology in which students are separated from their teachers by time or space, or both, and in which a Florida-certified teacher is responsible for at least: (a) 50% of the direct instruction to students in kindergarten through grade 5; or (b) 80% of the direct instruction to students in grades 6 through 12.
Amends the school food service programs statute to require each district school board to implement school breakfast programs that make breakfast meals available to all students in each elementary school; by the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year, universal school breakfast programs shall be offered in schools in which 80 % or more of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Authorizes, for the 2009-2010 fiscal year, the Department of Education to conduct a pilot program to determine the feasibility of managing the Florida Teachers Lead Program through a centralized electronic system.
http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2009-059.pdf
Title: S.B. 1676
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes the Florida Distance Learning Consortium to facilitate collaboration among public postsecondary educational institutions in use of distance learning; provides duties of consortium; defines distance learning course for purposes of assessing distance learning course user fee for community college and state university students; provides the requirements for the link to the State Higher Education Distance Learning Catalog on an institution's website.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7121er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7121&Session=2009
Title: H.B. 7121
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Reading/Literacy |
Adopted 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends rule to provide criteria for reading intervention for students in the grades K-12; amends rule to update terminology to reflect current practice in the field and update statutory references with regard to school personnel providing services to students enrolled in the English Speakers of Other Languages program. https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?ID=6A-6.054
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?ID=6A-6.0900
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?ID=6A-6.0901
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?ID=6A-6.0904
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?ID=6A-6.0905
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?ID=6A-6.0906
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?ID=6A-6.0907
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?ID=6A-6.0908
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?ID=6A-6.0909
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?ID=6A-6.09091
Title: FAC 6A-6.054, .0900, .0901, .0904, .0905, .0906, .0907, .0908, .0909,.09091
Source: https://www.flrules.org |
School Safety--Corporal Punishment |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to zero-tolerance policies and schools; requires a district school board having a policy authorizing the use of corporal punishment to review its policy once every 3 years during a district school board meeting and to take public testimony at the board meeting; prohibits corporal punishment policies from requiring the reporting of petty acts of misconduct and misdemeanors (including, but not limited to, disorderly conduct, disrupting a school function, simple assault or battery, affray, theft of less than $300, trespassing, and vandalism of less than $1,000) to a law enforcement agency; establishes a procedure that provides each student with the opportunity for a review of the disciplinary action imposed; requires each school board shall adopt a cooperative agreement with the Department of Juvenile Justice which establishes guidelines for ensuring that any no contact order entered by a court is reported and enforced and that all of the necessary steps are taken to protect the victim of the offense.
http://www.flsenate.gov/files/Ch_2009-053.pdf
Title: S.B. 1540
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides an additional penalty for violations of provisions that require traffic to stop for a school bus.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0481er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0481&Session=2009
Title: H.B. 481
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to education and children in shelter care or foster care; includes exceptional students; provides for a surrogate parent for educational decisionmaking for a child with a disability; requires access to a child's medical records and educational records if a child is placed in a shelter; requires panels in judicial reviews to consider testimony by a surrogate parent; exempts school-entry health examinations; requires notification of entry into a private residential care facility; requires the Department of Education and district school boards to access the Florida Safe Families Network to obtain information about children known to the Department of Children and Family Services; provides requirements for educational placement.
http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2009-035.pdf
Title: S.B. 1128
Source: http://laws.flrules.org |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to certification of public school athletic coaches; provides that completion of sports safety course shall meet certain inservice certification requirements, including teaching the principles of cardiopulmonary resuscitation; requires the sports safety course to be approved by the State High School Athletic Association Board of Directors and meet specified requirements. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1539er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1539&Session=2009
Title: H.B. 1539
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Removes the scheduled repeal under the Open Government Sunset Review Act of an exemption from public records requirements for information that would identify or locate a child who participates in a government-sponsored recreation program (i.e., a program for which an agency assumes responsibility for a child participating in that program, including, but not limited to, after-school programs, athletic programs, nature programs, summer camps, or other recreational programs) or the parent or guardian of a child.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7019er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7019&Session=2009
Title: H.B. 7019
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends rule to add certification in elementary education grade K-6 as an appropriate base coverage for certification in the pre-k disabilities endorsement. The effect
is more flexibility for certification for teachers who want to serve the prekindergarten level of exceptional students. https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?ID=6A-4.01792
Title: FAC 6A-4.01792
Source: https://www.flrules.org |
Promotion/Retention |
Adopted 01/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends rule to provide guidance relating to the statewide public school student progression law eliminating social promotion by removing the FCAT Norm Referenced Test (NRT) as an alternative assessment good cause exemption for students scoring at Level 1 on the grade three Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) in Reading. Since the original rule adoption, the FCAT Norm Referenced Test (NRT) has been eliminated from the FCAT assessment program. The effect of this rule revision will be that students who score at Level 1 on the grade three FCAT Reading may be promoted to grade four if an acceptable level of performance is demonstrated on the alternative assessment (SAT-9 or SAT-10) or using a student portfolio. https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?ID=6A-1.094221
Title: FAC 6A-1.094221
Source: https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleNo.asp?ID=6A-1.094221 |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Adopted 11/2008 |
P-12 |
Ensures consistency among all schools designated School Performance Grade of D by requiring that they utilize the Bureau of School Improvement educational improvement plans database.
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/readFile.asp?sid=0&tid=6430147&type=1&File=6A-1.09981.doc
Title: FAC 6A-1.09981
Source: https://www.flrules.org |
Governance |
Adopted 11/2008 |
Postsec. |
Amends rule so that Board of Regents is replaced by the Board of Governors. Members are appointed by Governor subject to Senate confirmation.
Title: FAC 6A-10.006
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Adopted 11/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires districts, beginning with the 2009-2010 school year, to provide eligible students within its boundaries the option to participate in a virtual instruction program. The program must be full-time for K-8 students and may be full-time or part-time for students in grades 9-12 in Department of Juvenile Justice Education Programs, dropout prevention programs, vocational programs, or career education programs. Each district's virtual instruction program may be operated by the district or by virtual instruction program contracted providers. Virtual instruction program providers must be approved by the Department of Education.
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/readFile.asp?sid=0&tid=6433445&type=1&File=6A-6.0981.doc
Title: FAC 6A-6.0981
Source: https://www.flrules.org/ |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Adopted 11/2008 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Amends rule to change structure so that Boards of Trustees for Community Colleges are appointed by Governor subject to Senate confirmation. FLORIDA 33941
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/readFile.asp?sid=0&tid=6433736&type=1&File=6A-10.007.doc
Title: FAC 6A-10.007
Source: https://www.flrules.org/default.asp |
High School |
Adopted 09/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends rule to review the General Educational Development (GED) testing fees to recommend an increase in the testing fees so that the Department of Education, as well as local testing centers, can operate with a minimal deficit due to increasing operating costs related to administering the GED test.
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/readFile.asp?sid=0&tid=6138371&type=1&File=6A-6.021.doc
Title: FAC 6A-6.021
Source: https://www.flrules.org/ |
P-3 Preschool |
Adopted 09/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends rule to revise the education standards for children in the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program.
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/readFile.asp?sid=0&tid=6138177&type=1&File=6A-1.099823.doc
Title: FAC 6A-1.099823
Source: https://www.flrules.org/ |
Special Education |
Adopted 09/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends rule to address the Sunshine State Standards math access points for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
Sunshine State Standards for Special Diploma as incorporated by reference in paragraph (1)(h) of this rule describe what certain students with a disability should be able to do at three (3) proficiency levels (independent, supported, and participatory). Public schools shall provide appropriate instruction to assist students in the achievement of these standards.
https://www.flrules.org/gateway/readFile.asp?sid=0&tid=6139826&type=1&file=6A-1.09401.doc
Title: FAC 6A-1.09401
Source: https://www.flrules.org/ |
Assessment |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12,
Community College |
Requires the State Board of Education to replace the Sunshine State Standards with the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards; relates to tests by private schools for the Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarship Program, graduation designations, assessments (including end-of-course), career-preparatory instruction, postsecondary placement tests, dual enrollment, testing standards, remedial instructions, individuals with disabilities, forfeiture of school funds, teacher certification and school cafeteria inspections.
http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2008/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s1908er.pdf
Title: S.B. 1908
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to alternative high school courses and programs. Establishes a pilot project for awarding high school credit for industry certification programs. Requires school districts to indicate interest in the pilot project. Provides for specified courses to be included as alternative credit courses. Requires the approval of certain courses for credit by examination. Requires the adoption of passing scores for such examinations. Requires a course directory. Relates to reporting credits under the project. Also addresses virtual high school programs.
http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2008/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s1906er.pdf
Title: S.B. 1906
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov/ |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Expands the Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarship Program by increasing the amount of credits and allowing the use of credits for insurance premium taxes; provides that siblings of certain students or students in foster care are eligible for participation in the program; provides that scholarship funds may be used for administrative expenses of a nonprofit scholarship funding organizations.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0653er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0653&Session=2008
Title: H.B. 653
Source: |
Finance |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Deletes salary supplements for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification from definition of compensation under the Retirement System; excludes charter school Merit Award Program funds from administrative fees; revises funding for dual enrollment instruction; authorizes transfer of funds for academic classroom instruction; provides for allocation of research-based reading instruction; authorizes a school district to redirect millage amounts.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5083er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5083&Session=2008
Title: H.B. 5083
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/ |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires expansion of the school district breakfast programs to middle and high schools; sets prices for school meals and for provision of the universal free school breakfast; authorizes the Department of Education to develop incentive program to encourage student participation; provides for information to students and parents; clarifies allocation of funds; provides for alternate site locations and alternate breakfast options; provides for breakfast meals.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0623er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0623&Session=2008
Title: H.B. 623
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/ |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to virtual education programs; provides that K-8 virtual schools are public schools and a public school choice option; establishes school district K- 8 Virtual School Program; requires school districts to offer program beginning with 2009-2010 school year; provides requirements for contracted providers and requires Department of Education approval of district programs; requires participation in statewide assessment and accountability programs; provides for funding.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7067er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7067&Session=2008
Title: H.B. 7067
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
P-3 |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to the Success in Early Learning Act; authorizes the use of telecommunication methods in conducting early learning coalition board meetings; transfers requirements for the establishment of a statewide child care resource and referral network by the Department of Children and Family Services to the Agency for Workforce Innovation; relates to the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program and accreditation standards for private prekindergarten providers.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0879er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0879&Session=2008
Title: H.B. 879
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
Postsec. |
Relates to state university student fees; revises requirements for the Board of Governors in establishing tuition and out-of-state fees for graduate and professional programs; revises requirements for the Board of Governors in establishing a uniform maximum undergraduate tuition differential for universities that have research and development expenditures.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0745er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0745&Session=2008
Title: H.B. 745
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/ |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to postsecondary distance learning; establishes the State Distance Learning Consortium to facilitate access to distance learning resources; establishes State Higher Education Distance Learning Catalog as central point of access to distance learning resources for which consortium is responsible; exempting a distance learning course from laboratory fees; authorizes a community or state college to assess a student a per-credit-hour user fee and other fees.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7105er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7105&Session=2008
Title: H.B. 7105
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to school safety; prohibits bullying and harassment; creates the Jeffrey Johnson Stand Up for All Students Act which prohibits bullying or harassment during education programs or activities, on school buses, or through use of data or computer software accessed through school computer systems; defines bullying as systematically and chronically inflicting physical hurt or psychological distress on one or more students; requires procedures as a prerequisite to receipt of school funds.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0669er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0669&Session=2008
Title: H.B. 669
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/ |
Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to charter schools, the Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program, postsecondary education, school attendance, and high school graduation requirements; revises the terminology used to identify students with intellectual, emotional, or behavioral disabilities; relates to postsecondary education; deletes a provision that prohibits direct medical or pharmaceutical intervention in a regional autism center.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1313er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1313&Session=2008
Title: H.B. 1313
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/default.aspx |
Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides restrictions on charges by specified school districts for facility rental fees paid by state- approved supplemental educational services providers; requires the Department of Education to annually evaluate and grade supplemental education services providers; provides reporting requirements.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_s1414er.DOC&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1414&Session=2008
Title: S.B. 1414
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/ |
Students |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to educational opportunity for military children; directs the Governor to execute the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children; provides requirements relating to student records and enrollment, placement and attendance, and eligibility for graduation; creates an interstate commission and specifies powers and duties; requires the Secretary of State to furnish the enrolled act to member states approving compacts.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1203er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1203&Session=2008
Title: H.B. 1203
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/default.aspx |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Redesignates the names of certain community colleges as state colleges; establishes the State College System to be comprised of public postsecondary educational institutions; establishes the State College System Task Force to develop recommendations for the transition of community colleges to state colleges; creates the State College Pilot Project to develop recommendations for the transition of community colleges to state colleges and for developing a funding model for the State College System.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_s1716er.DOC&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1716&Session=2008
Title: S.B. 1716
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/ |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to textbook affordability; prohibits certain actions of community college or state university employees that relate to student purchase of required textbooks; authorizes receipt of certain instructional materials, compensation, and training; requires student notification of required textbooks on college or university websites; requires adoption of specified policies and practices to minimize the cost of textbooks.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0603er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0603&Session=2008
Title: H.B. 603
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/ |
Finance--Resource Efficiency |
Removed from Ballot 04/2008 |
P-12 |
(BALLOT MEASURE 9.) Requires at least sixty-five percent of school funding received by school districts be spent on classroom instruction, rather than administration. Allows for differences in administrative expenditures by district. Provides the constitutional requirement for the state to provide a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools is a minimum, nonexclusive duty. Reverses legal precedent prohibiting public funding of private school alternatives.
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/initiatives/fulltext/pdf/12-10.pdf
Title: Amend. 9
Source: http://www.dos.state.fl.us/ |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Rejected by voters 04/2008 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to require that the Legislature authorize counties to levy a local option sales tax to supplement community college funding. Requires voter approval to levy the tax. Provides that approved taxes will sunset after 5 years and may be reauthorized by the voters.
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/initiatives/fulltext/pdf/12-9.pdf
Title: Amend. 8
Source: http://www.dos.state.fl.us/ |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Removed from Ballot 04/2008 |
P-12 |
2008 Ballot., (BALLOT MEASURE NO. 5) Replaces state required school property taxes with state revenues generating an equivalent hold harmless amount for schools through one or more of the following options, the repealing sales tax exemptions not specifically excluded, increasing sales tax rate up to one percentage point, spending reductions, and other revenue options created by the Legislature. Limits subject matter of laws granting future exemptions. Limits annual increases in assessment of non- homestead real property.Lowering property tax millage rate for schools.
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/initiatives/fulltext/pdf/12-6.pdf
Title: Amend. V. 5
Source: http://www.dos.state.fl.us/ |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Relates to high school athletics drug testing; requires the state High School Athletic Association to facilitate a drug testing program to randomly test certain students for anabolic steroid use; requires test findings to be maintained separately from the educational record; requires schools to consent to provisions of program as prerequisite for membership in organization; requires student and parental consent as a prerequisite for eligibility to participate in interscholastic athletics.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0461er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0461&Session=2007
Title: H.B. 461
Source: Florida Legislature |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Relates to public records of drug test findings in high school athletics; exempts from public records requirements findings of drug test administered to a student by a testing agency with which the state High School Athletics Association has contracted; exempts from public meetings requirements meeting at which a challenge or appeal is made; provides for future review and repeal; provides statement of public necessity.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0463er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0463&Session=2007
Title: H.B. 463
Source: Florida Legislature |
Bilingual/ESL |
Vetoed 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Relates to public school educator certification; relates to English for Speakers of Other Languages Educators; specifies inservice requirements for educators who provide English for Speakers of Other Languages instruction. Changes requirements for number of inservice hours.
http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2007/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s2512er.pdf
Title: S.B. 2512
Source: Florida Legislature |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Creates the State Career and Professional Education Act to improve academic performance and to respond to workforce needs; requires a school district to develop strategic plans to address and meet local and regional workforce needs and to establish a career and professional academy; requires career courses lead to industry certification; requires a specified number of students must achieve certification or college credit for a course to continue; provides for transfer of credits to state university system.
http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2007/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s1232er.pdf
Title: S.B. 1232
Source: Florida Legislature |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to state university academic student fees; authorizes Board of Governors to delegate the authority to establish certain fees for academic enhancement to board of trustees of university; relates to tuition differentials among universities.
http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2007/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s1710er.pdf
Title: S.B. 1710
Source: Florida Legislature |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Relates to physical education; provides requirements for student participation in physical education; requires review and revision of the Sunshine State Standards for physical education; requires the Department of Education to develop and school districts to provide professional development program. Requires districts to provide 150 minutes of physical education each week for K-5 students. Encourages districts to provide 225 minutes of physical education each week for students in grades 6 - 8.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0967er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0967&Session=2007
Title: H.B. 967
Source: Florida Legislature |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Relates to the High School to Business Career Enhancement Act and high school work experience; requires each district school board to adopt policies and procedures for the High School to Business Career Enhancement Program through which student internships shall be offered in each school district; provides internship requirements; requires background screening of employees and contracted personnel of employers participating in the program.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1161er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1161&Session=2007
Title: H.B. 1161
Source: Florida Legislature |
Health--Suicide Prevention |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Creates the statewide Office for Suicide Prevention as a unit of the drug control office in the office of the governor. Directs the office to:
(1) Develop a network of community-based programs to improve suicide prevention initiatives and work to eliminate barriers to providing suicide prevention services to individuals at risk of suicide. Provides that the network must include schools and universities and school personnel.
(2) Prepare and implement the statewide plan with the advice of the Suicide Prevention Coordinating Council.
(3) Increase public awareness about suicide prevention.
(4) Coordinate education and training curricula in suicide prevention efforts for various role groups, including school employees.
Creates the Suicide Prevention Coordinating Council within the statewide office. Directs the coordinating council to advise the statewide office on the development
of a statewide plan for suicide prevention, with the guiding principle that suicide is a preventable problem. Directs the council to make findings and recommendations on suicide prevention programs and activities, and submit an annual report to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives. Provides that the council must include members representing the Florida Association of School Psychologists and the Florida School Board Association. Directs the state commissioner of education or his/her designee to serve on the council. Directs the council to meet at least quarterly and makes an appropriation to cover the costs of two full-time equivalent positions to implement this act during the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/laws/07laws/ch_2007-046.pdf
Title: H.B. 139
Source: election.dos.state.fl.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
Postsec. |
Relates to public postsecondary need-based student financial assistance; requires state residency for such assistance grant; revises eligibility criteria for the renewal of specified financial aid awards; creates the Public Postsecondary Career Education Student Assistance Grant Program for specified career certificate programs; provides for grants to community college presidents or school district superintendents; relates to payment of wages for student employees.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0343er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0343&Session=2007
Title: H.B. 343
Source: Florida Legislature |
High School--Advanced Placement |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
The Florida Partnership for Minority and Underrepresented Student Achievement must cooperate with school districts to identify minority & underrepresented students for participation in AP or other advanced courses and provide information regarding these courses to students and parents. The partnership must provide information regarding Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) or Preliminary ACT (PLAN) administration. http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2007/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0108er.pdf
Title: S.B. 108
Source: Florida Legislature |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Merit Award program for instructional personnel and school-based administrators; requires a school district board to adopt the plan in order to receive funding; authorizes charter schools to participate; relates to collective bargaining; provides for reversion of undistributed funds; provides for a distribution formula; relates to a performance-pay policy for school administrators and instructional personnel.
http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2007/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s1226er.pdf
Title: S.B. 1226
Source: Florida Legislature |
Health |
Issued 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness to develop a state plan of action to increase physical fitness through regular exercise and sound nutrition practices among Floridians of all ages and to reduce the rate of obesity and resulting chronic diseases in Floridians within the next ten years. Provides that the 15-20 governor-appointed members of the council are to reflect a broad spectrum of interested parties, including elementary, secondary, and public university representatives.
