House Bill 0063c1

    Florida House of Representatives - 2000         CS/HBs 63 & 77

        By the Committee on Education Innovation and
    Representatives Lynn, Diaz de la Portilla and Melvin





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to instructional personnel;

  3         amending s. 230.23, F.S.; requiring each school

  4         district with a school designated as

  5         performance grade category "F" to permit

  6         transfer of teachers with certain

  7         qualifications; providing supplements for

  8         certain teachers; requiring the Commissioner of

  9         Education to adopt rules; providing an

10         effective date.

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

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14         Section 1.  Paragraph (c) of subsection (16) of section

15  230.23, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

16         230.23  Powers and duties of school board.--The school

17  board, acting as a board, shall exercise all powers and

18  perform all duties listed below:

19         (16)  IMPLEMENT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT AND

20  ACCOUNTABILITY.--Maintain a system of school improvement and

21  education accountability as provided by statute and State

22  Board of Education rule. This system of school improvement and

23  education accountability shall be consistent with, and

24  implemented through, the district's continuing system of

25  planning and budgeting required by this section and ss.

26  229.555 and 237.041. This system of school improvement and

27  education accountability shall include, but is not limited to,

28  the following:

29         (c)  Assistance and intervention.--Develop a 2-year

30  plan of increasing individualized assistance and intervention

31  for each school in danger of not meeting state standards or

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  1  making adequate progress, as defined pursuant to statute and

  2  State Board of Education rule, toward meeting the goals and

  3  standards of its approved school improvement plan.  A school

  4  that is identified as being in performance grade category "D"

  5  pursuant to s. 229.57 is in danger of failing and must be

  6  provided assistance and intervention. Each school district in

  7  which there is a school designated as performance grade

  8  category "F" shall develop a plan to encourage teachers with

  9  demonstrated mastery in improving student performance to

10  remain at or transfer to that school. If a classroom teacher,

11  as defined by s. 228.041(9)(a), who meets the definition of

12  teaching mastery developed according to the provisions of this

13  paragraph requests assignment to a school with grade category

14  "F," the school board and the principal shall make every

15  practical effort to grant the request. Effective July 1, 2001,

16  a classroom teacher whose effectiveness has been proven based

17  upon positive learning gains of his or her students as

18  measured by annual FCAT assessments pursuant to s. 229.57, is

19  eligible for an annual supplement of at least $1,000, as

20  provided for annually in the General Appropriations Act, each

21  year he or she teaches at a school designated as performance

22  grade category "F." In the absence of an FCAT assessment,

23  measurement of learning gains of students shall be as provided

24  in s. 229.57(12). The supplement received under this paragraph

25  shall be in addition to any supplement or bonus received

26  because of other local or state pay incentives based on

27  performance. The Commissioner of Education shall adopt rules

28  to determine the measures that define "teaching mastery" for

29  purposes of this paragraph. District school boards are

30  encouraged to prioritize the expenditures of funds received

31  from specific appropriation 110A of the General Appropriations

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  1  Act of fiscal year 1999-2000 to improve student performance in

  2  schools that receive a performance grade category designation

  3  of "D" or "F."

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

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