Bill Number
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Description
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Status
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SF 203
Effective date: July 1,
2001
Effective for school year starting July 1, 2004.
Effective for school year starting July 1, 2002
Effective date: July 1,
2002
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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100% Budget Guarantee;
101% Budget Guarantee, Reorganization Incentives, Regional Academies and
On-Time Funding. This bill addresses the following:
100% Budget Guarantee for
FY02, FY03 and FY04: This bill provides a 100% budget
guarantee for school districts for the next THREE years, FY02 through
FY04. The statute stays the same as
passed last year in that the local board resolution is required to approve
the use of property taxes to fund the guarantee in order to receive
funding. For FY02, the public notice
and hearing requirements are waived and the board must pass the resolution
within 30 days of the enactment of this bill. In FY03 and FY04, the board resolution must be passed by March
1 of the prior budget . In all fiscal
years the guarantee would be paid through property taxes.
Fiscal Impact: In FY02, 115 districts at a cost of $ 7.7
million.
In
FY03, 82 districts at a cost of $ 5.3 million.
In
FY04, 63 districts at a cost of $3.8 million.
101% Guarantee starting
in FY05 (NEW concept) : This
bill puts in place a 101% guarantee of the prior year’s regular program district cost as opposed to a 100%
budget guarantee of the previous year’s adjusted
regular program district cost. For
ten fiscal years starting in FY05, districts would be able to choose between
the 101% of the regular budget from the previous year or a percentage of the
100 percent guarantee amount a district would have been eligible for in this
fiscal year. Over the ten years the
percentage of the 100% guarantee amount would decline 10% per year until in
the tenth year all districts would only be eligible for the 101% guarantee of
the previous year’s regular program district cost.
Reorganization
Incentives:
1. Foundation property tax levy - Provides a tax payer
incentive by lowering uniform levy from $5.40 to $4.40 for reorganized
districts. Levy increases over three
years to $4.90, $5.15 and $5.40. This incentive is
available for reorganizations initiated on or after July 1, 2002.
2. Whole Grade Sharing -
For existing whole grade sharing arrangements - Allows a weighting for current whole grade sharing if the districts
involved are studying reorganization. This weighting is available for two
years. Districts that reorganize may
carry weights into new district for four additional years.
3.
Whole Grade Sharing - For new whole grade sharing arrangements - Establishes
weighting for new whole grade sharing arrangements with eligibility available
for three years. Districts that
then reorganize may carry these
weights into new district for three additional years.
Regional Academies – Beginning July 1, 2002, the bill
permits the host district, the school district where a regional academy is
located, to receive a .10 weighting for the percentage of the school day that
a resident student attends the regional academy. Maximum weighting available to any one district is the
equivlant of 15 full-time pupils.
On-Time Funding –
Finally, the bill permits districts with increasing enrollment to
receive 100% of the increase between the actual enrollment for the budget
year and the budgeted enrollment for the budget year. . A school district
must notify the School Budget Review Committee (SBRC) and the SBRC is
required to establish the appropriate modified allowable growth for the
district. Current law requires the
district to seek SBRC approval for any funds above 50% of the increase. The bill allows districts to obtain 100%
of the on-time funding for school years starting July 1, 2001, and succeeding
years.
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Signed by the Governor
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HF 662
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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AEA as Empowerment Fiscal
Agent - This bill allows AEAs to be the fiscal
agent for local community empowerment boards.
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Signed
by the Governor
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HF 674
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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AEA Reorganization –
Voluntary. This bill establishes the process for
voluntary AEA reorganization. This
represents the results of the first year of a legislatively mandated two-year
study of voluntary AEA reorganization.
By July 1, 2001, the Department will complete the study by providing
further recommendations to AEA boards. The bill addresses:
· Required components of a reorganization
plan;
· Timelines for reorganization;
· Local districts’ approval of the
reorganization;
· Transition Board of Directors for the
reorganized AEA;
· Budget for the reorganized
AEA;
· Assets and liabilities;
· Employment contracts;
· Dissolution of an
AEA.
