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IA Code § 261E.5 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 261E - SENIOR YEAR PLUS PROGRAM|Section 261E.5 - Advanced placement courses — access — examination fee payment.

261E.5 Advanced placement courses — access — examination fee payment.   1. A student enrolled in a school district or accredited nonpublic school shall be provided access to advanced placement examinations at a rate of one-half of the cost of the regular examination fee the student or the student’s parents or guardians would normally pay for the examination.   2. The board of directors of a school district and the authorities in charge of an accredited nonpublic school shall ensure that any student enrolled who is interested in taking an advanced placement examination is properly registered for the examination. An accredited nonpublic school shall provide a list of students registered for advanced placement examinations to the school district in which the accredited nonpublic school is located. The school district and the accredited nonpublic school shall also ensure that any student enrolled in the school district or school, as applicable, who is interested in taking an advanced placement examination and qualifies for a reduced fee for the examination is properly registered for the fee reduction. The school district shall provide the college board with a list of all students enrolled in the school district and the accredited nonpublic schools located in the school district who are properly registered for advanced placement examinations administered by the college board.   3. From the funds allocated pursuant to section 261E.13, subsection 1, paragraph “d”, the department shall remit amounts to the college board for advanced placement examinations administered by the college board for students enrolled in school districts and accredited nonpublic schools pursuant to subsection 2 and shall distribute an amount per student to a school district submitting a list of students properly registered for the advanced placement examinations pursuant to subsection 2. The remittance rates to the college board and distribution amounts to the school districts in accordance with this subsection for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2008, are as follows:   a. Thirty-eight dollars for each school district or accredited nonpublic school student who does not qualify for fee reduction.   b. Twenty-seven dollars for each school district or accredited nonpublic school student who qualifies for fee reduction.   c. Eight dollars to the school district for each school district or accredited nonpublic school student who was listed by the school district and who takes an advanced placement examination in accordance with this section.  2008 Acts, ch 1181, §55; 2013 Acts, ch 30, §62  Referred to in §261E.13
IA Code § 261E.9 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 261E - SENIOR YEAR PLUS PROGRAM|Section 261E.9 - Regional academies.

261E.9 Regional academies.   1. a. A regional academy is a program established by a school district to which multiple school districts send students in grades seven through twelve. A school district establishing a regional academy may collaborate and partner with, enter into an agreement pursuant to chapter 28E with, or enter into a contract with, one or more school districts, area education agencies, community colleges, accredited public and private postsecondary institutions, accredited nonpublic schools, businesses, and private agencies located within or outside of the state.   b. The purpose of a regional academy established pursuant to this section shall be to build a culture of innovation for students and community, to diversify educational and economic opportunities by engaging in learning experiences that involve students in complex, real-world projects, and to develop regional or global innovation networks.   c. If a school district establishing a regional academy in accordance with this section submits a plan to the department for approval that demonstrates how the regional academy will increase and assess student achievement or increase and assess competency-based learning opportunities for students, the department may waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to school districts except the department shall not waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision relating to requirements applicable to school districts under chapters 11, 21, 22, 216, 216A, 256B, 279, 284, and 285; or relating to contracts with and discharge of teachers and administrators under chapters 20 and 279; or relating to audit requirements under section 256.9, subsection 20, and section 279.29.   2. a. A regional academy shall include in its curriculum advanced level courses.   b. A regional academy may include in its curriculum virtual or internet-based coursework and courses delivered via the Iowa communications network, career and technical courses, core curriculum coursework, courses required pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 26, or section 256.11, subsections 4 and 5, and asynchronous learning networks.   3. School districts participating in regional academies are eligible for supplementary weighting as provided in section 257.11, subsection 2. The school districts participating in the regional academy shall enter into an agreement on how the funding generated by the supplementary weighting received shall be used and shall submit the agreement to the department for approval.   4. Information regarding regional academies shall be provided to a student and the student’s parent or guardian prior to the development of the student’s career and academic plan under section 279.61.  2008 Acts, ch 1181, §59; 2011 Acts, ch 132, §15, 29; 2016 Acts, ch 1108, §5, 9
IA Code § 261E.10 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 261E - SENIOR YEAR PLUS PROGRAM|Section 261E.10 - Career academies.

