257.11 - SUPPLEMENTARY WEIGHTING PLAN.
257.11 SUPPLEMENTARY WEIGHTING PLAN.
1. Regular curriculum. Pupils in a regular curriculum
attending all their classes in the district in which they reside,
taught by teachers employed by that district, and having
administrators employed by that district, are assigned a weighting of
one.
2. District-to-district sharing.
a. In order to provide additional funds for school districts
which send their resident pupils to another school district, which
jointly employ and share the services of teachers under section
280.15, or which use the services of a teacher employed by another
school district, a supplementary weighting plan for determining
enrollment is adopted.
b. If the school budget review committee certifies to the
department of management that the shared classes or teachers would
otherwise not be implemented without the assignment of additional
weighting, pupils attending classes in another school district,
attending classes taught by a teacher who is employed jointly under
section 280.15, or attending classes taught by a teacher who is
employed by another school district are assigned a weighting of
forty-eight hundredths of the percentage of the pupil's school day
during which the pupil attends classes in another district, attends
classes taught by a teacher who is jointly employed under section
280.15, or attends classes taught by a teacher who is employed by
another school district.
c. Pupils attending class for all or a substantial portion of
a school day pursuant to a whole grade sharing agreement executed
under sections 282.10 through 282.12 shall be eligible for
supplementary weighting pursuant to this subsection. A school
district which executes a whole grade sharing agreement and which
adopts a resolution jointly with other affected boards to study the
question of undergoing a reorganization or dissolution to take effect
on or before July 1, 2014, shall receive a weighting of one-tenth of
the percentage of the pupil's school day during which the pupil
attends classes in another district, attends classes taught by a
teacher who is jointly employed under section 280.15, or attends
classes taught by a teacher who is employed by another school
district. A district shall be eligible for supplementary weighting
pursuant to this paragraph for a maximum of three years. Receipt of
supplementary weighting for a second and third year shall be
conditioned upon submission of information resulting from the study
to the school budget review committee indicating progress toward the
objective of reorganization on or before July 1, 2014.
d. A school district which hosts a regional academy shall be
eligible to assign its resident students attending classes at the
academy a weighting of one-tenth of the percentage of the student's
school day during which the student attends classes at the regional
academy. The maximum amount of additional weighting for which a
school district hosting a regional academy shall be eligible is an
amount corresponding to thirty additional students. The minimum
amount of additional weighting for which a school district
establishing a regional academy shall be eligible is an amount
corresponding to fifteen additional students if the academy provides
both advanced-level courses and career and technical courses.
3. District-to-community college sharing and concurrent
enrollment programs.
a. In order to provide additional funds for school districts
which send their resident high school pupils to a community college
for college-level classes, a supplementary weighting plan for
determining enrollment is adopted.
b. If the school budget review committee certifies to the
department of management that the class would not otherwise be
implemented without the assignment of additional weighting, pupils
attending a community college-offered class or attending a class
taught by a community college-employed instructor are assigned a
weighting of the percentage of the pupil's school day during which
the pupil attends class in the community college or attends a class
taught by a community college-employed instructor times seventy
hundredths for career and technical courses or forty-six hundredths
for liberal arts and sciences courses. The following requirements
shall be met for the purposes of assigning an additional weighting
for classes offered through a sharing agreement between a school
district and community college. The class must be:
(1) Supplementing, not supplanting, high school courses required
to be offered pursuant to section 256.11, subsection 5.
(2) Included in the community college catalog or an amendment or
addendum to the catalog.
(3) Open to all registered community college students, not just
high school students. The class may be offered in a high school
attendance center.
(4) For college credit and the credit must apply toward an
associate of arts or associate of science degree, or toward an
associate of applied arts or associate of applied science degree, or
toward completion of a college diploma program.
(5) Taught by an instructor employed or contracted by a community
college who meets the requirements of section 261E.3, subsection 2.
(6) Taught utilizing the community college course syllabus.
(7) Taught in such a manner as to result in student work and
student assessment which meet college-level expectations.
4. At-risk programs and alternative schools.
a. In order to provide additional funding to school districts
for programs serving at-risk pupils and alternative school pupils in
secondary schools, a supplementary weighting plan for at-risk pupils
is adopted. A supplementary weighting of forty-eight ten-thousandths
per pupil shall be assigned to the percentage of pupils in a school
district enrolled in grades one through six, as reported by the
school district on the basic educational data survey for the base
year, who are eligible for free and reduced price meals under the
federal National School Lunch Act and the federal Child Nutrition Act
of 1966, 42 U.S.C. § 1751-1785, multiplied by the budget enrollment
in the school district; and a supplementary weighting of one hundred
fifty-six one-hundred-thousandths per pupil shall be assigned to
pupils included in the budget enrollment of the school district.
