| Issue |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
 Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Directs the state board to specify the approved district-wide assessments measuring student progress on core academic indicators in any rule adopted by the state board associated with the core academic indicators. The district assessment specified by state board rules in connection with the core academic indicators will be the assessments used by districts in the school year beginning July 1, 2011.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf
Title: S.F. 2284 - Division II
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Established that appropriate uses of funding include, but are not limited to: a. Salary and benefits for instructional staff, instructional support staff, and school-based youth services staff who are working with students who are participating in dropout prevention programs, alternative programs, and alternative schools, in a traditional or alternative setting, if the staff person's time is dedicated to working with returning dropouts or students who are deemed, at any time during the school year, to be at risk of dropping out, in order to provide services beyond those which are provided by the school district to students who are not identified as at risk of dropping out. However, if the staff person works part-time with students who are participating in returning dropout and dropout prevention programs, alternative programs, and alternative schools and has another unrelated staff assignment, only the portion of the staff person's time that is related to the returning dropout and dropout prevention program, alternative program, or alternative school may be charged to the program. b. Professional development for all teachers and staff working with at-risk students and programs involving dropout prevention strategies. c. Research-based resources, materials, software, supplies, and purchased services that meet listed criteria.d. Up to five percent of the total budgeted amount may be used for purposes of providing district-wide or building-wide returning dropout and dropout prevention programming targeted to students who are not deemed at risk of dropping out. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013 and thereafter, establishes the ratio of the amount of modified allowable growth.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=84&hbill=SF451
Title: S.F. 451
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Attendance--Compulsory |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
This section requires that a student who is enrolled in a district and is age 5 by 9/15 be considered of compulsory attendance age unless the parent files in writing an intent to remove the child from school. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf
Title: S.F. 2284 - Division XIII
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. |
This section adds a new subsection requiring the Department of Workforce Development to issue a quarterly report identifying Iowa industries in which there is a shortage of skilled workers. Also establishes for the community colleges a gap tuition assistance fund in the state treasury to be administered by the department of education. The funds in the gap tuition assistance fund are appropriated to the department of education for the gap tuition assistance program. Provides $5 million for Skilled Workforce Shortage Tuition Grants.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Legislation/84thGA/enrolled/SF2321.html
Title: S.F. 2321 - Division II
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
This section adds new language that expands the courses eligible for school aid formula supplementary weighting. A district that collaborates with a community college to provide a college-level class that uses an activities-based, project-based, and problem-based learning approach and that is offered through a partnership with a nationally recognized 501-(c)(3) provider of rigorous and innovative science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curriculum is eligible to receive additional weighting. A student enrolled in a career and technical course is exempt from the proficiency requirements of section 261E.3, subsection 1, paragraph e. A community college may require a student who applies for enrollment under a district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program to complete an initial assessment to determine the applicant's readiness to enroll in career and technical coursework, and the community college may deny the enrollment.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf
Title: S.F. 2284 -- Division XI
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits high school credit to be awarded to students that demonstrate competency in the subject areas required to be offered by accredited schools and allows students to receive credit on a performance basis through the administration of an assessment. Creates a competency-based instruction task force and requires the task force to submit reports with findings and recommendations by January 13, 2013, and November 15, 2013. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf
Title: S.F. 2284 - Division I
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits the authorization of individuals that successfully complete a training program to meet Board of Educational Examiners standards to assist school principals in performing non-instructional duties.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf
Title: S.F. 2284 - Division VI
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
This section relates to teacher reviews, professional development, and administrator evaluations. Creates three new task forces: Statewide Educator Evaluation System Task Force, Iowa Teaching Standards and Criteria Review Task Force, and Teacher Performance, Compensation and Career Development Task Force. Requires 36 additional hours of practitioner collaboration (can be repurposed from existing professional development time). Requires annual review of teachers. The first two years of review are to be conducted by a peer group of teachers and are to be formative in nature -- not for recommending participation in an intensive assistance program or for compensation, layoff, termination, etc.. Requires annual evaluation of administrators. The Statewide Educator Evaluation System Task Force is to develop a statewide teacher evaluation system and a statewide administrator evaluation system that standardize the instruments and processes used throughout the state. Lists required components: Direct observation; balanced consideration of student growth measures; integration of the Iowa teaching standards; system applicability to teachers in all content areas. Also requires that recommendations include a tiered evaluation system that differentiates ineffective, minimally effective, effective and highly effective performance by teachers and administrators.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf
Title: S.B. 2284 -- Division III
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
This section requires the department to develop and establish an online learning program model. Specifies that not more than 0.18% of students statewide and not more than 1.0% of a sending district's enrollment can be enrolled in courses where the content is delivered primarily over the internet. Directs the department to conduct an annual survey of students taking course delivered over the internet to determine if students are receiving competent private instruction from a licenses practitioner. Requires the department to submit an annual report to the General Assembly by January 15. Establishes an online learning program model and a statewide initiative within the department to provide distance education to high school students statewide. Requests the Legislative Council establish an online learning interim study committee and requires findings and recommendations in a report to the General Assembly by December 14, 2012.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf
Title: S.F. 2284 -- Division IV
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
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 courses with typical annual enrollment of 300 or more and by fall semester of 2014 for courses with typical annual enrollment of 200 or more but less than 300. Plans are to be implemented beginning the fall semester of 2015 for courses with typical annual enrollment of 100 or more but less than 200. Requires the Board of Regents to annually evaluate the effectiveness of the methodologies and improvement plans and submit findings and recommendations in its annual strategic plan progress report.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf
Title: S.F. 2284 -- Division VII
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
This section requires the state board to adopt, by rule, guidelines for school district implementation of basic levels of reading proficiency based on approved assessments and identification of tools to evaluate any student what may be determined deficient in reading. Assessments should include but are not limited to initial assessments, subsequent assessments, alternative assessments and portfolio reviews. Requires districts to administer a kindergarten readiness assessment prescribed by the Department to every resident prekindergarten or 4-year-old child enrolled in the district (until July 1, 2013). Establishes a Cross-Agency Assessment Instrument Planning Group to study and select one standard, multidomain assessment for implementation by all districts for purposes of kindergarten assessments. Requires districts to assess all students enrolled in kindergarten-3rd at the beginning of each school year for their level of reading or reading readiness on locally determined or statewide assessments.
Districts are required to provide intensive reading instruction to any student who exhibits a substantial deficiency in reading, based on assessments or teacher observations. Requires continuation of intensive reading instruction until the reading deficiency is remedied. Parents/guardians of any K-3 student must be notified at least annually if their child exhibits a substantial deficiency in reading. Districts are required to provide intensive reading instruction until the student is proficient. Districts must provide students identified as having a substantial deficiency in reading with intensive instructional services and supports free of charge (a minimum of 90 minutes daily of scientific, research-based reading instruction). Strategies may include but are not limited to: small group instruction; reduced teacher-student ratios; more frequent progress monitoring; tutoring or mentoring; extended school day, week, or year; or summer reading programs. Districts must provide a report to the parent re: progress and an outline of a plan.
Requires the state board to adopt standards that provide a reasonable expectation that a student's progress towards reading proficiency is sufficient to master appropriate 4th grade reading skills prior to the student's promotion to the 4th grade. Rules and guidelines are to be adopted by July 1, 2013. Beginning May 1, 2017, if a student's reading deficiency is not remedied by the end of 3rd grade, the district must notify the student's parent that they may enroll the student in the intensive summer reading program. If the parent does not enroll the student in the program, and the student is ineligible for a good cause exemption, the student must be retained in 3rd grade. If the student is exempt for good cause or completes the intensive summer reading program but is not reading proficient upon completion, the student may be promoted to 4th grade. In making promotion decisions, districts are required to place significant weight on reading deficiencies identified by assessments or teacher observations. Districts must also consider the student's progress in other subject areas and overall intellectual, physical, emotional or social development. Parents must be consulted prior to any decision to retain is made.
Districts are required to address reading proficiency in their comprehensive school improvement plan. Subject to appropriation, each district must provide professional development services to enhance the skills of elementary teachers in responding to a child's unique reading issues and needs.
Requires the Department to establish an Iowa reading research center for the application of current research on literacy, subject to appropriation.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf
Title: S.F. 2284 - Division IX
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
This section requires the director of the Department of Education to appoint members to a school instructional time task force. The task force is to review and submit findings and recommendations pertaining to school instructional time by October 15, 2012.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf
Title: S.F. 2284 - Division X
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
STEM |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Adds a new section: 268.7 establishes a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) collaborative initiative at the University of Northern Iowa for purposes of supporting activities directly related to recruitment of preK-12 mathematics and science teachers for ongoing mathematics and science programming for students enrolled in grades preK-12. Requires the university to collaborate with the community colleges to develop science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professional development programs for community college instructors and for purposes of STEM curricula development. Requires establishment of six geographically similar regional STEM networks across Iowa that complement and leverage existing resources, including but not limited to extension service assets, area education agencies, state accredited postsecondary institutions, informal educational centers, school districts, economic development zones, and existing public and private science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics partnerships.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2321.pdf
Title: S.F. 2321
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
This section requires the governor to appoint the executive director of the Board of Educational Examiners subject to confirmation by the Senate -- rather than hired by the Board of Educational Examiners. Also increases the length of the student teaching experience from 12 to 14 weeks.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf
Title: S.F. 2284 -- Division V
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
This section eliminates the end dates for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification one-time fee reimbursement awards and the annual awards. The eligibility for the annual award is 10 years or for the years the individual maintains a valid certificate and remains employed as a public school teacher in Iowa, whichever time period is shorter.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf
Title: S.F. 2284 - Division VIII
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
This section requires institutions with approved practitioner programs to administer a preprofessional skills test to admission candidates. Institutions must also administer, prior to a student's completion of the program, subject assessments, designed by a nationally recognized testing service, that measure pedagogy and knowledge of at least one subject area, or a valid and reliable subject area specific, performance-based assessment for preservice teacher candidates, centered on student learning. A student may not complete the program if he/she does not score above the 25th percentile nationally.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf
Title: S.F. 2284 - Division XII
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Accountability |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires local boards, local or regional superintendents, directors of accredited nonpublic schools, etc. to report any disciplinary action for school employee misconduct to the board of educational examiners. Conduct to be reported includes the following: (a) Soliciting, encouraging, or consummating a romantic or otherwise inappropriate relationship with a student. (b) Falsifying student grades, test scores, or other official information or material. (c) Converting public property or funds to the personal use of the school employee.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=84&hbill=HF2383
Title: H.F. 2383
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Establishes registration and oversight requirements for postsecondary educational programs being offered online or virtually. Requires disclosure of the total tuition charges, fees, and other costs payable for course of instruction.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2267
Title: S.F. 2267
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires background checks for school bus drivers and makes penalties applicable.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2221
Title: S.F. 2221
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
Postsec. |
An Act relating to child abuse by prohibiting retaliation for reporting, providing for implementation of reporting policies at postsecondary institutions, requiring review of training requirements. Requires development and implemention of a consistent written policy for an employee who in the scope of the person's employment responsibilities examines, attends, counsels, or treats a child to report suspected physical or sexual abuse. Requires such a policy to include an employee's reporting responsibilities.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Legislation/84thGA/enrolled/SF2225.html
Title: S.F. 2225
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
STEM |
Issued 08/2011 |
P-12 |
Orders the the creation of the Governor's Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics ("STEM") Advisory Council in order to strengthen science, technology, engineering and mathematics education as part of providing a world-class education, encouraging innovation and enhancing economic development.
https://governor.iowa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/EO-74-STEM.pdf
Title: Executive Order #74
Source: https://governor.iowa.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12,
Community College |
"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 department of education, Iowa workforce development, regional advisory boards and community partners to implement a simplified, streamlined, and comprehensive process, along with customized support services, to enable eligible participants to acquire effective academic and employment training to secure gainful, quality, in-state employment. Sets eligibility criteria: Projects that further the ability of members of target populations to secure gainful, quality employment. The "target population" includes: a. Persons deemed low skilled for the purposes of attaining gainful, quality, in-state employment; b. Persons earning incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty level; c. Unemployed persons; d. Underemployed persons; e. Dislocated workers.
Program outcomes. Projects eligible for funding are expected to enable target populations to: a. Acquire and demonstrate competency in basic skills. b. Acquire and demonstrate competency in a specified technical field. c. Complete a specified level of postsecondary education. d. Earn a national career readiness certificate. e. Obtain employer-validated credentials. f. Secure gainful employment in high-quality, local jobs. Satisfaction of economic and employment goals include but are not limited to: a. Economic and workforce development requirements in each region served by the community colleges. b. Needs of industry partners in areas including but not limited to: (1) Information technology. (2) Health care. (3) Advanced manufacturing. (4) Transportation and logistics. Sets program component requirements: 1. Include measurable and effective recruitment, assessment, and referral activities designed for the target populations. 2. Integrate basics skills and work-readiness training with occupational skills training. 3. Combine customized supportive and case management services with training services to help participants overcome barriers to employment. 4. Provide training services at times, locations, and through multiple, flexible modalities that are easily understood and readily accessible to the target populations. Such modalities shall support timeless entry, individualized learning, and flexible scheduling, and may include online remediation, learning lab and cohort learning communities, tutoring, and modularization.
Requires each community college receiving funding for the program to develop a pipeline program that has the following goals: 1. To strengthen partnerships with community-based organizations and industry representatives. 2. To improve and simplify the identification, recruitment, and assessment of qualified participants. 3. To conduct and manage an outreach, recruitment, and intake process, along with accompanying support services, reflecting sensitivity to the time and financial constraints and remediation needs of the target populations. 4. To conduct orientations for qualified participants to describe regional labor market opportunities, employer partners, and program requirements and expectations. 5. To describe the concepts of the project implemented with funds from the pathways for academic career and employment program and the embedded educational and support resources available through such project. 6. To outline the basic skills participants will learn and describe the credentials participants will earn. 7. To describe success milestones and ways in which temporal and instructional barriers have been minimized or eliminated. 8. To review how individualized and customized service strategies for participants will be developed and provided.
Requires each community college receiving funding for the pathways for academic career and employment program to develop a career pathways and bridge curriculum development program with the following goals: 1. The articulation of courses and modules, the mapping of programs within career pathways, and establishment of bridges between credit and noncredit programs. 2. The integration and contextualization of basic skills education and skills training. Requires that the process provide for seamless progressions between adult basic education and general education development programs and continuing education and credit certificate, diploma, and degree programs. 3. The development of career pathways that support the attainment of industry-recognized credentials, diplomas, and degrees through stackable, modularized program delivery.
