273.9 - FUNDING.
273.9 FUNDING.
1. School districts shall pay for the programs and services
provided through the area education agency and shall include
expenditures for the programs and services in their budgets, in
accordance with this section.
2. School districts shall pay the costs of special education
instructional programs with the moneys available to the districts for
each child requiring special education, by application of the special
education weighting plan in section 256B.9. Special education
instructional programs shall be provided at the local level if
practicable, or otherwise by contractual arrangements with the area
education agency board as provided in section 273.3, subsection 5,
but in each case the total money available through section 256B.9 and
chapter 257 because of weighted enrollment for each child requiring
special education instruction shall be made available to the district
or agency which provides the special education instructional program
to the child, subject to adjustments for transportation or other
costs which may be paid by the school district in which the child is
enrolled. Each district shall co-operate with its area education
agency to provide an appropriate special education instructional
program for each child who requires special education instruction, as
identified and counted within the certification by the area director
of special education or as identified by the area director of special
education subsequent to the certification, and shall not provide a
special education instructional program to a child who has not been
so identified and counted within the certification or identified
subsequent to the certification.
3. The costs of special education support services provided
through the area education agency shall be funded as provided in
chapter 257. Special education support services shall not be funded
until the program plans submitted by the special education directors
of each area education agency as required by section 273.5 are
modified as necessary and approved by the director of the department
of education according to the criteria and limitations of chapters
256B and 257.
4. The costs of media services provided through the area
education agency shall not be funded until the program plans
submitted by the administrators of each area education agency as
required by section 273.4 are modified as necessary and approved by
the director of the department of education according to the criteria
of section 273.6.
The state board of education shall adopt rules under chapter 17A
relating to the approval of program plans under this section. Section History: Early Form
[C51, § 417; R60, § 648, 2074; C73, § 771, 1776; C97, § 2742,
2831, 2832; S13, § 2742, 2831, 2832; SS15, § 2734-b; C24, 27, 31, 35,
39, § 4456--4458, 5232--5234; C46, § 301.12--301.14,
340.13--340.15; C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, § 273.13; C75, 77, 79,
81, § 273.9] Section History: Recent Form
86 Acts, ch 1245, § 1460; 89 Acts, ch 135, §60; 91 Acts, ch 97,
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Referred to in § 256B.2, 256B.8, 256B.9, 273.2, 273.3, 273.23