Bill Text: FL S0522 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Full-time Equivalent Student Membership for International General Certificate of Secondary Education Students
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2022-03-14 - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Education [S0522 Detail]
Download: Florida-2022-S0522-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2022 SB 522
By Senator Bradley
5-00665-22 2022522__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to full-time equivalent student
3 membership for International General Certificate of
4 Secondary Education students; amending s. 1011.62,
5 F.S.; providing a specified amount of full-time
6 equivalent membership for each student enrolled in an
7 International General Certificate of Secondary
8 Education (pre-AICE) course who receives a score of
9 “E” or higher on the corresponding pre-AICE subject
10 examination; making a technical change; providing an
11 effective date.
12
13 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
14
15 Section 1. Paragraph (m) of subsection (1) of section
16 1011.62, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
17 1011.62 Funds for operation of schools.—If the annual
18 allocation from the Florida Education Finance Program to each
19 district for operation of schools is not determined in the
20 annual appropriations act or the substantive bill implementing
21 the annual appropriations act, it shall be determined as
22 follows:
23 (1) COMPUTATION OF THE BASIC AMOUNT TO BE INCLUDED FOR
24 OPERATION.—The following procedure shall be followed in
25 determining the annual allocation to each district for
26 operation:
27 (m) Calculation of additional full-time equivalent
28 membership based on Advanced International Certificate of
29 Education examination scores of students.—A value of 0.16 full
30 time equivalent student membership shall be calculated for each
31 student enrolled in a full-credit Advanced International
32 Certificate of Education course who receives a score of E or
33 higher on a subject examination. A value of 0.08 full-time
34 equivalent student membership shall be calculated for each
35 student enrolled in a half-credit Advanced International
36 Certificate of Education course who receives a score of E or
37 higher on a subject examination. A value of 0.08 full-time
38 equivalent student membership shall be calculated for each
39 student enrolled in an International General Certificate of
40 Secondary Education (pre-AICE) course who receives a score of
41 “E” or higher on the corresponding pre-AICE subject examination.
42 A value of 0.3 full-time equivalent student membership shall be
43 calculated for each student who receives an Advanced
44 International Certificate of Education diploma. Such value shall
45 be added to the total full-time equivalent student membership in
46 basic programs for grades 9 through 12 in the subsequent fiscal
47 year. Each school district shall allocate at least 80 percent of
48 the funds received from the Advanced International Certificate
49 of Education bonus FTE funding, in accordance with this
50 paragraph, to the school program that generated the funds and to
51 school programs administered by the University of Cambridge
52 Local Examinations Syndicate that prepare prospective students
53 to enroll in Advanced International Certificate of Education
54 courses. These funds shall be expended solely for the payment of
55 costs associated with the application and registration process;
56 program fees and site licenses; training, professional
57 development, salaries, benefits, and bonuses for instructional
58 personnel and program coordinators; examination and diploma
59 fees; membership fees; supplemental books; instructional
60 supplies, materials, and equipment; and other activities that
61 identify prospective Advanced International Certificate of
62 Education students or prepare prospective students to enroll in
63 Advanced International Certificate of Education courses. The
64 school district shall distribute to each classroom teacher who
65 provided Advanced International Certificate of Education or pre
66 AICE International General Certificate of Secondary Education
67 (pre-AICE) instruction:
68 1. A bonus in the amount of $50 for each student taught by
69 the Advanced International Certificate of Education teacher in
70 each Advanced International Certificate of Education course who
71 receives a score of E or higher on the Advanced International
72 Certificate of Education examination. A bonus in the amount of
73 $25 for each student taught by the pre-AICE teacher in each pre
74 AICE course who receives a score of E or higher on the pre-AICE
75 examination.
76 2. An additional bonus of $500 to each Advanced
77 International Certificate of Education teacher in a school
78 designated with a grade of “D” or “F” who has at least one
79 student scoring E or higher on the Advanced International
80 Certificate of Education examination, regardless of the number
81 of classes taught or of the number of students scoring an E or
82 higher on the Advanced International Certificate of Education
83 examination.
84 3. Additional bonuses of $250 each to teachers of pre-AICE
85 classes in a school designated with a grade of “D” or “F” which
86 has at least one student scoring an E or higher on the pre-AICE
87 examination in that class. Teachers receiving an award under
88 subparagraph 2. are not eligible for a bonus under this
89 subparagraph.
90
91 Bonuses awarded to a teacher according to this paragraph shall
92 be in addition to any regular wage or other bonus the teacher
93 received or is scheduled to receive.
94 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.
