K-12 Education: 2017 FloridaLegislative Session Outlook &

Key Issues

February 17, 2017

11:00am - 12:00pm EST

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Welcome & Introduction

Mary Chance, President

Consortium of Florida Education Foundations

Mission: The CFEF advances student achievement in

Florida through member local education foundations by

increasing their capacity and resources in partnership

with key stakeholders.

http://educationfoundationsfl.org/

Welcome from our Host

Bill Hoffman, Education Consultant

Florida Philanthropic Network

http://www.fpnetwork.org/

Mission:

Foster cooperation and collaboration among

business, government and nonprofit organizations.

Advance sound public policy that includes nonprofit

sector perspectives.

Promote and develop philanthropy in Florida.

Platform Priorities

Legislative Leaders

Education Funding

Hot Topics and Q & A

Format

A little about you

Work in K-12 Education

Work in Higher Education

Work in Independent Sector (Non-Profit or

Philanthropy)

Work for State Government

Concerned Citizen

K-12

Policy &

Funding

Priorities

Florida

Legislature

Governor’s

Office

FL Dept. of

Education/

State Board

Business

Community

Students

Philanthropy &

Foundations

Parents

School District Leaders

Teachers

Constituencies & our Schools

National/International Entities

(Data & Resources)

Top Legislative Priorities of Key Groups

Allyce Heflin

Southern Strategy Group

Eric Prutsman

CFEF Government Representative

Top Education Priorities

Governor Rick Scott Funding for enrollment growth

Increase in school safety initiatives

Increase in Sparsity Supplement (assistance to rural districts)

Digital classrooms

Florida Retirement System increases

Transportation increases

Increase in ESE allocation

Elimination of initial teacher certification and renewal fees

Teacher recruitment and retention

Teacher professional development initiatives

Student Articulation and Access

Provide all K-12 and postsecondary students with more options to learn and achieve in areas needed for higher education and workforce success

Increased Student Achievement

To create the conditions in every school district where all students have the opportunity for the education that assists them in reaching their highest individual achievement and address specific gaps where those conditions are not presents

Education Service Efficiency

To ensure the state’s return on investment by providing more quality efficient services and protections

High Quality Education Institutions

To provide protection for students enrolled in private postsecondary institutions by requiring institutions to implement procedures to safeguard their ability to maintain operations and ensure licensure of high quality institutions

Restore authority for school districts to levy, by simple majority vote, up to 2.0 mills for capital purposes, and maintain the current authority of school districts to determine the use of local capital outlay millage revenue

Provide sufficient per student funding to place Florida in the upper quartile nationally, increase the Base Student Allocation by at least five percent annually, and ensure that funding for each categorical allocation within the FEFP is sufficient to cover actual costs, growth, and inflation, and is not reduced by either enrollment or revenue changes during the fiscal year

Revise Florida statutes and related State Board of Education Rules regarding 3rd Grade promotion and retention to:

Prove clearly defined alternative pathways for student promotion and retention with a more balanced approach that considers both assessment results and local evidence of student performance

Ensure that the final decision on student promotion or retention is made at the local level

Ensure that student promotion or retention is not dependent upon, or denied

by, a single assessment result

Ensuring Equity – All children deserve to develop to their full

potential, irrespective of their race, gender, culture, linguistic

background, ability, sexual orientation, religion, socioeconomic

status, or nation of origin.

Promoting Excellence – No matter where they attended school, all

students must be provided a safe, healthy, and accepting learning

environment and a rigorous, high-quality, and personalized academic

program.

Supporting Educators – As the most significant in-school factors for

student achievement, teachers and school leaders deserve the

support and resources to maximize student learning outcomes and

prepare our young people for the future.

High-stakes testing – Florida PTA opposes the use of national, mandated, standardized test as the sole criterion for measuring a school or student progress.

Physical Education/Reducing Childhood Obesity – Florida PTA urges the legislature to support daily physical education programs taught by certified PE teachers as an integral part of every child’s education and to support efforts to improve the nutritional value of foods and beverage served and sold in schools throughout the state.

School Choice – PTA supports public school choice and the creation of public charter schools based on a set of principles that are designed to keep the integrity of public schools intact.

Voucher Expansion – Florida PTA urges the Legislature to impose strict eligibility requirements on private institutions and non-public K-12 schools receiving public dollars through any state funded voucher, grant, or scholarship programs, and at a minimum, require them to meet the same accountability standards at their cost as public schools, including, but not limited to, school-wide participation in any statewide mandated assessment program, and school performance grade category designated and improvement rating.

