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By Senator Baker
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to career education; creating
3 the "SUCCEED, FLORIDA! Initiative"; amending s.
4 1007.23, F.S.; replacing the phrase "workforce
5 development" with the phrase "workforce
6 education"; requiring the Department of
7 Education annually to identify workforce
8 education courses and programs for statewide
9 articulation and to propose an articulation
10 agreement; amending s. 1009.50, F.S.; providing
11 for students who are enrolled in certain
12 postsecondary career certificate programs to
13 qualify for the Florida Public Student
14 Assistance Grant Program; creating s. 1009.521,
15 F.S.; creating the GED Success Scholarship
16 Program; prescribing the amount of a
17 scholarship; providing procedures; providing
18 requirements for eligibility; requiring reports
19 to the department; requiring a financial audit
20 of each institution's administration of the
21 program; authorizing the State Board of
22 Education to adopt rules; creating s. 1011.802,
23 F.S.; creating the School District Career
24 Center Facility Enhancement Challenge Grant
25 Program; providing legislative intent and
26 findings; providing purposes of the program;
27 providing for direct-support organizations to
28 solicit private funds; providing for state
29 matching funds; requiring the establishment of
30 a separate career center capital facilities
31 matching account; prohibiting the use of
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1 certain funding sources to provide state
2 matching funds; providing criteria for a school
3 district's eligibility to participate in the
4 program; providing for the disposition of
5 private donations if a project is terminated;
6 requiring the State Board of Education annually
7 to submit to the Legislature a list of eligible
8 projects and a budget request that includes the
9 recommended completion schedule for each
10 project; providing prerequisites for
11 eligibility; providing for the disposition of
12 unexpended project funds; providing that
13 certain elements of the project are the
14 property of the school district; allowing a
15 facility to be named for a donor; creating pt.
16 VI of ch. 1011, F.S., consisting of ss.
17 1011.96, 1011.97, and 1011.98, F.S.; creating
18 the SUCCEED, FLORIDA! Crucial Professionals
19 Program; providing purposes; requiring the
20 department to issue requests for proposals and
21 to establish application procedures,
22 guidelines, accountability measures, and
23 timelines; providing requirements for the
24 contents of a grant proposal; providing
25 requirements for participants; requiring grant
26 recipients to report to the department;
27 requiring the State Board of Education to
28 monitor compliance with the accountability
29 requirements; creating the SUCCEED, FLORIDA!
30 Career Paths Program; providing purposes;
31 providing application procedures; requiring
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1 that curriculum and content developed in a
2 career and professional academy be made
3 available to all school districts; creating the
4 SUCCEED, FLORIDA! Critical Jobs Program;
5 providing purposes; providing criteria for
6 distributing funds; requiring the department to
7 issue requests for proposals and to establish
8 application procedures, guidelines,
9 accountability measures, and timelines;
10 providing requirements for the contents of a
11 grant proposal; requiring the department to
12 review the proposals and determine the funding
13 to be provided and to prioritize recipients as
14 specified; providing an effective date.
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16 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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18 Section 1. This act may be cited as the "SUCCEED,
19 FLORIDA! Initiative."
20 Section 2. Subsection (3) of section 1007.23, Florida
21 Statutes, is amended to read:
22 1007.23 Statewide articulation agreement.--
23 (3) The articulation agreement must guarantee the
24 statewide articulation of appropriate workforce education
25 development programs and courses between school districts and
26 community colleges and specifically provide that every applied
27 technology diploma graduate must be granted the same amount of
28 credit upon admission to an associate in science degree or
29 associate in applied science degree program unless it is a
30 limited access program. Preference for admission must be given
31 to graduates who are residents of Florida. By July 1, 2006,
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1 and annually as necessary thereafter, the department shall
2 identify appropriate school district and community college
3 workforce education courses and programs for statewide
4 articulation and shall propose an agreement for those
5 programs.
6 Section 3. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section
7 1009.50, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
8 1009.50 Florida Public Student Assistance Grant
9 Program; eligibility for grants.--
10 (2)(a) State student assistance grants through the
11 program may be made only to degree-seeking students who enroll
12 in at least 6 semester hours, or the equivalent per term, or
13 to students who are enrolled in a postsecondary career
14 certificate program of at least 450 hours, and who meet the
15 general requirements for student eligibility as provided in s.
