256C.4 - FUNDING PROVISIONS -- ENROLLMENT.
256C.4 FUNDING PROVISIONS -- ENROLLMENT.
1. General.
a. State funding provided under the preschool program shall
be based upon the enrollment of eligible students in the preschool
programming provided by a school district approved to participate in
the preschool program.
b. A school district approved to participate in the preschool
program may authorize expenditures for the district's preschool
programming from any of the revenue sources available to the district
from the sources listed in chapter 298A, provided the expenditures
are within the uses permitted for the revenue source. In addition,
the use of the revenue source for preschool or prekindergarten
programming must have been approved prior to any expenditure from the
revenue source for the district's approved local program.
c. Funding provided under the preschool program is intended
to supplement, not supplant, existing public funding for preschool
programming.
d. Preschool foundation aid funding shall not be commingled
with the other state aid payments made under section 257.16 to a
school district and shall be accounted for by the local school
district separately from the other state aid payments. Preschool
foundation aid payments made to school districts are miscellaneous
income for purposes of chapter 257. A school district shall maintain
a separate listing within its budget for preschool foundation aid
payments received and expenditures made. A school district shall
certify to the department of education that preschool foundation aid
funding received by the school district was used to supplement, not
supplant, moneys otherwise received and used by the school district
for preschool programming.
e. Preschool foundation aid funding shall not be used for the
costs of constructing a facility in connection with an approved local
program.
f. The receipt of funding by a school district for the
purposes of this chapter, the need for additional funding for the
purposes of this chapter, or the enrollment count of eligible
students under this chapter shall not be considered to be unusual
circumstances, create an unusual need for additional funds, or
qualify under any other circumstances that may be used by the school
budget review committee to grant supplemental aid to or establish
modified allowable growth for a school district under section 257.31.
2. Eligible student enrollment.
a. To be included as an eligible student in the enrollment
count of the preschool programming provided by a school district
approved to participate in the preschool program, a child must be
four years of age by September 15 in the base year and attending the
school district's approved local program.
b. The enrollment count of eligible students shall not
include a child who is included in the enrollment count determined
under section 257.6 or a child who is served by a program already
receiving state or federal funds for the purpose of the provision of
four-year-old preschool programming while the child is being served
by the program. Such preschool programming includes but is not
limited to child development assistance programs provided under
chapter 256A, special education programs provided under section
256B.9, school ready children grant programs and other programs
provided under chapter 28, and federal head start programs and the
services funded by Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965. Section History: Recent Form
2007 Acts, ch 148, §4; 2008 Acts, ch 1181, §68, 74
Referred to in § 256C.3, 256C.5