House Bill 0899

    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                 HB 899

        By Representative Wilson






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to charter schools; amending s.

  3         228.056, F.S.; prohibiting charter schools from

  4         employing an individual who has resigned from a

  5         school district in lieu of disciplinary action

  6         or has been dismissed by any school district;

  7         providing an effective date.

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

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11         Section 1.  Paragraph (f) of subsection (12) of section

12  228.056, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to

13  read:

14         228.056  Charter schools.--

15         (12)  EMPLOYEES OF CHARTER SCHOOLS.--

16         (f)  Teachers employed by or under contract to a

17  charter school shall be certified as required by chapter 231.

18  A charter school may employ or contract with skilled selected

19  noncertified personnel to provide instructional services or to

20  assist instructional staff members as education

21  paraprofessionals in the same manner as defined in chapter

22  231. A charter school may not employ an individual to provide

23  instructional services or to serve as an education

24  paraprofessional if the individual's certification or

25  licensure as an educator is suspended or revoked by this or

26  any other state, or if the individual has resigned from a

27  school district in lieu of disciplinary action or has been

28  dismissed for just cause by any school district. The

29  qualifications of teachers shall be disclosed to parents.

30         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

31  law.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                 HB 899

    713-108-99






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      Prohibits charter schools from employing an individual
  4    who has resigned from a school district in lieu of
      disciplinary action or has been dismissed by any school
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