House File 2173 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 2173 BY J. TAYLOR A BILL FOR An Act authorizing certain students to enroll in a career and 1 technical course offered through a district-to-community 2 college sharing program for high school credit only, 3 exempting such students from proficiency requirements, and 4 prohibiting school districts from receiving supplementary 5 weighting for such students. 6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 7 TLSB 5835YH (2) 84 kh/nh

H.F. 2173 Section 1. Section 257.11, subsection 3, paragraph b, 1 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2011, is amended to read as 2 follows: 3 If the school budget review committee certifies to the 4 department of management that the class would not otherwise be 5 implemented without the assignment of additional weighting, 6 pupils who meet the senior year plus program student 7 eligibility criteria pursuant to section 261E.3, subsection 8 1, attending a community college-offered class or attending 9 a class taught by a community college-employed instructor 10 are assigned a weighting of the percentage of the pupil’s 11 school day during which the pupil attends class in the 12 community college or attends a class taught by a community 13 college-employed instructor times seventy hundredths for career 14 and technical courses or forty-six hundredths for liberal arts 15 and sciences courses. The following requirements shall be 16 met for the purposes of assigning an additional weighting for 17 classes offered through a sharing agreement between a school 18 district and community college. The class must be: 19 Sec. 2. Section 260C.14, subsection 21, paragraph a, Code 20 2011, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph: 21 NEW SUBPARAGRAPH . (05) Unduplicated headcount of pupils 22 who are enrolled in a district-to-community college sharing 23 program for high school credit only in accordance with section 24 261E.8, subsection 6A. 25 Sec. 3. Section 261E.8, Code Supplement 2011, is amended by 26 adding the following new subsection: 27 NEW SUBSECTION . 6A. Notwithstanding section 261E.3, 28 subsection 1, if a school district’s student registration 29 handbook includes notice of the availability of a career and 30 technical course pursuant to subsection 1, a student enrolled 31 in the school district may make application to a community 32 college and the school district to allow the student to enroll 33 in the career and technical course offered by the community 34 college for high school credit only. If the student applies 35 -1- LSB 5835YH (2) 84 kh/nh 1/ 2

H.F. 2173 only for high school credit, the student is exempt from the 1 proficiency requirements of section 261E.3, subsection 1, 2 paragraph “e” , and the school district shall not receive 3 additional weighting for the student’s enrollment in the course 4 under section 257.11, subsection 3. 5 Sec. 4. Section 261E.8, subsection 7, paragraph b, Code 6 Supplement 2011, is amended to read as follows: 7 b. An unduplicated enrollment count of eligible 8 students participating in the program , and a separate 9 unduplicated enrollment count of students participating in 10 district-to-community college programs for high school credit 11 only in accordance with subsection 6A . 12 EXPLANATION 13 This bill provides that if a school district’s 14 student registration handbook includes notice of the 15 availability of a career and technical course offered under 16 a district-to-community college sharing program, a student 17 enrolled in the school district may make application to a 18 community college and the school district to allow the student 19 to enroll in the career and technical course to receive high 20 school credit only. If the student applies only for high 21 school credit, the student is exempt from the proficiency 22 requirements of Code section 261E.3, subsection 1, paragraph 23 “e”, and the school district shall not receive additional 24 supplementary weighting for the student’s enrollment in the 25 course. 26 The bill requires community colleges and the state board of 27 education to include a count of these students in the reports 28 and data collection elements currently required through the 29 department of education’s management information system and the 30 district-to-community college and concurrent enrollment program 31 requirements. 32 -2- LSB 5835YH (2) 84 kh/nh 2/ 2