Senate Bill sb2822

    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 2822

    By Senator Wise





    5-1297-07                                               See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the K-8 Virtual School

  3         Program; amending s. 1002.415, F.S.; expanding

  4         student eligibility for the program; providing

  5         an effective date.

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  7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of section

10  1002.415, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

11         1002.415  K-8 Virtual School Program.--Subject to

12  annual legislative appropriation, a kindergarten through grade

13  8 virtual school program is established within the Department

14  of Education for the purpose of making academic instruction

15  available to full-time students in kindergarten through grade

16  8 using on-line and distance learning technology. The

17  department shall use an application process to select schools

18  to deliver program instruction.

19         (5)  STUDENT ELIGIBILITY.--

20         (a)  Enrollment in each participating school is open to

21  any K-8 student in this state if the student meets at least

22  one of the following conditions:

23         1.  Complied during the prior school year with the

24  regular school attendance requirements of chapter 1003 Spent

25  the prior school year in attendance at a public school in this

26  state and was enrolled and reported by a public school

27  district for funding during the preceding October and February

28  for purposes of the Florida Education Finance Program surveys;

29         2.  Was enrolled during the prior school year in a K-8

30  virtual school funded pursuant to this section or from funds

31  provided in the 2005 General Appropriations Act;

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    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 2822
    5-1297-07                                               See HB




 1         3.  Is eligible to enroll in kindergarten or the first

 2  grade; or

 3         4.  Has a sibling who is currently enrolled in a

 4  participating K-8 virtual school and was enrolled at the end

 5  of the prior school year.

 6         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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