Florida HB 6023: Educational Facilities

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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to educational facilities; amending s. 2
1002.333, F.S.; revising definitions; deleting a 3
provision authorizing a school of hope to colocate 4
with another school in a public school facility; 5
deleting a provision requiring a school district to 6
permit a school of hope to use an underused, vacant, 7
or surplus school district facility; deleting a 8
requirement for students enrolled in a school of hope 9
to be included in the school district's total capital 10
outlay full-time equivalent membership; deleting a 11
provision authorizing a hope operator establishing a 12
school of hope to use such a facility at no cost; 13
providing an effective date. 14
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 16
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Section 1. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection (1) and 18
paragraphs (a) and (d) of subsection (7) of section 1002.333, 19
Florida Statutes, are amended to read: 20
1002.333 Persistently low-performing schools.— 21
(1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term: 22
(c) "Persistently low-performing school" means a school 23
that meets at least one of the following criteria: 24
1. A school that has earned three grades lower than a "C," 25

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pursuant to s. 1008.34, in at least 3 of the previous 5 years 26
that the school received a grade and has not earned a grade of 27
"B" or higher in the most recent 2 school years; or 28
2. A school that was closed pursuant to s. 1008.33(4) 29
within 2 years after the submission of a notice of intent; or 30
3. A school in the bottom 10 percent in at least 2 of the 31
previous 3 years for student performance on the end-of-year 32
administration of the coordinated screening and progress 33
monitoring system for grade 3 English Language Arts or grade 4 34
mathematics as prescribed in s. 1008.22(3)(a)2. 35
(d) "School of hope" means: 36
1. A charter school operated by a hope operator which: 37
a. Serves students from one or more persistently low-38
performing schools or students who reside in a Florida 39
Opportunity Zone; and 40
b. Is located in a Florida Opportunity Zone or in the 41
attendance zone of a persistently low-performing school or 42
within a 5-mile radius of such school, whichever is greater. A 43
school of hope may be located outside of a Florida Opportunity 44
Zone or persistently low-performing school attendance zone if 45
the school district does not have underused, vacant, or surplus 46
property available for the hope operator to use within a Florida 47
Opportunity Zone or persistently low-performing school 48
attendance zone; and 49
c. Is a Title I eligible school; or 50

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2. A school operated by a hope operator pursuant to s. 51
1008.33(4)(b)3. 52
(7) FACILITIES.— 53
(a) A school of hope shall use facilities that comply with 54
the Florida Building Code, except for the State Requirements for 55
Educational Facilities. A school of hope that uses school 56
district facilities must comply with the State Requirements for 57
Educational Facilities only if the school district and the hope 58
operator have entered into a mutual management plan for the 59
reasonable maintenance of such facilities. The mutual management 60
plan shall contain a provision by which the district school 61
board agrees to maintain the school facilities in the same 62
manner as its other public schools within the district. A school 63
of hope may colocate with another school in a public school 64
facility. The school district must permit any school of hope to 65
use all or part of underused, vacant, or surplus school district 66
facilities, and receive facility-related services, pursuant to 67
State Board of Education rule. Students enrolled in the school 68
of hope shall be included in the district's total capital outlay 69
full-time equivalent membership for the purpose of s. 1013.62 70
and for calculating the Public Education Capital Outlay 71
maintenance funds or any other maintenance funds for the 72
facility. The local governing authority shall not adopt or 73
impose any local building requirements or site-development 74
restrictions, such as parking and site-size criteria, student 75

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enrollment, and occupant load, that are addressed by and more 76
stringent than those found in the State Requirements for 77
Educational Facilities of the Florida Building Code. A local 78
govern