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OCPS legislative liaison outlines 2025 bills that change funding, sports eligibility, health requirements and teacher certification
Summary
The district's government relations director briefed the board on key 2025 laws: a new 'academic acceleration option supplement,' Schools of Hope co‑location/capital outlay changes, expanded athletic eligibility, ECG and anaphylaxis requirements, and a major overhaul of educator certification.
Marquise McMiller, OCPS senior director for government relations, briefed the school board on a package of education bills passed in the 2025 Florida Legislature and explained how several of the measures will affect district operations.
McMiller said the 2025 session extended to 105 days and that the conforming bill (Senate Bill 2502) plus the preK–12 conforming language in Senate Bill 2510 created an "academic acceleration option supplement" that replaces the prior "added weights" FTE approach. "Under this change it preserves funding levels for APIB, ACE, and CAPE programs but going forward the funding will no longer increase in line with the base student allocation," he said, and added that "districts are now also required to report enrollment and other data to the DOE before the FTE amendment deadline."
On Schools of Hope, McMiller described new co‑location provisions that allow operators to…
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