16 1009.40, except as otherwise provided in this section. The
17 grants shall be awarded annually for the amount of
18 demonstrated unmet need for the cost of education and may not
19 exceed an amount equal to the average prior academic year cost
20 of tuition fees and other registration fees for 30 credit
21 hours at state universities or such other amount as specified
22 in the General Appropriations Act, to any recipient. A
23 demonstrated unmet need of less than $200 shall render the
24 applicant ineligible for a state student assistance grant.
25 Recipients of the grants must have been accepted at a state
26 university, school district technical center, or community
27 college authorized by Florida law. A student is eligible for
28 the award for 110 percent of the number of credit hours
29 required to complete the program in which enrolled, except as
30 otherwise provided in s. 1009.40(3).
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1 Section 4. Section 1009.521, Florida Statutes, is
2 created to read:
3 1009.521 GED Success Scholarship.--
4 (1) The Legislature finds that students who
5 successfully complete a GED program, receive a high school
6 diploma, and enroll in postsecondary workforce education have
7 a greater earning potential than students who do not enroll in
8 postsecondary education. In order to encourage these students
9 to attend a regionally or nationally accredited public or
10 private technical center or community college program that
11 trains for high-demand, high-skill, or high-wage careers,
12 there is established a GED Success Scholarship to be
13 administered by the department pursuant to the requirements of
14 this section and rules of the State Board of Education.
15 (2) The Legislature may appropriate funds annually to
16 the GED Success Scholarship Program. The department shall
17 allocate any funds appropriated each year to eligible students
18 in increments of one $500 scholarship per eligible student.
19 Receipt of a GED Success Scholarship is not an entitlement and
20 is contingent on the appropriation of funds each year to
21 provide such scholarships. The department must award the
22 scholarships to eligible recipients on a first-come,
23 first-served basis until all funds that the Legislature has
24 specifically designated for the GED Success Scholarship for
25 that fiscal year have been allocated.
26 (3) In order to be eligible to receive a scholarship
27 under this section, an applicant must:
28 (a) Be a Florida resident for tuition purposes
29 pursuant to s. 1009.21.
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1 (b) Have successfully completed all sections of the
2 GED tests which result in the award of a State of Florida high
3 school diploma.
4 (c) Be enrolled in an accredited public or private
5 technical center or community college in a program that
6 provides a career path to, or trains for, high-demand,
7 high-wage, or high-skill occupations or other occupations
8 identified each year by Enterprise Florida or Workforce
9 Florida, Inc., as critical or targeted occupations in the
10 state.
11 (d) Submit a scholarship application using the Florida
12 Financial Aid Application. The application period begins
13 December 1 for the following school year and closes October 1
14 of the year in which funding is requested.
15 (4)(a) Payment of a GED Success Scholarship shall be
16 transmitted to the director or president of the eligible
17 institution, or his or her representative, in advance of the
18 registration period. The institution shall notify students of
19 the amount of their respective awards.
20 (b) Each participating institution shall report to the
21 department by the established date the number of eligible
22 students to whom scholarship moneys were disbursed each
23 academic term and any necessary demographic and eligibility
24 data for such students.
25 (c) Each nationally or regionally accredited private
26 institution that receives moneys through the GED Success
27 Scholarship Program shall prepare an annual report that
28 includes a financial audit, conducted by an independent
29 certified public accountant, of the institution's
30 administration of the program and a complete accounting of the
31 moneys allocated to the institution for the program. The
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1 report must be submitted to the department no later than March
2 1 of each year.
3 (5) The State Board of Education may adopt rules
4 relating to the administration of this scholarship program,
5 pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54.
6 Section 5. Section 1011.802, Florida Statutes, is
7 created to read:
8 1011.802 School District Career Center Facility
9 Enhancement Challenge Grant Program.--
10 (1) The Legislature recognizes that state-of-the-art,
11 well-equipped school district career centers enable students
12 to complete their education better prepared to meet the
13 current demands of the workforce. It further recognizes that
14 business and industry partnerships that provide facilities and
15 equipment strengthen and enhance career centers and the
16 education that students who are enrolled in those centers
17 receive. The Legislature further recognizes that students in
18 school district career centers could benefit from facility
19 expansions and enhancements in addition to those currently
20 available from existing revenue sources. The Legislature also
21 recognizes that there are sources of private support that, if
22 matched with state and local support, can assist in
23 constructing and equipping facilities that will further
24 strengthen the commitment of business and industry in
25 promoting excellence at each career center. Therefore, it is
26 the intent of the Legislature to establish a program to
27 provide the opportunity for each school district career
28 center, through a direct-support organization, to receive and
29 match challenge grants for instructional capital facilities
30 within the career center.
