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1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 257.51 EXTENDED SCHOOL YEAR
1 2 PROGRAM.
1 3 1. An extended school year program is established for
1 4 school districts to provide additional days during a school
1 5 year for students, in-service training for licensed
1 6 practitioners who are employees of the school district, or
1 7 both. The extended school year consists of a time period not
1 8 exceeding thirty additional school or work days beyond the one
1 9 hundred eighty days of a school year required under section
1 10 279.10. An extended school year is not a year around school
1 11 under section 256.20 or an innovative school year under
1 12 section 279.10, subsection 3. A board of directors of a
1 13 school district that wishes to consider participating in an
1 14 extended school year program for a period not exceeding five
1 15 years shall hold a public hearing on the question of
1 16 participation. The board shall set forth in a resolution the
1 17 purposes for which the additional days will be used, which may
1 18 include the provision of remedial work in specific classes or
1 19 grades, enrichment activities in specific classes or grades,
1 20 or professional development or in-service activities for
1 21 licensed practitioners employed by the district, or all of
1 22 these; and the proposed budget for the program for the first
1 23 fiscal year, including the estimated extended school year
1 24 levy, and the estimated extended school year state aid that
1 25 will fund the program; and shall publish the notice of the
1 26 time and place of the public hearing on the resolution.
1 27 Notice of the time and place of the public hearing shall be
1 28 published in one or more newspapers not less than ten nor more
1 29 than twenty days before the public hearing. For the purpose
1 30 of establishing and giving assured circulation to the
1 31 proceedings, only a newspaper which is a newspaper of general
1 32 circulation issued at a regular frequency, distributed in the
1 33 school district's geographic area, and regularly delivered or
1 34 mailed through the post office during the preceding two years
1 35 may be used for the publication. In addition, the newspaper
2 1 must have a list of subscribers who have paid, or promised to
2 2 pay, at more than a nominal rate, for copies to be received
2 3 during a stated period.
2 4 At the hearing, the board shall announce a date certain, no
2 5 later than thirty days after the date of the hearing, that it
2 6 will take action to adopt a resolution to participate in the
2 7 extended school year program for a period not exceeding five
2 8 years.
2 9 2. If the board adopts a resolution to participate in the
2 10 extended school year program, the district shall participate
2 11 in the extended school year program unless within twenty-eight
2 12 days following the action of the board, the secretary of the
2 13 board receives a petition containing the required number of
2 14 signatures, asking that an election be called to approve or
2 15 disapprove the action of the board in adopting the extended
2 16 school year program. The petition must be signed by eligible
2 17 electors equal in number to not less than one hundred or
2 18 thirty percent of the number of voters at the last preceding
2 19 regular school election, whichever is greater. The board
2 20 shall either rescind its action or direct the county
2 21 commissioner of elections to submit the question to the
2 22 qualified electors of the school district at the next
2 23 following regular school election or a special election held
2 24 not later than December 1 of the base year. If a majority of
2 25 those voting on the question at the election favors
2 26 disapproval of the action of the board, the district shall not
2 27 participate in the extended school year program. If a
2 28 majority of those voting on the question favors approval of
2 29 the action, the board shall certify the results of the
2 30 election to the department of management and the district
2 31 shall participate in the program.
2 32 At the expiration of the twenty-eight-day period, if no
2 33 petition is filed, the board shall certify its action to the
2 34 department of management and the district shall participate in
2 35 the program.
3 1 3. Participation in an extended school year program is not
3 2 affected by a change in the boundaries of the school district,
3 3 except as otherwise provided in this section. If each school
3 4 district involved in a school reorganization under chapter 275
3 5 has approved an extended school year program, and if the
3 6 voters have not voted upon the question of participation in
3 7 the program in the reorganized district, the extended school
3 8 year program shall be in effect for the reorganized district
3 9 that has been approved for the least amount and the shortest
3 10 time in any of the districts.
3 11 Sec. 2. NEW SECTION. 257.52 PARTICIPATION.