Amounts received as supplementary weighting for at-risk pupils shall
be utilized by a school district to develop or maintain at-risk
pupils' programs, which may include alternative school programs.
b. Notwithstanding paragraph "a", a school district which
received supplementary weighting for an alternative high school
program for the school budget year beginning July 1, 1999, shall
receive an amount of supplementary weighting for the next three
school budget years as follows:
(1) For the budget year beginning July 1, 2000, the greater of
the amount of supplementary weighting determined pursuant to
paragraph "a", or sixty-five percent of the amount received for
the budget year beginning July 1, 1999.
(2) For the budget year beginning July 1, 2001, the greater of
the amount of supplementary weighting determined pursuant to
paragraph "a", or forty percent of the amount received for the
budget year beginning July 1, 1999.
(3) For the budget year beginning July 1, 2002, and succeeding
budget years, the amount of supplementary weighting determined
pursuant to paragraph "a".
c. If a school district receives an amount pursuant to
paragraph "b" which exceeds the amount the district would
otherwise have received pursuant to paragraph "a", the department
of management shall annually determine the amount of the excess that
would have been state aid and the amount that would have been
property tax if the school district had generated that amount
pursuant to paragraph "a", and shall include the amounts in the
state aid payments and property tax levies of school districts. The
department of management shall recalculate the supplementary
weighting amount received each year to reflect the amount of the
reduction in funding from one budget year to the next pursuant to
paragraph "b", subparagraphs (1) through (3). It is the intent
of the general assembly that when weights are recalculated under this
subsection, the total amounts generated by each weight shall be
approximately equal.
5. Regional academies.
a. For the school budget year beginning July 1, 2002, through
the school budget year beginning July 1, 2007, in order to provide
additional funds for school districts in which a regional academy is
located, a supplementary weighting plan for determining enrollment is
adopted.
b. A school district which establishes a regional academy
shall be eligible to assign its resident pupils attending classes at
the academy a weighting of one-tenth of the percentage of the pupil's
school day during which the pupil attends classes at the regional
academy. For the purposes of this subsection, "regional academy"
means an educational institution established by a school district to
which multiple schools send pupils in grades nine through twelve, and
may include a virtual academy. A regional academy shall include in
its curriculum advanced-level courses and may include in its
curriculum vocational-technical courses. The maximum amount of
additional weighting for which a school district establishing a
regional academy shall be eligible is an amount corresponding to
fifteen additional pupils. The minimum amount of additional
weighting for which a school district establishing a regional academy
shall be eligible is an amount corresponding to ten additional pupils
if the academy provides both advanced-level courses and
vocational-technical courses. However, if the sum of the funding
amount calculated for all districts operating regional academies
under this subsection exceeds one million dollars for the school year
beginning July 1, 2004, and each succeeding fiscal year, the director
of the department of management shall prorate the amount calculated
for each district. The proration shall be based upon the amount
calculated for each district when compared to the sum of the amount
for all districts.
6. Shared operational functions -- increased student
opportunities.
a. In order to provide additional funding to increase student
opportunities and redirect more resources to student programming for
school districts that share operational functions, a supplementary
weighting of two hundredths per pupil shall be assigned to pupils
enrolled in a district that shares with a political subdivision one
or more operational functions in the areas of superintendent
management, business management, human resources, transportation, or
operation and maintenance for at least twenty percent of the school
year. The additional weighting shall be assigned for each discrete
operational function shared. For the purposes of this section,
"political subdivision" means a city, township, county, school
corporation, merged area, area education agency, institution governed
by the state board of regents, or any other governmental subdivision.
b. Supplementary weighting pursuant to this subsection shall
be available to a school district for a maximum of five years during
the period commencing with the budget year beginning July 1, 2008,
through the budget year beginning July 1, 2013. The minimum amount
of additional weighting for which a school district shall be eligible
is an amount equivalent to ten additional pupils, and the maximum
amount of additional weighting for which a school district shall be
eligible is an amount equivalent to forty additional pupils. Receipt
of supplementary weighting by a school district pursuant to this
subsection for more than one year shall be contingent upon the annual
submission of information by the district to the department
documenting cost savings directly attributable to the shared
operational functions. Criteria for determining the number of years
for which supplementary weighting shall be received pursuant to this
subsection, subject to the five-year maximum, and for determining
qualification of operational functions for supplementary weighting
shall be determined by the department by rule, through consideration
of long-term savings by the school district or increased student
opportunities.