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1 (2) There is established the School District Career
2 Center Facility Enhancement Challenge Grant Program for the
3 purpose of assisting career centers in building high-priority
4 instructional and community-related capital facilities
5 consistent with s. 1001.44, including common areas connecting
6 such facilities. The direct-support organizations that serve
7 the school districts may solicit from private sources gifts
8 that are eligible for state matching funds for capital
9 facilities. For purposes of this section, private sources of
10 funds may not include any federal or state government funds
11 that a school district receives.
12 (3) The School District Career Center Facilities
13 Enhancement Challenge Grant Program shall provide funds to
14 match private contributions for the development of
15 high-priority instructional and community-related capital
16 facilities, including common areas connecting such facilities,
17 within the career centers.
18 (4) Within the direct-support organization of each
19 school district there must be established a separate career
20 center capital facilities matching account for the purpose of
21 providing matching funds from the direct-support
22 organization's unrestricted donations or other private
23 contributions for the development of high-priority
24 instructional and community-related capital facilities,
25 including common areas connecting such facilities. The
26 Legislature shall appropriate funds for distribution to a
27 school district after the direct-support organization and the
28 school district have certified matching funds to the
29 department. The Public Education Capital Outlay and Debt
30 Service Trust Fund may not be used as the source of the state
31 match for private contributions.
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1 (5) A project may not be initiated unless all private
2 funds for planning, constructing, and equipping the facility
3 have been received and deposited in the direct-support
4 organization's matching account and the state's share for the
5 minimum amount of funds needed to begin the project has been
6 appropriated by the Legislature. The Legislature may
7 appropriate the state's matching funds in one or more fiscal
8 years for planning, constructing, and equipping an eligible
9 facility. However, these requirements do not preclude the
10 school district or direct-support organization from expending
11 available funds from private sources to develop a prospectus,
12 including preliminary architectural schematics or models, for
13 use in its efforts to raise private funds for a facility.
14 Additionally, any private sources of funds expended for this
15 purpose are eligible for state matching funds if the project
16 is awarded grant funds under this section.
17 (6) To be eligible to participate in the School
18 District Career Center Facility Enhancement Challenge Grant
19 Program, a school district, through its direct-support
20 organization, must raise a contribution equal to one-third of
21 the total cost of a facility construction project from private
22 sources, which must be matched by a state appropriation equal
23 to the amount raised for a facility construction project,
24 subject to the General Appropriations Act. Another one-third
25 of the total cost must be provided from the school district's
26 local capital funds.
27 (7) If the state's share of the required match is
28 insufficient to meet the requirements of subsection (6), the
29 school district must renegotiate the terms of the contribution
30 with the donors. If the project is terminated, each private
31 donation, plus accrued interest, shall revert to the
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1 direct-support organization for remittance to the donor at the
2 donor's discretion.
3 (8) By September 1 of each year, the State Board of
4 Education shall transmit to the Legislature, in the capital
5 outlay budget request, a list of projects that meet all
6 criteria for eligibility to participate in the School District
7 Career Center Facility Enhancement Challenge Grant Program and
8 a budget request that includes the recommended schedule
9 necessary to complete each project.
10 (9) In order for a project to be eligible under this
11 program, it must be recommended in an educational plant survey
12 prepared under s. 1013.31 and included in the school
13 district's 5-year capital improvement plan, and it must
14 receive prior approval from the State Board of Education.
15 (10) Any project funds that are unexpended after a
16 project is completed shall revert to the school district's
17 direct-support organization capital facilities matching
18 account. Fifty percent of the unexpended funds shall be
19 reserved for the school district career center that originally
20 received the private contribution for the purpose of providing
21 private matching funds for future facility construction
22 projects as provided in this section. The balance of such
23 unexpended funds shall be returned to the General Revenue
24 Fund.
25 (11) The surveys, architectural plans, facility, and
26 equipment shall be the property of the participating school
27 district. A facility constructed under this section may be
28 named in honor of a donor at the discretion of the local
29 school board.