FINALLY, this bill moves AEA accreditation from its current
three-year cycle to a five-year cycle.
Note: Technical amendment to bill and new section added to this law in
the Standings bill, HF 755.
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Signed by the Governor
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HF 191
Effective date: July 1, 2002
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Allowable Growth - sets allowable growth at 4% for the
2002-2003 school year (FY03). This
will provide an estimated additional $63 million in the FY03 school aid
formula. Allowable growth for the 2001-2002
school year (FY02) was set by the 2000 legislature at 4%.
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Signed by the Governor
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HF 670
Vetoed by the Governor.
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Alternative Licensure - This bill would allow for an alternative licensure system for
K-12 administrators and teachers.
Administrators: This bill would have
permitted alternative licensure for superintendents in districts over 5500
students. No other administrators
would have been allowed to be alternatively licensed. That superintendent would have been
required to hold a master’s degree, have 10 years of management experience
and complete 12 semester hours in order to receive a conditional
license. The superintendent would
have been fully licensed after being comprehensively evaluated as
successfully completing a one-year internship and completing a second 12
semester hours. The second twelve
hours would have been waived.
Teachers: This bill also would have established alternative licensure for
teachers who teach grades 9-12 in shortage areas or a vocational education
field. The teacher would have been
required to have a bachelor’s degree and five consecutive years of work
experience as well as 12 semester hours in order to be conditionally
licensed. After a one year internship
in the school district, and a second 12 semester hours, the teacher would
have received a full license. The
second 12 semester hours could have been waived. The new alternatively licensed teacher would have been required
to complete a two-year beginning mentoring and induction program and to take
the Praxis II exam.
The bill would
have required that the Department report on the particulars of the
alternative licensure including the
number of programs available and geographic areas in which they are available
and the number of individuals who apply for an alternative license. The Department was also required to
study the requirements for practitioner licensure or
endorsement that require a master's degree and the master's degree
requirements established by approved practitioner preparation graduate
programs.
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VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR
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SF 267
Effective date: March 1,
2001
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Appropriations - FY01
Deappropriations –As
amended by the Senate and the House, this bill deappropriates $17 million in
line items from this year’s budget, FY01.
None of the line item cuts are from within the Department of
Education‘s budget.
The Governor vetoed a 1% across-the-board cut for state agency
budgets for the current fiscal year. This bill originally proposed $40
million in cuts. As signed by the
Governor, the bill puts in place $8.5 million in cuts.
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Signed by the Governor
Sections vetoed
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HF 294
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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Board Member Compensation
- The intent of this
bill is to allow board members to receive $2,500 or less in compensation from
the school district.
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Signed
by the Governor
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HF 270
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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Campus Crime Statistics -
Repeals language due to federal reporting requirements that make state
level reporting duplicative.
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Signed
by the Governor
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SF 535
HF 719
HF 718
HF 742
HF 755
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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Community College Funding - A summary of FY02 community college funding includes:
· Community college general aid (SF 535)
: $ 142,722,759 This represents a 3.5% reduction from
FY01.
· College work study (SF 535): Eliminates the state appropriation for
this program that is funded from federal, state and local dollars. In the current fiscal year 1200 community
college students received $750,000 of this $2.7 million state appropriation.
· Technology (HF 719): $3 million Same level as FY01.
· 260E and 260F (HF 718): Reduced from $8 million to $4
million
· ACES (260G) for capitol projects (HF
742): $2.5 million ($5.2 M in FY01)
· ACES job credits (HF 755): Reduced from $6 million to $3 million
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The Governor has signed all bills listed.
Item vetoes in particular bills DO NOT affect the community
college items listed.
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SF 480
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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Community College
Licensing of Teachers –
This bill would require the department to convene a task force to review
community college licensing including the related issues of tenure and termination
procedures. The task force report
would be due to the legislature by December 1, 2001.
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Signed
by the Governor
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SF 412
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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Compulsory Age – This bill clarifies that a public or
accredited nonpublic school student who turns 16 on or after September 15 is
considered of compulsory age until the end of the regular school calendar.
