House File 2440 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 2440 BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION (SUCCESSOR TO HF 620) A BILL FOR An Act establishing market factor teacher incentives for school 1 district attendance centers located in areas that have high 2 rates of crime. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 2520HV (4) 83 kh/nh

H.F. 2440 Section 1. NEW SECTION . 284.11 Market factor teacher 1 incentives —— legislative intent. 2 1. The general assembly finds that Iowa school districts 3 need to be more competitive in recruiting and retaining 4 talented professionals into the teaching profession. To ensure 5 that school districts with attendance centers located in areas 6 that have high rates of crime have the ability to attract 7 highly qualified teachers, it is the intent of the general 8 assembly to encourage school districts to provide incentives 9 for these hard-to-staff attendance centers. If moneys are 10 appropriated for such purpose, this section provides for state 11 assistance to allow school districts to add a market factor 12 incentive paid by the school districts. 13 2. A school district with one or more attendance centers 14 that the department, in collaboration with the division of 15 criminal and juvenile justice and planning of the department 16 of human rights, has determined are located in an area or 17 areas that have high rates of crime shall be paid annually, 18 if the general assembly appropriates moneys for purposes 19 of market factor incentives, an amount of state assistance 20 to create market factor incentives for classroom teachers 21 in the school district. If the general assembly does not 22 appropriate moneys sufficient for purposes of market factor 23 teacher incentives, the board of directors of a school district 24 is encouraged to determine an appropriate revenue source to 25 support market factor teacher incentives. Market factor 26 incentives may include but are not limited to salaries, 27 educational opportunities and support, moving expenses, and 28 housing expenses for the recruitment and retention needs of 29 the school district in the hard-to-staff attendance centers, 30 improving the racial or ethnic diversity on local teaching 31 staffs, funding to prepare a teacher to attain a license or 32 endorsement in a shortage area, or funds to support educational 33 support personnel in pursuing a license in a shortage area. 34 The teacher quality committee established pursuant to section 35 -1- LSB 2520HV (4) 83 kh/nh 1/ 3

H.F. 2440 284.4, subsection 1, paragraph “c” , shall make recommendations 1 to the school board and the certified bargaining representative 2 regarding the awarding of market factor incentives. 3 3. The allocations to a school district shall be made in 4 one payment on or about October 15 of the fiscal year for 5 which the appropriation is made, taking into consideration 6 the relative budget and cash position of the state resources. 7 Moneys received under this section shall not be commingled 8 with state aid payments made under section 257.16 to a school 9 district and shall be accounted for by the local school 10 district separately from state aid payments. Payments made to 11 school districts under this section are miscellaneous income 12 for purposes of chapter 257. A school district shall maintain 13 a separate listing within its budget for payments received and 14 expenditures made pursuant to this section. A school district 15 shall certify to the department of education how the school 16 district allocated the funds and how the moneys received under 17 this section were used. 18 4. The department shall include market factor incentives 19 when reporting in the annual condition of education report on 20 the use of funds allocated for purposes of this section. The 21 department shall review the use and effectiveness of the use of 22 funds allocated for purposes of this section and shall submit 23 its findings and recommendations in a report to the general 24 assembly by January 15, 2011, and each succeeding fiscal year 25 following a fiscal year in which funds were appropriated for 26 purposes of this section. It is the intent of the general 27 assembly to appropriate funds in future fiscal years for 28 purposes of this section based upon the department’s findings 29 and recommendations. 30 5. Market factor teacher incentives shall not be utilized to 31 displace a teacher or to alter teaching assignments without the 32 approval of the affected teachers. 33 EXPLANATION 34 This bill establishes market factor teacher incentives 35 -2- LSB 2520HV (4) 83 kh/nh 2/ 3

H.F. 2440 for school district attendance centers located in areas 1 that have high rates of crime. If the general assembly 2 does not appropriate sufficient funds for incentives, the 3 bill encourages school districts to determine an appropriate 4 revenue source to support incentives. Incentives may include 5 educational opportunities and support, moving expenses, and 6 housing expenses; and funding to prepare education personnel to 7 attain a license or endorsement in a shortage area. 8 Incentives cannot be used to displace a teacher or to alter 9 teaching assignments without the approval of the affected 10 teachers. 11 The bill requires the teacher quality committee to make 12 recommendations to the school board and collective bargaining 13 representative regarding the awarding of market factor 14 incentives. The bill also requires the department to submit 15 a report on the use and effectiveness of the funds allocated 16 for incentives, and states a legislative intent to reevaluate 17 future appropriations for the incentives based on the report. 18 -3- LSB 2520HV (4) 83 kh/nh 3/ 3