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PAG LIN 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
Text: HF02596 Text: HF02598 Text: HF02500 - HF02599 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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