Bill > S1198

This bill aims to enhance virtual education in Florida. The key provisions are: 1. Requiring the Florida Virtual School to give enrollment priority to dependent children of active duty military personnel stationed outside the state with Florida as their home of record or state of legal residence. 2. Ensuring that industry certification exams, national assessments, and statewide assessments are available to all Florida Virtual School students, and that school districts provide access to their testing facilities for these exams. 3. Allowing the Florida Virtual School to directly serve and fund dependent children of active duty military personnel, using their state of legal residence certificate to verify residency. 4. Extending the first preference for admission to special academic programs, including the Florida Virtual School, to dependent children of active duty military personnel. 5. Modifying the full-time equivalent (FTE) student calculations for virtual instruction programs and the Florida Virtual School to account for partial completion of required credits or content. 6. Requiring background screening for instructional and non-instructional personnel hired or contracted to work in virtual instruction programs, in addition to traditional public schools and charter schools.

Education

http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/1198