257.11 - SUPPLEMENTARY WEIGHTING PLAN.

        257.11  SUPPLEMENTARY WEIGHTING PLAN.
         1.  Regular curriculum.  Pupils in a regular curriculum
      attending all their classes in the district in which they reside,
      taught by teachers employed by that district, and having
      administrators employed by that district, are assigned a weighting of
      one.
         2.  District-to-district sharing.
         a.  In order to provide additional funds for school districts
      which send their resident pupils to another school district, which
      jointly employ and share the services of teachers under section
      280.15, or which use the services of a teacher employed by another
      school district, a supplementary weighting plan for determining
      enrollment is adopted.
         b.  If the school budget review committee certifies to the
      department of management that the shared classes or teachers would
      otherwise not be implemented without the assignment of additional
      weighting, pupils attending classes in another school district,
      attending classes taught by a teacher who is employed jointly under
      section 280.15, or attending classes taught by a teacher who is
      employed by another school district are assigned a weighting of
      forty-eight hundredths of the percentage of the pupil's school day
      during which the pupil attends classes in another district, attends
      classes taught by a teacher who is jointly employed under section
      280.15, or attends classes taught by a teacher who is employed by
      another school district.
         c.  Pupils attending class for all or a substantial portion of
      a school day pursuant to a whole grade sharing agreement executed
      under sections 282.10 through 282.12 shall be eligible for
      supplementary weighting pursuant to this subsection.  A school
      district which executes a whole grade sharing agreement and which
      adopts a resolution jointly with other affected boards to study the
      question of undergoing a reorganization or dissolution to take effect
      on or before July 1, 2014, shall receive a weighting of one-tenth of
      the percentage of the pupil's school day during which the pupil
      attends classes in another district, attends classes taught by a
      teacher who is jointly employed under section 280.15, or attends
      classes taught by a teacher who is employed by another school
      district.  A district shall be eligible for supplementary weighting
      pursuant to this paragraph for a maximum of three years.  Receipt of
      supplementary weighting for a second and third year shall be
      conditioned upon submission of information resulting from the study
      to the school budget review committee indicating progress toward the
      objective of reorganization on or before July 1, 2014.
         d.  A school district which hosts a regional academy shall be
      eligible to assign its resident students attending classes at the
      academy a weighting of one-tenth of the percentage of the student's
      school day during which the student attends classes at the regional
      academy.  The maximum amount of additional weighting for which a
      school district hosting a regional academy shall be eligible is an
      amount corresponding to thirty additional students.  The minimum
      amount of additional weighting for which a school district
      establishing a regional academy shall be eligible is an amount
      corresponding to fifteen additional students if the academy provides
      both advanced-level courses and career and technical courses.
         3.  District-to-community college sharing and concurrent
      enrollment programs.
         a.  In order to provide additional funds for school districts
      which send their resident high school pupils to a community college
      for college-level classes, a supplementary weighting plan for
      determining enrollment is adopted.
         b.  If the school budget review committee certifies to the
      department of management that the class would not otherwise be
      implemented without the assignment of additional weighting, pupils
      attending a community college-offered class or attending a class
      taught by a community college-employed instructor are assigned a
      weighting of the percentage of the pupil's school day during which
      the pupil attends class in the community college or attends a class
      taught by a community college-employed instructor times seventy
      hundredths for career and technical courses or forty-six hundredths
      for liberal arts and sciences courses.  The following requirements
      shall be met for the purposes of assigning an additional weighting
      for classes offered through a sharing agreement between a school
      district and community college.  The class must be:
         (1)  Supplementing, not supplanting, high school courses required
      to be offered pursuant to section 256.11, subsection 5.
         (2)  Included in the community college catalog or an amendment or
      addendum to the catalog.
         (3)  Open to all registered community college students, not just
      high school students.  The class may be offered in a high school
      attendance center.
         (4)  For college credit and the credit must apply toward an
      associate of arts or associate of science degree, or toward an
      associate of applied arts or associate of applied science degree, or
      toward completion of a college diploma program.
