257.18 - INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT PROGRAM.
257.18 INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT PROGRAM.
1. An instructional support program that provides additional
funding for school districts is established. A board of directors
that wishes to consider participating in the instructional support
program shall hold a public hearing on the question of participation.
The board shall set forth its proposal, including the method that
will be used to fund the program, in a resolution and shall publish
the notice of the time and place of a public hearing on the
resolution. Notice of the time and place of the public hearing shall
be published not less than ten nor more than twenty days before the
public hearing in a newspaper which is a newspaper of general
circulation in the school district. At the hearing, or no later than
thirty days after the date of the hearing, the board shall take
action to adopt a resolution to participate in the instructional
support program for a period not exceeding five years or to direct
the county commissioner of elections to submit the question of
participation in the program for a period not exceeding ten years to
the registered voters of the school district at an election held on a
date specified in section 39.2, subsection 4, paragraph "c". If
the board submits the question at an election and a majority of those
voting on the question favors participation in the program, the board
shall adopt a resolution to participate and certify the results of
the election to the department of management.
2. a. If the board does not provide for an election and
adopts a resolution to participate in the instructional support
program, the district shall participate in the instructional support
program unless within twenty-eight days following the action of the
board, the secretary of the board receives a petition containing the
required number of signatures, asking that the question to approve or
disapprove the action of the board in adopting the instructional
support program be submitted to the voters of the school district.
The petition must be signed by eligible electors equal in number to
not less than one hundred or thirty percent of the number of voters
at the last preceding regular school election, whichever is greater.
The board shall either rescind its action or direct the county
commissioner of elections to submit the question to the registered
voters of the school district at an election held on a date specified
in section 39.2, subsection 4, paragraph "c". If a majority of
those voting on the question at the election favors disapproval of
the action of the board, the district shall not participate in the
instructional support program. If a majority of those voting on the
question favors approval of the action, the board shall certify the
results of the election to the department of management and the
district shall participate in the program.
b. At the expiration of the twenty-eight day period, if no
petition is filed, the board shall certify its action to the
department of management and the district shall participate in the
program.
3. Participation in an instructional support program is not
affected by a change in the boundaries of the school district, except
as otherwise provided in this section. If each school district
involved in a school reorganization under chapter 275 has approved an
instructional support program, and if the voters have not voted upon
the question of participation in the program in the reorganized
district, the instructional support program shall be in effect for
the reorganized district that has been approved for the least amount
and the shortest time in any of the districts. Section History: Recent Form
89 Acts, ch 135, § 18; 92 Acts, ch 1171, §1; 95 Acts, ch 67, §53;
96 Acts, ch 1112, §1, 2; 2008 Acts, ch 1115, §32, 33, 71
Referred to in § 257.27, 257.29