Senate Bill sb2384

    Florida Senate - 2002                                  SB 2384

    By Senator Sullivan





    22-1430-02

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to charter schools; amending s.

  3         228.056, F.S.; providing standards for the uses

  4         to which conversion schools may apply certain

  5         revenue; providing an 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.  Paragraph (e) of subsection (14) of section

10  228.056, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

11         228.056  Charter schools.--

12         (14)  REVENUE.--Students enrolled in a charter school,

13  regardless of the sponsorship, shall be funded as if they are

14  in a basic program or a special program, the same as students

15  enrolled in other public schools in the school district.

16  Funding for a chartered developmental research school shall be

17  as provided in s. 228.053(9).

18         (e)1.  Any administrative fee charged by the school

19  district relating to a charter school shall be limited to 5

20  percent of the available funds as defined in paragraph (b) not

21  including capital outlay funds, federal and state grants, or

22  any other funds unless explicitly provided by law. The sponsor

23  shall provide certain administrative and educational services

24  to charter schools at no additional fee. These services shall

25  include contract management services, FTE and data reporting,

26  exceptional student education administration, test

27  administration, processing of teacher certificate data, and

28  information services.

29         2.  With respect to conversion schools, the 5-percent

30  administrative fee must cover all services provided by the

31  sponsor at the same level of service as all of the sponsor's

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    Florida Senate - 2002                                  SB 2384
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  1  other schools receive, including, but not limited to,

  2  discipline and security programs; human-resource development

  3  and educational-leadership training; planning, accountability,

  4  and evaluation services; information systems and technology

  5  services; business services; human-resource services;

  6  instructional services; transportation services; and

  7  exceptional-student-education services. All services must be

  8  offered at the same level of service as all of the sponsor's

  9  other schools receive. If the board of directors so desires,

10  it may contract for those services and may use for that

11  purpose 100 percent of the funding that it is entitled to

12  receive.

13         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2002.

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17    Provides standards for the uses to which conversion
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