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1 1 HOUSE FILE 2198
1 2
1 3 AN ACT
1 4 DIRECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO CONDUCT A FEASIBILITY
1 5 STUDY OF REORGANIZATION AND SHARING INCENTIVES FOR SCHOOL
1 6 DISTRICTS.
1 7
1 8 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 9
1 10 Section 1. SCHOOL DISTRICT REORGANIZATION AND SHARING
1 11 INCENTIVES STUDY. The department of education shall study the
1 12 feasibility of reauthorizing, or initiating new, school
1 13 district reorganization and sharing incentives. As a
1 14 component of the study, the department shall invite the Iowa
1 15 high school athletic association and the Iowa girls high
1 16 school athletic union to submit for consideration any
1 17 information or advice for the elimination of sports-related
1 18 barriers to reorganization. The study shall include, but
1 19 shall not be limited to, a review of incentives intended to
1 20 encourage school districts to share administrators or
1 21 implement other sharing initiatives and a determination of the
1 22 costs and methods for implementing the incentives identified;
1 23 shall gather and report data relating to reorganization
1 24 efforts since 1979, listing the school districts that utilized
1 25 reorganization or sharing incentives such as whole grade
1 26 sharing, shared classes or teachers, shared superintendents,
1 27 and shared mathematics, science, and language courses, the
1 28 current status of school districts that received
1 29 reorganization or sharing incentives, the costs of the
1 30 incentives, the school districts that consolidated, and how
1 31 incentives were used by the school districts; shall study the
1 32 feasibility of providing sharing incentives to encourage
1 33 transportation partnering; shall determine the efficacy and
1 34 the cost effectiveness of the incentives; shall study the
1 35 feasibility of providing school infrastructure funding as a
2 1 reorganization incentive; and shall identify actions that may
2 2 be taken by the state, the department of education, area
2 3 education agencies, and stakeholders that have proven in the
2 4 past to assist school district reorganization and whole grade
2 5 sharing efforts. The department shall report its findings,
2 6 including any recommendations, to the chairpersons and ranking
2 7 members of the senate and house standing committees on
2 8 education and of the joint education appropriations
2 9 subcommittees of the Seventy-eighth General Assembly by
2 10 January 1, 2001.
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2 13
2 14 BRENT SIEGRIST
2 15 Speaker of the House
2 16
2 17
2 18
2 19 MARY E. KRAMER
2 20 President of the Senate
2 21
2 22 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
2 23 is known as House File 2198, Seventy-eighth General Assembly.
2 24
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2 26
2 27 ELIZABETH ISAACSON
2 28 Chief Clerk of the House
2 29 Approved , 2000
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2 32
2 33 THOMAS J. VILSACK
2 34 Governor
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