The Florida Senate

¹246.222  School administrator training.--

(1)  The board is authorized to ensure that the administrators of licensed schools are qualified to conduct the operations of their respective positions and to require such administrators to receive continuing education and training as adopted by rule of the board. The positions for which the board may review qualifications and require continuing education and training may include the positions of school director, director of education or training, placement director, admissions director, and financial aid director.

(2)  The training of each administrator shall be the type of training necessary to assure compliance with board statutes and rules and with those of other state or federal agencies in relation to the responsibilities of the respective positions.

(3)  The board shall adopt general qualifications for each of the respective positions and establish guidelines for the minimum amount and type of continuing education and training to be required. The continuing education and training may be provided by the board, appropriate state or federal agencies, or professional organizations familiar with the requirements of the particular administrative positions. The actual curriculums should be left to the discretion of those agencies and organizations.

(4)  Evidence of the administrator's compliance with the continuing education and training requirements established by the board may be included in the initial and renewal application forms provided by the board. Actual records of the continuing education and training received by administrators shall be maintained at the school and available for inspection at all times.

(5)  Qualifications of administrators in their respective fields, as well as continuing education and training, may be established by the board as a condition of an application for licensure by a new school or for renewal of a license.

History.--s. 4, ch. 93-170; s. 3(7), ch. 2000-321.

¹Note.--Repealed January 7, 2003, by s. 3(7), ch. 2000-321, and shall be reviewed by the Legislature prior to that date.