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1 1 Amend House File 120 as follows:
1 2 #1. By striking everything after the enacting
1 3 clause and inserting the following:
1 4 "Section 1. NEW SECTION. 295.1 SCHOOL
1 5 IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
1 6 The general assembly finds that the fundamental
1 7 unit of educational improvement is the individual
1 8 schools in each community. The general assembly
1 9 further finds that the success of Iowa's educational
1 10 system has resulted from the high degree of
1 11 responsibility provided to local districts with regard
1 12 to educational decisions affecting their students.
1 13 The purpose of this chapter is to provide additional
1 14 resources for improvement at the school level,
1 15 particularly to provide compensation for school
1 16 instructional staff and school service personnel for
1 17 school improvement efforts.
1 18 Sec. 2. NEW SECTION. 295.2 DEFINITIONS.
1 19 1. "School level instructional staff" means an
1 20 individual holding a practitioner's license issued
1 21 under chapter 272 by the board of educational
1 22 examiners, who is employed in a nonadministrative
1 23 position by a school district pursuant to a contract
1 24 issued by a board of directors under section 279.13;
1 25 an administrator as defined in section 272.1, who is
1 26 assigned to work at one or more school sites; an
1 27 educational aide as defined under rules of the
1 28 department of education; and an area education agency
1 29 special education staff member assigned to a classroom
1 30 teaching assignment in a school district.
1 31 2. "School" means an attendance center within a
1 32 public school district under section 280.2.
1 33 3. "School service personnel" means a person
1 34 holding a practitioner's license who provides support
1 35 services to a student enrolled in school or to
1 36 practitioners employed by a school.
1 37 Sec. 3. NEW SECTION. 295.3 SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
1 38 PLAN.
1 39 1. A plan developed under this section shall be
1 40 for a four-year period and may include plans for the
1 41 entire district and individual schools within the
1 42 district. Plans must be developed with involvement
1 43 from school-level instructional staff and school
1 44 service personnel, parents, and representatives of the
1 45 school district community, and must set academic goals
1 46 for students as identified in the reports submitted
1 47 pursuant to section 280.18. School-based building
1 48 plans shall be submitted to the board of directors of
1 49 the district no later than May 1 of the preceding
1 50 school year. Plans shall indicate the additional
2 1 instructional or noninstructional duties of school-
2 2 level instructional staff and school service personnel
2 3 performed beyond the regular instructional or
2 4 noninstructional duties for compensation pursuant to
2 5 this section.
2 6 2. The board of directors shall submit, to the
2 7 department of education by June 30 of the preceding
2 8 school year, on a form provided by the department of
2 9 education, assurances that the school improvement plan
2 10 was developed pursuant to subsection 1 and that the
2 11 district will comply with subsection 3 of this
2 12 section.
2 13 3. The board of directors of each school district
2 14 and each school participating in a school improvement
2 15 plan shall report to their respective constituents on
2 16 student progress toward meeting the identified goals
2 17 for their district. The report submitted under this
2 18 subsection may be used to meet the reporting
2 19 requirements of section 280.18 if the provisions of
2 20 this subsection and section 280.18 are met.
2 21 4. Provisions of school improvement plans
2 22 involving compensation shall be consistent with
2 23 current collective bargaining agreements.
2 24 Sec. 4. NEW SECTION. 295.4 SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
2 25 FUND.
2 26 A school improvement fund is established in the
2 27 office of treasurer of state to be administered by the
2 28 department of education. Moneys appropriated by the
2 29 general assembly for deposit in the fund shall be paid
2 30 to school districts pursuant to the requirements of
2 31 this chapter. Moneys received by school districts and
2 32 area education agencies may be used to compensate
2 33 school level instructional staff and school service
2 34 personnel for performance of additional instructional
2 35 or noninstructional duties beyond the regular
2 36 instructional or noninstructional duties.
2 37 Notwithstanding section 8.33, any balance in the fund
2 38 on June 30 of any fiscal year shall not revert to the
2 39 general fund of the state.
2 40 Sec. 5. NEW SECTION. 295.5 ALLOCATIONS AND
2 41 PAYMENTS.
2 42 1. The amount of moneys allocated from the school
2 43 improvement fund to each school district for each
2 44 fiscal year shall be based upon the proportion that
2 45 the basic enrollment of the district for a budget year
2 46 as defined under section 257.6 bears to the sum of the
2 47 basic enrollments of all districts in the state for
2 48 that budget year.
2 49 2. Commencing with the school year beginning July
2 50 1, 1995, and annually for each subsequent four-year
3 1 period, the department of education shall notify the
3 2 department of revenue and finance of the amount of
3 3 school improvement money to be paid to each school
3 4 district. Payments shall be made by the department of
3 5 revenue and finance on a monthly basis commencing on
3 6 October 15 and ending June 15 of each fiscal year,
3 7 taking into account the relative budget position and
3 8 cash position of the state resources. The payments
3 9 shall be separate from state aid payments made
3 10 pursuant to sections 257.16 and 257.35. The school
3 11 district shall allocate moneys to the area education
3 12 agency in which the district is located for payment of
3 13 area education agency staff, as defined in section
3 14 295.2, subsection 1, who are participating in the
3 15 school improvement program. Payments made to school
3 16 districts under this chapter are miscellaneous income
3 17 for purposes of chapter 257.
3 18 Sec. 6. NEW SECTION. 295.6 CONTROLS ON
3 19 EXPENDITURES.
3 20 Funds received under this chapter shall be expended
3 21 only for the following purposes:
3 22 1. To provide compensation for school-level
3 23 instructional staff and school service personnel, for
3 24 activities and responsibilities that are part of the
3 25 school improvement plan approved by the district,
3 26 approved under subsection 3, and are in addition to
3 27 the regular activities and duties of the school and
3 28 instructional staff and of the school service
3 29 personnel; and to pay costs of the employer's share of
3 30 federal social security and the Iowa public employees'
3 31 retirement system, or a pension and annuity retirement
3 32 system established under chapter 294.
3 33 2. To provide for the costs of substitute
3 34 instructional staff to permit the regular
3 35 instructional staff to engage in planning or training
3 36 activities that are part of the school improvement
3 37 plan.
3 38 3. To provide for the costs associated with
3 39 specialized or general training that are part of the
3 40 school improvement plan."
3 41 #2. Title page, by striking lines 1 through 3 and
3 42 inserting the following: "An Act relating to the
3 43 establishment of a school improvement program and
3 44 creating a school improvement fund."
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3 48 OLLIE of Clinton
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4 2 WISE of Lee
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4 6 CONNORS of Polk
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4 10 BAKER of Polk
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4 14 SCHRADER of Marion
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4 18 MAY of Worth
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4 22 KOENIGS of Mitchell
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4 26 MERTZ of Kossuth
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4 30 MORELAND of Wapello
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4 34 HARPER of Black Hawk
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4 38 MASCHER of Johnson
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4 42 BURNETT of Story
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4 46 JOCHUM of Dubuque
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4 50 FALLON of Polk
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5 4 SHOULTZ of Black Hawk
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5 8 NELSON of Pottawattamie
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5 12 BRAND of Benton
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5 16 LARKIN of Lee
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5 20 COHOON of Des Moines
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5 24 RUNNING of Linn
5 25 HF 120.303 76
5 26 kh/cf
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