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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. ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOLS.
2 33 a. In order to provide additional funding to school
2 34 districts for alternative high school programs, a
2 35 supplementary weighting plan for alternative high school
3 1 pupils is adopted. A supplementary weighting of thirteen
3 2 thousandths per pupil shall be assigned to the percentage of
3 3 pupils in a school district enrolled in grades one through
3 4 six, as reported by the school district on the basic
3 5 educational data survey for the base year, who are eligible
3 6 for free lunches under the federal National School Lunch Act
3 7 and the federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966, 42 U.S.C. } 1751-
3 8 1785, multiplied by the enrollment in grades eleven and twelve
3 9 in the school district. Amounts received as supplementary
3 10 weighting for alternative high school pupils shall be utilized
3 11 by a school district to develop or maintain alternative high
3 12 school programs within the district, either through
3 13 facilitation of a program provided by the school district,
3 14 through a shared program with another school district, or
3 15 through a shared program with a community college that would
3 16 otherwise not receive funding pursuant to this section.
3 17 Amounts received shall be in addition to and not supplanting
3 18 moneys appropriated in section 279.51 and moneys otherwise
3 19 appropriated by law to supplement that funding.
3 20 b. Notwithstanding paragraph "a", a school district which
3 21 received supplementary weighting for an alternative high
3 22 school program offered by a community college for the school
3 23 budget year beginning July 1, 1999, shall receive one hundred
3 24 percent of that amount for the school budget year beginning
3 25 July 1, 2000. Effective for the school budget year beginning
3 26 July 1, 2001, and for succeeding budget years, a school
3 27 district which received supplementary weighting for an
3 28 alternative high school program offered by a community college
3 29 for the school budget year beginning July 1, 1999, shall
3 30 receive a twenty-five percent reduction in that amount each
3 31 year until the amount generated by the supplementary weighting
3 32 authorized in paragraph "a" is reached. If, for the school
3 33 budget year beginning July 1, 2000, and succeeding budget
3 34 years, the amount generated by the supplementary weighting
3 35 authorized in paragraph "a" exceeds the amount which would be
4 1 received pursuant to this paragraph, the amount generated by
4 2 the supplementary weighting authorized in paragraph "a" may be
4 3 utilized.
4 4 5. SHARED CLASSES DELIVERED OVER THE IOWA COMMUNICATIONS
4 5 NETWORK. A pupil attending a class in which students from one
4 6 or more other school districts are enrolled and which is
4 7 taught via the Iowa communications network is not deemed to be
4 8 attending a class in another school district or in a community
4 9 college for the purposes of this section and the school
4 10 district is not eligible for supplementary weighting for that
4 11 class under this section.
4 12 6. PUPILS INELIGIBLE. A pupil eligible for the weighting
4 13 plan provided in section 256B.9 is not eligible for
4 14 supplementary weighting pursuant to this section.
4 15 Sec. 2. Section 257.12, Code 1999, is repealed.
4 16 Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of
4 17 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
4 18 EXPLANATION
4 19 This bill provides supplementary weighting for determining
4 20 enrollment in school districts which are involved in sharing
4 21 programs on a district-to-district, or district-to-community-
4 22 college basis, and for alternative high school programs.
4 23 For purposes of determining the amount of supplementary
4 24 weighting, pupils in a regular curriculum attending all their
4 25 classes in the district in which they reside, taught by
4 26 teachers employed by that district, and having administrators
4 27 employed by that district, are assigned a weighting of one.
4 28 The bill provides that school districts which send their
4 29 resident pupils to another school district, which jointly
4 30 employ and share the services of teachers under Code section
4 31 280.15, or which use the services of a teacher employed by
4 32 another school district, will have assigned to the pupils an
4 33 additional weighting of .48 of the percentage of the pupil's
4 34 school day during which the pupil is involved in the shared
4 35 program. In order to receive the supplementary weighting, the
5 1 school budget review committee must certify to the department
5 2 of management that the shared classes or teachers would
5 3 otherwise not be implemented without the assignment of
5 4 additional weighting.
