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House Journal: Page 1022: Monday, March 30, 1998

12     A community college with a limited English
13   proficient student instruction program may submit an
14   application to the department of education, on a form
15   developed by the department, for assistance pursuant
16   to this paragraph by November 1 of the school year in
17   which the community college seeks assistance.  In
18   distributing funds, the department shall consider the
19   size, diversity, and enrollment trends of the school
20   district, the relative economic wealth and property
21   tax base of the community college district in
22   comparison to other applying community college
23   districts, and the efforts the community college has
24   undertaken to develop and monitor limited English
25   proficient student assimilation into the community
26   college population.  Preference shall be given to
27   community colleges that have a limited English
28   proficient student enrollment within the upper twenty-
29   five percent of all limited English proficient student
30   instruction program enrollments in the state's
31   community colleges, as determined by the department of
32   education.
33     Assistance payments shall be made to community
34   colleges in accordance with this paragraph beginning
35   with a December 15 payment.  Funds shall be expended
36   solely for purposes related to limited English
37   proficient student program instruction.
38   Notwithstanding section 8.33, the moneys appropriated
39   in this paragraph that remain unencumbered and
40   unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not
41   revert to the general fund but shall remain available
42   for expenditure for the purposes designated during the
43   succeeding fiscal year."
44     3.  Page 29, by inserting after line 12 the
45   following:
46     "Sec. ___.  Section 280.4, Code 1997, is amended by
47   adding the following new subsection:
48     NEW SUBSECTION.  4.  a.  There is appropriated
49   annually from the general fund of the state to the
50   school budget review committee the sum of one million

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 1   dollars, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be
 2   awarded by the committee to school districts with
 3   limited English proficient student instruction program
 4   costs which, in the judgment of the committee, are
 5   high relative to instruction program costs for other
 6   limited English proficient student instruction
 7   programs in the state.  Amounts awarded shall be in
 8   addition to any supplemental aid or modified allowable
 9   growth provided to a school district pursuant to
10   subsection 3.
11     b.  A school district with a limited English

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