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11 The Committee on Education (Lynn) recommended the following
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 1. State school choice scholarship programs;
19 public records exemption--All records held by the independent
20 private research organization under section 1002.423, Florida
21 Statutes, relating to the academic level of students and
22 private schools participating in the state school choice
23 scholarship programs, including the Corporate Tax Credit
24 Scholarship Program, as defined in section 220.187, Florida
25 Statutes, or an educational scholarship program established
26 under chapter 1002, Florida Statutes, are exempt from section
27 119.07(1), Florida Statutes, and section 24(a), Article I of
28 the State Constitution. However, an independent private
29 research organization may share records relating to the
30 academic level of students and private schools with the
31 Department of Education, which shall maintain the exemption.
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1 This section is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review
2 Act of 1995 in accordance with section 119.15, Florida
3 Statutes, and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2010, unless
4 reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the
5 Legislature.
6 Section 2. The Legislature finds that it is a public
7 necessity that records held by the independent private
8 research organization relating to the academic level of
9 students and private schools participating in the state
10 school choice scholarship programs, including the Corporate
11 Tax Credit Scholarship Program, as defined in section 220.187,
12 Florida Statutes, or an educational scholarship program
13 established under chapter 1002, Florida Statutes, be made
14 exempt from public records requirements. The exemptions
15 created by this act relating to records held by the
16 independent private research organization relating to the
17 academic level of students protects information of a sensitive
18 personal nature concerning the students, the release of which
19 would cause unwarranted damage to the good name of the
20 students or would jeopardize the safety of the students. The
21 exemption created by this act relating to records held by the
22 independent private research organization relating to the
23 academic level of private schools protects the private schools
24 from injury in the marketplace because the private schools
25 take disadvantaged students under the scholarship programs,
26 these students typically underperform on student assessments,
27 the schools have very few of these students in comparison to
28 their total student population, the scholarship student
29 underperformance would be exacerbated by a small statistical
30 sample of students, the performance of these students may not
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1 its non-scholarship students, and the underperformance would
2 place these schools on an unequal footing in the marketplace
3 compared to private schools that do not take scholarship
4 students, thereby causing the participating private schools to
5 not participate in the educational scholarship programs. The
6 sharing of the records relating to the academic level of
7 students and private schools with the Department of Education
8 would allow the department to effectively administer the
9 educational scholarship programs.
10 Section 3. This act shall take effect on the same date
11 that SB 2480 or similar legislation takes effect, if such
12 legislation is adopted in the same legislative session or an
13 extension thereof and becomes law.
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17 And the title is amended as follows:
18 Delete everything before the enacting clause
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21 A bill to be entitled
22 An act relating to public records exemptions
23 for records held by an independent private
24 research organization under s. 1002.423, F.S.;
25 creating an exemption from public records
26 requirements for records relating to the
27 academic level of students and private schools
28 participating in certain educational
29 scholarship programs; providing for sharing of
30 information under certain limitations;
31 providing for future review and repeal;
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