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House Journal: Page 274: Wednesday, February 7, 1996

26   after subtracting funds received from other sources
27   for that purpose, shall be funded annually on a basis
28   of one-fourth or more from the district cost of the
29   school district and up to three-fourths by an increase
30   in allowable growth as defined in section 257.8
31   receipt of supplementary weighting as provided in
32   section 257.11, subsection 9.  Annually, the
33   department of management shall establish a modified
34   allowable growth the amount of additional funding
35   needed to be raised from the supplementary weighting
36   for each such district equal to the difference between
37   the approved budget for the program for returning
38   dropouts and dropout prevention for that district and
39   the sum of the amount funded from the district cost of
40   the school district plus funds received from other
41   sources.
42     Sec. ___.  Section 257.42, unnumbered paragraph 1,
43   Code 1995, is amended to read as follows:
44     Boards of school districts, individually or jointly
45   with the boards of other school districts, requesting
46   to use additional allowable growth receive
47   supplementary weighting for gifted and talented
48   children programs, may annually submit program plans
49   for gifted and talented children programs and budget
50   costs, including requests for additional allowable

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 1   growth supplementary weighting for funding the
 2   programs, to the department of education and to the
 3   applicable gifted and talented children advisory
 4   council, if an advisory council has been established,
 5   as provided in this chapter.
 6     Sec. ___.  Section 257.42, unnumbered paragraphs 4
 7   and 5, Code 1995, are amended to read as follows:
 8     The department of education shall adopt rules under
 9   chapter 17A relating to the administration of sections
10   257.42 through 257.49.  The rules shall prescribe the
11   format of program plans submitted under section 257.43
12   and shall require that programs fulfill specified
13   objectives.  The department shall encourage and assist
14   school districts to provide programs for gifted and
15   talented children whether or not additional allowable
16   growth supplementary weighting is requested under
this
17   chapter.
18     The department may request that the staff of the
19   auditor of state conduct an independent program audit
20   to verify that the gifted and talented children
21   programs funded by additional allowable growth
22   supplementary weighting conform to a district's
23   program plans.
24     Sec. ___.  Section 257.45, subsection 1, Code 1995,
25   is amended to read as follows:
26     1.  The board of directors of a school district

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