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Signed
by the Governor
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HF 353
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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Driver’s Education - This bill permits the classroom instruction portion of a driver’s
education course to be up to 180 minutes per day. DE administrative rule currently limits the classroom
instruction to up to 120 minutes per day.
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Signed
by the Governor
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SF 535
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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Education Appropriations - FY02 -
This bill appropriates funds to the DE, community colleges, Regents
institutions, College Student Aid Commission and Cultural Affairs.
The bill does
not include funding for STANDING appropriations such as class size/early
intervention; 3-5 yr. old programs; K-12 technology; Educational Excellence
(Phase III) and AEA funding. The
Standings bill, HF 755, listed below
address these appropriations.
The bill cuts $60 million in funding
from the FY01 level for FY02.
This
represents a 6% cut in funding. Community
college general state aid is reduced by only 3.5%. In this bill, the DE appropriations involving a federal match
are unharmed from the FY01 level or harmed only as permissible to continue
full draw down of federal funds.
Several programs are eliminated.
The DE’s
general administration budget is reduced by 6% or $363,000. Other factors in other funding bills, such
as the under funding of the salary bill and the possibility of being charged
for information technology services will further strain this agency’s
budget.
Reductions from FY01
(There are no increases from FY01):
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DE
general administration: $ - 363,000
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Community
College General Aid: $ - 4.8 M ($142,722,759)
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Work
Study Program: $ - 2.7 M (Eliminates the state funded portion of
the program. $750,000 of the funding
went to community college students)
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Voc Ed
Admin: FY01 level
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BOEE: $ - 155,000 (fees will make up lost funding)
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Voc
Rehab: $ - 283,000 ($4.6 M)
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Independent
living: $ - 14,000 ($62,500)
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School
Food Service: FY01 level
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School-to-Work: $ -12,600 ($197,400)
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JAG: SEE HF 755 $150,000 in funding for FY02 ($333,000 in FY01)
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Teacher
of the Year: Funded from Phase III
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Voc Ed
Secondary: FY01 level
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Community
Empowerment: $ - 936,000 (This
funding loss is picked up in Tobacco Settlement Funds)
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Nonpublic
textbooks: $ -39,000 ($611,000)
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Voc Ed
Youth Organization: $ -5,664 ($88,736)
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Americorps: SEE HF 755 $150,000 in funding for FY02 ($121,000 in FY01)
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Employability
skills: No funding ($200,000 in FY01)
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Family
Resource Centers: No funding ($90,000)
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LACES: No funding ($25,000)
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Vocational
education tuition grants: FY01 level
National Board
Certification and the Beginning Teacher Induction and Mentoring program
funding are included in the Teacher Compensation Funding bill, HF 413. See below.
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Item
vetoed by the Governor.
The
Governor line-item vetoed the $143,000 cut to the Vocational Education
Tuition Grant program. This program
will be funded at the , FY01 level.
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SF 336
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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Habitual Offender -
Teacher Contracts –
Includes a teacher’s failure to fulfill a teaching contract part of the Code
of Professional Rights and Responsibilities.
Current law includes the “habitual” offender under the ethics code.
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Signed
by the Governor
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HF 89
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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ICN Classroom Supervision
- This bill would
permit the teacher in the originating site to act as the supervisor of
students in all sites or would allow the receiving site district to have a
teacher in the remote site. The bill
does not require that a teacher or aide be present at each remote site.
Current law requires a licensed teacher at the site. DE administrative rules interpret current
law to say that the licensed teacher or aide, under the supervision of a
teacher, supervises the remote sites.
This bill was initiated because requiring supervision was viewed by
some as a barrier to ICN usage.
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Signed
by the Governor
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HF 309
Effective date:
Retroactive to July 1, 1999
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Legalizing Act - This bill legalizes the instructional support levy for the
West Bend-Mallard school district for the 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 school
years. The bill is necessary due to
the reorganization of districts and desired continuance of the instructional
support levy that was in effect in one of the districts prior to
reorganization.
