Statewide Provider Contract for the School Readiness Program

 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Office of Early Learning

RULE NO.:RULE TITLE:

6M-4.610Statewide Provider Contract for the School Readiness Program

NOTICE OF CHANGE

Notice is hereby given that the following changes have been made to the proposed rule in accordance with subparagraph 120.54(3)(d)1., F.S., published in Vol. 46 No. 252, December 30, 2020 issue of the Florida Administrative Register.

6M-4.610 Statewide Provider Contract for the School Readiness Program

(1) through (2) No change.

(3) School Readiness Program Ineligibility. For the purpose of this subsection “individual associated with a provider” means an individual or family member of an individual who, regardless of compensation, holds a management position, oversees the operations of a provider, or is an officer, shareholder, beneficial owner or member of the board of directors of a provider. A provider shall not be eligible to contract to offer the SR program if any of the following circumstances apply:

(a) through (g) No change.

(h) For multi-site providers, such as corporate chains or school districts, School Readiness program ineligibility identified in paragraphs (f) and (g) above, is per site and may not apply to all locations unless specifically determined otherwise by the coalition. In determining ineligibility of multi-site providers, the coalition shall consider the following factors: the severity of the provider’s actions leading to the ineligibility, the health, safety and welfare of children enrolled at the provider sites, the financial impact of the provider’s actions, the impact that ineligibility would have upon the local community, consistency with coalition’s actions against other providers for similar violations of the Contract or program requirements, the length of time that provider provided services under the contract with the coalition, and whether the provider had previously violated the terms of the Contract and prior contracts with the coalition.

(4) No change.

The following changes are being made to the OEL-SR20 Statewide Provider Contract, incorporated by reference into the rule.

On page 6, no. 13. b., is amended to add a sentence to clarify that a multi-site provider designate for each site whether the site is on a Quality Improvement Plan.

On page 18, no. 71a., is amended to add a sentence to clarify the applicability of the requirements for multi-site providers (addressing the removal of paragraph (3)(h) from rule text).

On page 20, no. 79 c. is amended to delete the last sentence defining business days.

On pages 27-29, Exhibit 3, Quality Improvement Plan (QIP), removed “teacher’s name” from each strategy and added the word “successfully” to describe completion of a strategy.

 

There are no changes to the OEL-SR 20L Statewide School Readiness Provider Contract Licensed Provider Responsibilities, the OEL-SR 20LE Statewide School Readiness Provider Contract License-Exempt Provider Responsibilities or the OEL-SR 20FFN Statewide School Readiness Provider Contract Informal Responsibilities.