Title 33 — EDUCATION

33-1805. student reading instruction and intervention. (1) It is the ultimate goal of the legislature that every student read at or above grade level by the end of grade 3. School districts shall offer a reading intervention program pursuant to this section to each kindergarten t…

33-1806. reading and literacy assessment. (1) The state department of education shall be responsible for administration of all assessment efforts and shall train LEA-level assessment personnel and report results. (2) In continuing recognition of the critical importance of reading…

33-1807. literacy intervention program. (1) Each school district and public charter school shall establish an extended time literacy intervention program for students who score basic or below basic on the fall reading screening assessments or alternate reading screening assessmen…

33-1808. educator preparation. (1) The state board of education shall review teacher preparation programs at the institutions of higher education under its supervision and shall assure that the course offerings and graduation requirements are consistent with the Idaho comprehensi…

33-1809. accountability and continuous improvement. (1) In recognition of the critical role leadership plays in creating a culture in our schools around continuous improvement, it is the intent of the legislature to provide local school boards of trustees and charter school board…

33-1810. rulemaking authority. The state board of education may promulgate rules for the implementation of this chapter.

33-1811. dyslexia. (1) The state department of education shall identify reliable, valid, evidence-based screening tools and intervention practices to evaluate the literacy skills of students enrolled in kindergarten through grade 5 for characteristics of dyslexia and shall provid…

33-2001. Definitions. (1) "Ancillary personnel" means those persons who render special services to exceptional children in regular or in addition to regular or special class instruction as defined by the state board of education. (2) "Children with disabilities" means those child…

33-2002. Responsibility of school districts for education of children with disabilities. (1) Each public school district is responsible for and shall provide for the special education and related services of children with disabilities enrolled therein. (2) Every public school dis…

33-2003. Responsibility of school districts for education of gifted/talented children. Each public school district is responsible for and shall provide for the special instructional needs of gifted/talented children enrolled therein. Public school districts in the state shall pro…

33-2004. Contracting by approved form for education by another school district, approved rehabilitation center or hospital, or a corporation. The trustees of a school district may contract on a form adopted by the state superintendent of public instruction for the education of ex…

33-2005. Additional disbursement. School districts which identify and provide appropriate services to students with serious emotional disturbances at a high incidence level shall be eligible for an additional disbursement from state general funds. The state department of educatio…

33-2007. Cost of instruction and postage subject to reimbursement. Costs of instruction, including necessary transportation of teachers, shall be subject to reimbursement by the state department of education from state funds. Tuition charged by the University of Idaho and Idaho S…

33-2008. Outpatients. As to expectant or delivered mothers who are outpatients of a licensed maternity home, the public school district, in which the home is located, shall provide instruction, pursuant to this chapter, for said outpatients.

33-2009. Education of children housed in juvenile detention facilities. Every public school district in this state within which is located a detention facility housing juvenile offenders pursuant to court order shall provide, subject to rules of the state board of education, inst…

33-2010. Education of disabled adult students housed in adult correctional facilities. Any individual eighteen (18) years of age through the semester of school in which the person attains the age of twenty-one (21) years, who is incarcerated in an adult correctional facility shal…

33-2101. Junior college districts, approvals, boundaries of junior college areas. Junior college districts may be formed and organized in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and junior colleges maintained therein shall be intermediate institutions of higher education …

33-2101A. Junior college shall mean community college. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in sections 21-805, 21-806, 21-809, 23-404, 33-101, 33-107, 33-107B, 33-601, 33-1252, 33-2101, 33-2102, 33-2103, 33-2104, 33-2105, 33-2106, 33-2107, 33-2107A, 33-2107B, 33-2107C, 33…

33-2102. Courses of study. A community college established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall give instruction in academic subjects, and in such nonacademic subjects as shall be authorized by its board of trustees. The academic courses given and the instruction ther…

33-2103. Minimum requirements for the formation of a junior college district. A junior college district shall include (a) the area, or any part thereof, of four (4) or more school districts and the area or any part thereof, of one (1) or more counties having an aggregate enrollme…

33-2104. Formation of community college districts. A community college district may be organized by the vote of the school district electors of the proposed district, voting at an election called and held as herein provided: a. A petition or petitions, signed by not less than one…

33-2104A. community college trustee zones. (1) Each existing community college district shall be divided into five (5) trustee zones. Each trustee position on the board shall be designated to a zone so that each trustee zone contains one (1) designated trustee position. (2) The b…

33-2105. Addition of territory to community college districts. Any territory not in an existing community college district may become a part of a community college district by a vote of the school district electors resident of said territory, voting at an election called and held…

33-2106. Trustees of community college districts. (1) The board of trustees of each community college district shall consist of five (5) electors who shall reside in a different trustee zone from each other and who shall be appointed or elected as provided in this section. (a) Im…

33-2107. General powers of the board of trustees. The board of trustees of each community college district shall have the power: (1) To adopt policies and regulations for its own government and the government of the college; (2) To employ legal counsel and other professional and …

