Florida Senate - 2009                                    SB 2534
       
       
       
       By Senator Bennett
       
       
       
       
       21-01696-09                                           20092534__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to public K-12 educational funding;
    3         amending s. 1003.02, F.S.; prohibiting the use of
    4         school district funds for the funding of or
    5         contracting with community-based organizations to
    6         provide noninstructional programs or services that are
    7         not required by law; providing an effective date.
    8  
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   10  
   11         Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section
   12  1003.02, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         1003.02 District school board operation and control of
   14  public K-12 education within the school district.—As provided in
   15  part II of chapter 1001, district school boards are
   16  constitutionally and statutorily charged with the operation and
   17  control of public K-12 education within their school district.
   18  The district school boards must establish, organize, and operate
   19  their public K-12 schools and educational programs, employees,
   20  and facilities. Their responsibilities include staff
   21  development, public K-12 school student education including
   22  education for exceptional students and students in juvenile
   23  justice programs, special programs, adult education programs,
   24  and career education programs. Additionally, district school
   25  boards must:
   26         (1) Provide for the proper accounting for all students of
   27  school age, for the attendance and control of students at
   28  school, and for proper attention to health, safety, and other
   29  matters relating to the welfare of students in the following
   30  fields:
   31         (d) Courses of study and instructional materials.—
   32         1. Provide adequate instructional materials for all
   33  students as follows and in accordance with the requirements of
   34  chapter 1006, in the core courses of mathematics, language arts,
   35  social studies, science, reading, and literature, except for
   36  instruction for which the school advisory council approves the
   37  use of a program that does not include a textbook as a major
   38  tool of instruction.
   39         2. Adopt courses of study for use in the schools of the
   40  district.
   41         3. Provide for proper requisitioning, distribution,
   42  accounting, storage, care, and use of all instructional
   43  materials as may be needed, and ensure that instructional
   44  materials used in the district are consistent with the district
   45  goals and objectives and the curriculum frameworks approved by
   46  the State Board of Education, as well as with the state and
   47  school district performance standards required by law and state
   48  board rule.
   49  
   50  School district funds may not be used for the purpose of funding
   51  or contracting with community-based organizations to provide
   52  noninstructional programs or services that are not otherwise
   53  required by law.
   54         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.