Provides that the state action plan must consider the following:
a. The proper implementation of physical education courses every day for all elementary school students (K-5);
b. The feasibility of providing physical education courses and activities every day for all students at the middle and high school (6-12) grade levels by the year 2012, with a particular emphasis on graduation requirements, ADA compliance, and additional impacts on the school day;
c. The extent to which a healthy lifestyle paradigm is embedded in the Sunshine State Standards and secondary school curricula;
d. Barriers to the provision of sufficient physical education within schools, including facilities limitations;
e. The correlation between physical education and academic achievement;
f. The feasibility of creating student fitness and wellness centers in schools and using such facilities both for physical education courses, as well as after-school and evening programs that encourage whole-family fitness;
g. The extent to which colleges of education prepare physical education teachers to teach 21st century fitness;
h. The availability and provision of professional development to recruit and retain certified physical education teachers;
i. The possibility of having every school district maintain an independent physical fitness advisory panel to make further recommendations for student fitness testing every year beginning in the first grade;
j. The nutritional value of school lunches and any barriers to providing nutritionally-sound, attractive school lunches at the elementary, middle, and high school levels;
k. The availability of healthy snack and drink options in public and private schools and workplace vending machines;
l. The promotion and inclusion of Florida agriculture, including fresh fruits, vegetables, and meats, in school and workplace meal plans;
m. The success of state employee wellness programs to determine which strategies are most effective in order to publish model policies for government agencies and private employers to learn from and adopt;
n. The implementation of recommendations made by the 2004 Governor's Task Force on the Obesity Epidemic;
o. The development of a Governor's Recognition program, recognizing healthy schools, communities, worksites, and healthcare settings;
p. The expansion of public awareness and access to existing programs that encourage healthy lifestyles through activities in Florida's state parks, beaches, greenways, and trails;
q. The implementation of a healthy lifestyle paradigm in the planning and design of Florida's communities;
r. The feasibility of making community roadways and transportation compatible with outdoor living and pedestrian activity; and
s. The development of a strategy to increase public awareness of physical fitness initiatives through a comprehensive public service campaign.
Directs the council to present an initial draft of its state plan of action to the governor by August 1, 2007 and a final, comprehensive state plan to the speaker of the house, the president of the senate and the governor by December 1, 2007.
http://www.flgov.com/pdfs/orders/07-52-fitness.pdf
Title: E.O 07-52
Source: www.flgov.com |
P-3 Preschool |
Adopted 08/2006 |
P-12 |
Develops rules to allow the public an opportunity to provide input inthe development of minimum standards for private prekindergarten providersdelivering the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program. FLORIDA 30748
http://www.firn.edu/doe/rules/6a-66.htm#6A-6.040
Title: FAC 6A-6.040
Source: Florida Rules |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 07/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to district school boards; provides for alternate procedure for election of district board chair in any district that does not have a board member elected at large; requires referendum and provides requirements for submitting such referendum to electors; provides for resolution of tie vote by said chair and said board members; amends provisions regarding organization of said boards, to conform.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1221er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1221&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 1221
Source: Florida Legislature |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Revises provisions relating to charter schools, including duties of sponsors, application process, denial of an application, and review of appeals; provides procedures when a state of financial emergency exists; revises provisions relating to charter contracts, terms, and renewal; revises nonrenewal and termination provisions; revises duties of a charter school governing body; provides procedures with respect to charter schools with deficiencies; authorizes the imposition of a fine.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7103er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7103&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7103
Source: Florida Legislature |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to a educational program on lead poisoning prevention and literature on childhood lead poisoning, lead screening of children, lead screening records maintenance, the reporting of cases of lead poisoning, policies and strategies to prevent and treat obesity, health care practitioner advice on morbidity, mortality, and costs regarding obesity, the best clinical practices for obesity prevention and treatment, counseling patients regarding healthy lifestyles, and the State Employee Wellness Council.
http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2006/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s1324er.pdf
Title: S.B. 1324
Source: Florida Legislature |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Creates the Office of Child Abuse and Prevention within the Executive Office of the Governor; provides procedures for evaluation of child abuse prevention programs; establishes a process for investigating reports of abuse; relates to independent living transition services; revises eligibility for young adults; requires additional aftercare services; requires boarding schools to meet certain standards; relates to medical assistance payment eligibility.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7173er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7173&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7173
Source: Florida Legislature |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
Postsec. |
Relates to education of spouses of disabled veterans; provides that it is declared policy of state to provide educational opportunity at state expense for spouses of deceased or disabled servicemembers; provides criteria for qualification for such benefits for unremarried spouses of deceased servicemembers and dependent spouses of disabled servicemembers; specifies uses of funds appropriated for such educational opportunities; relates to withdrawal of benefits; revises terminology.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_s2034er.html&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=2034&Session=2006
Title: S.B. 2034
Source: Florida Legislature |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to weapons; revises definition of weapon; revises and clarifies provisions regarding prohibited exhibition and possession of weapons and firearms at school-sponsored events or on school property; clarifies provisions regarding prohibited trespass on school property with a firearm, knife, plastic knife, blunt-bladed table knife, common pocketknife or other weapon; provides a penalty.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1291er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1291&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 1291
Source: Florida Legislature |
Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to education personnel; authorizes regional professional development academy to receive funds from certain sources for purpose of developing programs and services; provides that said academy is not component of any school district or governmental unit to which it provides services.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1243er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1243&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 1243
Source: Florida Legislature |
Technology--Equitable Access |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to students, computers and internet access; creates a program to offer discounted computers and Internet access to public school students and students in home education programs in grades 5 through 12; requires DOE to negotiate terms with computer manufacturers, certain nonprofit corporations, and broadband Internet access providers; requires Digital Divide Council to implement pilot project to assist low-income students; provides for grants.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0765er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0765&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 765
Source: Florida Legislature |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Makes revisions to school grade provisions, such as the inclusion of information for students receiving a special diploma and grades for K-3 and alternative schools.
Each school that has students who are tested and included in the school grading system, except an alternative school that receives a school-improvement rating pursuant to s. 1008.341, will receive a school grade; however, an alternative school may choose to receive a school grade under this section in lieu of a school-improvement rating. Additionally, a school that serves any combination of students in kindergarten through grade 3 which does not receive a school grade because its students are not tested and included in the school grading system will receive the school grade designation of a K-3 feeder pattern school identified by the Department of Education and verified by the school district. A school feeder pattern exists if at least 60 percent of the students in the school serving a combination of students in kindergarten through grade 3 are scheduled to be assigned to the graded school.
A school's grade will be based on a combination of: 1. Student achievement scores, including achievement scores for students seeking a special diploma. 2. Student learning gains as measured by annual FCAT assessments in grades 3 through 10; learning gains for students seeking a special diploma, as measured by an alternate assessment tool, must be included not later than the 2009-2010 school year. 3. Improvement of the lowest 25th percentile of students in the school in reading, math, or writing on the FCAT, unless these students are exhibiting satisfactory performance.
Effective with the 2005-2006 school year, the achievement scores and learning gains of eligible students attending alternative schools that provide dropout-prevention and academic-intervention services will be used to determine the home school's grade. If an alternative school chooses to be graded pursuant to this section, student performance data for eligible students will not be included in the home school's grade but will be included only in the calculation of the alternative school's grade. School districts must require collaboration between the home school and the alternative school in order to promote student success.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 45)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
School districts and boards must provide information regarding performance of students and educational programs as required pursuant to ss. 1008.22 and 1008.385 and implement a system of school reports as required by statute and State Board of Education rule.This legislation requires school reports to add a school's grade, high school graduation rate calculated without GED tests, disaggregated by student ethnicity, category and performance data as specified in state board rule.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 11)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Adds the following reporting requirements. The Department of Education must annually provide a report on the following: (a) Longitudinal performance of students in mathematics and reading. (b) Longitudinal performance of students by grade level in mathematics and reading. (c) Longitudinal performance regarding efforts to close the achievement gap. (d) Longitudinal performance of students on the norm-referenced component of the FCAT. (e) Other student performance data based on national norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests, when available, and numbers of students who after 8th grade enroll in adult education rather than other secondary education. 244
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 40)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires school report cards to be delivered -- not just available -- to parents.
The Department of Education will annually develop, in collaboration with the school districts, a school report card to be delivered to parents throughout each school district. The report card shall include the school's grade, information regarding school improvement, an explanation
of school performance as evaluated by the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and indicators of return on investment.
Each school's report card mustl be published annually by the department on its website, and the school district must provide the school report card to each parent.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 46)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Alternative schools that provide dropout-prevention and academic-intervention services pursuant to s. 1003.53 shall receive a school-improvement rating. The school-improvement rating must identify schools as having one of the following ratings: (a) "Improving" means schools with students making more academic progress than when the students were served in their home schools. (b) "Maintaining" means schools with students making progress equivalent to the progress made when the students were served in their home schools. (c) "Declining" means schools with students making less academic progress than when the students were served in their home schools.
The school-improvement rating will be based on a comparison of student performance data for the current year and previous year. Schools that improve at least one level or maintain an "improving" rating pursuant to this section are eligible for school recognition awards.
Student Learning Gains
For each alternative school receiving a school-improvement rating, the Department of Education will annually identify the percentage of students making learning gains as compared to the percentage of the same students making learning gains in their home schools in the year prior to being assigned to the alternative school.
School Report Cartds
The Department of Education will annually develop, in collaboration with the school districts, a school report card for alternative schools to be delivered to parents throughout each school district. The report card will include the school-improvement rating, identification of student
learning gains, student attendance data, information regarding school improvement, an explanation of school performance as evaluated by the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and indicators of return on investment.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006
Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 47)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
To provide data required to implement education performance accountability measures in state and federal law, the Commissioner of Education must initiate and maintain strategies to improve data quality and timeliness. All data collected from state universities shall, as determined by the commissioner, be integrated into the K-20 data warehouse. The commissioner will have unlimited access to such data solely for the purposes of conducting studies, reporting annual and longitudinal student outcomes, and improving college readiness 2823
and articulation. All public educational institutions must provide data to the K-20 data warehouse in a format specified by the commissioner.
School districts and public postsecondary educational institutions shall maintain information systems that will provide the State Board of Education, the Board of Governors of the State University System, and the Legislature with information and reports necessary to address the specifications of the accountability system.
The Commissioner of Education will determine the standards for the required data, monitor data quality, and measure improvements. The commissioner shall report annually to the State Board of Education, the Board of Governors of the State University System, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives data quality indicators and ratings for all school districts and public postsecondaryeducational institutions.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 44)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
School boards must annually approve improvement plans for all schools that address student achievement goals and strategies based on state and school district proficiency standards. The plans must include an accurate, data-based analysis of student achievement and other school performance data.
Beginning with plans approved for implementation in the 2007-2008 school year, each secondary school plan must include a redesign component based on the principles established in the High School Redesign Act. For each school in the district that earns a school grade of "C" or below, or is required to have a school improvement plan under No Child Left Behind, the school improvement plan shall, at a minimum, also include: 1. Professional development that supports enhanced and differentiated instructional strategies to improve teaching and learning.
2. Continuous use of disaggregated student achievement data to determine effectiveness of instructional strategies. 3. Ongoing informal and formal assessments to monitor individual student progress, including progress toward mastery of the Sunshine State Standards, and to redesign instruction if needed. 4. Alternative instructional delivery methods to support remediation, acceleration, and enrichment strategies.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 11)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
School in which low-performing students are enrolled must develop, in consultation with the student's parent, and must implement a progress monitoring plan. A progress monitoring plan is intended to provide the school district and the school flexibility in meeting the academic needs of the student and to reduce paperwork. A student who is not meeting the school district or state requirements for proficiency in reading and math must be covered by one of the following plans to target instruction and identify ways to improve his or her academic achievement:
1. A federally required student plan such as an individual education plan; 2. A schoolwide system of progress monitoring for all students; or
3. An individualized progress monitoring plan.
If the student has been identified as having a deficiency in reading, the K-12 comprehensive reading plan required by s.1011.62(8) must include instructional and support services to be provided to meet the desired levels of performance. District school boards may require low-performing students to attend remediation programs held before or after regular school hours or during the summer if transportation is provided.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 42)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Revises policies for the statewide Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. Previously, the FCAT was being administered annually in grades 3 through 10 to measure reading, writing, science, and mathematics. This legislation directs the commissioner to administer the FCAT reading and mathematics in grades 3 through 10. The assessment of writing and science shall be administered at least once at the elementary, middle, and high school. Further, the commissioner must document the procedures used to ensure that the versions of the FCAT which are taken by students retaking the grade 10 FCAT are equally as challenging and difficult as the tests taken by students in grade 10 which contain performance tasks
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 40)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Legislation expands requirements for ongoing research and analysis of achievement data. The commissioner must study the cost and student achievement impact of secondary end-of-course assessments, including web-based and performance formats, and report to the Legislature prior to implementation.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 40)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
The State Board of Education must analyze the content and concordant data sets for widely used high school achievement tests, including, but not limited to, the PSAT, PLAN, SAT, ACT, and College Placement Test, to assess if concordant scores for FCAT scores can be determined for high school graduation, college placement, and scholarship awards. In cases where content alignment and concordant scores can be determined, the Commissioner of Education must adopt those scores as meeting the graduation requirement in lieu of achieving the FCAT passing score and may adopt those scores as being sufficient to achieve additional purposes as determined by rule. Each time that test content or scoring procedures are changed for the FCAT or one of the identified tests, new concordant scores must be determined.
In order to use a concordant subject area score to satisfy the assessment requirement for a standard high school diploma, a student must take each subject area of the grade 10 FCAT a total of three times without earning a passing score. This requirement will not apply to a new student who enters the Florida public school system in grade 12, who may either achieve a passing score on the FCAT or use an approved subject area concordant score to fulfill the graduation requirement.
The State Board of Education may define allowable uses, other than to satisfy the high school graduation requirement, for concordant scores. Such uses may include, but need not be limited to, achieving appropriate standardized test scores required for the awarding of Florida Bright Futures Scholarships and college placement.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 40)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires local boards to modify basic courses, as necessary, to to assure exceptional students the opportunity to meet the graduation requirements for a standard diploma, using one of the following strategies:
1. Assignment of the exceptional student to an exceptional education class for instruction in a basic course with the same student performance standards as those required of nonexceptional students in the district student progression plan; or
2. Assignment of the exceptional student to a basic education class for instruction modified to accommodate the student's exceptionality.
Requires local boards to determine which strategies to use based on an assessment of the student's needs and requires this decision to be reflected in the student's individual education plan.
Directs the state board to adopt rules on test accommodations and modifications of procedures for students with disabilities that demonstrate the student's abilities rather than reflect the student's impaired sensory, manual, speaking, or psychological process skills.
Requires a student with disabilities who meets all state and local course, grade point average and testing requirements to be awarded a standard diploma. Provides that a student who completes the course requirements but is unable to meet the testing requirements, additional local requirements or minimum grade point average to be awarded a certificate of completion. Allows a student entitled to a certificate of completion to remain in school as a full- or part-time student for up to 1 additional year and receive special instruction designed to remedy his/her identified deficiencies.
Requires each district to provide instruction to prepare students with disabilities to demonstrate proficiency in the skills and competencies necessary for successful grade-to-grade progression and high school graduation. Allows a student with a disability whose IEP team determines the FCAT cannot accurately measure the student's abilities to have the FCAT diploma requirement waived to receive a standard diploma, provided the student completes the course requirements and does not earn a passing score on the FCAT after one opportunity each in grades 10 and 11.
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Title: H.B. 7087 - Section 23 (3) - (8)
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Assessment--Accommodations |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Legislation adds a provision for alternative assessments.
For students seeking a special diploma (pursuant to s. 1003.438), the Department of Education must develop or select and implement an alternate assessment tool that accurately measures the skills and competencies established in the Sunshine State Standards for students with disabilities.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 40)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Attendance |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
If a student decides to leave school at age 16, several procedures must be followed. This bill adds the following requirements:
The student's guidance counselor or other school personnel must conduct an exit interview with the student to determine the
reasons for the student's decision to terminate school enrollment and actions that could be taken to keep the student in school. The student must be informed of opportunities to continue his or her education in a different environment, including, but not limited to, adult education and GED test preparation. Additionally, the student must complete a survey in a format prescribed by the Department of Education to provide data on student reasons for terminating enrollment and actions taken by schools to keep students enrolled.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 18)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
District school boards and superintendents must prescribe and adopt standards and policies to provide each student the opportunity to receive a complete education program, including language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, health, physical education, foreign languages, and the arts, as defined by the Sunshine State Standards. The standards and policies must emphasize integration and reinforcement of reading, writing, and mathematics skills across all subjects, including career awareness, career exploration, and career and
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 10)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Creates the Florida Ready to Work Certification Program to enhance the workplace skills of Florida's students to better prepare them for successful employment in specific occupations. The program may be conducted in public middle and high schools, community colleges, technical centers, one-stop career centers, vocational rehabilitation centers, and Department of Juvenile Justice educational facilities. The program may be made available to other entities that provide job training. Requires the state department to establish institutional readiness criteria for program implementation.
The Program must be composed of: (a) A comprehensive identification of workplace skills for each occupation identified for inclusion in the program by the Agency for Workforce Innovation and the Department of Education. (b) A preinstructional assessment that delineates the student's mastery level on the specific workplace skills identified for that occupation. (c) A targeted instructional program limited to those identified workplace skills in which the student is not proficient as measured by the preinstructional assessment. (d) A certificate and portfolio awarded to students upon successful completion of the instruction.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 35)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Creates career and professional academies, defined as a research-based program that integrates a rigorous academic curriculum with an industry-driven career curriculum. The academies may be offered by public schools, school districts, or the Florida Virtual School. Students completing career and professional academy programs receive a standard high school diploma, the highest available industry certification, and postsecondary credit if the academy partners with a postsecondary institution.
