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

A county auditor failing or neglecting to perform required duties under this chapter , is liable to a penalty of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, to be recovered in an action brought in the district court by the board of supervisors. The judgment shal…

When the board of supervisors shall offer for sale the sixteenth section or lands selected in lieu thereof, or any portion of the same, or any part of the five-hundred-thousand-acre grant, the county auditor shall give at least forty days’ notice, by written or printed notices po…

When the county board of supervisors has once offered for sale school lands held under section 257B.1A in compliance with the requirements of this chapter , and they remain unsold, and it is unable to obtain the appraised value of the lands and, in the opinion of the board, it is…

When lands are sold upon a partial credit, the contract therefor shall be at once reduced to writing, signed by the proper parties, recorded in the county where the land is situated, and immediately thereafter filed in the office of the county auditor. Any purchaser or the purcha…

When lands have been sold and bid in by the state in behalf of the permanent school fund upon a judgment in favor of the fund, the land may be sold in the same manner as other school lands, and when lands have been conveyed to the counties in which they are situated for the use o…

When, in the judgment of the board of supervisors, school lands held under section 257B.1A are of such a character that a sale upon partial credit would be unsafe or incompatible with the interest of the permanent school fund, and especially in the case of timbered lands, the boa…

The department of education shall cause to be made available for qualified individuals a high school equivalency diploma. The diploma shall be issued to qualified individuals who successfully pass the civics test as set forth in section 280.9A , and demonstrate competence in all …

1. Every applicant shall have attained the age of eighteen years, have not graduated from high school, and not be currently enrolled in a secondary school. 2. An applicant is not eligible for a high school equivalency diploma until after the class in which the applicant was enrol…

Any applicant who has demonstrated competence in the core areas under standards adopted by the state board of education pursuant to section 259A.5 shall be issued a high school equivalency diploma by the department of education upon payment of an additional amount determined in r…

The fees collected under the provisions of this chapter shall be used for the expenses incurred in administering, providing test materials, scoring of examinations, and issuance of high school equivalency diplomas, and shall be disbursed on the authorization of the director of th…

1. The director of the department of education shall prescribe assessments, definitions of terms, and forms and resources as necessary for the administration of this chapter . 2. The state board of education shall adopt rules under chapter 17A to carry out this chapter . Any rule…

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 259A.2 a minor who is a resident of a state training school or a minor who is placed under the supervision of a juvenile probation office may make application for a high school equivalency diploma and upon successful completion of the pro…

It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state of Iowa and the purpose of this chapter to provide for the establishment of not more than fifteen areas which shall include all of the area of the state and which may operate community colleges offering to the greatest extent po…

The board of directors providing services to a merged area, and the board of directors of a community college, shall establish policies to prevent the purchase of a food product that is any of the following: 1. Misbranded as a meat product as prohibited in chapter 137E . 2. A cul…

The board of directors providing services to a merged area, and the board of directors of a community college, shall establish policies to prevent the purchase of a food product that is misbranded as an egg product as prohibited in chapter 137A . 2024 Acts, ch 1158, §22

1. The governing board of a merged area is a board of directors composed of one member elected from each director district in the area by the electors of the respective district. Members of the board shall be residents of the district from which elected. Successors shall be chose…

1. The board of directors of the merged area shall organize at the first regular meeting following the regular school election or at a special meeting called by the secretary of the board to organize the board in advance of the first regular meeting after the canvass for the regu…

1. The board of a merged area may change the number of directors on the board and shall make corresponding changes in the boundaries of director districts. Changes shall be completed not later than August 1 of the year of the regular school election. As soon as possible after ado…

The board of directors of each community college shall: 1. Determine the curriculum to be offered in such school or college subject to approval of the director and ensure that all career and technical education offerings are competency-based, provide any minimum competencies requ…

The board of directors of a community college shall comply with the requirements of section 724.8A regarding policies and rules relating to the carrying, transportation, or possession of a dangerous weapon that directs an electric current, impulse, wave, or beam that produces a h…

1. Regular elections held by the merged area for the election of members of the board of directors as required by section 260C.11 or for any other matter authorized by law and designated for election by the board of directors of the merged area shall be held on the date of the sc…

1. A merged area formed under the provisions of this chapter shall be a body politic as a school corporation for the purpose of exercising powers granted under this chapter , and as such may sue and be sued, hold property, and exercise all the powers granted by law and such other…

1. The board of directors of each merged area shall prepare an annual budget designating the proposed expenditures for operation of the community college. The board shall further designate the amounts which are to be raised by local taxation and the amounts which are to be raised…