5 5 The bill also provides that school districts which send
5 6 their resident pupils to a community college-offered class or
5 7 to a class taught by a community college-employed teacher will
5 8 have assigned to the pupils an additional weighting of .48 of
5 9 the percentage of the pupil's school day during which the
5 10 pupil is involved in the shared program, if the school budget
5 11 review committee certifies to the department of management
5 12 that the class would not otherwise be implemented without the
5 13 assignment of the supplementary weighting. The bill provides
5 14 that a number of requirements must be met regarding the nature
5 15 of the class or classes being taken in order to qualify for
5 16 supplementary weighting for programs shared by a district with
5 17 a community college.
5 18 The bill additionally provides that school districts will
5 19 receive supplementary weighting for alternative high school
5 20 programs. A weighting of .013 per pupil will be assigned for
5 21 pupils in grades 11 and 12, based on the number of pupils
5 22 enrolled in grades one through six who are eligible for free
5 23 lunches. The bill provides that enrollment refers to the
5 24 enrollment reported by the school district on the basic
5 25 educational data survey for the base year. The bill provides
5 26 that amounts received as supplemental weighting for
5 27 alternative high school pupils shall be utilized by a school
5 28 district to develop or maintain alternative high school
5 29 programs within the district, either through facilitation of a
5 30 program provided by the school district, a shared program with
5 31 another school district, or a shared program with a community
5 32 college that would otherwise not receive funding pursuant to
5 33 this section. This bill provides that funds received will be
5 34 in addition to and not supplanting other at-risk program
5 35 moneys appropriated in Code section 279.51 and moneys
6 1 otherwise appropriated by law to supplement that funding. The
6 2 bill provides that a school district which received
6 3 supplementary weighting for an alternative high school program
6 4 offered by a community college for the school budget year
6 5 beginning July 1, 1999, will receive 100 percent of that
6 6 amount for the school budget year beginning July 1, 2000, and
6 7 an amount for succeeding budget years representing a 25
6 8 percent decrease each year until the amount generated by the
6 9 supplementary weighting authorized in the bill is reached.
6 10 The bill further provides that if the amount of supplementary
6 11 weighting authorized in the bill exceeds these amounts, the
6 12 amount authorized in the bill may be utilized.
6 13 The bill provides that pupils attending a class in which
6 14 students from one or more other school districts are enrolled,
6 15 which is taught via the Iowa communications network, will not
6 16 be considered to be attending a class in another school
6 17 district or in a community college for purposes of qualifying
6 18 for supplementary weighting. The bill further provides that
6 19 pupils eligible for special education weighting pursuant to
6 20 Code section 256B.9 will not be eligible for supplementary
6 21 weighting for shared programs between school districts or
6 22 between a school district and a community college.
6 23 Additionally, the bill provides for the deletion of
6 24 provisions which previously authorized supplementary
6 25 weighting. The deleted provisions relate to the addition of
6 26 supplementary weighting amounts for school districts entering
6 27 into a whole grade sharing agreement pursuant to Code sections
6 28 282.10 through 282.12 beginning with the budget year beginning
6 29 on July 1, 1993, and for a five-year period for school
6 30 districts entering into a whole grade sharing agreement for
6 31 the budget years beginning July 1, 1991, and July 1, 1992.
6 32 Also deleted are provisions which had authorized supplementary
6 33 weighting for a five-year duration for school districts
6 34 entering into an agreement involving the joint employment of a
6 35 superintendent for the budget years beginning July 1, 1991,
7 1 and July 1, 1992, and supplementary weighting for a six-year
7 2 period for school districts undergoing a reorganization taking
7 3 effect on or before July 1, 1993. The bill further deletes
7 4 previously authorized supplementary weighting for shared
7 5 mathematics, science, and language classes for the budget
7 6 years beginning July 1, 1991, and July 1, 1992, and provisions
7 7 relating to the rounding off of supplementary weighting
7 8 calculations.
7 9 The bill takes effect upon enactment.
7 10 LSB 5422XS 78
7 11 rn/cls/14
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