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

1. For the budget year beginning July 1, 2009, the department of management shall add together the teacher compensation allocation made to each area education agency for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2008, pursuant to section 284.13, subsection 1 , paragraph “i” , Code 2009, …

1. Boards of school districts, individually or jointly with boards of other school districts, requesting to use a modified supplemental amount for costs in excess of the amount received under section 257.11, subsection 4 , for programs for at-risk students, secondary students who…

As used in this chapter : 1. “Potential dropouts” are resident pupils who are enrolled in a public or nonpublic school who demonstrate poor school adjustment as indicated by two or more of the following: a. High rate of absenteeism, truancy, or frequent tardiness. b. Limited or n…

1. Computation of tax. a. A school district shall cause an additional property tax to be levied each year. The rate of the additional property tax levy in a school district shall be determined by the department of management and shall be calculated to raise the difference between…

1. The board of directors of a school district requesting to use a modified supplemental amount for costs in excess of the funding received under section 257.11, subsection 4 , for programs for at-risk students, secondary students who attend alternative programs and alternative s…

1. Budget. The budget of an adopted program for at-risk students, secondary students who attend alternative programs or alternative schools, or returning dropouts and dropout prevention for a school district, after subtracting funds received under section 257.11, subsection 4 , p…

1. Boards of school districts, individually or jointly with the boards of other school districts, shall annually submit program plans for gifted and talented children programs and budget costs to the department of education and to the applicable gifted and talented children advis…

The program plans submitted by school districts shall be part of the school improvement plan submitted pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 21 , paragraph “a” , and shall include all of the following: 1. Program goals, objectives, and activities to meet the needs of gifted and t…

1. “Gifted and talented children” are those children who are identified as possessing outstanding abilities and who are capable of high performance. Gifted and talented children are children who require appropriate instruction and educational services commensurate with their abil…

1. The board of directors of a school district shall submit applications for approval for the programs to the department not later than November 1 preceding the fiscal year during which the program will be offered. The board shall also submit a copy of the program plans to the gi…

1. The budget of an approved gifted and talented children program for a school district, after subtracting funds received from other sources for that purpose, including any amount designated from the school district’s flexibility account under section 298A.2, subsection 2 , shall…

The area education agencies in which the school districts having approved gifted and talented children programs are located shall cooperate with the school district in the identification and placement of gifted and talented children and may assist school districts in the establis…

1. At the written request of one or more boards of school districts, in an area education agency, the area education agency board shall establish one or more gifted and talented children advisory councils and shall appoint members for four-year staggered terms. The terms of offic…

The gifted and talented children advisory council shall: 1. Elect a chairperson and vice chairperson from the membership of the advisory council. 2. Meet as often as deemed necessary by the advisory council. 3. Advise and assist a local board of directors in the establishment of …

1. A reorganized school district, as defined in section 257.4, subsection 2 , receiving supplemental aid prior to July 1, 1991, under section 442.9A, Code 1991 , shall continue to receive supplemental aid as provided in that section for the five-year period specified in that sect…

The director of the department of education, in accepting and administering federal funds in accordance with section 256.9, subsection 7 , shall upon receiving federal grant moneys under the federal 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant, Tit. IV, pt. B of the federal Eleme…

1. A career academy fund is created and established as a separate and distinct fund in the state treasury under the control of the department of education. 2. a. In addition to moneys deposited in the career academy fund pursuant to section 423F.2 , the department of education ma…

1. Actual enrollment. a. Actual enrollment is determined annually on October 1, or the first Monday in October if October 1 falls on a Saturday or Sunday, and includes all of the following: (1) Resident pupils who were enrolled in public schools within the district in grades kind…

1. Budgets. School districts are subject to chapter 24 . The authorized expenditures of a school district during a base year shall not exceed the lesser of the budget for that year certified under section 24.17 plus any allowable amendments permitted in this section , or the auth…

1. State percent of growth. The state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2023, is three percent. The state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2024, is two and one-half percent. The state percent of growth for the budget year beginning Jul…

1. Regular program state cost per pupil for 1991-1992. a. For the budget year beginning July 1, 1991, for the regular program state cost per pupil, the department of management shall add together the sum of the products of each district’s regular program district cost per pupil f…

As used in this chapter , unless the context otherwise requires, “book” , “list” , “record” , or “schedule” kept by a county auditor, assessor, treasurer, recorder, sheriff, or other county officer means the county system as defined in section 445.1 . 2000 Acts, ch 1148, §1

If money is due to the permanent school fund, either for loans or deferred payments of the purchase price of land sold, the interest shall be made payable on the first day of January each year, and if the debtor fails to pay the interest within six months of the date it is due, t…

The director of the department of administrative services shall keep the permanent school fund accounts in books provided for that purpose, separate and distinct from the revenue books. The auditor of state shall audit losses to the permanent school or university fund caused by d…

