Text: HF02197 Text: HF02199 Text: HF02100 - HF02199 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 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. 2 11 2 12 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 2 25 2 26 2 27 ELIZABETH ISAACSON 2 28 Chief Clerk of the House 2 29 Approved , 2000 2 30 2 31 2 32 2 33 THOMAS J. VILSACK 2 34 Governor 2 35
Text: HF02197 Text: HF02199 Text: HF02100 - HF02199 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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