Charter Schools

Added colleges and state universities as eligible entities that can apply for conversion charter schools, alongside district school boards, principals, teachers, parents, and school advisory councils.

Expanded student enrollment preferences to include children of business partners of charter schools-in-the-workplace, children of safe-school officers, children of job engine charter school employees, and students transferring from classical schools to charter classical schools.

Revised job engine charter requirements to include career education opportunities and clarified that job engine charters may give enrollment preferences to children of job-producing entity employees.

Added facility provisions requiring district school boards to approve 5-year plans before occupying purchased property and prohibiting charging rental fees for conversion schools using existing facilities.

Changed property disposal requirements to require demonstration of actual or projected 5-year growth before purchasing property if enrollment declined by more than 4 percent in the preceding 5-year period.

Expanded the Workforce Development Capitalization Incentive Grant Program to explicitly include charter schools as eligible recipients alongside school districts and Florida College System institutions.