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1 Section 6. Part VI of chapter 1011, Florida Statutes,
2 consisting of sections 1011.96, 1011.97, and 1011.98, Florida
3 Statutes, is created to read:
4 PART VI
5 SUCCEED, FLORIDA!
6 1011.96 SUCCEED, FLORIDA! Crucial Professionals
7 Program.--
8 (1) The SUCCEED, FLORIDA! Crucial Professionals
9 Program is established to award funds to nationally or
10 regionally accredited public and private postsecondary
11 educational institutions in the state on a competitive basis
12 to offer programs that meet the critical workforce needs of
13 the state and to maximize the number of diplomas,
14 certificates, and degrees that are awarded to postsecondary
15 education students in fields vital to the residents of the
16 state. The Legislature shall annually determine in the General
17 Appropriations Act the programs that are eligible for this
18 funding.
19 (2) Funds appropriated by the Legislature to the
20 department for the SUCCEED, FLORIDA! Crucial Professionals
21 Program shall be distributed as provided in this section.
22 (3) The department shall develop and annually issue a
23 request for proposals. The department shall establish
24 application procedures, guidelines, accountability measures,
25 and timelines for implementing the grant program.
26 (4) A proposal for a grant authorized pursuant to this
27 section must:
28 (a) Indicate the number of students to be served, the
29 length of the proposed program, and the total projected cost
30 to students and the state. Funds for a grant provided pursuant
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1 to this section must be used to support new students and not
2 to supplant current funding of students.
3 (b) Document the workforce need to be addressed.
4 (c) Demonstrate a pool of qualified applicants.
5 (d) Include a plan to increase the graduation rate of
6 minorities and the presence of minorities in the workforce.
7 (e) Be submitted by an accredited public postsecondary
8 educational institution in the state which provides
9 postsecondary instruction in a field specified in the priority
10 list established pursuant to subsection (1).
11 (5) For purposes of this section, postsecondary
12 educational institutions include school district career
13 centers that offer postsecondary programs.
14 (6) Grant recipients must enter into a contract with
15 the state to produce a specific number of graduates in the
16 designated program within a specific time period. Grant
17 recipients must submit to the department periodic reports that
18 document compliance with the accountability measures
19 established by the department. The State Board of Education
20 shall monitor compliance with the accountability requirements.
21 1011.97 SUCCEED, FLORIDA! Career Paths Program.--
22 (1) The SUCCEED, FLORIDA! Career Paths Program is
23 established as a grant program within the Department of
24 Education to provide startup grants to offset the
25 implementation costs of partnerships between a district school
26 board or the Florida Virtual School and one or more
27 businesses, industries, or postsecondary educational
28 institutions to operate a career and professional academy
29 pursuant to s. 1014.21.
30 (2) A district school board or the Florida Virtual
31 School may apply to the department for a grant, which must be
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1 provided through a competitive process and may be used only
2 for a career and professional academy.
3 (3) A high school that currently has a career academy,
4 career institute, industry-certified program, or
5 pre-apprenticeship program, as well as a charter technical
6 career center, is eligible to apply for a grant to redesign
7 its programs to meet the rigorous and relevant academic
8 standards of a career and professional academy.
9 (4) Curriculum and content developed in a career and
10 professional academy as a result of a startup grant must be
11 made available to all school districts.
12 1011.98 SUCCEED, FLORIDA! Critical Jobs Program.--
13 (1) The SUCCEED, FLORIDA! Critical Jobs Program is
14 established to award funds to public postsecondary educational
15 institutions in the state on a competitive basis to produce
16 more qualified and trained graduates to enter high-demand,
17 high-skill, high-wage occupations or other occupations
18 identified each year by Enterprise Florida or Workforce
19 Florida, Inc., each year as critical in the state. For
20 purposes of this section, postsecondary educational
21 institutions include school district career centers that offer
22 postsecondary programs.
23 (2) Funds appropriated by the Legislature to the
24 department for the SUCCEED, FLORIDA! Critical Jobs Program
25 must be distributed as set forth in this section.
