Florida · statute · Fla. Stat. ch. 1000 · 18 active provisions
(1) NAME.—Chapters 1000 through 1013 shall be known and cited as the “Florida Early Learning-20 Education Code.”(2) LIBERAL CONSTRUCTION.—The provisions of the Florida Early Learning-20 Education Code shall be liberally construed to the end that its objectives may be effected. It is the legislative intent that if any s…
(1) It is the policy of the Legislature:(a) To achieve within existing resources a seamless academic educational system that fosters an integrated continuum of early learning through graduate school education for Florida’s students.(b) To promote enhanced academic success and funding efficiency of educational delivery…
(1) Florida’s Early Learning-20 education system shall be a decentralized system without excess layers of bureaucracy. Florida’s Early Learning-20 education system shall maintain a systemwide technology plan based on a common set of data definitions.(2)(a) The Legislature shall establish education policy, enact educati…
Florida’s Early Learning-20 education system provides for the delivery of early learning and public education through publicly supported and controlled K-12 schools, Florida College System institutions, state universities and other postsecondary educational institutions, other educational institutions, and other educat…
(1) This section may be cited as the “Florida Educational Equity Act.”(2)(a) Discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or marital status against a student or an employee in the state system of public K-20 education is prohibited. No person in this state shall, on the basis…
(1) Every public K-20 educational institution that is provided or authorized by the Constitution and laws of Florida shall display daily the flag of the United States and the official flag of Florida when the weather permits upon one building or on a suitable flagstaff upon the grounds of each public postsecondary educ…
(1) It shall be the policy of every public K-12 educational institution that is provided or authorized by the Constitution and laws of Florida that a person’s sex is an immutable biological trait and that it is false to ascribe to a person a pronoun that does not correspond to such person’s sex. This section does not a…
The Department of Education and the Department of Environmental Protection shall, in coordination with representatives of the business community, the environmental community, and the energy community, develop a program to provide awards or recognition for outstanding efforts or achievements concerning conservation, red…
As used in the Florida Early Learning-20 Education Code:(1) “Articulation” is the systematic coordination that provides the means by which students proceed toward their educational objectives in as rapid and student-friendly manner as their circumstances permit, from grade level to grade level, from elementary to middl…
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state to promote the development and maintenance of regional education services and facilities in the Southern States in the professional, technological, scientific, literary and other fields so as to provide greater educational advantages for the citizens of the state and…
The compact entered into by the state and other Southern States by and through their respective governors on February 8, 1948, as amended, relative to the development and maintenance of regional education services and schools in the Southern States in the professional, technological, scientific, literary and other fiel…
The compact for education is entered into with all jurisdictions legally joining therein and enacted into law in the following form:COMPACT FOR EDUCATIONARTICLE IPURPOSE AND POLICY.—A. It is the purpose of this compact to:1. Establish and maintain close cooperation and understanding among executive, legislative, profes…
(1) The purpose of this section is to authorize this state to participate in a reciprocity agreement with other states for the delivery of postsecondary distance education. Each member state or institution participating in a reciprocity agreement must accept each other’s authorization of accredited institutions to oper…
The Governor is authorized and directed to execute the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children on behalf of this state with any other state or states legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows:Interstate Compact on EducationalOpportunity for Military ChildrenARTICLE IPURPOS…
The annual dues assessment for the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children shall be paid within existing resources by the Department of Education.
(1) In furtherance of Articles VIII and IX of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, the Governor shall designate a:(a) Compact Commissioner, who shall be responsible for the administration and management of this state’s participation in the compact and who shall serve as this state’s…
(1) Pursuant to Article VIII of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, the State Council on Interstate Educational Opportunity for Military Children is created.(2)(a) The purpose of the council is to provide advice and recommendations regarding this state’s participation in and complia…
Sections 1000.36, 1000.361, 1000.38, and 1000.39 and this section shall stand repealed on July 1, 2028, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.