Early Childhood Education – Florida PTA urges the legislature to support and fully fund high-quality child care and preschool programs that are affordable and accessible, coordinated at all levels, and characterized by high standards for teaching, training, health, and safety.

Juvenile Justice – PTA encourages collaboration between law enforcement, the judicial system, and child welfare agencies; promotes alternative dispute resolution techniques that provide a range of possible sanctions; urges the prevention of the incarceration of youth in adult facilities; and supports assisting youth leaving the juvenile justice system with programs that prevent recidivism.

Sexual Violence and Harassment – PTA urges and supports the strengthening of Title IX and all other laws that identify, address the effects of, and prohibit sexual harassment and sexual violence impacting students, and compliance by recipients of federal funds with the provisions of Title IX.

Child Trafficking – PTA supports the adoption and enforcement of laws that will deter the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt pf children for the purpose of exploitation.

Bullying – PTA supports policies and programs that address the prevention, intervention, and elimination of bullying.

Closing Florida’s Talent Gap by Improving

Educational Opportunities

Preparing Florida’s workforce and addressing the skills gap

Investing in digital and virtual education technology

Adequately preparing Florida’s youngest learners

Supporting STEM initiatives

Championing school choice and competition

Continuing to improve Florida’s K-12 system

Empowering Florida’s best teachers

Class Size Reform

Achieve the class size reduction mandate on a "school level class size

average" basis for grades 4-12 .

Reinvest the savings into measures demonstrated to improve teacher

quality and to improve student achievement.

Standards and Accountability

Hold Florida students to higher standards to successfully compete in the

global marketplace.

Make sure every student who takes the new test receives an accurate and

valid test score.

School Choice

Early Learning - AIF SUPPORTS a uniform system of regulation for health and safety standards for all early learning providers accepting taxpayer dollars.

Access to Technology and Innovative Learning - AIF SUPPORTS removing all barriers for accessing all forms of innovative technology-driven education.

Choices that Work for Individual Students - AIF SUPPORTS educational choice.

Competition that Drives Improved Performance

Talent Pipeline and Economic Development

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medical (STEMM)

Accountability

Give families public school choice, so they are best positioned to make decisions for their children

Support school districts implementing competency-based and personalized-learning education systems

Allow more students to access the opportunities through Gardiner Scholarships and the John M. McKay Scholarships for Student with Disabilities

Increase support, accountability, and student access to high quality charter schools

Improve access to services and fair treatment for home education students

Support and reward teachers, providing them with the liability protection they deserve

Fund student-centered priorities and policies that work through the 2016-17 K-12 education budget

Through FPN’s Education Funders Affinity Group:

Higher standards for education, as exemplified by the Florida

Standards, as measured by the high quality, aligned Florida Student

Assessment

State-wide goal of 60% of working-age Floridians having post-

secondary degree or certification by 2025

Research in support of merit and need based financial aid, including

the effects of recent changes to Florida Bright Futures

House of Representatives

Appropriations Committee

PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee

Education Committee

PreK-12 Innovation

Subcommittee

PreK-12 Quality Subcommittee

Legislative Structure

Senate

Appropriations

Appropriations Subcommittee on

PreK-12 Education

Education

Overall Leadership

House of Representatives Speaker of the House

Representative Richard Corcoran (R-37)

(Part of Pasco County)

Speaker Pro Tempore 2014-2016

Representative Jeanette Nuñez (R-119)

(Part of Miami-Dade)

Overall Leadership

Florida Senate President of the Senate

Senator Joe Negron (R-25)

(Martin, St. Lucie, and parts of Palm Beach County)

President Pro Tempore

Senator Anitere Flores (R-39)

(Monroe County and parts of Miami-Dade County)

Education Committees

Chair: Michael Bileca

Vice Chair: Robert “Bob” Cortes

Members:

Larry Ahern Bruce Antone

Robert Ascenio Kamia L. Brown

Manny Diaz, Jr. Byron Donalds

Shevrin “Shev” Jones Chris Latvala

Larry Lee, Jr. Rene “Coach P” Plasencia

Mel Ponder Elizabeth W. Porter

Jake Raburn Barrington A. “Barry” Russell

Charlie Stone Jennifer Mae Sullivan

Chair: Dorothy L. Hukill

Vice Chair: Debbie Mayfield

Members:

Gary Farmer, Jr.

Bill Galvano

Tom Lee

David Simmons

Wilton Simpson

Linda Stewart

Perry E. Thurston

Senate House of Representatives

PreK-12 Appropriations

Subcommittees

Chair: David Simmons

Vice Chair: Dana D. Young

Members:

Doug Broxson

Gary M. Farmer, Jr.

