Bill Text: FL S0522 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Full-time Equivalent Student Membership for International General Certificate of Secondary Education Students

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2022-03-14 - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Education [S0522 Detail]

Download: Florida-2022-S0522-Introduced.html
       Florida Senate - 2022                                     SB 522
       
       
        
       By Senator Bradley
       
       
       
       
       
       5-00665-22                                             2022522__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to full-time equivalent student
    3         membership for International General Certificate of
    4         Secondary Education students; amending s. 1011.62,
    5         F.S.; providing a specified amount of full-time
    6         equivalent membership for each student enrolled in an
    7         International General Certificate of Secondary
    8         Education (pre-AICE) course who receives a score of
    9         “E” or higher on the corresponding pre-AICE subject
   10         examination; making a technical change; providing an
   11         effective date.
   12          
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   14  
   15         Section 1. Paragraph (m) of subsection (1) of section
   16  1011.62, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   17         1011.62 Funds for operation of schools.—If the annual
   18  allocation from the Florida Education Finance Program to each
   19  district for operation of schools is not determined in the
   20  annual appropriations act or the substantive bill implementing
   21  the annual appropriations act, it shall be determined as
   22  follows:
   23         (1) COMPUTATION OF THE BASIC AMOUNT TO BE INCLUDED FOR
   24  OPERATION.—The following procedure shall be followed in
   25  determining the annual allocation to each district for
   26  operation:
   27         (m) Calculation of additional full-time equivalent
   28  membership based on Advanced International Certificate of
   29  Education examination scores of students.—A value of 0.16 full
   30  time equivalent student membership shall be calculated for each
   31  student enrolled in a full-credit Advanced International
   32  Certificate of Education course who receives a score of E or
   33  higher on a subject examination. A value of 0.08 full-time
   34  equivalent student membership shall be calculated for each
   35  student enrolled in a half-credit Advanced International
   36  Certificate of Education course who receives a score of E or
   37  higher on a subject examination. A value of 0.08 full-time
   38  equivalent student membership shall be calculated for each
   39  student enrolled in an International General Certificate of
   40  Secondary Education (pre-AICE) course who receives a score of
   41  “E” or higher on the corresponding pre-AICE subject examination.
   42  A value of 0.3 full-time equivalent student membership shall be
   43  calculated for each student who receives an Advanced
   44  International Certificate of Education diploma. Such value shall
   45  be added to the total full-time equivalent student membership in
   46  basic programs for grades 9 through 12 in the subsequent fiscal
   47  year. Each school district shall allocate at least 80 percent of
   48  the funds received from the Advanced International Certificate
   49  of Education bonus FTE funding, in accordance with this
   50  paragraph, to the school program that generated the funds and to
   51  school programs administered by the University of Cambridge
   52  Local Examinations Syndicate that prepare prospective students
   53  to enroll in Advanced International Certificate of Education
   54  courses. These funds shall be expended solely for the payment of
   55  costs associated with the application and registration process;
   56  program fees and site licenses; training, professional
   57  development, salaries, benefits, and bonuses for instructional
   58  personnel and program coordinators; examination and diploma
   59  fees; membership fees; supplemental books; instructional
   60  supplies, materials, and equipment; and other activities that
   61  identify prospective Advanced International Certificate of
   62  Education students or prepare prospective students to enroll in
   63  Advanced International Certificate of Education courses. The
   64  school district shall distribute to each classroom teacher who
   65  provided Advanced International Certificate of Education or pre
   66  AICE International General Certificate of Secondary Education
   67  (pre-AICE) instruction:
   68         1. A bonus in the amount of $50 for each student taught by
   69  the Advanced International Certificate of Education teacher in
   70  each Advanced International Certificate of Education course who
   71  receives a score of E or higher on the Advanced International
   72  Certificate of Education examination. A bonus in the amount of
   73  $25 for each student taught by the pre-AICE teacher in each pre
   74  AICE course who receives a score of E or higher on the pre-AICE
   75  examination.
   76         2. An additional bonus of $500 to each Advanced
   77  International Certificate of Education teacher in a school
   78  designated with a grade of “D” or “F” who has at least one
   79  student scoring E or higher on the Advanced International
   80  Certificate of Education examination, regardless of the number
   81  of classes taught or of the number of students scoring an E or
   82  higher on the Advanced International Certificate of Education
   83  examination.
   84         3. Additional bonuses of $250 each to teachers of pre-AICE
   85  classes in a school designated with a grade of “D” or “F” which
   86  has at least one student scoring an E or higher on the pre-AICE
   87  examination in that class. Teachers receiving an award under
   88  subparagraph 2. are not eligible for a bonus under this
   89  subparagraph.
   90  
   91  Bonuses awarded to a teacher according to this paragraph shall
   92  be in addition to any regular wage or other bonus the teacher
   93  received or is scheduled to receive.
   94         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.

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