The Bottom Line Legislative Concerns

By Florida School Board Association

• No More Cuts or Layoffs – Use whatever means necessary to restore funding that has been cut from the education budget, to avoid additional cuts, and to eliminate unfunded mandates. (Click Here for the district by district breakdown for the House Education K-12 budget, Click Here for a comparison of the House and Senate budget for the FEFP compondents.)

• Local Control & Flexibility· – Support efforts to safeguard the authority of local school boards to operate, control, and supervise public schools· and to provide maximum flexibility in the use of all available funds.

• Flexibility on Class Size – Support efforts to revise constitutional class size requirements in order to provide sensible flexibility While maintaining appropriate limitations on class sizes. (see SB 1466-Class Size Requirements by Simmons and HB 1447-Class Size Requirements by Nelson)

• Florida Retirement System – Support careful and considered revisions that focus on improving the system, providing reasonable plan options, and avoiding dramatic impacts on employers, employees, and retirees. (see SB 1130 – Retirement, sponsored by Senator Ring and HB1405 sponsored by Workman)

• School Choice Options – Oppose efforts to create or expand school choice programs that lack comparable and transparent accountability and have no record of success in demonstrating student learning gains. (see HB 1331-School Choice by Bileca [CO-SPONSORS] Corcoran)

• Revenue Limitations – Oppose any efforts to place unreasonable and artificial limitations on state revenue that will hinder the state’s ability to provide necessary services, launch new initiatives, and respond quickly and efficiently to emergency and unexpected situations.

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