261E.10 Career academies.   1. As used in this section, “career academy” means the same as defined in section 258.6.   2. A career academy course may qualify as a concurrent enrollment course if it meets the requirements of section 261E.8.   3. The school district providing secondary education under this section shall be eligible for supplementary weighting under section 257.11, subsection 2, and the community college shall be eligible for funds allocated pursuant to section 260C.18A.   4. Information regarding career academies shall be provided by the school district to a student and the student’s parent or guardian prior to the development of the student’s career and academic plan under section 279.61.  2008 Acts, ch 1181, §60; 2016 Acts, ch 1108, §6, 9, 62  Referred to in §261E.11
IA Code § 261E.11 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 261E - SENIOR YEAR PLUS PROGRAM|Section 261E.11 - Internet-based and Iowa communications network coursework.

261E.11 Internet-based and Iowa communications network coursework.   1. The Iowa communications network may be used to deliver coursework for the programming provided under this chapter subject to an appropriation by the general assembly for that purpose. A school district that provides courses delivered via the Iowa communications network shall receive supplemental funding as provided in section 257.11, subsection 6.   2. The programming in this chapter may be delivered via internet-based technologies including but not limited to the Iowa learning online program. An internet-based course may qualify for additional supplemental weighting if it meets the requirements of section 261E.8 or section 261E.10.   3. To qualify as a senior year plus course, an internet-based course or course offered through the Iowa communications network must comply with the appropriate provisions of this chapter.  2008 Acts, ch 1181, §61
IA Code § 261E.12 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 261E - SENIOR YEAR PLUS PROGRAM|Section 261E.12 - Internet-based clearinghouse.

261E.12 Internet-based clearinghouse.   The department shall develop and make available to secondary and postsecondary students, parents or legal guardians, school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, and eligible postsecondary institutions an internet-based clearinghouse of information that allows students to identify participation options within the senior year plus program and transferability between educational systems, subject to an appropriation by the general assembly for this purpose. The internet-based resource shall provide links to other similar resources available through various Iowa postsecondary institution systems. The internet-based resource shall also identify course transferability and articulation between the secondary and postsecondary systems in Iowa and between the various Iowa postsecondary systems.  2008 Acts, ch 1181, §62  Referred to in §261E.13
IA Code § 261E.13 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 261E - SENIOR YEAR PLUS PROGRAM|Section 261E.13 - State program allocation.

261E.13 State program allocation.   1. For each fiscal year in which moneys are appropriated by the general assembly for purposes of the senior year plus program, the moneys shall be allocated as follows in the following priority order:   a. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2008, and succeeding fiscal years, an amount up to five hundred thousand dollars to the department to implement the internet-based clearinghouse pursuant to section 261E.12.   b. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2008, and succeeding fiscal years, an amount up to five hundred thousand dollars to the department for the development of a data management system, including the development of a transcript repository, for senior year plus programming provided under this chapter. The data management system shall include information generated by the provisions of section 279.61, data on courses taken by Iowa’s students, and the transferability of course credit.   c. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2008, and succeeding fiscal years, an amount up to four hundred thousand dollars to the department for the development of additional internet-based educational courses that comply with the provisions of this chapter.   d. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2008, and succeeding fiscal years, an amount up to five hundred thousand dollars to the department to provide advanced placement course examination fee remittance pursuant to section 261E.5. If the funds appropriated for purposes of section 261E.5 are insufficient to distribute the amounts set out in section 261E.5, subsection 3, to school districts, the department shall prorate the amount distributed to school districts based on the amount appropriated.   2. Notwithstanding section 8.33, any moneys remaining unencumbered or unobligated from the moneys allocated under this section shall not revert but shall remain available in the succeeding fiscal year for expenditure for the purposes designated. The department shall annually inform the general assembly of the amount of moneys allocated, but unspent. The provisions of section 8.39 shall not apply to the funds allocated pursuant to this section.  2008 Acts, ch 1181, §63; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §173, 264  Referred to in §261E.5
IA Code § 261F.2 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 261F - EDUCATIONAL LOANS|Section 261F.2 - Code of conduct.

