Florida SPB 7000: Deregulation of Public Schools/Instructional, Administrative, and Support Personnel

Bill Text

Florida Senate - 2024 (Proposed Bill) SPB 7000

FOR CONSIDERATION By the Committee on Education Pre-K -12

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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to deregulation of public 2
schools/instructional, administrative, and support 3
personnel; amending s. 1002.451, F.S.; requiring 4
innovation schools of technology to comply with 5
specified provisions of law relating to instructional 6
multiyear contracts for instructional personnel in 7
addition to annual contracts; amending s. 1002.55, 8
F.S.; requiring newly hired prekindergarten 9
instructors to complete specified training within a 10
specified timeframe; deleting obsolete language; 11
amending s. 1004.88, F.S.; authorizing the Florida 12
Institute for Charter School Innovation to develop a 13
professional learning system; amending s. 1011.6202, 14
F.S.; requiring schools participating in the Principal 15
Autonomy Program Initiative to comply with specified 16
provisions of law relating to instructional multiyear 17
contracts for instructional personnel in addition to 18
annual contracts; amending s. 1012.05, F.S.; 19
authorizing, rather than requiring, district school 20
boards to base certain polices on guidelines from the 21
Department of Education; revising the frequency with 22
which school districts must submit certain information 23
to the department; amending s. 1012.07, F.S.; 24
requiring the State Board of Education to develop 25
written strategies to address critical teacher 26
shortages; making a technical change; amending s. 27
1012.22, F.S.; deleting a prohibition on district 28
school boards using advanced degrees to set salary 29

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schedules for instructional personnel and school 30
administrators hired after a specified date; deleting 31
requirements relating to annual salary adjustments; 32
providing that collective bargaining may not preclude 33
a district school board from carrying out specified 34
duties; providing that if a superintendent appears 35
before the State Board of Education for a specified 36
purpose, the president of the school district 37
bargaining unit also must appear; making technical 38
changes; amending s. 1012.2315, F.S.; providing that 39
provisions of law relating to the assignment of 40
teachers apply to inexperienced teachers instead of 41
temporarily certified teachers; defining the term 42
“inexperienced teacher”; providing that a school 43
district may still provide specified incentives to 44
teachers despite collective bargaining provisions; 45
making technical changes; amending s. 1012.335, F.S.; 46
defining the term “instructional multiyear contract”; 47
providing requirements for the award of an 48
instructional multiyear contract; requiring that an 49
employee awarded an instructional multiyear contract 50
be returned to an annual contract under certain 51
conditions; making conforming and technical changes; 52
amending s. 1012.34, F.S.; requiring that procedures 53
and requirements established by the district school 54
superintendent for performance evaluations be approved 55
by the district school board; requiring the district 56
school superintendent to submit evaluation systems to 57
the department under certain circumstances; deleting a 58

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requirement for the department to approve and monitor 59
each school district’s evaluation systems; revising 60
the portion of a performance evaluation that is based 61
on student performance; deleting requirements for 62
performance evaluations; providing that student 63
performance may not be the sole determinant for 64
incentive pay for instructional personnel or school 65
administrators; amending s. 1012.39, F.S.; revising an 66
occupational experience qualification requirement for 67
nondegreed teachers of career programs; deleting a 68
training requirement for full-time nondegreed teachers 69
of career programs; amending s. 1012.42, F.S.; 70
providing that a teacher is considered in-field under 71
certain circumstances; defining the term “self-72
contained classroom”; amending s. 1012.45, F.S.; 73
revising requirements for school bus drivers; 74
authorizing district school boards to adopt additional 75
requirements for school bus drivers; requiring school 76
bus drivers and school bus attendants to complete 77
training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first 78
aid; requiring school districts to maintain 79
documentation of such training; requiring district 80
school boards to provide training to school bus 81
drivers and school bus attendants relating to students 82
with disabilities; deleting a requirement for the 83
State Board of Education