1. a. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the department of education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, and ending June 30, 1997, the sum of fifteen million dollars for the school improvement technology program.
b. There is appropriated from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure account of the state to the department of education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, and ending June 30, 1997, the sum of fifteen million dollars for the school improvement technology program.
c. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the department of education for each fiscal year of the fiscal period beginning July 1, 1997, and ending June 30, 2001, the sum of thirty million dollars for the school improvement technology program.
2. From the moneys appropriated in subsection 1 other than the moneys allocated in subsection 3, for each fiscal year in which moneys are appropriated, the amount of moneys allocated to school districts shall be in the proportion that the basic enrollment of a district bears to the sum of the basic enrollments of all school districts in the state for the budget year. However, except as provided in subsection 8, a district shall not receive less than fifteen thousand dollars in a fiscal year. The Iowa braille and sight saving school, the state school for the deaf, and the Price laboratory school at the university of northern Iowa shall annually certify their basic enrollments to the department of education by October 1. The department of human services shall certify the average student yearly enrollments of the institutions under department of human services control as provided in section 218.1, subsections 1 through 3, 5, 7, and 8, to the department of education by October 1.
3. From the moneys appropriated in subsection 1, for each fiscal year in which moneys are appropriated, the sum of four hundred fifty thousand dollars shall be divided among the area education agencies based upon each area education agency's percentage of the total full-time equivalent elementary and secondary teachers employed in the school districts in this state. An area education agency may contract with an appropriate accredited institution of higher education in Iowa to provide staff development and training in accordance with section 295.3.
4. For each year in which an appropriation is made to the school improvement technology program, the department of education shall notify the department of revenue and finance of the amount to be paid to each school district and area education agency based upon the distribution plan set forth for the appropriation made pursuant to this section. The allocation to each school district and area education agency under this section shall be made in one payment on or about October 15 of the fiscal year in which the appropriation is made, taking into consideration the relative budget and cash position of the state resources. Prior to the receipt of funds, school districts shall provide to the department of education adequate assurance that they have developed or are developing a technology plan as required by section 295.3 and that funds received under this section will be used in accordance with the required technology plan.
5. Moneys received under this section shall not be commingled with state aid payments made under sections 257.16 and 257.35 to a school district or area education agency and shall be accounted for by the local school district or area education agency separately from state aid payments.
6. Payments made to school districts and area education agencies under this section are miscellaneous income for purposes of chapter 257 or are considered encumbered. Each local school district and area education agency shall maintain a separate listing within their budgets for payments received and expenditures made pursuant to this section.
7. Moneys received under this section shall not be used for payment of any collective bargaining agreement or arbitrator's decision negotiated or awarded under chapter 20.
8. For purposes of this section, "school district" means a school district, the Iowa braille and sight saving school, the state school for the deaf, the Price laboratory school at the university of northern Iowa, and the institutions under the control of the department of human services as provided in section 218.1, subsections 1 through 3, 5, 7, and 8. However, notwithstanding subsection 2, the amount of moneys allocated to the institutions under the control of the department of human services as provided in section 218.1, subsections 1, 2, 3, and 5, shall be a total of not more than forty-five thousand dollars for each fiscal year, to be distributed proportionately between the four institutions by the department of education.
96 Acts, ch 1086, §2; 97 Acts, ch 155, §1
Referred to in § 295.4
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