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IA Code § 284.10 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 284 - TEACHER PERFORMANCE, COMPENSATION, AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT|Section 284.10 - Evaluator training program.

284.10 Evaluator training program.   1. The department shall establish an evaluator training program to improve the skills of school district evaluators in making employment decisions, making recommendations for licensure, and moving teachers through a career path as established under this chapter. The department shall consult with persons representing teachers, national board-certified teachers, administrators, school boards, higher education institutions with approved practitioner and administrator preparation programs, and with persons from the private sector knowledgeable in employment evaluation and evaluator training in order to develop standards and requirements for the program. Evaluator training programs offered pursuant to this chapter may be provided by a public or private entity. The department shall distribute a list of evaluator training program providers to each school district.   2. An administrator licensed under chapter 272 who conducts evaluations of teachers for purposes of this chapter shall complete the evaluator training program. A practitioner licensed under chapter 272 who is not an administrator may enroll in the evaluator training program. Enrollment preference shall be given to administrators. Upon successful completion, the provider shall certify that the administrator or other practitioner is qualified to conduct evaluations for employment, make recommendations for licensure, and make recommendations that a teacher is qualified to advance from one career path level to the next career path level pursuant to this chapter. Certification is for a period of five years and may be renewed.   3. A higher education institution approved by the state board to provide an administrator preparation program shall incorporate the evaluator training program into the program offered by the institution.   4. The board of educational examiners shall require certification as a condition of issuing or renewing an administrator’s license.   5. By July 1, 2007, the director shall develop and implement an evaluator training certification renewal program for administrators and other practitioners who need to renew a certificate issued pursuant to this section.  2001 Acts, ch 161, §11, 25; 2001 Acts, ch 177, §8, 15; 2002 Acts, ch 1152, §18; 2003 Acts, ch 180, §49; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §95; 2006 Acts, ch 1182, §23  Referred to in §284.2, 284.4, 284.8, 284.13
IA Code § 284.12 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 284 - TEACHER PERFORMANCE, COMPENSATION, AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT|Section 284.12 - Rules.

284.12 Rules.   In developing administrative rules for consideration by the state board, the department shall consult with stakeholders who might reasonably be affected by the proposed rule, including persons representing teachers, administrators, school boards, approved practitioner preparation institutions, and other appropriate education stakeholders.  2001 Acts, ch 161, §13; 2001 Acts, ch 177, §11, 15; 2003 Acts, ch 45, §1; 2005 Acts, ch 19, §39; 2007 Acts, ch 108, §34, 35; 2016 Acts, ch 1036, §13
IA Code § 284.14A (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 284 - TEACHER PERFORMANCE, COMPENSATION, AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT|Section 284.14A - Career ladder pilots.

284.14A Career ladder pilots. Repealed by 2012 Acts, ch 1119, §8.
IA Code § 284A.1 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 284A - ADMINISTRATOR QUALITY PROGRAM|Section 284A.1 - Administrator quality program.

284A.1 Administrator quality program.   An administrator quality program is established to promote high student achievement and enhanced educator quality. The program shall consist of the following three major components:   1. Mentoring and induction programs that provide support for administrators in accordance with section 284A.5.   2. Professional development designed to directly support best practices for leadership.   3. Evaluation of administrators against the Iowa standards for school administrators.  2007 Acts, ch 108, §54
IA Code § 284A.2 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 284A - ADMINISTRATOR QUALITY PROGRAM|Section 284A.2 - Definitions.