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Signed
by the Governor
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HF 637
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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Libraries – This bill makes various changes to
the state and regional library system.
These two entities will make up the “unified library system”. Included in the bill is a provision that
would require AEA boards to assist in facilitating interlibrary loan of
materials between school districts and other libraries.
In addition, the
bill allows AEAs to use their School Improvement Technology funding to
purchase hardware and software.
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Signed by the Governor
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HJR 5
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Local Option Sales and Service
(LOSST) – Administrative Fee –
This resolution would nullify the administrative rule that permits the
assessment of a fee prior to distribution of the general local option sales
and service tax and the LOSST revenue to participating school districts. The proceeds of the fee would have been
used to administer the program
NOTE: The deappropriation bill, SF 267, mentioned above appropriated
funds to the Dept. of Revenue and Finance to administer the program.
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Adopted by the House
Adopted by the Senate
The administrative rule is nullified.
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HF 739
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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Local Option Sales and
Service (LOSST) – Use of Proceeds - This bill allows school
districts to use LOSST proceeds for the payment of general obligation bonds
that were issues after the passage of the 1 cent sales and service tax for
school infrastructure. Current law
only permits districts to use the proceeds for the payment of bonds that were
issued prior to the enactment of the sales and service tax.
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Signed
by the Governor
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HF 680
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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Mandatory Abuse Reporters – This bill requires several licensing
boards including the BOEE to make the completion of the training required for
mandatory reporters of child abuse a condition of licensure, certification or
other authorization. Currently all
licensed school employees are mandatory reporters. This bill would expand mandatory reporters in schools to
include certified paraeducators and individuals holding a coaching
authorization.
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Signed
by the Governor
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HF 293
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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School Board Annual
Meeting Date - This
bill changes the date for the school board’s annual meeting from August 15 to
a date before the start of the September school election. This change allows the board to examine
the district’s books as finalized under the required accounting practice,
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
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Signed
by the Governor
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HF 695
Effective date:
July 1, 2001
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School-to-Career -
This bill would allow two or more employers to jointly sponsor a
student under the school-to-career program.
In addition, the bill eliminates the provision of current law that
requires that the student work for the employer for two years after
completing post-secondary employment.
The bill also eliminates the corresponding requirement of repayment of
post- secondary expenses if the student does not complete the two-year
employment obligation. Finally, the
bill raises the refund an employer may claim to $150,000
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Pending
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HF 462
Effective date: March 1,
2001
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Special Ed Funds for
Children Age 0-3 - This bill would permit AEAs to keep 100%
of medical assistance reimbursement for services provided by the AEAs to
children age 0-3 under part C of IDEA.
The committee amended the bill to take effect March 1, 2001.
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Signed
by the Governor
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HF 755
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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Standings Appropriations -
This bill reduces K-12 funding $32 million below the FY01 level for
certain standing statutory appropriations.
The bill also makes statutory corrections and amendments to bills that
passed during the session.
The bill includes the following reductions for FY02 in statutory
K-12 appropriations:
· School Improvement Technology
funding: - $20 million ($10 M for FY02)
· AEA early childhood network, Shared
Visions and Early Elementary grants:
- $1 million proportionally across these three programs ($11 M for FY02)
· Area Education Agencies: - $7.5 M, but not from special education
services to students
· Nonpublic transportation: -$505,000
($7.6 M standing appropriation)
The bill appropriates:
· $150,000 for the Jobs for America’s
Graduates program
· $150,000 for Americorps
The bill reduces the annual dollar amount of the available job
credits for the ACEs program from $6 million to $3 million. The job credits are funded through a
diversion from the General Fund of employee withholding tax payments.
In addition, the bill makes the following statutory changes:
· Permits a weighting for dual enrolled students in grades 9-12
based upon the amount of time the students are enrolled in the school
district. Students enrolled for only
extracurricular activities will be counted with a .10 weighting. The bill clarifies that students in
private instruction over compulsory age shall be allowed to dual enroll.
· Clarifies that special education students will be counted by November 1 of each year.