Establishes the "Gap Tuition Assistance Act" to provide funding to community colleges for need-based tuition assistance to applicants to enable completion of continuing education certificate training programs for in-demand occupations. Sets eligibility criteria for tuition assistance: 1. The program is not offered for credit, but is aligned with a certificate, diploma, or degree for credit, and does any of the following: a. Offers a state, national, or locally recognized certificate. b. Offers preparation for a professional examination or licensure. c. Provides endorsement for an existing credential or license. d. Represents recognized skill standards defined by an industrial sector. e. Offers a similar credential or training. 2. The program offers training or a credential in an in-demand occupation. For the purposes of this chapter, "in-demand occupation" includes occupations in the following industries: a. Information technology. b. Health care. c. Advanced manufacturing. d. Transportation and logistics. e. Any other industry designated as in-demand by a regional advisory board.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/HF645.pdf
Title: H.F. 645 - Multiple Provisions
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
High School |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
Amends regional academies. Intead of serving 9-12th grade student, such academies are allowed to serve 7th-12-grade students. Authorizes a district establishing a regional academy to collaborate and partner with, enter into an agreement or contract with one or more school districts, area education agencies, community colleges, accredited public and private postsecondary institutions, accredited nonpublic schools, businesses, and private agencies located within or outside of the state. Clarifies that the purpose of a regional academy is to build a culture of innovation for students and community, to diversify educational and economic opportunities by engaging in learning experiences that involve students in complex, real-world projects, and to develop regional or global innovation networks. If a plan is submitted to the department for approval that demonstrates how the regional acadeny will increase and assess student achievement or increase and assess competency-based learning opportunities for students, the department may waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to school districts except those specifically refrenced. Authorizes a regional academy to include in its curriculum virtual or internet-based coursework and courses delivered via the Iowa communications network, career and technical courses, core curriculum coursework, other specified required courses and asynchronous learning networks. The school districts participating in are required to enter into an agreement on how the funding generated by the supplementary weighting received shalI be used and shall submit the agreement to the department for approval. Requires regional academies to included advanced level courses.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/HF645.pdf
Title: H.F. 645 - Multiple Sections
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Iowa online advanced placement academy science, technology, engineering, and mathematics initiative within the international center for talented and gifted education at the state university of Iowa, to deliver, with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics coursework, preadvanced placement and advanced placement courses to high school students throughout the state, provide training opportunities for teachers to learn how to teach advanced placement courses in Iowa's high schools, and provide preparation for middle school students to ensure success in high school.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/HF645.pdf
Title: H.F. 645 - Multiple Sections
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
P-3 |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
Allows a grantee to direct the use of moneys received to serve any qualifying child ranging in age from three years old to five years oId, regardless of the age of population indicated on the grant request in its initial year of application. A grantee is encouraged to consider the degree to which the program complements existing programs and services for three-year-oId, four-year-old, and five-year-old at-risk children available in the area, including other child care and preschool services, services provided through a school
district, and services available through an area education agency.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/HF645.pdf
Title: H.F. 645 - Multiple Sections
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Establishes a council for agricultural education (advisory). Sets membership and duties. The duties of the council are to review, develop, and recommend standards for secondary and postsecondary agricultural education.
http://search.legis.state.ia.us/NXT/gateway.dll/cl/84th%20ga%20-%20session%201/01___enrolled/001___bills/01___house/hf592.html?f=templates$fn=document-frameset.htm$q=agriculture$x=server$3.0#LPHit1
Title: H.B. 592
Source: http://search.legis.state.ia.us |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
P-12 |
Concerned with protecting students from concussions and other brain injuries. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF367.pdf
Title: S.F. 367
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. |
Establishes district-to-community college program and facilities sharing pilot program. Authorizes a consortium of four or more districts and a community college to request approval to participate. Sets parameters and timeliness.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF424.pdf
Title: S.F. 424
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires that the rules establishing high school graduation requirements authorize issuance of high school credit for a high school-level unit of satisfactorily-completed English/language arts, mathematics, science or social studies.
http://search.legis.state.ia.us/NXT/gateway.dll?f=xhitlist$xhitlist_sel=title;path;content-type;home-title;item-bookmark;hit-context$xhitlist_hc=[XML][Kwic,5]#
Title: S.F. 453
Source: .legis.state.ia.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the College Student Aid Commission. Ensure that students receiving state-funded scholarships and grants are attending institutions of higher education that meet all of the following conditions: are not required to register under chapter 261B and are eligible to participate in a federal student aid program authorized under Tit. IV of the federal Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended.
Requires institutions whose students are eligible for or who receive financial assistance under programs administered by the commission to report numbers of minority students enrolled in and minority faculty members employed at the institution (report is to be submitted to the general assembly, the governor, and the legislative services agency by March 1 annually.) Deletes explicit references to affirmative action. Requires that information on equal opportunity and affirmative action efforts in the recruitment, appointment, assignment, and advancement of personnel at the institution be provided upon request.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=SF122&menu=text&ga=84
Title: S.F. 122
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Oversight/governance moves from state board for community colleges to the state board of education. Requires statewide summary of fiscal data reported. Modifies instructional workload standards.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF470.pdf
Title: S.F. 470
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires representatives of the Department of Education and Area Education Agencies and public and private colleges and universities to study opportunities for recruiting racial and ethnic minority teachers and report their findings to the General Assembly by January 10, 2011.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/govbills/HF2432.pdf
Title: H.B. 2432
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Allows for the deaccreditation of districts or nonpublic schools. Allows the director of the department of education to order the positive fund balances held by a deaccredited school district to be transferred to the school's general fund if the school's general fund has a negative fund balance; eliminates language that permitted the state board of education to decide whether or not to require payment of tuition for a deaccredited school district's students. If the deaccredited school district has a negative fund balance in its general fund at the time it is deaccredited by the state board, the director may order that the positive balance from one or more other funds of the deaccredited school district be transferred to the deaccredited school district's general fund.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/SF2289_Enrolled.pdf
Title: S.B. 2289
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Directs the state board to set standards and procedures for the approval of training programs for individuals who seek an authorization issued by the Board of Educational Examiners for employment as school business officials responsible for the financial operations of school districts; requires the Board of Educational Examiners to adopt rules for the issuance of a school business official authorization to an individual who successfully completes a program that meets the board's standards.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/HF2461_Enrolled.pdf
Title: H.B. 2461
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Governance |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Establishes a task force to review the present mission, structure, governance, and funding of the area education agency system to determine if the current model is applicable to the challenges and requirements of 21st century learning. Sets the membership parameters.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/HF2295_Enrolled.pdf
Title: H.B. 2295
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires public schools, community colleges, institutions under the control of the State Board of Regents, and state agencies to comply with an environmentally preferable cleaning and maintenance policy.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/HF823_Enrolled.pdf
Title: H.B. 823
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Modifies sex offender registry provisions; relates to sex offenses against minors; relates to residency restrictions near schools, public libraries and child care facilities.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/SF2305_Enrolled.pdf
Title: S.B. 2305
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Provides that if a child requiring special education reaches the age of 21 during an academic year, the child may elect to receive special education services until the end of the academic year; specifies that when a child requiring special education attains the age of majority or is incarcerated certain rights accorded to the parent or guardian transfer to the child; relates to eligibility for the weighting plan.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/SF2291_Enrolled.pdf
Title: S.B. 2291
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires representatives of the department of education and area education agencies to study opportunities for recruiting racial and ethnic minority teachers from outside the state and report their findings to the general assembly by January 10, 2011.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/HF2432_Enrolled.pdf
Title: H.B. 2432
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12,
Community College |
Concerns public employee collective bargaining; provides that one of the powers and duties of the public employment relations board (PERB) is to represent the board in court; provides for prohibited practices; relates to decertification; provides that parties who by agreement are utilizing a cooperative alternative bargaining process may exchange their respective initial interest statements in lieu of initial bargaining positions at these open sessions; provides for community college employee bargaining.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/HF2485_Enrolled.pdf
Title: H.B. 2485
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Expands the definition of "textbooks" to include books, electronic materials and laptop computers or other portable personal computing devices which are used for nonreligious instructional use only.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/SF2178_Enrolled.pdf
Title: S.B. 2178
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
Postsec. |
Establishes a state employee retirement incentive program for eligible employees of the executive branch of the state, including employees in the offices of statewide elective officials, employees of a judicial district department of correctional services of the department of justice, and if the board of regents approves, employees of the state board of regents and its institutions; relates to health care. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/SF2062_Enrolled.pdf
Title: S.B. 2062
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Standards--Common Core State Standards |
Adopted 02/2010 |
P-12 |
Adds greater clarity to each core content area to better communicate what elementary teachers must know in order to better serve students.
Title: IAC 282-13.26(5)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 |
Excerpts from the fiscal note: modifies Iowa Code to meet the requirements of the federal Race to the Top (RTTT) initiative. . . [e]nactment of the Bill will qualify school districts with persistently lowest achieving schools eligible to receive U.S. Department of Education School improvement grants. The Bill provides the following:
• Eliminates the repeal of Iowa's Charter School legislation. Under current law, Code Chapter 256F will be repealed July 1, 2011.
• Eliminates the cap on the number of charter schools that may be authorized in the State.
• Creates Innovation Zone schools consisting of two or more school districts and an area education agency with the goal of improving student learning.
• Directs the Department of Education director to require persistently lowest-achieving schools to implement at least one of the interventions mandated by the U.S. Department of Education.
Assumptions: If the State of Iowa is awarded a RTTT grant, the Department of Education would retain 50.0% of the award and the remaining 50.0% would be allocated to participating school districts. Any administration, implementation, and additional staff costs incurred by the Department as a result of the RTTT requirements would be funded with RTTT grant funds. Additionally, it is assumed that the Department would also cover school district staff training costs as a result of the RTTT initiative through RTTT grant funds.
Fiscal Impact: No State General Fund impact is anticipated. If Iowa is awarded a Race to the Top grant, the estimated federal grant could total between $60.0 - $175.0 million between FY 2011 – FY 2014. If Iowa is awarded School Improvement grants for the persistently lowest achieving schools, the estimated grant could total approximately $18.0 million (maximum of $500,000 per eligible school).
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&hbill=SF2033
Title: S.B. 2033
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 |
Modifies membership and duties of the School Budget Review Committee. Duties modify relate to review of a school district's unexpended fund balance upon a school district's request for supplemental aid due to an unusual financial circumstance; requires that a school district use those unexpended funds prior to levying additional property taxes.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&hbill=HF2030
Title: H.B. 2030
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 |
Delays establishing the state percent of growth, also known as allowable growth, for the budget year beginning July 1, 2011, from the 2010 Legislative Session to the 2011 Legislative Session for the state school foundation program.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&hbill=SF2045
Title: S.B. 2045
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Adopted10 10/2009 |
P-12 |
Rescinds Chapter 22, "Postsecondary Enrollment Options," and adopts a new Chapter 22, "Senior Year Plus Program." The senior year plus program provides Iowa high school students access to advanced placement courses and a variety of means by which to concurrently access secondary and postsecondary credit. Requires districts to meet the following requirements, but allows them to do so through direct instruction, collaboration with another school district, or use of the Iowa online advanced placement academy. Requires districts to provide descriptions of advanced placement courses; to ensure that advanced placement course teachers are appropriately licensed and meet the
minimum certification requirements of the national organization that administers the advanced placement program; establish prerequisite coursework for each advanced placement course offered and describe the prerequisites in the course registration handbook, which must be provided to every junior high school or middle school student prior to the development of a core curriculum plan; make advanced placement coursework available to a dually enrolled student under competent private instruction if the student meets the same criteria as a regularly enrolled student of the district.
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/aspx/ACODocs/ruleList.aspx?pubDate=10-21-2009&agency=281&chapter=22
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/aspx/ACODocs/DOCS/10-21-2009.281.22.pdf
Title: IAC 281-22.1(261E) thru 281-22.29(216E)
Source: http://www.legis.state.ia.us |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 09/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides for the establishment of the categorical state percentage of growth (2%) for purposes of the state school foundation program.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&menu=text&hbill=SF217
Title: S.B. 217
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 09/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides for the establishment of the state percentage of growth (2%) for purposes of the state school foundation program for 2010.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&menu=text&hbill=SF218
Title: S.B. 218
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
P-3 Ensuring Quality |
Adopted 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes new rules regarding the Early Childhood Iowa Council. Sets forth membership and operating procedures for the Council and describes how the Department of Public Health will coordinate efforts among stakeholders. IOWA 7794
Title: IAC 641-Chapter 83
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Changes the different classes of licenses issued by the Board. Sets out to make application for licensure more user friendly by combining several classes of licenses. Combines Class B, C, and D licenses into one license, Class B, and rescind separate rules for Class C or D licenses.
Title: IAC 282-13.10(5), -13.11(272), -13.14(1), (2)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
SF 451 makes active-duty soldiers, veterans and their families eligible for in-state tuition at Regents universities and community colleges if they served after 9/11 and live in Iowa. S.F. 470 increases funding for the National Guard Tuition Aid Program to $4 million, helping more servicemembers get a college education.
Title: S.F. 451 and S.F. 470
Source: Sen. Becky Schmitz newsletter, May 21, 2009 |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Adopted 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Removes the requirement that teacher preparation programs be accredited by NCATE.
Title: IAC 282-13.19(272)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to the accreditation of school districts and nonpublic schools and the reorganization of school districts. If a recommendation is for the district to no longer be accredited, requires a list of deficiencies and a list of available resources for technical assistance be provided; requires notice of dissolution.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=83&hbill=SF360
Title: S.B. 360
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Deletes several requirements for reporting (i.e., simply the number of graduates, rather than specifying that the number has to be calculated according to the NGA definition; and the number of students who graduated in past five years but were not proficient in core content areas). Deletes the requirement that diagnostic assessment results be reported to parents when students are performing below expected levels. Adds a provision that an area education agency director, officer, or teacher cannot act as an agent for textbook or athletic or similar sales in the local district or areas districts. Requires hearing dates and times for the school budget review committee located within the departmetn of education to be posted on the state departement Web site.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF687
Title: H.B. 687
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/ |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides for the establishment of small wind innovation zones; provides for the applicability of tax credits; relates to a political subdivision of this state, including but not limited to a city, county, township, school district, community college, area education agency, institution under the control of the state board of regents, or any other local commission, association, or tribal council which adopts, or is encompassed within a local government which adopts, the model ordinance.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&menu=text&hbill=HF810
Title: H.B. 810
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Modifies provisions for facilities qualifying for wind energy production and renewable energy tax credits; provides for use by a private college, university, community college, institution under the control of the state board of regents, public or accredited nonpublic elementary and secondary school, public hospital or for the applicant's own use, of wind turbines with a specified capacity; amends provisions regarding city and county ordinances.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&menu=text&hbill=SF456
Title: S.B. 456
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to assisting schools to recover from disaster; changes the approval method for transfers of emergency fund moneys by modifying certain funding provisions to relate to disaster recovery and by allowing area education agency boards greater authority to purchase and lease purchase property.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=83&hbill=SF81
Title: S.B. 81
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
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 can find and use the articulation information available on the website maintained by the state board of regents. Requires collective statewide articulation agreement with the state board of regents that provides for the seamless transfer of academic credits from a completed associate of arts or associate of science degree program offered by a community college to a baccalaureate degree program offered by an institution of higher education governed by the state board of regents. Also requires the board to identify a transfer and articulation contact office or person and publicize that information, develop a systematic process for expanding academic discipline and meetings between community college and four-year institutions, develop criteria to prioritize core curriculum areas and promote greater awareness of articulation activities.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&menu=text&hbill=HF815
Title: H.B. 815
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/ |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends existing policy and adds new section (284.3) on single salary system. S.F. 445 incorporates Phase II (general salary increases) of the Educational Excellence Program into individual salary schedules and repeals the Educational Excellence Program including elimination of the Educational Excellence Phase I (minimum annual salaries) appropriation and the Phase II set-aside appropriations. From the fiscal note: Beginning in FY 2010, Educational Excellence Program Phase II allocations totaling $41.2 million to school districts and area education agencies (AEAs) will be rolled into the school aid formula and funded on a per pupil basis as part of the teacher salary supplement. The remaining General Fund standing appropriation to Educational Excellence Phase I for FY 2010 is estimated at $13.5 million and the Phase II set-aside is estimated at approximately $760,000. The estimated fiscal impact of Senate File 445 will be a reduction in General Fund expenditures in FY 2010 of $14.3 million compared to the current law estimate for FY 2010.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&frame=1&GA=83&hbill=SF445
Title: S.B. 445
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
Postsec. |
Transfers the authority to register postsecondary schools from the Secretary of State to the College Student Aid Commission; adds "or other distance delivery method" to the requirement that "except as otherwise provided in subsection 4 2, every person, firm, association, or corporation maintaining or conducting in Iowa any such course of instruction, by classroom instruction or by correspondence, or other distance delivery method" . . .needs to provide evidence of financial responsibiltiy. Provides for related matters; makes penalties applicable.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&menu=text&hbill=SF270
Title: S.B. 270
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Students |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children; establishes a council on educational opportunity for military children to provide advice and recommendations regarding this state's participation in and compliance with the interstate compact; directs the governor to appoint a military family education liaison to assist military families and the state in facilitating the implementation of the compact.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&menu=text&hbill=HF214
Title: H.B. 214
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Leadership |
Adopted 10/2008 |
P-12 |
Adds requirements for a professional administrative license (five year). In addition to meeting requirements for the initial license, an administrator must successfully meet each standard.
(1) Shared vision. An educational leader promotes the success of all students by facilitating the
development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and
supported by the school community. The administrator:
1. In collaboration with others, uses appropriate data to establish rigorous, concrete goals in the context
of student achievement and instructional programs.
2. Uses research and best practices in improving the educational program.
3. Articulates and promotes high expectations for teaching and learning.
4. Aligns and implements the educational programs, plans, actions, and resources with the district's
vision and goals.
5. Provides leadership for major initiatives and change efforts.
6. Communicates effectively to various stakeholders regarding progress with school improvement plan
goals.
(2) Culture of learning. An educational leader promotes the success of all students by advocating,
nurturing and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff
professional development. The administrator:
1. Provides leadership for assessing, developing and improving climate and culture.
2. Systematically and fairly recognizes and celebrates accomplishments of staff and students.
3. Provides leadership, encouragement, opportunities and structure for staff to continually design more
effective teaching and learning experiences for all students.
