| 1 | The PreK-12 Committee recommends the following: |
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| 3 | Council/Committee Substitute |
| 4 | Remove the entire bill and insert: |
| 5 | A bill to be entitled |
| 6 | An act relating to the Florida School Recognition Program; |
| 7 | amending s. 1008.36, F.S.; providing for assignment of |
| 8 | school performance grades to certain feeder pattern |
| 9 | schools that do not receive such a grade for purposes of |
| 10 | participation in the program; defining feeder school |
| 11 | pattern; providing that a feeder pattern school shall be |
| 12 | subject to the Opportunity Scholarship Program; providing |
| 13 | an effective date. |
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| 15 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 17 | Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 1008.36, Florida |
| 18 | Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 19 | 1008.36 Florida School Recognition Program.-- |
| 20 | (3) All public schools, including charter schools, that |
| 21 | receive a school grade pursuant to s. 1008.34 are eligible to |
| 22 | participate in the program. For the purpose of this section, a |
| 23 | school serving any combination of kindergarten through grade 3 |
| 24 | students that does not receive a school grade under s. 1008.34 |
| 25 | shall be assigned the school performance grade of the feeder |
| 26 | pattern school designated by the Department of Education and |
| 27 | verified by the school district and shall be eligible to |
| 28 | participate in the program based on that feeder. A feeder school |
| 29 | pattern is defined as a pattern where at least 60 percent of the |
| 30 | students in the school receiving the school grade came from the |
| 31 | same feeder school. In addition, the feeder pattern school shall |
| 32 | be subject to the Opportunity Scholarship Program as defined in |
| 33 | s. 1002.38. |
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| 35 | Notwithstanding statutory provisions to the contrary, incentive |
| 36 | awards are not subject to collective bargaining. |
| 37 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2005. |