Title 33 — EDUCATION

33-802. School levies. Any tax levied for school purposes shall be a lien on the property against which the tax is levied. The board of trustees shall determine the levies upon each dollar of taxable property in the district for the ensuing fiscal year as follows: (1) Bond, Inter…

33-802A. Computation of bond and bond interest levies. When the board of trustees of any school district determines and makes a levy allowed by section 33-802, Idaho Code, and incorporates such levy as a part of the school district’s budget to service all maturing bond and bond i…

33-802B. disclosures in elections to authorize supplemental levy. (1) At an election to authorize a levy pursuant to section 33-802(3) or (5), Idaho Code, the ballot shall include a disclosure, separate from the ballot question, of the purposes for which the levy revenues will be…

33-802C. supplemental levies — purposes for which revenues are used. A school district shall use supplemental levy revenues only for those purposes identified pursuant to section 33-802B(1)(b), Idaho Code. The school district board of trustees shall annually publish, prior to its…

33-803. Levy for education of children of migratory farm workers. In any school district in which there is located any farm labor camp and the children of migratory farm workers housed therein attend the schools of the district, the board of trustees may make a levy not exceeding…

33-804. School plant facilities reserve fund levy. In any school district in which a school plant facilities reserve fund has been created, either by resolution of the board of trustees or by apportionment to new districts according to the provisions of section 33-901, Idaho Code…

33-804A. School plant facilities reserve fund levy for safe school facilities. (1) Definition. As used in this section, public school facilities mean the physical plant of improved or unimproved real property owned or operated by a school district, including school buildings, adm…

33-805. School emergency fund levy. Before the second Monday of September in each year, the board of trustees of any school district which qualifies under the provisions of this section may certify its need hereunder to the board of county commissioners in each county in which th…

33-807. Certification of levies. The board of trustees of each school district, having determined the levies required for the several purposes authorized by law, shall, not later than the second Monday of September in each year, certify said levies to the board of county commissi…

33-808. Notice of adjustment to market value for assessment purposes upon termination of a revenue allocation area. (1) A charter district with a maintenance and operation levy in the immediately previous year that shall adjust its market value for assessment purposes in accordan…

33-901. School plant facilities reserve fund. The board of trustees of any school district may create and establish a school plant facilities reserve fund by resolution adopted at any regular or special meeting of the board. All moneys for said fund accruing from taxes levied und…

33-902. Public school permanent endowment fund. (1) There is established in the state treasury the public school permanent endowment fund. This fund is perpetually appropriated for the beneficiaries of the endowment. The fund shall be managed and invested by the endowment fund in…

33-902A. Public school earnings reserve fund. (1) There is established in the state treasury the public school earnings reserve fund. The fund shall be managed and invested by the endowment fund investment board according to law and the policies established by the state board of …

33-903. Public school income fund. (1) The public school income fund is that fund in the treasury of the state of Idaho to which are credited the following: (a) Moneys distributed from the public school earnings reserve fund and other sources the legislature deems appropriate; (b…

33-904. County school fund. The county school fund is that fund in the treasury of each county in the state to which are credited the proceeds of moneys collected from fines, forfeitures or breaches of the penal laws of the state when other disposition is not provided by law; and…

33-907. Public education stabilization fund. There is hereby created in the state treasury a fund to be known as the public education stabilization fund, which shall function as a fund detail of the public school income fund. The fund shall consist of moneys transferred to the fu…

33-909. Public school facilities cooperative funding program — Fund created. (1) In fulfillment of the constitutional requirement to provide a general, uniform and thorough system of public, free common schools, it is the intent of the state of Idaho to advance its responsibility…

33-910. broadband infrastructure improvement Grant fund — rulemaking — DEFINITIONS. (1) There is hereby created in the state treasury a fund to be known as the broadband infrastructure improvement grant fund. The fund shall consist of moneys made available through legislative tra…

33-911. SCHOOL District FACILITIES FUND. (1) There is hereby created in the state treasury the school district facilities fund. The fund shall consist of moneys provided pursuant to sections 57-811, 63-3638, and 67-7434, Idaho Code, and any legislative transfers or appropriations…

33-912. SCHOOL MODERNIZATION Facilities FUND. (1) There is hereby created in the state treasury the school modernization facilities fund. The fund shall consist of moneys provided pursuant to section 63-3638(19), Idaho Code. (2) Moneys in the fund are hereby continuously appropri…

33-913. Issuance of Bonds — School Modernization Facilities Fund. (1) The Idaho state building authority is hereby authorized to issue bonds from time to time as needed for the state department of education, secured by unobligated moneys in the school modernization facilities fun…

33-914. ANNUALIZED OR LUMP SUM DISTRIBUTION — SCHOOL MODERNIZATION FACILITIES FUND. (1) School districts may elect to receive their distribution as a lump sum from the net proceeds of the bonds paid to the state department of education. School districts may alternatively request …

33-915. fixed DISTRIBUTION — SCHOOL MODERNIZATION FACILITIES FUND. [effective until june 30, 2034] (1) The state department of education shall establish a fixed distribution of funds to be made available for voluntary election to each school district subject to the conditions in …

33-916. ELIGIBILITY OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS FOR SCHOOL MODERNIZATION FACILITIES FUND DISTRIBUTIONs. The state department of education shall not approve school district requests for annualized distributions or for distribution from the applicable bond proceeds until the following cond…

