Bill Text: IA HF614 | 2019-2020 | 88th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act establishing a requirement for administrators employed by school districts with enrollments of more than two thousand five hundred students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-05 - Subcommittee: Wheeler, Donahue and Mommsen. H.J. 401. [HF614 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2019-HF614-Introduced.html
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BY
DONAHUE
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
establishing
a
requirement
for
administrators
employed
1
by
school
districts
with
enrollments
of
more
than
two
2
thousand
five
hundred
students.
3
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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Section
1.
NEW
SECTION
.
279.21A
Administrators
——
large
1
districts
——
teaching
experience.
2
Each
administrator
employed
by
the
board
of
directors
3
of
a
school
district
with
an
enrollment
of
two
thousand
4
five
hundred
or
more
students
in
the
prior
school
year,
as
5
determined
by
the
department
of
education,
must
have
at
least
6
ten
years
of
teaching
experience.
Such
a
school
district
7
shall
not
renew
an
administrator’s
contract
beyond
the
current
8
year
unless
the
administrator
meets
the
requirements
of
this
9
section.
For
purposes
of
this
section,
“administrator”
means
an
10
individual
holding
a
professional
administrator
license
issued
11
under
chapter
272
who
is
employed
in
a
school
district
as
a
12
superintendent
under
section
279.20
or
a
principal
as
defined
13
in
section
279.21,
subsection
3.
14
EXPLANATION
15
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
16
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
17
This
bill
requires
administrators
employed
by
school
18
districts
with
enrollments
of
2,500
or
more
to
have
at
least
19
10
years
of
teaching
experience.
Such
a
school
district
is
20
prohibited
from
renewing
an
administrator’s
contract
if
the
21
administrator
fails
to
meet
the
requirement.
22
“Administrator”
is
defined
as
an
individual
holding
a
23
professional
administrator
license
who
is
employed
in
a
school
24
district
as
a
superintendent,
principal,
associate
principal,
25
or
assistant
principal.
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