         (5)  Taught by an instructor employed or contracted by a community
      college who meets the requirements of section 261E.3, subsection 2.
         (6)  Taught utilizing the community college course syllabus.
         (7)  Taught in such a manner as to result in student work and
      student assessment which meet college-level expectations.
         4.  At-risk programs and alternative schools.
         a.  In order to provide additional funding to school districts
      for programs serving at-risk pupils and alternative school pupils in
      secondary schools, a supplementary weighting plan for at-risk pupils
      is adopted.  A supplementary weighting of forty-eight ten-thousandths
      per pupil shall be assigned to the percentage of pupils in a school
      district enrolled in grades one through six, as reported by the
      school district on the basic educational data survey for the base
      year, who are eligible for free and reduced price meals under the
      federal National School Lunch Act and the federal Child Nutrition Act
      of 1966, 42 U.S.C. § 1751-1785, multiplied by the budget enrollment
      in the school district; and a supplementary weighting of one hundred
      fifty-six one-hundred-thousandths per pupil shall be assigned to
      pupils included in the budget enrollment of the school district.
      Amounts received as supplementary weighting for at-risk pupils shall
      be utilized by a school district to develop or maintain at-risk
      pupils' programs, which may include alternative school programs.
         b.  Notwithstanding paragraph "a", a school district which
      received supplementary weighting for an alternative high school
      program for the school budget year beginning July 1, 1999, shall
      receive an amount of supplementary weighting for the next three
      school budget years as follows:
         (1)  For the budget year beginning July 1, 2000, the greater of
      the amount of supplementary weighting determined pursuant to
      paragraph "a", or sixty-five percent of the amount received for
      the budget year beginning July 1, 1999.
         (2)  For the budget year beginning July 1, 2001, the greater of
      the amount of supplementary weighting determined pursuant to
      paragraph "a", or forty percent of the amount received for the
      budget year beginning July 1, 1999.
         (3)  For the budget year beginning July 1, 2002, and succeeding
      budget years, the amount of supplementary weighting determined
      pursuant to paragraph "a".
         c.  If a school district receives an amount pursuant to
      paragraph "b" which exceeds the amount the district would
      otherwise have received pursuant to paragraph "a", the department
      of management shall annually determine the amount of the excess that
      would have been state aid and the amount that would have been
      property tax if the school district had generated that amount
      pursuant to paragraph "a", and shall include the amounts in the
      state aid payments and property tax levies of school districts.  The
      department of management shall recalculate the supplementary
      weighting amount received each year to reflect the amount of the
      reduction in funding from one budget year to the next pursuant to
      paragraph "b", subparagraphs (1) through (3).  It is the intent
      of the general assembly that when weights are recalculated under this
      subsection, the total amounts generated by each weight shall be
      approximately equal.
         5.  Regional academies.
         a.  For the school budget year beginning July 1, 2002, through
      the school budget year beginning July 1, 2007, in order to provide
      additional funds for school districts in which a regional academy is
      located, a supplementary weighting plan for determining enrollment is
      adopted.
         b.  A school district which establishes a regional academy
      shall be eligible to assign its resident pupils attending classes at
      the academy a weighting of one-tenth of the percentage of the pupil's
      school day during which the pupil attends classes at the regional
      academy.  For the purposes of this subsection, "regional academy"
      means an educational institution established by a school district to
      which multiple schools send pupils in grades nine through twelve, and
      may include a virtual academy.  A regional academy shall include in
      its curriculum advanced-level courses and may include in its
      curriculum vocational-technical courses.  The maximum amount of
      additional weighting for which a school district establishing a
      regional academy shall be eligible is an amount corresponding to
      fifteen additional pupils.  The minimum amount of additional
      weighting for which a school district establishing a regional academy
      shall be eligible is an amount corresponding to ten additional pupils
      if the academy provides both advanced-level courses and
      vocational-technical courses.  However, if the sum of the funding
      amount calculated for all districts operating regional academies
      under this subsection exceeds one million dollars for the school year
      beginning July 1, 2004, and each succeeding fiscal year, the director
      of the department of management shall prorate the amount calculated
      for each district.  The proration shall be based upon the amount
      calculated for each district when compared to the sum of the amount
      for all districts.
