256.23 - ADMINISTRATIVE ADVANCEMENT AND RECRUITMENT PROGRAM.
256.23 ADMINISTRATIVE ADVANCEMENT AND RECRUITMENT
PROGRAM.
The department shall establish a recruitment and advancement
program to provide for the allocation of grants to school
corporations. A school corporation may submit plans and a budget to
the department for approval of a pilot project that will encourage
the advancement of women and minorities to administrative positions
within that school corporation or will encourage the recruitment and
employment of minorities to positions within that school corporation.
The state board shall adopt rules under chapter 17A establishing
criteria for approval of the pilot projects and payment of the
grants. The criteria for a pilot project encouraging the advancement
of women and minorities shall include the use of staff development
for assisting employees of the school corporation to meet the
requirements for advancement to administrative positions. School
corporations approved for the establishment of pilot projects under
this section shall submit reports of the results of the pilot
projects to the department of education by October 1 of the fiscal
year following the fiscal year in which the grants are received. Section History: Recent Form
88 Acts, ch 1078, § 1