Bill Text: FL S1370 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Maximum Class Size

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-05-03 - Died in Education [S1370 Detail]

Download: Florida-2013-S1370-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2013                                    SB 1370
       
       
       
       By Senator Montford
       
       
       
       
       3-00658-13                                            20131370__
    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; providing an effective date.
    7  
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section
   11  1003.03, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   12         1003.03 Maximum class size.—
   13         (4) ACCOUNTABILITY.—
   14         (a) If the department determines that the number of
   15  students assigned to any individual class exceeds the class size
   16  maximum, as required in subsection (1), based upon the October
   17  student membership survey, the department shall:
   18         1. Identify, for each grade group, the number of classes in
   19  which the number of students exceeds the maximum and the total
   20  number of students which exceeds the maximum for all classes.
   21         2. Determine the number of FTE students which exceeds the
   22  maximum for each grade group calculated at the school average.
   23         2.3. Multiply the total number of FTE students which
   24  exceeds the maximum for each grade group calculated at the
   25  school average by the district’s FTE dollar amount of the class
   26  size categorical allocation for that year and calculate the
   27  total for all three grade groups.
   28         3.4. Multiply the total number of FTE students which
   29  exceeds the maximum for all classes calculated at the school
   30  average by an amount equal to 50 percent of the base student
   31  allocation adjusted by the district cost differential for the
   32  each of the 2010-2011 through 2013-2014 fiscal year years and by
   33  an amount equal to the base student allocation adjusted by the
   34  district cost differential in the 2014-2015 fiscal year and
   35  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, 2013.