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House Amendment 8409

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend Senate File 2267, as amended, passed, and
  1  2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  By striking everything after the enacting
  1  4 clause and inserting the following:
  1  5    "Section 1.  Section 256D.1, subsection 1,
  1  6 paragraph b, subparagraph (1), Code Supplement 1999,
  1  7 is amended to read as follows:
  1  8    (1)  A school district shall at a minimum
  1  9 biannually inform parents of their individual child's
  1 10 performance on the diagnostic assessments in
  1 11 kindergarten through grade three.  If intervention is
  1 12 appropriate, the school district shall inform provide
  1 13 written notice to the parents of the actions the
  1 14 school district intends to take to improve the child's
  1 15 reading skills and provide the parents with strategies
  1 16 to enable the parents to improve their child's skills.
  1 17 If a school district determines that a child is
  1 18 failing to adequately master the school district's
  1 19 reading curriculum, the school district shall
  1 20 establish a compact with the parent of the child which
  1 21 shall include a requirement that the parent meet face-
  1 22 to-face with the child's teacher.  However, if the
  1 23 teacher makes a good faith effort to meet face-to-face
  1 24 with the parent but the effort is unsuccessful, the
  1 25 teacher and the school district have no further
  1 26 obligation with respect to face-to-face intervention
  1 27 strategies under this subparagraph.  The board of
  1 28 directors of each school district shall adopt a policy
  1 29 indicating adopted pursuant to section 256D.1A shall
  1 30 indicate the methods the school district will use to
  1 31 inform parents of their individual child's
  1 32 performance.
  1 33    Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  256D.1A  STUDENT PROMOTION
  1 34 POLICY – KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE THREE.
  1 35    1.  The board of directors of each school district
  1 36 shall adopt a school promotion policy that facilitates
  1 37 collaborations among teachers, parents of the
  1 38 students, and the school district to support student
  1 39 reading proficiency.  The student promotion policy
  1 40 adopted shall include, but shall not be limited to,
  1 41 the provisions set forth in this section.  By the
  1 42 first day of school, the school district shall notify
  1 43 the parents of students in kindergarten through grade
  1 44 three of the district's student promotion policy.
  1 45    2.  A parent of a student in kindergarten through
  1 46 grade three shall be notified in writing if the
  1 47 student is failing to adequately master the school
  1 48 district's reading curriculum.  Notices shall include
  1 49 a copy of the school district's student promotion
  1 50 policy and shall be sent by mail.  Notices shall be
  2  1 written in clear, understandable language.  In lieu of
  2  2 notice by mail, the school district may provide a
  2  3 written notice required pursuant to this section to a
  2  4 parent at a parent-teacher conference occurring in the
  2  5 same week in which a notice would have been required
  2  6 to be sent by mail pursuant to this section.
  2  7    3.  The individualized education program assigned
  2  8 to a child requiring special education shall determine
  2  9 whether the child is expected to meet the school
  2 10 district's student promotion policy, which must be
  2 11 documented in the student's individualized education
  2 12 program.
  2 13    Sec. 3.  Section 256D.3, Code Supplement 1999, is
  2 14 amended by adding the following new subsection:
  2 15    NEW SUBSECTION.  4.  The director of the department
  2 16 of education shall conduct a review of school district
  2 17 student promotion policies, the number of kindergarten
  2 18 through grade three level students retained or
  2 19 promoted, and the success of the interventions
  2 20 implemented by school districts to improve the
  2 21 students' reading skills.  The director shall submit a
  2 22 report of the findings and recommendations resulting
  2 23 from the review to the senate and house standing
  2 24 committees on education and the joint appropriations
  2 25 subcommittee on education by December 1, 2002, and
  2 26 biennially thereafter."
  2 27    #2.  Title page, line 3, by inserting after the
  2 28 word "for" the following:  "kindergarten through".  
  2 29 
  2 30 
  2 31                               
  2 32 COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
  2 33 GRUNDBERG of Polk, Chairperson
  2 34 SF 2267.303 78
  2 35 kh/cf
     

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