Denise Grimsley

Tom Lee

Bill Montford

Darryl Ervin Rouson

Chair: Manny Diaz, Jr.

Vice Chair: Jake Raburn

Members:

Bruce Antone Kamia L. Brown

Byron Donalds Randy Fine

Jason Fischer Roy Hardemon

Chris Latvala Larry Lee, Jr.

Ralph E. Massullo, MD Stan McClain

Wengay M. Newton, Sr. Jennifer Mae Sullivan

Paul Renner

Senate House of Representatives

Legislative Leader Perspective

Representative Robert “Bob” Cortes District 30

Education Committee, Vice Chair

PreK-12 Innovation Subcommittee

Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee

Post-Secondary Education Subcommittee

Transportation & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee

Ways & Means Committee

Projected Florida 2017-18 Budget

$83.5 billion

Total Florida 2017-18 Budget

FY 2016-17 Appropriations

Education, $21,779.0, 27%

Trans & Ec. Dev., $12,561.6, 15%

Justice, $4,974.6, 6%

Ag. & Natural Resources, $3,927.9, 5%

Approp. Committee, $2,826.3, 3%

Gov. Ops, $1,965.5, 2%

Health Care, $34,313.9, 42%

Fiscal Year 2016-17 - CR HB 5001General Appropriations Act - $82.3 Billion

(In Millions of Dollars)

State Education Appropriations by

Program, FY 2016-17 - $23.8 Billion

Blind Services, 0.2%

Early Learning Services, 4.4%

Fixed Capital Outlay, 8.5%

Florida Colleges, 5.2%

Student Financial Assistance, 1.7%

Private Colleges and Universities, 0.7%

Public Schools, 57.4%

State Board of Education, 1.0%

State Universities, 19.9%

Vocational Rehabilitation, 0.9%

Total Education Appropriations, Fiscal Year 2016-17

PreK-12 Education 5-Year

Funding History

$0

$2,000,000,000

$4,000,000,000

$6,000,000,000

$8,000,000,000

$10,000,000,000

$12,000,000,000

$14,000,000,000

$16,000,000,000

2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17

State BOE

Ed Media/Tech

Fed K-12 Prog

State NonFEFP

State FEFP

Early Learning Svc

PreK Ed

Florida Education Finance Program (FEFP)

Legislature established the Florida Education Finance Program in 1973 to comply with the constitutional requirement for uniform system.

The funding formula used to calculate operating revenue allocations for 67 school districts including charter schools, 1 special district, 6 lab schools, & Florida Virtual School.

The purpose is to provide each student in the Florida public educational system the availability of programs and services appropriate to his or her educational needs.

These services should be substantially equal to those available to any similar student notwithstanding geographic differences and varying local economic factors.

Florida Education Finance Program

Funding

$3,690$3,269 $3,077 $3,371 $3,266 $3,534

$3,873 $3,881 $3,931 $4,028

$3,436$3,577

$3,424$3,196

$2,952$2,843

$2,897 $3,010 $3,156 $3,156

$346 $330

$0

$1,000

$2,000

$3,000

$4,000

$5,000

$6,000

$7,000

$8,000

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17

Public Schools Funds (FEFP) per FTE

Fed Stimulus

Local Funds

State Funds

What Do You Think?

Best and Brightest Reform

Bright Futures Reform

More funding for Higher Education

More funding for K-12 Education

Testing Reform

Legislative Priorities

Best and Brightest Reform

Testing Reform

Questions & Answers

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Staying Informed with Free Resources

During Session & Beyond

Easy links for contact information for legislators, following committee

agendas, archived audio, following legislation and publications.

www.myflorida.com

www.floridasenate.gov (also use bill tracker)

www.myfloridahouse.gov (also use bill tracker)

www.thefloridachannel.org – Watch committees, live & recorded

Staying Informed with Free Resources

During Session & Beyond

Staying Informed with Free Resources

During Session & Beyond

http://educationfoundationsfl.org/info-resources-hub

Join Us at the CFEF Legislative Reception

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The Florida Historical Capitol Museum

400 S. Monroe Street

Tallahassee, FL

For more information or to RSVP,

please email patricefletcher@cfef.net

Sponsored by:

Mary Chance, President

Consortium of Florida Education

FoundationsOffice: 352-338-0250 | Cell: 352-316-6574

marychance@cfef.net

www.educationfoundationsfl.org

Bill Hoffman, Education Consultant

Florida Philanthropic NetworkOffice: (813) 956-6453

bill@billhoffmanandassociates.com

www.fpnetwork.org/