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

1. There are established throughout the state nine area education agencies, each of which is under the general supervision of the director of the department of education, except as otherwise provided in this chapter . Each area education agency shall have an area education agency…

When used in this subchapter , unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Affected area education agency” or “affected agency” means an area education agency whose board of directors is contemplating or engaged in reorganization efforts in accordance with this subchapter . 2. “Af…

1. Two or more area education agencies may voluntarily reorganize under this subchapter if the area education agencies are contiguous, a majority of the members of each of the affected boards approve the reorganization, and the reorganization plan submitted to the state board pur…

1. The terms of employment of the administrator and staff of affected area education agencies for the school year beginning with the effective date of the formation of the new area education agency shall not be affected by the formation of the new area education agency, except in…

1. A petition filed under section 273.21 shall state the number of directors on the initial board, which shall be either seven or nine directors. The petition shall specify the number of directors to be retained from each area, and those numbers shall be proportionate to the popu…

1. As an alternative to area education agency reorganization prescribed in this subchapter , the board of directors of an area education agency may establish an area education agency dissolution commission to prepare a proposal of dissolution of the area education agency and atta…

1. The commission shall hold an organizational meeting not more than fifteen days after its appointment and shall elect a chairperson and vice chairperson from its membership. Thereafter the commission may meet as often as deemed necessary upon the call of the chairperson or a ma…

1. Not later than one year following the date of the organizational meeting of the commission, the commission shall send a copy of its dissolution proposal to the affected area education agency board or shall inform the affected area education agency board that it cannot agree up…

1. a. Within ten days following the filing of the dissolution proposal with the affected area education agency board, the affected board shall fix a date for a hearing on the proposal, which shall not be more than sixty days after the dissolution petition was filed with the affec…

The board in carrying out the provisions of section 273.2 shall: 1. Advise and consult with the area education agency on policies and procedures for providing programs and services. 2. Be authorized to receive and expend money for providing programs and services as provided in se…

Under direction of the board of directors of the area education agency, the administrator of the area education agency shall, in addition to other duties: 1. Cooperate with boards of directors of local school districts of the area education agency in considering and developing pl…

There shall be established a division of special education of the area education agency which shall provide for special education programs and services to the local school districts. The division of special education shall be headed by a director of special education who meets ce…

1. The media centers required under section 273.2 shall contain: a. A materials lending library, consisting of print and nonprint materials. b. A professional library. c. A curriculum laboratory, including textbooks and correlated print and audiovisual materials. d. Capability fo…

If sixty percent of the number of local school boards located in an area education agency, or if local school boards representing sixty percent of the enrollment in the school districts located in the agency, request in writing to the area education agency board that an additiona…

1. The board of an area education agency may provide services to school districts located in the area education agency under contract with the school districts. These services may include, but are not limited to, superintendency services, personnel services, business management s…

1. Board of directors. a. The board of directors of an area education agency shall consist of nine members. Each director shall serve a four-year term, which commences at the organization meeting. b. Five members of the board of directors of an area education agency must be resid…

1. School districts shall pay for the programs and services provided through the area education agency and shall include expenditures for the programs and services in their budgets, in accordance with this section . 2. School districts shall pay the costs of special education ins…

Each school district shall continue a body politic as a school corporation, unless changed as provided by law, and as such may sue and be sued, hold property, and exercise all the powers granted by law, and shall have exclusive jurisdiction in all school matters over the territor…

In any case where, by reason of natural obstacles, any portion of the inhabitants of any school corporation in the opinion of the area education agency administrator cannot with reasonable facility attend school in their own corporation, the area education agency administrator sh…

When the natural obstacles by reason of which territory has been set off by the area education agency administrator from one school district and attached to another in the same or an adjoining county, as provided in section 274.13 , have been removed, such territory may, upon the…

The provisions of law relative to public or accredited nonpublic schools shall apply alike to all districts, except when otherwise clearly stated, and the powers given to one form of corporation, or to a board in one kind of corporation, shall be exercised by the other in the sam…

1. The board of directors of a school district shall operate, control, and supervise all public schools located within its district boundaries and may exercise any broad and implied power, not inconsistent with the laws of the general assembly and administrative rules adopted by …

1. The boundary lines of contiguous school corporations may be changed by the concurrent action of the respective boards of directors at their regular meetings in July, or at special meetings called for that purpose. Such concurrent action shall be subject to the approval of the …

