256C.4 - FUNDING PROVISIONS -- ENROLLMENT.

        256C.4  FUNDING PROVISIONS -- ENROLLMENT.
         1.  General.
         a.  State funding provided under the preschool program shall
      be based upon the enrollment of eligible students in the preschool
      programming provided by a school district approved to participate in
      the preschool program.
         b.  A school district approved to participate in the preschool
      program may authorize expenditures for the district's preschool
      programming from any of the revenue sources available to the district
      from the sources listed in chapter 298A, provided the expenditures
      are within the uses permitted for the revenue source.  In addition,
      the use of the revenue source for preschool or prekindergarten
      programming must have been approved prior to any expenditure from the
      revenue source for the district's approved local program.
         c.  Funding provided under the preschool program is intended
      to supplement, not supplant, existing public funding for preschool
      programming.
         d.  Preschool foundation aid funding shall not be commingled
      with the other state aid payments made under section 257.16 to a
      school district and shall be accounted for by the local school
      district separately from the other state aid payments.  Preschool
      foundation aid payments made to school districts are miscellaneous
      income for purposes of chapter 257.  A school district shall maintain
      a separate listing within its budget for preschool foundation aid
      payments received and expenditures made.  A school district shall
      certify to the department of education that preschool foundation aid
      funding received by the school district was used to supplement, not
      supplant, moneys otherwise received and used by the school district
      for preschool programming.
         e.  Preschool foundation aid funding shall not be used for the
      costs of constructing a facility in connection with an approved local
      program.
         f.  The receipt of funding by a school district for the
      purposes of this chapter, the need for additional funding for the
      purposes of this chapter, or the enrollment count of eligible
      students under this chapter shall not be considered to be unusual
      circumstances, create an unusual need for additional funds, or
      qualify under any other circumstances that may be used by the school
      budget review committee to grant supplemental aid to or establish
      modified allowable growth for a school district under section 257.31.

         2.  Eligible student enrollment.
         a.  To be included as an eligible student in the enrollment
      count of the preschool programming provided by a school district
      approved to participate in the preschool program, a child must be
      four years of age by September 15 in the base year and attending the
      school district's approved local program.
         b.  The enrollment count of eligible students shall not
      include a child who is included in the enrollment count determined
      under section 257.6 or a child who is served by a program already
      receiving state or federal funds for the purpose of the provision of
      four-year-old preschool programming while the child is being served
      by the program.  Such preschool programming includes but is not
      limited to child development assistance programs provided under
      chapter 256A, special education programs provided under section
      256B.9, school ready children grant programs and other programs
      provided under chapter 28, and federal head start programs and the
      services funded by Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary
      Education Act of 1965.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         2007 Acts, ch 148, §4; 2008 Acts, ch 1181, §68, 74
         Referred to in § 256C.3, 256C.5