282.30 - SPECIAL PROGRAMS.
282.30 SPECIAL PROGRAMS.
1. a. An area education agency shall provide or make
provision for an appropriate educational program for each child
living in the following types of facilities located within its
boundaries:
(1) An approved or licensed shelter care home, as defined in
section 232.2, subsection 34.
(2) An approved juvenile detention home, as defined in section
232.2, subsection 32.
b. The area education agency shall provide the educational
program by any one of, but not limited to, the following:
(1) Providing for the enrollment of the child in the district of
residence of the child, subject to the approval of the district in
which the child is living.
(2) Cooperating with the district of residence of the child and
obtaining the course of study and textbooks of the child for use in
the special facility into which the child has been placed.
(3) Providing for the enrollment of the child in the district in
which the child is living, subject to the approval of the district in
which the child is living.
c. An area education agency shall not provide educational
services to a facility specified in paragraph "a" unless the
facility makes a request for educational services to the area
education agency by either of the following dates:
(1) December 1 of the school year prior to the beginning of the
school year for which the services are being requested.
(2) Ninety days prior to the beginning of the time for which the
services are being requested if the facility is a newly established
facility.
2. The area education agency where the child is living, the
school district of residence, the other appropriate area education
agency or agencies, and other appropriate agencies involved with the
care or placement of the child shall cooperate with the school
district where the child is living in sharing educational
information, textbooks, curriculum, assignments, and materials in
order to plan and to provide for the appropriate education of the
child living in such facility specified in subsection 1. Section History: Recent Form
87 Acts, ch 233, §483; 2000 Acts, ch 1121, §1, 2
Referred to in § 256.7, 282.31