Amend Senate File 423 as follows:
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PARENT LIAISON COUNSELOR PILOT PROGRAM
   Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  280.30  Parent liaison counselor pilot program.
   1.  A parent liaison counselor pilot program is established to be administered by the department of education. The goals of the program shall be to raise student achievement, as measured by increasing high school graduation rates, increasing the percentage of high school graduates who are qualified to enroll in a college or university, and increasing the percentage of students who successfully complete college preparatory coursework while enrolled in high school. The department of education shall adopt measures which reflect the goals of the program for the purpose of assessing the effectiveness of the program.
   2.  A school district identified by the department of education as a persistently lowest-achieving school may participate in the program and shall employ one parent liaison counselor. A parent liaison counselor shall be a guidance counselor licensed under chapter 272 who is currently employed by the school district. The guidance counselor shall be issued a full-time contract for the full school year. The additional contract days shall be used to administer the program.
   3.  A parent liaison counselor shall have the following duties:
   a.  Meeting and working with targeted students and the parents of targeted students, whether at a student’s home or in a student’s school, regarding course selection, career planning, and postsecondary preparation.
   b.  For targeted students in middle school, focusing primarily on helping targeted students and the parents of targeted students with advance planning and course selection for high school.
   4.  For purposes of this section, targeted students are students who have unrealized academic potential and whose circumstances inhibit their academic performance, including but not limited to students who are limited English proficient, students in special education, students in individualized education programs, students from families with a family income at or below two hundred percent of the federal poverty level as defined by the most recently revised poverty income guidelines published by the United States department of health and human services, students with ongoing attendance issues, and other at-risk student populations identified by the department of education.
   5.  The department of education shall submit a report to the general assembly, annually by December 15, on the parent liaison counselor pilot program.
   6.  This section is repealed June 30, 2016.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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JONI K. ERNST