Florida Senate - 2018 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for HB 7055
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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Senator Baxley moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment to Substitute Amendment (692180) (with
2 directory and title amendments)
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4 Between lines 700 and 701
5 insert:
6 (a)1. A sponsor shall provide certain administrative and
7 educational services to charter schools. These services shall
8 include contract management services; full-time equivalent and
9 data reporting services; exceptional student education
10 administration services; services related to eligibility and
11 reporting duties required to ensure that school lunch services
12 under the National School Lunch Program, consistent with the
13 needs of the charter school, are provided by the school district
14 at the request of the charter school, that any funds due to the
15 charter school under the National School Lunch Program be paid
16 to the charter school as soon as the charter school begins
17 serving food under the National School Lunch Program, and that
18 the charter school is paid at the same time and in the same
19 manner under the National School Lunch Program as other public
20 schools serviced by the sponsor or the school district; test
21 administration services, including payment of the costs of
22 state-required or district-required student assessments;
23 processing of teacher certificate data services; and information
24 services, including equal access to student information systems
25 that are used by public schools in the district in which the
26 charter school is located. Student performance data for each
27 student in a charter school, including, but not limited to, FCAT
28 scores, standardized test scores, previous public school student
29 report cards, and student performance measures, shall be
30 provided by the sponsor to a charter school in the same manner
31 provided to other public schools in the district.
32 2. A sponsor may withhold an administrative fee for the
33 provision of such services which shall be a percentage of the
34 available funds defined in paragraph (17)(b) calculated based on
35 weighted full-time equivalent students. If the charter school
36 serves 75 percent or more exceptional education students as
37 defined in s. 1003.01(3), the percentage shall be calculated
38 based on unweighted full-time equivalent students. The
39 administrative fee shall be calculated as follows:
40 a. Up to 5 percent for:
41 (I) Enrollment of up to and including 250 students in a
42 charter school as defined in this section.
43 (II) Enrollment of up to and including 500 students within
44 a charter school system which meets all of the following:
45 (A) Includes conversion charter schools and nonconversion
46 charter schools.
47 (B) Has all of its schools located in the same county.
48 (C) Has a total enrollment exceeding the total enrollment
49 of at least one school district in the state.
50 (D) Has the same governing board for all of its schools.
51 (E) Does not contract with a for-profit service provider
52 for management of school operations.
53 (III) Enrollment of up to and including 250 students in a
54 virtual charter school.
55 b. Up to 2 percent for enrollment of up to and including
56 250 students in a high-performing charter school as defined in
57 s. 1002.331.
58 3. A sponsor may not charge charter schools any additional
59 fees or surcharges for administrative and educational services
60 in addition to the maximum percentage of administrative fees
61 withheld pursuant to this paragraph.
62 4. A sponsor shall provide to the department by September
63 15 of each year the total amount of funding withheld from
64 charter schools pursuant to this subsection for the prior fiscal
65 year. The department must include the information in the report
66 required under sub-sub-subparagraph (5)(b)1.k.(III).
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69 And the directory clause is amended as follows:
70 Delete line 229
71 and insert:
72 paragraph (n) of subsection (9), and paragraphs (a) and (b) of
73 subsection
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76 And the title is amended as follows:
77 Delete line 4373
78 and insert:
79 process for resolving contractual disputes; requiring
80 a sponsor to provide specified information to the
81 department annually; requiring the department to
82 include the information in a specified report;
83 amending