Senate Bill 0422c1

    Florida Senate - 2000                            CS for SB 422

    By the Committee on Education and Senator Kirkpatrick





    304-1666-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to education; providing an

  3         incentive bonus for certain teachers who teach

  4         at certain at-risk schools; providing an

  5         effective date.

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

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  9         Section 1.  A teacher who is employed at a

10  second-chance school, an alternative school that serves

11  disruptive or violent youth, a school that has a student

12  population of 70 percent or more at-risk students who qualify

13  for free or reduced-price lunch programs, or a school that

14  received a grade of D or F from the Department of Education

15  for the prior school year because it did not exceed the

16  minimum criteria for school performance, shall receive an

17  incentive bonus equal to 10 percent of the prior fiscal year's

18  statewide average salary for classroom teachers if the teacher

19  contractually agrees to work at that school for a minimum of 4

20  additional years and meets three of the following

21  requirements:

22         (1)  Holds a Masters or Doctoral degree;

23         (2)  Meets the National Board of Professional Teachers

24  Standards Certification requirement;

25         (3)  Received an exemplary evaluation for each of the 2

26  prior years; or

27         (4)  Has served as a member of the school advisory

28  council.

29         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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    Florida Senate - 2000                            CS for SB 422
    304-1666-00




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  2                              SB 422

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  4  The Committee Substitute will add to the list of eligible
    schools all schools with 70 percent or more students who
  5  participate in the subsidized meal program, whether or not the
    school also had a grade designation of D or F. The percent
  6  increase in the number of teachers who could try to meet the
    additional eligibility characteristics is 18.3 percent, or an
  7  additional 6,854 teachers in 1999-2000.

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