Florida Senate - 2013                                    SB 1092
       
       
       
       By Senator Thompson
       
       
       
       
       12-01479-13                                           20131092__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to charter schools; amending s.
    3         1002.33, F.S.; requiring a charter school to submit to
    4         the school district an attendance plan for each
    5         student enrolled in the school; requiring a charter
    6         school to provide funding to a school district in the
    7         event of student transfers; requiring a charter school
    8         to report to the school district certain student
    9         enrollment information; providing an effective date.
   10  
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Paragraph (o) is added to subsection (9) of
   14  section 1002.33, Florida Statutes, to read:
   15         1002.33 Charter schools.—
   16         (9) CHARTER SCHOOL REQUIREMENTS.—
   17         (o)1. For each student attending a charter school, the
   18  charter school shall submit to the school district, within 30
   19  days after the student’s enrollment, a written plan developed by
   20  the student’s parent, a charter school administrator, and a
   21  school district administrator which specifies the public school
   22  and grade level that the student would likely attend if the
   23  charter school closes or the student withdraws before the last
   24  day of the school year.
   25         2. If a student transfers for any reason from a charter
   26  school to another public school in the school district before
   27  the last day of the school year, the charter school shall
   28  provide to the school district a prorated portion of the per
   29  student funding allocated to the charter school for that student
   30  based on the amount of time that the student is enrolled in the
   31  charter school and the public school to which the student
   32  transferred.
   33         3. A charter school shall report to the school district,
   34  within 15 days after the last day of the school year, a roster
   35  of the students who attended the school at any time during the
   36  school year, the duration of their enrollment, and, if a student
   37  has withdrawn from the school, the reason for withdrawal
   38  attested to by the parent.
   39         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.