SENATE AMENDMENT
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Amendment No. 2 Barcode 363058
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11 The Committee on Appropriations recommended the following
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 2. Paragraph (d) is added to subsection (20)
19 of section 230.23, Florida Statutes, to read:
20 230.23 Powers and duties of school board.--The school
21 board, acting as a board, shall exercise all powers and
22 perform all duties listed below:
23 (20) SCHOOL-WITHIN-A-SCHOOL.--In order to reduce the
24 anonymity of students in large schools, the district school
25 board shall adopt policies effective for the 2002-2003 school
26 year, and thereafter, to encourage any school that does not
27 meet the definition of a small school, as established by s.
28 235.2157(2), to subdivide into schools-within-a-school, which
29 shall operate within existing resources. A
30 "school-within-a-school" means an operational program that
31 uses flexible scheduling, team planning, and curricular and
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1 instructional innovation to organize groups of students with
2 groups of teachers as smaller units, so as to functionally
3 operate as a smaller school. Examples of this include, but are
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5 (d) A physical plant design that would house students
6 grouped by the smaller school designation in buildings that
7 surround or are easily accessible to a structure containing
8 core facilities, as defined by rule of the Department of
9 Education, which would be shared by the surrounding buildings.
10 Section 3. Subsections (2) and (4) of section
11 235.2157, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
12 235.2157 Small school requirement.--
13 (2) DEFINITION.--As used in this section, "small
14 school" means:
15 (a) An elementary school with a student population of
16 not more than 500 students.
17 (b) A middle school with a student population of not
18 more than 900 700 students.
19 (c) A high school with a student population of not
20 more than 1,200 900 students.
21 (d) A school serving kindergarten through grade 8 with
22 a student population of not more than 900 700 students.
23 (e) A school serving kindergarten through grade 12
24 with a student population of not more than 1,200 900 students.
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26 A school on a single campus which operates as a
27 school-within-a-school, as defined by s. 230.23(20), shall be
28 considered a small school if each smaller unit located on the
29 single campus meets the requirements of this subsection.
30 (4) EXCEPTIONS.--
31 (a) This section does not apply to plans for new
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1 educational facilities already under architectural contract on
2 July 1, 2003.
3 (b) The Commissioner of Education may approve an
4 exemption to the small-school requirement under any of the
5 following conditions:
6 1. An interlocal agreement between the school district
7 and the local governmental body having geographic jurisdiction
8 requires specified construction of schools under s. 163.3177;
9 2. The school district has submitted documentation
10 that the lowest bid or request for proposals meeting
11 small-schools specifications would exceed the per-pupil
12 station cost defined in s. 235.216; or
13 3. The school district has submitted documentation
14 that school siting is unavailable or excessively priced above
15 appraisal and that to pursue a small school in the particular
16 location would not be in the best interest of the district's
17 students.
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23 And the title is amended as follows:
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27 A bill to be entitled
28 An act relating to education; amending s.
29 232.2463, F.S.; altering the required ranges of
30 percentage grades that equate to letter grades
31 and grade points; amending s. 230.23, F.S.;
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1 providing an example of a
2 school-within-a-school; amending s. 235.2157,
3 F.S.; modifying small-school student-population
4 limits; providing for exceptions to the
5 small-schools requirements; providing an
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