House Study Bill 29 - Introduced HOUSE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION BILL BY CHAIRPERSON FORRISTALL) A BILL FOR An Act eliminating certain procedures for the implementation of 1 interventions by school districts with attendance centers 2 identified as persistently lowest-achieving schools. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1839YC (1) 84 kh/nh

H.F. _____ Section 1. Section 256.9, subsection 61, paragraph b, Code 1 2011, is amended by striking the paragraph. 2 EXPLANATION 3 This bill removes a provision that directs the director of 4 the department of education to require a school district that 5 has one or more attendance centers identified as a persistently 6 lowest-achieving school to negotiate with the school district’s 7 employee organization to reach a memorandum of understanding 8 that contains an agreement regarding which of the four possible 9 interventions the school district will implement as required by 10 the U.S. department of education. 11 Currently, the school district and the employee organization 12 representing the school district’s teachers must meet at 13 reasonable times to negotiate a memorandum of understanding 14 that contains an agreement on the specific intervention to 15 be implemented and a provision stating that the terms of any 16 collective bargaining agreement between the parties shall 17 remain in effect and unaltered except as specifically agreed 18 to in the memorandum. If the parties are unable to reach an 19 agreement within 45 days, they must select an impartial and 20 disinterested person to serve as a mediator, who shall not 21 compel the parties to agree. If mediation fails after 30 22 days, the school district shall not receive any federal school 23 improvement funds for the attendance center identified as a 24 persistently lowest-achieving school. The memorandum remains 25 in effect for the period of time that an attendance center is 26 identified as a persistently lowest-achieving school unless a 27 duration period is included in the memorandum or the parties 28 mutually agree to amend the memorandum. 29 -1- LSB 1839YC (1) 84 kh/nh 1/ 1