261F.2 Code of conduct.   1. A covered institution shall do the following:   a. Develop, in consultation with the college student aid commission, a code of conduct governing educational loan activities with which the covered institution’s officers, employees, and agents shall comply.   b. Publish the code of conduct developed in accordance with paragraph “a” prominently on its internet site.   c. Administer and enforce the code of conduct developed in accordance with paragraph “a”.   2. The college student aid commission shall provide to covered institutions assistance and guidance relating to the development, administration, and monitoring of a code of conduct governing educational loan activities.   3. Except as provided in this section, the college student aid commission is not subject to the duties, restrictions, prohibitions, and penalties of this chapter.  2008 Acts, ch 1132, §4
IA Code § 261F.4 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 261F - EDUCATIONAL LOANS|Section 261F.4 - Misleading identification — covered institution — lending institutions’ employees.

261F.4 Misleading identification — covered institution — lending institutions’ employees.   1. A lending institution shall prohibit an employee or agent of the lending institution from being identified to borrowers or prospective borrowers of a covered institution as an employee, representative, or agent of the covered institution.   2. A covered institution shall prohibit an employee or agent of a lending institution from being identified as an employee, representative, or agent of the covered institution.   3. An employee, representative, or agent of a lending institution included on a covered institution’s preferred lending list shall not staff a covered institution’s financial aid offices or call center and shall not prepare any of the covered institution’s materials related to educational loans.   4. A covered institution that has entered into a preferred lender arrangement with a lender regarding private educational loans shall not agree to the lender’s use of the name, emblem, mascot, or logo of the institution, or other words, pictures, or symbols readily identified with the institution, in the marketing of private educational loans to the students attending the institution in any way that implies that the institution endorses the private educational loans offered by the lender. However, the covered institution may allow the use of its name if it is part of the lending institution’s legal name.   5. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a covered institution from requesting or accepting the following assistance from a lender related to any of the following:   a. Providing educational counseling materials, financial literacy materials, or debt management materials to borrowers, provided that such materials disclose to borrowers the identification of any lender that assisted in preparing or providing such materials.   b. Staffing services on a short-term, nonrecurring basis to assist the institution with financial aid-related functions during emergencies, including state-declared or federally declared natural disasters, federally declared national disasters, and other localized disasters and emergencies identified by the attorney general.   6. The attorney general shall adopt rules providing for the disclosure, for lenders with a preferred lender arrangement, of philanthropic contributions made as specified in section 261F.1, subsection 5, paragraph “d”.  2008 Acts, ch 1132, §6  Referred to in §261F.1
IA Code § 261F.6 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 261F - EDUCATIONAL LOANS|Section 261F.6 - Standards for preferred lender lists.

261F.6 Standards for preferred lender lists.   1. A covered institution may make available a list of preferred lenders, in print or any other medium or form, for use by the covered institution’s students or their parents, provided the list meets the following conditions:   a. The list is not used to deny or otherwise impede a borrower’s choice of lender.   b. The list contains at least three lenders that are not affiliated and will make loans to borrowers or students attending the school. For the purposes of this paragraph, a lender is affiliated with another lender if any of the following applies:   (1) The lenders are under the ownership or control of the same entity or individuals.   (2) The lenders are wholly or partly owned subsidiaries of the same parent company.   (3) The directors, trustees, or general partners, or individuals exercising similar functions, of one of the lenders constitute a majority of the persons holding similar positions with the other lender.   c. The list does not include lenders that have offered, or have offered in response to a solicitation by the covered institution, financial or other benefits to the covered institution in exchange for inclusion on the list or any promise that a certain number of loan applications will be sent to the lender by the covered institution or its students.   2. A covered institution that provides or makes available a preferred lender list shall do the following:   a. Disclose to prospective borrowers, as part of the list, the method and criteria used by the covered institution in selecting any lender that it recommends or suggests.   b. Provide comparative information to prospective borrowers about interest rates and other benefits offered by the lenders.   c. Include a prominent statement in any information related to its preferred lender list advising prospective borrowers that the borrowers are not required to use one of the covered institution’s recommended or suggested lenders.   d. For first-time borrowers, refrain from assigning, through award packaging or other methods, a borrower’s loan to a particular lender.   e. Not cause unnecessary certification delays for borrowers who use a lender that is not included on the covered institution’s preferred lender list.   f. Update the preferred lender list and any information accompanying the list at least annually.   3. If the servicer of a private educational loan is changed by a lending institution, the lending institution shall disclose the change to the affected borrower.   4. A lending institution shall not be placed on a covered institution’s preferred lender list or in favored placement on a covered institution’s preferred lender list for a particular type of loan, in exchange for benefits provided to the covered institution or to the covered institution’s students in connection with a different type of loan.  2008 Acts, ch 1132, §8, 15
IA Code § 261F.7 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 261F - EDUCATIONAL LOANS|Section 261F.7 - Disclosure requirements.