When any sum not less than one thousand dollars shall be so audited and so become a debt of the state to the fund, as provided by the Constitution of the State of Iowa, the auditor of state shall issue the bond or bonds of the state in favor of the fund, bearing interest at a rat…

Property and money accrued to the permanent school fund shall be managed and controlled by the treasurer of state, and the treasurer of state is responsible for the safekeeping, investment, reinvestment and disbursement of the property and money. [R60, §1980; C73, §1859, 1860; C9…

Actions for and in behalf of the fund may be brought in the name of the state for the use of the permanent school fund, by the attorney general. [C73, §1860; C97, §2848; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 4484; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §302.16 ] 83 Acts, ch 185, §16, …

Each county is liable for losses upon loans of the permanent school fund, principal or interest, made in the county, unless the loss was not occasioned by reason of a default of its officers or by taking insufficient or imperfect securities, or from a failure to bid at an executi…

All claims for exemption from liability on account of losses shall be examined into and adjusted by the director of the department of administrative services, upon proof submitted to the director in writing in behalf of the county within three months after the county auditor shal…

The permanent school fund shall be loaned out or invested by the treasurer of state as it comes into the treasurer’s hands. [R60, §1981; C73, §1861; C97, §2849; S13, §2849; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 4487; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §302.19 ] 83 Acts, ch 185, §1…

The permanent school fund, the interest of which only can be appropriated for school purposes, shall consist of: 1. Five percent of the net proceeds of the public lands of the state. 2. The proceeds of the sale of the five hundred thousand acres of land granted the state under th…

An interest for Iowa schools fund is established in the office of treasurer of state. The department of administrative services shall deposit interest earned on the permanent school fund in the interest for Iowa schools fund. The treasurer shall transfer moneys in the interest fo…

The proceeds of all lands sold, and all sums due from escheats, shall be payable to the treasurer of the county in which the lands or escheated estates are situated or found, and the county treasurer shall pay the proceeds to the state treasurer once each month. [R60, §1965; C73,…

The permanent school fund which is, at any time, in the custody of the treasurer of state, shall be invested as follows: 1. In bonds or other evidences of indebtedness issued, assumed, or guaranteed by the United States of America, or by any agency or instrumentality thereof. 2. …

Lapse of time is not a bar to action to recover a part of the permanent school fund, and it does not prevent the introduction of evidence in an action, except as provided in sections 614.29 through 614.38 . [C73, §1880, 2542; C97, §2852; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 4495; C46, 50, 54, …

Payments to the permanent school fund upon contracts, or loans of another nature, shall be made to the treasurer of the county upon a certificate from the auditor showing the amount due. [R60, §1986; C73, §1867; C97, §2853; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 4496; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71…

The auditor shall, when the debt is paid, release any mortgage or issue a certificate of purchase, as the case may be, and report the same to the board of supervisors at its next meeting, which report shall be carried into the records of the board. [R60, §1986; C73, §1867; C97, §…

The auditor shall also keep, in books to be provided for that purpose, an account to be known as the permanent school fund account, in which a memorandum of the notes, mortgages, bonds, money, and assets which may come into the auditor’s hands and those of the treasurer shall be …

When outstanding contracts for the sale of school lands or notes for money of the permanent school fund loaned, or interest on the permanent school fund, are due, the auditor shall by mail at once notify the debtor to make payment within three months. [C73, §1872, 1873; C97, §285…

If the debtor does not comply with the notice, the auditor shall report the noncompliance to the school board, which may bring an action to recover the debt, and an injunction may issue for cause, without bond when so petitioned, and there shall be allowed in the judgment, entere…

Upon a sale of lands under an execution founded upon a permanent school fund claim or right, the auditor shall bid a sum required by the interests of the fund, and, if struck off to the state, it shall be thereafter treated the same as other lands belonging to the fund. [C73, §18…

When lands have been bid in by the county for the state under foreclosure of permanent school fund mortgages and the time for redemption has expired, a sheriff’s deed shall be issued to the state for the use and benefit of the permanent school fund. The county auditor shall file …

All lands now acquired under permanent school fund foreclosure proceedings shall be resold within ten years from January 1, 1939, and lands acquired after such date shall be resold within six years from date of foreclosure. Such land shall be appraised, advertised, and sold in th…

When a resale is made, the county auditor shall notify the director of the department of administrative services, who shall thereupon charge the county with the full amount of the resale, except that when the lands are sold for more than the unpaid portion of the principal, the e…

An excess over the amount of the unpaid portion of the principal, costs of foreclosure, and interest on the principal, shall inure to the county and be credited to the general county fund. If the lands are sold for a less amount than the unpaid portion of the principal, the loss …

County auditors shall report, on or before January 1 of each year, to the director of the department of administrative services the amount of the sales and resales made during the previous year, of the sixteenth section, five-hundred-thousand-acre grant, and escheat estates, and …