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PAG LIN 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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