The goals of career and professional academies are to: (a) Increase student academic achievement and graduation rates through integrated academic and career curricula. (b) Focus on career preparation through rigorous academics and industry certification. (c) Raise student aspiration and commitment to academic achievement and work ethics. (d) Support the revised graduation requirements by providing creative, applied majors. (e) Promote acceleration mechanisms, such as dual enrollment, articulated credit, or occupational completion points, so that students may earn postsecondary credit while in high school. (f) Support the state's economy by meeting industry needs for skilled employees in high-demand occupations.
The legislation describes the possible locations and configurations of the career academies. Each academy must: (a) Provide a rigorous standards-based academic curriculum integrated with a career curriculum. (b) Include one or more partnerships with postsecondary institutions, businesses, industry, employers, economic development organizations, or other appropriate partners from the local community. (c) Provide creative and tailored student advisement and coordinate with middle schools. (d) Provide a career education certification on the high school diploma. (e) Provide instruction in careers designated as high growth, high demand, and high pay. (f) Deliver academic content through instruction relevant to the career, including intensive reading and mathematics intervention. (g) Provide instruction resulting in competency, certification, or credentials in workplace skills. (h) Provide opportunities for students to obtain the Florida Ready to Work Certification; and (i) Include an evaluation plan developed jointly with the Department of Education. T
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 27)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Federal |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
The Commissioner of Education shall submit to the Legislature the proposed state plan for the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act before the proposed plan is submitted to federal agencies. The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint members of the appropriate education and appropriations committees to serve as a select committee to review the proposed plan.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 7)
Source: Florida Legislature |
High School |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to student athlete recruiting; requires the High School Athletic Association to hold certain bylaws in abeyance; provides for creation of task force to review student athlete recruiting issues; provides for task force membership and duties; requires recommendations to Governor and Legislature; requires OPPAGA to conduct review of recruiting violations by the High School Athletic Association member schools.
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Title: H.B. 7119
Source: Florida Legislature |
High School |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Defines secondary schools as those serving grades 6-12. Specifies that the following guiding principles must be used in the annual preparation of each secondary school's improvement plan:
(a) Struggling students, especially those in failing schools, need the highest quality teachers and dramatically different, innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
(b) Every teacher must contribute to every student's reading improvement.
(c) Quality professional development provides teachers and principals with the tools they need to better serve students.
(d) Small learning communities allow teachers to personalize instruction to better address student learning styles, strengths, and weaknesses.
(e) Intensive intervention in reading and math must occur early and through innovative delivery systems.
(f) Parents need access to tools they can use to monitor their child's progress in school, communicate with teachers, and act early on behalf of their child.
(g) Applied and integrated courses help students see the relationships between subjects and relevance to their futures.
(h) School is more relevant when students choose courses based on their goals, interests, and talents.
(i) Master schedules should not determine instruction and must be designed based on student needs, not adult or institutional needs.
(j) Academic and career planning engages students in developing a personally meaningful course of study so they can achieve goals they have set for themselves.
Requires local boards to adopt policies to address:
(a) Procedures for placing and promoting grade 6-12 students entering from out of state or from a foreign country, including a review of the student's prior academic performance.
(b) Alternative methods for students to demonstrate competency in required courses and credits, with special support for students who have been retained.
(c) Applied, integrated, and combined courses that provide flexibility for students to enroll in courses that are creative and meet individual learning styles and student needs.
(d) Credit recovery courses and intensive reading and math intervention courses based on student performance on the FCAT. These courses should be competency based and offered through innovative delivery systems, including computer-assisted instruction. Districts should use learning gains as well as other appropriate data and provide incentives to identify and reward high-performing teachers who teach credit recovery and intensive intervention courses.
(e) Grade forgiveness policies that replace a grade of "D" or "F" with a grade of "C" or higher earned subsequently in the same or a comparable course.
(f) Summer academies for students to receive intensive reading and mathematics intervention courses or competency-based credit recovery courses. A student's participation in an instructional or remediation program prior to or immediately following entering grade 9 for the first time shall not affect that student's classification as a first-time 9th grader for reporting purposes.
(g) Strategies to support teachers' pursuit of the reading endorsement and emphasize reading instruction professional development for content area teachers.
(h) Creative and flexible scheduling designed to meet student needs.
(i) Procedures for high school students who have not prepared an electronic personal education plan to prepare such plan.
(j) Tools for parents to regularly monitor student progress and communicate with teachers.
(k) Additional course requirements for promotion and graduation which may be determined by each school district in the student progression plan and may include additional academic, fine and performing arts, physical education, or career and technical education courses in order to provide a complete education program.
Requires the department to:
(a) By February 1, 2007, increase the number of approved applied, integrated, and combined courses available to districts.
(b) By the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year, make available a professional development package designed to provide the information that content area teachers need to become proficient in applying scientifically based reading strategies through their content areas.
(c) Share best practices for providing a complete education program to students enrolled in course recovery, credit recovery, intensive reading intervention, or intensive math intervention.
(d) Expedite assistance and decisions and coordinate policies throughout all divisions within the department to provide districts with support to implement the Florida Secondary School Redesign Act.
(e) Use data to provide the Legislature with an annual longitudinal analysis of the success of this reform effort, including the progress of 6th grade students and 9th grade students scoring at Level 1 on FCAT Reading or FCAT Math.
Directs the commissioner of education to create and implement the Secondary School Improvement Award Program to reward public secondary schools that demonstrate continuous student academic improvement and show the greatest gains in student academic achievement in reading and math.
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Title: H.B. 7087 - Section 19
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High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Revises access to dual enrollment policies and inclusion of IB and Advanced International Certificate of Education courses. Directs local boards to include access to dual enrollment on the high school campus whenever possible. Prohibits alternative grade calculation, weighting systems, or information regarding student education options that discriminate against dual enrollment courses. Beginning with students entering grade 9 in the 2006-2007 school year, requires school districts and community colleges to weigh International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education courses the same as dual enrollment and Advanced Placement courses when grade point averages are calculated. Eliminates provision allowing "honors" courses to be weighed the same as these courses when grade point averages are calculated.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 39)
Source: Florida Legislature |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Amends high school graduation requirements effective for the Class of 2011. Adds "reading for information" as area of major concentration in 4 units of English required. Increases math requirement from 3 to 4 units and encourages districts to set specific goals to increase enrollments in, and successful completion of, geometry and Algebra II. Deletes specifications regarding 1 unit world history, .5 unit of economics and .5 unit U.S. government requirements. Deletes 1 unit choice of practical arts career ed, performing fine arts, or .5 unit each. Adds 1 unit fine arts requirement. Deletes .5 unit life management skills. Deletes existing specifications regarding unit of p.e. and adds specification that 1 unit p.e. must include "integration of health."
Replaces 8.5 unit electives requirement with 8 unit electives requirement, to be completed through 4 units in a major area of interest, and 4 units in elective courses chosen by the student. Defines "major area of interest" as sequential courses in a career and technical program, fine and performing arts, or academic content area, selected by the student as part of the education plan. Defines "minor area of interest" as 3 units chosen by the student as part of the student's education plan. Allows students to revise major areas of interest each year. Requires local boards to annually approve major areas of interest and submit the list of majors to the commissioner of education for approval. Provides that upon approval, each district's major areas of interest must be available for use by all districts and must be posted on the department's Web site. Allows 4 elective units to be completed by a second major area of interest, a minor area of interest, elective courses, intensive reading or math intervention courses, or credit recovery courses.
Requires a student to complete an intensive reading course following each year the student scores at Level 1 on FCAT reading. Provides that placement of Level 2 readings in either an intensive reading course or a content area course in which reading strategies are delivered must be determined by diagnosis of reading needs. Requires the department to provide guidance on appropriate strategies for diagnosing meeting the varying instructional needs of students reading below grade level. Requires reading courses to be designed and offered in accordance with the comprehensive reading plan required by s. 1302 1011.62(8).
Requires a student to participate in remediation following each year a student scores at Level 1 or 2 on FCAT Math. Specifies these courses may be taught through applied, integrated or combined courses. Requires credit recovery courses to be offered so that students can simultaneously earn an elective credit and the recovered credit.
Adds that in lieu of the specified 24 units, students may complete graduation requirements through an Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) curriculum.
Requires students to be advised of eligibility requirements for state scholarship programs and postsecondary admissions.
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Title: H.B. 7087 - Section 23 (1) and (2)
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High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Amends requirements for 3-year diplomas effective with the Class of 2010. Eliminates honors classes and classes weighted by the district for class ranking purposes (that do not fall under any of the other allowed categories) from options from which students must choose to complete 6 of the 18 units. Eliminates requirement that a student, prior to selecting a 3-year diploma option, have achieved at least a 3 on the reading, math and writing components of the FCAT.
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Title: H.B. 7087 - Section 24
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Instructional Approaches |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
School districts may use teaching strategies that include the assignment of more than one teacher to a classroom of students and that were implemented before July 1, 2005. Effective July 1, 2005, school districts may implement additional teaching strategies that include the assignment of more than one teacher to a classroom of students for the following purposes only: 1. Pairing teachers for the purpose of staff development. 2. Pairing new teachers with veteran teachers. 3. Reducing turnover among new teachers. 4. Pairing teachers who are teaching out-of-field with teachers who are in-field. 5. Providing for more flexibility and innovation in the classroom. 6. Improving learning opportunities for students, including students who have disabilities.
Teaching strategies implemented on or after July 1, 2005 may be implemented subject to the following restrictions: 1. Reasonable limits shall be placed on the number of students in a classroom so that classrooms are not overcrowded. Teacher-to-student ratios within a curriculum area or grade level must not exceed constitutional limits. 2. At least one member of the team must have at least 3 years of teaching experience. 3. At least one member of the team must be teaching in-field. 4. The teachers must be trained in team-teaching methods within 1 year after assignment.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 16)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
There is established the William Cecil Golden Professional Development Program for school leaders to provide high standards and sustained support for principals as instructional leaders. The program will consist of a collaborative network of state and national professional leadership organizations to respond to instructional leadership needs throughout the state. The network shall support the human-resource development needs of principals, principal leadership teams, and candidates for principal leadership positions using the framework of leadership standards adopted by the State Board of Education, the Southern Regional Education Board, and the National Staff Development Council.
The goal of the network leadership program is to:(a) Provide resources to support and enhance the principal's role as the instructional leader.
(b) Maintain a clearinghouse and disseminate data- supported information related to enhanced student achievement, based on educational research and best practices. (c) Build the capacity to increase the quality of programs for preservice education for aspiring principals and inservice professional development for principals and principal leadership teams. (d) Support best teaching and research-based instructional practices through dissemination and modeling at the preservice and inservice levels for both teachers and principals.
The Department of Education will coordinate through the network identified in subsection (1) to offer the program through multiple delivery systems, including: (a) Approved school district training programs. (b) Interactive technology-based instruction. (c) Regional consortium service organizations. (d) State, regional, or local leadership academies.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 63)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Middle School |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
The legislation shifts career and postsecondary planning from 9th grade to beginning in middle school. It is the intent of the Legislature that students and parents set early achievement and career goals for the student's post-high-school experience during the middle grades. Students entering the 9th grade and their parents must have developed during the middle grades a 4- to 5-year academic and career plan. Four or more destinations should be considered available with bridges between destinations to enable students to shift academic and career priorities and destinations should they choose to change goals.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 37)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to k-8 virtual school program; establishes said program within Department of Education; authorizes participating schools to be for-profit or nonprofit entities; requires that instructional personnel have state teaching certificates; requires education plans to conform to State Standards; requires school applicants to provide 3-year financial plan; requires participating schools to provide each student with necessary equipment, materials, and services.
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Title: S.B. 1282
Source: Florida Legislature |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
The mission of Florida's K-20 education system is to allow its students to increase their proficiency by allowing them the opportunity to expand their knowledge and skills through rigorous and relevant adequate learning opportunities, in accordance with the mission statement and accountability requirements of the state.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 4)
Source: Florida Legislature |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Revises language and responsibilties related to K-20 system. It is the intent of the Legislature that The State Board of Education and the Board of Governors of the State University System [new addition] recommend to the Legislature systemwide performance standards; the Legislature establish systemwide performance measures and standards; and the systemwide measures and standards provide Floridians with information on what the public is receiving in return for the funds it invests in education and how well the K-20 system educates its students.
The State Board of Education establish performance measures and set performance standards for individual components of the public education system, including individual schools and community colleges [new addition], with measures and standards based primarily on student achievement.
The Board of Governors of the State University System establish performance measures and set performance standards for individual state universities, including actual completion rates [new addition].
[New language]
The process for establishing state and sector-specific standards and measures must be: 1. Focused on student success. 2. Addressable through policy and program changes. 3. Efficient and of high quality. 4. Measurable over time. 5. Simple to explain and display to the public. 6. Aligned with other measures and other sectors to support a coordinated K-20 education system. 2771
The Department of Education [new] shall maintain an accountability system that measures student progress toward the following goals:
1. Highest student achievement, as indicated by evidence of student learning gains at all levels.Seamless articulation and maximum access, as measured by evidence of progression, readiness, and access by targeted groups of students identified by the Commissioner of Education.
3. Skilled workforce and economic development, as measured by evidence of employment and earnings. 4. Quality efficient services, as measured by evidence of return on investment.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 44)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
Postsec. |
Identifies responsibilities and requirements for setting tuition and fees.
Except as otherwise provided by law, undergraduate tuition will be established annually in the General Appropriations Act. The Board of Governors, or the board's designee, may establish tuition for graduate and professional programs, and out-of-state fees for all programs. The sum of tuition and out-of-state fees assessed to nonresident students must be sufficient to offset the full instructional cost of serving such students. However, adjustments to out-of-state fees or tuition for graduate and professional programs this section may not exceed 10 percent in any year.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 49)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
There is created in the Department of Education the Just Read, Florida! office. The office will: (1) Train highly effective reading coaches. (2) Create multiple designations of effective reading instruction; (3) Train K-12 teachers and school principals on effective content-area-specific reading strategies. For secondary teachers, emphasis shall be on technical text; (4) Provide parents with information and strategies for assisting their children in reading in the content area. (5) Provide technical assistance to school districts in the development and implementation of research-based reading instruction and annually review and approve such plans. (6) Review, evaluate, and provide technical assistance to school districts' implementation of the reading plan. (7) Work with the Florida Center for Reading Research to provide information on research-based reading programs and effective reading in the content area strategies. (8) Periodically review the Sunshine State Standards for reading at all grade levels. (9) Periodically review teacher certification examinations, including alternative certification exams, to ascertain whether the examinations measure the skills needed for research-based reading instruction and instructional strategies. (10) Work with teacher preparation programs approved to integrate research-based reading strategies into programs.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 8)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Creates the Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) at the Florida State University. The center shall include two outreach centers, one at a central Florida community college and one at a south Florida state university. The center and the outreach centers, under the center's leadership, will: (1) Provide technical assistance and support to all school districts and schools in this state in the implementation of evidence-based literacy instruction, assessments, programs, and professional development. (2) Conduct applied research that will have an immediate impact on policy and practices related to literacy instruction and assessment with an emphasis on struggling readers and reading in the content area strategies and methods for secondary teachers. (3) Conduct basic research on reading, reading growth, reading assessment, and reading instruction which will contribute to scientific knowledge about reading. (4) Collaborate with the Just Read! Florida Office and school districts in the development of frameworks for comprehensive reading intervention courses for possible use in middle schools and secondary schools. (5) Collaborate with the Just Read! Florida Office and school districts in the development of frameworks for professional development activities. (6) Disseminate information about research-based practices related to literacy instruction, assessment from screening, progress monitoring, and outcome assessments through the Florida Progress Monitoring and Reporting Network.
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Title: H.B 7087 (Section 34)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
The research-based reading instruction allocation is created to provide comprehensive reading instruction to students in kindergarten through grade 12. Funds for comprehensive, research-based reading instruction will be allocated annually to each school district in the amount provided in the General Appropriations Act.
Funds must be used to provide a system of comprehensive reading instruction to students enrolled in the K-12 programs, which may include the following: 1. The provision of highly qualified reading coaches. 2. Professional development for school district teachers in scientifically based reading instruction, including strategies to teach reading in content areas and with an emphasis on technical and informational text.
3. The provision of summer reading camps for students who score at Level 1 on FCAT Reading. 4. The provision of supplemental instructional materials that are grounded in scientifically based reading research. 5. The provision of intensive interventions for middle and high school students reading below grade level.
Annually, school districts shall submit a K-12 comprehensive reading plan for the specific use of the research-based reading instruction allocation in the format prescribed by the department for review and approval by the Just Read, Florida! Office.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 50)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Beginning with the 2007-2008 school year, the opening date for schools in Florida districts may not be earlier than 14 days before Labor Day each year.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 11)
Source: Florida Legislature |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year: (a) Each district school board must designate a classroom teacher to serve as the teacher representative to speak on behalf of the district's teachers regarding paperwork and data collection reduction. (b) Each district school board must provide the school community with an efficient method to communicate with the classroom teacher designee regarding possible paperwork and data collection burdens and potential solutions. The teacher designee must annually report his or her findings and potential solutions to the school board. (d) Each district school board must submit its findings and potential solutions to the State Board of Education by September 1 of each year. (e) The State Board of Education must prepare a report of the statewide paperwork and data collection findings and potential solutions and submit the report to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by October 1 of each year.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 11)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Individual education plans for exceptional students.--The Department of Education must develop and have an operating electronic IEP system in place for potential statewide use no later than July 1, 2007. The statewide system shall be developed collaboratively with school districts and must include input from school districts currently developing or operating electronic IEP systems.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 31)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Standards |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
The state board shall establish a schedule to facilitate the periodic review of the standards to ensure adequate rigor, relevance, logical student progression, and integration of reading, writing, and mathematics across all subject areas. The standards review by subject area must include participation of curriculum leaders in other content areas, including the arts, to ensure valid content area integration and to address the instructional requirements of different learning styles. The process for review and proposed revisions must include leadership and input from the state's classroom teachers, school administrators, and community colleges and universities, and from representatives from business and
industry who are identified by local education foundations. A report including proposed revisions must be submitted to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives annually.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 6)
Source: Florida Legislature |
STEM |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
Postsec. |
Creates 21st Century Technology, Research, and Scholarship Enhancement Act; creates Florida Technology, Research, and Scholarship Board within Board of Governors of State University System; requires that board provide recommendations for 21st Century World Class Scholars Program and Centers of Excellence Program; requires minimum investment of private funds; creates a State University System Research and Economic Development Investment Program to provide funds.
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Title: H.B. 1237
Source: Florida Legislature |
Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Beginning with students entering grade 6 in the 2006-2007 school year, promotion from a school composed of middle grades 6, 7, and 8 requires that: (a) The student must successfully complete academic courses as follows: 1.. Three middle school or higher courses in English. 2. Three middle school or higher courses in mathematics. Each middle school must offer at least one high-school-level mathematics course for which students may earn high school credit. 3. Three middle school or higher courses in social studies, one semester of which must include the study of state and federal government and civics education. 4. Three middle school or higher courses in science. 5. One course in career and education planning to be completed in 7th or 8th grade. The course must include career exploration using CHOICES for the 21st Century or a comparable cost-effective program; must include educational planning using the online student advising system known as Florida Academic Counseling and Tracking for Students; and shall result in the completion of a personalized academic and career plan.
