Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 281 - Education Department › Title XVI - School Facilities › Chapter 97 - Supplementary Weighting › Rule 281-97.4 - Supplementary Weighting Plan for Whole-grade Sharing

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
(1)
Whole-grade sharing.
A school district that participates in a
				whole-grade sharing arrangement executed pursuant to Iowa Code sections
				282.10 to
				282.12 and that has adopted a
				board resolution to study dissolution or has adopted a board resolution jointly
				with all other affected boards to study reorganization to take effect on or
				before July 1, 2024, is eligible to assign a weighting of one-tenth of the
				fraction of the school year during which resident pupils attend classes
				pursuant to paragraph 97.2(1)
"a,""b,"
or
"c."
A school district participating in a whole-grade sharing arrangement is
				eligible for supplementary weighting under this subrule for a maximum of three
				years. Receipt of supplementary weighting for the second year and for the third
				year is conditioned upon submission of information resulting from the study to
				the school budget review committee indicating progress or continued progress
				toward the objective of dissolution or reorganization on or before July 1,
				2024.
(2)
Contiguous
				districts.
School districts that adopt a board resolution jointly with
				all other affected boards to study reorganization must be contiguous school
				districts. If two or more of the affected districts are not contiguous to each
				other, all districts separating those districts must be a party to the
				whole-grade sharing arrangement and the board resolution adopted jointly to
				study reorganization.
(3)
Consecutive years.
A school district that is eligible to add a
				supplementary weighting for resident students attending classes under a
				whole-grade sharing arrangement pursuant to subrule 97.4(1) is not required to
				utilize consecutive years. However, the final year in which a supplementary
				weighting may be added on October 1 for this purpose will not be later than the
				school year that begins July 1, 2024.
(4)
Change in sharing
				districts.
A school district that is eligible to add a supplementary
				weighting for resident students attending classes under a whole-grade sharing
				arrangement pursuant to subrule 97.4(1) may enter into a whole-grade sharing
				arrangement with one or more different districts for its second or third year
				of eligible weighting by adopting and filing a new joint board resolution
				pursuant to this subrule. Establishing a new whole-grade sharing arrangement
				does not extend the maximum number of years for which a school district is
				eligible.
(5)
Filing board
				resolutions.
Each school district that adopts a board resolution to
				study dissolution or has adopted a board resolution jointly with all other
				affected boards to study reorganization will file a copy of the board
				resolution with the department not later than October 1 on which date the
				district intends to request supplementary weighting for whole-grade
				sharing.
(6)
Filing
				progress reports.
Each school district that intends to assign a
				supplementary weighting to resident students attending class in a whole-grade
				sharing arrangement in any year following the initial year for which
				supplementary weighting for whole-grade sharing was approved will file a report
				of progress toward reorganization with the school budget review committee, on
				forms developed by the department, no later than August 1 preceding October 1
				on which date the district intends to request the second or third year of
				supplementary weighting for whole-grade sharing.
a. The progress report will include the
				following information:
(1) Names of districts
				with which the district is studying reorganization.
(2) Descriptive information on the
				whole-grade sharing arrangement.
(3) Information on whether a plan for
				reorganization has been approved by the AEA and an election date has been
				set.