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Steward Council Meeting
April 19, 2012
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Quick Overview• 1853 bills introduced• 280 passed• Started session with a 2 B $ deficit• Closed with a $70 billion budget- Passed 80-37 House and 32-8 Senate
– closes six prisons – eliminates another 4,400 jobs (nearly 4 percent of the state’s work force)– Includes $120M in tax breaks to corporations and sales tax holiday in August – $830M reduction in unemployment comp– Rejected $438M in federal Medicaid funds– Higher Ed 300 M cut to higher ed but created new Polytech University in
Lakeland (Budget chair JD Alexander priority)– An increase in the virtual education funding to $5,200 per FTE from $4800– Nothing to fix deficit
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Education Funding Shell Game
• Governor Scott and the Legislature cut education funding in 2011-12 by 6% from the previous year, even after campaigning on “Holding Education Harmless”
• This year, Governor Scott and the Legislature received much press on the Billion dollars in education increases. That increase is roughly 2.5%, leaving education funding well short of the pre-Scott era.
• $6,897.38 per student in 2010-11, pre-Rick Scott • $6224.92 per student in 2011-12, Rick Scott “holding education
harmless” • $6,375.18 per student in 2012-13, Rick Scott and Legislature
dedicated effort to improve education funding • $522.20 is the per student loss this year (after the “increase”) from
where we were prior to Rick Scott and this Legislature being elected.
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2012 Legislative Priorities
1. FUNDING FOR EDUCATION2. SB 736 3. Class Size4. Collective Bargaining5. Retirement6. Redistricting
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WINS and LOSSES
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Charter School FundingSB 1852/HB 903
Failed
• Would have allowed for expansion of charter schools at the expense of traditional public schools.
• Would have given high performing charter schools additional flexibility in expansion, while removing oversight.
• Required sharing funding of the 1.5 local millage. • Allowed charters to increase enrollment and
grade levels.
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SB 1698/ HB 1115Employee Organizations
Failed• The measure wasn’t needed. Present sovereign
immunity laws (particularly in section 768.28, Florida Statutes) keep a teacher who is accused of negligent action from being made a defendant in a lawsuit seeking redress.
• It was a means to push out teachers union by misleading teachers into thinking they should not join a union.
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YOU DID IT!!!!Parent Empowerment- SB 1718/HB1191
Parent TriggerDied on Senate Floor
• These bills would have let private education enterprises market and lobby parents to place their child in a charter school or virtual education, despite the fact that these enterprises have a weak education track record compared to most public schools.
• These bills would have removed local control and expand the Department of Education’s authority.
• This bill adds another accountability requirement for schools and districts with no additional resources.
• These bills are yet another means to siphon off funds for public schools.
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RetirementSB 1334/HB 525
Failed
• Would have restored some of the benefits for Florida First Responders, but the bill pitted public safety workers against all other public service employees by “robbing Peter to pay Paul”.
• Public employees would have had to work 11 years before getting their retirement benefit- risking all their investment if they left public service.
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Parent Involvement GradesSB 944/HB543
Failed
• The required checklist would have set up an evaluation of parent involvement that has the potential of “grading parents.”
• Would have added another accountability document to teachers without resources giving the DOE more authority.
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Corporate TaxSB 962/HB 859
Passed
• Nearly doubles the amount of tax dollars that companies are currently allowed to redirect from public to private schools.
• Increases public tax dollars going to Florida’s least accountable voucher program, increasing the cap from $140 to $250 million
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PrivatizationSB 2038 and 2036/HB 7033
Died on Senate Floor
• Had the bill passed, not only would it have compromised public safety, it would have cost Florida thousands of jobs handing over billions in tax dollars to political donors.
• Far worse, the bill aimed to privatize many governmental services and agencies.
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School AccountabilityCS/SB 1522
Passed
• The changes in the bill would align Florida’s differentiated accountability system with the state’s school grading system; conform to provisions included in the federal waiver and remove duplication from the school grading system
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Redistricting
• The Senate approved its second-chance redistricting map by a wide margin leaving lawmakers and would-be candidates waiting to see if the Florida Supreme Court will sign off on the change.
• The Supreme Court has already signed off on House and Congressional Maps.
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SB 2100 (2011)Retirement Lawsuit
• Florida Supreme Court has voted to accept jurisdiction in the appeal of the pension decision. Oral argument before the court is scheduled for 9 am on September 5.