House Journal: Page 1774: Tuesday, April 27, 1999

34   July 1, 2000, and subsequent budget years, references

35   to the terms "allowable growth", "regular program
36   state cost per pupil", and "regular program district
37   cost per pupil" shall mean those terms as calculated
38   for those school districts that calculated or did not
39   calculate regular program allowable growth for the
40   school budget year beginning July 1, 1999, with the
41   additional thirty-eight dollars, as applicable.
42     Sec. ___.  Section 257.10, subsection 5, Code 1999,
43   is amended to read as follows:
44     5.  COMBINED DISTRICT COST PER PUPIL.  The combined
45   district cost per pupil for a school district is the
46   sum of the regular program district cost per pupil and
47   the special education support services district cost
48   per pupil.  Combined district cost per pupil does not
49   include additional allowable growth added for school
50   districts that have a negative balance of funds raised
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 1   for special education instruction programs, additional
 2   allowable growth granted by the school budget review
 3   committee for a single school year, or additional
 4   allowable growth added for programs for dropout
 5   prevention and for programs for gifted and 
talented
 6   children.
 7     Sec. ___.  Section 257.42, unnumbered paragraphs 1,
 8   4, and 5, Code 1999, are amended to read as follows:
 9     Boards of school districts, individually or jointly
10   with the boards of other school districts, requesting
11   to use additional allowable growth for gifted 
and
12   talented children programs, may shall annually submit
13   program plans for gifted and talented children
14   programs and budget costs, including requests for
15   additional allowable growth for funding the 
programs,
16   to the department of education and to the applicable
17   gifted and talented children advisory council, if an
18   advisory council has been established, as provided in
19   this chapter.
20     The department of education shall adopt rules under
21   chapter 17A relating to the administration of sections
22   257.42 through 257.49.  The rules shall prescribe the
23   format of program plans submitted under section 257.43
24   and shall require that programs fulfill specified
25   objectives.  The department shall encourage and assist
26   school districts to provide programs for gifted and
27   talented children whether or not additional allowable
28   growth is requested under this chapter.
29     The department may request that the staff of the
30   auditor of state conduct an independent program audit
31   to verify that the gifted and talented programs funded
32   by additional allowable growth conform to a district's

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