280.15 - JOINT EMPLOYMENT AND SHARING.
280.15 JOINT EMPLOYMENT AND SHARING.
1. Two or more public school districts may jointly employ and
share the services of any school personnel, or acquire and share the
use of classrooms, laboratories, equipment and facilities. Classes
made available to students in the manner provided in this section
shall be considered as complying with the requirements of section
275.1 relating to the maintenance of kindergarten and twelve grades
by a school district. If students attend classes in another school
district under this section under an agreement that provides for
whole grade sharing, the boards of directors of districts entering
into these agreements shall provide for sharing the costs and
expenses as provided in sections 282.10 through 282.12. If a
district that has entered into a whole grade sharing agreement
determines that a need exists to hire additional employees because of
the whole grade sharing agreement, the district shall determine the
nature and number of the necessary new positions. The district
terminating employees as a result of a whole grade sharing agreement
shall notify any other district, which is a party to the agreement,
of the names and addresses of those terminated. Individuals who were
employed by a district that entered into a whole grade sharing
agreement and who were terminated as a result of the agreement shall
be notified that the new positions exist and that they may apply for
the new positions. The board shall offer the new position to an
applicant from among those who were terminated as a result of the
agreement if the applicant is licensed for the new position or, in
the case of unlicensed personnel, is otherwise qualified. If two or
more individuals from among those terminated as a result of the
agreement apply for a single position, the applicant who is best
qualified in the opinion of the board shall be offered the new
position. However, the board is not required to offer a new position
to applicants who were among those who were terminated as a result of
the agreement beyond two school years. An employee who accrued
benefits before a whole grade sharing agreement resulted in the
employee's termination shall not, as a result of reemployment under
this section, forfeit accrued vacation, accrued sick leave,
longevity, completion of probationary status as defined by section
279.19, or salary or placement on a salary schedule based upon the
employee's years of experience.
2. When a special education personnel pooling agreement, which
has been entered into between an area education agency and a public
school district pursuant to section 273.5, is terminated, the public
school district shall assume the contractual obligations for any
teachers assigned to the district under the agreement. Teachers, for
whom the contractual obligations are assumed by a district, shall be
given credit for completion of any probationary status under section
279.19, be placed on the salary schedule and retain all leaves,
benefits, and seniority rights accumulated as if the teacher had been
originally employed under the agreement which exists between the
public school district and the district's collective bargaining unit,
consistent with the teacher's education and experience.
A teacher who is employed under a pooling agreement and assigned
to special education facilities that are separate from and not part
of local school district facilities shall, if the teacher's
employment terminates upon termination of the pooling agreement, be
offered any teaching position that is similar to the position
previously held by the teacher under the pooling agreement, which is
vacant in any of the local school districts which participated in the
pooling agreement, provided that the teacher possesses the
appropriate license for the position. Teachers employed by a local
school district under this paragraph shall have the same rights,
privileges, and protection as teachers whose contractual obligations
are assumed by a district to which the teacher previously had been
assigned under a special education personnel pooling agreement. Section History: Early Form
[C66, 71, 73, § 257.25(16); C75, 77, 79, 81, § 280.15] Section History: Recent Form
85 Acts, ch 212, § 9; 87 Acts, ch 224, § 54; 90 Acts, ch 1219, §
1; 91 Acts, ch 117, §1; 94 Acts, ch 1083, §1
Referred to in § 257.11, 257.31, 275.1, 275.2, 282.10
See also § 256.12