257.40 - APPROVAL OF PROGRAMS FOR RETURNING DROPOUTS AND DROPOUT PREVENTION -- ANNUAL REPORT.
257.40 APPROVAL OF PROGRAMS FOR RETURNING DROPOUTS
AND DROPOUT PREVENTION -- ANNUAL REPORT.
1. The board of directors of a school district requesting to use
modified allowable growth for programs for returning dropouts and
dropout prevention shall submit requests for modified at-risk
allowable growth, including budget costs, to the department not later
than December 15 of the year preceding the budget year during which
the program will be offered. The department shall review the request
and shall prior to January 15 either grant approval for the request
or return the request for approval with comments of the department
included. An unapproved request for a program may be resubmitted
with modifications to the department not later than February 1. Not
later than February 15, the department shall notify the department of
management and the school budget review committee of the names of the
school districts for which programs using modified allowable growth
for funding have been approved and the approved budget of each
program listed separately for each school district having an approved
request.
2. Beginning January 15, 2007, the department shall submit an
annual report to the chairpersons and ranking members of the senate
and house education committees that includes the ways school
districts in the previous school year used modified allowable growth
approved under subsection 1; identifies, by grade level, age, and
district size, the students in the dropout and dropout prevention
programs for which the department approves a request; describes
school district progress toward increasing student achievement and
attendance for the students in the programs; and describes how the
school districts are using the revenues from the modified allowable
growth to improve student achievement among minority subgroups. Section History: Recent Form
89 Acts, ch 135, § 40; 2006 Acts, ch 1152, §28; 2007 Acts, ch 22,
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