Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
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11 The Committee on Education Appropriations (Lynn) recommended
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
15 Delete everything after the resolving clause
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18 That the following amendment to Section 1 of Article IX
19 and the creation of Section 26 of Article XII of the State
20 Constitution are agreed to and shall be submitted to the
21 electors of this state for approval or rejection at the next
22 general election or at an earlier special election
23 specifically authorized by law for that purpose:
24 ARTICLE IX
25 EDUCATION
26 SECTION 1. Public education.--
27 (a) The education of children is a fundamental value
28 of the people of the State of Florida. It is, therefore, a
29 paramount duty of the state to make adequate provision for the
30 education of all children residing within its borders.
31 Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform,
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1 efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free
2 public schools that allows students to obtain a high quality
3 education and for the establishment, maintenance, and
4 operation of institutions of higher learning and other public
5 education programs that the needs of the people may require.
6 To assure that children attending public schools obtain a high
7 quality education, the legislature shall make adequate
8 provision to ensure that, by the beginning of the 2007 2010
9 school year, there are a sufficient number of classrooms so
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11 (1) The district average maximum number of students
12 who are assigned to each teacher who is teaching in public
13 school classrooms for prekindergarten through grade 3 does not
14 exceed 18 students;
15 (2) The district average maximum number of students
16 who are assigned to each teacher who is teaching in public
17 school classrooms for grades 4 through 8 does not exceed 22
18 students; and
19 (3) The district average maximum number of students
20 who are assigned to each teacher who is teaching in public
21 school classrooms for grades 9 through 12 does not exceed 25
22 students.
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24 The class size requirements of this subsection do not apply to
25 extracurricular classes. Payment of the costs associated with
26 reducing class size to meet these requirements is the
27 responsibility of the state and not of local school schools
28 districts. Beginning with the 2003-2004 fiscal year, the
29 legislature shall provide sufficient funds to reduce the
30 district average class size number of students in each
31 classroom by at least two students per year until the district
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1 average class size maximum number of students per classroom
2 does not exceed the requirements of this subsection.
3 (b) The minimum salary for each public school teacher
4 shall be provided by law but must be no less than $35,000 and
5 must be higher than the national average beginning salary for
6 public school teachers.
7 (c)(b) Every four-year old child in Florida shall be
8 provided by the State a high quality prekindergarten
9 pre-kindergarten learning opportunity in the form of an early
10 childhood development and education program which shall be
11 voluntary, high quality, free, and delivered according to
12 professionally accepted standards. An early childhood
13 development and education program means an organized program
14 designed to address and enhance each child's ability to make
15 age appropriate progress in an appropriate range of settings
16 in the development of language and cognitive capabilities and
17 emotional, social, regulatory and moral capacities through
18 education in basic skills and such other skills as the
19 Legislature may determine to be appropriate.
20 (d)(c) The early childhood education and development
21 programs provided by reason of subsection (c) subparagraph (b)
22 shall be implemented no later than the beginning of the 2005
23 school year through funds generated in addition to those used
24 for existing education, health, and development programs.
25 Existing education, health, and development programs are those
26 funded by the State as of January 1, 2002, that provided for
27 child or adult education, health care, or development.
28 ARTICLE XII
29 SCHEDULE
30 SECTION 26. Maximum class size and minimum teacher
31 salary.--The amendment to Section 1 of Article IX relating to
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1 public education, which provides that maximum class size
2 requirements shall be based on the district average number of
3 students who are assigned to a teacher in specified grades and
4 which establishes a minimum teacher salary, shall take effect
5 July 1 following its approval by the electors.
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7 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
8 placed on the ballot:
9 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
10 ARTICLE IX, SECTION 1; ARTICLE XII, SECTION 26
11 REVISING MAXIMUM CLASS SIZE REQUIREMENTS AND
12 ESTABLISHING A MINIMUM TEACHER SALARY.--Proposing an amendment
13 to Section 1 of Article IX and the creation of Section 26 of
14 Article XII of the State Constitution to provide that maximum
15 class size requirements shall be based on the district average
16 number of students who are assigned to a teacher in specified
17 grades; to move forward the date for implementation of the
18 class size requirements; to require that the minimum salary
19 for each public school teacher shall be no less than $35,000
20 and shall be higher than the national average beginning salary
21 for public school teachers as provided by law; and to provide
22 for taking effect July 1 following approval by the electors.
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26 And the title is amended as follows:
27 Delete everything before the resolving clause
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29 and insert:
30 Senate Joint Resolution No. ____
31 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to
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1 Section 1 of Article IX of the State
2 Constitution, relating to public education, to
3 amend the class-size requirements for students
4 in grades prekindergarten through 12 and to
5 prescribe minimum salary standards for public
6 school teachers, and the creation of Section 26
7 of Article XII of the State Constitution to
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