Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 281 - Education Department › Title XVI - School Facilities › Chapter 98 - Supplementary Weighting › Rule 281-98.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
				  apply:
"Budgetary allocation"
means the portion of
				  the funding that is specifically earmarked for a particular purpose or
				  designated program and that, in the case of the general fund, has been rolled
				  into, or added to, the school district cost per pupil or school district
				  regular program cost. Budgetary allocations may include both state aid and
				  property tax. Budgetary allocations increase budget authority on the first day
				  of the fiscal year for which the allocation has been certified or on the date
				  that the school budget review committee approves the modified supplemental
				  amount for a specific purpose or program; the budget authority remains even if
				  the full amount of revenue is not received or if the local board does not levy
				  a cash reserve. There is no assumption that a school district or area education
				  agency will receive the same amount of revenue as it has received in budget
				  authority due to delinquent property taxes, cuts in state aid, or legislative
				  decisions to fund other instructional programs off the top of state aid. The
				  school district or area education agency must expend the full amount of budget
				  authority for the specific purposes for which it was earmarked. When the school
				  district or state cost per pupil is transferred from one school district to
				  another school district in the form of tuition as required by the Iowa Code,
				  any budgetary allocation that is included in the school district or state cost
				  per pupil will be considered transferred to the receiving school district and
				  will be expended for the specific purpose for which it was earmarked.
"Categorical funding"
means financial
				  support from state and federal governments that is targeted for particular
				  categories of students, special programs, or special purposes. This support is
				  in addition to school district or area education agency general purpose
				  revenue, is beyond the basic educational program, and most often has
				  restrictions on its use. Where categorical funding requires a local match, that
				  local match also is considered to be categorical funding. Categorical funding
				  includes both grants in aid and budgetary allocations. Although grants in aid
				  and budgetary allocations are both categorical funding, they are defined
				  separately to distinguish unique characteristics of each type of categorical
				  funding.
"Community education"
means a life-long
				  education process concerning itself with every facet that affects the
				  well-being of all citizens within a given community. It extends the role of the
				  school from one of teaching children through an elementary and secondary
				  program to one of providing for citizen participation in identifying the wants,
				  needs, and concerns of the neighborhood community and coordinating all
				  educational, recreational, and cultural opportunities within the community with
				  community education being the catalyst for providing for citizen participation
				  in the development and implementation of programs toward the goal of improving
				  the entire community.
"Grants in aid"
means financial support,
				  usually from state or federal appropriations, that is either allocated to the
				  school district or area education agency or for which a school district or area
				  education agency applies. This support is paid separately from state foundation
				  aid. In the general fund, grants in aid become miscellaneous income and
				  increase budget authority when the support is received as revenue.
"Supplement, not supplant"
means, when a
				  funding stream contains this provision, that the categorical funding is in
				  addition to general purpose revenues; that categorical funding will not be used
				  to provide services required by federal or state law, administrative rule, or
				  local policy; and that general purpose revenues will not be diverted for other
				  purposes because of the availability of categorical funding. Supplanting is
				  presumed to have occurred if the school district or area education agency uses
				  categorical funding to provide services that it was required to make available
				  under other categorical funding or law, or uses categorical funding to provide
				  services that it provided in prior years from general purpose revenues, or uses
				  categorical funding to provide services to a particular group of children or
				  programs for which it uses general purpose revenues to provide the same or
				  similar services to other groups of children or programs. These presumptions
				  are rebuttable if the school district or area education agency can demonstrate
				  that it would not have provided the services in question with general purpose
				  revenues if the categorical funding had not been available.
"Technology"
means hardware,
				  noninstructional software and software required to provide functionality to the
				  hardware, wireless presenters, networking and connectivity systems, computing
				  storage, website development services, hardware carrying equipment, licensing,
				  and technical assistance for installation of hardware, software, or software
				  updates. Technology does not include such items as instructional software or
				  textbook substitutes as defined in Iowa Code chapter 301, professional
				  development, staff providing support to teachers or students, general supplies,
				  district personnel or individuals/companies hired or contracted in lieu of
				  district personnel, travel, printing costs or media services not listed in this
				  definition, insurance, most purchased services, or similar district functions.
				  Maintenance contracts do not meet the definition of "technology" unless they
				  are actually a license renewal fee; Internet subscriptions, licenses, or fees;
				  cable or satellite services; or very similar services.