To
assure that children attending public schools obtain a high quality
education, the legislature shall make adequate provision to ensure that,
by the beginning of the 2010 school year, there are a sufficient number of
classrooms so that: << Download
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FLDOE
(The
Office of Educational Facilities)
established the minimum square footage per student allowed in each classroom.
FLDOE says now that these are only 'RECOMMENDATIONS' and not requirements.
There has been a lot of resentment and negativity by schools state-wide about these new regulations, designed to improve our failing Florida School System, because it requires them to employ more
teachers and have more classrooms for the same amount of students. It costs them more money and they're hating it.
Florida State
Requirements for Educational Facilities << Download
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SIZE OF SPACE AND OCCUPANT DESIGN
CRITERIA TABLE
>>Download
the fire codes: Min square feet/student for Educational Use<<“Net Floor
Area: The floor area within the inside perimeter of the outside walls, or the outside walls and fire walls of the building under consideration with deductions for hallways, stairs, closets, thickness of interior walls, columns, or other features.”
Educational
Use : Classrooms = 20 sqft
net/student Educational
Use : Shops, laboratories, vocational rooms = 50
sqft net/student Access NFPA Fire & Safety codes >>here<<
and Florida Administrative Code >>here<<
Use Chapters 69a-58 and 69a-60 for schools
FLORIDA SCHOOL BOARDS
ASSOCIATION
The
Florida School Boards Association threaten to sue the State Board of
Education to keep co-teaching and large class sizes because they say
"If school districts are to meet the 2010 deadline for
class size compliance, they need every available tool at their disposal." See >>Co-Teaching<<
Yet by 2007, only
neighboring Collier County, had partnered with ICE (Immigration Customs
Enforcement) to fight illegal immigration in Florida >>See<<
Lee
County Public Schools
says that 1200 students recently left Collier County to Lee County. Could
most have left because of strict immigration enforcement in Collier County
and not in Lee County? >>Contact
Lee Sheriff to ask yourself<<
The sad truth in Florida is
that we are paying dearly for illegal students to attend our public
schools and while some may complain about the State's requirements, little
is being done to rid the system of illegal students
Collier County -
Florida, School Principal
allows adult men to enroll as students in co-ed high school & win state soccer
games - >>Full story
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