Bill Text: IA HF140 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the Iowa core curriculum and content standards applicable to students in kindergarten through grade twelve and including effective date provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-31 - Introduced, referred to Education. H.J. 151. [HF140 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF140-Introduced.html

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House File 140 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  SALMON, WHEELER,
                                     SHEETS, WATTS, FISHER,
                                     HOLT, GUSTAFSON,
                                     BAXTER, and HEARTSILL

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the Iowa core curriculum and content
  2    standards applicable to students in kindergarten through
  3    grade twelve and including effective date provisions.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 256.7, subsection 21, paragraph b,
  1  2 subparagraph (3), Code 2017, is amended by striking the
  1  3 subparagraph.
  1  4    Sec. 2.  Section 256.7, subsection 26, paragraph a,
  1  5 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2017, is amended to read as
  1  6 follows:
  1  7    Adopt rules that establish a core curriculum and, which
  1  8 school districts and accredited nonpublic schools may elect
  1  9 to use, in whole or in part, at the discretion of the school
  1 10 district or school.  The state board shall also adopt high
  1 11 school graduation requirements for all students in school
  1 12 districts and accredited nonpublic schools that include at a
  1 13 minimum satisfactory completion of four years of English and
  1 14 language arts, three years of mathematics, three years of
  1 15 science, and three years of social studies.
  1 16    Sec. 3.  Section 256.7, subsection 26, Code 2017, is amended
  1 17 by adding the following new paragraph:
  1 18    NEW PARAGRAPH.  d.  Adopt rules prohibiting the department
  1 19 from adopting and implementing mandatory statewide core
  1 20 curriculum standards.  School districts and accredited
  1 21 nonpublic schools may utilize the core adopted by the state
  1 22 board, but shall not be required to report locally developed
  1 23 standards to the department. The state board shall not adopt,
  1 24 approve, or require implementation of the next generation
  1 25 science standards by school districts and accredited nonpublic
  1 26 schools.
  1 27    Sec. 4.  Section 256.7, subsection 28, Code 2017, is amended
  1 28 to read as follows:
  1 29    28.  Adopt a set of core content standards applicable to
  1 30 all students in kindergarten through grade twelve in every
  1 31 school district and accredited nonpublic school. For purposes
  1 32 of this subsection, "core content standards" includes reading,
  1 33 mathematics, and science. The core content standards shall
  1 34 be identical to the core content standards included in Iowa's
  1 35 approved 2006 standards and assessment system under Tit. I
  2  1 of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
  2  2 1965, 20 U.S.C. {6301 et seq., as amended by the federal No
  2  3 Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Pub. L. No. 107=110. School
  2  4 districts and accredited nonpublic schools shall may include,
  2  5 at a minimum, any of the core content standards adopted
  2  6 pursuant to this subsection in any set of locally developed
  2  7 content standards. School districts and accredited nonpublic
  2  8 schools are strongly encouraged to set higher expectations in
  2  9 local locally developed content standards, but shall not be
  2 10 required to report locally developed content standards to the
  2 11 department. As changes in federal law or regulation occur, the
  2 12 state board is authorized to amend the core content standards
  2 13 as appropriate.
  2 14    Sec. 5.  Section 256.9, subsection 49, paragraph a, Code
  2 15 2017, is amended to read as follows:
  2 16    a.  Develop and distribute, in collaboration with the area
  2 17 education agencies, core curriculum technical assistance and
  2 18 implementation strategies that school districts and accredited
  2 19 nonpublic schools shall may utilize, including but not limited
  2 20 to the development and delivery of formative and end=of=course
  2 21 model assessments classroom teachers may use to measure student
  2 22 progress on the core curriculum adopted pursuant to section
  2 23 256.7, subsection 26. The department shall, in collaboration
  2 24 with the advisory group convened in accordance with paragraph
  2 25 "b" and educational assessment providers, identify and make
  2 26 available to school districts end=of=course and additional
  2 27 model end=of=course and additional assessments to align with
  2 28 the expectations included in the Iowa core curriculum. The
  2 29 model assessments shall be suitable to meet the multiple
  2 30 assessment measures requirement specified in section 256.7,
  2 31 subsection 21, paragraph "c".
  2 32    Sec. 6.  Section 257.11, subsection 9, Code 2017, is amended
  2 33 to read as follows:
  2 34    9.  Shared classes and curriculum standards.  A school
  2 35 district shall ensure that any course made available to a
  3  1 student through any sharing agreement between the school
  3  2 district and a community college or any other entity providing
  3  3 course programming pursuant to this section to students
  3  4 enrolled in the school district meets the expectations
  3  5 contained in the core curriculum adopted pursuant to section
  3  6 256.7, subsection 26. The school district shall ensure that
  3  7 any course that has the capacity to generate college credit
  3  8 shall be equivalent to college=level work.
  3  9    Sec. 7.  Section 279.61, subsection 1, paragraph a,
  3 10 subparagraph (1), Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
  3 11    (1)  Prepare the student for successful completion of the
  3 12 core curriculum developed high school graduation requirements
  3 13 adopted by the state board of education pursuant to section
  3 14 256.7, subsection 26, by the time the student graduates from
  3 15 high school.
  3 16    Sec. 8.  Section 279.61, subsection 2, Code 2017, is amended
  3 17 to read as follows:
  3 18    2.  The board of directors of each school district shall
  3 19 report annually to each student enrolled in grades nine through
  3 20 twelve in the school district, and, if the student is under
  3 21 the age of eighteen, to each student's parent or guardian, the
  3 22 student's progress toward meeting the goal of successfully
  3 23 completing the core curriculum and high school graduation
  3 24 requirements adopted by the state board of education pursuant
  3 25 to section 256.7, subsection 26, and toward achieving the goals
  3 26 of the student's career and academic plan.
  3 27    Sec. 9.  Section 280.3, subsection 2, Code 2017, is amended
  3 28 to read as follows:
  3 29    2.  The minimum educational program shall be the curriculum
  3 30  graduation requirements set forth in subsection 3 of this
  3 31  section 256.7, subsection 26, and educational program set forth
  3 32 in section 256.11, except as otherwise provided by law. The
  3 33 board of directors of a public school district shall not allow
  3 34 discrimination in any educational program on the basis of race,
  3 35 color, creed, sex, marital status, or place of national origin.
  4  1    Sec. 10.  Section 280.3, subsection 3, Code 2017, is amended
  4  2 by striking the subsection.
  4  3    Sec. 11.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed
  4  4 of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  4  5                           EXPLANATION
  4  6 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  4  7 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  4  8    This bill makes voluntary the use by school districts of
  4  9 the core curriculum and content standards adopted by the state
  4 10 board of education, but continues to direct the state board of
  4 11 education to adopt the common core standards and high school
  4 12 graduation requirements.
  4 13    The bill requires the state board to adopt rules prohibiting
  4 14 the department from adopting and implementing mandatory
  4 15 statewide core curriculum standards.  Schools may utilize the
  4 16 core curriculum standards, and are encouraged to set higher
  4 17 expectations in locally developed content standards, but
  4 18 schools shall not be required to report locally developed
  4 19 standards to the department.
  4 20    Further, the bill prohibits the state board from adopting,
  4 21 approving, or requiring implementation of the next generation
  4 22 science standards by school districts and accredited nonpublic
  4 23 schools.  The state board adopted the next generation science
  4 24 standards with some modifications on August 6, 2015.
  4 25    The bill makes technical and corresponding changes to
  4 26 provisions which contain references to the language stricken.
  4 27    The bill takes effect upon enactment.
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