Senate Bill 1880c1

    Florida Senate - 1999                           CS for SB 1880

    By the Committee on Education and Senator Jones





    304-2175-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to charter schools; amending s.

  3         228.056, F.S.; prohibiting charter schools from

  4         employing persons who have been terminated by a

  5         school district or have resigned in lieu of

  6         disciplinary action; providing an effective

  7         date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Paragraph (f) of subsection (12) of section

12  228.056, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to

13  read:

14         228.056  Charter schools.--

15         (12)  EMPLOYEES OF CHARTER SCHOOLS.--

16         (f)  Teachers employed by or under contract to a

17  charter school shall be certified as required by chapter 231.

18  A charter school may employ or contract with skilled selected

19  noncertified personnel to provide instructional services or to

20  assist instructional staff members as education

21  paraprofessionals in the same manner as defined in chapter

22  231. A charter school may not employ an individual to provide

23  instructional services or to serve as an education

24  paraprofessional if the individual's certification or

25  licensure as an educator is suspended or revoked by this or

26  any other state. A charter school may not employ an individual

27  who has resigned in lieu of disciplinary action or who has

28  been terminated by any school district. The qualifications of

29  teachers shall be disclosed to parents.

30         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999.

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CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 1999                           CS for SB 1880
    304-2175-99




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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  4  The committee substitute clarifies terminology by prohibiting
    charter schools from employing individuals who were
  5  terminated, rather than dismissed, by any school district.

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