4. Monitors and evaluates the effectiveness of curriculum, instruction and assessment.
5. Evaluates staff and provides ongoing coaching for improvement.
6. Ensures that staff members have professional development that directly enhances their performance
and improves student learning.
7. Uses current research and theory about effective schools and leadership to develop and revise the
administrator's professional growth plan.
8. Promotes collaboration with all stakeholders.
9. Is easily accessible and approachable to all stakeholders.
10. Is highly visible and engaged in the school community.
11. Articulates the desired school culture and shows evidence about how it is reinforced.
(3) Management. An educational leader promotes the success of all students by ensuring management
of the organization, operations and resources for a safe, efficient and effective learning environment. The
administrator:
1. Complies with state and federal mandates and local board policies.
2. Recruits, selects, inducts, and retains staff to support quality instruction.
3. Addresses current and potential issues in a timely manner.
4. Manages fiscal and physical resources responsibly, efficiently, and effectively.
5. Protects instructional time by designing and managing operational procedures to maximize learning.
6. Communicates effectively with both internal and external audiences about the operations of the
school.
(4) Family and community. An educational leader promotes the success of all students by collaborating
with families and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing
community resources. The administrator:
1. Engages family and community by promoting shared responsibility for student learning and support
of the education system.
2. Promotes and supports a structure for family and community involvement in the education system.
3. Facilitates the connections of students and families to the health and social services that support a
focus on learning. 4. Collaboratively establishes a culture that welcomes and honors families and community and seeks
ways to engage them in student learning.
(5) Ethics. An educational leader promotes the success of all students by acting with integrity and fairness
and in an ethical manner. The administrator:
1. Demonstrates ethical and professional behavior.
2. Demonstrates values, beliefs, and attitudes that inspire others to higher levels of performance.
3. Fosters and maintains caring professional relationships with staff.
4. Demonstrates appreciation for and sensitivity to diversity in the school community.
5. Is respectful of divergent opinions.
(6) Societal context. An educational leader promotes the success of all students by understanding the
profile of the community and, responding to and influencing the larger political, social, economic, legal and
cultural context. The administrator:
1. Collaborates with service providers and other decision makers to improve teaching and learning.
2. Advocates for the welfare of all members of the learning community.
3. Designs and implements appropriate strategies to reach desired goals; and
c. Shows evidence of successful completion of a mentoring and induction program as determined
by a comprehensive evaluation of the standards in paragraph 14.114(2)"b" and one of year successful
administrative experience. In lieu of completion of an Iowa state-approved mentoring and induction
program, the applicant must provide evidence of two years' successful administrative experience in an Iowa
nonpublic school or two years' successful administrative experience in an out-of-state K-12 educational
setting.
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/aspx/BulletinSupplement/getLincDoc.aspx?docType=bulletin&docFormat=pdf&pubDate=07-16-2008
Title: IAC 282-14.114(272), 14.114(1), 14.114(2)
Source: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/aspx/BulletinSupplement |
Assessment--End-of-Course |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends previous language to remove "voluntary model" from the establishment of core curriculum for grades 9-12, beginning with students graduating in the 2010-2011 class. Prohibits the state board from requiring specific textbooks. Requires core curriculum technical assistance and implementation strategies for districts and accredited nonpublic schools, including assistance with the development of formative and end-of-course assessments that teachers can use to measure student progress. Requires an annual report to the general assembly regarding activities, findings and student progress under the core curriculum. For the school year beginning July 1, 2008 and thereafter, district board plans must include a timeline for each student to successfully complete, prior to graduation, all components of the state-designated career information and decision-making system administered by the department in accordance with federal law (Perkins Act). Boards are required to adopt an implementation plan for the full implementation of the core curriculum established for kindergarten through grade 8 by the 2015-2015 school year. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&service=billbook&GA=82&hbill=S
Title: S.F. 2216 - Core Curriculum
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Part of this bill makes financial literacy part of the core curriculum and defines it as: Not limited to financial responsibility and planning skills; money management skills, including setting financial goals, creating spending plans, and using financial instruments; applying decision=making skills to analyze debt incurrence and debt management; understanding risk management, including the features and functions of insurance; and understanding saving and investing as applied to long-term financial security and asset building.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&service=billbook&GA=82&hbill=S
Title: S.F. 2216 - Financial Literacy Segment
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Governor and General Assembly by January 15, 2009. (Page 10, Line 20)
DIVISION IV – STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENT AND TEACHER
QUALITY PROGRAM
• Requires disposition of Teacher Quality Funding to be negotiated as part of a whole-grade sharing
agreement (Page 66, Line 33)
• Repeals language that included licensed teachers employed part-time by a district under an agreement
with a practitioner preparation program in Teacher Quality funding. (Page 67, Line 7)
• Increases the minimum salary for a beginning teacher by $1,500 to $28,000. (Page 67, Line 24)
FISCAL IMPACT: The estimated statewide cost of the minimum salary increase for beginning teachers
is $2.1 million in FY 2009.
• Increases the minimum salary for a career teacher by $2,500 to $30,000. (Page 67, Line 30)
FISCAL IMPACT: The estimated statewide cost of the minimum salary increase for beginning teachers
is $828,000 in FY 2009.
TEACHER QUALITY FUNDING
ALLOCATIONS
• Allocates $1.7 million for National Board Certification awards in FY 2009, an increase of $620,000
compared to FY 2008. The funding is intended to fulfill existing commitments, and no new awards are
funded. The allocation for Market Factor Teacher Incentives Program is eliminated. (Page 69, Line 11)
• Allocates $28.5 million for Professional Development for FY 2009, an increase of $8.5 million compared
to FY 2008. Includes new sub-allocations of $8.5 million for professional development related to the
core curriculum and $915,000 to implement a statewide early childhood professional development
system. (Page 69, Line 28)
• Allocates $250,000 for the Institute for Tomorrow's Workforce (ITW) for FY 2009. This is a new
allocation. (Page 71, Line 18)
• Allocates $335,000 for Pay for Performance Implementation Projects for FY 2009. This is a decrease of
$2.2 million compared to the original FY 2009 allocation enacted in 2007. This amount is sufficient to
fund the implementation phase of the three projects that received development grants in FY 2008.
(Page 71, Line 26)
• Repeals the Market Factor Teacher Incentives Program. (Page 72, Line 5)
Title: H.B. 2679
Source: http://www3.legis.state.ia.us |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Repeals the local option sales and services tax for school infrastructure purposes by using the revenues from the increase in the state sales and use taxes for replacing lost school district revenues resulting from the repeal, providing property tax relief, providing for the reduction in the state sales and use tax, providing a penalty. Phases out local option taxes and replaces them with statewide taxes over the next five years. Currently, districts with major retail centers collect more in local-option taxes than rural districts. Distributes revenue from the statewide tax on a per-pupil basis among all schools. Implements sales tax by 1 cent per dollar, replacing local-option sales taxes that each of Iowa's 99 counties collect for school infrastructure. Local-option taxes in some districts currently collect more than $1,000 per student, while others collect less than $350. The state's Legislative Services Agency estimates the amount will be about $911 per student in the fiscal year that begins in July 2013.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&service=billbook&GA=82&hbill=HF2663
Title: H.F. 2663
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
High School--College Readiness |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Concerns state and local measures for preparing a student for a career or for postsecondary education, including a mandated statewide core curriculum for school districts and accredited nonpublic schools and a state designated career information and decision making system. Prohibits requiring districts or private schools to adopt any specific textbook, series, particular methodology or other products from a specific vendor. Requires the state department to identify and make available end-of-course and other model assessments. Requires convening of a task to review the national assessment of educational progress (NAEP) standards and assessments used by other states and to consider best practices by content area groups such as the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Requires a department study of potential expansion of the core curriculum potentially to include fine arts, applied arts, humanities and world languages. Establishes requirement for teaching of financial literacy.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&service=billbook&GA=82&hbill=SF2216
Title: S.F. 2216 - Generally
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Selected provisions:
• Creates the Senior Year Plus Program to increase access of high school students to college credit and
advanced placement coursework. (Page 40, Line 23 through Page 64, Line 10)
• Requires postsecondary institutions providing Senior Year Plus programming to supply data concerning
the proportion of women and minorities enrolled in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
(STEM) programs. The Department of Education is to annually report its findings and recommendations
to the General Assembly by January 15. (Page 50, Line 7)
• Permits preschool programs to receive supplemental aid or modified allowable growth if approved by the
School Budget Review Committee. (Page 64, Line 23)
• Requires program approval by the Department of Education to receive preschool aid funding in a
program's second and subsequent years. (Page 64, Line 34)
• Requires nonreversion of Preschool Program funds appropriated to the Department of Education.
(Page 65, Line 30)
• Provides that it is the intent of the General Assembly that if funding is made available for implementing a
Statewide Early Childhood Professional Development System in FY 2008 or FY 2009, the System will
be implemented by the Department with the collaboration of Area Education Agencies.
(Page 66, Line 13)
• Requires the Iowa Empowerment Board to conduct a study of the role the Empowerment Program can
play in strengthening child care provided voluntarily and at no cost by family members, friends, and
neighbors. The Board must convene a working group to provide advice and must submit a report to the
From fiscal analysis: Significant changes to Iowa Code: • Prohibits local Community Empowerment boards from carrying forward more than 20.0% of their annual
allocation to the following fiscal year. (Page 26, Line 12)
• Requires local Community Empowerment boards to consider whether support services for children's
health needs are being provided to child care facilities in their communities. (Page 27, Line 17)
• Requires grant awards in the Before and After School Grant Program to be at least $30,000 and not more
than $50,000. Increases the required local match funding for Before and After School Grants from
20.0% to a dollar-for-dollar match. Requires the local match to be cash or in-kind contributions.
Eliminates an allocation of $100,000 from the Before and After School Grant Program for employment
of a contractor for long-term planning and development. Specifies that programs serving middle and
high school youth are eligible for the Program. Permits grants to be used for multiple fiscal years.
(Page 27, Line 26 through Page 28, Line 16)
• Requires Area Education Agencies (AEAs) to transfer 84.0% of Medicaid payments received to the
Department of Education, with the exception of reimbursements for services provided under Part C of the
federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). (Page 28, Line 17)
• Shifts funding for the Reading Recovery Program to the University of Northern Iowa, where the Program
is now centered. (Page 29, Line 7)
For other details, see full text section of this database record.
Title: H.F. 2679
Source: http://www3.legis.state.ia.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
Postsec. |
Relates to student loans; includes the protection of students and parents from certain lenders and institutions of higher education with conflicts of interest; establishes a Student Lending Education Fund; establishes penalties; provides for related matters.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&service=billbook&GA=82&hbill=HF2690
Title: H.F. 2690
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Recommends that every public and private institution of higher education in the state post the list of required textbooks for all courses and the corresponding international standard book number for such textbooks, at least 14 days before the start of each semester or term, at locations where textbooks are sold on campus and on the web site for the respective institution.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&service=billbook&GA=82&hbill=HF2197
Title: H.F. 2197
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to voluntary diversity or court-ordered school desegregation plans under the state's open enrollment law. Deletes provision that "court-ordered desegregation, minority and nonminority pupil ratios shall be maintained according to the desegregation plan or order." Bill is in response to Supreme Court Ruling.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=HF2164
Title: H.F. 2164
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Education Research |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Establishes committees to formulate plans to expand for a state research and development prekindergarten through grade twelve school and providing an effective date.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&frame=1&GA=82&hbill=SF2307
Title: S.F. 2307
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to student eye care; requires certification of the performance of an eye examination, and submission of the results of such examination, when a child is enrolled in kindergarten; provides that school districts may encourage a student to receive an eye examination prior to receiving special education services.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&service=billbook&GA=82&hbill=SF2251
Title: S.F. 2251
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires local boards to annually submit evidence by June 30 that students attending schools in their jurisdictions (public or private) have met dental screening requirements. Requires local boards and private school directors to submit -- within 60 days of the start of the school year -- a list of children enrolled in kindergarten. Requires the state department to notify boards of any children who have not met the requirements for blood testing for lead exposure and to work with jurisdictions on ensuring such testing occurs.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2111
Title: S.B. 2111
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 02/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides for the establishment of the state percent of growth (4%) for purposes of the State School Foundation Program; provides for computation of state aid.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=82&menu=text&hbill=HF2140
Title: H.F. 2140
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Leadership |
Adopted 02/2008 |
P-12 |
Implements changes made to the Student Achievement and Teacher Quality program and the Beginning Administration Mentoring and Induction program. Adds standards and criteria by which AEA staff who meet the definition of teacher should be evaluated. Adds a new division of rules with specific standards applicable to administrators and administrator quality programs, including mentoring and induction for administrators, standards and criteria by which to evaluate administrators, and professional development of administrators. With respect to a beginning administrator, "comprehensive evaluation" means a summative evaluation of a beginning administrator conducted by an evaluator in accordance with Iowa Code section 284A.3 for purposes of determining a beginning administrator's level of competency for recommendation for licensure based on the Iowa standards for school administrators adopted pursuant to 2007 Iowa Acts, chapter 108, section 2.An administrator mentor must have a record of four years of successful administrative experience and must demonstrate professional commitment to both the improvement of teaching and learning and the development of beginning administrators.
http://www.iowa.gov/educate/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,4673/
Title: IAC 281-12.7(256,284,284A), 12.7(1), 12.7(2), 72.9(1), 281-Chapter83, 281-83.1(284,284A), 281- 83.2(284,248A), 281-83.3(284), 83.3(1) through,83.3(4), 281-83.4(284),
Source: http://www.iowa.gov |
P-3 Ensuring Quality |
Adopted 11/2007 |
P-12 |
Reflects that education programs are not to discriminate on the basis of the added characteristics of sexual orientation and gender identity. Clarifies that a preschool program must meet accreditation standards on the same basis as any prekindergarten program offered by a school district. Makes various other updates. IOWA 6161
Title: IAC 281, 12.1(1), 281-12.2(256), 12.3(6), 12.3(13), 12.8(1)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Adopted 10/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires that each school district have a school nurse and a qualified (i.e., licensed by the Board of Education Examiners) guidance counselor. Requires a definition of and standards for an articulated sequential kindergarten through grade 12 school counseling program.
Title: IAC 281-12.2(256), 12.3(11), 12.4(12)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Directs the department of education to conduct a study on the student information systems currently in use in the state, the types of data collected, and the future needs for additional types of data at the K-12 and postsecondary levels and for use by the state, including the use of electronic student transcripts to share with other K-12 and postsecondary institutions. Provides the study must examine the systems used by other states. Provides the study must focus on systems that will improve efficiency, accuracy, and security of, and access to, the data by various users. Directs the department to submit a report with its conclusions and recommendations to the general assembly by January 15, 2008.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=82&hbill=HF468
Title: H.F. 468
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 |
Relates to an on-site fiscal review to be conducted under phase II of the accreditation process upon recommendation by the school budget review committee; provides that if a school district exceeds its authorized budget or carries a negative unspent balance for two or more consecutive years, the committee may recommend that the department implement a phase II on-site visit to conduct a fiscal review. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=82&hbill=HF317
Title: H.F. 317
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires children to receive a blood lead test by age six or prior to enrollment in an elementary school. Strongly encourages parents to have their child tested for elevated blood lead levels by age two. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&service=billbook&GA=82&hbill=HF158
Title: H.F. 158
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
P-3 |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12 |
Expands the scope of services under an existing appropriation for the Community Empowerment Initiative involving preschool tuition services. Allows local empowerment areas to use certain funds for three-year-olds as well as 4- and 5-year olds. Complementary bill to HF 877 -- the 4 year old preschool bill. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=HF396
Title: H.F. 396
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Special Education |
Adopted 07/2007 |
P-12 |
Expands the ability of a paraeducator holding a substitute authorization to work in K-6 special education classrooms. IOWA 5764
Title: IAC 282-14.143(272)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires children to have a dental screening as a condition of enrollment in elementary or high school; provides for exceptions. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&frame=1&GA=82&hbill=HF906
Title: H.F. 906
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Allocates $173,943,894 -- $69,600,000 above FY07. Includes $20 million for professional development; $250,000 for new administrator mentoring and induction; $1.8 Million for Teacher Development Academy expansion; $4.4 million for teacher mentoring and induction programs; $1 million for Career Ladder/Pay for Performance Pilot Planning Grants; $3.3 million for market pay factor. Ends the National Board Teacher stipend program effective December 31, 2007. Those awardees in the program prior to that time will continue to receive their stipend until complete. Imcreases minimum salary thresholds by $1,000. http://www.iowa.gov/educate/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,3561/
Title: S.F. 277 - funding provisions
Source: Iowa State Department of Education |
P-3 Preschool |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Creates a statewide voluntary preschool program for four-year-old children. Provides that preschool teachers in the program must be certified and possess a bachelor's or graduate degree in early childhood education or another appropriate major from an accredited college or university with a major.
