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1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 280.12A COMMUNITY ADVISORY
1 2 COMMITTEE.
1 3 1. The board of directors of each public school district
1 4 and the authorities in charge of each nonpublic school shall
1 5 appoint a community advisory committee, which shall be
1 6 responsible to the board or the authorities in charge and
1 7 shall cooperate with and assist the board or the authorities
1 8 in charge to do the following:
1 9 a. Determine opportunities to build stronger partnerships
1 10 between the schools and minority and low-income families.
1 11 b. Develop methods to eliminate the achievement gap
1 12 between the general school population and minority and low-
1 13 income students.
1 14 c. Identify strategies to expand early childhood
1 15 educational opportunities for children from birth to four
1 16 years of age.
1 17 d. Establish or expand youth development programs and
1 18 after-school and summer school programming that provide
1 19 tutoring and mentoring activities.
1 20 e. Develop methods for improving communication between
1 21 schools, families, and community service organizations and for
1 22 maintaining minority and low-income family connections to
1 23 their school.
1 24 2. The advisory committee membership shall consist of
1 25 students, parents, teachers, administrators, representatives
1 26 of business and labor, and other representatives from the
1 27 local community. To the extent possible, committee membership
1 28 shall be broadly representative of the minority populations in
1 29 the community and balanced with regard to ethnicity, gender,
1 30 income level, and disability.
1 31 3. The committee shall submit any recommendations in a
1 32 report to the board or the authorities in charge at least once
1 33 each year.
1 34 Sec. 2. STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED. In accordance
1 35 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring
2 1 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall
2 2 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid
2 3 received by the school district under section 257.16. This
2 4 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed
2 5 to meet all the state funding-related requirements of section
2 6 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding shall be
2 7 necessary for the full implementation of this Act by and
2 8 enforcement of this Act against all affected school districts.
2 9 EXPLANATION
2 10 This bill directs the board of directors of each public
2 11 school district and the authorities in charge of each
2 12 nonpublic school to provide for the selection of a community
2 13 advisory committee that will be responsible to the board or
2 14 the authorities and must cooperate with and assist the board
2 15 or the authorities to build stronger partnerships between the
2 16 schools and minority and low-income families, eliminate the
2 17 achievement gap between the general school population and
2 18 minority and low-income students, expand early childhood
2 19 educational opportunities, establish or expand youth
2 20 development programs and after-school and summer school
2 21 programming, and improve communication between schools,
2 22 families, and community service organizations to keep minority
2 23 and low-income families connected to their school.
2 24 Committee membership consists of students, parents,
2 25 teachers, administrators, representatives of business and
2 26 labor, and other representatives from the local community, and
2 27 to the extent possible, must be broadly representative of the
2 28 minority populations in the community and balanced with regard
2 29 to ethnicity, gender, income level, and disability.
2 30 The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code
2 31 section 25B.3. The bill requires that the state cost of any
2 32 state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school
2 33 district from state school foundation aid received by the
2 34 school district under section 257.16. The specification is
2 35 deemed to constitute state compliance with any state mandate
3 1 funding-related requirements of Code section 25B.2. The
3 2 inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate the
3 3 requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any state
3 4 mandates included in the bill.
3 5 LSB 6374YH 79
3 6 kh/sh/8
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