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House Journal: Page 933: Wednesday, March 25, 1998

20   dissolving mentoring partnerships; and the process for
21   measuring the results of the program.  The district
22   committee shall recommend to the board of directors or
23   boards of directors of a collaboration the names of
24   classroom teachers eligible to be mentors.
25     4.  The district facilitator shall submit the plan,
26   and the proposed costs of implementing the plan, to
27   the board of directors or boards of directors of a
28   collaboration, which shall consider the plan and, once
29   approved, submit the plan and a reasonable cost
30   proposal to the department of education, which shall
31   award grants as equitably as possible based on the
32   geographic and population diversity of the school
33   districts submitting plans.  Grants may be awarded in
34   subsequent years based upon the most recent plan on
35   file with the department.
36     5.  The district committee is encouraged to work
37   with area education agencies and postsecondary
38   institutions in the preparation and implementation of
39   a plan.
40     Sec. 9.  NEW SECTION.  256E.4  BEGINNING TEACHER
41   AND MENTOR SELECTION AND PLACEMENT.
42     1.  To be eligible to be a mentor, a licensed
43   practitioner shall, at a minimum, be employed by a
44   school district as a classroom teacher, have a record
45   of at least four years of effective practice, have
46   been employed for one full year in the district on a
47   nonprobationary basis, and demonstrate professional
48   commitment to the improvement of teaching and
49   learning, and the development of beginning teachers.
50     2.  The district facilitator shall place beginning

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 1   teachers in a manner that provides the greatest
 2   opportunity to participate with the largest number of
 3   mentors.
 4     Sec. 10.  NEW SECTION.  256E.5  BEGINNING TEACHER
 5   INDUCTION STATE SUBSIDY - FUND.
 6     1.  A teacher who is enrolled as a mentor in an
 7   approved beginning teacher induction program shall be
 8   eligible for an award of five hundred dollars per
 9   semester of participation in the program, which shall
10   be paid from moneys received pursuant to this section
11   by the school district employing the mentor.
12     2.  Moneys received by a school district pursuant
13   to this chapter shall be expended to provide mentors
14   with awards in accordance with subsection 1, to
15   implement the plan, to pay the costs of the employer's
16   share of contributions to federal social security and
17   the Iowa public employees' retirement system or a
18   pension and annuity retirement system established
19   under chapter 294, for such amounts paid by the

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