Bill > H7043

This bill establishes a performance-based incentive program for Florida College System institutions, rewarding them based on metrics like retention, completion, and post-graduation employment rates, with funding distributed based on institutional size and performance. It also revises the preeminent state research universities program by updating academic and research excellence standards, introducing an "emerging preeminent" designation, and clarifying funding distribution for these universities, while also modifying the State University System's performance-based incentive program to include new metrics like graduate employment rates and affordability. Additionally, the bill creates the Florida Best and Brightest Teacher Scholarship Program, offering scholarships to classroom teachers who achieved at or above the 80th percentile on the SAT or ACT and are rated as highly effective, and it also clarifies provisions regarding educator liability insurance, ensuring students in teacher preparation programs are notified of its availability and that school districts cannot require them to purchase it as a condition for clinical field experiences.