Florida Senate - 2010                                   SJR 2518
       
       
       
       By Senator Baker
       
       
       
       
       20-01630-10                                           20102518__
    1                       Senate Joint Resolution                     
    2         A joint resolution proposing the creation of Sections
    3         8 and 9 of Article IX and the creation of a new
    4         section in Article XII of the State Constitution to
    5         require that 70 percent of school district funding be
    6         expended for the purpose of supporting classroom
    7         instruction and prohibit any school district from
    8         paying its school administrative personnel or
    9         noninstructional personnel more than three times the
   10         average salary for teachers in the school district.
   11  
   12  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         That the creation of Sections 8 and 9 of Article IX and the
   15  creation of a new section in Article XII of the State
   16  Constitution are agreed to and shall be submitted to the
   17  electors of this state for approval or rejection at the next
   18  general election or at an earlier special election specifically
   19  authorized by law for that purpose:
   20                             ARTICLE IX                            
   21                              EDUCATION                            
   22         SECTION 8. Funding for classroom instruction.—At least
   23  seventy percent of the funding received by each school district
   24  shall be expended for the purpose of supporting classroom
   25  instruction.
   26         SECTION 9. Compensation for school administrative personnel
   27  and noninstructional personnel.—A school district may not
   28  provide compensation to its administrative personnel or
   29  noninstructional personnel in an amount greater than three times
   30  the average salary of the teachers in that district.
   31                             ARTICLE XII                           
   32                              SCHEDULE                             
   33         School district funding; limitation on compensation for
   34  administrative and noninstructional personnel.—
   35         (a) The requirement in Section 8 of Article IX that at
   36  least seventy percent of school funding received by each school
   37  district be expended for the purpose of supporting classroom
   38  instruction and this section shall be applicable beginning with
   39  the 2011-2012 school year.
   40         (b) The prohibition in Section 9 of Article IX against
   41  compensating school district administrative personnel or
   42  noninstructional personnel in an amount greater than three times
   43  the average salary of the teachers in the school district and
   44  this section shall be applicable beginning with the 2011-2012
   45  school year.
   46         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
   47  placed on the ballot:
   48                      CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS                    
   49                    ARTICLE IX, SECTIONS 8 AND 9                   
   50                             ARTICLE XII                           
   51         MINIMUM REQUIREMENT FOR SCHOOL DISTRICT FUNDING; LIMITATION
   52  ON COMPENSATIION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL AND
   53  NONINSTRUCTIONAL PERSONNEL.—Proposing an amendment to the State
   54  Constitution to require that at least 70 percent of school
   55  funding received by each school district be expended for the
   56  purpose of supporting classroom instruction. This amendment also
   57  prohibits a school district from compensating its administrative
   58  personnel or noninstructional personnel in an amount greater
   59  than three times the average salary of the teachers in the
   60  school district.