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1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 257.50 ADDITIONAL AID FOR AT-
1 2 RISK PUPILS.
1 3 1. Beginning with the school budget year commencing July
1 4 1, 1997, school districts shall receive additional state aid
1 5 for at-risk pupils enrolled in a public school in the
1 6 district.
1 7 2. The amount of additional state aid for at-risk pupils a
1 8 school district shall receive for a budget year shall be based
1 9 on an increasing supplemental weighting factor applied to
1 10 school attendance centers encountering above the state
1 11 attendance center average percentage of free and reduced price
1 12 lunches. No later than October 1 of each budget year, school
1 13 districts shall report to the department of education the
1 14 percentage of students in each attendance center within that
1 15 district qualifying for free and reduced price lunches.
1 16 3. The department of management shall pay additional state
1 17 aid to each school district with one or more attendance
1 18 centers above the state attendance center average percentage
1 19 of pupils receiving free and reduced price lunches for that
1 20 budget year in the manner prescribed as follows:
1 21 a. The department of management shall determine the number
1 22 of attendance centers with a percentage of pupils receiving
1 23 free and reduced price lunches above the state average
1 24 percentage of pupils receiving free and reduced price lunches
1 25 and shall divide those attendance centers into three
1 26 categories.
1 27 b. Each pupil enrolled in the one-third of the attendance
1 28 centers with the lowest percentage of pupils qualifying for
1 29 additional state aid receives additional weighting of one-
1 30 hundredth of a regular pupil.
1 31 c. Each pupil enrolled in the one-third of the attendance
1 32 centers with the next highest percentage of pupils qualifying
1 33 for additional state aid receives additional weighting of two-
1 34 hundredths of a regular pupil.
1 35 d. Each pupil enrolled in the one-third of the attendance
2 1 centers with the highest percentage of pupils qualifying for
2 2 additional state aid receives additional weighting of three-
2 3 hundredths of a regular pupil.
2 4 4. Moneys received by a school district for at-risk pupils
2 5 under this section may be used throughout the district on
2 6 programs for at-risk pupils who are identified using the
2 7 primary and secondary risk factors specified in 281 IAC 65.4
2 8 and 65.5, who have been identified as at-risk four-year-olds,
2 9 who have high absenteeism rates, who are at-risk of dropping
2 10 out of school, who have low test scores on standardized tests,
2 11 or who exhibit other at-risk factors that the department of
2 12 education may specify.
2 13 5. There is appropriated from the general fund of the
2 14 state to the department of management for each fiscal year an
2 15 amount sufficient to pay the additional state aid to school
2 16 districts under this section. The additional state aid shall
2 17 be paid, to the extent possible, in the manner provided in
2 18 section 257.16, commencing with the December 15 payment. Aid
2 19 received by a school district under this section shall be
2 20 miscellaneous income. Moneys appropriated in this section are
2 21 in addition to moneys appropriated in section 279.51 and
2 22 moneys appropriated by law to supplement that funding.
2 23 Sec. 2. This Act, being deemed of immediate importance,
2 24 takes effect upon enactment for computing state aid for school
2 25 budget years beginning on or after July 1, 1997.
2 26 EXPLANATION
2 27 This bill provides for additional state aid that may be
2 28 used throughout a school district for at-risk pupils, as
2 29 identified in Iowa administrative code chapter 281 and through
2 30 additional listed risk factors. The amount of additional
2 31 state aid appropriated to each district is determined based on
2 32 applying an increasing supplemental weighting factor for at-
2 33 risk students that varies depending upon the amount by which a
2 34 school building within a district exceeds the state free and
2 35 reduced price lunch average. Buildings at or below the state
3 1 average receive no supplemental weighting. For buildings
3 2 exceeding the state average, the three levels of supplemental
3 3 weighting shall be determined by the department of management,
3 4 corresponding to additional weightings of one-tenth of 1
3 5 percent of the state average cost per pupil, two-tenths, and
3 6 three-tenths, respectively.
3 7 The bill takes effect upon its enactment and is applicable
3 8 for the budget year beginning July 1, 1997.
3 9 LSB 1841HH 77
3 10 rn/jw/5
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