Students will be counted on the last Friday in October in accordance
with federal IDEA law. The current
count date is December 1.
· Amends the AEA voluntary reorganization
bill, HF 674, to make a technical correction and add a paragraph.
· Requires the auditor to certify that
the municipality needs the PPEL
revenue derived from within the TIF district to repay bonds issued after July
1, 2001.
· Allows an approved hunter safety and ethics instructors to conduct hunter safety and
ethics education courses on school property with the approval of a majority
of the school board.
The Governor Vetoed:
· Reduction in Class size/Early
intervention funding. The bill would
have eliminated the $10 million increase slated for FY02. Funding for FY02 will be $30 M;
· Reduction in Phase III of Education
Excellence. The bill would have
reduced Phase III funding by $2 M.
This veto restore funding to the current $23 million level.
· Changes the allocation for nonpublic
textbooks. The funding would be
allocated on a per pupil amount as is currently done with nonpublic
technology. The bill eliminates an
end-of-the-year claim process based upon comparable school district
expenditures in lieu of an allocation to the school district on or about
October 15th each year.
The school district would then purchase the requested textbooks for
the nonpublic school.
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Item
vetoed by the Governor
The
Governor item vetoed two proposed reductions to K-12 funding. This action restores the Class size/Early
intervention funding to $30 million for FY02. Phase III of Educational Excellence is restored to it’s current
level of $23 million.
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HF 643
Effective date for all provisions: July 1, 2001
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Statutory Revisions – This bill, all but one section,
represents statutory changes offered by the Department of Education. The Department did not offer the section
of the bill that would permit nonprofit professional associations
representing teachers or administrators access to teacher mailboxes.
The bill:
· Permits weighting for dual enrolled
students in grades 9-12 based upon the amount of time the students are enrolled
in the school district. SEE the Standing bill, HF 755,
described above for the final language.
· Strikes 280.18 and amends 280.12 to
strike all but to update the advisory committee membership for the
comprehensive school improvement plan.
These sections are no longer necessary given HF 2272. Other sections of the Code are amended to
appropriately reference the comprehensive school improvement plan. Standard
reference throughout the bill to comprehensive school improvement plan is
section 256.7, subsection 21, paragraphs “a” and “c”.
· Changes the special education count
date from December 1 to November. SEE the Standings bill, HF 755, above
for the final language.
· Permits the school board, by board
policy, to delegate the signing of a teacher contract to the
superintendent. Under current law,
the board president must sign the contract.
· Gives the school board, superintendent
or principal discretion, under criteria developed in policy, to authorize a driver’s permit for travel to and
from school for students who live less than one mile from school. The presumption remains that the student
does not need that permit. A student
denied the permit may appeal the decision to the local board. The decision of the local board is final.
· Prohibits 5th and 6th year high school students from
being included in the September 15 count.
This does not apply to special
education students with IEPs. Specifically, the bill would prohibit
students who have attained district graduation requirements and their class
has graduated from remaining in the district as students taking courses
offered by the community college or other higher ed. institution.
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Signed
by the Governor
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HF 379
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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Suspended without Pay
- Under current law, a school board may only terminate a
teacher. This bill would give school
boards the option of suspending a teacher without pay.
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Signed by the Governor
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HF 413
Effective date: July 1,
2001
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Teacher Compensation
Funding - This bill
appropriates $40 million in FY02 from Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund for the
Student Achievement and Teacher Quality Program established in SF 476. See below. The funds are distributed as follows:
· $1 million for a pilot variable play
project.
· $ 1.9 million for National Board
Certification awards and registration fee reimbursements. This program continues unchanged.
· $2.4 million for a statewide beginning
teacher mentoring and induction.
Funds would be available in FY02 for all districts choosing to
participate. Participating districts
receive $1,300 per new teacher with the requirement that mentors are paid, at
minim, $500 per semester.
· $1.5 million to establish an evaluator
training program.
· $1.5 million to implement a career
development program.
· $500,000 to administer Praxis II tests
to all beginning teachers. HF 476
stipulates that there are no cut scores established. Teacher preparation institutions and the
legislature are made aware of the scores.
