For each fiscal year, the department shall allocate the remainder of the moneys appropriated by the general assembly to the fund for phase III, subject to section 294A.18. If fifty million dollars is allocated for phase III, the payments for an approved plan for a school district shall be equal to the product of a district's certified enrollment and ninety- eight dollars and sixty-three cents, and for an area education agency shall be equal to the product of an area education agency's enrollment served and four dollars and sixty cents. If the moneys allocated for phase III are either greater than or less than fifty million dollars, the department of education shall adjust the amount for each student in certified enrollment and each student in enrollment served based upon the amount allocated for phase III.
If a school district has discontinued grades under section 282.7, subsection 1, or students attend school in another school district, under an agreement with the board of the other school district, the board of directors of the district of residence either shall transmit the phase III moneys allocated to the district for those students based upon the full-time equivalent attendance of those students to the board of the school district of attendance of the students or shall transmit to the board of the school district of attendance of the students a portion of the phase III moneys allocated to the district of residence based upon an agreement between the board of the resident district and the board of the district of attendance.
A plan shall be developed using the procedure specified under section 294A.15. The plan shall provide for the establishment of a performance-based pay plan, a supplemental pay plan, a combination of the two pay plans, or comprehensive school transformation programs, and shall include a budget for the cost of implementing the plan. In addition to the costs of providing additional salary for teachers and the amount required to pay the employers' share of the federal social security and Iowa public employees' retirement system, or a pension and annuity retirement system established under chapter 294, and payments on the additional salary, the budget may include costs associated with providing specialized or general training. Moneys received under phase III shall not be used to employ additional employees of a school district, except that phase III moneys may be used to employ substitute teachers, part-time teachers, and other employees needed to implement plans that provide innovative staffing patterns, or require that a teacher employed on a full-time basis be absent from the classroom for specified periods for fulfilling other instructional duties or to participate on a peer review team or in peer coaching efforts. However, all teachers employed are eligible to receive additional salary under an approved plan.
For the purpose of this section, a performance-based pay plan shall provide for salary increases for teachers who demonstrate superior performance in completing assigned duties. The plan shall include the method used to determine superior performance of a teacher. For school districts, the plan may include assessments of teaching performance, assessments of student performance, assessments of other characteristics associated with effective teaching, or a combination of these criteria.
For school districts, a performance-based pay plan may provide for additional salary for individual teachers, for teachers assigned to a specific discipline, or for all teachers assigned to an attendance center. For area education agencies, a performance-based pay plan may provide for additional salary for individual teachers, for additional salary for all teachers assigned to a specific discipline within an area education agency, or for additional salary for individual teachers assigned to a multidisciplinary team within an area education agency. If the plan provides additional salary for all teachers assigned to an attendance center, specific discipline, or multidisciplinary team, the receipt of additional salary by those teachers shall be determined on the basis of whether that attendance center, specific discipline, or multidisciplinary team meets specific objectives adopted for that attendance center, specific discipline, or multidisciplinary team. For school districts, the objectives may include, but are not limited to, decreasing the dropout rate, increasing the attendance rate, or accelerating the achievement growth of students enrolled in that attendance center through the use of learning techniques that may include, but are not limited to, reading instruction in phonics or whole language techniques.
If a performance-based pay plan provides additional salary for individual teachers:
1. The plan may provide for salary moneys in addition to the existing salary schedule of the school district or area education agency and may require the participation by the teacher in specialized training requirements.
2. The plan may provide for salary moneys by replacing the existing salary schedule or as an option to the existing salary schedule and may include specialized training requirements, general training requirements, and experience requirements.
A supplemental pay plan may provide for supplementing the costs of vocational agriculture programs as provided in section 294A.17.
For the purpose of this section, a supplemental pay plan in a school district shall provide for the payment of additional salary to teachers who participate in either additional instructional work assignments or specialized training during the regular school day or during an extended school day, school week, or school year. A supplemental pay plan in an area education agency shall provide for the payment of additional salary to teachers who participate in either additional work assignments or improvement of instruction activities with school districts during the regular school day or during an extended school day, school week, or school year.
For school districts, additional instructional work assignments may include but are not limited to general curriculum planning and development, vertical articulation of curriculum, horizontal curriculum coordination, development of educational measurement practices for the school district, participation in assessment activities leading to certification by the national board for professional teaching standards, attendance at workshops and other programs for service as cooperating teachers for student teachers, development of plans for assisting beginning teachers during their first year of teaching, attendance at summer staff development programs, development of staff development programs for other teachers to be presented during the school year, participation in family support programs, development of programs which provide instruction in conflict resolution and mediation techniques for staff and students, development of anger management instructional programs for students, and other plans locally determined in the manner specified in section 294A.15 and approved by the department of education under section 294A.16 that are of equal importance or more appropriately meet the educational needs of the school district.
For area education agencies, additional instructional work assignments may include but are not limited to providing assistance and support to school districts in general curriculum planning and development, providing assistance to school districts in vertical articulation of curriculum and horizontal curriculum coordination, development of educational measurement practices for school districts in the area education agency, development of plans for assisting beginning teachers during their first year of teaching, attendance or instruction at summer staff development programs, development of staff development programs for school district teachers to be presented during the school year, participation in family support programs, development of staff development programs which provide instruction in conflict resolution and mediation techniques, assisting school district teachers in the development of anger management instructional programs for students, and other plans determined in the manner specified in section 294A.15 and approved by the department of education under section 294A.16 that are of equal importance or more appropriately meet the educational needs of the area education agency.
Any summer school program, for which the teacher's salary is paid or supplemented under a supplemental pay plan, shall be open to nonpublic school students in the manner provided in section 256.12.
For purposes of this section, "comprehensive school transformation" means activities which focus on the improvement of student achievement and the attainment of student achievement goals under section 280.12. A comprehensive school transformation plan submitted by a school district shall demonstrate the manner in which the components of the plan are integrated with a school's student achievement goals. Components of the plan may include, but are not limited to, providing salary increases to teachers who implement site-based shared decision making, building-based goal-oriented compensation mechanism, or approved innovative educational programs; who focus on student outcomes; who direct accountability for student achievement or accountability for organizational success; and who work to foster relationships between a school and businesses or public agencies which provide health and social services.
87 Acts, ch 224, §13; 88 Acts, ch 1266, §7; 88 Acts, ch 1284, §49; 89 Acts, ch 5, §2; 89 Acts, ch 135, §98; 90 Acts, ch 1141, § 2, 3; 92 Acts, ch 1135, § 7; 92 Acts, ch 1158, § 6; 92 Acts, ch 1227, § 24, 25; 93 Acts, ch 101, § 205; 93 Acts, ch 105, § 2; 93 Acts, ch 179, § 25; 94 Acts, ch 1172, §31; 2001 Acts, ch 161, §19
Referred to in § 256.39, 256A.4, 258.17, 294A.15, 294A.18, 331.909
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