Florida Senate - 2009                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2482
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             04/30/2009 05:10 PM       .                                
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       Senator Deutch moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 185 and 186
    4  insert:
    5         Section 5. Subsection (7) of section 1003.62, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         1003.62 Academic performance-based charter school
    8  districts.—The State Board of Education may enter into a
    9  performance contract with district school boards as authorized
   10  in this section for the purpose of establishing them as academic
   11  performance-based charter school districts. The purpose of this
   12  section is to examine a new relationship between the State Board
   13  of Education and district school boards that will produce
   14  significant improvements in student achievement, while complying
   15  with constitutional and statutory requirements assigned to each
   16  entity.
   17         (7) PILOT PROGRAM CHARTER SCHOOL DISTRICTS; GRANDFATHER
   18  PROVISION.—The State Board of Education shall use the criteria
   19  approved in the initial charter applications issued to the
   20  school districts of Volusia, Hillsborough, Orange, and Palm
   21  Beach Counties to renew those pilot program charter school
   22  districts in accordance with this subsection. No additional
   23  pilot program charter school districts shall be approved, and
   24  the pilot program consists solely of school districts in
   25  Volusia, Hillsborough, Orange, and Palm Beach Counties. The
   26  termination of the charter school districts pilot program is
   27  effective July 1, 2014 July 1, 2010.
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   30  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   31         And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Delete line 15
   33  and insert:
   34         the 2009-2010 school year; amending s. 1003.62, F.S.;
   35         delaying the termination of the pilot program for
   36         charter school districts; amending s. 1003.621, F.S.;