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From the ECS State Policy Database - Highlighted Policies


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This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the state.

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Signed into law 05/2012

Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding


P-12,
Postsec.
Continuous Improvement in Undergraduate Courses
S.F. 2284 -- Division VII
Directs the State Board of Regents to develop a program for implementing continuous improvement methodologies in every undergraduate course offered by the Regents universities. Continuous improvement plans are to be implemented in the fall semester of 2013 for...

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Signed into law 07/2011

Career/Technical Education


P-12,
Community College
Pathways for Academic Career and Employment Act
H.F. 645 - Multiple Provisions
"Pathways for Academic Career and Employment Act" . Establishes a pathways for academic career and employment program to provide funding to community colleges for the development of projects in coordination with the department of economic development, the depa...

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Signed into law 04/2009

Counseling/Guidance


P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College
Articulation from High School to College and from Community College to Four-Year
H.B. 815
Adds several new subsections of law. Requires development and implementation of a plan to provide, at least twice annually to all principals and guidance counselors employed by school districts and accredited nonpublic schools, notice describing how students c...

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Signed into law 04/2007

Economic/Workforce Development


P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College
Generation Iowa Commission
H.F. 617
Establishes the generation Iowa commission within the department of economic development for purposes of advising and assisting in the retention and attraction of the young adult population in the state in both urban and rural areas. Provides that the 15-membe...

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Signed into law 04/2007

School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries


P-12
Waivers from Certain Staffing Requirements
S.F. 277 (Section 5 and 8)
Section 5: Strikes and rewrites section 256.11A. Authorizes the board of directors of a school district to file a request by August 1, 2007 for a waiver from the following requirements for the 2007-2008 school year:
a. Apply for a one-year extension of a waiv...

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Signed into law 04/2007

Teaching Quality--Professional Development


P-12
Professional Development
S.F. 277 (Section 23)
Directs each attendance center to develop an attendance center professional development plan to promote group professional development. Provides the attendance center plan must be based, at a minimum, on the needs of the teachers, the Iowa teaching standards,...

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Signed into law 04/2003

Finance--District


P-12
School Health Insurance Reform Team Study and Recommendations
S.F. 386
Requires the insurance division of the department of commerce to establish a school health insurance reform team study and to make recommendations to the general assembly; provides for review of affordable health insurance coverage for school district employee...

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