Each school must hold meetings to inform parents about the course curriculum and activities. Each student shall complete an electronic personal education plan. By January 1, 2007, the Department of Education will develop course frameworks and professional development materials for the career exploration and education planning course.
The Commissioner of Education will collect longitudinal high school course enrollment data by student ethnicity in order to analyze course-taking patterns. For each year in which a student scores at Level l on FCAT Reading, the student must be enrolled in and complete an intensive reading course the following year. Placement of Level 2 readers in either an intensive reading course or a content area course in which reading strategies are delivered will be determined by diagnosis of reading needs. For each year in which a student scores at Level 1 or Level 2 on FCAT Mathematics, the student must receive remediation the following year, which may be integrated into the
student's required mathematics course.
Students in grade 6, grade 7, or grade 8 who are not enrolled in schools with a middle grades configuration are subject to the promotion requirements of this section.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 21)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
The Legislature finds disparities between teachers assigned to teach in a majority of "A" graded schools and teachers assigned to teach in a majority of "F" graded schools. The disparities can be found in the average years of experience, the median salary, and the performance of the teachers on teacher certification examinations. It is the intent of the Legislature that district school boards have flexibility through the collective bargaining process to assign teachers more equitably across the schools in the district.
School districts may not assign a higher percentage than the school district average of first-time teachers, temporarily certified teachers, teachers in need of improvement, or out-of-field teachers to schools with above the school district average of minority and economically disadvantaged students or schools that are graded "D" or "F." Each school district must annually certify to the Commissioner of Education that this requirement has been met. If the commissioner determines that a school district is not in compliance, the State
Board of Education will be notified and take action.
INCENTIVES District school boards are authorized to provide salary incentives to meet this requirement. A district school board may not sign a collective bargaining agreement that precludes the school district from providing sufficient incentives to meet this requirement.
Schools graded "D" or "F" must annually report their teacher-retention rate. Included in this report shall be reasons listed for leaving by each teacher who left the school for any reason.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 57)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Beginning with the 2007-2008 academic year, each district school board must adopt a salary schedule with differentiated pay for both instructional personnel and school-based administrators. The salary schedule is subject to negotiation as provided in chapter 447 and must allow differentiated pay based on district-determined factors, including, but not limited to, additional responsibilities, school demographics, critical shortage areas, and level of job performance difficulties.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 55)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
The Department of Education, public postsecondary educational institutions, public school districts, public schools, state education foundations, consortia, and professional organizationsls in this state will work collaboratively. The system of professional development must align to the standards adopted by the state and support the framework for standardsadopted by the National Staff Development Council.
The department will and disseminate to the school community research-based professional development methods and programs that have demonstrated success in meeting identified student needs. The methods of dissemination must include a web-based statewide performance support system, including a database of exemplary professional development activities, a listing of available professional development resources, training programs, and available assistance.
The professional development system also must include a master plan for inservice activities for all district employees from all fund sources. The master plan must be based on input from teachers and district and school instructional leaders, and must use the latest available student achievement data and research to enhance rigor and relevance in the classroom.
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Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 62)
Source: Florida Legislature |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Adopted 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Reviews the current school grading calculation to explore the inclusion of other criteria and/or make current criteria more rigorous. Measures the progress of students and schools in the state. FLORIDA 30430
http://www.firn.edu/doe/rules/6a-1-11.htm#6A-1.09981
Title: FAC 6A-1.09981
Source: Florida Rules |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Adopted 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Includes the science grade-level scale scores for each achievement level for use in reporting student proficiency levels in science as part of the student achievement testing program known as the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). FLORIDA 30220
http://www.firn.edu/doe/rules/6a-1-8.htm#6A-1.09422
Title: FAC 6A-1.09422
Source: Florida Board of Education |
Postsecondary Participation--Access |
Issued 01/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Governor Bush signed Executive Order 06-05 creating the Access and Diversity Commission. The 17-member commission, set to complete their duties on June 30, 2006, will work with the Florida Board of Governors to evaluate the issues surrounding minority enrollment and advocate for the following recommendations: a) need-based financial aid; b) first generation matching grants: c) College Board partnership: d) STARS scholarship program; e) college outreach program; and f) a mentoring partnership program.
http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/eog_new/eog/orders/2006/January/06-05-enrollment.pdf
Title: Executive Order 06-05
Source: Florida Governor's Office |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Adopted 11/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Each district school board, each community college district board of trustees, and each university board of trustees must adopt an annual calendar prior to the beginning of each fiscal year that will be observed by all schools or post high school educational institutions. This rule spells out objectives for the annual calendars, including: (a) minimal loss of time between student exit from one public institution and entry into another; b) opportunity for students to move through the educational system at their respective paces; c) opportunity for effective and efficient utilization of resources; and (e) opportunity for family activities. The rule also establishes starting times for common entry periods at community colleges and four-year institutions. Other specifications are mentioned as well.
http://www.firn.edu/doe/rules/6a-101.htm#6A-10.019
Title: FAC 6A-10.019
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Rewards |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Adds International General Certificate of Secondary Education (pre-AICE) and Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) to public school choice options and to rigorous academic programs parents must have the opportunity to learn about. Adds Advanced International Certificate of Education to list of articulation policies in statute. Identifies pre-AICE and AICE to advanced level fine arts courses for purposes of college admissions. Adds pre-AICE to 1007.27 on articulated acceleration mechanisms for community college and university entrance. Adds pre-AICE and AICE to courses in which grades must be given additional weights for purposes of determining initial eligibility for a Florida Bright Futures Scholarship. Adds that a student is eligible for a Florida Academic Scholars award if the student completed the Advanced International Certificate of Education curriculum but failed to earn the Advanced International Certificate of Education Diploma, or has been awarded an Advanced International Certificate of Education Diploma from the University of Cambridge International Examinations Office. Extends Florida Medallion Scholars award eligibility to a student who has completed the Advanced International Certificate of Education curriculum but failed to earn the Advanced International Certificate of Education Diploma.
Specifies that dual enrollment courses are creditable toward high school completion. Requires each semester of instruction that is eligible for
high school and postsecondary credit through a dual enrollment program to be reported by school districts as 75 membership hours for purposes of FTE calculation.
Requires career centers and community colleges to provide a comprehensive academic and career dual enrollment program. Clarifies that an independent postsecondary institution eligible for inclusion in a dual enrollment or early admission program pursuant to s. 1011.62 must participate in the statewide course numbering system developed pursuant to s. 1007.24 to participate in a dual enrollment program.
Amends minimum student scores in 1011.62 that trigger a bonus for Advanced International Certificate of Education teachers.
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Title: H.B. 579
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Class Size |
Vetoed 06/2005 |
P-12 |
States that, beginning in the 2005-2006 school year, if the actual student membership in the October survey exceeds the student membership estimate included in the Florida Education Finance Program first calculation, the maximum student membership enrollment used in determining the October class size averages shall be the student membership estimate included in the Florida Education Finance Program first calculation. States that, beginning in the 2005-2006 school year, a district that fully achieves the required class size averages when compared to the February 2003 baseline student membership survey is eligible for a reversal of the prior year class size reduction operating categorical transfer that resulted from its inability to achieve the required class size averages as required.
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Title: S.B. 1678
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Extends opportunity to receive postsecondary educational benefits at state expense to dependent children of certain dead or disabled veterans who were Florida residents when death or disability occurred. Decreases minimum required length of parent's residency. Provides educational opportunity at state expense for dependent children of military personnel who die or suffer specified disability in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Title: H.B. 1189
Source: www.flsenate.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Vetoed 06/2005 |
Postsec. |
Establishes that the Legislature has the responsibility to establish tuition and fees. Each board of trustees is to set university tuition and fees for graduate, graduate professional, and nonresident students. Defines term "initial undergraduate enrollment" for purposes of determining postsecondary student's residential status for tuition purposes; sets 12 consecutive months as the period immediately prior to his or her initial enrollment at an institution of higher education as the condition under which nonresident undergraduate may be reclassified as resident; requires each institution of higher education to determine whether an applicant who has been granted admission to that institution is a dependent child. Requires each institution of higher education to affirmatively determine that an applicant who has been granted admission to that institution as a Florida resident meets the residency requirements at the time of initial enrollment. An individual who is classified as a nonresident for tuition purposes may become eligible for reclassification as a resident for tuition purposes only if that individual, or his or her parent if that individual is a dependent child, supports permanent residency by presenting documentation of permanent, full-time employment in the state and domicile in this state for 12 consecutive months while not enrolled full-time at an institution of higher education. However, if an individual and his or her parent moves to the state while the individual is a high school student and the individual graduates from a high school in this state, the individual may become eligible for reclassification as a resident for tuition purposes when the parent qualifies for permanent residency, if the individual is a dependent child. http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2005/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s2264er.pdf
Title: S.B. 2264
Source: http://www.flsenate.gov |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Revises the maximum authorized fee amount a community college can charge for capital improvements, technology enhancements or equipping student buildings to 10 percent of tuition for resident students or 10 percent of the sum of tuition and out-of-state fees for nonresident
students. Limits any potential increase to $2 per credit hour over the prior year. Changes the amount of the capital improvement fee that may be allocated for child care centers conducted by community colleges. States a maximum of 15 percent of the capital improvement fee revenue may be allocated for child care centers. Makes the use of these funds for child care centers subordinate to the payment of any bonds secured by the fees.
Requires all community colleges to use the Division of Bond Finance of the State Board of Administration to issue any bond authorized to be financed from the community college capital improvements, technology enhancements, or equipping student buildings fee.
Adds language describing how costs associated with baccalaureate degree programs at community colleges are to be calculated and funded.
http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2005/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0670er.pdf
Title: S.B. 670
Source: www.flsenate.gov |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
Postsec. |
Specifies the constitutional duties of the Board of Governors of the State University System under certain provisions of the state constitution. Specifies the constitutional duties of the legislature. Provides legislative intent. Prohibits citizen members of the Board of Governors of the State University System & citizen members of the boards of trustees of a local constituent university from having or holding any employment or
contractual relationship as a legislative lobbyist.
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Title: H.B. 1001
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Vetoed 06/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes provisions effective with the postsecondary freshmen of the fall of 2005.
States that undergraduate tuition and fees for state university resident students are established within proviso in the General Appropriations Act or law. Requires each board of trustees to set university tuition and fees for graduate, graduate professional and nonresident students, although these may not exceed the average full-time tuition and fees for corresponding programs at member schools of the Association of American Universities. Bars the annual percentage increase in tuition and fees set by each board of trustees for students enrolled prior to the fall of 2005 from exceeding the legislature's annual percentage increase for resident undergraduate students. Requires at least 20 percent of the amount raised by tuition increases to be allocated by each university to need-based financial aid for students. Allows tuition and fees for for graduate, graduate professional, or nonresident students to exceed a cap set for undergraduate resident students.
Requires an undergraduate student to pay 75% over the in-state tuition rate for any credit hours exceeding 120 percent of the number of credit hours required to complete the student's degree program. Provides that a community college student who has earned the associate degree need not pay the full cost for a maximum of 24 hours taken while enrolled at a community college which apply to the student's baccalaureate degree. Provides that an undergraduate student at a state university or in a baccalaurate program at a community college must pay the higher rate for exceeding the aforementioned credit hour limit, regardless of whether those hours were taken while enrolled at a community college, a state university or any private postsecondary institution if the student received state funds while enrolled at the private postsecondary institution.
States that credit hours earned under the following circumstances are not calculated as hours required to earn a degree:
(a) College credits earned through an accelerated mechanism identified in s. 1007.27;
(b) Credit hours earned through internship programs;
(c) Credit hours required for certification, recertification, or certificate degrees;
(d) Credit hours in courses from which a student must withdraw due to reasons of medical or personal hardship;
(e) Credit hours taken by active-duty military personnel;
(f) Credit hours required to achieve a dual major undertaken while pursuing a degree;
(g) Remedial and English as a Second Language credit hours; and
(h) Credit hours earned in military science courses (R.O.T.C).
Requires postsecondary institutions to implement a process for notifying students regarding these requirements, which notice must be provided upon the student's initial enrollment in the institution and again upon the student's having earned the credit hours required to complete the degree program in which he or she is enrolled. Requires the notice to include a recommendation that each student who intends to earn credit hours at the institution beyond those required for his or her enrolled degree program meet with his or her academic advisor.
Last bill text: http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2005/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s2236er.pdf
Staff analysis: http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2005/Senate/bills/analysis/pdf/2005s2236.ea.pdf
Title: S.B. 2236
Source: www.flsenate.gov |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires that assessments of any building, facility, or structure owned or leased by a state agency, state university or community college not previously provided to the chief of domestic security must be completed by the state agency, state university or community college and provided to the chief before occupying or substantially modifying such building, facility, or structure. In implementing best practices for safety and security of buildings, requires the chief to work in conjunction with state agencies, state universities, community colleges and local governments to promote the continued safety of government buildings, facilities, and structures within the state.
Creates the Domestic Security Oversight Council to provide executive direction and leadership with respect to terrorism prevention, preparation, protection, response, and recovery efforts by state and local agencies in the state. Requires the Commissioner of Education to serve on the council as a voting member. Requires the Commissioner of Education to serve on the council's executive committee.
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Title: H.B. 1715
Source: www.flsenate.gov |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Enacts the Chad Meredith Act. Specifies conduct that constitutes hazing at high schools with grades 9-12. Creates new felony and misdemeanor offenses of hazing at such high schools. Requires court to impose condition of 4-hour hazing education course and authorizes drug or alcohol probation for person convicted of hazing. Amends definition of hazing at public postsecondary institutions to include pressuring or coercing the student into violating state or federal law. Provides for felony & misdemeanor offenses of hazing at postsecondary educational institutions. Requires court to impose hazing education course and allows court to impose drug or alcohol probation as condition of sentence in certain circumstances. Amends 1006.63, 1001.64.
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Title: H.B. 193
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires a representative of the department of education to serve on the Assistive Technology Advisory Council. Requires council members to be appointed by the commissioner of education. Requires the council to appoint a public policy and advocacy committee to review federal and state legislation and agency policies and practices and to identify facilitators of and barriers to access and utilization of assistive technology services, devices, and funding sources. Expands duties of council.
http://www.flsenate.gov/session/index.cfm?BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&Year=2005&billnum=1099
Title: H.B. 1099
Source: www.flsenate.gov |
Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
Eliminates requirement that for purposes of participating in the personal care attendant program, the department of education determine the applicant eligible for training services. Eliminates requirement that the association, in cooperation with the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Department of Education, assess the selected participants and make recommendations for their placement into appropriate work-related training programs. Mandates that the Department of Health establish an oversight workgroup for the personal care attendant program to oversee the implementation and administration of the program. Requires one member of the workgroup to be a representative from the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Department of Education.
http://www.flsenate.gov/session/index.cfm?BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&Year=2005&billnum=720
Title: S.B. 720
Source: www.flsenate.gov |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to Florida College Savings Program/OGSR. Removes confidentiality of information regarding individual account activities conducted through the savings program. Removes clause that this section (1009.981) is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act
of 1995. Deletes provisions that provide for repeal of exemption under Open Government Sunset Review Act.
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Title: H.B. 1729
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
States that eighty percent of all unclaimed lottery prize money must be deposited in the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund. Allows these funds to be used to match private contributions received under the postsecondary matching grant programs. Reduces from all to 20% the amount of unclaimed prize money added to the pool from which future prizes are to be awarded or used for special prize promotions. Changes from 50% to variable percentages the amount of gross revenue to be returned to the public as prizes.
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Title: H.B. 841
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a K-12 student who has experienced or is at risk for life-threatening allergic reactions to self-administer epinephrine by auto-injector at school, on school grounds or at school functions with prior parental and physician authorization. Requires the state board to adopt rules that must include provisions to protect the safety of all students from the misuse or abuse of auto-injectors. Provides for indemnification. Amends 1002.20
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/bills_detail.aspx?Id=15760&iSessionSelectedIndex=1&sBillSubjectText=&sBillNumberText=279&iSponsorSelectedIndex=0&iBillListSelectedIndex=0&sStatueAmendedText=&iBillTypeSelectedIndex=0&iReferredToSelectedIndex=0&iChamberSelectedIndex=2&iBillSearchListPageIndex=0
Title: H.B. 279
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Health |
Vetoed 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Defines term "psychotropic medication." Prohibits a recipient of state funds from requiring student to be prescribed or administered psychotropic medication as condition of receipt of educational services. Requires that, before a student is evaluated for the purposes of
classification or placement for special education for any disorder listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the parent must be notified that:
(a) The behaviors prompting the evaluation could be the result of underlying physical conditions.
(b) The parent should consider consulting a medical doctor to rule out physical causes.
(c) The parent has the right to decline the evaluation.
(d) The evaluation and subsequent classification or placement may be documented on the student's cumulative record.
(Vetoed because similar bill enacted, S.B. 1090: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/bills_detail.aspx?Id=16186&iSessionSelectedIndex=1&sBillSubjectText=&sBillNumberText=1090&iSponsorSelectedIndex=0&iBillListSelectedIndex=0&sStatueAmendedText=&iBillTypeSelectedIndex=0&iReferredToSelectedIndex=0&iChamberSelectedIndex=1&iBillSearchListPageIndex=0)
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/bills_detail.aspx?Id=15715&iSessionSelectedIndex=1&sBillSubjectText=&sBillNumberText=1090&iSponsorSelectedIndex=0&iBillListSelectedIndex=0&sStatueAmendedText=&iBillTypeSelectedIndex=0&iReferredToSelectedIndex=0&iChamberSelectedIndex=1&iBillSearchListPageIndex=0
Title: H.B. 209
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
P-3 Preschool |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Creates exemption from public records requirements for individual records of children enrolled in Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program. Specifies that such records include assessment data, health data, records of teacher observations, and personal identifying information of an enrolled child and his or her parent. States that a parent has the right to inspect and review the individual Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program record of his or her child and to obtain a copy of such record. Provides for retroactive application; provides for exceptions to exemption; provides for future review & repeal; provides statement of public necessity.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/bills_detail.aspx?Id=17522&sBillNumberText=1695&iSessionSelectedIndex=1&iChamberSelectedIndex=2
Title: H.B. 1695
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
Postsec. |
States that no project may be financed by or on behalf of a university or a direct-support organization or through any financing mechanism, including revenue bonds, promissory notes, certificates of participation, lease-purchase agreements, or any other form of indebtedness, without prior approval of the project by the legislature by an act relating to appropriations or general law. This section expires July 1, 2006.
http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2005/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s2602er.pdf
Title: S.B. 2602 (Section 3)
Source: www.flsenate.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Paper Reduction Task Force for the purpose of recommending strategies to reduce the paperwork required of school districts and school district personnel, with special emphasis given to the reduction of paperwork required of teachers. Provides membership. Requires the task force to develop recommendations to minimize the paperwork burden placed on school districts and school district personnel. Requires the task force to report its findings and recommendations to the legislature by February 1, 2006. States that task force will be abolished upon transmittal of the report to the legislature. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/loadDoc.aspx?FileName=_h0281er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0281&Session=2005
Title: H.B. 281
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires each district school board to develop a plan to sponsor a summer nutrition program beginning in the summer of 2006. Provides criteria for operating program sites. Authorizes exemption from sponsoring said program and provides procedures therefor. Authorizes school boards to encourage not-for-profit entities to sponsor said program under certain circumstances. Authorizes the superintendent of schools to collaborate with municipal and county governmental agencies and private, not-for-profit leaders in implementing the plan.