See HF 476.
· $31.2 million to improve teacher
salaries distributed 50% based upon student population and 50% on number of
teacher in the district.
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Signed by the Governor
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SF 476
Effective date: July 1,
2001
All districts must participate no later than June 30, 2003
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Teacher Compensation – This bill establishes the Student
Achievement and Teacher Quality Program which includes statewide mentoring, a
new career path compensation strategy, a pilot variable pay program,
redesigned professional development and new Iowa Teaching Standards which
begin to define good teaching for purposes of evaluation and professional
development.
All districts are required to become participating districts no
later than July 1, 2003. Funds for
districts that choose not to participate are held for the district until the
district opts into the program or July 1, 2003, whichever is earlier.
· Mentoring and Induction. The bill requires
each beginning teacher to successfully complete a two-year beginning teacher
mentoring and induction program. A
retired teacher may mentor a beginning teacher.
The bill creates 4 career
levels:
In place for
participating districts starting July 1, 2001:
· Beginning: GOAL:
$28,000 minimum. This stage
is for the first two years of teaching.
School districts will be required to offer a mentoring program and to
raise their beginning teacher salary by $1,500 per year until the district
minimum teacher salary hits $28,000;
· Career: GOAL:
$30,000 minimum. Expectation
that the teacher will move to Career II within five years. Teacher begins work on individual
professional development plan.
Comprehensively evaluated after five years. District must create a $2,000 differential between the above
average Beginning teacher salary and minimum Career teacher salary.
Legislation will be
required to activate the two following career levels.
· Career II:
GOAL: $5,000 above the maximum Career
salary. Moves here from Career after
successful comprehensive evaluation and supported by professional
development. Career II teacher may be
mentors, supervisors of student teachers.
A Career II teacher completes individual teacher development plan and
is comprehensively evaluated every five years. This teacher may choose to stay at this level for the remainder
of his or her career.
· Advanced: GOAL:
$15,000 above minimum Career I salary. School district and an independent review panel agree that the
teacher is advanced. The teacher
performs the leadership role without having to leave the classroom. The teacher may become a trainer of other
teachers, lead project responsibilities, or assume other leadership position
in the building or district.
· Hold harmless. No teacher will receive
less in the district than received this year.
· Iowa Teaching Standards. The bill creates
teaching standards, which begin defining good teaching.
· Evaluation.
The bill establishes a required evaluator training program to train
administrators and other practitioners to be better evaluators. The bill requires an annual review and a
comprehensive evaluation every five years or when moving to the next career
level.
· Team Based Variable Pay. The bill establishes a
pilot variable pay program that requires pilot districts or attendance
centers in districts to demonstrate student achievement on HF 2272
goals. All practitioners in the
building receive the award. The bill
encourages the district to provide awards for all building staff. The bill requires that pilot districts
“administer a valid and reliable standardized assessment at the beginning and
the end of the school year.”
· Professional Development: The bill
requires the department to coordinate a statewide network of career
development. A district’s career
development program contains the following:
- Support for the
career development needs of individual teachers and is aligned with the
Iowa Teaching Standards;
- Researched-based
instructional strategies aligned with student achievement goals;
- Instructional
improvement components including student achievement data, analysis,
theory, classroom demonstration and practice, technology integration,
observation, reflection and peer coaching;
- An evaluation
component that documents the improvement in instructional practice and
the effect on student learning.
The bill provides that individual teachers will develop their
own career development plan. Career
development may be delivered by school districts, consortiums of schools
districts, AEAs, higher education institutions or other public or private
providers. Providers are approved by
the State Board of Education.
Other provisions of the
bill include:
· Requires participating district to add
2 contract days outside of instruction in the second year of participation
for professional development if the district has less than 10 days of
professional development;
· Requires testing prior to initial
licensure for two years. No direction
to BOEE to establish a cut score.
Assumption is that the test will be used to determine quality of
teacher prep institutions and not at this time to determine licensure.
