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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                               Bill No. CS/HB 2147

    Amendment No. 2 (for drafter's use only)

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11  The Committee on Education Appropriations offered the

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14         Amendment (with directory language and title

15  amendments) 

16         On page 6, lines 27 through page 7, line 2,

17  remove from the bill:  all of said words after the period (.)

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20  and insert on page 7, between lines 27 and 28:

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22         (c)  A charter may be modified during its initial term

23  or any renewal term upon the recommendation of the sponsor and

24  the approval of both parties to the agreement.

25         (d)  The governing body of the charter school shall

26  make annual progress reports to its sponsor, which upon

27  verification shall be forwarded to the Commissioner of

28  Education at the same time as other annual school

29  accountability reports.  The report shall contain at least the

30  following information:

31         1.  The charter school's progress towards achieving the

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                                               Bill No. CS/HB 2147

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 1  goals outlined in its charter.

 2         2.  The information required in the annual school

 3  report pursuant to s. 229.592.

 4         3.  Financial records of the charter school, including

 5  revenues and expenditures.

 6         4.  Salary and benefit levels of charter school

 7  employees.

 8         (e)  A sponsor shall ensure that the charter is

 9  innovative and consistent with the state education goals

10  established by s. 229.591.

11         (f)  Upon receipt of the annual report required by

12  paragraph (d), the Department of Education shall provide to

13  the State Board of Education, the Commissioner of Education,

14  the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of

15  Representatives an analysis and comparison of the overall

16  performance of charter school students, to include all

17  students whose scores are counted as part of the

18  norm-referenced assessment tests, versus comparable public

19  school students in the district as determined by

20  norm-referenced assessment tests currently administered in the

21  school district, and, as appropriate, the Florida Writes

22  Assessment Test, the High School Competency Test, and other

23  assessments administered pursuant to s. 229.57(3).

24         (g)  Whenever a municipality has submitted charter

25  applications for the establishment of a charter school feeder

26  pattern (elementary, middle, and senior high schools), and

27  upon approval of each individual charter application by the

28  district school board, such applications will then be

29  designated as one charter for all purposes listed pursuant to

30  this section.

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                               Bill No. CS/HB 2147

    Amendment No. 2 (for drafter's use only)





 1  == D I R E C T O R Y   L A N G U A G E   A M E N D M E N T ==

 2  And the directory language is amended as follows:

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 5  insert:  and a new paragraph (g) is added to subsection (9)

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 9  And the title is amended as follows:

10         On page 1, line 12 after the semicolon (;)

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13         provides for one charter for municipality

14         charter schools comprising one feeder pattern;

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