Directs preschool program teachers to collaborate with other agencies, organizations, and boards to enhance program capacity to meet the diverse needs of children and families participating in the program, including needs for early care, health and human services. Directs teachers in the program to work to maintain relationships with each child's family to enhance the child's development in all settings by collaborating with providers of parent education and family support opportunities.
Directs the state board to further define the following program requirements, which must be used to determine whether a district program is an approved local program:
a. Maximum and minimum teacher-to-child ratios and class sizes.
b. Applicable state and federal program standards.
c. Student learning standards.
d. Provisions for the integration of children from other state and federally funded preschools.
e. Collaboration with participating families, early care providers, and community partners including community empowerment area boards, head start programs, shared visions and other programs provided through the child development coordinating council, licensed child care centers, registered child development homes, area education agencies, child care resource and referral services, early childhood special education programs, Title I programs, and family support programs.
f. A minimum of 10 hours a week of instruction on the skills and knowledge included in the preschool student learning standards.
g. Parental involvement.
h. Provision for ensuring that children receiving care from other child care arrangements can participate in the preschool program with minimal disruption due to transportation issues.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&frame=1&GA=82&hbill=HF877
Title: H.F. 877
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Creates the All Iowa Opportunity Scholarship program for students with a minimum 2.5 high school grade point average and who demonstrate financial need. Establishes scholarship duration as four full-time semesters at a two-year institution or two full-time semesters at a four-year institution. Provides that eligible students must begin postsecondary studies within two years of high school graduation. Provides that to maintain scholarship eligibility, students must continuously receive awards as a full- or part-time student and must make satisfactory academic progress each semester of college.
Another section requires the state department to convene a work group to address statute/rule pertaining to Quality Faculty Plans for community college staff. A report is due to the legislature by January 14, 2008.
Establishes the All Iowa Opportunity Scholarship fund in the state treasury. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&ga=82&hbill=SF588
Title: S.F. 588 (Sec. 28)
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Defines "gender identity" and "sexual orientation." Provides that no educational institution (preK through postsecondary) may discriminate on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=SF427
Title: S.F. 427
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Reinstates whole grade sharing incentives and reorganization incentives. Creates operational sharing incentives; Mandates a statewide study of efficiencies and sharing to be provided to the Legislature by January 2008. Provides additional weighting for districts that share one or more operational functions in the areas of superintendent management, business management, human resources, transportation, or operation and maintenance at least 20% of the school year. Provides that such additional funding is available to a district for a maximum of five years during the period from the 2008-2009 through the 2012-2013 budget years. Provides that supplementary funding after the first year is contingent upon the annual submission of information to the department documenting cost savings directly attributable to the shared operational functions. Directs the department to establish rules setting the criteria for determining the number of years for which supplementary weighting may be received, and for determining qualification of operational functions for supplementary weighting
Directs the department of management to annually set a weighting for each area education agency to generate the approved operational sharing expense using the area education agency's special education cost per pupil amount and foundation level. Provides that annual supplemental weighting is available to an area education agency for up to 5 years. Sets $50,000 and $200,000 as annual minimum and maximum of supplemental funding per area education agency.
Provides that supplementary funding after the first year is contingent upon the annual submission of information to the department documenting cost savings directly attributable to the shared operational functions.
Directs the department of education, by September 15, 2007, to, in consultation with the boards of directors of the area education agencies and other appropriate education stakeholders as necessary, develop a uniform process to facilitate discussion between district leaders to support rigorous and relevant student programming and efforts to increase student achievement through the sharing and efficiency of operations efforts with other school districts, educational partners, and governmental subdivisions. Specifies the process is intended to promote reductions in the costs of operations and create additional resource availability. Provides the process must provide a framework for a consistent regional plan for use by area education agencies. Specifies that processes to be developed must include district and area education agency services available to improve efficiencies, areas of potential sharing, and efficiency of operations. Provides other governmental subdivisions and private entities may be consulted for efficiency proposals. Directs districts involved in the processes to consider operational efficiencies, shared programming, transportation sharing, expansion of area education agency cooperatives, common schedules for school districts and community colleges, energy and insurance efficiencies, effective structure and delivery models that promote optimum student achievement, graduation requirements, and a rigorous, relevant curriculum.
Directs each area education agency, by January 15, 2008, to submit a plan to the department that identifies the existing, new, or expanded opportunities for school district sharing or efficiency of operations determined as a result of completing the process. Provides the plan must provide for long-term measures that identify money or time saved as a result of the sharing or efficiency of operations efforts, list the cooperative partners in specific sharing or efficiency of operations efforts, describe effective structure and delivery models that promote optimum student achievement, and include provisions for making educational stakeholders aware of the sharing and efficiency in operations opportunities available in each area.
Directs the department of education to review the plans submitted, identify barriers to potential sharing and efficiency in operations efforts, recommend a timeline for implementation of sharing and efficiency of operations efforts and a reduction in funding related to penalties for noncompliance with the implementation of sharing and efficiency of operations efforts, and submit its findings and recommendations to the general assembly by March 15, 2008.
Makes an appropriation.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=SF447
Title: S.F. 447
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires that a national background check be conducted of any teacher who holds a license other than an initial license issued by the board of educational examiners before a district enters into an initial contract with such a teacher. Also requires a review of the state sex offender registry, the state central registry for child abuse information, and the state central registry for dependent adult abuse information for information regarding applicants for employment as a teacher.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=SF277
Title: S.F. 277 (Section 11)
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Allows a county commissioner of elections to appoint high school students in good standing to serve as precinct election board members. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=82&hbill=HF618
Title: H.F. 618
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum--Sex Education |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Defines "age-appropriate" and "research-based." Directs the department of education to develop age-appropriate and research-based materials for districts about the dangers of sexual exploitation by means of the Internet, including specific strategies to help students protect themselves and their personally identifiable information from such exploitation. Requires the state department to compile age- appropriate and research-based materials related to sexual health literacy and human growth and development. School districts and accredited nonpublic schools must use these resources to upgrade local human growth and development curricula and programming. Districts must inform parents and the community of content provided within this local programming.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&service=billbook&GA=82&hbill=HF611
Title: H.F. 611
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
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-member commission is to be comprised of young adults between the ages of 18-35 and reflect diversity in several aspects, including in location of secondary and higher education within and outside Iowa.
Directs the commission to submit a written report by January 15, 2008 to the governor and the general assembly. Provides the report must include the commission's findings and recommendations on the status of efforts to attract and retain young adults in the state, career opportunities and educational needs of young adults, and the movement of the young adult population between rural areas and urban areas and between Iowa and other states. Directs the commission to submit an updated report to the governor and the general assembly by January 15, 2009, and by January 15 in every odd-numbered year thereafter.
Also directs the commission to advise and assist the department of economic development in activities designed to retain and attract the young adult population, and to develop best practices guidelines for employers to attract and retain young adult employees.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=BillInfo&service=Billbook&ga=82&hbill=HF617&menu=text
Title: H.F. 617
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Extends the membership of the board of educational examiners to include the director of the department of education, or the director's designee. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=HF615
Title: H.F. 615
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Directs the director of the department of education to develop Iowa standards for school administrators, including knowledge and skill criteria, and develop, based on these standards, mentoring and induction, evaluation processes, and professional development plans. Provides the criteria must further define the characteristics of quality administrators as established by the standards for school administrators. Directs the state board of education to adopt by rule the Iowa standards for school administrators.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=SF277
Title: S.F. 277 (Section 2 and 3)
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Strikes section 272.9A, which directed the board of educational examiners to adopt rules for administrator professional development programs and establishing the requirement that completion of a professional development program every 5 years is a condition for license renewal.
Replaces with requirement that administrative licensure beyond an initial license include completion of a beginning mentoring and induction program.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=SF277
Title: S.F. 277 (Section 10)
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
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 waiver granted for the previous school year that the district have a qualified teacher librarian.
b. That the school district have a qualified guidance counselor. The board of directors of the school district may, not later than August 1, 2008, for the 2008-2009 school year, apply for a one-year extension of the waiver.
c. That the school district have a school nurse. The board of directors of the school district may, not later than August 1, 2008, for the 2008-2009 school year, apply for a one-year extension of the waiver.
Provides that a request for a waiver must describe actions being taken by the district to meet the requirement for which the district has requested a waiver. Specifies that a school district cannot request a waiver of a requirement if it met certain requirements in the previous school year.
Section 8: Authorizes the school budget committee in the department of education to grant supplementary aid to a district to hire one or more guidance counselors, teacher librarians, and/or school nurses from any funds appropriated to the department for the use of the committee,
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=SF277
Title: S.F. 277 (Section 5 and 8)
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Beginning July 1, 2007, requires every school district to have a qualified guidance counselor licensed by the board of educational examiners and a school nurse. Directs each district to work toward the goal of having one qualified guidance counselor for every 350 students and one school nurse for every 750 students. For purposes of this provision, defines "school nurse" as a person holding an endorsement or statement of professional recognition for school nurses issued by the board of educational examiners.
Directs the state board to establish a definition and standards for an articulated sequential K-12 guidance and counseling program.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=SF277
Title: S.F. 277 (Section 4)
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Removes all references to Team-based Variable Pay Pilots. Strikes section 284.1, subsection 4, which establishes as one of the elements of the student achievement and teacher quality program team-based variable pay providing additional compensation for improved student performance.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=SF277
Title: S.F. 277 (Section 12)
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Strikes Section 284.7, subsection 4, which provided that if a performance review for a teacher is conducted in the 5th year of the teacher's status of the career level, and indicates the teacher's practice no longer meets standards, a performance review must be conducted in the following school year; provided the teacher would be ineligible for any pay increase other than a cost-of-living increase if the performance review establishes the teacher's practice does not meet standards for that level.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=SF277
Title: S.F. 277 (Section 28)
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
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, district professional development plans, and the student achievement goals of the attendance center and the school district as set forth in the comprehensive school improvement plan.
Directs districts to create quality professional development opportunities. Provides the goal for the use of specified funds is to provide one additional contract day or the equivalent thereof for professional development and use of the funds is limited to providing professional development to teachers, including additional salaries for time beyond the normal negotiated agreement; pay for substitute teachers, professional development materials, speakers, and professional development content; and costs associated with implementing the individual professional development plans. Requires that the use of the funds be balanced between school district, attendance center, and individual professional development plans, making every reasonable effort to provide equal access to all teachers.
Provides details on the distribution of certain professional development funds. Requires each district to certify to the department of education how the district allocated the funds and that moneys were used to supplement, not supplant, the professional development opportunities the district would otherwise make available.
Directs that if funds are allocated to the department for district salaries or professional development, the department must, in collaboration with the area education agencies, establish teacher development academies for school-based teams of teachers and instructional leaders. Requires each academy to include an institute and provide follow-up training and coaching.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=SF277
Title: S.F. 277 (Section 23)
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Strikes Section 284.4, subsection 1, paragraph c, which made a district eligible for student achievement and teaching quality monies if the district's submitted written statement included willingness to provide the equivalent of an additional contract day to provide supplemental time for teacher career development aligned with student learning and teacher development needs. (The student achievement and teacher quality program includes mentoring and induction programs, career paths, professional development and evaluation of teachers against the Iowa teaching standards.)
Replaces with requirement that written statement include district's willingness to create a teacher quality committee, with an equal representation of teachers and administrators. Provides for method of appointment of teacher and administrator members. Requires each teacher quality committee to:
(1) Monitor the implementation of the requirements of the student achievement and teacher quality program.
(2) Monitor the evaluation requirements of the program to ensure fairness and consistency throughout the district, and develop model evidence for the Iowa teaching standards and criteria.
(3) Determine the use and distribution of the professional development funds distributed to the district.
(4) Monitor the professional development in each school to ensure that district, school, and individual professional development plans are being met.
(5) Ensure a negotiated agreement determines the compensation owed teachers on the committee for work responsibilities required beyond the normal work day.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=SF277
Title: S.F. 277 (Section 17)
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Relates to the establishment of state and school antiharassment and antibullying policies, Creates specifi protections for sexual orientation. Requires districts to amend local policies, including data tracking; provides for criminal and civil immunity to those who report harassment or bullying incidents. http://www.legis.state.ia.us
Title: S.F. 61
Source: http://www.legis.state.ia.us |
Desegregation |
Adopted 02/2007 |
P-12 |
These amendments are in response to the June 28, 2007, decision of the United States Supreme Court that student assignments may not be based solely or primarily on race. Thus, under the amended rules, eligible school districts will still be able to deny open enrollment requests if the gain or loss of the student will negatively impact the district's voluntary diversity plan. Rather than defining "minority student" solely in terms of race, the amendments allow eligible districts to define the term for themselves as long as race is not the sole or the determinative factor. Provides that eligible school districts will still be able to deny open enrollment requests if the enrollment or release of the student will negatively impact the district's voluntary diversity plan. http://www.iowa.gov/educate/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,4674/
Title: IAC 281-17.2(282), 17.6(2), 281-17.14(282), 17.14(1) through 17.14(5)
Source: http://www.iowa.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Adopted 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Adds a testing requirement for individuals who apply for licensureafter completing a teacher education program at a non-Iowa institution. IOWA 4607
Title: IAC 282-14.103(272), 14.103(1), 14.103(2), 282- 14.115(272),14.120(1)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
Adopted 07/2006 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Relates to the evaluation of the colleges' institutional effectiveness in a framework of CQI standards and benchmarks. Creates a new chapter 24 with a discrete set of regulations for accreditation and aligns the state accreditation process more closely with the required regional accreditation process conducted by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Collegesand Schools. Page 36 of 44 http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/2006/Bulletin/IAB060816.pdf
Title: IAC 281-Chapter 24, 281-24.1(260C) through 281- 24.4(260C), 24.4(1)through 24.4(5), 281-24,5(260C), 24.5(1) through 24.5(4), 281-24.6(260C),24.6(1) through 24.6(4)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs each local board to annually develop, maintain, and distribute a financial report. Provides that the objective of the financial report shall be to facilitate public access to a variety of information and statistics relating to the education funding received by the school district, enrollment and employment figures, and additional information.
Requires the financial report to contain, at a minimum, information on:
a. All property tax levies, income surtaxes, and local option sales taxes in place in the school district, listed by type of levy, rate, amount, duration, and notification of the maximum rate and amount limitations permitted by statute.
b. The amount of funding received on a per pupil basis through the operation of the school finance formula, and from any other state appropriation or state funding source.
c. Federal funding received per student or teacher population targeted to receive the funds, and any other federal grants or funding received by the district.
d. Teacher and administrator minimum, maximum, and average salary paid by the district, and the percentage and dollar increase under teacher and administrator salary and benefits settlement agreements.
e. Teacher and administrator health insurance and other alternative health benefit information, including the monthly premium, the percentage of the premium paid by the district, and the percentage of the premium paid by a teacher or administrator for single and family insurance.
f. Teacher and administrator employment statistics, including the annual number of licensed full-time and part-time teachers and administrators employed by the school district during the preceding five years, and including the number of teachers and administrators no longer employed by the district, and new hires.
g. Student enrollment levels during the preceding five years, including regular enrollment, special education enrollment, and enrollment adjustments made pursuant to supplementary weighting.
h. Such additional information as the school district may determine.
Requires copies of a district's financial report for the previous school year to be posted on the district Web site at the beginning of the school year. Provides that if the district does not maintain or develop a Web site, the school district must either distribute or post written copies of the financial report at specified locations throughout the school district.
