Bill > H0953

Introduced Session

An act relating to charter schools; amending s. 1002.33, F.S.; authorizing state universities and Florida College System institutions to solicit applications for and sponsor charter schools under certain circumstances; authorizing a state university or Florida College System institution to, at its discretion, deny an application for a charter school; revising the contents of an annual report that charter school sponsors must provide to the Department of Education; revising the date by which the department must post a specified annual report; revising provisions relating to Florida College System institutions that are operating charter schools; requiring the board of trustees of a state university or Florida College System institution that is sponsoring a charter school to serve as the local educational agency for such school; prohibiting certain charter school students from being included in specified school district grade calculations; requiring the department to develop a sponsor evaluation framework; providing requirements for the framework; deleting obsolete language; revising the student populations for which a charter school is authorized to limit the enrollment process; providing a calculation for the operational funding for a 26 charter school sponsored by a state university or 27 Florida College System institution; requiring the 28 department to develop a tool for state universities 29 and Florida College System institutions for specified 30 purposes relating to certain funding calculations; 31 providing that such funding must be appropriated to 32 the charter school; providing for capital outlay 33 funding for such schools; conforming provisions to 34 changes made by the act; amending s. 1003.493, F.S.; 35 authorizing a career and professional academy to be 36 offered by a charter school; providing an effective 37 date. 38

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Stan McClain (R)*,  Byron Donalds (R), 

Other Sponsors (1)

Died on Calendar (on 03/14/2020)

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