In addition to revenue derived by tax levy, a board of directors of a merged area shall be authorized to receive and expend: 1. Federal funds made available and administered by the director of the department, for purposes provided by federal laws, rules, and regulations. 2. Other…

1. a. A workforce training and economic development fund is created for each community college. Moneys shall be deposited and expended from a fund as provided under this section . b. Moneys in the funds shall consist of any moneys appropriated by the general assembly and any othe…

1. a. A community college 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 chapter 257 , shall meet and hold hearings each year under this chapter to revie…

1. Purpose. A distribution plan for general state financial aid to Iowa’s community colleges is established for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2025, and succeeding fiscal years. Funds appropriated by the general assembly to the department for general financial aid to communit…

1. Distribution formula. Moneys appropriated by the general assembly to the department for community college instructor salaries shall be distributed among each community college based on the proportion that the number of full-time equivalent instructors employed by a community c…

Boards of directors of merged areas may acquire sites and erect and equip buildings for use by community colleges and may contract indebtedness and issue bonds to raise funds for such purposes. [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §280A.19 ] 90 Acts, ch 1253, §30 C93, §260C.19 Referred …

1. A motor vehicle purchased by or used under the direction of the board of directors to provide services to a merged area shall not operate on gasoline other than ethanol blended gasoline as defined in section 214A.1 . The motor vehicle shall also be affixed with a brightly visi…

Hydraulic fluids, greases, and other industrial lubricants purchased by or used under the direction of the board of directors to provide services to a merged area shall be purchased in compliance with the preference requirements for purchasing biobased hydraulic fluids, greases, …

The board of directors providing services to a merged area shall give preference to purchasing designated biobased products in the same manner as provided in section 8A.317 . 2008 Acts, ch 1104, §4

When used in this chapter , unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Bureau” means the community colleges bureau of the higher education division of the department established under section 260C.6 . 2. “Bureau chief” means the bureau chief of the community colleges bureau of th…

Taxes for the payment of bonds issued under section 260C.19 shall be levied in accordance with chapter 76 . The bonds shall be payable from a fund created from the proceeds of the taxes in not more than twenty years and bear interest at a rate not exceeding the rate permitted by …

No indebtedness shall be incurred under section 260C.19 until authorized by an election. A proposition to incur indebtedness and issue bonds for community college purposes shall be deemed carried in a merged area if approved by a sixty percent majority of all voters voting on the…

1. a. In addition to the tax authorized under section 260C.17 and upon resolution of the board of directors, the voters in a merged area may at the regular school election or at a special election held on the second Tuesday in September of the even-numbered year vote a tax not ex…

Payment of appropriations for distribution under this chapter , or of appropriations made in lieu of such appropriations, shall be made by the department of administrative services in monthly installments due on or about the fifteenth of each month of a budget year, and installme…

1. Annually, the board of directors may certify for levy a tax on taxable property in the merged area at a rate not exceeding three cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation for equipment replacement for the community college. 2. However, the board of directors may annuall…

1. The mission of the academic incentives for minorities program established in this section is to encourage collaborative efforts by community colleges, the institutions of higher learning under the control of the state board of regents, and business and industry to enhance educ…

1. The board of directors may expend profits from auxiliary enterprises of community colleges for services and equipment which includes but is not limited to tutoring services, scholarships, grants, furniture, fixtures and equipment for noninstructional student use, and support o…

The board of a merged area may accept and administer trusts and may authorize nonprofit foundations acting solely for the support of the community college to accept and administer trusts deemed by the board to be beneficial to the operation of the community college. Notwithstandi…

Funds obtained pursuant to section 260C.17 ; section 260C.18, subsections 3, 4, and 5 ; and sections 260C.18B , 260C.19 , and 260C.22 shall not be used for the construction or maintenance of athletic buildings or grounds but may be used for a project under section 260C.56 . [C71,…

1. A merged area shall not purchase land which will increase the aggregate of land owned by the merged area, excluding land acquired by donation or gift, to more than three hundred twenty acres without the approval of the director of the department of education. The limitation do…

1. The community college administration shall establish a committee consisting of instructors and administrators, equally representative of the arts and sciences faculty and the career and technical faculty. The faculty members shall be appointed by the certified employee organiz…

1. Boards of directors of community colleges may pay, out of funds available to them, reasonable annual dues to an Iowa association of school boards. 2. Membership in such an Iowa association of school boards shall be limited to those duly elected members of boards of directors o…

1. The board of directors may enter into lease agreements, with or without purchase options, not to exceed twenty years in duration, for the leasing or rental of buildings for use basically as classrooms, laboratories, shops, libraries, and study halls for community college purpo…