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1 1 Amend Senate file 480 as follows:
1 2 #1. Page 13, by inserting after line 10 the
1 3 following:
1 4 "Sec. 100. Section 257.11, Code 1999, is amended
1 5 by striking the section and inserting in lieu thereof
1 6 the following:
1 7 257.11 SUPPLEMENTARY WEIGHTING.
1 8 1. REGULAR CURRICULUM. Pupils in a regular
1 9 curriculum attending all their classes in the district
1 10 in which they reside, taught by teachers employed by
1 11 that district, and having administrators employed by
1 12 that district, are assigned a weighting of one.
1 13 2. DISTRICT-TO-DISTRICT SHARING.
1 14 a. In order to provide additional funds for school
1 15 districts which send their resident pupils to another
1 16 school district, which jointly employ and share the
1 17 services of teachers under section 280.15, or which
1 18 use the services of a teacher employed by another
1 19 school district, a supplementary weighting plan for
1 20 determining enrollment is adopted.
1 21 b. If the school budget review committee certifies
1 22 to the department of management that the shared
1 23 classes or teachers would otherwise not be implemented
1 24 without the assignment of additional weighting, pupils
1 25 attending classes in another school district,
1 26 attending classes taught by a teacher who is employed
1 27 jointly under section 280.15, or attending classes
1 28 taught by a teacher who is employed by another school
1 29 district, are assigned a weighting, in addition to the
1 30 weighting assigned in subsection 1, of forty-eight
1 31 hundredths of the percentage of the pupil's school day
1 32 during which the pupil attends classes in another
1 33 district, attends classes taught by a teacher who is
1 34 jointly employed under section 280.15, or attends
1 35 classes taught by a teacher who is employed by another
1 36 school district.
1 37 3. DISTRICT-TO-COMMUNITY-COLLEGE SHARING.
1 38 a. In order to provide additional funds for school
1 39 districts which send their resident pupils to a
1 40 community college for classes, a supplementary
1 41 weighting plan for determining enrollment is adopted.
1 42 b. If the school budget review committee certifies
1 43 to the department of management that the class would
1 44 not otherwise be implemented without the assignment of
1 45 additional weighting, pupils attending a community
1 46 college-offered class or attending a class taught by a
1 47 community college-employed teacher are assigned a
1 48 weighting, in addition to the weighting assigned in
1 49 subsection 1, of forty-eight hundredths of the
1 50 percentage of the pupil's school day during which the
2 1 pupil attends class in the community college or
2 2 attends a class taught by a community college-employed
2 3 teacher. The following requirements shall be met for
2 4 the purposes of assigning an additional weighting for
2 5 classes offered through a sharing agreement between a
2 6 school district and community college. The class must
2 7 be:
2 8 (1) Supplementing high school classes and not
2 9 supplanting a class that was offered in the preceding
2 10 year or the second preceding year.
2 11 (2) Included in the community college catalog or
2 12 other official college literature describing class
2 13 offerings.
2 14 (3) Open to all registered community college
2 15 students, not just high school students.
2 16 (4) For college credit and the credit must apply
2 17 toward an associate of arts or associate of science
2 18 degree, or toward an associate of applied arts or
2 19 associate of applied science degree, or toward
2 20 completion of a diploma program.
2 21 (5) Taught by a teacher meeting requirements for
2 22 providing instruction at the community college level.
2 23 (6) Taught utilizing the class syllabus approved
2 24 by the community college.
2 25 (7) Of the same quality as a class offered on a
2 26 community college campus.
2 27 4. AT-RISK PROGRAMS.