Any school board may request a study and recommendations of the department of education relative to the adjustment of boundary lines and the recommendations of the department of education shall be submitted to those districts involved within sixty days after the request for such …

Whenever the federal government, or any agency or department of the federal government, locates in any county an ordnance plant or other project which may be deemed desirable for the development of the national defense or for the purpose of flood control, and for the purpose of s…

When an election on the proposition of organizing, reorganizing, enlarging, or changing the boundaries of any school corporation, or on the proposition of dissolving a school district, carries by the required statutory margin, or the boundary lines of contiguous school corporatio…

Whenever a majority of the directors of any school district affected as in section 274.39 have moved from such district and have ceased to be residents thereof thereby creating vacancies on the school board and reducing it to less than a quorum, the powers vested by said section …

The proceeds of the sale of the property of a school district under the authority granted in sections 274.39 and 274.40 shall be deposited with the treasurer of the county and applied so far as necessary to the payment of the outstanding indebtedness of such school district. [C46…

If the federal government, or any agency or department of the federal government locates a project which is desirable for the development of the national defense or for the purpose of flood control, and for the purpose of locating the project determines that certain real property…

The officers of the altered district shall relinquish to the proper officers of such adjoining district or districts all funds, claims for taxes, credits, and such other personal property in such a manner as the director of the department of education shall direct, which said fun…

The determination of the director of the department of education in sections 274.42 and 274.43 shall be final. [C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §274.44 ] 85 Acts, ch 212, §21 ; 2019 Acts, ch 59, §79 Referred to in §274.45

The expense of the director of the department of education in respect to the carrying out of the provisions of sections 274.42 through 274.44 , shall be paid from funds appropriated to the department of education. [C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §274.45 ] 85 Act…

No action shall be brought questioning the legality of the organization, reorganization, enlargement, or change in the boundaries of any school corporation in this state unless brought within six months after the date of the filing of said written description in the office of sai…

School corporations shall be designated as follows: 1. The independent school district of (naming city, township, or village, and if there are two or more districts therein, including some appropriate name or number), in the county of (naming county), state of Iowa. 2. The consol…

The affairs of each school corporation shall be conducted by a board of directors, the members of which in all community or independent school districts shall be chosen for a term of four years. [C97, §2745; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 4125; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79…

1. As used in this chapter , unless the context otherwise requires: a. “Eligible elector” means eligible elector as defined in section 39.3, subsection 6 . b. “Initial board” means the board of a newly reorganized district that is selected pursuant to section 275.25 or 275.41 and…

Subject to the approval of the area education agency board, contiguous or marginally adjacent territory located in two or more school districts may be united into a single district in the manner provided in sections 275.12 through 275.18 , 275.20 , and 275.22 . [SS15, §2794-a; C2…

1. A petition describing the boundaries, or accurately describing the area included therein by legal descriptions, of the proposed district, which boundaries or area described shall conform to plans developed or the petition shall request change of the plan, shall be filed with t…

Such petition shall be accompanied by an affidavit showing the number of registered voters living in each affected district or portion thereof described in the petition and signed by a registered voter residing in the territory, and if parts of the territory described in the peti…

1. Within ten days after the petition is filed, the area education agency administrator shall fix a final date for filing objections to the petition which shall be not more than sixty days after the petition is filed and shall fix the date for a hearing on the objections to the p…

1. At the hearing, which shall be held within ten days of the final date set for filing objections, interested parties, both petitioners and objectors, may present evidence and arguments, and the area education agency board shall review the matter on its merits and within ten day…

1. If the territory described in the petition for the proposed corporation lies in more than one area education agency, the agency administrator with whom the petition is filed shall fix the time and place for a hearing and call a joint meeting of the members of all the agency bo…

If an area education agency board does not approve the change in boundaries of school districts in accordance with a petition, a petition describing the identical or similar boundaries shall not be filed for a period of six months following the date of the hearing or the vote of …

1. When the boundaries of the territory to be included in a proposed school corporation and the number and method of the election of the school directors of the proposed school corporation have been determined as provided in this chapter , the area education agency administrator …

1. The scope of the studies and surveys shall include all of the following matters in the various districts in the area education agency and all districts adjacent to the area education agency: a. The adequacy of the educational program. b. Pupil enrollment. c. Property valuation…

The voters shall vote separately in each existing school district affected and voters residing in the entire existing district are eligible to vote upon the proposition to create a new school corporation and on any additional provision authorized pursuant to section 275.12, subse…