Provides that, prior to certifying any levy by board approval, or submitting a levy for voter approval, local boards must facilitate public access to a complete listing of all outstanding levies within the school district by rate, amount, duration, and the applicable maximum levy limitations. Requires that the information on outstanding levies be posted on the district Web site at the beginning of the school year, and updated prior to board approval or submission for voter approval of any levy during the school year. Provides that if the district does not maintain or develop a Web site, the district must either distribute or post written copies of the listing at specified locations throughout the district. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 14-15
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Deletes provision that a local board may provide an extended school tuition-free program for district residents over the maximum school age of 21 who do not have a high school diploma or high school equivalency diploma and who are currently enrolled in an education program in the district. Repeals related provisions. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 38
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Assessment |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
If the diagnostic assessments administered to K-3 students indicate that a child is reading below grade level, requires the district to submit a report of the assessment results to the parent, which the parent must sign and return to the district. Provides that if the parent does not sign or return the report, the district
must note in the student's record the inaction on the part of the parent. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 5
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Beginning January 15, 2007, requires the department to submit an annual report to the legislature that includes the ways districts in the previous school year used modified allowable growth for programs for returning dropouts and dropout prevention; identifies, by grade level, age, and district size, the students in the dropout and dropout prevention programs for which the department approves a request; describes school district progress toward increasing student achievement and attendance for the students in the programs; and describes how the school districts are using the revenues from the modified allowable growth to improve student achievement among minority subgroups. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 28
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Gives board of educational examiners authority to require that a background investigation be conducted by the division of criminal investigation of the department of public safety on all initial applicants for licensure. Mandates that the board also require all initial applicants to submit a completed fingerprint packet and that the board use the packet to facilitate a national criminal history background check. States that the board shall have access to, and shall review the sex offender registry information, the central registry for child abuse information, and the dependent adult abuse records for information regarding applicants for license renewal.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 9
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Background Checks |
Emergency Rule Adoption 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board to review the sex offender registry information, the central registry for child abuse information, and the dependent adult abuse records for every applicant for renewal of the initial, standard, master educator, professional administrator, area education agency administrator, or substitute license.
Pages 36-37 of 72 http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/2006/Bulletin/IAB060719.pdf
Title: IAC 282-17.1(272), 17.1(1), 17.1(2)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Business Involvement |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Increases membership on the community empowerment state board. Requires family support services in the community empowerment initiative to include home visitation. Creates a community empowerment gifts and grants account in the Iowa empowerment fund. Makes an appropriation to the school ready children grants account of the Iowa empowerment fund. Makes an appropriation for preschool tuition support for low-income families. Makes an appropriation for efforts to improve the quality of early care. Makes an appropriation to the community empowerment gifts and grants account. Creates a business community investment advisory council to advise the Iowa empowerment board. Directs the advisory council to advise the Iowa empowerment board on the best means to leverage private investment in early care, health, and education services and provide options for creating model projects for public-private partnerships to support quality early care, health, and education programming in communities. Requires the advisory council to submit a report with recommendations and findings to the Iowa empowerment board on or before December 31, 2006. Lists specific areas report must address.
Makes an appropriation for professional development and training activities for persons working in early care, health, and education by the Iowa empowerment board in collaboration with representation from Iowa state university of science and technology cooperative extension service in agriculture and home economics, area education agencies, community colleges, child care resource and referral services, and community empowerment area boards. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2769
Title: H.B. 2769
Source: |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. |
Deletes provision requiring the director of the department of education to develop an application and review process for the identification of quality instructional centers at community colleges (section 256.9, subsection 40). Program identification criteria were to be designed to increase student access to programs, establish high quality occupational and vocational education programs, and enhance interinstitutional cooperation in program offerings.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 18
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Increases from 10 to 20 the number of charter school applications the state board may approve. Deletes provision that if the state board receives ten or fewer applications as of June 30, 2003, and two or more of the applications received by the state board by that date are submitted by one school district, the state board may approve any or all of the applications submitted by the school district. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 7
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that the interdistrict open enrollment program is open to students in grades K-12. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 43
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Allows individual income tax credits for contributions made to tax-exempt school tuition organizations. Establishes eligibility criteria. Defines eligible student as student member of a household before the tuition grant is no more than three times the the most recently published federal poverty guidelines. Defines eligible school as accredited nonpublic elementary or secondary school. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2409
Title: S.B. 2409
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Class Size |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Extends repeal date of Iowa Early Intervention and School Improvement Technology Block Grant Programs to July 2007. (Includes funds for K-3 class size reduction and student achievement in basic skills, especially reading skills.) http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 6
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a school district to share its portion of incremental property taxes with a contiguous school district. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2764
Title: H.B. 2764
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Requests the legislative council to establish an equity in property taxation interim study committee to review the provisions of chapter 257 and develop one or more proposals that will equalize property tax rates applicable pursuant to the basic school foundation aid formula. Requires the review to include finance formulas that specifically address equalizing property tax rates. States that the study committee is authorized for and is to be conducted over a two-year period during the 2006 and 2007 legislative interims. Requires the committee to report its findings and recommendations, including proposed legislation, to the general assembly no later than January 1, 2008. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2792
Title: H.B. 2792 - Section 48
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs school districts and nonpublic accredited schools to report graduation rates using the definition of graduation rate specified by the National Governors Association (NGA). Also directs districts and accredited nonpublic schools to report the following:
(1) the number of students who drop out of school;
(2) the number of students pursuing a high school equivalency diploma; (3) the number of students who were enrolled in the district within the past five years and who received a high school equivalency diploma;
(4) the percentage of students who receive a high school diploma and who were not proficient in reading, mathematics, and science in grade eleven; and
(5) the number of students in the prior year who were enrolled as high school juniors who are within four units of meeting the district's graduation requirements.
Rewrites section 256.7 related to the recommended core high school curriculum. Requires each school district to annually report, beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, the percentage of students graduating from high school who complete the core curriculum. Also requires districts to report, in the comprehensive school improvement plan, how the district plans to increase the number of students completing the recommended core curriculum.
Establishes statewide graduation requirements, beginning with the Class of 2010-2011, of 4 years English, 3 years math, 3 years science and 3 years social studies. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 1-4
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12,
Community College |
Requires board of directors of each community college to request that a student pursuing or receiving a high school equivalency diploma provide to the community college the student's school district of residence and the last year the student was enrolled in the school district of residence. Requires the community college to annually report the information to the school district of residence. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 8
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
High School--GED (General Education Development) |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Modifies subject areas covered in tests for high school equivalency diploma. States that equivalency diploma tests must cover reading, the arts, language arts, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 29
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs the department of education to use funds appropriated for graduation requirements under division II of the bill to assist districts with the implementation of graduation requirements established pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 26, as amended by 2006 Iowa Acts, Senate File 2272, if enacted (model core curriculum). Directs the department to survey school districts on their readiness for implementation of the requirements. Directs the department to review Iowa law and administrative rules and policies to determine if changes are necessary or beneficial to implement the graduation requirements. Requires the department to submit its findings and recommendations in a report to the chairpersons and ranking members of the senate and house of representatives standing education committees and to the chairpersons and ranking members of the joint appropriations subcommittee on education by January 1, 2007. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2792
Title: H.B. 2792 - Section 33 and 50
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides that personal information in state agency records regarding a child receiving home instruction must be kept confidential in the same manner as personal information in records for students in public schools. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 48
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
Emergency Rule Adoption 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to the issuance of practitioner's licenses and endorsements. Carries out the directive of 2006 Iowa Acts, House File 2792. Creates "initial administrator license," valid for two years. Requires initial administrator license recipient to meet the following requirements in addition to existing requirements for administrator licensure:
(1) Have completed a state-approved administrator education program at acollege or university approved by the state board of education or the state board of educational examiners in the individual's preparation state; and
(2) Be assuming a position as a school district administrator for the first time or have one year of out-of-state or nonpublic administrative experience; and
(3) Have completed an approved human relations component; and
(4) Have completed an exceptional learner component; and
(5) Have completed an evaluator approval program.
Provides that "professional administrator license" valid for 5 years may be issued to a person who meets the requirements for the "initial administrator license."
Page 36 of 72 http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/2006/Bulletin/IAB060719.pdf
Title: IAC 282-14.114(272), 14.114(1), 14.114(2)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Creates a beginning administrator mentoring and induction program to promote excellence in school leadership, improve classroom instruction, enhance student achievement, build a supportive environment within school districts, increase the retention of promising school leaders, and promote the personal and professional well-being of administrators. Requires the department to develop and each board to establish a model beginning administrator mentoring and induction program for all beginning administrators. Requires each board to develop an initial beginning administrator mentoring and induction plan. Requires the plan to describe the mentor selection process, describe supports for beginning administrators, describe program organizational and collaborative structures, provide a budget, provide for sustainability of the program, and provide for program evaluation.
Creates a new section establishing an annual appropriation for purposes of administering the beginning administrator mentoring and induction program. Requires each district to be allocated $1,500 per beginning administrator participating in the program. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2792
Title: H.B. 2792 - Section 28 - 30
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs the institute for tomorrow's workforce to develop an Iowa education efficiency and improvement plan, the goal of which is to establish a new educational delivery system. Directs the institute, in developing the plan, to address issues concerning the alignment of school districts, area education agencies, public postsecondary institutions, and the department of education, focusing on specific quantitative and qualitative indicators, management, governance, services, boundaries, infrastructure and efficiencies, and administrative efficiencies. Directs the institute to submit the plan and any recommendations for changes to state law and administrative rules to the general assembly, the governor, and the department of education by January 15, 2007. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2792
Title: H.B. 2792 - Section 31
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs the institute for tomorrow's workforce to develop an Iowa education efficiency and improvement plan, the goal of which is to establish a new educational delivery system. Directs the institute, in developing the plan, to address issues concerning the alignment of school districts, area education agencies, public postsecondary institutions, and the department of education, focusing on specific quantitative and qualitative indicators, management, governance, services, boundaries, infrastructure and efficiencies, and administrative efficiencies. Directs the institute to submit the plan and any recommendations for changes to state law and administrative rules to the general assembly, the governor, and the department of education by January 15, 2007. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2792
Title: H.B. 2792 - Section 31
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Makes an appropriation to cover tuition grants for students attending for-profit accredited private institutions in Iowa. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2792
Title: H.B. 2792 - Section 43
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Provides educational assistance to the child of a person who died on or after September 11, 2001, during active federal military service while serving in the armed forces, the Iowa national guard or another military component of the United States. Provides up to $5,500 in educational assistance to cover tuition, matriculation, laboratory and similar fees, books and supplies, board, lodging, and any other reasonably necessary expense. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2792
Title: H.B. 2792 Section 36 - 37
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Private Schools |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires service activities to students enrolled in nonpublic schools to be similar to those undertaken for public school students. Allows health services, special education support, and related services provided by area education agencies for the purpose of identifying children with disabilities, assistance with physical and communications needs of students with physical disabilities, and services of an educational interpreter to be provided on nonpublic school premises with the permission of the lawful custodian of the property. Authorizes other special education services to be provided on nonpublic school premises at the discretion of the school district or area education agency provider of the service and with the permission of the lawful custodian of the property. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 19
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Beginning July 1, 2006, requires each school district to have a qualified teacher librarian licensed by the board of educational examiners. Directs the state board to establish in rule a definition of and standards for an articulated sequential K-12 media program. Establishes procedures for granting district waivers of state requirements related to teacher librarians.
Requires the board of educational examiners to review the impact the enactment of this teacher librarian requirement on school districts, media specialists, and librarians and to submit its findings and recommendations in a report to the chairpersons and ranking members of the senate and house of representatives standing committees on education by January 1, 2007
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2792
2007 state board rule (starts page 1637): http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/2007/Bulletin/IAB070606.pdf
Title: H.B. 2792 - Section 2, 3 and 49
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Strikes subsection that requires drivers of school buses to present a certificate of physical fitness each year before being permitted to operate any vehicles transorting children to and from school. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 45
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Specifies that the department of education has authority to suspend bus drivers' authorization to drive a school bus. Requires the department to take adverse action against any person who, after notice and opportunity for hearing, is determined to have committed any of the following:
a. Use of nonprescription controlled substances or alcoholic beverages during working hours.
b. Operating a school bus while under the influence of nonprescription controlled substances or alcoholic beverages.
c. Fraud in the procurement or renewal of a school bus driver's authorization to operate a school bus.
d. The commission of or conviction for a public offense as defined by the Iowa criminal code, if the offense is relevant to and affects driving ability, or if the offense includes sexual involvement with a minor student with the intent to commit acts and practices.
Provides that such action may include a reprimand or warning of the person or the suspension or revocation of the person's authorization to operate a school bus. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 51
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires each high school student's plan for completing the core curriculum to include career options and to identify the coursework needed in grades nine through twelve to support the student's postsecondary education and career options. Provides that if the pupil is under eighteen years of age, the pupil's parent or guardian must sign the core curriculum plan developed with the student and the signed plan must be included in the student's records. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 13
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires the educational examiners board to randomly audit at least 10% of the applications for renewal of the standard, master educator, and administrator licenses submitted through the online renewal process. Requires audited licensees to submit verification of compliance with renewal credit requirements. Provides that a licensee's failure to complete the audit satisfactorily or falsification of information is a violation of the code of professional conduct and ethics, and the executive director may initiate a complaint against the licensee. Provides that a licensee's failure to notify the board of a current mailing address does not absolve the licensee from the audit requirement. Pages 45-46 of 72 http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/Current/Bulletin/IAB060719.pdf
Title: IAC 282-17.13(272), 17.13(1), 17.13(2)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Extends to June 30, 2007 eligibility for teachers to receive a one-time initial reimbursement award for up to half of the registration fee for certification by the national board for professional teaching standards. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2792
Title: H.B. 2792 - Section 4
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds. |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to membership of the board of educational examiners. Moves the director of the department of education, or the director's designee, from role as one of two public members to one of 9 licensed practitioners on the board. Requires one of the two public members to have served on a school board.
Replaces requirement that director of department of education serve as chairperson of the board with provision that board members elect a chairperson.
Changes from annual to every three years frequency with which the executive director of the board of educational examiners must submit findings and recommendations to the legislature based on the director's review of the administrative rules.
Provides that the two public members on the board of educational examiners on the effective date of this Act will continue to serve as public members of the board until April 30, 2007. On May 1, 2007, the director of the department of education shall commence service on the
board as a licensed practitioner.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 10-12 and 16
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Rewrites section 284.11 (former "Pilot program for team-based variable pay for student achievement"). New section 284.11 encourages school districts to establish teacher compensation opportunities that recognize the need for geographic or other locally determined wage differentials and provides incentives for traditionally hard-to-staff schools and subject-area shortages. Provides for state assistance to allow school districts to add a market factor to teacher salaries paid by the school districts. Provides that funds are to supplement, but not supplant, wages and salaries paid as a result of a collective bargaining agreement.
Authorizes department to spend up to $250,000 of an allocation to support the implementation of a national board certification support program.
Authorizes area education agencies to receive funds to support beginning teacher mentoring and induction programs.
Deletes selected provisions from section 284.13 on authorized allocations for teacher salaries, professional development, etc.
Requires a preliminary study to measure the cost and effectiveness in raising student achievement of a compensation system that provides financial incentives based on student performance. Beginning July 1, 2006, requires the commission to gather sufficient information to identify a pay-for-performance program based on student achievement gains and global content standards where student achievement gains cannot be easily measured. Directs the commission to review pay-for-performance programs in both the public and private sector. Based on this information, requires the commission to design a program utilizing both individual and group incentive components. Requires at least half of any available funding identified by the commission to be designated for individual incentives. Commencing with the school year beginning July 1, 2007, requires the commission to initiate demonstration projects, in selected kindergarten through grade twelve schools, to test the effectiveness of the pay-for-performance program. Directs the commission to select 10 school districts as demonstration projects. To the extent practicable, requires participants to represent geographically distinct rural, urban, and suburban areas of the state. Requires the commission, beginning in the 2008-2009 school year, to select twenty additional school districts as demonstration projects.
Requires the commission to prepare an interim report by January 15, 2007, followed by interim progress reports annually, followed by a final study report analyzing the effectiveness of pay-for-performance in raising student achievement levels. Requires the final study report to be completed no later than six months after the completion of the demonstration projects. Directs the general assembly to consider implementing the pay-for-performance program statewide for the 2009-2010 school year.
Governor vetoed provisions establishing a pay-for-performance commission to design and implement a pay-for-performance program and provide a study relating to teacher and staff compensation containing a pay-for-performance component. Governor directs the Institute for Tomorrow's Workforce to take the lead on this study. Governor likewise vetoed provisions directing the department to create a teacher remediation program to provide counseling and assistance for teachers whose students do not demonstrate adequate increases in achievement.
