In order to provide additional funds for school districts which send their resident pupils to another school district or to a community college for classes, which jointly employ and share the services of teachers under section 280.15, which use the services of a teacher employed by another school district, or which jointly employ and share the services of a school superintendent under section 280.15 or 273.7A, a supplementary weighting plan for determining enrollment is adopted as follows:
1. Regular curriculum. Pupils in a regular curriculum attending all their classes in the district in which they reside, taught by teachers employed by that district, and having administrators employed by that district, are assigned a weighting of one.
2. Shared classes or teachers. If the school budget review committee certifies to the department of management that the shared classes or teachers would otherwise not be implemented without the assignment of additional weighting, pupils attending classes in another school district or a community college, attending classes taught by a teacher who is employed jointly under section 280.15, or attending classes taught by a teacher who is employed by another school district, are assigned a weighting of one plus an additional portion equal to one times the percent of the pupil's school day during which the pupil attends classes in another district or community college, attends classes taught by a teacher who is jointly employed under section 280.15, or attends classes taught by a teacher who is employed by another school district. A pupil attending a class in which students from one or more other school districts are enrolled and the class is taught via the Iowa communications network is not deemed to be attending a class in another school district for the purposes of this subsection and the school district is not eligible for additional weighting for that class under this subsection.
School districts that have executed whole grade sharing agreements under section 282.10 through 282.12 beginning with the budget year beginning on July 1, 1993, and that received supplementary weighting for shared teachers or classes under this subsection for the school year ending prior to the effective date of the whole grade sharing agreement shall include in its supplementary weighting amount additional pupils added by the application of the supplementary weighting plan, equal to the pupils added by the application of the supplementary weighting plan pursuant to this subsection in the budget year beginning July 1, 1992. If at any time after July 1, 1993, a district ends a whole grade sharing agreement with the original district and does not enter into a whole grade sharing agreement with an alternative district, the school district shall reduce its supplementary weighting amount by the number of pupils added by the application of the supplementary weighting in this subsection in the budget year beginning July 1, 1992, in the budget year that the whole grade sharing agreement is terminated.
3. Whole grade sharing. For the budget years beginning July 1, 1991, and July 1, 1992, in districts that have executed whole grade sharing agreements under sections 282.10 through 282.12, the school budget review committee shall assign a weighting equal to one plus an additional portion of one times the percent of the pupil's school day in which a pupil attends classes in another district or a community college, attends classes taught by a teacher who is employed jointly under section 280.15, or attends classes taught by a teacher who is employed by another district. The assignment of additional weighting to a school district shall continue for a period of five years. If the school district reorganizes during that five-year period, the assignment of the additional weighting shall be transferred to the reorganized district until the expiration of the five-year period. If a school district was receiving additional weighting for whole grade sharing under section 442.39, subsection 2, Code 1989, the district shall continue to be assigned additional weighting for whole grade sharing by the school budget review committee under this subsection so that the district is assigned the additional weighting for whole grade sharing for a total period of five years.
4. Pupils ineligible. A pupil eligible for the weighting plan provided in section 256B.9 is not eligible for the weighting plan provided in this section.
5. Shared superintendents. For the budget years beginning July 1, 1991, and July 1, 1992, pupils enrolled in a school district in which the superintendent is employed jointly under section 280.15 or under section 273.7A, are assigned a weighting of one plus an additional portion of one for the superintendent who is jointly employed times the percent of the superintendent's time in which the superintendent is employed in the school district. However, the total additional weighting assigned under this subsection for a budget year for a school district shall not exceed seven and one-half and the total additional weighting added cumulatively to the enrollment of school districts sharing a superintendent shall not exceed twelve and one-half. The assignment of additional weighting to a school district shall continue for a period of five years. If the school district reorganizes during that five-year period, the assignment of the additional weighting shall be transferred to the reorganized district until the expiration of the five-year period.
If a district was receiving additional weighting for superintendent sharing or administrator sharing under section 442.39, subsection 4, Code 1989, the district shall continue to be assigned additional weighting for superintendent sharing or administrator sharing by the school budget review committee under this subsection so that the district is assigned the additional weighting for sharing for a total period of five years.
For purposes of this section, "superintendent" includes a person jointly employed under section 273.7A or section 280.15 to serve in the capacity of a school superintendent and who holds a superintendent's endorsement issued under chapter 272 by the board of educational examiners.
6. Shared mathematics, science, and language courses. For the budget years beginning July 1, 1991, and July 1, 1992, a school district receiving additional funds under subsection 2 or 3 for its pupils at the ninth grade level and above that are enrolled in sequential mathematics courses at the advanced algebra level and above; chemistry, advanced chemistry, physics or advanced physics courses; or foreign language courses at the second year level and above shall have an additional weighting of one pupil added to its total.
7. Calculation of weights. The school budget review committee shall calculate the weights to be used under subsections 2 and 3 to the nearest one-hundredth of one and under subsection 5 to the next highest one-thousandth of one. To the extent possible, the moneys generated by the weighting shall be equivalent to the moneys generated by the one-tenth, five-tenths, and twenty-five thousandths weighting provided in section 442.39, Code 1989.
89 Acts, ch 135, § 11; 90 Acts, ch 1190, § 7; 93 Acts, ch 180, § 96; 95 Acts, ch 111, § 1; 95 Acts, ch 209, § 13
Referred to in § 257.12, 280.13A, 282.7
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