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1 1 Amend House File 782, as amended, passed, and
1 2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
1 3 #1. Page 15, by inserting after line 3 the
1 4 following:
1 5 "Sec. 100. Section 257.11, Code 1999, is amended
1 6 by striking the section and inserting in lieu thereof
1 7 the following:
1 8 257.11 SUPPLEMENTARY WEIGHTING.
1 9 1. REGULAR CURRICULUM. Pupils in a regular
1 10 curriculum attending all their classes in the district
1 11 in which they reside, taught by teachers employed by
1 12 that district, and having administrators employed by
1 13 that district, are assigned a weighting of one.
1 14 2. DISTRICT-TO-DISTRICT SHARING.
1 15 a. In order to provide additional funds for school
1 16 districts which send their resident pupils to another
1 17 school district, which jointly employ and share the
1 18 services of teachers under section 280.15, or which
1 19 use the services of a teacher employed by another
1 20 school district, a supplementary weighting plan for
1 21 determining enrollment is adopted.
1 22 b. If the school budget review committee certifies
1 23 to the department of management that the shared
1 24 classes or teachers would otherwise not be implemented
1 25 without the assignment of additional weighting, pupils
1 26 attending classes in another school district,
1 27 attending classes taught by a teacher who is employed
1 28 jointly under section 280.15, or attending classes
1 29 taught by a teacher who is employed by another school
1 30 district, are assigned a weighting, in addition to the
1 31 weighting assigned in subsection 1, of forty-eight
1 32 hundredths of the percentage of the pupil's school day
1 33 during which the pupil attends classes in another
1 34 district, attends classes taught by a teacher who is
1 35 jointly employed under section 280.15, or attends
1 36 classes taught by a teacher who is employed by another
1 37 school district.
1 38 3. DISTRICT-TO-COMMUNITY-COLLEGE SHARING.
1 39 a. In order to provide additional funds for school
1 40 districts which send their resident pupils to a
1 41 community college for classes, a supplementary
1 42 weighting plan for determining enrollment is adopted.
1 43 b. If the school budget review committee certifies
1 44 to the department of management that the class would
1 45 not otherwise be implemented without the assignment of
1 46 additional weighting, pupils attending a community
1 47 college-offered class or attending a class taught by a
1 48 community college-employed teacher are assigned a
1 49 weighting, in addition to the weighting assigned in
1 50 subsection 1, of forty-eight hundredths of the
2 1 percentage of the pupil's school day during which the
2 2 pupil attends class in the community college or
2 3 attends a class taught by a community college-employed
2 4 teacher. The following requirements shall be met for
2 5 the purposes of assigning an additional weighting for
2 6 classes offered through a sharing agreement between a
2 7 school district and community college. The class must
2 8 be:
2 9 (1) Supplementing high school classes and not
2 10 supplanting a class that was offered in the preceding
2 11 year or the second preceding year.
2 12 (2) Included in the community college catalog or
2 13 other official college literature describing class
2 14 offerings.
2 15 (3) Open to all registered community college
2 16 students, not just high school students.
2 17 (4) For college credit and the credit must apply
2 18 toward an associate of arts or associate of science
2 19 degree, or toward an associate of applied arts or
2 20 associate of applied science degree, or toward
2 21 completion of a diploma program.
2 22 (5) Taught by a teacher meeting requirements for
2 23 providing instruction at the community college level.
2 24 (6) Taught utilizing the class syllabus approved
2 25 by the community college.
2 26 (7) Of the same quality as a class offered on a
2 27 community college campus.
2 28 4. AT-RISK PROGRAMS.