284A.2 Definitions.   As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   1. “Administrator” means an individual holding a professional administrator license issued under chapter 272 who is employed in a school district administrative position by a school district or area education agency pursuant to a contract issued by a board of directors under section 279.23 and is engaged in instructional leadership. An administrator may be employed in both an administrative and a nonadministrative position by a board of directors and shall be considered a part-time administrator for the portion of time that the individual is employed in an administrative position.   2. “Beginning administrator” means an individual serving under an administrator license, issued by the board of educational examiners under chapter 272, who is assuming a position as a school district principal or superintendent for the first time.   3. “Comprehensive evaluation” means a summative evaluation of a beginning administrator conducted by an evaluator in accordance with section 284A.3 for purposes of determining a beginning administrator’s level of competency for recommendation for licensure based on the Iowa standards for school administrators adopted pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 27.   4. “Department” means the department of education.   5. “Director” means the director of the department of education.   6. “Evaluation” means a summative evaluation of an administrator used to determine whether the administrator’s practice meets school district expectations and the Iowa standards for school administrators adopted pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 27.   7. “Mentor” means an individual employed by a school district or area education agency as a school district administrator or a retired administrator who holds a valid license issued under chapter 272. The individual must have a record of four years of successful administrative experience and must demonstrate professional commitment to both the improvement of teaching and learning and the development of beginning administrators.   8. “School board” means the board of directors of a school district or a collaboration of boards of directors of school districts.   9. “State board” means the state board of education.  2006 Acts, ch 1182, §28  C2007, §284A.1  2007 Acts, ch 108, §50, 60  CS2007, §284A.2  2009 Acts, ch 177, §43; 2010 Acts, ch 1183, §35; 2014 Acts, ch 1135, §28
IA Code § 284A.3 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 284A - ADMINISTRATOR QUALITY PROGRAM|Section 284A.3 - Administrator evaluations.

284A.3 Administrator evaluations.   By July 1, 2008, each school board shall provide for evaluations for administrators under individual professional development plans developed in accordance with section 279.23A, and the Iowa standards for school administrators and related criteria adopted by the state board in accordance with section 256.7, subsection 27. A local school board may establish additional administrator standards and related criteria.  2007 Acts, ch 108, §55  Referred to in §272.9A, 284A.2
IA Code § 284A.4 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 284A - ADMINISTRATOR QUALITY PROGRAM|Section 284A.4 - Participation.

284A.4 Participation.   Effective July 1, 2007, each school district shall participate in the administrator quality program, and the board of directors of each school district shall do all of the following:   1. Implement a beginning administrator mentoring and induction program as provided in this chapter.   2. Adopt individual administrator professional development plans in accordance with this chapter.   3. Adopt an administrator evaluation plan that, at a minimum, requires an evaluation of administrators in the school district annually pursuant to section 279.23A and based upon the Iowa standards for school administrators and individual administrator professional development plans.  2007 Acts, ch 108, §56
IA Code § 284A.6 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 284A - ADMINISTRATOR QUALITY PROGRAM|Section 284A.6 - Administrator professional development.

284A.6 Administrator professional development.   1. Each school district shall be responsible for the provision of professional growth programming for individuals employed in a school district administrative position by the school district or area education agency as deemed appropriate by the board of directors of the school district or area education agency. School districts may collaborate with other educational stakeholders including other school districts, area education agencies, professional organizations, higher education institutions, and private providers regarding the provision of professional development for school district administrators. Professional development programming for school district administrators may include support that meets the professional development needs of individual administrators aligned to the Iowa standards for school administrators adopted pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 27, and meets individual administrator professional development plans.   2. In cooperation with the administrator’s evaluator, the administrator who has a professional administrator license issued by the board of educational examiners pursuant to chapter 272 and is employed by a school district or area education agency in a school district administrative position shall develop an individual administrator professional development plan. The purpose of the plan is to promote individual and group professional development. The individual plan shall be based, at a minimum, on the needs of the administrator, the Iowa standards for school administrators adopted pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 27, and the student achievement goals of the attendance center and the school district as outlined in the comprehensive school improvement plan.   3. The administrator’s evaluator shall meet annually as provided in section 279.23A with the administrator to review progress in meeting the goals in the administrator’s individual plan. The purpose of the meeting shall be to review collaborative work with other staff on student achievement goals and to modify as necessary the administrator’s individual plan to reflect the individual administrator’s and the school district’s needs and the individual’s progress in meeting the goals in the plan. The administrator shall present to the evaluator evidence of progress. The administrator’s supervisor and the evaluator shall review and the supervisor may modify the administrator’s individual plan.  2007 Acts, ch 108, §57; 2010 Acts, ch 1183, §37  Referred to in §272.9A
IA Code § 284A.7 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 284A - ADMINISTRATOR QUALITY PROGRAM|Section 284A.7 - Evaluation requirements for administrators.