Bill: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2792
Veto message: http://www.governor.state.ia.us/legislation/2006/veto/060601_HF2792_Item.html
Title: H.B. 2792 - Section 24 - 27
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
Issued 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs the Institute for Tomorrow's Workforce to propose a design for a pay-for-performance program and conduct a study of the design to measure the cost and effectiveness in raising student achievement of a compensation system that provides financial incentives based on student performance. http://www.governor.state.ia.us/legal/46_50/EO_48.pdf
Title: E.O. 48
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Adds "evaluation of teachers against the Iowa teaching standards" as fifth element of the student achievement and teacher quality program. Clarifies that all districts must adopt a teacher evaluation plan that meets certain guidelines. Clarifies that every school district and area education agency must develop an initial beginning teacher mentoring and induction plan and must offer teachers a career development program incorporated into the district's comprehensive school improvement plan.
Clarifies that teachers in all districts must develop an individual teacher career development plan and a teacher career path, and that all districts must review a teacher's performance at least once every three years. Allows the definition of "beginning teacher" to include a holder of an intern teacher license.
Extends to July 1, 2007 deadline to develop and implement an evaluator training certification renewal program for administrators and other practitioners.
Governor line-item vetoed provision that an individual employed by an area education agency shall only be considered a teacher for purposes of the student achievement and teacher quality program if the individual directly delivers instruction to school or district students for at least 50% of the individual's contracted time.
Bill: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2792
Veto message: http://www.governor.state.ia.us/legislation/2006/veto/060601_HF2792_Item.html
Title: H.B. 2792 - Section 5 - 23
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Directs the board of regents to conduct a study of the admissions requirements common to the state universities. Requires the board to report its findings and recommendations to the senate and house education committees by January 8, 2007.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2395
Title: H.B. 2395
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires the department of cultural affairs to develop an Iowa studies professional development plan that includes professional development materials and training measures to provide teachers in the state with effective ways to infuse Iowa studies into their classrooms. Requires that the materials developed include an Iowa studies curriculum that each local board may choose to integrate into the district's high school social studies requirements. Mandates that the curriculum include lesson plans covering Iowa history, civics, government, and heritage studies, and that the curriculum contain enough content for the course to fulfill at least .5 unit of credit.
Requires the director of the department of cultural affairs to establish an Iowa studies committee to:
(1) Inform school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, and area education agencies of the Iowa studies professional development plan;
(2) Develop partnerships with organizations such as nonprofit history or humanities organizations, civic organizations, libraries, and the business community to support and promote Iowa studies statewide;
(3) Establish evaluation criteria for the Iowa studies professional development plan, including teacher and student evaluation and curriculum and plan effectiveness, which may include a survey of student participation in civic activities and involvement in the election process.
(4) Develop a strategy and plan to implement the Iowa studies professional development plan and curriculum in a limited number of schools and area education agencies across the state. Specifies that participation by a school or area education agency must be voluntary, but that a school or area education agency selected to participate in the plan must agree to participate in the evaluation component conducted by the Iowa studies committee.
Establishes membership of the Iowa studies committee. Requires the committee to:
a. Conduct an evaluation of the Iowa studies professional development plan using the evaluation criteria established by the committee.
b. Submit, for school years ending on or before June 30, 2009, an annual status report on the utilization of the Iowa studies professional development plan in school districts and accredited nonpublic schools to the chairpersons and ranking members of the senate and house committees on education. This report must include the number of schools utilizing the plan.
c. Submit its findings and recommendations in a final report based upon the evaluation data to the chairpersons and ranking members of the senate and house committees on education by January 15, 2010.
Repeals these provisions effective July 1, 2010. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2320
Title: S.B. 2320
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs the department of education and the department of public health to convene a healthy children task force to:
a. Assess current policies and statutes affecting the health of children, specifically physical activity, physical education, food and nutrition, and nutrition education for children ages 3-18.
b. Develop recommendations for policy and statutory changes to enhance the health and well-being of children, including, but not limited to, physical activity, food and nutrition, and education related to these topics.
c. Submit its findings and recommendations to the governor and the general assembly by January 1, 2007. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2251
Title: S.B. 2251
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Adopted 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Addresses the shortage of school guidance counselors. Creates new class of guidance counselor license. Page 80 of 100: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/2006/Bulletin/IAB060510.pdf
Title: IAC 282-14.132(272), 14.132(1) through 14.132(3)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Authorizes an approved nursing education program to initiate criminal and child and dependent adult abuse record checks of students and prospective students. Provides that, if a student has a criminal record or a record of founded child or dependent adult abuse, upon request of the nursing program, the department of human services must perform an evaluation to determine whether the record warrants prohibition of the person's involvement in a clinical education component of a nursing program involving children or dependent adults. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF2464
Title: H.B. 2464
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, coolice.legis.state.ia.us/ |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes a nutrition and physical activity community obesity prevention grant program. Provides that the purpose of the program is to increase the physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption of targeted elementary school students, with a long-term goal of developing a model program to support and sustain such healthy behavior and incorporate 60 minutes of physical activity per day, which can be replicated in other communities. Requires the deparment to award competitive grants to six communities in each of the six public health regions in the state and provide technical assistance on program administration. Lists qualifications of eligible candidates. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2124
Title: S.B. 2124
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Adopted 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Implements statutory language and to make enforcement of the athletic rules more uniform for all students participating in extracurricular activities. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/2006/Bulletin/IAB060329.pdf (starting page 59 of 80)
Title: IAC 281-36.1(280), 36.4(3), 36.14(2), 36.14(7), 36.15(2) through36.15(5), 281-36.16(280)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Allows a substitute teacher's license to be issued to an individual who has successfully completed all requirements of an approved Iowa teacher education program, but did not apply for an Iowa teacher's license at the time of the completion of the approved program. Permits an individual who holds only an
administrative license to substitute teach. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/Current/Bulletin/IAB060104.htm
Title: IAC 14.119(1), 14.119(3)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
High School |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board to develop a model core curriculum, taking into consideration the recommendations of the American college testing program, inc. Requires the state board to set a goal of increasing the number of students graduating from secondary school who have successfully completed a core curriculum, by July 1, 2009, to eighty percent of all students graduating from secondary schools in this state except that the goal shall be exclusive of students who have special or alternative means for satisfying graduation requirements under individualized educational plans developed for the students. "Core curriculum" means the minimum number of specific high school courses that a student needs to take in preparation for advanced career and vocational purposes. Adds the requirement that public and accredited nonpublic schools report the percentage of students who graduated during the prior school year and who completed a core curriculum. Requires school boards to assist eighth-graders with planning to develop a core curriculum plan, and requires boards to report each year to students in grades 9-12 and to parents regarding student progress in meeting the goals of successfully completing a core curriculum. Requires the state department to coordinate a working group to develop clear, accurate, meaningful, and unambiguous definitions for key data areas relating to, but not limited to, attrition, completion, and attendance rates. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/legislation/enrolled/SF245.html
Title: S.F. 245
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
P-3 Ensuring Quality |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
Relates to the Iowa Early Intervention Block Grant Program. Requires a report that includes district-by-district information showing the allocation received for early intervention block grant program purposes, the total number of students enrolled in grade four in each district, and the number of students in each district who are not proficient in reading in grade four for the most recent reporting period, as well as for each reporting period starting with the school year beginning July 1, 2001. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/legislation/enrolled/HF742.html
Title: H.F. 742
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Technology |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes a research triangle, defined by the three institutions of higher learning under the board's control, and clearinghouse for purposes of sharing the projects and results of kindergarten through grade twelve education technology initiatives occurring in Iowa's school districts, area education agencies, community colleges, and other higher education institutions, with the education community within and outside of the state. Dissemination of and access to information regarding planning, financing, curriculum, professional development, preservice training, project implementation strategies, and results are to be centralized to allow school districts from across the state to gain ideas from each other regarding the integration of technology in the classroom. Adds a new subsection (31) to section 262.9. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/legislation/enrolled/HF739.html
Title: H.F. 739
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires that certain meetings held by the Iowa Coordinating Council for Post High School Education be open to the public. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF276
Title: H.F. 276
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 02/2005 |
P-12 |
Provides for the establishment of the state percent of growth for purposes of the state school foundation program. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF36
Title: S.F. 36
Source: StateNet |
Finance--Student Fees |
Emergency Rule Adoption 09/2004 |
Postsec. |
Removes references to specific amounts for application fees in Chapters 1 and 2; creates a new rule with all application fees listed.
1.2 and 1.7: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/Current/iac/681/6811/6811.pdf
2.27: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/Current/iac/681/6812/6812.pdf
Title: 681 IAB 1.2, 1.7, 2.27
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 09/2004 |
Postsec. |
Specifies that the College Student Aid Commission may apply administrative wage garnishment procedures in the collection of all delinquent student loans owed tot he Commission, specifically including private partnership loans. Changes the chapter name from 'License Sanction Program' to 'Student Loan Debt Collection'. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/Current/iac/283iac/28337/28337.pdf
Title: 283 IAC 37.1 thru 37.4
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 09/2004 |
Postsec. |
Relates to appropriations for economic development purposes, workforce development field offices, workforce training and economic development funds of community colleges.
Title: S.F. 2311
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
Adopted 09/2004 |
P-12 |
Modifies the requirements for the director of special education. Clarifies the authorization to include the 'director of special education of an area education agency'. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/Current/iac/282iac/28215/28215pp7.pdf
Title: 282 IAC 15.3
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
Adopted 09/2004 |
P-12 |
Modifies the requirements of the special education consultant. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/Current/iac/282iac/28215/28215pp7.pdf
Title: 282 IAC 15.3
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Issued 08/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Creates the IOWA LEARNS COUNCIL. The Iowa Learns Council shall work towards the ambitious goal of 90% of Iowa children having a quality pre-school experience, and 90% of Iowa high school graduates will go on to complete at least two years of college; shall promote, gather, and share information regarding Iowa's progress to ensure seamless pathways across education sectors and the workplace; shall identify the necessary steps to ensure that Iowans--from pre-school to graduate school--are supported by a well coordinated seamless system of learning and support to provide for successes from early childhood through higher education, and into the workforce in our communities.
http://www.state.ia.us/iowalearns/doc/eo30.html
Iowa Learns Council report with recommendations released August 11, 2004. http://www.state.ia.us/iowalearns/reports.html
Title: Executive Order No. 30 - 2003
Source: Iowa State Web site |
Desegregation |
Adopted 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Codifies open enrollment policies and procedures from the department's guidelines and decisions. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/2004/iac/281iac/28117/28117.pdf
Title: 281 IAC 17.2 thru .14 (non seq)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules |
Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Adopted 06/2004 |
Postsec. |
Amends admission rules common to the three State Universities and supplemental specific rules for each institution. Eliminates references to specific amounts for admission fees.
Title: 681 IAC 1.1, 1.2, 2.27
Source: StateNet |
Special Populations--Homeless Education |
Adopted 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Implements the provisions of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/Current/iac/281iac/28133/28133.pdf
Title: 281 IAC 33.1 thru 33.11
Source: StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Vetoed 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Allows individual income tax credits for contributions made to certain school tuition organizations and including an applicability date provision. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=SF2295
Title: S.F. 2295
Source: StateNet |
Civic Education |
Vetoed 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to and making appropriations from the healthy Iowans tobacco trust and the tobacco settlement trust fund and providing an effective date; provides for high school mentors to teach life skills, violence prevention and character education in an effort to reduce the illegal use of alcohol, tobacco and other substances. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=HF2577
Title: H.F. 2577
Source: StateNet |
Curriculum |
Vetoed 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Creates new section allowing driver's education to be provided by a teaching parent. Teaching parent must provide, among other requirements, thirty hours of classroom instruction, and four hours of classroom instruction concerning substance abuse. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=HF2394
Title: H.F. 2394
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Vetoed 05/2004 |
Postsec. |
Provides for an individual income tax deduction for contributions made to a qualified tuition program established by certain educational institutions and including effective and retroactive applicability date provisions. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=SF2303
Title: S.F. 2303
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the duties of the College Student Aid Commission and the approval and registration of postsecondary schools by the commission, the Department of Education, and the Secretary of State, and the establishment and collection of fees and chargeable expenses by the State Board of Education and the Secretary of State.
Title: H.F. 2559
Source: StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires district, prior to enrolling student required to register as a sex offender, to determine the educational placement of the student. Requires the district of residence, if enrollment is denied, to provide the student with educational services in an alternative setting. Requires the county sheriff to provide the boards of directors within the county with the name of any individual under age 21 required to register as a sex offender. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=HF2460
Title: H.F. 2460
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec. |
The department of economic development shall establish and administer a university-based research utilitzation program for the purpose of encouraging university-based research, primarily in the area of high technology, in new or existing businesses.
Title: H.F. 2431
Source: StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to the number of signatures required on nomination petitions for school board elections. Specifies that no more than 50 signatures need be collected for a valid petition. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=HF2419
Title: H.F. 2419
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Creates new section requiring local boards and authorities of nonpublic schools to allow students to possess and self-administer asthma medication under specified conditions. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=SF2177
Title: S.F. 2177
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Authorizes school districts and nonpublic schools to apply credit toward graduation under the state education program for successful completion of military basic training. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=HF2241
Title: H.F. 2241
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec. |
Relates to technical and substantive changes regarding the Iowa educational savings plan trust and the establishment of an additional optional program by a specified date, and providing an effective date. Allows state residents to invest money in a public trust for future application to the costs of higher education
Title: H.F. 2553
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the appointment of the ninth member of the state Board of Regents.
Title: S.F. 2174
Source: StateNet |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Vetoed 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to education funding, providing for the establishment of the state percent of growth for purposes of the state school foundation program, making appropriations, and providing an applicability date. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=SF2124 and http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Session.2/SJournal//sj040308.pdf#page=18
Title: S.F. 2124
Source: StateNet |
Leadership |
Adopted 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Clarifies rules to combine the superintendent endorsement with the AEA administrator endorsement and modifies requirements to include national standards for school leaders.
Title: 282 IAC 14.142
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
Adopted 01/2004 |
P-12 |
Clarifies rules regarding the Teacher Quality Program. Provides requirements for school district professional development, including professional development standards, district career development plan expectations and professional development provider requirements. IOWA REG 2999 (SN)
Title: 281 IAC 83.6
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
Adopted 10/2003 |
P-12 |
Modifies requirements regarding Paraeducator Certificates. Adds a new area of concentration, School Library Media PK-grade 12. Clarifies that paraeducators must complete competencies in reading, writing, and mathematics areas.
Title: 282 IAC 22.6, 22.7, 22.13
Source: StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Adopted 09/2003 |
P-12 |
Adds a new chapter to implement Iowa Code Sec. 256F. Addresses review of two types of applications: planning and charter status. Requires that the department rank applications on a point system, with maximum points of 100. Specifies criteria for scoring. Assigns state board with reviewing recommendations of the Department and requires the state board to approve or deny applications within 60 calendar days of receipt and notify applicants within 14 days of a decision.
Title: Iowa Admin. Code 281-68.1 (256F)
Source: Iowa Department of Education |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Specifies that the state board must incorporate reporting of student achievement into the standards and accreditation system. NEW SUBSECTION. 53. Develop and implement a statewide program of educational assessment reporting. The director shall provide information needed to improve public schools by collecting and disseminating data and information resulting rom assessments made of public school students, to aid in the development and evaluation of educational programs and policies by school districts, and to inform parents of the educational progress of their children in the public schools. Information collected under the department's statewide program of educational assessment reporting shall be utilized as part of the state report card on school performance and on statewide progress by the state in accordance with implementation of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Pub. L. No. 107-110. The program shall include the assignment of a unique student identifier to each student attending kindergarten through grade twelve. (Vetoed Section Five) http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: http://www.legis.state.ia.us |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Changes repeal date from 2003 to 2004 on chapter establishing statewide early intervention block grant program. Components of this program include K-3 class size reduction and K-3 diagnostic reading assessments. Chapter requires districts to annually report to the department their current class sizes for grades K-3. Chapter also requires districts to annually report to public the percentage of fourth-graders who are proficient in reading, and encourages districts to report to public on K-3 student reading proficiency. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires any local board, superintendent or head of any nonpublic school to report to the state educational examiners board every instance of revocation or nonrenewal of a school employee's contract due to alleged or actual misconduct, as well as the resignation of the individual holding the license or authorization from the educational examiners board, when the incident or allegation concerns a crime that requires the licensing board to automatically revoke or deny certification, if the local board or reporting official has good cause to believe the incident took place or the allegation is true. Specifies that such information reported to the educational examiners board is confidential and, notwithstanding special circumstances, is not subject to discovery, subpoena or other forms of legal compulsion for release to any individual other than the respondent and the examiners board and its employees involved in licensee discipline, and is not admissible in evidence in judicial or administrative proceedings beyond the proceeding concerning licensee discipline. Requires the educational examiners board to review the information to determine whether a complaint should be initiated, taking into account the crimes for which a license must be denied or revoked according to state statute.