26 (3) The department shall develop and annually issue a
27 request for proposals. The department shall establish
28 application procedures, guidelines, accountability measures,
29 and timelines for implementation of the grant program.
30 (4) Proposals for a grant authorized pursuant to this
31 section must:
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1 (a) Indicate the number of students to be served, the
2 length of the proposed program, and the total projected cost
3 to students and the state. Funds for a grant provided under
4 this section must be used to support new students and not to
5 supplant current funding for students.
6 (b) Document the workforce need to be addressed using
7 the Enterprise Florida Sectors and the Statewide Demand List
8 produced by the Workforce Estimating Conference.
9 (c) Demonstrate a pool of qualified applicants.
10 (d) Be submitted by a public postsecondary educational
11 institution in the state which provides postsecondary
12 instruction in a field that produces graduates prepared to
13 enter an occupation identified in the priority list
14 established pursuant to subsection (1).
15 (e) Indicate the number of postsecondary diplomas,
16 certificates, or degrees that the institution will award using
17 funds received pursuant to this section and the fields in
18 which the diplomas, certificates, or degrees will be awarded.
19 (f) Indicate how the funds received will leverage
20 private industry contributions, grants, or scholarships and
21 how the funds will be used to offset costs to the state for
22 program startup or expansion or to offset student tuition
23 costs.
24 (5) The department must review proposals and determine
25 funding to be provided based on the requirements set forth in
26 subsection (4) and shall give high priority to proposals that
27 appear likely to produce the greatest number of students
28 completing the program.
29 Section 7. This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.
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2 SENATE SUMMARY
3 Relates to career education. Creates the "SUCCEED,
FLORIDA! Initiative" act. In s. 1007.23, F.S., relating
4 to statewide articulation, replaces the phrase "workforce
development" with the phrase "workforce education."
5 Requires the Department of Education annually to identify
workforce education program courses and programs for
6 statewide articulation and to propose an articulation
agreement. Allows students who are enrolled in a
7 postsecondary career certificate program that comprises
at least 450 hours to qualify for the Florida Public
8 Student Assistance Grant Program.
Creates the GED Success Scholarship Program.
9 Prescribes the amount of a scholarship. Provides
procedures. Provides requirements for eligibility.
10 Requires reports to the department. Requires a financial
audit of each institution's administration of the
11 program. Allows the State Board of Education to adopt
rules.
12 Creates the School District Career Center Facility
Enhancement Challenge Grant Program. Provides legislative
13 intent and findings. Provides purposes of the program.
Provides for direct-support organizations to solicit
14 private funds. Provides for state matching funds.
Requires the establishment of a separate career center
15 capital facilities matching account. Prohibits the use of
certain funding sources to provide state matching funds.
16 Provides criteria for a school district's eligibility to
participate in the program. Provides for the disposition
17 of private donations if a project is terminated. Requires
the State Board of Education annually to submit to the
18 Legislature a list of eligible projects and a budget
request that includes the recommended completion schedule
19 for each project. Provides prerequisites for eligibility.
Provides for the disposition of unexpended project funds.
20 Provides that certain elements of the project are the
property of the school district. Allows a facility to be
21 named for a donor.
Creates pt. VI of ch. 1011, F.S., consisting of ss.
22 1011.96, 1011.97, and 1011.98, F.S. Creates the SUCCEED,
FLORIDA! Crucial Professionals Program. Provides
23 purposes. Requires the department to issue requests for
proposals and to establish application procedures,
24 guidelines, accountability measures, and timelines.
Provides requirements for the contents of a grant
25 proposal. Provides requirements for participants.
Requires grant recipients to report to the department.
26 Requires the State Board of Education to monitor
compliance with the accountability requirements. Creates
27 the SUCCEED, FLORIDA! Career Paths Program. Provides
purposes. Provides application procedures. Requires that
28 curriculum and content developed in a career and
professional academy be made available to all school
29 districts. Creates the SUCCEED, FLORIDA! Critical Jobs
Program. Provides purposes. Provides criteria for
30 distributing funds. Requires the department to issue
requests for proposals and to establish application
31 procedures, guidelines, accountability measures, and
timelines. Provides requirements for the contents of a
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