Title VII, EDUCATION, HISTORY, AND CULTURE (Ch. 256 - 305B)

In accordance with section 256H.1 , article VIII of the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children, the governor shall designate a compact commissioner, who shall serve at the pleasure of the governor and who shall be responsible for the administration an…

For the purposes of this chapter , unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Department” means the department of health and human services. 2. “Desired results” means the set of desired results for improving the quality of life in this state for young children and their families…

1. The department shall provide for the operation of an internet site for purposes of widely distributing information regarding early care, education, health, and human services and other information provided by the departments represented on the state board and the public and pr…

1. An early childhood Iowa fund is created in the state treasury. The moneys credited to the fund are not subject to section 8.33 and moneys in the fund shall not be transferred, used, obligated, appropriated, or otherwise encumbered except as provided by law. Notwithstanding sec…

1. In order to implement the legislative intent stated in sections 135.106 and 256I.9 , that priority for family support program funding be given to programs using evidence-based or promising models for family support, it is the intent of the general assembly that ninety percent …

1. It is intended that through the early childhood Iowa initiative every community in Iowa will develop the capacity and commitment for using local, informed decision making to achieve the following set of desired results for improving the quality of life in this state for young …

1. The early childhood Iowa state board is created to promote a vision for a comprehensive early care, education, health, and human services system in this state. The board shall oversee state and local efforts. The vision shall be achieved through strategic planning, funding ide…

The state board shall perform the following duties: 1. Provide oversight of early childhood Iowa areas. 2. Manage and coordinate the provision of grant funding and other moneys made available to early childhood Iowa areas by combining all or portions of appropriations or other re…

1. The department shall provide administrative support for implementation of the early childhood Iowa initiative and for the state board. The department shall adopt rules in consultation with the state board to provide fiscal oversight of the initiative. The fiscal oversight meas…

1. The purpose of an early childhood Iowa area is to enable local citizens to lead collaborative efforts involving early care, education, health, and human services on behalf of the children, families, and other citizens residing in the area. Leadership functions may include but …

1. a. The early childhood Iowa initiative functions for an area shall be performed under the authority of an early childhood Iowa area board. The members of an area board shall be elected officials or members of the public who are not employed by a provider of services to or for …

1. An early childhood Iowa area board shall do all of the following: a. Designate a public agency of this state, as defined in section 28E.2 , a community action agency as defined in section 216A.91 , an area education agency established under section 273.2 , or a nonprofit corpo…

1. The state board shall develop and promote a school ready children grant program which shall provide for all of the following components: a. Identify the performance measures that will be used to assess the effectiveness of the school ready children grants, including the amount…

1. Program established. A state school foundation program is established for the school year commencing July 1, 1991, and succeeding school years. 2. State school foundation aid — foundation base. a. For a budget year, each school district in the state is entitled to receive foun…

1. Regular program district cost per pupil for 1991-1992. For the budget year beginning July 1, 1991, in order to determine the regular program district cost per pupil for a district, the department of management shall divide the product of the regular program district cost per p…

1. Regular curriculum. Pupils in a regular curriculum attending all their classes in the district in which they reside, taught by teachers employed by that district, and having administrators employed by that district, are assigned a weighting of one. 2. District-to-district shar…

1. In determining weighted enrollment under section 257.6 , if the board of directors of a school district has approved a contract for sharing pursuant to section 257.11 and the school district has approved an action to bring about a reorganization to take effect on and after Jul…

1. For purposes of this section : a. “Nonpublic school” means the same as defined in section 285.16 . b. (1) “Qualified educational expenses” includes tuition and fees at a nonpublic school, textbooks, fees or payments for educational therapies, including tutoring or cognitive sk…

1. If a school district is required to repay property taxes paid for school taxes levied on property originally assessed at five million dollars or more because the assessment was subsequently reduced by the action of the property assessment appeal board or judicial action and th…

1. For the school budget year beginning July 1, 2001, and succeeding budget years, if a district’s actual enrollment for the budget year, determined under section 257.6 , is greater than its budget enrollment for the budget year, the district shall be eligible to receive an on-ti…

1. For the budget year commencing July 1, 2016, and succeeding budget years, a school district shall be eligible for a budget adjustment in an amount equal to the difference between the regular program district cost for the budget year and one hundred one percent of the regular p…

1. Property tax adjustment for 1991-1992. a. For the budget year beginning July 1, 1991, the department of management shall calculate for each district the difference between the sum of the revenues generated by the foundation property tax and the additional property tax in the d…

1. There is appropriated each year from the general fund of the state an amount necessary to pay the foundation aid under this chapter , the preschool foundation aid under chapter 256C , supplementary aid under section 257.4, subsection 2 , and adjusted additional property tax le…

