HB 291

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to the Florida School Recognition Program;
3	amending s. 1008.36, F.S.; specifying conditions under
4	which a school that is part of a school feeder pattern and
5	does not receive a school grade under s. 1008.34, F.S.,
6	may participate in the program; prescribing the
7	circumstances in which a school feeder pattern exists;
8	providing that a feeder pattern school shall be subject to
9	the Opportunity Scholarship Program; providing an
10	effective date.
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12	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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14	Section 1.  Subsection (3) of section 1008.36, Florida
15	Statutes, is amended to read:
16	1008.36  Florida School Recognition Program.--
17	(3)  All public schools, including charter schools, that
18	receive a school grade pursuant to s. 1008.34 are eligible to
19	participate in the program. For the purposes of this section, a
20	school that serves any combination of students in kindergarten
21	through grade 3 and that does not receive a school grade under
22	s. 1008.34 shall be assigned the school performance grade of the
23	feeder pattern school designated by the Department of Education
24	and verified by the school district and is eligible to
25	participate in the program based upon that feeder pattern
26	school. A school feeder pattern exists if at least 60 percent of
27	the students in the school or schools serving a combination of
28	students in kindergarten through grade 3 are scheduled to be
29	assigned to the school that receives the school grade. In
30	addition, the feeder pattern school is subject to the
31	Opportunity Scholarship Program as described in s. 1002.38.
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33	Notwithstanding statutory provisions to the contrary, incentive
34	awards are not subject to collective bargaining.
35	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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