See Section 16: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Allows a temporary contract to be issued to a teacher to fill a vacancy created by a leave of absence occasioned by a teacher's taking of military leave. Such temporary contract must automatically terminate when the former incumbent returns from military leave. Such contracts are not subject to certain protections and procedures extended to teachers under standard contracts.
See Section 31: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board of educational examiners to disqualify an individual from obtaining a teaching license or revoke the teaching license of any individual who pleas guilty or is found guilty of "sexual exploitation by a school employee," regardless of the state or country in which the plea or finding was entered. See Section 14: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Deletes language defining a career pathways program as "a comprehensive school transformation program under section 294A.14."
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Eliminates provision that allows districts to use Phase III "and other available school funds" to establish workstart programs. Eliminates provision defining workstart program as a comprehensive school transformation program.
See Section 12: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Eliminates language allowing schools to use phase III funds to establish character education programs. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Makes appropriation from the healthy Iowans tobacco trust and the tobacco settlement trust fund for various initiatives, including for a $400,000 grant to a program that utilizes high school mentors to teach life skills, violence prevention, and character education in an effort to reduce the illegal use of alcohol, tobacco, and other substances. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00600/HF00685/Current.html
Title: H.F. 685
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Desegregation |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Specifies that the superintendent of a district subject to voluntary or court-ordered desegregation may not deny a request for transfer under the state's open enrollment policy if the request for transfer is submitted to the district before January 1 of the preceding school year prior to the district's adoption of a desegregation plan. Requires the state board to establish guidelines and a review process for districts that approve voluntary desegregation plans. These guidelines must include criteria and standards for districts to observe when creating a voluntary desegregation plan. Requires the department to lend technical assistance to any district attempting to adopt a voluntary desegregation plan. Specifies that a district implementing a voluntary desegregation plan before July 1, 2004 must have until July 1, 2006 to comply with the state board guidelines the state board adopts pursuant to this section.
Deletes the requirement that in open enrollment program, the district of residence must send to the receiving district the Phase III funds allocated to the district of residence for the previous year for the full-time equivalent attendance of the student participating in the open enrollment program.
Makes provision relating to request for open enrollment submitted to a district prior to the district's adoption of a desegregation plan apply retroactively to July 1, 2002 for open enrollment transfer requests received by a district on or after July 1, 2002.
See Sections 35-36 and Section 72: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Relates to the establishment of a school infrastructure financing program by providing for a local option school infrastructure sales tax and providing for the use of the revenues from the local option tax for school infrastructure or property tax relief purposes and including an effective date.
Title: S.F. 445
Source: StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Adopted 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Promulgates administrative rules regarding attendance centers. Specifies that local board of a school district has discretion as to the number of attendance centers to be operated within the district, and that any determination to close an attendance center must include public notice and public involvement. Specifies guidelines regarding the closing of an attendance center. Makes decisions regarding a realignment of the grades to be taught in an attendance center.
Title: 281 IAC 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
Source: StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Deletes language barring local board secretary or treasurer from serving term of more than one year from date of appointment. (Secretary or treasurer are appointed by board from outside membership of the board, and may be a non-teacher employee of the board). See Section 30:
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Clarifies subsection specifying how members of area education agency boards of directors are to be elected, who is eligible to be elected, and how vacancies to the board are to be filled. Creates new section specifying procedures to follow in the event that no candidate files with the area education agency secretary for an election or a vacancy occurs on an area education agency board of directors. See Sections 20 and 21: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board of educational examiners to adopt criteria for administrative endorsements that allow one to obtain an endorsement to work as an elementary or secondary principal regardless of the grade level at which the individual accrued teaching experience.
See Section 17: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Allows a temporary contract to be given to an administrator to fill a vacancy created by an administrator's taking of military leave. The contract must automatically terminate when the administrator on military leave returns to resume his position. The holder of the temporary contract is not protected by specified provisions in statute.
See Section 32: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Adds that an individual working for a school or school district may also be employed as a secondary principal in the same school or district. Prior language allowed a superintendent to be concurrently employed as an elementary principal, which provision still stands in the current amendment.
See Section 34: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
Vetoed Sec. Five 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Creates statewide testing and reporting system. Assigns unique identifier to each student in grades K through 12. Requires department to maintain a Web site reporting 1) Iowa test of basic skills scores for every district that administers the test, and for every school serving children in grades 3-8; and 2) Iowa test of educational development scores for every district that administers the test and every school serving students in grades 9-11. Specifies that scores are to be reported in percentiles to permit comparisons between schools. Requires department to adopt a value-added system to annually determine the academic growth of every student, school and district in reading and math, and other core academic subjects when possible. Specifies components that system must include.
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Session.1/HJournal/02200/02251.html and section 5: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Eliminates language requiring any district providing a family support program and that is requesting additional Phase III funding to meet the requirements of the main section describing family support programs and obtain department approval.
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Adopted 05/2003 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Updates rules governing community college faculty planning. Eliminates the state licensure requirement for community college faculty in lieu of each college developing a faculty plan. Eliminates the state licensure requirements for community college faculty through the Board of Educational Examiners. Sets forth minimum standards for full-time faculty teaching in arts and sciences and career and technical education.
Title: 281 IAC 21.3(1)
Source: StateNet |
Reading/Literacy |
Vetoed 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes a reading instruction pilot program for students in grades K-8, to be conducted in 2003-04 school year for any district or consortium of districts that meets minimum enrollment numbers. Requires the implementation of systematic intensive phonics reading instruction and direct instruction for students, and observance of National Institute for Literacy standards. Requires the program to offer teacher training and support as well as informal student assessment. Requires districts interested in participating to apply to the department, requires department to offer technical assistance in application submission and information regarding program objectives and operation, in addition to offering program implementation assistance to the district or districts selected. Establishes required components of district applications. Requires participating district(s) to report to the department at the end of the pilot program regarding the program's impact on student achievement, which results the department must report and make recommendations on to specified members of the legislature. See http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Session.1/HJournal/02200/02251.html and Section 69 and Section 71, subsection 3: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
Postsec. |
Requires the state board of regents to create a policy by August 1, 2003 that every postsecondary institution under the regents' control must adopt and enforce, that would forbid students, staff and faculty from "harassing or intimidating a student or any other person on institution property" wearing all or a portion of a uniform of the U.S. armed forces. This policy may not bar an individual from wearing such a uniform on institution property if this person may wear the uniform under state or federal laws. Requires the policy to include appropriate sanctions.
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Creates five-year statute of limitations for action for damages suffered as result of sexual abuse or sexual exploitation by a school employee. Action must be brought within five years of the date the victim was last enrolled in or attended the school. Defines "school employee" and "student" for purposes of this section. Defines sexual exploitation by a school employee, and establishes as either a class "D" felony or an aggravated misdemeanor, depending upon the nature of the exploitation. States that an information or indictment for sexual exploitation by a school employee committed on a person under age 18 must be found within 10 years after the victim attains age 18, and that information or indictment for any other sexual exploitation must be found within 10 years of the date the victim was enrolled in or attended the school. See Sections 62-67: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.u |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Changes from March to December 1 the date by which a petition to reorganize districts must be filed with the affected area education agency board. Changes from November 1 to July 15 the date by which the affected boards must submit the completed reorganization plan to the state board. Changes from February 1 to September 30 the date by which the state board must approve or disapprove the districts' reorganization plan. Specifies that the state board may give a district reorganization plan approval contingent upon compliance with state board recommendations; requires a contingently approved plan to returned with modifications to the department by October 30. Eliminates language allowing plans submitted to the state board after November 1 to take effect by July 1 of the succeeding fiscal year.
Creates new subsection requiring the area education agency, within 15 days of its notification by the state board of approval of the area education agency's reorganization plan or dissolution proposal, to notify by certified mail the school districts in the area education agency boundaries, the districts and area education agencies contiguous with its boundaries, and any other district under contract with the area education agency, of the state board's approval of the plan, and to give the department a copy of any notice sent for these purposes. Requires a petition to join or be released from an area education agency to be filed no more than 45 days after the state board approves a reorganization or dissolution plan. Specifies that district board may petition the board of their current area education agency and the newly reorganizated area education agency to join the newly reorganized area education agency within 45 days of the state board's approval.
See Sections 21-29: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Vetoed 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Removes the contract requirement for substitute and part-time school bus drivers.
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Session.1/HJournal/02200/02251.html and Section 51: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Adds that school bus driver must be immediately suspended from duties, pending termination hearing by district board or authorities of nonpublic school, if a change in circumstances indicates the driver is no longer physically or mentally competent. Specifies what constitutes a change in circumstances for an insulin-dependent diabetic. Adds that an insulin-dependent diabetic may drive school bus if doctor provides a signed statement that the results of an annual physical examination show the individual is physically capable of performing the required functions despite insulin dependency. Specifies under what circumstances an insulin-dependent diabetic may be allowed to operate or barred from operating a school bus. Requires district or authorities of nonpublic school employing insulin-dependent diabetic as a school bus driver to monitor the diabetic for compliance with enumerated requirements. See Sections 58-59: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Standards |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Specifies that the state superintendent must "develop core knowledge and skill criteria" rather than "develop core knowledge and skill criteria models." http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires the state superintendent to create and implement a comprehensive management information system in order to conduct standardized electronic data collections and reporting protocols in compliance with federal law, improve information exchange between schools and districts, and keep individual student and staff information confidential. System must allow for electronic transfer of individual student records between schools, districts, postsecondary institutions and the department. Allows the state superintendent to create a uniform coding and reporting system, including a statewide uniform student identification system. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Eliminates phase in the Iowa educational excellence program that pertains to enhancement of the quality and effectiveness of teachers through the use of performance pay. Eliminates language requiring department to allocate funds for this purpose. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Adds that another goal of statewide team-based variable pay pilot program is to compare student achievement gains in participating districts with student achievement gains in nonparticipating districts. Requires the department to offer technical assistance in goal setting and student assessment to districts participating in the pilot program, and that priority must be given to districts that were previously approved to participate in a team-based variable pay pilot program. States that district that chooses to begin team-based variable pay plan in school year starting July 1, 2003 (rather than 2001) must inform the department by August 1, 2003 (rather than 2001), and that the department must certify the district plan by October 1, 2003 (rather than 2001). See Section 50: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Changes from fourth to fifth year the year in which a school district participating in the teacher quality program must provide two noninstructional contract days more than were offered in the academic year before the first year of program participation, for supplemental time for teacher career development aligned with student learning and teacher development needs. Also adds to existing requirement that district must adopt teacher career development plans, to say that district must adopt district career development plans.
See Section 40:
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Eliminates language ending fund distribution program on June 30, 2003. See Section 46: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Repeals sections of code relating to Phase III program, which establishes system of teacher performance pay. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html and http://www.legis.state.ia.us/IACODE/2003/
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes minimum teacher salary requirements for the 2003-04 fiscal year. See Section 68: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Moves from July 1, 2004 to July 1, 2005 the date by which a local board must provide evaluations that include at least the state teaching standards and the criteria for the department-developed state teaching standards, in conducting peformance reviews of teachers who are not beginning teachers. See Section 38: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires approved teacher preparation programs to include in the student teaching experience opportunities for the student teacher to become knowledgeable about the state teaching standards, including a mock evaluation conducted by the cooperating teacher. Bars the teacher preparation program from using the mock evaluation as an assessment tool.
See Section 17: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Adds that, subsequent to a teacher's evaluation, the individual teacher's evaluator, not just the teacher's supervisor, must review, modify, or accept modifications to a teacher's individual development plan.
See Section 42: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Changes from July 1, 2004 to July 1, 2005 date by which all districts must be ready to offer an intensive assistance program for any teacher deemed not to be meeting state teaching standards. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that, in addition to auditing comprehensive evaluations, regional review panels established by department may randomly audit teacher performance reviews conducted by teacher evaluators across the state, and may likewise randomly audit how evaluators are evaluating teachers based on the Iowa teaching standards. See Section 48: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Eliminates provision that the three years of successful teaching experience that exempts a teacher who previously taught in an accredited nonpublic school or another state or country from completing state beginning teacher mentoring and induction program must have taken place within the past five years.
See Section 18: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html
Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Vetoed 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Authorizes school districts, upon a teacher or administrator's written request, to deduct a specified amount from the teacher or administrator's salary to pay fees for membership in not-for-profit professional education associations. Requires that if a written request is granted, all other written requests for salary or wage deductions for payment of dues or membership fees for membership in the same not-for-profit, professional education association must also be granted. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/SF/00100/SF00173/030424.html
Title: S.F. 173
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board to apply for a federal grant under the No Child Left Behind Act to provide financial assistance in planning, designing and implementing the pilot charter school program in the state. Changes charter school pilot program repealer from 2010 to 2011. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Legislation/SF/00100/SF00172/Current.html
Title: S.F. 172
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 |
Local boards or heads of a nonpublic school may require service learning units for a service learning endorsement on a high school diploma or as a condition of graduation (in Iowa, all high school graduation requirements are determined at the district level). Also requires local boards and authorities of nonpublic schools to consider recommendations from the appointed school improvement advisory committee (which must exist in every district in Iowa) to implement character education in the curriculum. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00100/HF00180/Current.html
Title: H.F. 180
Source: http://www.legis.state.ia.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 |
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 employees, continuity of coverage, premium rating systems, restrictions on premium rates and establishment of a school district health reinsurance program. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Legislation/SF/00300/SF00386/Current.html
Title: S.F. 386
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Specifies that a "teacher" in a community college includes anyone who is an instructor, but does not include an adjunct instructor; a librarian, including anyone who is a learning resource specialist or a media specialist; or a counselor.
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00300/HF00341/Current.html
Title: H.F. 341
Source: http://www.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 |
Repeals as of June 30, 2004 a subsection requiring the board of educational examiners to compile statistics from Praxis II examinations administrated to initial, provisional teaching license applicants. Also changes deadline for submitting review from December 2003 to January 15, 2004. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Legislation/SF/00200/SF00201/Current.html
Title: S.F. 201
Source: http://www.legis.state.ia.us |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Provides for an establishment of the State percent of growth for purpose of the State School Foundation Program for the school budget year beginning July 1, 2004.
Title: S.F. 211
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Adopted 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Amends rules regarding the Teacher Quality Program. Includes preschool teachers in "beginning teacher" definition for purposes of beginning teacher mentoring and induction program adopted in statute. Specifies that beginning teachers are the teachers who must undergo "comprehensive evaluation," and specifies that this evaluation is conducted to determine a beginning teacher's level of competency as measured against the Iowa teaching standards. Specifies that the "evaluator" is, per Iowa statute, an administrator or other practitioner who successfully completes an evaluator training program. Defines "intensive assistance" as the provision of organizational support and technical assistance to teachers, other than beginning teachers to ameliorate identified instruction and classroom concerns, for a period of not more than one calendar year. Replaces requirement that "mentor" have at least two of four years on nonprobationary status with requirement that mentor have four years of employment as teacher with nonprobationary status. Defines "performance review" as summative evaluation of a teacher who is not a beginning teacher, to determine whether the teacher's abilities are equal to district expectations and state teaching standards, adn to determine whether the teacher's practice is level with district expectations for career advancement as set out in statute. Specifies that "teacher" is defined as a person filling a nonadministrative position and may be a preschool teacher. Changes language to render district offering of beginning teacher mentoring and induction program mandatory rather than optional, and beginning July 1, 2002 rather than 2001 and 2003. Specifies that the evaluation of the beginning teacher must be conducted before the end of the beginning teacher's second year of teaching. Specifies that beginning teacher who completes the program must have met the Iowa teaching standards and must be recommended by the district for a standard teaching license.