3 12 Participation by licensed practitioners in the extended
3 13 school year program is voluntary and the contract for
3 14 participation is separate from the contract issued under
3 15 section 279.13. Compensation for employees who participate in
3 16 the program shall be paid pursuant to established or
3 17 negotiated supplemental pay schedules. An extended school
3 18 year contract shall be in writing and shall state the number
3 19 of contract days, the compensation to be paid, and any other
3 20 matters as may be mutually agreed upon. The contract shall be
3 21 for a single school year. Contracts issued under this section
3 22 shall be offered and renewed in the manner provided for
3 23 extracurricular contracts under section 279.19A, subsections
3 24 2, 7, and 8.
3 25 Participation in the extended school year program by
3 26 students is voluntary.
3 27 Sec. 3. NEW SECTION. 257.53 FUNDING FOR EXTENDED SCHOOL
3 28 YEAR PROGRAMS &endash; LEVY &endash; APPROPRIATION.
3 29 1. The extended school program shall be funded each year
3 30 by a combination of an extended school year levy and extended
3 31 school year state aid. The board of directors of a school
3 32 district may certify for levy by April 15 of a school year, a
3 33 tax on all taxable property in the school district for an
3 34 extended school year levy. The revenue from the tax levied in
3 35 this section shall be placed in the extended school year fund
4 1 of the school district.
4 2 2. Extended school year state aid shall be calculated by
4 3 the department of management by determining the proportion of
4 4 regular program district cost of the district for the budget
4 5 year that is state foundation aid and paying that proportion
4 6 of the proposed budget as extended school year state aid, with
4 7 the remainder of the budget funded by the extended school year
4 8 levy. Annually, the department of management shall establish
4 9 the rate of the extended school year levy to be levied and
4 10 certify it to the school district's county auditor.
4 11 3. There is appropriated for each fiscal year from the
4 12 general fund of the state to the department of management an
4 13 amount sufficient to pay the extended school year state aid as
4 14 provided in this section. Extended school year state aid
4 15 shall be paid in three equal installments, on April 15, May
4 16 15, and June 15 of a fiscal year and shall be deposited in the
4 17 extended school year fund established in section 298A.3A.
4 18 4. Moneys received for the extended school year program
4 19 deposited in the extended school year fund shall be expended
4 20 only for the purposes described in section 257.51, subsection
4 21 1.
4 22 Sec. 4. NEW SECTION. 298A.3A EXTENDED SCHOOL YEAR FUND.
4 23 The extended school year fund is a special revenue fund.
4 24 An extended school year fund must be established in any school
4 25 corporation which receives funding for the extended school
4 26 year program. Moneys in the fund are miscellaneous income.
4 27 Sec. 5. This Act takes effect July 1, 1995, for procedures
4 28 needed for the provision of an extended school year program
4 29 for the school year beginning July 1, 1996.
4 30 EXPLANATION
4 31 This bill establishes an extended school year program
4 32 beginning July 1, 1996, which boards of school districts may
4 33 consider implementing. The program provides school districts
4 34 with up to 30 additional school days for students or working
4 35 days for teachers and administrators, or a combination of
5 1 school days and working days. If the board wishes to consider
5 2 participating in the program, the board must hold a public
5 3 hearing on the issue and a resolution to participate in the
5 4 program may be adopted. However, the bill provides that
5 5 voters opposed to the program may petition for an election and
5 6 in that case, an election must be held.
5 7 The program may be approved for up to five years and is
5 8 funded by a combination of extended school year state aid and
5 9 extended school year property tax in the same ratio as the
5 10 state aid and property tax included in the district cost of
5 11 the district. The department of management shall determine
5 12 the amount of state aid to be paid to the school district.
5 13 The bill provides for an appropriation from the general fund
5 14 in an amount sufficient to pay the state aid, with the
5 15 remainder of the budget funded by the extended school year
5 16 levy. Revenue from the tax levied and the state aid shall be
5 17 placed in the extended school year fund the bill directs each
5 18 school district that receives funding for the program to
5 19 establish and costs of the program shall be paid from the
5 20 fund.
5 21 The bill takes effect July 1, 1995, for procedures needed
5 22 for the provision of an extended school year program for the
5 23 school year beginning July 1, 1996.
5 24 LSB 1744HH 76
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