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39 regional academy is located, a supplementary weighting
40 plan for determining enrollment is adopted.
41 b. A school district which establishes a regional
42 academy shall be eligible to assign its resident
43 pupils attending classes at the academy a weighting of
44 one-tenth of the percentage of the pupil's school day
45 during which the pupil attends classes at the regional
46 academy. For the purposes of this subsection,
47 "regional academy" means an educational institution
48 established by a school district to which multiple
49 schools send pupils in grades seven through twelve. A
50 regional academy shall include in its curriculum
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1 advanced-level courses and may include in its
2 curriculum vocational-technical programs. The maximum
3 amount of additional weighting for which a school
4 district establishing a regional academy shall be
5 eligible is an amount corresponding to fifteen
6 additional pupils.
7 Sec. 6. NEW SECTION. 257.11A SUPPLEMENTARY
8 WEIGHTING AND SCHOOL REORGANIZATION.
9 1. In determining weighted enrollment under
10 section 257.6, if the board of directors of a school
11 district has approved a contract for sharing pursuant
12 to section 257.11 and the school district has approved
13 an action to bring about a reorganization to take
14 effect on and after July 1, 2002, and on or before
15 July 1, 2006, the reorganized school district shall
16 include, for a period of three years following the
17 effective date of the reorganization, additional
18 pupils added by the application of the supplementary
19 weighting plan, equal to the pupils added by the
20 application of the supplementary weighting plan in the
21 year preceding the reorganization. For the purposes
22 of this paragraph, the weighted enrollment for the
23 period of three years following the effective date of
24 reorganization shall include the supplementary
25 weighting in the base year used for determining the
26 combined district cost for the first year of the
27 reorganization. However, the weighting shall be
28 reduced by the supplementary weighting added for a
29 pupil whose residency is not within the reorganized
30 district.
31 2. For purposes of this section, a reorganized
32 district is one in which the reorganization was
33 approved in an election pursuant to sections 275.18
34 and 275.20 and takes effect on or after July 1, 2002,
35 and on or before July 1, 2006. Each district which
36 initiates, by a vote of the board of directors or
37 jointly by the affected boards, action to bring about
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