Senate Amendment 5024
PAG LIN
1 1 Amend Senate File 2216 as follows:
1 2 #1. Page 1, by striking lines 28 through 35 and
1 3 inserting the following: <asset building.>
1 4 #2. Page 3, by inserting after line 33 the
1 5 following:
1 6 <Sec. . Section 280.3, Code 2007, is amended to
1 7 read as follows:
1 8 280.3 DUTIES OF BOARD EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ==
1 9 ATTENDANCE CENTER REQUIREMENTS.
1 10 1. The board of directors of each public school
1 11 district and the authorities in charge of each
1 12 nonpublic school shall prescribe the minimum
1 13 educational program and an attendance policy which
1 14 shall require each child to attend school for at least
1 15 one hundred forty=eight days, to be met by attendance
1 16 for at least thirty=seven days each school quarter,
1 17 for the schools under their jurisdictions.
1 18 2. The minimum educational program shall be the
1 19 curriculum set forth in subsection 3 of this section
1 20 and section 256.11, except as otherwise provided by
1 21 law. The board of directors of a public school
1 22 district shall not allow discrimination in any
1 23 educational program on the basis of race, color,
1 24 creed, sex, marital status or place of national
1 25 origin.
1 26 3. The board of directors of each public school
1 27 district and the authorities in charge of each
1 28 nonpublic school shall do all of the following:
1 29 a. Adopt and implement the core curriculum
1 30 established for grades nine through twelve by the
1 31 state board of education pursuant to section 256.7,
1 32 subsection 26, by July 1, 2012.
1 33 b. Adopt and implement the core curriculum
1 34 established for kindergarten through grade eight by
1 35 the state board of education pursuant to section
1 36 256.7, subsection 26, by July 1, 2014.
1 37 4. A nonpublic school which is unable to meet the
1 38 minimum educational program may request an exemption
1 39 from the state board of education. The authorities in
1 40 charge of the nonpublic school shall file with the
1 41 director of the department of education the names and
1 42 locations of all schools desiring to be exempted and
1 43 the names, ages, and post office addresses of all
1 44 pupils of compulsory school age who are enrolled. The
1 45 director, subject to the approval of the state board,
1 46 may exempt the nonpublic school from compliance with
1 47 the minimum educational program for two school years.
1 48 When the exemption has once been granted, renewal of
1 49 the exemption for each succeeding school year may be
1 50 conditioned by the director, with the approval of the
2 1 board, upon proof of achievement in the basic skills
2 2 of arithmetic, the communicative arts of reading,
2 3 writing, grammar, and spelling, and an understanding
2 4 of United States history, history of Iowa, and the
2 5 principles of American government, of the pupils of
2 6 compulsory school age exempted in the preceding year.
2 7 Proof of achievement shall be determined on the basis
2 8 of tests or other means of evaluation prescribed by
2 9 the director of the department of education with the
2 10 approval of the state board of education. The testing
2 11 or evaluation, if required, shall be accomplished
2 12 prior to submission of the request for renewal of the
2 13 exemption. Renewal requests shall be filed with the
2 14 director by April 15 of the school year preceding the
2 15 school year for which the applicants desire exemption.
2 16 This section shall not apply to schools eligible for
2 17 exemption under section 299.24.
2 18 5. The board of directors of each public school
2 19 district and the authorities in charge of each
2 20 nonpublic school shall establish and maintain
2 21 attendance centers based upon the needs of the school
2 22 age pupils enrolled in the school district or
2 23 nonpublic school. Public school kindergarten programs
2 24 shall and public and nonpublic school prekindergarten
2 25 programs may be provided. In addition, the board of
2 26 directors or governing authority may include in the
2 27 educational program of any school such additional
2 28 courses, subjects, or activities which it deems fit
2 29 the needs of the pupils.>
2 30 #3. By renumbering as necessary.
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2 34 BRAD ZAUN
2 35 SF 2216.306 82
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