256.22 - EXTENDED YEAR SCHOOL GRANT PROGRAM.

        256.22  EXTENDED YEAR SCHOOL GRANT PROGRAM.
         1.  Subject to an appropriation of sufficient funds by the general
      assembly, the department shall establish an extended year school
      grant program to provide for the allocation of grants to school
      districts, or a collaboration of school districts, to provide
      technical assistance for conversion of an existing school to an
      extended school year calendar, or for investigating the possibility
      of converting an existing school within a district to an extended
      school year calendar.
         2.  Grant moneys shall be distributed to qualifying school
      districts by the department no later than October 15, 1999.  Grant
      amounts shall be distributed as determined by the department.
         3.  By February 15, 1999, a school district or collaboration of
      districts receiving moneys under this section shall submit an interim
      report to the department describing the planning activities conducted
      by the school district or the collaboration and providing preliminary
      conclusions.  The school district or collaboration shall submit a
      final report by June 1, 1999, to the department.  The department
      shall summarize the school district reports in a final report to the
      chairpersons and ranking members of the house and senate standing
      education committees by January 1, 2000.
         4.  Notwithstanding section 8.33, unencumbered or unobligated
      funds remaining on June 30 of the fiscal year for which the funds
      were appropriated shall not revert but shall be available for
      expenditure for the following fiscal year for purposes of this
      section.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         98 Acts, ch 1215, § 27; 98 Acts, ch 1216, §4; 99 Acts, ch 205, §19