Requires the department to provide to each local board by February 15 of each year a list of local organizations that have filed letters of intent to participate in the summer nutrition program in order for the board to be able to determine how many sites are needed to serve the children and where to place each site.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/bills_detail.aspx?Id=15724&iSessionSelectedIndex=1&sBillSubjectText=&sBillNumberText=227&iSponsorSelectedIndex=0&iBillListSelectedIndex=0&sStatueAmendedText=&iBillTypeSelectedIndex=0&iReferredToSelectedIndex=0&iChamberSelectedIndex=2&iBillSearchListPageIndex=0
Title: H.B. 227
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
States the importance of accessibility, utilization, and coordination of appropriate assistive technology devices and services for children and youth with disabilities. To ensure the transaction of assistive technology devices, requires interagency agreements among the Florida Infants and Toddlers Early Intervention Program in the Division of Children's Medical Services of the Department of Health; the Division of Blind Services, the Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services, and the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Department of Education; and the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program administered by the Department of Education and the Agency for Workforce Innovation.
Requires these interagency agreements to provide a framework for ensuring that young persons with disabilities and their families, educators, and employers are informed about the utilization and coordination of assistive technology devices and services that may assist in meeting transition needs, and shall establish a mechanism by which a young person or his or her parent may request that an assistive technology device remain with the young person as he or she moves through the continuum from home to school to postschool.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/bills_detail.aspx?Id=17451&iSessionSelectedIndex=1&sBillSubjectText=&sBillNumberText=2550&iSponsorSelectedIndex=0&iBillListSelectedIndex=0&sStatueAmendedText=&iBillTypeSelectedIndex=0&iReferredToSelectedIndex=0&iChamberSelectedIndex=1&iBillSearchListPageIndex=0
Title: S.B. 2550
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Deletes provisions authorizing AHCA to adopt emergency rules governing home & community-based services delivery system; provides Medicaid rate-setting process; revises Medicaid prescribed drug spending control program; directs AHCA to implement, & authorizes it to seek federal waivers for, program of all-inclusive care for children; establishes memory disorder clinic at FAU, etc. http://www.flsenate.gov/session/index.cfm?BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&Year=2005&billnum=404
Title: S.B. 404
Source: www.flsenate.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Rule Adoption 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Adopts the tenth edition of Competencies and Skills Required for Teacher Certification. http://www.firn.edu/doe/sas/ftce/ftcecomp.htm
Title: FAC 6A-4.0021
Source: StateNet |
High School |
Emergency Rule Adoption 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishes emergency rules regarding course requirements. Establishes basic and adult secondary programs for 2005.
Course Requirements - Grades 6-12 Basic and Adult Secondary Programs – 2005. This emergency rule was adopted to amend the present course descriptions in Rule 6A-1.09412, FAC., for intensive reading courses in middle and high school grades to include suggested time allocations and instructional activities, as well as alignment to instruction grounded in scientifically based-reading research. Rule 6A-1.09412, FAC., Course Requirements - Grades 6 -12 Basic and Adult Secondary Programs, will be amended through the rulemaking process and presented to the State Board for final approval to include the intensive reading course descriptions
Title: FAC 6AER05-1
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Rule Adoption 04/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Revises the circumstances when the termination fee applies to accounts in the Florida College Investment Plan. http://fac.dos.state.fl.us/faconline/chapter19.pdf
Title: FAC 19B-16.012
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Rule Adoption 04/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides requirements, due to revised financial requirements, under which termination from the Florida College Investment Plan will occur. http://fac.dos.state.fl.us/faconline/chapter19.pdf
Title: FAC 19B-16.010
Source: StateNet |
P-16 or P-20 |
Adopted12 02/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Each state university board of trustees, community college board of trustees and district school board must plan and adopt policies and procedures to provide articulated programs so that students can proceed toward their educational objectives as rapidly as their circumstances permit. They also must establish joint programs and agreements to facilitate articulation, acceleration, and efficient use of faculty, equipment, and facilities. The Commissioner must establish an Articulation Coordinating Committee which shall report to the Commissioner and consist of eighteen (18) members. Among other duties, the committee will do the following: function as the statewide pre-kindergarten through university advisory committee and accept continuous responsibility for community college-university-school district relationships; and examine statewide data regarding articulation, recommend resolutions of issues, and propose policies and procedures to improve articulation systemwide.
http://www.firn.edu/doe/rules/6a-102.htm#6A-10.024
Title: FAC 6A-10.024
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 Preschool |
Signed into law 01/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program, to take effect in each county at the beginning of the 2005-2006 school year. Every child in the state who turns 4 on or before September 1 is eligible and remains eligible until the child enters kindergarten or the beginning of the school year for which the child is eligible for admission to kindergarten, whichever occurs first. Allows for school-year prekindergarten programs provided by public and private schools and summer prekindergarten program provided by public and private schools. Establishes requirements for public and private school-year prekindergarten programs, including instructor requirements, and for public and private summer prekindergarten programs. Requires department to adopt minimum standards for prekindergarten directors at private programs.
Establishes requirements for processing applications for program participation and informing parents about program options. Specifies that although parent may enroll child in any private prekindergarten program, the provider may determine whether to admit any child. Every public and private prekindergarten provider must comply with antidiscrimination requirements, regardless of whether the program receives federal financial assistance.
Requires department, by April 1, 2005, to adopt minimum standards for training courses in emergent literacy for prekindergarten instructors. Establishes instructor credential goals for the 2010-2011 and 2013-2014 school years. Requires department to develop, by April 1, 2005, performance standards for students in the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program. Establishes probationary system for public and private programs whose students do not meet kindergarten readiness standards. Removes from eligibility any public or private program on probation for two consecutive years that fails to meet minimum kindergarten readiness rates.
Establishes statewide system for kindergarten readiness screening. Requires every parent enrolling a child in the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program to submit the child for statewide kindergarten screening.
Establishes funding system for the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program. Requires the department of education to administer the accountability requirements of the program at the state level, and requires the Agency for Workforce Innovation to administer the operational requirements of the program at the state level. Creates the Florida Early Learning Advisory Council within the Agency for Workforce Innovation to submit recommendations to the department and the agency on early learning policies in Florida, including the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program. Establishes composition of advisory council. Abolishes Florida Partnership for School Readiness; eliminates statutory references to the partnership; transfers partnership's powers, duties, records, personnel and funds to the Agency for Workforce Innovation.
Deletes statutory references to school readiness coalitions and establishes requirements for early learning coalitions. Requires the Agency for Workforce Innovation to identify best practices of early learning coalitions so as to improve the outcomes of school readiness programs.
Requires statewide articulation agreement to guarantee the articulation of 9 credit hours toward a degree in early childhood education for programs related to training of Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program instructors.
Makes allocation to the department of education, the Agency for Workforce Innovation and the department of children and family services for purposes of administering the program during the 2004-2005 fiscal year.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/loadDoc.aspx?FileName=_h0001Aer.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0001A&Session=2004A
Title: H.B. 1A
Source: www.myfloridahouse.gov |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 12/2004 |
P-12 |
Creates the Educational Facilities Hurricane Restoration Cash Flow Loan Program to assist district school boards in making timely payments in restoring educational facilities; requires the department of education to administer the loan program and distribute loan funds; requires eepartment of community affairs to notify department of education when certain federal payments have been distributed; requires repayment from funds received from insurance claims. Bill text: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/loadDoc.aspx?FileName=_h0011Aer.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0011A&Session=2004A
Title: H.B. 11A
Source: StateNet |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 12/2004 |
P-12 |
Revises apportionment of certain costs between counties and state of providing detention care for juveniles; deletes requirement requiring withholding a portion of county funds if county remits to state less than amount required; deletes provisions relating to the Juvenile Justice Department; excludes costs of preadjudicatory educational or therapeutic services. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/loadDoc.aspx?FileName=_s0004Aer.html&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0004A&Session=2004A
Title: S.B. 4A
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Rule Adoption 08/2004 |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. |
Establishes rules amending the FTE college credit definition to thirty rather than the previously required forty. FLORIDA REG 28656 (SN)
Title: FAC 6A-14.076
Source: StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Implements the provisions of the law specifying a period during which the sale of certain books, clothing, and school supplies are exempt from sales and use tax. Ensures that the public is notified in the most expedient and appropriate means regarding the exemption during the period from 12:01 a.m., July 24, 2004, through midnight, August 1, 2004, for sales of books, clothing, wallets, or bags having a selling price of $50 or less per item and for sales of school supplies having a selling price of $10 per item or less. FLORIDA REG 28608 (SN) http://faw.dos.state.fl.us/newfaw/FawVolumeFolders2004/3027/SECTIV.pdf
Title: FAC 12AER04-5
Source: Florida State Web site |
P-3 |
Vetoed 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Provides for establishment of a Universal Prekindergarten Education Program; provides for scholarships and amount thereof; provides for use of web-based or book-based curriculum in lieu of scholarship; provides for administration by Workforce Innovation Agency; provides for continued administration of School Readiness Program by the Partnership for School Readiness under certain conditions. Relates to child care personnel credentialing. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb0821er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 821
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Rule Adoption 07/2004 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Repeals rules pertaining to the State Board of Community Colleges. Provides changes in governance and subsequent transfers of powers and duties to the State Board of Education. FLORIDA REG 28449 (SN)
Title: FAC 6A-14.004, .0243, .0247, .0262, .0341, .039, .0412, .063, .073, .0732, .0735, .0751, .0752, .0771, .0772, .078
Source: Florida State Web site |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Rule Adoption 07/2004 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Repeals rules governing the State Board of Community Colleges.
Title: FAC 6H-1.017, .030, .041, .042, .044, .045
Source: Florida State Web site |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed by Governor 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to career, workforce and technical education; requires said education programs within the comprehensive high school program of study to be industry certified; provides academic requirements for students enrolled in said education programs; allows charter technical career center sponsors to submit full-time enrollment membership data as defined in the charter agreement; provides for career education certification on high school diploma; allows incentive funding to school districts for students receiving certifications; redesignates adult technical education programs as workforce education programs; provides certain responsibilities for district school boards and superintendents.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb0769er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 769
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Adult Basic Education |
Vetoed 06/2004 |
Postsec. |
Relates to workforce development education programs; redesignates adult technical education programs as workforce development education programs; provides requirements for funding. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1258er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1258
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to education personnel; provides for expunging of criminal history records of applicants for employment at certain education related offices; requires background screening for charter school employees and board members; amends requirements for admission to teacher preparation programs; authorizes programs providing experiences as teacher assistants prior to entering teacher preparation programs for individuals meeting specified criteria; creates teacher preparation institutes that provide professional development, instruction for substitute teachers, alternative certificate programs and establishes criteria for applicants; provides for the creation of guidelines for mentoring of first-time teachers and other programs geared toward the recruitment and retention of quality teachers; requires background screenings and fingerprinting of instructional and noninstructional hires or contractual employees who come in contact with students; specifies a school district's performance assessment may include criteria for assessment of instructional and administrative personnel and student performance; requires training in teaching of reading for certified personnel who teach students who have limited English proficiency; establishes qualifications, requirements and evaluation of substitute teachers; provides for educator discipline by the Education Practices Commission and the Department of Education; amends the Recovery Network Program that assists educators impaired as the result of alcohol abuse, drug abuse or a mental condition. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb2986er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 2986
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to charter schools; revises qualifications for sponsoring charter school; revises requirements regarding which provisions of building code and fire safety code said school facilities must comply with; allows certain educational impact fees to be allocated to construction of said facilities; requires written agreement between party responsible for paying for impact fees and local zoning authority that levies fee. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb3000er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 3000
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires the Auditor General to conduct audits of accounts and records of the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind; provides that the school is a component of delivery of public education within Florida's K-20 education system; expands provisions regarding university master plans and campus development agreements to be applicable to said school; provides requirements for campus planning and concurrency management for the school. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb2918er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 2918
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
P-3 |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Re-creates the Child Care and Development Trust Fund within the Agency for Workforce Innovation without modification; carries forward current balances and continues current sources and uses thereof. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1022er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1022
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the state university athletic fees; authorizes a fee increase to defray costs of changing competitive divisions; provides that increase may exceed limit on fee increases; limits such increase to not more than $2 per credit hour; requires that such increase be approved by athletic fee committee. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb2810er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 2810
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Amends provisions relating to district school board duties relating to student discipline and school safety to amend requirements relating to codes of student conduct; provides penalties for possession, of electronic telephone pagers on school property or at school function; amends provisions regarding use of a wireless device in a criminal act. http://www.flsenate.gov/session/index.cfm?BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&Year=2004&billnum=184
Title: S.B. 184
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to assault on a sports official; provides enhanced penalties for offense of assault, battery, aggravated assault, or aggravated battery if offense is committed upon certain persons officiating at a interscholastic activity; defines "sports official"; provides additional penalty for battery upon sports official under certain circumstances. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0678er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 678
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to juvenile justice education; increases percentage of Florida Education Finance Program funding generated by students in juvenile justice programs which must be spent on instructional costs; requires school districts to provide GED exit option for such programs; requires workgroup to suggest strategies for meeting requirements of No Child Left Behind Act and for rewarding such programs for high performance; requires gender-specific information. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb1989er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 1989
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to a retired teacher's reemployment; authorizes district school boards to reemploy certain retired teachers under certain circumstances; deletes certain reemployment criteria and limitations; provides legislative intent pertaining to funding and implementation; provides benefits are available for instructional personnel employed by developmental research schools and the State School for the Deaf and Blind and charter schools. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb3010er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 3010
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Accountability--School Improvement |
To governor 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Creates the "Middle School Reform Act;" provides definitions; prescribes program criteria and content; provides a timeline for implementation; requires an academic performance study of middle grade students and schools with recommendations for increase in performance; requires school improvement plan to include rigorous reading requirement; provides for individual student plans; provides for additions to academic improvement plans; adds criteria to the assessment process for instructional personnel; requires DOE to conduct study on physical education in public schools; requires school districts to implement mandatory physical education under certain circumstances.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0354er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 354
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to Carey Baker Freedom Flag Act; requires a flag of the U.S. to be displayed in each classroom in public K-20 educational institutions; provides for procurement of the flags. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb1757er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 1757
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Specifies the period each year during which sales of clothing, books and school supplies are exempt from sales tax; provides definitions and exceptions; provides reduction in motor fuel tax for one month; provides dealer requirements; authorizes dealers to manage motor fuel inventory to maximize tax reduction benefits; provides for revocation of licenses for violations.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb0237er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 237
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
High School |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to Korean War veteran's high school diploma; amends certain prerequisites to allow award of standard high school diploma to honorably discharged veterans of Korean War who did not complete necessary graduation requirements. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1096er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1096
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Became law without governor's signature 05/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to education funding; requires school districts to establish certain policies and procedures regarding lottery fund enhancements; provides tax credit cap for contributions to nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations; prohibits use of funds for lab schools for certain overhead or indirect costs; redesignates specified community colleges as colleges; specifies maximum fee waiver percentage for school districts and community colleges; authorizes use of the Dale Hickam Excellent Teaching Program funds; requires reports regarding inmate education provided by community colleges; authorizes Florida State University to construct classroom building. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb1867er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 1867
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Postsecondary Participation--Access |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to student achievement;creates the Partnership for Minority and Underrepresented Student Achievement; mission of partnership is to prepare, inspire and connect students with postsecondary success and opportunity with a focus on minority students and other students underrepresented in postsecondary education; provides for purposes and duties of the partnership including teacher professional development to ensure teachers have necessary knowledge to prepare students for success in AP and other advanced courses, middle school teacher professional development to enable them to educate middle students at the level necessary for success in high school advanced courses, college exams preparation through a variety of means, dissemination of information about the importance of advanced coursework to improve a student's ability to access postsecondary education; provides duties of the Department of Education and The College Board; requires the partnership to submit a annual evaluation report to the Department. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb2184er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 2184
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Signed by Governor 05/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Revises course requirements in college & career preparatory accelerated high school graduation program; amends requirements for grade point average that must be earned; establishes requirements for selection of accelerated graduation options; authorizes SAT & ACT as alternative assessments to grade 10 FCAT required for high school graduation if students have attempted to pass grade 10 FCAT at least 3 times; provides rights for K-3 students with reading deficiencies; establishes a Reading Enhancement and Acceleration Development (READ) Initiative to prevent the retention of grade 3 students and to offer intensive reading instruction to students with reading deficiencies. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0364er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 364
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Prohibits certain sexual offenders subject to conditional release supervision from living within specified distance of certain places where children congregate; prohibits district school boards from establishing school bus stops within 1,000 feet of residence of persons prohibited from living within 1,000 feet of school bus stop; requires district school boards to notify DOD relating to school bus stop locations. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0120er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 120
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the Department of Education to conduct pilot program; authorizes the pilot program within specified counties to enable selected school districts to realize cost savings in the purchase of used instructional materials; imposes requirements on vendors of such materials; requires the Council for Education Policy Research and Improvement to report to the Legislature; provides for future repeal. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0122er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 122
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Rule Adoption 12/2003 |
Postsec. |
Revises the persons that can be substitute qualified beneficiaries uner the Florida Prepaid College Plan. http://fac.dos.state.fl.us/faconline/chapter19.pdf
Title: FAC 19B-8.001
Source: Florida State Web site |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Rule Adoption 12/2003 |
Postsec. |
Incerases the maximum account balance limit applicable to advance payment contracts under the Florida Prepaid College Plan and accounts in the Florida College investment Plan, for individual beneficiaries. http://fac.dos.state.fl.us/faconline/chapter19.pdf
Title: FAC 19B-4.005
Source: Florida State Web site |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Rule Adoption 12/2003 |
Postsec. |
Increases the maximum account balance limit applicable to advance payment contracts under the Florida Prepaid College Plan and accounts in the Florida College Investment Plan, for individual beneficiaries. http://fac.dos.state.fl.us/faconline/chapter19.pdf
Title: FAC 19B-16.005
Source: Florida State Web site |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Rule Adoption 12/2003 |
Postsec. |
Revises the forms of payment that may be used to make payments for advance payment contracts for the Florida Prepaid College Plan.l http://fac.dos.state.fl.us/faconline/chapter19.pdf
Title: FAC 19B-4.003
Source: Florida State Web site |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Rule Adoption 12/2003 |
Postsec. |
Revises the forms of payment that may be used to make payments on accounts in the Florida College Investment Plan. http://fac.dos.state.fl.us/faconline/chapter19.pdf
Title: FAC 19B-16.004
Source: Florida State Web site |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Rule Adoption 12/2003 |
Postsec. |
Amends rules to revise the actuarial assumptions for pricing of contracts for the Florida Prepaid College Plan. http://fac.dos.state.fl.us/faconline/chapter19.pdf
Title: FAC 19B-4.002
Source: Florida State Web site |
Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
Signed into law 11/2003 |
P-12 |
Increases funding for the Florida Education Finance Program through partial reduction of tax credits for contributions to nonprofit scholarship- funding organizations based on estimated student enrollment; specifies total amount of tax credits and carry forward tax credits that may be granted for the 2003-2004 fiscal year; provides for allocation of appropriation for 2003-2004 fiscal year. http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2003E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0022Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 22
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 11/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires specified unclaimed lottery prize money be transferred to the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund; provides an appropriation from the trust fund to community colleges as matching funds for certain private donations; provides appropriation from the trust fund to state universities as matching funds for certain private donations; provides for allocation of such funds. http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2003E/House/bills/billtext/pdf/h0043Eer.pdf
Title: H.B. 43
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
P-3 |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 |
Stipulates that children age 3 years to school entry who are enrolled in a licensed early education and child care program as a result of being abused, neglected or abandoned and being served by the Family Safety Program Office must participate in the program 5 days a week; provides priority for children who are served by the Family Safety Program Office; requires notice to operators of enrollment of a child under court ordered supervision. http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&Tab=session&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=1318&Chamber=Senate&Year=2003&Title=%2D%3EBill%2520Info%3AS%25201318%2D%3ESession%25202003
Title: S.B. 1318
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Accountability |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. |
Requires emphasis on reading; requires certain accountability measures; eliminates the limitations on the number of charter schools per school district; authorizes community colleges to operate charter schools that provide students with the option of receiving an associates degree upon high school graduation and develop administrative fees charged by sponsor for provision of services; provides report to Governor; revises eligibility criteria for charter school capital outlay funding; provides allocation criteria for future said outlay appropriations. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/house/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=0055&Year=2003A&Chamber=House#BillText
Title: H.B. 55-A
Source: Florida State Web site |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Expands legislative intent for K-20 education performance accountability system; provides requirements and implementation schedule for performance-based funding; provides mission, goals, and measures; requires collection of certain data; provides eligibility criteria for participation in Florida School Recognition Program; relates to equivalent scores for purpose of graduation; relates to the No Child Left Behind Act.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/house/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=0915&Chamber=House&Year=2003&Title=%2D%3EBill%2520Info%3AH%25200915%2D%3ESession%25202003
Title: H.B. 915
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Provides learning opportunities for out-of-state and out-of- country transfer students and students needing additional instruction to meet high school graduation requirements; provides requirements for certain transfer students; provides for alternate assessments for the grade 10 Florida's Comprehensive Assessment Test and immersion English language instruction. http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2003B/House/bills/billtext/pdf/h0023Ber.pdf
Title: H.B. 23
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Revises provisions of the Smoking in Enclosed Indoor Workplace Act for purpose of implementing an article of State Constitution;
re-enacts provisions which prohibit any person under 18 years of age to smoke tobacco in, on, or within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising a public or private elementary, middle, or secondary school and provides related penalties; includes other provisions.