Specifies that if any beginning teacher taking part in a mentoring and induction program leaves the participating district or area educational agency before completing the program, the participating district or area educational agency later hiring the beginning teacher must credit the beginning teacher with the time earned in a program before the hiring. If money is appropriated, a district or area education agency may receive state aid for up to two years for each beginning teacher the district or area education agency employs who was formerly working in an accredited nonpublic school or in another state as a first-year teacher. Requires the district or area education agency hiring the teacher to establish the conditions and requirements of a teacher in a mentoring and induction program.
Specifies that, in addition to any district, an area education agency is also eligible to offer a teacher a third year in the program, notify the board of educational examiners of the teacher's third year of particiaption in the program, participate in state program evaluations, develop a sequential two-year beginning teacher mentoring and induction plan, have the board adopt a beginning teacher mentoring and induction program plan, may choose to use or revise the model plan provided by the area education agency or develop a local plan and abide by specifications for required program components as set out in regulation. Specifies that successful completion of a teacher mentoring and induction program means the teacher's meeting the state teaching standards, and that a third year of eligibility may offered a participating teacher at the employing district's expense. Specifies that a teacher granted a third year of program eligibility must, in conjuction with the teacher's evaluator, work out a plan to meet the Iowa teaching standards and district career expectations, which plan will be implemented by the teacher and supported by the district's mentoring and induction program.
Adds new rule that the local board must provide comprehensive evaluations for beginning teachers using the Iowa teaching standards and criteria as listed in state board rules. For performance reviews of teachers other than beginning teachers, the board must provide evaluations that include at a minimum the Iowa teaching standards and criteria found in state board rules. Allows a local board and its certified bargaining representative to negotiate further teaching standards and criteria to apply in a performance review. Allows the board of a district where no certified bargaining unit exists to determine supplemental standards and criteria.
Adds new rule requiring the department to approve eligible providers and their programs to carry out evaluator training. Establishes requirements for trainers and programs. Adds new rule establishing application requirements for providers of evaluator approval training and department process for the approval of evaluator approval training program applications. Establishes new rule requiring districts to develop and implement a teacher evaluation plan by July 1, 2004. Plan must include: 1) use of the Iowa teaching standards and criteria; 2) provisions for the comprehensive evaluation of beginning teachers that comprises a review of the teacher's progress on the Iowa teaching standards and the use of the department-created comprehensive evaluation instrument; 3) performance reviews of teachers other than beginning teachers once every three years; evaluations must include at least a classroom observation of the teacher, a review of the teacher's progress on the state teaching standards established in rule and additional standards and criteria if adopted, a review of the implementation of the teacher's individual career development plan and supporting documentation from other evaluators, teachers, parents and students; 4) provisions for individual career development plans for teachers other than beginning teachers; 5) provisions for an intensive assistance program as provided in statute that aims at the remediation defined in rule or any other standards or criteria adopted in a collective bargaining agreement. Allows a local board and its certified bargaining representative to open evaluation and grievance processes for beginning teachers and for teachers other than beginning teachers to negotiation. When a supervisor or evaluator at any time deems a teacher's performance to be below district expectations or other standards or criteria approved in the collective bargaining agreement, the evaluator is required to advise the district to place the teacher in an intensive assistance program. States that the intensive assistance program and its implementation are not subject to negotiation or grievance procedures established in statute.
Requires each school or district to support the development and implementation of the individual teacher career development plan for teachers who are not beginning teachers. Establishes that the purpose of the individual plan is to offer individual and collective professional development. Establishes that the aims of an individual teacher career development plan must at a minimum be founded on the relevant Iowa teaching standards supporting the school's and district's student achievement goals as developed in the comprehensive school improvement plan, as well as the teacher's needs. Requires that, to the extent practicable, the learning opportunities offered to meet the goals of the individual teacher plan incorporate individual study and collaborative study of district-approved content. Requires the individual plan to be designed jointly by the teacher and the teacher's evaluator. Requires that a yearly meeting take place between the teacher and the teacher's evaluator to go over the goals and adjust the plan.
Title: 281 IAC 83.2 thru 83.6
Source: Iowa State Board of Education Rule Adoption |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Adopted 01/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules conforming to the statute, Iowa Code section 282.18, by clarifying the open enrollment application deadline and clarifying the authority of the department in the event of a complaint lodged with the Department by one district against another district. IOWA REG 2191 (SN)
Title: 281 IAC 17.4
Source: StateNet |
Governance |
Adopted 01/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules giving public secondary students in Iowa a voice, although not a vote, on the State Board of Education. Gives voting Board members the benefit of the thoughts and experiences of the secondary student. IOWA REG 2176 (SN)
Title: 281 IAC 1.1, 1.2, 1.4
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary |
Adopted 11/2002 |
Postsec. |
Clarifies the definitions used to administer the Iowa Tuition Grant Program. Requires that students receiving Iowa Tuition Grants attend an accredited private educational institution located in Iowa.
Title: 283 IAC 12.2
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Adopted 11/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules relating to standards for teacher intern preparation programs. Governs approval of the criteria for practitioner preparation programs. Includes a site visit by representatives of the Department. Specifies approval term of five years.
Title: 281 IAC 77.4, 77.5
Source: StateNet |
No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Active 09/2002 |
P-12 |
Supplemental Education Services application; closing date 9/13/02: http://www.state.ia.us/educate/ecese/asis/titlei/doc/sespapp04.pdf
Source: Iowa Department of Education Web site |
No Child Left Behind |
Active 06/2002 |
P-12 |
2002 Consolidated Plan (dated 6/12/02): http://www.state.ia.us/educate/ecese/nclb/doc/consapp.pdf
Source: Iowa Department of Education Web site |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Provides for the establishment of the state 2 percent of growth for purposes of the state school foundation program.
Title: S.B. 2328
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires state board to establish standards for district and area education agency career development programs and for individual teacher career development plans. Requires state director to develop a transition plan for implementation of the career development standards established in statute relating to licensure renewal. Moves national board certification registration deadline for purposes of payment of one-half of national board certification fee from June 30, 2002 to June 30, 2005. Teachers must likewise register for national board certification by June 30, 2005 and be certified in three years to obtain 2,500 annual award. Eliminates age limitations of employees eligible for early retirement incentives, leaving these to local board discretion. Includes licensed preschool teachers in definition of "beginning teachers," "classroom teachers," and "teachers." Eliminates requirement that beginning teacher's mentor be classroom teacher. Creates new defintions for "intensive assistance" and "performance reviews" for non-beginning teachers. Revises section requiring boards to provide for evaluations of beginning teachers and performance reviews for non-beginning teachers. Requires state board to adopt state director-developed model criteria for teacher evaluation, advancement and career development. Encourages districts to evaluate their current career development alignment with their student achievement goals and research-based instructional strategies, and implement district career development plans. Reduces from 5 to 3 years the frequency with which teacher performance reviews must be conducted, and requires that these be based in part on individual career development plans. Makes additional changes to beginning teacher evaluation system and teacher career development programs. Establishes timeline for development of administrator preparation program. Establishes minimum teacher salary requirements. Requires department to undertake study of feasibility of change to student achievement and teacher quality program. Creates statewide career path pilot program: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/79GA/Legislation/HF/02500/HF02549/Current.html
Title: H.B. 2549
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Appropriates $1,153,250 from the Healthy Iowans tobacco trust to the school ready children grants account. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/79GA/Legislation/HF/02600/HF02615/Current.html
Title: H.B. 2615
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Prohibits a registered sex offender from residing within 2,000 feet of a public or nonpublic school or child care facility. Also prohibits person who has committed a criminal offense against a minor, or an aggravated offense, sexually violent offense, or other relevant offense that involved a minor from living within 2,000 feet of a public or nonpublic school or child care facility. Establishes exceptions. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/79GA/Legislation/SF/02100/SF02197/Current.html
Title: S.B. 2197
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Assessment |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Adds one nonvoting student member to state board, making total board membership 10, provides for application process and appointment of student member. Also requires school districts and nonpublic schools to report number of ninth graders who do not graduate from the school or school district, as well as the number of students who are tested on multiple assessment measures to determine student achievement levels, and the percentage of students who are so tested annually. Requires the board to develop and adopt uniform definitions consistent with the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and any federal regulations adopted pursuant to the federal Act. Permits department to conduct school site visits of accredited schools and districts on as-needed basis. Addresses conditions of employment of Superintendent staff. Addresses procedures in open enrollment law. Renders provision of school breakfast programs optional rather than mandatory. Modifies section addressing parental reimbursement for nonpublic school pupil transportation. Regulates the provision of textbooks to students in accredited nonpublic schools. Modifies requirements for school bus drivers' licenses. Establishes a conservation education program board and the duties of said board. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/79GA/Legislation/HF/02500/HF02515/Current.html
Title: H.B. 2515
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Expands the board of educational examiners' authority with regard to licensee disciplinary investigations and proceedings.
Title: H.B. 2482
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes pilot charter school program in Iowa; establishes procedures for approval/denial of charter school applications; establishes requirements of charter schools; establishes conditions and procedures for nonrenewal or revocation of contract; and charter school reporting requirements. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/79GA/Legislation/SF/00300/SF00348/Current.html
Title: S.B. 348
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Encourages school districts to establish character education programs and directing the department of education to partner with local educational institutions and agencies and nonprofit organizations in the design and implementation of character education programs.
Title: H.B. 2454
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Updates the Iowa Code references to the Internal Revenue Code, repealing an adjustment to net income for capital gains from installment sales; relates to an adjustment to income for school district income surtax paid; provides that refunds from the federal rebate are not taxable; makes provisions regarding reciprocal agreements with other states; relates to basic research tax credits; makes provisions for innocent spouse.
Title: H.B. 2116
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Provides for an additional weighting for students identified as limited English proficient of twenty- two hundredths.
Title: H.B. 2404
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Relates to the regulation of games of skill or chance and raffles conducted for fundraising by charitable, religious, educational, public, civic, or patriotic organizations, or other entities, or between individuals.
Title: H.B. 2109
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Allows nonresident pupil's participation in extracurricular activities pursuant to a court-ordered decree or order of custody. Modifies tuition reimbursement payment by school districts under the postsecondary enrollment options act. Includes nonpublic schools in section allowing local boards to make an agreement with another school to to provide for the eligibility of its students in interscholastic activities at the partner school. Changes deadline for school infrastructure program calculations from July 1 to September 1. Modifies statute regarding phase I payment calculations. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/79GA/Legislation/SF/02200/SF02259/Current.html
Title: S.B. 2259
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
Postsec. |
Provides for licensure sanctions against defaulters of designated loan and scholarship programs; provides that each licensing board shall establish procedures, consistent with college student aid commission provisions, for the suspension, denial, or revocation of a license, or for the imposition of disciplinary action.
Title: H.B. 2467
Source: Lexis |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Eliminates licensure of community college faculty and instead requires each college to develop a plan for hiring and developing quality faculty. The act specifies various components that must be part of the plan (implementation schedule, orientation for new faculty, continuing professional development, recordkeeping and documentation procedures for plan, consortium arrangements where applicable, activities to ensure that faculty attains and demonstrates instructional competencies including individual documentation, compliance with accreditation standards). The plan must be submitted no later than July 1, 2003 to the Department of Education, which will review plans and conduct site visits to ensure compliance.
Title: H.B. 2394
Source: Lexis |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Modifies circumstances under which Board of Educational Examiners' may deny or revoke a teaching license. Requires board to deny or revoke licensure of anyone meeting specified criteria, including guilt of specified forcible felonies and sex abuse offenses involving a child. Also modifies circumstances under which board of educational examiners must deny request for para-educator certification. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/79GA/Legislation/SF/02200/SF02258/Current.html
Title: S.B. 2258
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Modifies requirements of Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System, including access to confidential records, purchase of service credit, and voluntary coverage of elected officials. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/79GA/Legislation/HF/02500/HF02532/Current.html
Title: H.B. 2532
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Relates to the authority of the board of directors of a school district to change the number of directors or the method of election of directors following a federal decennial census.
Title: H.B. 2183
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Instructional Approaches--Official English |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Enacts the Iowa English Language Reaffirmation Act of 2001; declares that English is the official language of the state ; requires all state and local official government business to be conducted in English with certain exceptions.
Title: S.B. 165
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Authorizes the College Student Aid Commission to waive or modify statutory or regulatory provisions applicable to State financial aid programs for affected students in the event of a national emergency; relates to students called to active duty or to serve in a national emergency.
Title: H.B. 2138
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
Postsec. |
Increases the maximum amount of a vocational technical tuition grant to a qualified full-time student from $650 to $1,200. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/79GA/Legislation/HF/02100/HF02139/Current.html
Title: H.B. 2139
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Adds certain information concerning school security procedures or emergency preparedness to the list of public records kept confidential.
Title: H.B. 2151
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires sex offender to register as such within five days of moving into a county where an institution of higher education is located, if that person is a student or employed at the institution of higher education.
Title: H.B. 2338
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Relates to the reception or dissolution of area education agencies.
Title: S.B. 2260
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Attendance |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to the compulsory attendance age and attendance at school during the regular school calendar by a child who has reached the age of 16.
Title: S.B. 412
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Directs the Department of Education to establish a task force to conduct a comprehensive review of the licensing of community college faculty.
Title: S.B. 480
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum--Drivers Education |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to the amount of classroom instruction offered in an approved driver education course as programmed by the Department of Education.
Title: H.B. 353
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to the duties of the Board of Directors of a school district; includes those related to the suspension of a practitioner by the board of directors of a school district.
Title: H.B. 389
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
Signed into law 02/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides for the establishment of the state percent growth for purposes of the state school foundation program. The state budget is set to grow 4 % in the 2001-02 fiscal year and 4% in the 2002-03.
Title: H.B. 191
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides for the adoption of administrative rules; requires school districts and accredited nonpublic schools to adopt policies relating to health services, media services programs and guidance programs as part of the accreditation standards applicable to school districts.
Title: H.B. 2474
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides supplementary weighting for funding and for determining enrollment in school districts involved in district-to-district or district-to-community college sharing programs and at-risk programs.
Title: H.B. 2496
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Authorizes school districts and nonpublic schools to perform certain criminal and abuse record checks.
Title: S.B. 228
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides for the designation of investigative information possessed by the board of educational examiners as privileged and confidential; relates to licensee discipline.
Title: S.B. 292
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to the accelerated career education program; provides a tax credit from withholding; creates an accelerated career education education grant program and fund; relates to the transfer of job training withholding to the workforce development fund account; provides an effective date.
Title: S.B. 2439
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides financial assistance to communities and school districts by creating a school infrastructure program and fund; continues the community attraction and tourism development program and fund; creates a vision board; creates a Vision Iowa program and fund; provides bonding authority to the treasurer of state; exempts interest and income from such bonds from taxation.
Title: S.B. 2447
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Eliminates the future repeal of the school finance formula; provides for periodic legislative review.
Title: S.B. 2252
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to the interest a member of the board of directors of a school corporation may have in a contract with the directors' school corporation.
Title: S.B. 2331
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to tobacco use prevention and control, especially among youth; establishes an initiative; creates a department and a commission on tobacco use prevention and control; provides an effective date.
Title: H.B. 2565
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the educational savings plan trust; provides an effective date.
Title: H.B. 2550
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to community college governance; requires annual reports on workforce preparation.
Title: H.B. 2433
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to school violence; provides civil criminal immunity for a school employee; relates to the employee's participation in reporting and investigating violence, threats of violence, or other inappropriate activity against a school employee or student in a school building, on school grounds, or at a school sponsored function.
Title: H.B. 2473
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
Postsec. |
Relates to disclosure by a postsecondary education institution of information to the parent or guardian of a student; relates to personal information regarding a violation of a law or institutional rule governing the use or possession of alcohol or a controlled substance.
Title: H.B. 2437
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Repeals provision authorizing the raising of an additional enrichment amount to fund asbestos removal projects; provides that asbestos removal projects would continue to be able to be financed out of any funds in the general fund of a school district, funds received from the physical plant and equipment levy, or moneys obtained through a federal asbestos loan program.
Title: H.B. 2435
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Directs the Department of Education to conduct a feasibility study of reorganization and sharing incentives for school districts.
Title: H.B. 2198
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to the authority of the Board of Educational Examiners over certification and licensing of para-educators and practitioners; broadens the authority of the Board of Educational Examiners; provides for the certification, rather than licensing, of a para-educator.
Title: H.B. 2146
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to the certified school to career program.
Title: H.B. 2179
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to the establishment of the state percent of growth for purposes of the state school foundation program; provides an applicability date.
Title: S.B. 2082
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |