Update: Details on HB7055 - To Stop, or Not to Stop the Train. You Decide.
SUMMARY ANALYSIS The bill:
Establishes the Hope Scholarship Program for students subjected to certain misconduct in public schools.
Establishes Reading Education Scholarship Accounts for struggling readers in grades 3-5.
Streamlines and strengthens monitoring and oversight provisions for private school scholarship programs.
Expands allowable expenditures of scholarship funds in the Gardiner Scholarship Program.
Requires the Florida Department of Education (DOE) to develop templates to help teachers develop curricula.
Requires paper-based statewide, standardized English language arts and math assessments for grades 7-8.
Requires integration of social studies content into reading and writing prompts on state assessments.
Requires released assessment items to be in an electronic format that facilitates sharing of assessment items.
Provides Florida Virtual School (FLVS) students with access to district testing facilities for certain assessments.
Allows charter schools to provide educational leadership preparation programs.
Allows charter schools to delay opening up to 3 years.
Provides charter schools with access to surplus property on the same basis as public schools.
Clarifies requirement for distributing discretionary capital outlay millage revenues with charter schools.
Requires school districts to provide background screening results for charter school employees within 14 days.
Revises eligibility requirements for high performing charter schools and allows replication of up to two schools.
Clarifies provisions relating to charter school terminations and consolidations.
Expands the Principal Autonomy Pilot Program Initiative to a statewide program.
Allows certain principals to manage multiple district schools that operate under an independent governing board.
Expands a superintendent duties to recommend to approve schools to operate under such a governing board, subject to school board approval.
Revises requirements related to home school and private school dual enrollment cost.
Establishes and enhances school district ethical and financial accountability and transparency requirements.
Requires school boards to provide financial efficiency data and fiscal trend information.
Requires DOE to provide a web-based tool to identify high-performing, efficient schools and school districts.
Establishes anti-nepotism provisions for district school superintendents.
Revises requirements for the distribution of Title I funds.
Requires DOE to conduct outreach on apprenticeship programs to include military veterans.
Exempts military personnel, veterans, and spouses from initial educator certification application and exam fees.
Allows JROTC instructors to participate in the Teachers Classroom Supply Assistance Program.
Provides FLVS enrollment priority for children of Florida resident military personnel who are stationed out of state.
Designates March 25 as Medal of Honor Day
Provides that certain instruction on Medal of Honor recipients satisfies specified instructional requirements.
Requires employee organizations that represent instructional personnel to recertify in certain circumstances.
The bill appropriates for the 2018-2019 fiscal year the sum of $19,350,000 in recurring funds from the General Revenue Fund and the sum of $850,000 in nonrecurring funds from the General Revenue Fund to implement the provisions of this act. The bill conforms to appropriations provided in PCB APC 18-01 as the funding for the Florida Education Finance Program is contingent upon its passage. The bill takes effect on July 1, 2018.
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