· Establishes up to five regional review
panels to evaluate a Career II teacher’s portfolio to determine if the
teacher demonstrates superior teaching skills to move to the Advanced
level. The review panel may also
conduct random audits of comprehensive evaluations conducted by school
districts.
· Establishes a two-year Legislative
Education Accountability and Oversight Committee made up of legislators as
voting members and education stakeholders as ex-officio members. The committee will make far reaching
recommendations in the areas of student performance levels, assessments, and
implementation of a statewide team-based variable pay plan.
· Permits Phase III funding to be used
for peer review or coaching efforts.
· Permits, starting July 1, 2004, the
annual review to be conducted by a certified evaluator selected by an
administrator after consultation with the teacher. The language also states that peer review and peer coaching are
encouraged when conducting the annual review.
· Requires the department to report
annually on all components of the program.
· Requires the Board of Regents to
conduct a study of transfer credits between in-state and out-of-state
practitioner preparation programs.
The Board is required to collect the information from a representative
sample of in-state and out-of-state practitioner preparation institutions.
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Signed by the Governor
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HF
719
Effective
date for appropriations: July 1, 2001
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Technology for Community
Colleges, 21st Century Learning Center and Nonpublic Schools
- Oversight Appropriations Bill
This bill appropriates for FY02:
· $3 million for community college
technology (Multi-year funding. This
appropriation will continue as long as funds are available in Pooled
Technology Account or otherwise changed.)
· $1.5 million to UNI for the 21st
Century Learning Center (2nd year of funding);
· $1.5 million for technology for
accredited nonpublic school students
(2nd year of funding).
The bill also requests that the Legislative Council approve an
interim committee to study the provision of education services over the ICN.
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Signed
by the Governor
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BILLS THAT DID NOT PASS THIS SESSION
(Note:
These bills will be eligible for consideration during the
2002
legislative session)
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HF 575
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Allowable Growth Date Set – This bill eliminates the requirement
that the legislature set the allowable growth for the next year within 30
days of submission of the governor’s budget.
The effect is that allowable growth may be set any time during the
legislative session.
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In
Senate Education
Passed the House 56-44
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SF 348
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Charter Schools - As passed the Senate,
this bill establishes pilot charter schools and pilot charter school
districts in Iowa. The bill differs
significantly from the proposal introduced in the Senate during the 2000
legislative session. The bill:
· Limits
sponsors of charter schools to a
school district, AEA, community college or higher education institution.
· Requires
a school board to approve any charter school regardless of sponsorship. School board denial cannot be appealed.
(House Committee amendment would permit an appeal to the state board)
· Requires the school district to provide transportation. (House Committee amendment would allow the
charter school to enter into a contract with the school district regarding
transportation but does not require the district to provide transportation).
· Requires
a local election to approve a
school district becoming a charter school district.
· Limits
the location of the charter school
to within the public school district boundaries;
· Requires the charter school or charter school
district to comply with all provisions of HF 2272;
· Requires licensed
teachers;
· Requires the charter school or district to offer special education services;
· Requires compliance of health and safety requirements;
· Limits
the levy and spending authority of
a charter school district to current law;
· Requires nondiscriminatory
admission policy;
· Requires State
Board approval of the charter school or district plan. The plan includes items such as the
education program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to
students; the method of admission; procedures for teacher evaluation and
professional development; the financial plan for the operation of the school;
the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators; the plan of
operation if the school is dissolved.
· Requires the charter school or school district to
enter into a contract with the State Board. The contract is for a maximum renewable
period of five years. The terms of
the contract are based upon the approved plan.
· Permits State Board
revocation of the charter school contract with the State Board if the
charter school fails to live up to the contract.
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Passed the Senate 33-16
Remains on House calendar with amendment that makes technical
and substantive changes
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SF 197
SEE HF 719 above
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Community College
Technology - This bill extends the current $3 million
community college vocational-technical technology improvement program through
FY03. This program is currently
slated to sunset at the end of this fiscal year, FY01.
