Bill Amendment: FL S7070 | 2019 | Regular Session

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Bill Title: K-12 Education

Status: 2019-05-10 - Chapter No. 2019-23 [S7070 Detail]

Download: Florida-2019-S7070-Senate_Floor_Substitue_Amendment_103012_to_Amendment_821510_.html

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       Florida Senate - 2019                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 7070
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Cruz moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (821510) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 2008 - 2083
    5  and insert:
    6  recruit and retain designate teachers who meet the needs of this
    7  state and have achieved success in the classroom high academic
    8  standards during their own education as Florida’s best and
    9  brightest teacher scholars.
   10         (2) There is created The Florida Best and Brightest Teacher
   11  Scholarship Program is created to be administered by the
   12  Department of Education. The scholarship program shall provide
   13  categorical funding for scholarships to salary increases to
   14  recruit and retain classroom teachers, as defined in
   15  1012.01(2)(a), and other instructional personnel, to be funded
   16  as provided in s. 1011.62(18) be awarded to classroom teachers,
   17  as defined in s. 1012.01(2)(a), who have demonstrated a high
   18  level of academic achievement.
   19         (3)(a) To be eligible for a recruitment salary increase as
   20  specified in the General Appropriations Act:
   21         1. A newly hired classroom teacher must be a content
   22  expert, based on criteria established by the department, in
   23  mathematics, science, computer science, reading, or civics.
   24         2. An instructional personnel staff member must be hired to
   25  fill a designated critical shortage area or must voluntarily
   26  switch fields to fill a critical shortage area scholarship in
   27  the amount of $6,000, a classroom teacher must:
   28         1. Have achieved a composite score at or above the 80th
   29  percentile on either the SAT or the ACT based on the National
   30  Percentile Ranks in effect when the classroom teacher took the
   31  assessment and have been evaluated as highly effective pursuant
   32  to s. 1012.34 in the school year immediately preceding the year
   33  in which the scholarship will be awarded, unless the classroom
   34  teacher is newly hired by the district school board and has not
   35  been evaluated pursuant to s. 1012.34.
   36         2. Beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, have achieved
   37  a composite score at or above the 77th percentile or, if the
   38  classroom teacher graduated cum laude or higher with a
   39  baccalaureate degree, the 71st percentile on either the SAT,
   40  ACT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, or MCAT based on the National Percentile
   41  Ranks in effect when the classroom teacher took the assessment;
   42  and have been evaluated as highly effective pursuant to s.
   43  1012.34, or have been evaluated as highly effective based on a
   44  commissioner-approved student learning growth formula pursuant
   45  to s. 1012.34(8), in the school year immediately preceding the
   46  year in which the scholarship will be awarded, unless the
   47  classroom teacher is newly hired by the district school board
   48  and has not been evaluated pursuant to s. 1012.34.
   49         (b) To be eligible for a retention salary increase as
   50  specified in the General Appropriations Act, a classroom teacher
   51  or an instructional personnel staff member must have been rated
   52  as highly effective or effective the preceding year pursuant to
   53  s. 1012.34, and must teach or be employed in a school for 2
   54  consecutive school years, including the current year
   55         1. In order to demonstrate eligibility for an award, an
   56  eligible classroom teacher must submit to the school district,
   57  no later than November 1, an official record of his or her
   58  qualifying assessment score and, beginning with the 2020-2021
   59  school year, an official transcript demonstrating that he or she
   60  graduated cum laude or higher with a baccalaureate degree, if
   61  applicable. Once a classroom teacher is deemed eligible by the
   62  school district, the teacher shall remain eligible as long as he
   63  or she remains employed by the school district as a classroom
   64  teacher at the time of the award and receives an annual
   65  performance evaluation rating of highly effective pursuant to s.
   66  1012.34 or is evaluated as highly effective based on a
   67  commissioner-approved student learning growth formula pursuant
   68  to s. 1012.34(8) for the 2019-2020 school year or thereafter.
   69         2. A school district employee who is no longer a classroom
   70  teacher may receive an award if the employee was a classroom
   71  teacher in the prior school year, was rated highly effective,
   72  and met the requirements of this section as a classroom teacher.
   73         (c) Notwithstanding the
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   76  And the title is amended as follows:
   77         Delete line 210
   78  and insert:
   79         recruitment and retention salary increases;