CRC - 2017                                COMMISSIONER AMENDMENT
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       Commissioners Johnson and Washington moved the following:
       
    1         CRC Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the proposal clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 4 of Article IX of the State Constitution is
    6  amended to read:
    7                             ARTICLE IX                            
    8                              EDUCATION                            
    9         SECTION 4. School districts; school boards; innovation
   10  school districts.-
   11  
   12          (a) Each county shall constitute a school district;
   13  provided, two or more contiguous counties, upon vote of the
   14  electors of each county pursuant to law, may be combined into
   15  one school district. In each school district there shall be a
   16  school board composed of five or more members chosen by vote of
   17  the electors in a nonpartisan election for appropriately
   18  staggered terms of four years, as provided by law.
   19         (b) The school board shall operate, control and supervise
   20  all free public schools within the school district and determine
   21  the rate of school district taxes within the limits prescribed
   22  herein. Two or more school districts may operate and finance
   23  joint educational programs.
   24         (c) The legislature shall provide by law the process by
   25  which a school district can qualify for the designation of
   26  innovation school district. The district school board may, by
   27  majority vote of the board, seek the innovation school district
   28  designation. The school board shall continue to operate,
   29  control, and supervise all free public schools within the
   30  innovation school district and the school board shall remain the
   31  governing board of the innovation school district with the
   32  district school superintendent as the chief executive officer.
   33         In order to promote diverse and innovative educational
   34  opportunities for all of Florida’s students, school districts
   35  seeking innovation district status shall be eligible for
   36  exemption from all provisions of the Florida law in the same
   37  manner as other public schools designated by Florida law. The
   38  district school board shall indicate which of these exemptions
   39  it seeks to obtain.
   40         (d) The legislature shall enact legislation implementing
   41  subsection (c) of this section, effective no later than July 1,
   42  2019.
   43  
   44  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   45  And the title is amended as follows:
   46         Delete everything before the proposal clause
   47  and insert:
   48                         A proposal to amend                       
   49         Section 4 of Article IX of the State Constitution to
   50         authorize high-performing school districts to become
   51         innovation school districts exempt from certain
   52         provisions of law applicable to school districts and
   53         requiring the legislature to implement by July 1,
   54         2019.