33-2107A. Establishment and operation of third and fourth year college curriculum in community college districts. (1) The board of trustees of a community college district of an urban area, upon filing with the state board of education a notice of intent to exercise the powers he…

33-2107B. Powers granted by preceding section in addition to other powers. The provisions of this act shall be in addition to all powers and authorities heretofore vested by law or by regulation of the state board of education in the board of trustees of a community college distr…

33-2107C. Definition of urban area districts empowered to create upper divisions. The powers provided herein for instruction of the third and fourth year college curriculum shall be exercisable only by community college districts which at the date of the filing of notice of estab…

33-2108. Junior college districts public corporations — Sue and be sued — Corporate seal. Each junior college district shall be a public corporation, may sue and be sued in its corporate name, and shall have an official seal which shall be judicially noticed.

33-2109. President — Instructors and other employees — Requirements for admission and graduation — Certificates and diplomas — Textbooks and equipment. The board of trustees shall elect a president of the college and, upon his recommendation, appoint such officers, instructors, s…

33-2109A. Use of unused sick leave. Upon separation from employment with the community college district by retirement, in accordance with chapter 13, title 59, Idaho Code, or with chapter 1, title 33, Idaho Code, an employee shall be accorded credit for unused sick leave as provi…

33-2110. Tuition. (1) All students of a community college shall pay tuition that shall be fixed annually by the board of trustees no later than August 1 of each year. The tuition for full-time students taking normal academic courses provided by the college, who are residents of t…

33-2110A. Tuition of out-of-district Idaho students, county taxes and other financial support. (1) Any student residing in the area of a county outside of a community college district or in a county without a community college district, who has been a resident of the county and s…

33-2110B. Residency — Rules — Appeal — Standards for in-district, out-of-district and out-of-state students. (1) For purposes of this chapter, an "in-district student" is: (a) Any student whose parents or court-appointed guardians are domiciled in the community college district a…

33-2111. Taxes and other financial support for community colleges. For the maintenance and operation of each community college, in addition to the income from tuition paid by students as hereinbefore provided, the board of trustees may levy upon the taxable property within the di…

33-2112. Additional tax levy for gymnasium and grounds. The board of trustees of any community college district may levy a tax not exceeding one one-hundredth percent (.01%) on each dollar of the assessed value of the taxable property within the district for the maintenance and c…

33-2113. Capital funds. (1) The board of trustees of each junior college district may issue general obligation bonds in the manner and form, and for the same purposes, as prescribed for public school districts, the maximum amount of general obligation bonds outstanding, computed …

33-2114. Reports of junior college districts. The board of trustees of each junior college district shall cause to be made, annually, a full and complete audit of the financial transactions of the district. Such audit shall be made by and under the direction of the board of trust…

33-2115. Counties, cities, school districts and boards to cooperate. (1) The county commissioners of the county in which any community college is located, the mayor and council of the city in or adjacent to which a community college is located, and the board of trustees of the sc…

33-2116. Dormitory housing projects — Student union buildings — Finding and declaration of necessity. It is hereby declared: That in certain communities within the state wherein junior college districts have been created there are and will be insufficient housing and other facili…

33-2117. Definitions. The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this act, shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (a) "Junior college housing commission" or "commission" shall mean any public corporatio…

33-2118. Creation of dormitory housing commissions. In each junior college district of the state there is hereby created an independent public body corporate and politic to be known as a dormitory housing commission which shall not be an agency of the junior college district; pro…

33-2119. Appointment, qualifications and tenure of commissioners. When the board of trustees of a junior college district adopts a resolution as set forth in the preceding section, the clerk of said board shall promptly transmit a certified copy of said resolution to the governor…

33-2120. Interested commissioners or employees. No commissioner or employee shall acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any dormitory project or in any property included or planned to be included in any project, nor shall he have any interest, direct or indirect, in any co…

33-2121. Removal of commissioners. For inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, a commissioner may be removed by the governor of Idaho upon receiving a resolution therefor by junior college trustees requesting such removal and setting out the grounds and reasons f…

33-2122. Powers and duties of dormitory housing commissions. A dormitory housing commission shall constitute an independent public body corporate and politic, exercising public and essential governmental functions, and having all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out an…

33-2123. Operation not for profit. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state that each dormitory housing commission shall manage and operate or contract for the operation or management of its dormitory housing project in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix th…

33-2124. Planning, zoning and building laws. All dormitory housing projects of a commission shall be subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary and buildings laws, ordinances and regulations applicable to the locality in which the dormitory is situated. In the planning and locatio…

33-2125. Bonds. A dormitory housing commission shall have power to issue bonds from time to time in its discretion, for any of its corporate purposes. A commission shall also have power to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring bonds previously issued by it. …

33-2126. Form and sale of bonds. When the commission shall find the proposed dormitory project or projects to be necessary for the proper operation of the junior college and economically feasible and such finding is recorded in the minutes of the commission, the commission shall …