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In Senate Appropriations
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SF 379
Funds included in HF
537, tobacco settlement funds
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Community Empowerment - This bill appropriates a new $2.4
million in funds for FY02 from the tobacco settlement to the Community
Empowerment Fund. This funding will
be used to make up the difference between what empowerment communities
requested and the amount of funds available.
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In
Senate Appropriations
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HF 304
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Elections – This is an omnibus Iowa election law
reform bill. An amendment adopted on
the House floor requests a legislative interim committee to study candidate
qualifications, terms of office and the timing of school board and community
college elections and referendums.
As introduced the bill would have required school board elections to
be held every other year in November along with the general election. Board members would have been elected to
four- year terms. These provisions were removed in lieu of the requested
study.
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Passed
the House
Left
on Senate calendar
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SF 468
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Energy Costs – This bill allows school districts to
seek SBRC approval to use their unspent balance to pay for increased utility
costs over the level of the expenses in the previous budget year. The bill would take effect upon enactment
(FY01) and sunset on June 30, 2003.
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Referred
back to Senate Education Committee
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HF 166
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ESL Funding - Under current law, districts can
receive a weighting for an English language learner for up to three
years. This bill extends the
eligibility for this weighting to four years.
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In House Appropriations
Committee
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HF 150
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Firearm Safety – This bill requires firearm safety as
part of the K-12 educational standard relating to health education.
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In
House Education
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HF 578
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Foreign Exchange Students – This bill would allow districts to
count foreign exchange students on
J-1 visas on their certified enrollment.
The fiscal estimate is $1 million with the anticipation that 500 foreign exchange students will be
counted each year.
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Referred back to House Education Committee
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SF 240
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Infrastructure Private Partnerships – Creates pilot projects that pair private
investors with school districts for shared utilization of school
facilities. The private investors
finance the construction of the school facilities and lease the facility back
to the district. The private investor
retains the right to contract with third parties for use of the facility when
not in use by the school. No funding
included in bill for pilot’s projects.
This bill passed the Senate late last year but was not addressed on
the House floor.
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Passed Senate On
House calendar
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HF 660
This bill will only survive if it is turned into a Ways
and Means bill.
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LOSST – Remixed. Statewide One Cent Sales Tax and Use Tax
for Infrastructure –
This bill, initiated by the Iowa Association of School Boards, would increase
the state sales and use tax by one cent with the proceeds going to school
infrastructure and correspondingly grant property tax relief. Districts that already have the Local
Option Sales and Service Tax for school infrastructure in place would be held
harmless and would join the statewide tax distribution when the LOSST expires
(ten years after passage).
Proceeds from the
statewide sales and use tax would be distributed quarterly to districts on a
per pupil basis. Districts must use
the funds to reduce property taxes in existing infrastructure levies,
including reducing the current $4.05 levy to $2.70 and reducing existing
PPEL. Funds must be used for school
infrastructure.
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In
House Ways and Means
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SF 204
SEE HF 719
above for similar provision
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Nonpublic School Technology Funding - Last year the legislature made a separate
appropriation of $1.5 million for school technology in nonpublic
schools. This bill rolls that annual
appropriation into the current K-12 School Improvement Technology (SIT)
program so that the funds will automatically be appropriated each year that
the SIT program continues. Unlike
last year’s appropriation, this bill requires the accredited nonpublic
schools to incorporate technology planning into their comprehensive school
improvement plan. The bill continues
the involvement of the school district as the purchaser of the technology for
the nonpublic schools.
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In
Senate Appropriations Committee
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HF 434
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School Bus Fines – This bill increases the fine to $200
for failure to reduce speed to 20 m.p.h. when the amber lights are flashing
or when passing a stopped school bus.
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In House Transportation
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HF 355
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School Start Date – This bill moves the school start date
to the third Monday in August. For
most districts this eliminates the need to apply to the department for a
waiver from the current start date.
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In
Senate Education
Passed House
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HF 669
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Trusts – This bill allows a school
corporation to establish trusts and nonprofit foundations acting solely for
the support of the school corporation.
Funds in the nonprofit foundation would be audited annually.
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Passed
the House On Senate calendar
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