256.23 - ADMINISTRATIVE ADVANCEMENT AND RECRUITMENT PROGRAM.

        256.23  ADMINISTRATIVE ADVANCEMENT AND RECRUITMENT
      PROGRAM.
         The department shall establish a recruitment and advancement
      program to provide for the allocation of grants to school
      corporations.  A school corporation may submit plans and a budget to
      the department for approval of a pilot project that will encourage
      the advancement of women and minorities to administrative positions
      within that school corporation or will encourage the recruitment and
      employment of minorities to positions within that school corporation.
      The state board shall adopt rules under chapter 17A establishing
      criteria for approval of the pilot projects and payment of the
      grants.  The criteria for a pilot project encouraging the advancement
      of women and minorities shall include the use of staff development
      for assisting employees of the school corporation to meet the
      requirements for advancement to administrative positions.  School
      corporations approved for the establishment of pilot projects under
      this section shall submit reports of the results of the pilot
      projects to the department of education by October 1 of the fiscal
      year following the fiscal year in which the grants are received.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         88 Acts, ch 1078, § 1