2 28 a. In order to provide additional funding to
2 29 school districts for programs serving at-risk pupils
2 30 in grades nine through twelve, a supplementary
2 31 weighting plan for at-risk pupils is adopted. A
2 32 supplementary weighting of fifty-one thousandths per
2 33 pupil shall be assigned to the percentage of pupils in
2 34 a school district enrolled in grades one through
2 35 twelve who are eligible for free or reduced price
2 36 meals under the federal National School Lunch Act and
2 37 the federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966, 42 U.S.C. }
2 38 1751-1785, multiplied by the enrollment in grades nine
2 39 through twelve in the school district, and a
2 40 supplementary weighting of fourteen thousandths shall
2 41 be assigned to pupils in grades nine through twelve
2 42 based on the actual enrollment of pupils in grades
2 43 nine through twelve in the school district. Amounts
2 44 received as supplementary weighting for at-risk pupils
2 45 shall be utilized by a school district to develop or
2 46 maintain alternative programs or an at-risk pupils'
2 47 program, including alternative high school programs,
2 48 and shall be in addition to and not supplanting moneys
2 49 appropriated in section 279.51 and moneys otherwise
2 50 appropriated by law to supplement that funding.
3 1 b. Notwithstanding paragraph "a", a school
3 2 district which received supplementary weighting for an
3 3 alternative high school program offered by a community
3 4 college or another school district, for the school
3 5 budget year beginning July 1, 1998, shall receive a
3 6 minimum of one hundred percent of the amount
3 7 determined by the application of supplementary
3 8 weighting for students in an alternative high school
3 9 program for the school budget year beginning July 1,
3 10 1999, and for the succeeding school budget year. This
3 11 amount shall be adjusted according to the provisions
3 12 of section 257.6 based upon reports filed under
3 13 section 11.6. The adjusted amount shall be used as
3 14 the basis for any guarantees or reductions under this
3 15 section beginning with the budget year commencing July
3 16 1, 2000. Effective for the school budget year
3 17 beginning July 1, 2001, and for succeeding budget
3 18 years, a school district which received supplementary
3 19 weighting for an alternative high school program
3 20 offered by a community college or another school
3 21 district for the school budget year beginning July 1,
3 22 1998, shall receive a twenty percent reduction in the
3 23 amount received pursuant to this paragraph each year
3 24 until the amount generated by the supplementary
3 25 weighting authorized in paragraph "a" is reached.
3 26 5. SHARED CLASSES DELIVERED OVER THE IOWA
3 27 COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK. A pupil attending a class in
3 28 which students from one or more other school districts
3 29 are enrolled and which is taught via the Iowa
3 30 communications network is not deemed to be attending a
3 31 class in another school district or in a community
3 32 college for the purposes of this section and the
3 33 school district is not eligible for supplementary
3 34 weighting for that class under this section.
3 35 6. PUPILS INELIGIBLE. A pupil eligible for the
3 36 weighting plan provided in section 256B.9, or
3 37 attending classes authorized pursuant to chapter 261C,
3 38 is not eligible for supplementary weighting pursuant
3 39 to this section. A pupil attending an alternative
3 40 high school or an alternative program shall receive
3 41 supplementary weighting pursuant to subsection 4, and
3 42 shall not be eligible for supplementary weighting
3 43 pursuant to subsection 2 or 3.
3 44 Sec. 101. ENROLLMENT ADJUSTMENT. For the school
3 45 budget year beginning July 1, 1999, a school district
3 46 participating in an alternative high school program
3 47 offered by a community college, which undercounted its
3 48 weighted enrollment attributable to participation in
3 49 the alternative high school program by 55 or more
3 50 students when determining enrollment pursuant to
4 1 section 257.6 on September 18, 1998, shall be
4 2 authorized to adjust the enrollment count to reflect
4 3 the revised weighted enrollment count in a report
4 4 which shall be submitted to the department of
4 5 education within 30 days after the effective date of
4 6 this section. The department of education shall
4 7 forward the report to the department of management,
4 8 which shall adjust the budget enrollment for the
4 9 school district accordingly.
4 10 Sec. 102. Section 257.12, Code 1999, is repealed."
4 11 #2. Page 13, by inserting before line 11 the
4 12 following:
4 13 "Sec. . EFFECTIVE DATE. Sections 100 through
4 14 102 of this division of this Act, being deemed of
4 15 immediate importance, take effect upon enactment."
4 16 #3. By renumbering as necessary.
4 17
4 18
4 19
4 20 MIKE CONNOLLY
4 21 SF 480.502 78
4 22 rn/jw
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