Senate File 2139 - Introduced
SENATE FILE
BY KETTERING
Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to the distribution of state aid to school
2 districts and area education agencies for professional
3 development under the student achievement and teacher quality
4 program.
5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 284.13, subsection 1, paragraph d, Code
1 2 Supplement 2007, is amended to read as follows:
1 3 d. (1) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2007 2008,
1 4 and ending June 30, 2008 2009, up to twenty million dollars to
1 5 the department for use by school districts for professional
1 6 development as provided in section 284.6. The department
1 7 shall distribute fifty percent of the funds allocated for the
1 8 purpose of this paragraph in the proportion that the actual
1 9 enrollment of a school district bears to the sum of the basic
1 10 enrollments of all school districts in the state for the
1 11 budget year, while the remainder of the funds allocated for
1 12 the purpose of this paragraph shall be distributed based on
1 13 the average per diem contract salary for each district as
1 14 reported to the department for the school year beginning July
1 15 1, 2006 2007, multiplied by the total number of full=time
1 16 equivalent teachers in the base year. The department shall
1 17 adjust each district's average per diem salary by the
1 18 allowable growth rate established under section 257.8 for the
1 19 fiscal year beginning July 1, 2007 2008. The contract salary
1 20 amount shall be the amount paid for their regular
1 21 responsibilities but shall not include pay for extracurricular
1 22 activities. These funds shall not supplant existing funding
1 23 for professional development activities. Notwithstanding any
1 24 provision to the contrary, moneys received by a school
1 25 district under this paragraph shall not revert but shall
1 26 remain available for the same purpose in the succeeding fiscal
1 27 year. A school district shall submit a report to the
1 28 department in a manner determined by the department describing
1 29 its use of the funds received under this paragraph. The
1 30 department shall submit a report on school district use of the
1 31 moneys distributed pursuant to this paragraph to the general
1 32 assembly and the legislative services agency not later than
1 33 January 15 of the fiscal year for which moneys are allocated
1 34 for purposes of this paragraph.
1 35 (2) From moneys available under subparagraph (1) based on
2 1 average per diem contract salaries for the fiscal year
2 2 beginning July 1, 2007 2008, and ending June 30, 2008 2009,
2 3 the department shall allocate to area education agencies an
2 4 amount per teacher employed by an area education agency that
2 5 is approximately equivalent to the average per teacher amount
2 6 allocated to the districts. The average per teacher amount
2 7 shall be calculated by dividing the total number of teachers
2 8 employed by school districts and the teachers employed by area
2 9 education agencies into the total amount of moneys available
2 10 under subparagraph (1) based on average per diem contract
2 11 salaries.
2 12 EXPLANATION
2 13 This bill changes the formula by which the department of
2 14 education is directed to distribute $20 million in state aid
2 15 allocated for professional development for FY 2008=2009 to
2 16 school districts and area education agencies under the student
2 17 achievement and teacher quality program.
2 18 The bill provides that 50 percent of the moneys must be
2 19 distributed in the proportion that the actual enrollment bears
2 20 to the sum of the basic enrollments of all school districts in
2 21 the state for the budget year. The remainder of the moneys
2 22 will continue to be distributed as in FY 2007=2008, based on
2 23 the average per diem contract salary for each district as
2 24 reported to the department for the prior school year,
2 25 multiplied by the total number of full=time equivalent
2 26 teachers in the prior school year.
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