HB 5101 - Education Funding Summary

• Revises Florida Virtual School funding calculations to include base FEFP funding, discretionary contributions, exceptional student education allocations, instructional materials, reading instruction, mental health assistance, and teacher salary increases.

• Requires school districts to provide at least three virtual instruction options for non-sparsity districts and limits enrollment of out-of-district virtual students to 50 percent of in-district enrollment for contracts entered after June 30, 2021.

• Removes requirements for schools to provide an additional hour of intensive reading per day using supplemental academic instruction funds and eliminates virtual education contribution provisions from the funding formula.

• Mandates school districts establish multiagency workgroups to locate and assist "unaccounted students" (those missing from 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 enrollment surveys) and initiate truancy petitions when parents prevent school access.

• Increases minimum base salary adjustments for new instructional personnel to 150 percent of grandfathered schedule adjustments (until minimum reaches $47,500) and thereafter to 75 percent, with requirements for learning loss remediation using federal emergency relief funds.