c. Supplementary weighting pursuant to this subsection shall
be available to an area education agency for a maximum of five years
during the period commencing with the budget year beginning July 1,
2008. The minimum amount of additional funding for which an area
education agency shall be eligible is fifty thousand dollars, and the
maximum amount of additional funding for which an area education
agency shall be eligible is two hundred thousand dollars. The
department of management shall annually set a weighting for each area
education agency to generate the approved operational sharing expense
using the area education agency's special education cost per pupil
amount and foundation level. Receipt of supplementary weighting by
an area education agency for more than one year shall be contingent
upon the annual submission of information by the district to the
department documenting cost savings directly attributable to the
shared operational functions. Criteria for determining the number of
years for which supplementary weighting shall be received pursuant to
this subsection, subject to the five-year maximum, and the amount
generated by the supplementary weighting, and for determining
qualification of operational functions for supplementary weighting
shall be determined by the department by rule, through consideration
of long-term savings by the area education agency or increased
student opportunities.
d. The amount of any supplementary weighting originally
received under this subsection shall be reduced by an additional
twenty percent from the original amount for each subsequent budget
year that supplementary weighting may be received.
e. This subsection is repealed effective July 1, 2014.
7. Shared classes delivered over the Iowa communications
network.
a. A school district that provides a virtual class to a pupil
in another school district and the school district receiving that
virtual class for a pupil shall each receive a supplemental weighting
of one-twentieth of the percentage of the pupil's school day during
which the pupil attends the virtual class.
b. Fifty percent of the funding the school district providing
the virtual class receives as a result of this subsection shall be
reserved as additional pay for the virtual classroom instructor. If
an instructor's contract provides additional pay for teaching a
virtual class, the instructor shall receive the greater amount of
either the amount provided for in this paragraph or the amount
provided for in the instructor's contract.
c. A school district receiving a virtual class for a pupil
from a community college, which class meets the sharing agreement
requirements in subsection 3, shall receive a supplemental funding
weighting of one-twentieth of the percentage of the pupil's school
day during which the pupil attends the virtual class.
d. For the purposes of this subsection, "virtual class"
means either of the following:
(1) A class provided by a school district to a pupil in another
school district via the Iowa communications network's video services.
(2) A class provided by a community college to a pupil in a
school district via the Iowa communications network's video services.
8. Pupils ineligible. A pupil eligible for the weighting
plan provided in section 256B.9 is not eligible for supplementary
weighting pursuant to this section. A pupil attending an alternative
program or an at-risk pupils' program, including alternative high
school programs, is not eligible for supplementary weighting under
subsection 2.
9. Shared classes and curriculum standards. A school
district shall ensure that any course made available to a student
through any sharing agreement between the school district and a
community college or any other entity providing course programming
pursuant to this section to students enrolled in the school district
meets the expectations contained in the core curriculum adopted
pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 26. The school district shall
ensure that any course that has the capacity to generate college
credit shall be equivalent to college-level work.
10. School finance appropriations report. The department of
education shall annually prepare a report regarding school finance
provisions or programs receiving a standing appropriation, including
supplementary weighting programs. The report shall provide
information regarding amounts received or accessed by school
districts pursuant to the provisions or programs, whether the amounts
received represent an increase or decrease over amounts received
during the previous budget year and the percentage increase or
decrease, conclusions regarding the adequacy of amounts received by
school districts and whether the amounts received are equitable
between school districts based upon input from the school districts
and analysis by the department, and the rationale for current trends
being observed by the department and projections regarding possible
trends in the future. The report shall be submitted to the general
assembly by January 1 each year, and copies of the report shall be
forwarded to the chairpersons and members of the committee on
education in the senate and in the house of representatives. Section History: Recent Form
89 Acts, ch 135, § 11; 90 Acts, ch 1190, § 7; 93 Acts, ch 180, §
96; 95 Acts, ch 111, § 1; 95 Acts, ch 209, § 13; 2000 Acts, ch 1198,
§1, 6; 2001 Acts, ch 126, §5, 6; 2002 Acts, ch 1047, §3, 4, 20; 2002
Acts, ch 1140, §8; 2003 Acts, ch 179, §111; 2003 Acts, ch 180, §11;
2005 Acts, ch 19, §38; 2007 Acts, ch 130, §2--4; 2007 Acts, ch 214,
§20, 44; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §43; 2008 Acts, ch 1181, §48, 49; 2008
Acts, ch 1191, §157; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §247; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §100
Referred to in § 11.6, 256.17, 257.6, 257.11A, 261E.2, 261E.8,
261E.9, 261E.10, 261E.11, 280.13A, 282.7 Footnotes
2007 strike and rewrite of subsection 7 applies to school budget
years beginning on or after July 1, 2008; 2007 Acts, ch 214, §44