33-917. school DISTRICT USE OF FUNDS — SCHOOL MODERNIZATION Facilities FUND. (1)(a) Moneys distributed to a school district shall be used for school facility construction, renovation, or maintenance needs or, in the case of school districts electing annualized distributions, fund…

33-918. BEST PRACTICES PLAN FOR SCHOOL Facilities. The state department of education shall draft a best practices maintenance plan for school facilities that shall be supplied to the superintendent of each school district. Based on the best practices plan, each school district sh…

33-1001. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) "Administrative schools" means and applies to all elementary schools and kindergartens within a district that are situated ten (10) miles or less from both the other elementary schools and the principal administrative office of t…

33-1002. Educational support program. The educational support program is calculated as follows: (1) State Educational Support Funds. Add the state appropriation, including the moneys available in the public school income fund, together with all miscellaneous revenues to determine…

33-1002B. Pupil tuition-equivalency allowances. 1. Districts which educate pupils placed by Idaho court order in licensed homes, agencies, institutions or juvenile detention facilities shall be eligible for an allowance equivalent to forty-two percent (42%) of the previous year’s…

33-1002C. Summer and night school program support units — Alternative school — Juvenile detention facility. (1) Alternative summer or night school programs of not less than two hundred twenty-five (225) hours of instruction, which shall be included in the educational support unit…

33-1002E. Pupils attending school in another state. In any school district which abuts upon the border of another state, the resident pupils of said district may attend schools in the other state as provided in section 33-1403, Idaho Code.

33-1002F. Alternative school report. Annually, prior to the tenth legislative day, the department of education shall file with the legislature a report detailing the alternative school programs within the state. On July 1 of each year, or as soon thereafter as feasible, each scho…

33-1002G. career technical center funding and eligibility. (1) School districts, public charter schools, and eligible cooperative service agencies may establish career technical centers that qualify for funding appropriated for the specific purpose of supporting the added cost of…

33-1003. special application of educational support program. (1) Decrease in Average Daily Attendance. — For any school district that has a decrease in total average daily attendance of three percent (3%) or more of its average daily attendance in the current school year from the…

33-1003A. Calculation of average daily attendance. In computing the average daily attendance the entire school year shall be used except that the twenty-eight (28) weeks having the highest average daily attendance, not necessarily consecutive, may be used. When a school is closed…

33-1003C. Special application — Technological instruction. In order to acquire and maintain technology for individualized computer and/or distance learning programs, a school district may use students’ documented contact hours on individualized computer education or distance lear…

33-1004. Staff allowance. For each school district, a staff allowance shall be determined as follows: (1) Using the daily attendance reports that have been submitted for computing the February 15 apportionment of state funds as provided in section 33-1009, Idaho Code, calculate t…

33-1004A. Experience and education multiplier. (1) Each administrative staff position shall be assigned an appropriate multiplier based upon the following table: EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION MA MA + 12 MA + 24 MA + 36 Years BA BA + 12 BA + 24 BA + 36 BA + 48 BA + 60 ES/DR 0 1.00000 1…

33-1004B. career ladder. School districts shall receive an allocation for instructional staff and pupil service staff based on their staffs’ position on the career ladder as follows: (1) Instructional staff and pupil service staff who are in their first year of holding an Idaho c…

33-1004C. Base and minimum salaries — Education and experience index. (1) The following shall be reviewed annually by the legislature: (a) The base salary figures pursuant to subsections (6) and (7) of section 33-1004E, Idaho Code; and (b) The minimum instructional and pupil serv…

33-1004D. Reporting — Idaho basic educational data system. For each employee of the school district, a report shall be made in a format prescribed by the state superintendent of public instruction, which shall include sufficient identifying information to provide individual verif…

33-1004E. District’s salary-based apportionment. Each district shall be entitled to a salary-based apportionment calculated as provided in this section. (1) To determine the apportionment for instructional staff, take the amounts indicated on the career ladder table plus the amou…

33-1004F. Obligations to retirement and social security benefits. Based upon the actual salary-based apportionment, as determined in section 33-1004E, Idaho Code, and the master educator premiums distributed pursuant to section 33-1004I, Idaho Code, there shall be allocated that …

33-1004H. Employing retired teachers and administrators. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33-514, 33-1271 or 33-1273, Idaho Code, school districts may employ school resource officers, certificated schoolteachers, persons qualified to drive school buses, and administr…

33-1005. Districts receiving federal funds. In school districts which receive moneys for the maintenance and operation of the schools from agencies of the federal government, the educational support program shall be computed on the basis of the average daily attendance of pupils …

33-1006. Transportation support program. (1) The state board of education shall determine what costs of transporting pupils, including maintenance, operation and depreciation of basic vehicles, insurance, payments under contract with other public transportation providers whose ve…

33-1007. Exceptional education program report. The state department of education shall report annually to the legislature the status of the exceptional education support program. The report shall include, but not be limited to, data concerning the number of students with disabili…

33-1007A. Feasibility study and plan for school closures and/or school district consolidation. (1) The state superintendent of public instruction shall determine the reimbursable costs to any school district which are incurred under the provisions of section 33-310B, Idaho Code. …

33-1008. Support program — Elementary district reclassified. Should any elementary school district which has met the qualifications required by law for reclassification as a secondary school district propose to be so reclassified and begin the establishment and maintenance of a s…

33-1009. Payments from the public school income fund. 1. a. Payments of the state general account appropriation for public school support shall be made each year by the state department of education to the public school districts of the state in four (4) payments. Payments to the…