Bill Text: IA SF451 | 2011-2012 | 84th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the allowable uses for modified allowable growth for programs for returning dropouts and dropout prevention and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 247.) Effective 7-1-12.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-27 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 869. [SF451 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2011-SF451-Enrolled.html

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Senate File 451
AN ACT
RELATING TO THE ALLOWABLE USES FOR MODIFIED ALLOWABLE GROWTH
FOR PROGRAMS FOR RETURNING DROPOUTS AND DROPOUT PREVENTION
AND INCLUDING APPLICABILITY PROVISIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
Section 1. Section 257.41, Code 2011, is amended to read as
follows:
257.41 Funding for programs for returning dropouts and
dropout prevention.
1. Budget. The budget of an approved program for returning
dropouts and dropout prevention for a school district, after
subtracting funds received from other sources for that purpose,
shall be funded annually on a basis of one-fourth or more
from the district cost of the school district and up to
three-fourths by an increase in allowable growth as defined in
section 257.8 . Annually, the department of management shall
establish a modified allowable growth for each such school
district equal to the difference between the approved budget
for the program for returning dropouts and dropout prevention
for that district and the sum of the amount funded from the
district cost of the school district plus funds received from
other sources.
2. Appropriate uses of funding. Appropriate uses of the
returning dropout and dropout prevention program funding
include but are not limited to the following:
a. Salary and benefits for instructional staff,
instructional support staff, and school-based youth services
staff who are working with students who are participating
in dropout prevention programs, alternative programs, and
alternative schools, in a traditional or alternative setting,

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if the staff person’s time is dedicated to working with
returning dropouts or students who are deemed, at any time
during the school year, to be at risk of dropping out, in
order to provide services beyond those which are provided by
the school district to students who are not identified as at
risk of dropping out. However, if the staff person works
part-time with students who are participating in returning
dropout and dropout prevention programs, alternative programs,
and alternative schools and has another unrelated staff
assignment, only the portion of the staff person’s time that
is related to the returning dropout and dropout prevention
program, alternative program, or alternative school may be
charged to the program. For purposes of this paragraph, if
an alternative setting is necessary to provide for a program
which is offered at a location off school grounds and which
is intended to serve student needs by improving relationships
and connections to school, decreasing truancy and tardiness,
providing opportunities for course credit recovery, or helping
students identified as at risk of dropping out to accelerate
through multiple grade levels of achievement within a shortened
time frame, the tuition costs for a student identified as at
risk of dropping out shall be considered an appropriate use of
the returning dropout and dropout prevention program funding.
b. Professional development for all teachers and staff
working with at-risk students and programs involving dropout
prevention strategies.
c. Research-based resources, materials, software, supplies,
and purchased services that meet all of the following criteria:
(1) Meets the needs of kindergarten through grade twelve
students identified as at risk of dropping out and of returning
dropouts.
(2) Are beyond those provided by the regular school program.
(3) Are necessary to provide the services listed in the
school district’s dropout prevention plan.
(4) Will remain with the kindergarten through grade twelve
returning dropout and dropout prevention program.
d. Up to five percent of the total budgeted amount received
pursuant to subsection 1 may be used for purposes of providing
district-wide or building-wide returning dropout and dropout
prevention programming targeted to students who are not deemed
at risk of dropping out.
3. Limitation. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013,
and each succeeding fiscal year, the ratio of the amount of

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modified allowable growth established by the department of
management compared to the school district’s total regular
program district cost shall not exceed two and one-half
percent. However, if the school district’s highest such ratio
so determined for any fiscal year beginning on or after July
1, 2009, but before July 1, 2013, exceeded two and one-half
percent, the ratio may exceed two and one-half percent but
shall not exceed the highest such ratio established during that
period.
Sec. 2. APPLICABILITY.
1. Notwithstanding section 257.38, subsection 1, section
257.40, subsection 1, or any other provision of law to the
contrary, the section of this Act enacting section 257.41,
subsection 2, is applicable to budget years beginning on or
after July 1, 2012, for purposes of the appropriate uses of
funding for returning dropout and dropout prevention program
plans approved for budget years beginning on or after July 1,
2012.
2. The section of this Act enacting section 257.41,
subsection 3, is applicable to budget years beginning on or
after July 1, 2013.
______________________________
JOHN P. KIBBIE
President of the Senate
______________________________
KRAIG PAULSEN
Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
is known as Senate File 451, Eighty-fourth General Assembly.
______________________________
MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
Secretary of the Senate
Approved _______________, 2012
______________________________
TERRY E. BRANSTAD
Governor