Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SPB 7070
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/06/2019           .                                
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       The Committee on Education (Berman) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 1134 - 1206
    4  and insert:
    5  recruit and retain designate teachers who meet the needs of this
    6  state and have achieved success in the classroom high academic
    7  standards during their own education as Florida’s best and
    8  brightest teacher scholars.
    9         (2) There is created The Florida Best and Brightest Teacher
   10  Scholarship Program is created to be administered by the
   11  Department of Education. The scholarship program shall provide
   12  categorical funding for scholarships to salary increases to
   13  recruit and retain be awarded to classroom teachers, as defined
   14  in s. 1012.01(2)(a), and other instructional personnel, to be
   15  funded as provided in s. 1011.62(18) who have demonstrated a
   16  high level of academic achievement.
   17         (3)(a) To be eligible for a recruitment salary increase as
   18  specified in s. 1011.62(18):
   19         1. The classroom teacher must be hired to fill a designated
   20  critical teacher shortage area or must voluntarily switch fields
   21  to fill a designated critical teacher shortage area.
   22         2. The instructional personnel staff member must be hired
   23  to fill a designated critical shortage area or voluntarily
   24  switch fields to fill a critical shortage area scholarship in
   25  the amount of $6,000, a classroom teacher must:
   26         1. Have achieved a composite score at or above the 80th
   27  percentile on either the SAT or the ACT based on the National
   28  Percentile Ranks in effect when the classroom teacher took the
   29  assessment and have been evaluated as highly effective pursuant
   30  to s. 1012.34 in the school year immediately preceding the year
   31  in which the scholarship will be awarded, unless the classroom
   32  teacher is newly hired by the district school board and has not
   33  been evaluated pursuant to s. 1012.34.
   34         2. Beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, have achieved
   35  a composite score at or above the 77th percentile or, if the
   36  classroom teacher graduated cum laude or higher with a
   37  baccalaureate degree, the 71st percentile on either the SAT,
   38  ACT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, or MCAT based on the National Percentile
   39  Ranks in effect when the classroom teacher took the assessment;
   40  and have been evaluated as highly effective pursuant to s.
   41  1012.34, or have been evaluated as highly effective based on a
   42  commissioner-approved student learning growth formula pursuant
   43  to s. 1012.34(8), in the school year immediately preceding the
   44  year in which the scholarship will be awarded, unless the
   45  classroom teacher is newly hired by the district school board
   46  and has not been evaluated pursuant to s. 1012.34.
   47         (b) To be eligible for a retention salary increase as
   48  specified in the General Appropriations Act, a teacher or an
   49  instructional personnel staff member must have been rated as
   50  highly effective or effective the preceding year pursuant to s.
   51  1012.34, and teach or be employed, as applicable, in a school
   52  for 2 consecutive school years, including the current year
   53         1.In order to demonstrate eligibility for an award, an
   54  eligible classroom teacher must submit to the school district,
   55  no later than November 1, an official record of his or her
   56  qualifying assessment score and, beginning with the 2020-2021
   57  school year, an official transcript demonstrating that he or she
   58  graduated cum laude or higher with a baccalaureate degree, if
   59  applicable. Once a classroom teacher is deemed eligible by the
   60  school district, the teacher shall remain eligible as long as he
   61  or she remains employed by the school district as a classroom
   62  teacher at the time of the award and receives an annual
   63  performance evaluation rating of highly effective pursuant to s.
   64  1012.34 or is evaluated as highly effective based on a
   65  commissioner-approved student learning growth formula pursuant
   66  to s. 1012.34(8) for the 2019-2020 school year or thereafter.
   67         2. A school district employee who is no longer a classroom
   68  teacher may receive an award if the employee was a classroom
   69  teacher in the prior school year, was rated highly effective,
   70  and met the requirements of this section as a classroom teacher.
   71         (c) Notwithstanding the
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   73  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   74  And the title is amended as follows:
   75         Delete line 143
   76  and insert:
   77         recruitment and retention salary increases; providing