http://www.myfloridahouse.com/BillInfo.aspx?bid=11610
Title: H.B. 63 - A
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Prohibits the sale, manufacture, or delivery of controlled substances, or possession of controlled substances with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver, within 1000 feet of certain educational institutions, public parks, publicly owned community centers or recreational facilities, and public housing; provides enhanced penalties for controlled substances offenses committed within a specified distance of a public or private college or other postsecondary institution. http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2003/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s1588er.pdf
Title: S.B. 1588
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Class Size |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes maximum class sizes; creates the Classrooms for Kids Program; establishes the District Effort Recognition Program; establishes the Class Size Reduction Lottery Revenue Bond Program; authorizes bonds; makes provisions regarding parental notification; allows tax credits to be carried forward; requires school district to notify parents of acceleration mechanisms; provides that ROTC classes fulfill physical education requirements. http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=0030&Year=2003A&Chamber=Senate#BillText
Title: S.B. 30
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires school boards to advise students taking American Sign Language as a foreign language that post-secondary schools outside of Florida may not accept these courses as satisfying foreign language requirements. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/house/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=0162&Chamber=Senate&Year=2003&Title=%2D%3EBill%2520Info%3AS%25200162%2D%3ESession%25202003
Title: S.B. 162
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Finance |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to the termination of trust funds; terminates specified trust funds within the Education Department; provides for disposition of balances in and revenues of such trust funds; prescribes procedures for termination of such trust funds; declares findings of Legislature that specified trust funds within the said Department are exempt from termination requirements of certain provision of State Constitution. http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2003/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0818er.pdf
Title: S.B. 818
Source: StateNet |
Finance |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
Postsec. |
Creates the University Concurrency Trust Fund within the Education Department; provides for sources of funds and purposes; exempts the trust fund from service charges; provides for annual carry forward of funds; provides for future legislative review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund; provides legislative intent regarding identifying the trust fund and its source of revenue; amends 1013.63. http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2003/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0816er.pdf
Title: S.B. 816
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Increases amounts to be deposited into the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund; provides for construction of act in pari materia with laws enacted during Regular Session of Legislature; amends percentage from 30% to 39% of gross revenue from sale of on- line lottery tickets and instant lottery tickets. http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=0028&Year=2003A&Chamber=Senate#BillText
Title: S.B. 28 - A
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
No Child Left Behind--Parent Involvement |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Creates Family & School Partnership for Student Achievement Act; requires support for implementation by school district and school personnel; requires Department of Education to develop guidelines for parent guide to assist parents; provides additional notification
requirements to parents of students in kindergarten through grade 12 focusing on academics, especially reading, high expectations for students, citizenship and communication. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/house/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=1522&Chamber=Senate&Year=2003&Title=%2D%3EBill%2520Info%3AS%25201522%2D%3ESession%25202003
Title: S.B. 1522
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
P-3 |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Revises inservice training requirements for child care personnel; requires training in early literacy and language development; requires annual training and annual health and safety home inspection self- evaluation by family day care home operators; requires annual training of operators of large family child care homes, etc. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/house/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=2446&Chamber=Senate&Year=2003&Title=%2D%3EBill%2520Info%3AS%25202446%2D%3ESession%25202003
Title: S.B. 2446
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
P-3 |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Implements specified provisions of State Constitution; creates voluntary universal prekindergarten education program; limits
application of provisions regarding school readiness programs; requires State Board of Education to submit report with recommendations or options for on curriculum, design and standards of said program; directs Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability &
Auditor General to conduct audits and submit reports to the governor and legislature.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/house/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=1334&Chamber=Senate&Year=2003&Title=%2D%3EBill%2520Info%3AS%25201334%2D%3ESession%25202003
Title: S.B. 1334
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
Postsec. |
Creates Access to Better Learning & Education Grant Program; provides legislative findings regarding education provided by for-profit colleges & universities; provides for the Department of Education to administer grant program for students attending for-profit institutions; requires institutions to remit undisbursed funds to DOE; limits period a student may receive grant.
http://www.flsenate.gov/session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=0638&Year=2003&Chamber=Senate#BillText
Title: S.B. 638
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
Postsec. |
Abolishes Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Testing Program.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/house/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=0354&Chamber=Senate&Year=2003&Title=%2D%3EBill%2520Info%3AS%25200354%2D%3ESession%25202003
Title: S.B. 354
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
Postsec. |
Establishes Board of Governors; provides membership and terms of office; revises membership of university boards of trustees and terms of office; authorizes nonrefundable admissions deposit; limits annual remuneration of state university president to $225,000 from public funds; provides certain limitations on benefits for state university presidents under Florida Retirement System; defines cash-equivalent compensation. http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&Tab=session&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=0051&Chamber=House&Year=2003A&Title=%2D%3EBill%2520Info%3AH%25200051%2D%3ESession%25202003A
Title: H.B. 51-A
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Revises options for participants in the Community College Optional Retirement Program; revises certain limitations on positions for which district school boards may employ members after specified period of retirement; revises payroll contribution rates for defined benefit plan for 2003-2004 fiscal year; eliminates compulsory participation in the defined contribution program for reemployed instructional personnel; provides concurrent funding for increased benefits. http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2003/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0958er.pdf
Title: S.B. 958
Source: StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Vetoed 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Changes date by which school superintendents must notify Department of Education regarding certain instructional materials;requires publishers to provide and price adopted instructional materials on an individual basis for purchase by school districts; revises provisions relating to the issuance of purchase orders; provides that the authority in the bill must not be construed to set any future year's instructional materials allocation; makes the school district responsible for any financial commitment in purchase orders that exceeds the district's allocation for the next year.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/house/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=1838&Chamber=Senate&Year=2003&Title=%2D%3EBill%2520Info%3AS%25201838%2D%3ESession%25202003
Title: S.B. 1838
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Relates to bus transportation; requires driving records of nonpublic sector bus drivers to be checked for suspended or revoked licenses; provides that private school students may ride on public school buses and public school students may ride on private school buses, subject to specified conditions; provides for safety belts or other restraints on school buses purchased after a certain date.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/house/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=0614&Chamber=Senate&Year=2003&Title=%2D%3EBill%2520Info%3AS%25200614%2D%3ESession%25202003
Title: S.B. 614
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Students |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Relating to the Florida High School Activities Association; renames the association as the Florida High School Athletic Association; revises the procedures for students' physical examinations; revises membership of the board of directors. http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=2156&Year=2003&Chamber=Senate#BillText
Title: S.B. 2156
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
The current model for certification in physical education is replaced by a new comprehensive, grades K-12, physical education certification area effective July 1, 2003 as adopted in Rule 6A-4.0283, F.A.C. FLORIDA REG 27169 (SN) http://fac.dos.state.fl.us/
Title: FAC 6A-4.028
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
A new certification subject area in general science was approved by the State Board of Education to be effective July 1, 2003. Leadership of the agency has since determined that the current system of offering certification in the four separate areas of science: physics, biology, chemistry, and earth-space science would be retained, and that an additional science area requiring the development of a subject area test would not be needed. FLORIDA REG 27170 (SN) http://fac.dos.state.fl.us/
Title: FAC 6A-4.0323
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
The current model of social science certification is replaced by a new comprehensive social science certification effective July 1, 2003. The new social science certification allows various social science majors, such as history, political science, etc. eligibility for the general Social Science (Grades 6-12) certification. FLORIDA REG 27171 (SN) http://fac.dos.state.fl.us/
Title: FAC 6A-4.0332
Source: StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Clarifies the hours during which it is unlawful to sell, manufacture, deliver, or possess controlled substances within specified distances of child care facilities or specified schools. http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2003/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0160er.pdf
Title: S.B. 160
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Students |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Directs the Department of Education to assist in the transition of dependents of military personnel into the public school system; requires a report. http://www.flsenate.gov/session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=2802&Year=2003&Chamber=Senate#BillText
Title: S.B. 2802
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Deletes requirement that the high school life management skills course be taken at specific grade levels; requires certain test accommodations and modifications of procedures for students with disabilities; requires award of a standard diploma to a student with a disability who meets certain criteria; revises provisions relating to admission of students to community colleges.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/house/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=1739&Year=2003&Chamber=House#BillText
Title: H.B. 1739
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Class Size |
Approved by voters 11/2002 |
P-12 |
Proposes an amendment to the State Constitution (Article IX, Section I) to require that the Legislature provide funding for sufficient classrooms so that there be a maximum number of students in public school classes for various grade levels; requires compliance by the beginning of the 2010 school year; requires the Legislature, and not local school districts, to pay for the costs associated with reduced class size; prescribes a schedule for phased-in funding to achieve the required maximum class size.
Analysis: (brochure) http://www.cepri.state.fl.us/pdf/Class%20Size%20Brochure.pdf
(report) http://www.cepri.state.fl.us/pdf/Class%20Size%20Summary.pdf
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/initiatives/initdetail.asp?account=34393&seqnum=1
Florida Board of Education opposes Amendment 9. (http://www.flboe.org/SpecialFeatures/proposed_amend_02/)
(http://www.flboe.org/SpecialFeatures/proposed_amend_02/Amendments_Talking_Points31.pdf)
Title: Constitutional Amendment 9
Source: Florida Elections Division: CEPRI |
P-3 |
Approved by voters 11/2002 |
P-12 |
Proposes a Constitutional amendment (Article IX, Section 1)that every four- year-old child in Florida shall be offered a high quality pre-kindergarten learning opportunity by the state no later than the 2005 school year. Provides that the voluntary program shall be established according to high quality standards and shall be free for all Florida four-year-olds without taking away funds used for existing programs. Analysis: (brochure) http://www.cepri.state.fl.us/pdf/Pre-K%20Brochure.pdf
(report): http://www.cepri.state.fl.us/pdf/Pre-K%20Summary%208-9-02.pdf
(http://election.dos.state.fl.us/initiatives/initdetail.asp?account=34708&seqnum=1)
Florida Board of Education supports Amendment 8. (http://www.flboe.org/SpecialFeatures/proposed_amend_02/) (http://www.flboe.org/SpecialFeatures/proposed_amend_02/Amendments_Talking_Points31.pdf)
Title: Constitutional Amendment 8
Source: Florida Division of Elections; CEPRI |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Approved by voters 11/2002 |
Postsec. |
Proposes a Constitutional amendment (Article IX, Section 7). A local board of trustees shall administer each state university. Each board shall have thirteen members dedicated to excellence in teaching, research, and service to community. A statewide governing board of seventeen members shall be responsible for the coordinated and accountable operation of the whole university system. Wasteful duplication of facilities or programs is to be avoided. Provides procedures for selection and confirmation of board members, including one student and one faculty representative per board. Analysis: (brochure) http://www.cepri.state.fl.us/pdf/Governance%20Brochure.pdf
(report) http://www.cepri.state.fl.us/pdf/Goverance%20Summary%208-9-02.pdf
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/initiatives/initdetail.asp?account=34498&seqnum=1
Florida Board of Education opposes Amendment 11. (http://www.flboe.org/SpecialFeatures/proposed_amend_02/) (http://www.flboe.org/SpecialFeatures/proposed_amend_02/Amendments_Talking_Points31.pdf)
Title: Constitutional Amendment 11
Source: Florida Election Division; CEPRI |
Accountability |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
P-12 |
Eliminates commissioner waiver authority in school improvement/accountability system (see bill section 379, page 849, line 29 ff) Places Florida School Recognition Program eligibility on basis of school grades rather than application process. According to legislative summary, "Schools are eligible to receive a bonus if they receive an 'A' or improve a letter grade." Establishes provision that if school staff and school advisory council cannot agree on method of use of school recognition award by November 1, money must automatically be evenly distributed among all classroom teachers currently teaching in school. See bill section 381, page 864, line 25: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
P-12 |
Shifts responsibility for establishing rules regarding student report cards from state superintendent to state board. Modifies rules relating to remediation, retention and promotion. Specifically, as stated by legislative summary, "The bill requires retention of students whose reading deficiency is not remedied by the third grade, as demonstrated by scoring at Level 2 or higher on the third grade reading portion of the FCAT. Before third grade, students identified as having a substantial reading deficiency must be given intensive reading instruction." Also, "The bill requires that academic improvement plans describe specific areas of reading deficiency, desired levels of performance in these areas, and necessary support services. The bill requires written parental notification of a substantial reading disability, current services, proposed remediation, and a mandatory third grade retention requirement. The bill outlines good cause exemptions: Limited English Proficient students who have had less than two years of instruction in an English for Speakers of Other Languages program; those with disabilities whose individual education plan (IEP) indicates that participation in the statewide assessments is not appropriate; those who demonstrate an acceptable level of performance on an alternative standardized reading assessment approved by the State Board of Education; those who demonstrate, through a student portfolio, the mastery of the Sunshine State Standards in reading equal to a Level 2 performance on the FCAT; students with disabilities who were previously retained in kindergarten, first or second grade, who participate in the FCAT and whose IEP or 504 plan shows a remaining deficiency after intensive remediation in reading for more than two years; and students who have received the intensive remediation in reading for two or more years but still demonstrate a deficiency or who were previously retained in kindergarten, grade one or grade two for a total of two years. The bill requires the teacher to document and report any good cause exemption to the principal. The principal reviews and reports a recommendation to the superintendent who makes the final decision. Each step of this process must be in writing. The bill gives the State Board of Education authority to enforce these provisions by requiring that districts submit relevant data, allowing the Commissioner of Education to investigate noncompliance, ordering compliance within a specified time frame, and withholding funds in the event of continued noncompliance." See bill section 371, page 825, line 4 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
P-12 |
State-approved teacher preparation programs must incorporate appropriate English for Speakers of Other Languages instruction so that program graduates will have completed the requirements for teaching limited English proficient students in Florida public schools. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E (Code Re-Write)
Source: Bill Text |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
P-12 |
Removes provision mandating that school boards fully fund a 5% reserve for all instructional and administrative staff. See bill section 697, page 1298, line 28, ff. Also bars local board member from hiring or appointing a relative to work under his or her direct supervision. See bill section 698, page 1303, line 6 ff. According to state legislative summary, "[Clarifies] that teaching experience applies to in-state and out-of-state public school teaching experience. If employees with unsatisfactory evaluations request transfer, requires superintendent to annually report to department on employees transferred, where transferred and what remediation" was undertaken. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
P-12 |
According to legislative summary: "Amends ... to clarify that a statement of status of eligibility for a subject area authorized at the time of application may be reissued. Amends ... to allow for demonstration of subject area expertise with approval of superintendent for those subject areas without a test (i.e., Japanese or Hebrew language teacher.) Amends ... to require completion of graduate level courses for those certificates that require master's or higher degree (i.e., school psychologist, guidance counselor, etc.). Amends ... to allow an additional option for individuals to demonstrate professional competency by completing professional preparation courses. This provision allows allows individuals who have a subject area degree to become certified by taking pedagogical courses... Amends ... to require teacher preparation program students to achieve a passing score on the professional education competency exam ... Amends ... to allow school districts to use their own alternative certification program (instead of department's) as long as department approves. (Some districts, such as Hillsborough have already developed their own alternative certification program. This allows them to modify their current program to meet state standards.) ... Amends ... to allow state supported public schools or private schools to develop an alternative certification program to be approved by department." See bill section 728, page 1347, line 10 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
P-12 |
Creates "directory" section to inform tutors of obligation to keep and prepare records in accordance with other statutes. See bill section 108, page 306, line 18, ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Students |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
P-12 |
According to legislative summary, "The bill requires the board of directors of the Florida High School Activities Association (FHSAA) to examine alternative criteria for establishing administrative regions. The examination will include population; procedures to ensure appropriate diversity in the membership of the board; and opportunities to secure corporate financial support for high school athletic programs. By March 1, 2003, the board will report its findings to the Commissioner of Education, President of the Senate and Speaker of the House." Requires students' preparticipation physical evaluation forms to advise them to undergo a cardiovascular assessment. Limits the liability exemption for student athletes who do not undergo preparticipation physical examinations. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
Postsec. |
Act defines terms "institution of higher education" and "change in enrollment of employment status" for purposes of the Florida Sexual Predators Act; provides additional registration requirements for sexual predators who are enrolled, employed or working at an institution of higher education; provides for the testing of certain persons for HIV under certain circumstances.