261F.7 Disclosure requirements.   Except for educational loans made, insured, or guaranteed by the federal government, a lending institution included on a covered institution’s preferred lender list shall, upon receiving a request from a borrower, covered institution, or government entity, disclose to the requester in reasonable detail and form, the terms of private educational loans made to borrowers by that lending institution and the rates of interest charged to borrowers for private educational loans in the year preceding the disclosures.  2008 Acts, ch 1132, §9, 15
IA Code § 261F.8 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 261F - EDUCATIONAL LOANS|Section 261F.8 - Penalties.

261F.8 Penalties.   1. If after providing notice and an opportunity for a hearing the attorney general determines that a covered institution or lending institution has violated a provision of this chapter, the covered institution or lending institution may be liable for a civil penalty of up to five thousand dollars per violation. In taking action against a covered institution or lending institution, consideration shall be given to the nature and severity of a violation of this chapter.   2. If after providing notice and an opportunity for a hearing the attorney general determines that a covered institution employee has violated a provision of this chapter, the covered institution employee may be liable for a civil penalty of up to two thousand five hundred dollars per violation. In taking action against a covered institution employee, consideration shall be given to the nature and severity of a violation of this chapter.   3. If after providing notice and an opportunity for a hearing the attorney general determines that a lending institution has violated a provision of this chapter, such lending institution shall not be placed or remain on any covered institution’s preferred lender list unless notice of such violation is provided to all potential borrowers of the covered institution. However, consideration shall be given to the nature and severity of a violation of this chapter in determining whether and for how long to ban a lender from a preferred lender list.   4. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the attorney general from reaching a settlement agreement with a covered institution, covered institution employee, or lending institution in order to effectuate the purposes of this section. Provided, however, if such settlement agreement is reached with a covered institution or lending institution, the attorney general shall provide notice of such action to the borrowers in a form and manner prescribed by the attorney general.   5. The attorney general shall deposit the funds generated pursuant to this section into the student lending education fund, created in section 261F.10.   6. Each individual incident of a violation of this chapter shall be considered a separate violation for the purpose of imposing civil penalties.  2008 Acts, ch 1132, §10  Referred to in §261F.10
IA Code § 261F.9 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 261F - EDUCATIONAL LOANS|Section 261F.9 - Rules — investigation authority — enforcement.

261F.9 Rules — investigation authority — enforcement.   1. The attorney general shall administer this chapter and promulgate rules, pursuant to chapter 17A, necessary for the implementation of this chapter. Unless otherwise provided, all actions by the attorney general pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to the provisions of chapter 17A.   2. The attorney general is authorized to conduct an investigation to determine whether to initiate proceedings pursuant to this chapter to the same extent as the investigation authority granted the attorney general under section 714.16.  2008 Acts, ch 1132, §11
IA Code § 261F.10 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 261F - EDUCATIONAL LOANS|Section 261F.10 - Student lending education fund.

261F.10 Student lending education fund.   1. There is established in the state treasury a student lending education fund.   2. The fund shall consist of all revenues generated pursuant to section 261F.8 and all other moneys credited or transferred to the fund from any other fund or source pursuant to law.   3. Moneys in the fund shall be made available to the attorney general for the purpose of enforcing this chapter.  2008 Acts, ch 1132, §12  Referred to in §261F.8
IA Code § 261F.11 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 261F - EDUCATIONAL LOANS|Section 261F.11 - Effect on other laws or regulations.

261F.11 Effect on other laws or regulations.   This chapter shall not be interpreted to affect the liability of any person, covered institution, or lending institution under any other state statute or rule.  2008 Acts, ch 1132, §13
IA Code § 261G.1 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS|Chapter 261G - POSTSECONDARY DISTANCE EDUCATION — INTERSTATE RECIPROCITY|Section 261G.1 - Purpose.

261G.1 Purpose.   The purpose of this chapter is to authorize the college student aid commission to enter into or recognize agreements that will create interstate reciprocity in the regulation of postsecondary distance education for the purpose of encouraging cost savings for students and greater efficiencies and effectiveness for institutions of higher education providing distance education.  2014 Acts, ch 1063, §5