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1 1 Section 1. Section 257.11, Code 1999, is amended by
1 2 striking the section and inserting in lieu thereof the
1 3 following:
1 4 257.11 SUPPLEMENTARY WEIGHTING.
1 5 1. REGULAR CURRICULUM. Pupils in a regular curriculum
1 6 attending all their classes in the district in which they
1 7 reside, taught by teachers employed by that district, and
1 8 having administrators employed by that district, are assigned
1 9 a weighting of one.
1 10 2. DISTRICT-TO-DISTRICT SHARING.
1 11 a. In order to provide additional funds for school
1 12 districts which send their resident pupils to another school
1 13 district, which jointly employ and share the services of
1 14 teachers under section 280.15, or which use the services of a
1 15 teacher employed by another school district, a supplementary
1 16 weighting plan for determining enrollment is adopted.
1 17 b. If the school budget review committee certifies to the
1 18 department of management that the shared classes or teachers
1 19 would otherwise not be implemented without the assignment of
1 20 additional weighting, pupils attending classes in another
1 21 school district, attending classes taught by a teacher who is
1 22 employed jointly under section 280.15, or attending classes
1 23 taught by a teacher who is employed by another school
1 24 district, are assigned a weighting, in addition to the
1 25 weighting assigned in subsection 1, of forty-eight hundredths
1 26 of the percentage of the pupil's school day during which the
1 27 pupil attends classes in another district, attends classes
1 28 taught by a teacher who is jointly employed under section
1 29 280.15, or attends classes taught by a teacher who is employed
1 30 by another school district.
1 31 3. DISTRICT-TO-COMMUNITY-COLLEGE SHARING.
1 32 a. In order to provide additional funds for school
1 33 districts which send their resident pupils to a community
1 34 college for classes, a supplementary weighting plan for
1 35 determining enrollment is adopted.
2 1 b. If the school budget review committee certifies to the
2 2 department of management that the class would not otherwise be
2 3 implemented without the assignment of additional weighting,
2 4 pupils attending a community college-offered class or
2 5 attending a class taught by a community college-employed
2 6 teacher are assigned a weighting, in addition to the weighting
2 7 assigned in subsection 1, of forty-eight hundredths of the
2 8 percentage of the pupil's school day during which the pupil
2 9 attends class in the community college or attends a class
2 10 taught by a community college-employed teacher. The following
2 11 requirements shall be met for the purposes of assigning an
2 12 additional weighting for classes offered through a sharing
2 13 agreement between a school district and community college.
2 14 The class must be:
2 15 (1) Supplementing high school classes and not supplanting
2 16 a class that was offered in the preceding year or the second
2 17 preceding year.
2 18 (2) Included in the community college catalog or other
2 19 official college literature describing class offerings.
2 20 (3) Open to all registered community college students, not
2 21 just high school students.
2 22 (4) For college credit and the credit must apply toward an
2 23 associate of arts or associate of science degree, or toward an
2 24 associate of applied arts or associate of applied science
2 25 degree, or toward completion of a diploma program.
2 26 (5) Taught by a teacher meeting requirements for providing
2 27 instruction at the community college level.
2 28 (6) Taught utilizing the class syllabus approved by the
2 29 community college.
2 30 (7) Of the same quality as a class offered on a community
2 31 college campus.
2 32 4. AT-RISK PROGRAMS.
2 33 a. In order to provide additional funding to school
2 34 districts for programs serving at-risk pupils in grades nine
2 35 through twelve, a supplementary weighting plan for at-risk
3 1 pupils is adopted. Pupils identified as at-risk, based on the
3 2 number of pupils enrolled in grades nine through twelve who
3 3 are eligible for free or reduced price meals under the federal
3 4 National School Lunch Act and the federal Child Nutrition Act
3 5 of 1966, 42 U.S.C. } 1751-1785, are assigned a weighting, in
3 6 addition to the weighting assigned in subsection 1, of eleven
3 7 hundredths. Amounts received as supplemental weighting for
3 8 at-risk pupils shall be utilized by a school district to
3 9 develop or maintain alternative programs or an at-risk pupils'
3 10 program, including alternative high school programs, and shall
3 11 be in addition to and not supplanting moneys appropriated in
3 12 section 279.51 and moneys otherwise appropriated by law to
3 13 supplement that funding.
3 14 b. Notwithstanding paragraph "a", a school district which
3 15 received supplementary weighting for an alternative high
3 16 school program offered by a community college for the school
3 17 budget year beginning July 1, 1998, shall receive one hundred
3 18 percent of that amount for the school budget year beginning
3 19 July 1, 1999, and for the succeeding school budget year.
3 20 Effective for the school budget year beginning July 1, 2001,
3 21 and for succeeding budget years, a school district which
3 22 received supplementary weighting for an alternative high
3 23 school program offered by a community college for the school
3 24 budget year beginning July 1, 1998, shall receive a twenty
3 25 percent reduction in that amount each year until the amount
3 26 generated by the eleven hundredths weighting authorized in
3 27 paragraph "a" is reached.