Title: HB 841
Source: State website |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
Postsec. |
Act provides for an emergency order suspending the license of any health care practitioner who has defaulted on a student loan issued or guaranteed by state of Federal government; clarifies grounds for disciplinary action for failing to perform statutory or legal obligation to include failing to repay student loan issued or guaranteed by state or federal government in accordance with the terms of the loan.
Title: HB 1405
Source: State website |
Assessment |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Grandfathers in the scores of 10th-graders who took the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) in spring 2001. Requires that when state board sets higher cutoff scores for 10th-grade FCAT, higher cutoff scores affect only those students who have not yet taken the 10th-grade FCAT. Forbids state board from establishing any accommodation that "negates the validity of a statewide assessment." Requires district to inform parent of student with disability when classroom accommodations may not be made on FCAT. Parent must give consent for student to be given classroom accommodations or modifications not allowable in the statewide assessment program, and must give parent information on the impact on student's capacity to attain benchmarks in reading, writing and math. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
P-3 |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12,
Community College |
Increases from 40 to 45 clock hours the introductory training course requirement for operators of large family child care homes and for child care personnel and operators of family day care homes; provides for community college credit in early childhood education for such coursework. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1550er.html&Directory=session/2002/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1550
Source: Lexis-Nexis |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Creates new section giving state board oversight of all public school boards and public postsecondary institution boards, gives state board authority to undertake sanctions, including withholding funds, against school district or public postsecondary education institution that does not comply with law or state board rule within specified time. See bill section 376, page 842, line 3 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Eliminates educational program for disabled adults funded in Workforce development education fund. See bil section 236, page 588, line 7 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Attendance |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes legislative intent that 1) every K-12 public school student attend school throughout the school year and comply with the school's code of conduct; and 2) parents of every public K-12 student "comply with the school's reasonable and time-acceptable parental involvement requests." See bill section 114, page 318, line number 23 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Creates new section on charter school capital outlay. According to legislative summary, bill "requires the full-credit for teaching service to apply to experience in charter schools, either in-state or out-of-state" and revises charter school purposes "to include both mandatory and permissive objectives." Gives charter schools exemption from fees for building permits and impact and service availability fees. Gives state commissioner authority to identify in writing a dedicated funding source for charter school capital outlay. States that charter schools are not exempt from law mandating provision of services to limited-English proficient students; removes Commissioner's waiver provisions; demands that nonrenewed charter schools be held in trust, pending appeal. Establishes a Charter School Appeal Commission composed of 1/2 representatives of school district and 1/2 representatives of charter operators to review and make recommendations to the state board regarding charter school appeals. Designates state board decision in charter school appeals as binding. Also section on charter technical career centers that deletes commissioner's waiver provisions. See bill section 98, page 207, line 28 ff and bill section 99, page 245, line 1: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Changes name of "Developmental Research Schools" to "Lab Schools." According to legislative document: "LLC members decided to change advisory board faculty membership and add a student member; LLC members decided to allow other colleges within university to participate in research; deletes commissioner's waiver provisions pursuant to member policy decision. Allows FAMU, FSU, UF and FAU to authorize one or more lab schools subject to legislative approval." See bill section 97, page 199, line 1 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Expands mandate to teach character education from elementary grades to K-12. Requires districts to develop curriculum, to be submitted to the department for approval, that "[stresses] the qualities of patriotism, responsibility, citizenship, kindess, respect, honesty, self-control, tolerance and cooperation." See bill section 131, page 351, line 25 ff: www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires every local board to create a plan for a K-12 foreign language curriculum, to be submitted to the commissioner by June 30, 2004. See bill section 1061, page 1785, line 20 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Demographics--Enrollments |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Community College |
Requires rules and policies by district school boards, community college district boards of trustees, and university boards of trustees relating to student withdrawal from courses due to call to, or enlistment in, active military service; provides that academic or financial penalties shall not be applied, and must be permitted the option of either completing the course or courses at a later date without penalty or withdrawing from the course or courses with a full refund of fees paid. If the student chooses to withdraw, the student's record shall reflect that the withdrawal is due to active military service. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1090er.html&Directory=session/2002/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1090
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Federal |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Creates new section mandating that districts report to the department by February 1, 2004 on their participation in federal summer food service program. See bill section 272, page 643, line 23 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
According to legislative summary, requires that local boards "determine the percentage of the base student allocation or other funds to be spent for in-service training conforming this to current legislative policy; deletes unnecessary itemization of school district expenditure of funds for in-service personnel training; ... authorizes [local] boards for the 2002-03 fiscal year to exercise flexibility in the use of categorical funds for academic classroom instruction with accountability provisions; ... deletes the requirement that beginning with the 2002-03 school year school districts shall document average daily attendance for FEFP funding." See bill section 655, page 1209, line 4 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires state board to submit a K-20 legislative budget request annually to the governor and general assembly; requires a state board-approved budget system to exist in every district, community college and university; and for every district board, community college and university to annually submit to the commissioner an annual operating budget that is in keeping with provisions of law and state board-approved rules. See bill section 601, page 1146, line 26 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
In funds for student transportation, shifts rule authority from commissioner to state board (see bill section 660, page 1239, line 8 ff); permits local boards to establish resolution that can include a convenant to decrease the capital local school property tax levied (see bill section 664, page 1251, line 4 ff); establishes new section for Florida Academic Improvement Trust Fund, which institutes a public schools matching grants program (see section 670, page 1258, line 1 ff): http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
According to state legislative summary, "To ensure that educational facilities information used by the legislature is accurate, [section] is amended to provide that the department is to conduct an on-site review of a statistically valid sample of 5% of the facilities reported to the Florida Inventory of School Houses [FISH] by each school district. If the information provided by the district is less than 95% accurate, the district must submit revised and corrected data to the FISH. If the district fails to submit corrected data that is at least 95% accurate within one year from the date of notification by the department, the commissioner of education may exercise discretion of withholding future state fixed capital outlay funds until such time as the district submits corrected information; [section] is amended to provide that the department is to conduct an in-depth analyses [sic] each year of a representative sample of five school districts selected from among the districts with surveys showing the largest need-to-revenue ratio based on the five-year fixed capital outlay revenue projection. If the districts survey does not accurately project its facilities needs it must revise its survey. If a district fails to revise its survey to accurately project its facility needs the commissioner may exercise discretion of withholding future state fixed capital outlay funds until such time as the district corrects its survey." See http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
According to state legislative summary, "Clarifies that school district, community college and university facilities are to comply with the 'appropriate' sections of the Florida Building Code. See bill section 837, page 1550, line 22 ff. Also according to state legislative summary, "Exempts charter schools from building permit fees, etc." See bill section 859, page 1577, line 10 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
According to legislative summary, "More school districts will qualify for awards from the school infrastructure program because [the bill specifies that] the space counted will not include hurricane shelters."
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Addresses facilities and local government/district collaborative efforts. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1906er.html&Directory=session/2002/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1906
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the Department of the Lottery to determine a variable percentage of revenue from instant lottery tickets, including on-line, that is to be returned in the form of prizes; provides rules for the allocation of lottery revenues and expenditure of funds for public education.
Title: H.B. 2011
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Resource Efficiency |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
According to a legislative summary, "The bill establishes the Office of Inspector General within the State Board of Education to be responsible for promoting accountability, efficiency and effectiveness and detecting fraud and abuse within school districts, community colleges and universities in Florida." http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Governance |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
According to a legislative summary, "The bill provides for the state board to be the entity responsible for ensuring that school districts and public postsecondary institutions comply with law and state board rule and authorizes a number of options to enforce compliance." http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Governance |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
According to a legislative summary, "The bill eliminates the commissioner's waiver authority over law. However, it authorizes the commissioner to waive state board rule, if the state board delegates to him that authority." http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E (waiver authority section)
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Governance |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Community College |
According to state legislative summary: "Designates the State Board of Education as the head of the department, the Commissioner as the Executive Director of the department; revises divisions [to create three divisions within the department, namely the Division of Public Schools, the Division of Community Colleges and the Division of Colleges and Universities, to create an Office of Private Schools and Home Education Programs within the department, and to eliminate the Division of Independent Education]; revises powers and duties[.]" See bill section 881, page 1625, line 14 ff. Also "[a]utorizes establishment, abolishment or consolidation within department to promote efficient operation. Authorizes flexibility of positions and appropriations." See bill section 1055, page 1784, line 8 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Abolishes statutory salary scale for local board members, and replaces with policy authorizing boards to establish own pay in public meeting. See New Section 1001.395 (see bill section 52, page 91, line 24). http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires auditor general to conduct financial audits of the accounts and records of all local boards in counties with populations of 150,000 rather than 125,000, according to the latest 10-year census. According to legislative report, "The number of school districts undergoing audits is increased by five." See bill section 880, page 1621, line 12 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
High School |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Permits completion of one semester of marching band with grade C or better to be included as 1/2 credit of physical education graduation requirement. See bill section 132, page 354, line 27 ff: www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
High School |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Mandates the state board to adopt rules permitting any GED recipient who meets certain criteria to be awarded a standard high school diploma. See bill section 133, page 365, line 3 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
According to legislative summary, "The bill deletes a provision that penalizes a student for using part of Bright Futures eligibility if the student succeeds in earning college credit through an acceleration mechanism. This requirement applies only to Medallian and Academic Scholars and only to students who enroll in public colleges or universities." Requires local districts to annually give each high school student information on Bright Futures Scholarship Program. Requires school districts to help high school students to determine their progress in eligibility for a Bright Futures Scholarship. District must give every high school student a full Florida Bright Futures Scholarship report and key and must inform students that their report card GPA may differ from the Bright Futures GPA. See bill section 423, page 945, line 11 ff. Changes references from "merit" scholars to "medallion" scholars. Extends eligibility for Florida Medallion Scholars Award to Florida Bright Futures Scholarship-eligible students who are National Merit, National Achievement and National Hispanic Recognition students who did not complete a community service program. See bill section 427, page 953, line 8 ff. Eliminates reference in Florida Gold Seal Vocational Scholars Award statute to vocational-ready diploma program. See bill section 428, page 954, line 24 ff. In Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Testing Program, requirement to reduce program award hours by number of credit hours received is eliminated. See bill section 431, page 960, line 20 ff. Adds Florida State University to the Florida Minority Medical Education Program because FSU now has a medical school. Includes Florida A&M University (FAMU) and Florida International University (FIU) law schools in Virgil Hawkins Fellows Assistance Program. According to legislative summary, "The bill retains the requirement that all Bright Futures Medallion and Gold Seal Scholarship recipients must take five CLEP tests, if they enroll in a public community college or state university. It does not authorize a penalty if students do not obey this requirement." Also, "The bill retains the requirement that the community college or university must pay for the CLEP tests, and does not authorize the use of any other college equivalency testing program." http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Community College |
Explicitly states that community colleges may, free of charge, provide instructional materials to home-schooling students or private-school students. See bill section 357, page 795, line 15 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Creates Office of Private Schools and Home Education. New section defines home education program and private school. Inserts "directory" language to show home-schooling parents the programs in which their children may participate (i.e., extracurricular activities, dual enrollment, Bright Futures), and to show private schools the sections with which they must comply (i.e., student records, instructional materials, etc.) See bill section 90, page 172, line 22 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: Florida Legislative Web site |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Allows school boards more time to decide on personnel nominations when the Legislature adjourns before May 31.
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Permits local boards to hire principals lacking educator certification, as long as the board provides alternative certification for the principal through its own written alternative principal certification policy. (see bill section 55, page 93, line 20). http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: Florida Legislature Web site |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Changes name from Florida Virtual High School to Florida Virtual School. Requires local boards to provide public school students with access to courses offered through the Florida Virtual School, and to notify the public of educational opportunities available with the school. According to legislative summary, "The school is allowed to use patent and trademark revenue for marketing, in addition to research and development." See bill section 55, page 93, line 20 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: Florida Legislature Web site |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Inserts "directory" section to inform students and parents of their rights pertaining to a number of areas, including nondiscrimination, student records, discipline, safety, etc. See Bill section 92, page 173, line 19 ff. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
Postsec. |
An act related to economic development; creates the "Florida Technology Development Act"; provides definition, purposes and objectives for centers of excellence dedicated to conducting high-tech research, building technology sectors, fostering innovative cutting-edge technology research at Florida's colleges and universities; creates the Emerging Technology Commission; provides for the Florida Research Consortium, Inc., to report to the commission on factors contributing to the success of the creation of a center of excellence; requires the commission to solicit and evaluate proposals for creating centers and to submit recommended plans to the State Board of Education; provides for the State Board of Education to develop and approve a final plan for establishing centers of excellence in the state and authorize expenditures for plan implementation.
Title: S.B. 1844
Source: Lexis-Nexis; www.state.fl.us |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires state board to establish criteria for the approval of new programs at state universities, including requirements that new programs: (a) meet objectives that cannot be met through use of educational technology; (b) avoid unnecessary duplication; (c) encourage cooperative programs; (d) are consistent with the state master plans adopted by the state board. Community college program approvals should meet similar criteria. For graduate programs, new programs must take into account the offerings of counterpart institutions, including those in other sectors, particularly at the regional level; must not alter the emphasis on undergraduate education; meet regional need and demand.
Title: S.B. 20E (waiver authority section)
Education Code Re-Write: Program Approval
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires districts to notify the parent of a disabled student within 10 school days of the parent's application for a John M. McKay Scholarship for Students with Disabilities, if a matrix of services for the student is unavailable. According to legislative digest, "Requires school districts to give parents a date for completion of the matrix and must notify parents of matrix level within 10 school days of completion of the matrix. Requires the award amount to be calculated at Level I until matrix is completed. Removes requirement that parent notify district in writing of intent to participate. Allows parent to notify district electronically through the department of education of intent to participate in program. Removes May 1 date for private schools to notify department of intent to participate." See bill section 104, page 285, line 1: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires state department rules re: accounts and financial records of districts, community colleges and universities to adhere to the requirements of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) for State and Local Government, that financial accounts include provisions unique to K-12 districts, community colleges and universities, and provide for data to be reported to the National Center of Education Statistics and other governmental and professional educational data information services as appropriate. See See bill section 526, page 11, line 9 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Adds subsection relating to Advanced International Certificate of Education Program (AICE); sets out that public secondary school students are exempt from payment of Advanced Placement exam fees, regardless of whether or not they obtain a passing score on the exam. Exempts any student earning at least nine credits from any program included in this section (i.e., Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate) from participating in otherwise mandatory postsecondary education program. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Religion |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires department to annually distribute to all local board members, superintendents principals and teachers the complete guidelines on "Religious Expression in Public Schools" published by the U.S. Department of Education. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Eliminates subsection allowing districts to employ community education coordinators to promote, coordinate, organize, and administer community education programs. See bill section 239, page 596, line 17 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Safe Paths to Schools Program in the Department of Transportation to consider the planning and construction of bicycle and pedestrian ways to provide safe transportation for children; authorizes a grant program to fund projects and provides rulemaking authority. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb1181er.html&Directory=session/2002/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 1181
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Changes requirement that school buses be inspected a minimum of once a month to requirement that they be inspected pursuant to state board rule. Modifies groups eligible to determine a hazardous walking condition from "any of the following: representative of school district, representative of county sheriff, representative of local safety council, and representative of state/local government agency" to "superintendent or designee and state/local government entity." See bill section 297, page 701, line number 13, ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
According to legislative summary, "The possession of a firearm at school is included as grounds for required expulsion." In addition, "A school district zero-tolerance policy is required to include referral to the criminal or juvenile justice system." http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Creates new section requiring instructional or administrative personnel who know of student-on-student-sexual battery to report the offense to a law enforcement agency having jurisdiction. See bill section 761, page 1416, line 4 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
New section forbids building of K-12 school on or adjacent to known contaminated site unless action has been taken to ascertain that students will not have contact with air, water or soil contaminants at a level that poses a threat to human health or the environment. Requires local board to conduct appropriate due diligence including all appropriate inquiry into the use of property before building a K-12 school on the site. If contaminants are found at levels that pose a threat to human health or the environment, the board must undertake appropriate site rehabilitation before beginning construction on the school site. See bill section 832, page 1539, line 1 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Eliminates date for purgation of certain relocatable classrooms and establishes system by which districts may obtain permission to continue using relocatables as classrooms within the five-year work program. Plan to use existing relocatable facilities must be evaluated and approved by state commissioner by January 1, 2003. According to legislative summary, "Relocatables that do not meet state standards at the end of the work program may no longer be used as classrooms. This does not negate the statutory requirement that relocatable classrooms over 20 years of age that were used as classrooms during the FY 1998-99 must be removed from service by July 1, 2003." See bill section 814, page 1498, line 21 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
To reduce the anonymity of students in large schools, encourages local boards to adopt policies to encourage any school that does not meet the definition of a small school to subdivide into schools-within-a-school. Beginnning July 1, 2003, all plans for new educational facilities to be constructed within a district and reflected in the 5-year school district facilities work plan must be plans for small schools in order to promote increased learning and more effective use of school facilities. Small schools are defined as 500 or under for elementaries; at or under 700 for K-8: 700 or under for middle schools; and 900 or less for high schools. Section 1011.76 creates the Small School District Stabilization Program to assist school districts in rural communities that document economic conditions or other significant community influences that negatively impact the school district. The purpose of the program is to provide technical assistance and financial support to maintain the stability of the educational program in the school district. A rural community means a county with a population of 75,000 or less; or a county with a population of 100,000 or less that is contiguous to a county with a population of 75,000 or less.In order to participate in this program, a school district must be located in a rural area of critical economic concern designated by the Executive Office of the Governor and the district school board must submit a resolution to the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development requesting participation in the program. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Permits collaboration between Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (FSDB) and local districts and boards. Allows FSDB to carry forward funds in the same way as universities. Permits FSDB district status for purposes of teacher certification. See bill section 101, page 258, line 26 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires local superintendent to apprise parents of disabled students of all services available that are appropriate to child's disability. See bill section 151, page 404, line 27 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Standards |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Creates new section briefly describing Sunshine State Standards. See bill section 130, page 351, line number 13 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
State Policymaking |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
This bill, which rewrites the Florida Education Code, modifies the specific powers of the State Board of Education and modifies language relating to department under direction of state board. See bill section 21, page 53, line 18 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: www.leg.state.fl.us |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
Postsec. |
According to legislative summary, "The bill eliminates from current law the collective bargaining limitation on awarding equivalent teaching service." Eliminates requirement that student representative be present at all collective bargaining negotiations. Eliminates exemption giving reimbursement of travel expenses and per diem for student representatives. See bill section 1007, page 1748, line 13 ff: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires the state board to adopt rules that establish uniform core curricula for each state-approved teacher preparation program. Standards must emphasize quality indicators drawn from research, professional literature, recognized guidelines, Florida essential teaching competencies, effective classroom practices, and outcomes of the state system of school improvement and education accountability. Approved programs must require student applicants to have a GPA of at leat 2.5 on a 4.0 scale or have completed requirements for a BA degree with a minimum GPA of 2.5 on a 4.0 scale; to pass the College Level Academic Skills Test, a corresponding component of the National Teachers Examination series, or a similar test; and up to 10% of students admitted may have these requirements waived. For continued approval, 90% of graduates must pass the written examination required by Sec. 1012.56. Program evaluation procedures must include program graudates' satisfaction with instruction and the program's responsiveness to local school districts. Addition criteria for continued program approval for nonpublic institutions must be developed in the same manner and must be based upon significant, objective and quantifiable graduate performance measures. Continued approave for a teacher preparation program is contingent on results of annual reviews, the plans for which incorporate provisions for involving primary stakeholds such as program graduates, district school personnel, classroom teachers, principals, community agencies, and business representatives in the evaluation process. Programs must receive at least a satisfactory rating from public schools and private schools that employ graduates. Each program must report the percent of graduates obtaining full-time teaching employement within the first year of graduation; the average length of stay of graduates in their full-time teaching positions; and satisfaction ratings. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf
Title: S.B. 20E - Education Code Re-Write: Sec. 1004.04
Source: http://www.leg.state.fl.us |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Relates to vocational rehabilitation programs for persons with disabilities; requires the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to develop a plan relating to general vocational rehabilitation programs; provides requirements for the plan; renames the Rehabilitation Advisory Council as the Florida Rehabilitation Council; revises council membership and duties; makes conforming changes to existing provisions.
