House Amendment 8379
PAG LIN
1 1 Amend Senate File 2272, as amended, passed, and
1 2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
1 3 #1. Page 1, by striking lines 21 and 22 and
1 4 inserting the following: <services, available to
1 5 children attending nonpublic schools in the same
1 6 manner and to the same extent that they>.
1 7 #2. Page 6, line 7, by inserting before the word
1 8 <The> the following: <1.>
1 9 #3. Page 6, by inserting after line 25 the
1 10 following:
1 11 <2. Beginning January 15, 2007, the department
1 12 shall submit an annual report to the chairpersons and
1 13 ranking members of the senate and house education
1 14 committees that includes the ways school districts in
1 15 the previous school year used modified allowable
1 16 growth approved under subsection 1; identifies, by
1 17 grade level, age, and district size, the students in
1 18 the dropout and dropout prevention programs for which
1 19 the department approves a request; describes school
1 20 district progress toward increasing student
1 21 achievement and attendance for the students in the
1 22 programs; and describes how the school districts are
1 23 using the revenues from the modified allowable growth
1 24 to improve student achievement among minority
1 25 subgroups.>
1 26 #4. Page 7, by striking lines 4 through 30.
1 27 #5. By striking page 15, line 12 through page 16,
1 28 line 23.
1 29 #6. Page 17, by striking lines 7 through 14 and
1 30 inserting the following: <receiving district is not
1 31 subject to appeal.>
1 32 #7. Page 17, by striking line 16 and inserting the
1 33 following: <Supplement 2005, is amended by striking
1 34 the paragraph and inserting in lieu thereof the
1 35 following:
1 36 c. If a resident district believes that a
1 37 receiving district is violating this subsection, the
1 38 resident district may, within fifteen days after board
1 39 action by the receiving district, submit an appeal to
1 40 the director of the department of education.
1 41 The director, or the director's designee, shall
1 42 attempt to mediate the dispute to reach approval by
1 43 both boards as provided in section 282.18, subsection
1 44 16. If approval is not reached under mediation, the
1 45 director or the director's designee shall conduct a
1 46 hearing and shall hear testimony from both boards.
1 47 Within ten days following the hearing, the director
1 48 shall render a decision upholding or reversing the
1 49 decision by the board of the receiving district.
1 50 Within five days of the director's decision, the board
2 1 may appeal the decision of the director to the state
2 2 board of education under the procedures set forth in
2 3 chapter 290.>
2 4 #8. Page 17, by inserting before line 17 the
2 5 following:
2 6 <Sec. . Section 282.18, subsection 9,
2 7 unnumbered paragraph 2, Code Supplement 2005, is
2 8 amended to read as follows:
2 9 If a request to transfer is due to a change in
2 10 family residence, change in the state in which the
2 11 family residence is located, a change in a child's
2 12 parents' marital status, a guardianship proceeding,
2 13 placement in foster care, adoption, participation in a
2 14 foreign exchange program, or participation in a
2 15 substance abuse or mental health treatment program,
2 16 and the child, who is the subject of the request, is
2 17 enrolled in any grade from kindergarten through grade
2 18 twelve at the time of the request and is not currently
2 19 using any provision of open enrollment, the parent or
2 20 guardian of the child shall have the option to have
2 21 the child remain in the child's original district of
2 22 residence under open enrollment with no interruption
2 23 in the child's kindergarten through grade twelve
2 24 educational program. If a parent or guardian
2 25 exercises this option, the child's new district of
2 26 residence is not required to pay the amount calculated
2 27 in subsection 7, until the start of the first full
2 28 year of enrollment of the child.>
2 29 #9. Page 19, by inserting after line 2 the
2 30 following:
2 31 <Sec. . NEW SECTION. 299A.11 STUDENT RECORDS
2 32 CONFIDENTIAL.
2 33 Notwithstanding any provision of law or rule to the
2 34 contrary, personal information in records regarding a
2 35 child receiving competent private instruction pursuant
2 36 to this chapter, which are maintained, created,
2 37 collected, or assembled by or for a state agency,
2 38 shall be kept confidential in the same manner as
2 39 personal information in student records maintained,
2 40 created, collected, or assembled by or for a school
2 41 corporation or educational institution in accordance
2 42 with section 22.7, subsection 1.>
2 43 #10. By renumbering as necessary.
2 44
2 45
2 46
2 47 COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
2 48 TYMESON of Madison, Chairperson
2 49 SF 2272.707 81
2 50 kh/gg/1651
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