1. A property tax equity and relief fund is created as a separate and distinct fund in the state treasury under the control of the department of management. Moneys in the fund include revenues credited to the fund, appropriations made to the fund, and other moneys deposited into …

1. For each fiscal year beginning on or after July 1, 2023, there is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the department of education an amount necessary to make all school district property tax replacement payments under this section , as calculated in subsection 2…

1. A transportation equity program is established to provide prioritized additional funding for school districts with a transportation cost per pupil that exceeds the statewide adjusted transportation cost per pupil for the same budget year. 2. a. For the budget year beginning Ju…

1. A foundation base supplement fund is created as a separate and distinct fund in the state treasury under the control of the department of management. Moneys in the fund include revenues credited to the fund, appropriations made to the fund, and other moneys deposited into the …

1. State aid payments made pursuant to section 257.16 for a fiscal year shall be reduced by one one-hundred-eightieth for each day of that fiscal year for which the school district begins school before the earliest school start date specified in section 279.10, subsection 1 . 2. …

1. An instructional support program that provides additional funding for school districts is established. A board of directors that wishes to consider participating in the instructional support program shall hold a public hearing on the question of participation. The board shall …

1. The additional funding for the instructional support program for a budget year is limited to an amount not exceeding ten percent of the total of regular program district cost for the budget year and moneys received under section 257.14 as a budget adjustment for the budget yea…

As used in this chapter : 1. “Base year” means the school year ending during the calendar year in which a budget is certified. 2. “Budget adjustment” means an adjustment to the regular program district cost of a school district for school districts in which the regular program di…

1. In order to determine the amount of instructional support state aid and the amount of local funding for the instructional support program for a district, the department of management shall divide the total assessed valuation in the state by the total budget enrollment for the …

1. The department of management shall establish the amount of instructional support property tax to be levied and the amount of instructional support income surtax to be imposed by a district in accordance with the decision of the board under section 257.19 for each school year f…

The director of revenue shall administer the instructional support income surtax imposed under this chapter , and sections 422.4 , 422.20 , sections 422.22 through 422.31 , sections 422.68 , 422.70 , and sections 422.72 through 422.75 shall apply with respect to administration of…

The instructional support income surtax shall be made a part of the Iowa individual income tax return subject to the conditions and restrictions set forth in section 422.21 . 89 Acts, ch 135, §23 Referred to in §257.29 , 298.2

The director of revenue, by the last day of each month, shall deposit all moneys collected and determined by the department of revenue to be instructional support income surtax in the preceding month, and shall credit each district from which the moneys are collected, in the scho…

1. On or before November 15 each year, the director of revenue shall make an accounting of the instructional support income surtax collected under this chapter since January 1 of the same calendar year from taxpayers in each school district in the state which has approved the ins…

The director of the department of administrative services shall draw warrants in payment of the amount of instructional support surtax in the manner provided in section 298.14 . 89 Acts, ch 135, §26 ; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §286 ; 2004 Acts, ch 1101, §30 Referred to in §257.29 , 298.…

1. At the expiration of the period for which the instructional support program was adopted, the program may be extended for a period of not exceeding five or ten years in the manner provided in section 257.18 . 2. If the voters do not approve adoption of the instructional support…

If a school district has approved the use of the instructional support program for a budget year, the district shall not also collect moneys under the additional enrichment amount approved by the voters under chapter 442, Code 1991 , for the budget year. 89 Acts, ch 135, §28 ; 92…

1. An educational improvement program is established to provide additional funding for school districts in which the regular program district cost per pupil for a budget year is one hundred ten percent of the regular program state cost per pupil for the budget year and which have…

1. Amount of tax. a. Except as provided in subsections 2 and 3 , a school district shall cause to be levied each year, for the school general fund, a foundation property tax equal to five dollars and forty cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation on all taxable property i…

1. A school budget review committee is established in the department of education and consists of the director of the department of education in an ex officio, nonvoting capacity, the director of the department of management, and four members who are knowledgeable in the areas of…

1. The school budget review committee may recommend the revision of any rules, regulations, directives, or forms relating to school district budgeting and accounting, confer with local school boards or their representatives and make recommendations relating to any budgeting or ac…

1. a. An area education agency budget review procedure is established for the school budget review committee created in section 257.30 . The school budget review committee, in addition to its duties under section 257.31 , shall meet and hold hearings each year to review unusual c…

1. If the electors of a school district approved the use of the additional enrichment amount prior to July 1, 1991, under chapter 442, Code 1991 , or section 279.43, Code 1991 , the approval for use of the enrichment amount shall continue in effect until the expiration of the per…