Title: H.B. 1825
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Relates to recitation of the Declaration of Independence; requires Celebrate Freedom Week to be recognized in the public schools each September; requires a potion of the Declaration of Independence to be recited daily by students during that week.
Title: H.B. 885
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--Site-Based Management |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires school advisory councils to adopt bylaws that are subject to approval by the district school board; requires that the bylaws include provisions for establishing quorums, requiring meeting notices, scheduling meetings, and replacing members.
Title: H.B. 1661
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
An act relating to postsecondary education; revises the membership of state university boards of trustees; provides requirements for university student governments, the adoption of internal procedures and for review of an internal procedure disapproved by a university president; provides procedures for suspension and removal of student government officers; revises the membership of the Board of Trustees of New College of Florida; repeals statue related to the suspension and removal of elected student government officials at state universities and community colleges. (http://www.firn.edu/doe/legislative/pdf/review2002.pdf)
Title: H.B. 353
Source: www.state.fl.us; Lexis-Nexis |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Provides that grants through the Florida Public Student Assistance Grant Program, the Florida Private Student Assistance Grant Program, and the Florida Postsecondary Student Assistance Grant Program may be made to part time degree seeking students; revises provisions relating to the maximum amount of the grants.
Title: S.B. 1914
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
Postsec. |
Increases the amounts paid to beneficiaries of certain law enforcement, correctional, and correctional probation officers and firefighters killed in the performance of their duties and provides for an annual adjustment in the amount of the benefits that are payable; waives educational expenses for spouses and children at certain public educational institutions under certain circumstances.
Title: H.B. 1357
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Prohibits certain persons from entering or loitering within a public or private school safety zone as defined in the act; provides a second degree misdemeanor penalty for violations; relates to persons who do not have legitimate business in the school safety zone.
Title: H.B. 1423
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Exempts all records which identify individual participants in the Florida Retirement System and their account activities under the Public Employee Optional Retirement Program from the public records law to the extent such records need not be revealed in the administration of the Florida Retirement System or in connection with a legal or administrative proceeding.
Title: H.B. 935
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Creates the Retirement System Contributions Clearing Trust Fund to disburse Florida Retirement System funds, to be administered by the Department of Management Services as the retirement clearing trust fund not subject to termination pursuant to the State Constitution; provides for sources of moneys and purposes; provides for exemption from general revenue service charges.
Title: H.B. 1575
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Relates to retirement contribution rates; revises the contribution rates for the Elected Officers' Class, Senior Management Service Class, Regular Class, Special Risk Class, and Special Risk Administrative Support Class; relates to increased retirement contribution rates; makes provisions for social security deductions.
Title: H.B. 1973
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Technology--Funding Issues |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Revises various provisions relating to communications services taxation; provides a transition rule for reduced local communications services tax rates; defines religious institution and educational institution for purposes of sales of communications services; imposes a use tax on purchases of communications services that are otherwise taxable at retail; provides charges for municipal right-of-way; makes provisions regarding the Tax Simplification law.
Title: H.B. 1511
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
2001-157., Requires the designation and publication of district performance grades; revises minimum requirements of the Florida Education Finance Program to include minimum classroom expenditure requirements; authorizes the Legislature to require a school district that fails to meet minimum academic performance standards to meet district minimum classroom expenditure requirements.
Title: H.B. 1545
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Allows a school district that is operating under a Seal of Best Financial Management to levy, by local referendum, additional district school taxes, for a maximum period of 4 years; provides limitations on the uses of such tax revenues.
Title: S.B. 1872
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-16 or P-20 |
Filed as Chapter No 06/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes Florida's K-20 system. Relates to Florida On-Line High School, abolishing the Board of Regents, Board of Community Colleges and the Postsecondary Education Planning Commission, the regulation of independent schools or home education, to preschool, prekindergarten early intervention programs, the First Start Program, and children service needs assessments; creates Sarasota County campus of Florida State University; relates to the Bright Futures Scholarship Testing Program and the Prepaid College Program.
Title: S.B. 1162
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Filed as Chapter No 06/2001 |
P-12 |
2001-180., Creates the Barry Grunow Act; provides death benefits with respect to teachers and school administrators who are killed as the result of an unlawful or intentional act the result of which occurred when such person was engaged in the performance of their assigned duties.
Title: H.B. 279
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Creates the Transition to Teaching Program; encourages participation by postsecondary education institutions and organizations that represent eligible employees or employ eligible applicants.
Title: S.B. 1684
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Filed as Chapter No 05/2001 |
P-12 |
2001-90. Revises provisions relating to the designation of school performance grade categories; revises the basis for such designations; revises provisions relating to statewide annual assessments; revises provisions relating to the use of a statistical system for assessment; requires the Commissioner of Education to establish a schedule for administration of assessments; reenacts provisions relating to procedures for certain supplements for teachers based on certain criteria.
Title: H.B. 1633
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Vetoed 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to prevention of learning problems in young children; authorizes a demonstration program to be called Learning Gateway; creates a steering committee; provides for membership and appointment of steering committee members; establishes duties of the steering committee; authorizes demonstration projects in 3 counties; authorizes designed agencies to share confidential information related to the program.
Title: S.B. 1018
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
Postsec. |
2001-79., Creates Higher Educational Facilities Financing Act; creates the Higher Educational Facilities Financing Authority; provides criteria for and covenants relating to authorization of issuance of notes and revenue bonds not obligating the full faith and credit of the authority, any municipality, the state, or any political subdivision; providing for loans from revenue bonds to participating institutions; providing for trust funds and remedies of bondholders.
Title: S.B. 302
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices |
To governor 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Alters the required ranges of percentage grades that equate to letter grades and grade points.
Title: S.B. 636
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 Preschool |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
The following programs have been repealed by S.B. 1162:
1) Gold Seal Quality care program, a three tiered quality rating system
2) Early screening and intervention program for children in subsidized child care programs
3) Child Development Associate Training Grants for preschool teachers
4) Community resource mother or father programs
5) Public Prekindergarten program
6) First Start Program (birth to three program for children with disabilities and at risk children)
Title: S.B. 1162 - Omnibus
Source: |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
Postsec. |
2001-82., Creates the John M. McKay Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program; provides for eligibility; establishes obligations of school districts and the Department of Education; establishes criteria for private school eligibility; establishes obligations of program participants; provides for funding and payment; limits liability of the state; authorizes the State Board of Education to adopt rules.
Title: S.B. 1180
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Filed as Chapter No 05/2001 |
P-12 |
2001-125., Relates to provisions regarding juvenile justice including juveniles in community based commitment facilities, zero tolerance in school for victimization of students, prohibiting certain persons from attending certain schools or riding on certain school buses, alternate school attendance and teen court diversion programs; provides for background checks for employees of the Department of Juvenile Justice; pertains to other related provisions.
Title: H.B. 267
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires educator professional liability insurance coverage for all full-time instructional personnel; provides for specific appropriations in the General Appropriations Act; extends educator professional liability insurance coverage at cost to all part-time instructional personnel and administrative personnel; requires competitive procurement of any insurance carrier that provides state-funded liability coverage; providing for reversion of certain funds.
Title: H.B. 409
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides for distribution to classroom teachers who provided international baccalaureate instruction certain bonuses; eliminates the requirement that certain instructional personnel make an election to participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Program within 12 months after reaching normal retirement date; authorizes a review by a principal prior to reassigning a teacher; deletes provisions relating to salary supplements provided to teachers selected to teach at certain low-performing schools.
Title: H.B. 1193
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Authorizes school districts to qualify construction projects for funding under Special Facility Construction Account by using school capital outlay surtax in lieu of maximum millage against their nonexempt assessed property value; specifies funding eligibility of certain projects.
Title: H.B. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Rewards |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires each school district with school designated as performance grade category F to permit transfer of teachers with certain qualifications; provides bonuses for certain teachers; requires Education Commissioner to adopt rules to define teaching mastery; renames the Division of Human Resource Development within the Department of Education as the Division of Professional Educators; clarifies requirements for performance-based pay policies.
Title: H.B. 63
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Revises the definition of suspension; revises data used to determine school's performance grade category; revises information required to be included in student code of conduct; specifies types of drills and emergencies for which district school boards are required to develop procedures; requires district school boards to establish model emergency management and emergency preparedness procedures. Requires schools to report data concerning school safety and discipline to the department of education. Includes provisions such as ability of teachers to remove disruptive students from the classroom, liability protection for teachers, reporting of safety incidents, etc.
Title: S.B. 852
Source: Florida House of Representatives |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to health care; relates to kidney dialysis patients; relates to the Children's Medical Services Program; relates to the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program; relates to Biomedical Research Program within the Lawton Chiles Endowment Fund; develops an immunization registry; provides for the electronic transfer of records between health care professionals and other agencies; relates to a person who provides services under a school health services plan for purposes of background screening.
Title: S.B. 2034
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
306., Provides an exemption from ad valorem taxes for facilities used to house charter schools; provides for the cancellation of certain taxes on real property acquired by a charter school governing board; prohibits reprisals against district school board employees as a result of involvement in an application to establish a charter school; requires a charter school to comply with certain cost accounting and reporting requirements.
Title: H.B. 2087
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
171., Implements the 2000-2001 Budget Act; allocates moneys provided for workforce development; provides for budget amendment when program is moved; relates to funding for exceptional student programs; provides for funding Medicaid disproportionate share for mental health hospitals; provides for managed care contract funding; creates foster care review panels; funds libraries and disaster shelters; provides for solid waste and recycling grants; relates to state employee prescription drug company.
Title: H.B. 2147
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
196., Requires instruction in public schools regarding sacrifices made by veterans.
Title: S.B. 172
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Creates the Justin Marksz Teen Safety Driving Act; requires every motor vehicle occupant under the age of 18 to wear a safety belt or child restraint device; prohibits a person under the age of 18 from being a passenger in the front seat; makes additional requirements for learner's permit holders prior to licensing; places additional restrictions on minor drivers.
Title: S.B. 1530
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
82., Recreates Florida School District Review Trust Fund within legislative branch without modification and placing it on the standard review cycle; carries forward current balances and continues current sources and uses thereof.
Title: S.B. 602
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Creates the Task Force on Public School Funding; specifies powers and duties; revises funding for exceptional student education programs; revises provisions relating to instruction outside the required number of school days; revises the exclusion provisions of the computation of district required local effort; requires districts to allocate to each school a specified minimum percentage of the funds generated by the school based on State Education Finance Program.
Title: H.B. 701
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to instructional materials requirements and school boards; prescribes the duty of school boards to provide instructional materials; eliminates requirements for providing weighted and unweighted aggregations; changes reference to Education Commissioner regarding certain duties in selecting and adopting instructional materials; eliminates condition for rejecting bids; eliminates optional escalator clause in certain contracts.
Title: S.B. 850
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to ad valorem taxation; delays the year of implementation of provisions which require that, in connection with renewal of specified exemptions, applicant's and applicant's spouse's social security numbers are required; provides for assessment of tangible personal property after adjustments by value adjustment board; maintains exemption from taxation for property leased from governmental agency if agency continues to use property for exclusively educational purposes.
Title: S.B. 290
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
This bill repeals several sections of law that deal with state education policy. This bill is part of a package (HB 2263, HB 1567, SB 1768 & 1770) which change the educational governance system in Florida.
Title: S.B. 1738
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Creates the Florida Education Governance Reorganization Act of 2000; Creates a governance system that deals with K-20 education. The new board will oversee Florida's education system from Kindergarten to grad school.
Title: H.B. 2263
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
This bill repeals several sections of law that deal with state education policy. This bill is part of a package (HB 2263, HB 1567, SB 1738 & SB 1768) which change the educational governance system in Florida.
Title: S.B. 1770
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the State Board of Education to adopt rules to administer the educational planning and information system of the Department of Education; establishes course requirements for specified courses; requires that a school board's policy authorizing absences for religious instruction or holidays be in accordance with rules of the State Board of Education; relates to classification of tuition; relates to children of deceased or disabled veterans.
Title: S.B. 1870
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Allows health records to be provided to the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit; creates a disproportionate share program for children's hospitals; relates to Medicaid provider agreements with school districts; funds graduate medical education; relates to contracts with prepaid health services providers; increases provider surety bond requirements; prohibits interim rate adjustments based on increased cost of liability insurance; relates to skilled nursing facilities and home health care.
Title: H.B. 2329
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Revises requirements for district grade forgiveness policies. Beginning 2000-2001 school year and thereafter, forgiveness policies limited to replacing a grade of "D" or "F" or the equivalent in required courses with a grade of "C" or higher earned subsequently in the same or comparable course. Applies to elective courses as well. Any course grade not replaced according to a district forgiveness policy shall be included in the calculation of the cumulative grade point average required for graduation.
Title: S.B. 842
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
Postsec. |
Relates to rulemaking authority within the State University System; clarifies the rulemaking authority of the Board of Regents; authorizes a differential out-of-state tuition fee for certain universities; authorizes each university president to adopt rules governing the operation of the university; relates to university-owned patents, copyrights and trademarks; revises admissions standards; requires submission of a test score.
Title: H.B. 1567
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides for award of high school diplomas to certain veterans; provides for award of credit toward high school graduation for courses taken through dual enrollment at a community college; provides for credit toward completion of a home education program through dual enrollment; provides for tuition reimbursement; requires State Board of Education to identify qualifying courses; requires school superintendents and junior college presidents to develop articulated acceleration programs.
Title: H.B. 2105
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Florida On-Line High School; establishes a board of trustees; requires the Board to establish priorities for student admissions; requires distribution of information regarding student enrollment procedures; designates Orange County District School Board as temporary fiscal agent of school; providing requirements for the content and custody of student and employee records.
Title: H.B. 2063
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
, Relates to children; creates a Blind Babies Program; provides for early-intervention education for certain children who are blind or visually impaired and for their parents, families, and caregivers.
Title: S.B. 924
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Teacher Education and Compensation Helps scholarship program to help low-wage early childhood staff obtain further training;relates to health care assistance for children (Medikids); provides for dental benefits under the Florida Kidcare program; provides for assistance to families in evaluating summer recreation and day camp programs; increases family income limits for subsidized child care; relates to federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funding; relates to child care facility licensing.
Title: S.B. 212
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
Postsec. |
Provides for transfer of Florida Prepaid College Program benefits to certain applied technology diploma programs and vocational certificate programs; requires direct-support organization to operate under written contract with the board; allows Florida Prepaid College Board to permit direct-support organizations established under this section to use property, facilities, and personal services of board; provides for investment of Florida Prepaid College Fund trust moneys.
Title: S.B. 130
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Public Involvement |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Creates Community and Faith-based Organizations initiative within Institute on Urban Policy and Commerce at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; provides for initiative to promote community development through partnerships with community and faith-based organizations; specifies activities to be conducted by initiative; provides for financial assistance to community and faith-based organizations; requires the development of grant-selection criteria.
Title: S.B. 406
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
State Policymaking--Politics |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to direct-support organizations; prohibits university, community college, and statewide community college direct-support organizations from making certain political contributions.
Title: S.B. 890
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Student Achievement |
Vetoed 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to education; relates to annual public disclosure reports; encourages certain grading practices; authorizes school districts to abandon certain high school grading practices; authorizes a weighted grading system for purposes of class ranking.
Title: S.B. 990
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to public records; provides access to student records by school readiness coalitions and the Florida Partnership for School Readiness; provides an exemption from public-records requirements for records of children in subsidized child-care programs and school readiness programs.
Title: S.B. 2250
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Vetoed 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to school district revenue; limits the ability of counties to levy school impact fees; provides for the distribution to school boards of certain funds appropriated in the General Appropriations Act; provides a procedure by which counties may amend a prior year's budget.
Title: H.B. 2179
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to school readiness; provides sovereign immunity for school readiness coalitions; revises funding for prekindergarten early intervention programs; authorizes the Governor at the request of the Florida Partnership for School Readiness to request approval of the Administration Commission for transfer of funds by the Department of Children and Family Services and the Department of Education to the partnership for school readiness programs.
Title: S.B. 2088
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides for school district systems to provide instructional personnel at certain juvenile justice programs. requires the provision of educational instruction to youth detained in certain facilities; requires Department of Juvenile Justice and Department of Education to develop a plan for vocational education in juvenile justice facilities; allows full-time teachers in juvenile justice facilities to participate in the critical-teacher-shortage tuition-reimbursement program.
Title: S.B. 2464
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to student standards for participation in interscholastic extracurricular student activities; relates to the grade point average of students participating in interscholastic extracurricular activities; requires execution of a contract if a student falls below a certain cumulative grade point average; amends the bylaws of the governing organization of high school athletics relating to student eligibility.
Title: S.B. 92
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Creates Lottery Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund within the Education Department; provides for sources of funds; provides purposes; provides for annual carry forward of funds; provides for transfer of certain funds to trust fund; proclaims that trust fund is exempt from constitutional termination.
Title: H.B. 627
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |