| 1 | Representative(s) Bendross-Mindingall and Jennings offered the |
| 2 | following: |
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| 4 | Amendment (with ballot statement amendment) |
| 5 | Remove line(s) 53-86 and insert: |
| 6 | (b) By 2010, the average minimum salary for full-time |
| 7 | public school teachers shall be no less than the national |
| 8 | average beginning pay for public school teachers, as provided by |
| 9 | law. By 2010, the average salary for full-time public school |
| 10 | teachers shall be no less than the national average, as provided |
| 11 | by law. The increases in the beginning and average full-time |
| 12 | public school teacher salaries shall be independent of employee |
| 13 | benefits and shall not alter, jeopardize, or decrease existing |
| 14 | employee benefits. Payment of the costs associated with |
| 15 | increasing beginning and average teacher pay is the |
| 16 | responsibility of the state and not of school districts. Nothing |
| 17 | in this subsection shall impair collective bargaining. |
| 18 | (c)(b) Every four-year old child in Florida shall be |
| 19 | provided by the State a high quality prekindergarten pre- |
| 20 | kindergarten learning opportunity in the form of an early |
| 21 | childhood development and education program which shall be |
| 22 | voluntary, high quality, free, and delivered according to |
| 23 | professionally accepted standards. An early childhood |
| 24 | development and education program means an organized program |
| 25 | designed to address and enhance each child's ability to make age |
| 26 | appropriate progress in an appropriate range of settings in the |
| 27 | development of language and cognitive capabilities and |
| 28 | emotional, social, regulatory and moral capacities through |
| 29 | education in basic skills and such other skills as the |
| 30 | Legislature may determine to be appropriate. |
| 31 | (d)(c) The early childhood education and development |
| 32 | programs provided by reason of subsection (c) subparagraph (b) |
| 33 | shall be implemented no later than the beginning of the 2005 |
| 34 | school year through funds generated in addition to those used |
| 35 | for existing education, health, and development programs. |
| 36 | Existing education, health, and development programs are those |
| 37 | funded by the State as of January 1, 2002, that provided for |
| 38 | child or adult education, health care, or development. |
| 39 | ARTICLE XII |
| 40 | SCHEDULE |
| 41 | SECTION 26. Maximum class size and beginning and average |
| 42 | teacher salaries.--The amendment to Section 1 of Article IX |
| 43 | relating to public education, which provides that maximum class |
| 44 | size requirements shall be based on the district average number |
| 45 | of students who are assigned to a teacher in specified grades |
| 46 | and which establishes beginning and average teacher salaries, |
| 47 | shall take effect July 1 following approval by the electors. |
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| 49 | ======= B A L L O T S T A T E M E N T A M E N D M E N T ====== |
| 50 | Remove line(s) 90-102 and insert: |
| 51 | REVISING MAXIMUM CLASS SIZE REQUIREMENTS AND |
| 52 | ESTABLISHING BEGINNING AND AVERAGE TEACHER SALARIES |
| 53 | Proposes an amendment to Section 1 of Article IX and the |
| 54 | creation of Section 26 of Article XII of the State Constitution |
| 55 | to provide that maximum class size requirements shall be based |
| 56 | on the district average number of students who are assigned to a |
| 57 | teacher in specified grades; to move forward the date for |
| 58 | implementation of the class size requirements; to require that |
| 59 | by 2010, the average minimum salary for full-time public school |
| 60 | teachers shall be no less than the national average beginning |
| 61 | pay for public school teachers, as provided by law; to require |
| 62 | that, by 2010, the average salary for full-time public school |
| 63 | teachers shall be no less than the national average, as provided |
| 64 | by law; to provide that the increases in the beginning and |
| 65 | average full-time public school teacher salaries shall be |
| 66 | independent of employee benefits and shall not alter, |
| 67 | jeopardize, or decrease existing employee benefits; to provide |
| 68 | that payment of the costs associated with increasing beginning |
| 69 | and average teacher pay is the responsibility of the state and |
| 70 | not of school districts; to provide that nothing in this |
| 71 | amendment providing for beginning and average teacher salaries |
| 72 | shall impair collective bargaining; and to provide for taking |
| 73 | effect July 1 following approval by the electors. |