No. SB 424
Filed under Education.
Educational Facilities; Deleting a provision authorizing a school of hope to colocate with another school in a public school facility; deleting a provision requiring a school district to permit a school of hope to use an underused, vacant, or surplus school district facility; deleting a requirement for students enrolled in a school of hope to be included in the school district’s total capital outlay full-time equivalent membership, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDSchools of hope no longer have a guaranteed right to use vacant or surplus public school buildings. Districts are no longer required to allow this placement.
Schools of hope are no longer counted in the district's total student enrollment for calculating state capital outlay funding. This changes how maintenance funds are allocated.
The bill removes the requirement that districts must permit schools of hope to use underused facilities. It also removes the provision allowing hope operators to use these facilities at no cost.
Local governments may now impose stricter building and site requirements on schools of hope than on public schools. Previously, they were prohibited from doing so.
AISchool districts are no longer required to let schools of hope use their empty or underused buildings.
AIHope operators can no longer use identified surplus facilities at no cost.
AISchools of hope can no longer share a public school building with another school.
AIStudents in schools of hope are no longer counted in the district's total membership for calculating maintenance funds.
AIA school of hope must now be located in a Florida Opportunity Zone or the attendance zone of a persistently low-performing school, removing the 5-mile radius and outside-zone exceptions.
AIA school in the bottom 10 percent for student performance is no longer a qualifying persistently low-performing school.