Bill Text: FL S1088 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Maximum Class Size

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2014-05-02 - Died in Education [S1088 Detail]

Download: Florida-2014-S1088-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2014                                    SB 1088
       
       
        
       By Senator Garcia
       
       
       
       
       
       38-01057-14                                           20141088__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to maximum class size; amending s.
    3         1003.03, F.S.; calculating a school district’s class
    4         size categorical allocation reduction at the school
    5         average when maximum class size requirements are not
    6         met; revising the calculation; providing an effective
    7         date.
    8          
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section
   12  1003.03, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         1003.03 Maximum class size.—
   14         (4) ACCOUNTABILITY.—
   15         (a) If the department determines that the number of
   16  students assigned to an any individual class exceeds the class
   17  size maximum, as required in subsection (1), based upon the
   18  October student membership survey, the department shall:
   19         1. Identify, for each grade group, the number of classes in
   20  which the number of students exceeds the maximum and the total
   21  number of students which exceeds the maximum for all classes.
   22         2. Determine the number of FTE students which exceeds the
   23  maximum for each grade group calculated at the school average.
   24         2.3. Multiply the total number of FTE students which
   25  exceeds the maximum for each grade group calculated at the
   26  school average by the district’s FTE dollar amount of the class
   27  size categorical allocation for that year and calculate the
   28  total for all three grade groups.
   29         3.4. Multiply the total number of FTE students which
   30  exceeds the maximum for all classes calculated at the school
   31  average by an amount equal to 50 percent of the base student
   32  allocation adjusted by the district cost differential for each
   33  of the 2010-2011 through 2013-2014 fiscal years and by an amount
   34  equal to the base student allocation adjusted by the district
   35  cost differential in the 2014-2015 fiscal year and thereafter.
   36         4.5. Reduce the district’s class size categorical
   37  allocation by an amount equal to the sum of the calculations in
   38  subparagraphs 2. and 3. and 4.
   39         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.