284A.7 Evaluation requirements for administrators.   A school district shall conduct an annual evaluation of an administrator who holds a professional administrator license issued under chapter 272 for purposes of assisting the administrator in making continuous improvement, documenting continued competence in the Iowa standards for school administrators adopted pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 27, or to determine whether the administrator’s practice meets school district expectations. The evaluation shall include, at a minimum, an assessment of the administrator’s competence in meeting the Iowa standards for school administrators and the goals of the administrator’s individual professional development plan, including supporting documentation or artifacts aligned to the Iowa standards for school administrators and the individual administrator’s professional development plan.  2007 Acts, ch 108, §58; 2010 Acts, ch 1183, §38; 2012 Acts, ch 1119, §7
IA Code § 284A.8 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 284A - ADMINISTRATOR QUALITY PROGRAM|Section 284A.8 - Beginning administrator mentoring and induction program — program funds.

284A.8 Beginning administrator mentoring and induction program — program funds.   1. To the extent moneys are available, a school district shall receive one thousand five hundred dollars per beginning administrator participating in the program. Moneys received by a school district pursuant to this section shall be expended to provide each mentor with an award of five hundred dollars per semester, at a minimum, for participation in the school district’s beginning administrator mentoring and induction program; to implement the plan; and to pay any applicable costs of the employer’s share of contributions to federal social security and the Iowa public employees’ retirement system or a pension and annuity retirement system established under chapter 294, for such amounts paid by the district.   2. If the funds appropriated for the program are insufficient to pay mentors and school districts as provided in this section, the department shall prorate the amount distributed to school districts based upon the amount appropriated. A school district shall give priority to fully funding the obligation to principal mentors. Remaining moneys, if any, shall first be used to fund superintendent mentors and then to fund other program costs and applicable costs described in subsection 1.  2006 Acts, ch 1182, §30  C2007, §284A.3  2007 Acts, ch 108, §62; 2007 Acts, ch 214, §39  CS2007, §284.8  2010 Acts, ch 1183, §39
IA Code § 285.3 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 285 - STATE AID FOR TRANSPORTATION|Section 285.3 - Parental reimbursement for nonpublic school pupil transportation.

285.3 Parental reimbursement for nonpublic school pupil transportation.   1. A parent or legal guardian of a student attending an accredited nonpublic school, who furnishes transportation for the student pursuant to section 285.1, subsection 17, paragraph “c”, and who meets the requirements of subsection 2 of this section, is entitled to reimbursement equal to an amount calculated under the provisions of section 285.1, subsection 3. In addition, a parent or guardian who transports one or more family members more than four miles to their nonpublic school of attendance shall be entitled to one supplemental mileage payment per family, per claim period, equal to thirteen percent of the parental reimbursement for the claim period rounded to the nearest whole dollar.   2. To qualify for parental reimbursement under subsection 1, a parent or guardian of a student attending an accredited nonpublic school who furnishes transportation for the student in accordance with this section, shall submit a notice of nonpublic school attendance to the resident public school district, notifying the district that the student is enrolled in and will attend an accredited nonpublic school during the period for which parental reimbursement is being requested. The notice shall be filed with the resident public school district not later than December 1 for the first semester claim and May 1 for the second semester claim each year. The notice shall include the parent’s name and address, the name, age, and grade level of the student, and the name of the nonpublic school and its location. The resident public school district shall submit claims for reimbursement to the department of education on behalf of the parent or guardian if the parent or guardian meets the requirements of this section.  87 Acts, ch 6, §2; 2002 Acts, ch 1140, §26  Referred to in §285.1, 285.2
IA Code § 285.4 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 285 - STATE AID FOR TRANSPORTATION|Section 285.4 - Pupils sent to another district.

