House Bill 1751e1

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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to education; amending s.

  3         228.056, F.S., relating to charter schools;

  4         prohibiting the use of certain tax revenues for

  5         operational expenses of charter schools;

  6         creating s. 228.0561, F.S.; authorizing charter

  7         conversion municipal subdistricts; providing

  8         requirements; providing for areas of municipal

  9         jurisdiction; providing an effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (13) of section

14  228.056, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

15         228.056  Charter schools.--

16         (13)  REVENUE.--Students enrolled in a charter school,

17  regardless of the sponsorship, shall be funded as if they are

18  in a basic program or a special program, the same as students

19  enrolled in other public schools in the school district.

20  Funding for a chartered developmental research school shall be

21  as provided in s. 228.053(9).

22         (b)  The basis for the agreement for funding students

23  enrolled in a charter school shall be the sum of the school

24  district's operating funds from the Florida Education Finance

25  Program as provided in s. 236.081 and the General

26  Appropriations Act, including gross state and local funds,

27  discretionary lottery funds, and funds from the school

28  district's current operating discretionary millage levy;

29  divided by total funded weighted full-time equivalent students

30  in the school district; multiplied by the weighted full-time

31  equivalent students for the charter school.  Charter schools


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  1  whose students or programs meet the eligibility criteria in

  2  law shall be entitled to their proportionate share of

  3  categorical program funds included in the total funds

  4  available in the Florida Education Finance Program by the

  5  Legislature, including transportation.  Total funding for each

  6  charter school will be recalculated during the year to reflect

  7  the revised calculations under the Florida Education Finance

  8  Program by the state and the actual weighted full-time

  9  equivalent students reported by the charter school during the

10  full-time equivalent student survey periods designated by the

11  Commissioner of Education. The taxation authority of any

12  county, municipality, or special district shall not be used to

13  provide additional operational revenues to any charter school.

14         Section 2.  Section 228.0561, Florida Statutes, is

15  created to read:

16         228.0561  Charter conversion municipal

17  subdistricts.--Pursuant to s. 228.056, but notwithstanding s.

18  228.056(8)(h), upon majority vote of the eligible voters

19  voting and compliance with s. 228.056, a municipality or

20  municipalities with a total population of more than 25,000

21  residents may present to the district school board a school or

22  group of schools to be governed by the charter school

23  governing body which is appointed by the governing body of the

24  municipality, the governing bodies of the municipalities, or

25  the governing body of an unincorporated area, or any

26  combination thereof. Unincorporated areas adjacent to

27  incorporated municipalities may be included in the area of

28  municipal jurisdiction for the purposes of this section if the

29  governing bodies of the municipality or municipalities and the

30  county in which the area is located agree on the boundaries of

31  such additional areas. Upon receipt of a request for a charter


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  1  municipal subdistrict in accordance with this section, if

  2  approved by the district school board pursuant to s. 228.056,

  3  the district school board shall expeditiously authorize the

  4  requested charter.

  5         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1 of the

  6  year in which enacted.

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