3 28 5. SHARED CLASSES DELIVERED OVER THE IOWA COMMUNICATIONS
3 29 NETWORK. A pupil attending a class in which students from one
3 30 or more other school districts are enrolled and which is
3 31 taught via the Iowa communications network is not deemed to be
3 32 attending a class in another school district or in a community
3 33 college for the purposes of this section and the school
3 34 district is not eligible for supplementary weighting for that
3 35 class under this section.
4 1 6. PUPILS INELIGIBLE. A pupil eligible for the weighting
4 2 plan provided in section 256B.9 is not eligible for
4 3 supplementary weighting pursuant to this section.
4 4 Sec. 2. Section 257.12, Code 1999, is repealed.
4 5 Sec. 3. This Act, being deemed of immediate importance,
4 6 takes effect upon enactment.
4 7 EXPLANATION
4 8 This bill provides supplementary weighting for determining
4 9 enrollment in school districts which are involved in sharing
4 10 programs on a district to district, or district to community
4 11 college, basis, and for at-risk programs.
4 12 For purposes of determining the amount of supplementary
4 13 weighting, pupils in a regular curriculum attending all their
4 14 classes in the district in which they reside, taught by
4 15 teachers employed by that district, and having administrators
4 16 employed by that district, are assigned a weighting of one.
4 17 The bill provides that school districts which send their
4 18 resident pupils to another school district, which jointly
4 19 employ and share the services of teachers under Code section
4 20 280.15, or which use the services of a teacher employed by
4 21 another school district, will have assigned to the pupils an
4 22 additional weighting of .48 of the percentage of the pupil's
4 23 school day during which the pupil is involved in the shared
4 24 program. In order to receive the supplementary weighting, the
4 25 school budget review committee must certify to the department
4 26 of management that the shared classes or teachers would
4 27 otherwise not be implemented without the assignment of
4 28 additional weighting.
4 29 The bill also provides that school districts which send
4 30 their resident pupils to a community college-offered class or
4 31 to a class taught by a community college-employed teacher will
4 32 have assigned to the pupils an additional weighting of .48 of
4 33 the percentage of the pupil's school day during which the
4 34 pupil is involved in the shared program, if the school budget
4 35 review committee certifies to the department of management
5 1 that the class would not otherwise be implemented without the
5 2 assignment of the supplementary weighting. The bill provides
5 3 that a number of requirements must be met regarding the nature
5 4 of the class or classes being taken in order to qualify for
5 5 supplementary weighting for programs shared by a district with
5 6 a community college.
5 7 The bill additionally provides that school districts will
5 8 receive supplementary weighting for programs serving at-risk
5 9 pupils in grades nine through 12. A weighting of .11 will be
5 10 assigned for pupils identified as at-risk, based on the number
5 11 of pupils enrolled in grades nine through 12 who are eligible
5 12 for free or reduced price meals. The bill provides that
5 13 amounts received as supplemental weighting for at-risk pupils
5 14 shall be utilized by a school district to develop or maintain
5 15 alternative programs for at-risk pupils, including alternative
5 16 high school programs, and will be in addition to and not
5 17 supplanting other at-risk program moneys appropriated in Code
5 18 section 279.51 and moneys otherwise appropriated by law to
5 19 supplement that funding. The bill provides that a school
5 20 district which received supplementary weighting for an
5 21 alternative high school program offered by a community college
5 22 for the school budget year beginning July 1, 1998, will
5 23 receive 100 percent of that amount for the school budget years
5 24 beginning July 1, 1999, and July 1, 2000, and an amount for
5 25 succeeding budget years representing a 20 percent decrease
5 26 each year until the amount generated by the .11 weighting is
5 27 reached.
5 28 The bill provides that pupils attending a class in which
5 29 students from one or more other school districts are enrolled,
5 30 which is taught via the Iowa communications network, will not
5 31 be considered to be attending a class in another school
5 32 district or in a community college for purposes of qualifying
5 33 for supplementary weighting. The bill further provides that
5 34 pupils eligible for special education weighting pursuant to
5 35 Code section 256B.9 will not be eligible for supplementary
6 1 weighting for shared programs between school districts or
6 2 between a school district and a community college.
6 3 Additionally, the bill provides for the deletion of
6 4 provisions which previously authorized supplementary
6 5 weighting. The deleted provisions relate to the addition of
6 6 supplementary weighting amounts for school districts entering
6 7 into a whole grade sharing agreement pursuant to Code sections
6 8 282.10 through 282.12 beginning with the budget year beginning
6 9 on July 1, 1993, and for a five-year period for school
6 10 districts entering into a whole grade sharing agreement for
6 11 the budget years beginning July 1, 1991, and July 1, 1992.
6 12 Also deleted are provisions which had authorized supplementary
6 13 weighting for a five-year duration for school districts
6 14 entering into an agreement involving the joint employment of a
6 15 superintendent for the budget years beginning July 1, 1991,
6 16 and July 1, 1992, and supplementary weighting for a six-year
6 17 period for school districts undergoing a reorganization taking
6 18 effect on or before July 1, 1993. The bill further deletes
6 19 previously authorized supplementary weighting for shared
6 20 mathematics, science, and language classes for the budget
6 21 years beginning July 1, 1991, and July 1, 1992, and provisions
6 22 relating to the rounding off of supplementary weighting
6 23 calculations.
6 24 The bill would take effect upon enactment.
6 25 LSB 2083HV 78
6 26 rn/cf/24
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