Bill Text: IA HF2324 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: A bill for an act providing for a computer science advisory council to be convened by the director of the department of education. (Formerly HSB 603)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-22 - Deferred. S.J. 574. [HF2324 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF2324-Amended.html

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House File 2324 - Reprinted




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 603)
       (As Amended and Passed by the House March 1, 2016)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing for a computer science advisory council to be
  2    convened by the director of the department of education.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 256.9, Code 2016, is amended by adding
  1  2 the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  67.  Convene a computer science advisory
  1  4 council to make recommendations regarding the requirement that
  1  5 each accredited high school offer at least one high=quality
  1  6 computer science course by the school year beginning July 1,
  1  7 2018, pursuant to section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph
  1  8 "k". The council shall submit its recommendations to the
  1  9 governor and the general assembly by October 1, 2016. The
  1 10 recommendations shall also include but not be limited to the
  1 11 following:
  1 12    a.  Standards for one or more high=quality computer science
  1 13 courses, with one or more models for such courses to be
  1 14 developed by the department by July 1, 2017.
  1 15    b.  A recommendation as to whether one or more such
  1 16 high=quality computer science courses could be integrated into
  1 17 a career and technical education pathway.
  1 18    c.  A recommendation as to how one or more such high=quality
  1 19 computer science courses could satisfy the high school
  1 20 graduation requirement for mathematics.
  1 21    d.  Multiple settings for the delivery of high=quality high
  1 22 school computer science courses, including traditional high
  1 23 school classes, concurrent enrollment classes, and online
  1 24 learning classes that include the opportunity for students to
  1 25 collaborate within a classroom setting.
  1 26    e.  Guidelines for creating a kindergarten through grade
  1 27 twelve career pathway in computer science, with an appropriate
  1 28 scope and sequence for high=quality computer science
  1 29 instruction, which would include a unit on coding in seventh
  1 30 or eighth grade to be required by the school year beginning on
  1 31 July 1, 2018, pursuant to section 256.11, subsection 4.
  1 32    f.  Licensure and professional development requirements to
  1 33 ensure that teachers are prepared for and supported in the
  1 34 delivery of high=quality computer science courses.
  1 35    g.  An estimate of the cost of implementation of requirements
  2  1 described in this section that, by the school year beginning
  2  2 July 1, 2018, one unit of high=quality computer science
  2  3 education be added to the minimum educational program to be
  2  4 offered and taught for grades nine through twelve and that
  2  5 the technology education component of the minimum educational
  2  6 program to be offered and taught for grades seven and eight
  2  7 include one unit on computer coding. The estimate shall
  2  8 include an estimate of the current capacity of computer science
  2  9 teachers in Iowa for those grades, including how many more
  2 10 computer science teachers will be necessary in Iowa and how
  2 11 many school districts are currently offering such courses.
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