285.4 Pupils sent to another district.   When a board closes its elementary school facilities for lack of pupils or by action of the board, it shall, if there is a school bus service available in the area, designate for attendance the school operating the buses, provided the board of such school is willing to receive them and the facilities and curricular offerings are adequate. The board of the district where the pupils reside may with the approval of the area education agency board, subject to legal limitations and established uniform standards, designate another rural school and provide their own transportation if the transportation costs will be less than to use the established bus service.   All designations must be submitted to the area education agency board on or before July 15, for review and approval. The agency board shall after due investigation alter or change designations to make them conform to legal requirements and established uniform standards for making designations and for locating and establishing bus routes. After designations are made, they will remain the same from year to year except that on or before July 15, of each year, the rural board or parents may petition the agency board for a change of designation to another school. Appeals from the decision of the agency board on designations may be made by either the parents or board to the director of the department of education as provided in section 285.12 and section 285.13.  [C35, §4274-e1, -e3, -e4, -e6; C39, §4274.03, 4274.05, 4274.06, 4274.08; C46, §282.10, 282.12, 282.13, 282.15, 285.4; C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §285.4]  85 Acts, ch 212, §21
IA Code § 285.6 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 285 - STATE AID FOR TRANSPORTATION|Section 285.6 - Personnel — expenses.

285.6 Personnel — expenses.   The director of the department of education shall employ the necessary qualified personnel to implement this chapter. The appropriation provided by this chapter may be expended in part for the direction and supervision provided by the chapter which shall include salaries and all necessary traveling expense incurred by personnel in the performance of their official duties.  [C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §285.6]  85 Acts, ch 212, §22; 86 Acts, ch 1245, §1488
IA Code § 285.9 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 285 - STATE AID FOR TRANSPORTATION|Section 285.9 - Powers and duties of area boards.

285.9 Powers and duties of area boards.   The powers and duties of the respective area education agency boards shall be to:   1. Enforce all laws and all rules and regulations of the department of education relating to transportation.   2. Review and approve all transportation arrangements between districts in the agency and in all districts in the agency not operating high schools. If such transportation arrangements, designations, and contracts are not in conformity to law or established uniform standards for the locating and operating of bus routes, the agency board shall, after receiving all facts, make such alterations or changes as necessary to make the arrangements, designations, and contracts conform to the legal and established requirements and shall notify local board of such action.   3. Approve all bus routes outside the boundary of the district of the school operating buses.   4. When a local board fails to make designations and other necessary arrangements for transportation as required by law, the agency board shall, after due notice to the local board, make necessary arrangements in conformity with law and established requirements. Notice shall be given to the local board of the arrangements as made. The arrangements shall be binding on the local board which shall pay the costs for service as arranged.  [C35, §4274-e1, -e2; C39, §4274.03, 4274.04; C46, §282.10, 282.11, 285.9; C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §285.9]  Referred to in §285.1, 285.2
IA Code § 285.11 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 285 - STATE AID FOR TRANSPORTATION|Section 285.11 - Bus routes — basis of operation.

285.11 Bus routes — basis of operation.   The establishment and operation of bus routes and the contracting for transportation shall be based upon the following considerations:   1. Each bus route shall be planned and adjusted to utilize the normal seating capacity of each bus insofar as it is possible to do so.   2. Each bus route shall serve only those pupils living in those areas where transportation by bus is the most economical method for providing adequate transportation facilities.   3. A route shall not be extended for the purpose of accommodating pupils whose homes are nearer another bus route.   4. Special contracts for transportation of pupils entitled to transportation shall be entered into only when it is more economical to make such special provision than to provide same by regular bus route, or when by reason of physical or mental disability of the pupil such pupil cannot be transported with safety by bus.   5. The boards shall take advantage of all tax exemptions on fuel, equipment, and of such other economies as are available.   6. The use of school buses shall be restricted to transporting pupils to and from school and to and from extracurricular activities sponsored by the school when such extracurricular activity is under the direction of a qualified member of the faculty and a part of the regular school program and to transporting other persons to the extent permitted by section 285.1, subsection 1, and section 285.10, subsections 9 and 10. School employees of districts operating buses may be transported to and from school and approved activities which they are required to attend as a result of their responsibilities. Provided, however, nothing in this subsection shall prohibit the use of school buses in transporting a school teacher going to and from the teacher’s school when such school is on an established school bus route and such teacher makes arrangements with the district operating such school bus.   7. No bus shall leave the public highway to receive or discharge pupils unless their safety is enhanced thereby, or the private road is maintained in the same manner as a public roadway.   8. Bus routes shall be established only to give service to properly designated pupils.  [C39, §4179.1; C46, §276.27, 285.11; C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §285.11]  90 Acts, ch 1230, §4; 96 Acts, ch 1129, §113; 2006 Acts, ch 1152, §45