FL S0886

Expands public school educational choice options to include CAPE Digital Tool certificates, CAPE industry certifications, and collegiate high school programs, and authorizes parents to pursue private educational choice through the Florida Personal Learning Scholarship Accounts Program for students with qualifying disabilities.

Requires each school district to establish a public school parental choice policy allowing parents to enroll their children in any public school statewide that has not reached capacity, beginning in the 2017-2018 school year, and permits continuity until the student completes the highest grade offered.

Establishes a right for parents to know the estimated amount of money expended for their child's education from local, state, and federal sources, with districts required to notify parents and the Department of Education to provide funding information by grade level and support level.

Creates a classroom teacher transfer process allowing parents to request their child be transferred to another teacher within the same school and grade, with schools required to approve or deny requests within 2 weeks, and allows parents to request transfers if their child's teacher is teaching out-of-field.

Requires charter schools with available space to be open to any student in the state and modifies extracurricular activity eligibility provisions to reference the new public school parental choice framework instead of controlled open enrollment.