House File 620 - Introduced
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A BILL FOR
1 An Act establishing market factor teacher incentives for school
2 district attendance centers located in areas that have high
3 rates of crime and making an appropriation.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 284.11 MARKET FACTOR TEACHER
1 2 INCENTIVES == LEGISLATIVE INTENT.
1 3 1. The general assembly finds that Iowa school districts
1 4 need to be more competitive in recruiting and retaining
1 5 talented professionals into the teaching profession. To
1 6 ensure that school districts with attendance centers located
1 7 in areas that have high rates of crime have the ability to
1 8 attract highly qualified teachers, it is the intent of the
1 9 general assembly to encourage school districts to provide
1 10 incentives for these hard=to=staff attendance centers. If
1 11 moneys are appropriated for such purpose, this section
1 12 provides for state assistance to allow school districts to add
1 13 a market factor incentive paid by the school districts.
1 14 2. A school district with one or more attendance centers
1 15 that the department, in collaboration with the division of
1 16 criminal and juvenile justice and planning of the department
1 17 of human rights, has determined are located in an area or
1 18 areas that have high rates of crime shall be paid annually, if
1 19 the general assembly appropriates moneys for purposes of
1 20 market factor incentives, an amount of state assistance to
1 21 create market factor incentives for classroom teachers in the
1 22 school district. Market factor incentives may include but are
1 23 not limited to salaries, educational opportunities and
1 24 support, moving expenses, and housing expenses for the
1 25 recruitment and retention needs of the school district in the
1 26 hard=to=staff attendance centers, improving the racial or
1 27 ethnic diversity on local teaching staffs, funding to prepare
1 28 a teacher to attain a license or endorsement in a shortage
1 29 area, or funds to support educational support personnel in
1 30 pursuing a license in a shortage area. The teacher quality
1 31 committee established pursuant to section 284.4, subsection 1,
1 32 paragraph "c", shall make recommendations to the school board
1 33 and the certified bargaining representative regarding the
1 34 awarding of market factor incentives.
1 35 3. The allocations to a school district shall be made in
2 1 one payment on or about October 15 of the fiscal year for
2 2 which the appropriation is made, taking into consideration the
2 3 relative budget and cash position of the state resources.
2 4 Moneys received under this section shall not be commingled
2 5 with state aid payments made under section 257.16 to a school
2 6 district and shall be accounted for by the local school
2 7 district separately from state aid payments. Payments made to
2 8 school districts under this section are miscellaneous income
2 9 for purposes of chapter 257. A school district shall maintain
2 10 a separate listing within its budget for payments received and
2 11 expenditures made pursuant to this section. A school district
2 12 shall certify to the department of education how the school
2 13 district allocated the funds and how the moneys received under
2 14 this section were used.
2 15 4. The department shall include market factor incentives
2 16 when reporting in the annual condition of education report on
2 17 the use of funds allocated for purposes of this section. The
2 18 department shall review the use and effectiveness of the use
2 19 of funds allocated for purposes of this section and shall
2 20 submit its findings and recommendations in a report to the
2 21 general assembly by January 15, 2011, and each succeeding
2 22 fiscal year following a fiscal year in which funds were
2 23 appropriated for purposes of this section. It is the intent
2 24 of the general assembly to appropriate funds in future fiscal
2 25 years for purposes of this section based upon the department's
2 26 findings and recommendations.
2 27 Sec. 2. MARKET FACTOR TEACHER INCENTIVES. There is
2 28 appropriated from the general fund of the state to the
2 29 department of education for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
2 30 2009, and ending June 30, 2010, the following amount, or so
2 31 much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
2 32 designated:
2 33 For purposes of market factor teacher incentives pursuant
2 34 to section 284.11, as enacted by this Act:
2 35 .................................................. $ 5,000,000
3 1 EXPLANATION
3 2 This bill establishes market factor teacher incentives for
3 3 school district attendance centers located in areas that have
3 4 high rates of crime and appropriates $5 million from the state
3 5 general fund to the department of education for fiscal year
3 6 2009=2010 to provide for state assistance to allow school
3 7 districts to add a market factor to teacher salaries paid by
3 8 the school districts to teachers in those hard=to=staff
3 9 attendance centers. Incentives may include educational
3 10 opportunities and support, moving expenses, and housing
3 11 expenses; and funding to prepare education personnel to attain
3 12 a license or endorsement in a shortage area.
3 13 The bill requires the teacher quality committee to make
3 14 recommendations to the school board and collective bargaining
3 15 representative regarding the awarding of market factor
3 16 incentives. The bill also requires the department to submit a
3 17 report on the use and effectiveness of the funds allocated for
3 18 incentives, and states a legislative intent to reevaluate
3 19 future appropriations for the incentives based on the report.
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