2 29 a. In order to provide additional funding to
2 30 school districts for programs serving at-risk pupils
2 31 in grades nine through twelve, a supplementary
2 32 weighting plan for at-risk pupils is adopted. A
2 33 supplementary weighting of fifty-one thousandths per
2 34 pupil shall be assigned to the percentage of pupils in
2 35 a school district enrolled in grades one through
2 36 twelve who are eligible for free or reduced price
2 37 meals under the federal National School Lunch Act and
2 38 the federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966, 42 U.S.C. }
2 39 1751-1785, multiplied by the enrollment in grades nine
2 40 through twelve in the school district, and a
2 41 supplementary weighting of fourteen thousandths shall
2 42 be assigned to pupils in grades nine through twelve
2 43 based on the actual enrollment of pupils in grades
2 44 nine through twelve in the school district. Amounts
2 45 received as supplementary weighting for at-risk pupils
2 46 shall be utilized by a school district to develop or
2 47 maintain alternative programs or an at-risk pupils'
2 48 program, including alternative high school programs,
2 49 and shall be in addition to and not supplanting moneys
2 50 appropriated in section 279.51 and moneys otherwise
3 1 appropriated by law to supplement that funding.
3 2 b. Notwithstanding paragraph "a", a school
3 3 district which received supplementary weighting for an
3 4 alternative high school program offered by a community
3 5 college or another school district, for the school
3 6 budget year beginning July 1, 1998, shall receive a
3 7 minimum of one hundred percent of the amount
3 8 determined by the application of supplementary
3 9 weighting for students in an alternative high school
3 10 program for the school budget year beginning July 1,
3 11 1999, and for the succeeding school budget year. This
3 12 amount shall be adjusted according to the provisions
3 13 of section 257.6 based upon reports filed under
3 14 section 11.6. The adjusted amount shall be used as
3 15 the basis for any guarantees or reductions under this
3 16 section beginning with the budget year commencing July
3 17 1, 2000. Effective for the school budget year
3 18 beginning July 1, 2001, and for succeeding budget
3 19 years, a school district which received supplementary
3 20 weighting for an alternative high school program
3 21 offered by a community college or another school
3 22 district for the school budget year beginning July 1,
3 23 1998, shall receive a twenty percent reduction in the
3 24 amount received pursuant to this paragraph each year
3 25 until the amount generated by the supplementary
3 26 weighting authorized in paragraph "a" is reached.
3 27 5. SHARED CLASSES DELIVERED OVER THE IOWA
3 28 COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK. A pupil attending a class in
3 29 which students from one or more other school districts
3 30 are enrolled and which is taught via the Iowa
3 31 communications network is not deemed to be attending a
3 32 class in another school district or in a community
3 33 college for the purposes of this section and the
3 34 school district is not eligible for supplementary
3 35 weighting for that class under this section.
3 36 6. PUPILS INELIGIBLE. A pupil eligible for the
3 37 weighting plan provided in section 256B.9, or
3 38 attending classes authorized pursuant to chapter 261C,
3 39 is not eligible for supplementary weighting pursuant
3 40 to this section. A pupil attending an alternative
3 41 high school or an alternative program shall receive
3 42 supplementary weighting pursuant to subsection 4, and
3 43 shall not be eligible for supplementary weighting
3 44 pursuant to subsection 2 or 3.
3 45 Sec. 101. ENROLLMENT ADJUSTMENT. For the school
3 46 budget year beginning July 1, 1999, a school district
3 47 participating in an alternative high school program
3 48 offered by a community college, which undercounted its
3 49 weighted enrollment attributable to participation in
3 50 the alternative high school program by 55 or more
4 1 students when determining enrollment pursuant to
4 2 section 257.6 on September 18, 1998, shall be
4 3 authorized to adjust the enrollment count to reflect
4 4 the revised weighted enrollment count in a report
4 5 which shall be submitted to the department of
4 6 education within 30 days after the effective date of
4 7 this section. The department of education shall
4 8 forward the report to the department of management,
4 9 which shall adjust the budget enrollment for the
4 10 school district accordingly.
4 11 Sec. 102. Section 257.12, Code 1999, is repealed."
4 12 #2. Page 16, by inserting before line 7 the
4 13 following:
4 14 "Sec. . EFFECTIVE DATE. Sections 100 through
4 15 102 of this division of this Act, being deemed of
4 16 immediate importance, take effect upon enactment."
4 17 #3. By renumbering as necessary.
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4 20
4 21 MIKE CONNOLLY
4 22 HF 782.206 78
4 23 rn/gg
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