Senate File 2139 - Introduced SENATE FILE BY KETTERING Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to the distribution of state aid to school 2 districts and area education agencies for professional 3 development under the student achievement and teacher quality 4 program. 5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 6 TLSB 5165XS 82 7 kh/rj/8 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 284.13, subsection 1, paragraph d, Code 1 2 Supplement 2007, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 d. (1) For the fiscal year beginning July 1,20072008, 1 4 and ending June 30,20082009, up to twenty million dollars to 1 5 the department for use by school districts for professional 1 6 development as provided in section 284.6. The department 1 7 shall distribute fifty percent of the funds allocated for the 1 8 purpose of this paragraph in the proportion that the actual 1 9 enrollment of a school district bears to the sum of the basic 1 10 enrollments of all school districts in the state for the 1 11 budget year, while the remainder of the funds allocated for 1 12 the purpose of this paragraph shall be distributed based on 1 13 the average per diem contract salary for each district as 1 14 reported to the department for the school year beginning July 1 15 1,20062007, multiplied by the total number of full=time 1 16 equivalent teachers in the base year. The department shall 1 17 adjust each district's average per diem salary by the 1 18 allowable growth rate established under section 257.8 for the 1 19 fiscal year beginning July 1,20072008. The contract salary 1 20 amount shall be the amount paid for their regular 1 21 responsibilities but shall not include pay for extracurricular 1 22 activities. These funds shall not supplant existing funding 1 23 for professional development activities. Notwithstanding any 1 24 provision to the contrary, moneys received by a school 1 25 district under this paragraph shall not revert but shall 1 26 remain available for the same purpose in the succeeding fiscal 1 27 year. A school district shall submit a report to the 1 28 department in a manner determined by the department describing 1 29 its use of the funds received under this paragraph. The 1 30 department shall submit a report on school district use of the 1 31 moneys distributed pursuant to this paragraph to the general 1 32 assembly and the legislative services agency not later than 1 33 January 15 of the fiscal year for which moneys are allocated 1 34 for purposes of this paragraph. 1 35 (2) From moneys available under subparagraph (1) based on 2 1 average per diem contract salaries for the fiscal year 2 2 beginning July 1,20072008, and ending June 30,20082009, 2 3 the department shall allocate to area education agencies an 2 4 amount per teacher employed by an area education agency that 2 5 is approximately equivalent to the average per teacher amount 2 6 allocated to the districts. The average per teacher amount 2 7 shall be calculated by dividing the total number of teachers 2 8 employed by school districts and the teachers employed by area 2 9 education agencies into the total amount of moneys available 2 10 under subparagraph (1) based on average per diem contract 2 11 salaries. 2 12 EXPLANATION 2 13 This bill changes the formula by which the department of 2 14 education is directed to distribute $20 million in state aid 2 15 allocated for professional development for FY 2008=2009 to 2 16 school districts and area education agencies under the student 2 17 achievement and teacher quality program. 2 18 The bill provides that 50 percent of the moneys must be 2 19 distributed in the proportion that the actual enrollment bears 2 20 to the sum of the basic enrollments of all school districts in 2 21 the state for the budget year. The remainder of the moneys 2 22 will continue to be distributed as in FY 2007=2008, based on 2 23 the average per diem contract salary for each district as 2 24 reported to the department for the prior school year, 2 25 multiplied by the total number of full=time equivalent 2 26 teachers in the prior school year. 2 27 LSB 5165XS 82 2 28 kh/rj/8