258.10  Powers of district boards.
  1.  The board of directors of a school district shall offer career and technical instruction in service areas as provided in section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph “h”, and pay the expense of such instruction in the same way as the expenses for other subjects in the school district are paid.
  2.  The board of directors of a school district may establish and maintain work-based learning programs in collaboration with a regional work-based learning intermediary network established pursuant to section 256.40. 
  3.  The board of directors of a school district may provide workers’ compensation coverage by insuring, or self-insuring as provided in section 87.4, students participating in unpaid work-based learning opportunities offered in accordance with section 256.40. A school district’s liability to students injured while participating in an unpaid work-based learning opportunity is as provided in section 85.20.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §3846; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §258.10]
97 Acts, ch 37, §6; 2016 Acts, ch 1108, §43