Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 281 - Education Department › Title XVI - School Facilities › Chapter 98 - Supplementary Weighting › Rule 281-98.73 - Juvenile Home Program Instruction Fund

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
The juvenile home program instruction fund is used to account
				  for the revenues and expenditures for the educational program for students
				  residing in juvenile homes as provided by Iowa Code section
				  282.30. The juvenile home
				  program supplements, but does not supplant, expenditures required of an area
				  education agency under Iowa Code chapter 273. Revenues and expenditures related
				  to federal or state grants serving students in the juvenile homes that
				  supplement, rather than supplant, the juvenile home program are included in the
				  general fund, rather than the juvenile home fund. Educational program costs for
				  students served pursuant to individualized education programs (IEPs) will not
				  be included in the claim described in Iowa Code section
				  282.31 in lieu of billing those
				  costs to the resident district. Educational program costs for out-of-state
				  resident students will not be included in the claim described in Iowa Code
				  section 282.31 in lieu of billing those
				  costs to the resident state agency. The area education agency (AEA) is
				  responsible for stewardship of public funds and ensuring that all costs are
				  ordinary and necessary costs of instruction and that classrooms are not
				  overstaffed for the number of students. The AEA will compare its costs,
				  services, and staffing to the costs, services, and staffing of a similar
				  classroom in the school district in which the juvenile home is located to
				  ensure that they are comparable.
(1)
Sources of revenue in the juvenile home program instruction
				fund.
Sources of revenue in the juvenile home program instruction fund
				include an advance paid pursuant to Iowa Code section
				282.31, tuition billed to Iowa
				resident districts or to out-of-state agencies, grants in aid and interest on
				the investment of those moneys.
(2)
Appropriate uses of the juvenile home program instruction
				fund.
Appropriate expenditures in the juvenile home program
				instruction fund are ordinary and necessary expenditures approved by the
				department to provide an instructional program to students residing in juvenile
				homes and include:
a. Salary and benefits for
				classroom teachers and aides providing instruction to students placed in a
				juvenile home.
b. Professional
				development that is specific to strategies to meet the needs of students in
				placement for all classroom teachers and aides working with students placed in
				a juvenile home.
c. Research-based
				resources, materials, software, supplies, and equipment, and purchased services
				that are customarily considered instructional and that meet all of the
				following criteria:
(1) Meet the needs of
				school-age students placed in juvenile homes,
(2) Will remain with the AEA juvenile home
				program, and
(3) Do not duplicate
				support services responsibilities of the AEA or the responsibilities of the
				juvenile home in its agreement with the placement agencies.
d. Summer school when necessary for a valid,
				established educational reason such as being included in the student's IEP or
				pursuant to Iowa Code section
				279.68.
e. Student support and instructional support
				expenditures to the extent that they are exclusively devoted to the juvenile
				home instructional program and are not administrative or clerical. This would
				include guidance services, curriculum development and instructional
				technology.
f. Administrative
				support to the extent the administrator is exclusively assigned to the juvenile
				home locations and is exclusively providing school-level administrative
				services directly for the student placed in the juvenile home or the classroom
				teachers. If the administrator is assigned part-time to the juvenile home
				locations, then only the portion of time that is exclusively and directly
				related to the juvenile home instructional programs may be charged to the
				program. The total administrative cost will not exceed 10 percent of the total
				of all allowable costs for the juvenile home program.
g. When the students are not required by the
				placement agency to remain at the juvenile home facility and the juvenile home
				has no responsibility for treatment in its agreement with the placement agency
				beyond custodial care, then rent may be allowed. Rent must be approved by the
				department. The space must be classroom space occupied exclusively by the AEA's
				instructional program and not include restrooms or any other common spaces.
				Only if rent is approved may any costs for operation or maintenance of that
				classroom space be allowed. The total administrative cost in paragraph
				98.73(2)
"f"
and the total of rent and associated operation and
				maintenance will not exceed 20 percent of the total of all allowable costs for
				the juvenile home program.
h.
				Transportation provided by the AEA exclusively to transport students placed at
				the juvenile home to the students' resident school districts located in Iowa or
				to the school district in which the juvenile home is
				located.