Florida Senate - 2013                                      SB 76
       
       
       
       By Senator Flores
       
       
       
       
       37-00108-13                                             201376__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to workforce education programs;
    3         amending s. 1011.80, F.S.; authorizing a Florida
    4         College System institution or a school district to
    5         report a student as enrolled in an adult education
    6         program for purposes of funding if the student is
    7         coenrolled in a K-12 education program and an adult
    8         education program; deleting an obsolete provision;
    9         authorizing a Florida College System institution or a
   10         school district to report a student for funding for up
   11         to two courses if the student is coenrolled in core
   12         program areas, rather than curricula courses, and
   13         meets certain additional criteria; requiring that the
   14         Department of Education develop a list of courses to
   15         be designated as core courses for purposes of
   16         coenrollment; providing an effective date.
   17  
   18  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   20         Section 1. Paragraph (10) of section 1011.80, Florida
   21  Statutes, is amended to read:
   22         1011.80 Funds for operation of workforce education
   23  programs.—
   24         (10) A high school student dually enrolled under s.
   25  1007.271 in a workforce education program operated by a Florida
   26  College System institution or school district career center
   27  generates the amount calculated for workforce education funding,
   28  including any payment of performance funding, and the
   29  proportional share of full-time equivalent enrollment generated
   30  through the Florida Education Finance Program for the student’s
   31  enrollment in a high school. If a high school student is dually
   32  enrolled in a Florida College System institution program,
   33  including a program conducted at a high school, the Florida
   34  College System institution earns the funds generated for
   35  workforce education funding, and the school district earns the
   36  proportional share of full-time equivalent funding from the
   37  Florida Education Finance Program. If a student is dually
   38  enrolled in a career center operated by the same district as the
   39  district in which the student attends high school, that district
   40  earns the funds generated for workforce education funding and
   41  also earns the proportional share of full-time equivalent
   42  funding from the Florida Education Finance Program. If a student
   43  is dually enrolled in a workforce education program provided by
   44  a career center operated by a different school district, the
   45  funds must be divided between the two school districts
   46  proportionally from the two funding sources. A student may not
   47  be reported for funding in a dual enrollment workforce education
   48  program unless the student has completed the basic skills
   49  assessment pursuant to s. 1004.91. A student who is coenrolled
   50  in a K-12 education program and an adult education program may
   51  not be reported for purposes of funding in an adult education
   52  program. If a student is, except that for the 2011-2012 and
   53  2012-2013 fiscal years, students who are coenrolled in core
   54  program areas curricula courses for credit recovery or dropout
   55  prevention purposes and does do not have a pattern of excessive
   56  absenteeism or habitual truancy or a history of disruptive
   57  behavior in school, that student may be reported for funding for
   58  up to two courses per student. Such a student is Such students
   59  are exempt from the payment of the block tuition for adult
   60  general education programs provided in s. 1009.22(3)(c). The
   61  Department of Education shall develop a list of courses to be
   62  designated as core courses for the purposes of coenrollment.
   63         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.