         6.  Shared operational functions -- increased student
      opportunities.
         a.  In order to provide additional funding to increase student
      opportunities and redirect more resources to student programming for
      school districts that share operational functions, a supplementary
      weighting of two hundredths per pupil shall be assigned to pupils
      enrolled in a district that shares with a political subdivision one
      or more operational functions in the areas of superintendent
      management, business management, human resources, transportation, or
      operation and maintenance for at least twenty percent of the school
      year.  The additional weighting shall be assigned for each discrete
      operational function shared.  For the purposes of this section,
      "political subdivision" means a city, township, county, school
      corporation, merged area, area education agency, institution governed
      by the state board of regents, or any other governmental subdivision.

         b.  Supplementary weighting pursuant to this subsection shall
      be available to a school district for a maximum of five years during
      the period commencing with the budget year beginning July 1, 2008,
      through the budget year beginning July 1, 2013.  The minimum amount
      of additional weighting for which a school district shall be eligible
      is an amount equivalent to ten additional pupils, and the maximum
      amount of additional weighting for which a school district shall be
      eligible is an amount equivalent to forty additional pupils.  Receipt
      of supplementary weighting by a school district pursuant to this
      subsection for more than one year shall be contingent upon the annual
      submission of information by the district to the department
      documenting cost savings directly attributable to the shared
      operational functions.  Criteria for determining the number of years
      for which supplementary weighting shall be received pursuant to this
      subsection, subject to the five-year maximum, and for determining
      qualification of operational functions for supplementary weighting
      shall be determined by the department by rule, through consideration
      of long-term savings by the school district or increased student
      opportunities.
         c.  Supplementary weighting pursuant to this subsection shall
      be available to an area education agency for a maximum of five years
      during the period commencing with the budget year beginning July 1,
      2008.  The minimum amount of additional funding for which an area
      education agency shall be eligible is fifty thousand dollars, and the
      maximum amount of additional funding for which an area education
      agency shall be eligible is two hundred thousand dollars.  The
      department of management shall annually set a weighting for each area
      education agency to generate the approved operational sharing expense
      using the area education agency's special education cost per pupil
      amount and foundation level.  Receipt of supplementary weighting by
      an area education agency for more than one year shall be contingent
      upon the annual submission of information by the district to the
      department documenting cost savings directly attributable to the
      shared operational functions.  Criteria for determining the number of
      years for which supplementary weighting shall be received pursuant to
      this subsection, subject to the five-year maximum, and the amount
      generated by the supplementary weighting, and for determining
      qualification of operational functions for supplementary weighting
      shall be determined by the department by rule, through consideration
      of long-term savings by the area education agency or increased
      student opportunities.
         d.  The amount of any supplementary weighting originally
      received under this subsection shall be reduced by an additional
      twenty percent from the original amount for each subsequent budget
      year that supplementary weighting may be received.
         e.  This subsection is repealed effective July 1, 2014.
         7.  Shared classes delivered over the Iowa communications
      network.
         a.  A school district that provides a virtual class to a pupil
      in another school district and the school district receiving that
      virtual class for a pupil shall each receive a supplemental weighting
      of one-twentieth of the percentage of the pupil's school day during
      which the pupil attends the virtual class.
         b.  Fifty percent of the funding the school district providing
      the virtual class receives as a result of this subsection shall be
      reserved as additional pay for the virtual classroom instructor.  If
      an instructor's contract provides additional pay for teaching a
      virtual class, the instructor shall receive the greater amount of
      either the amount provided for in this paragraph or the amount
      provided for in the instructor's contract.
         c.  A school district receiving a virtual class for a pupil
      from a community college, which class meets the sharing agreement
      requirements in subsection 3, shall receive a supplemental funding
      weighting of one-twentieth of the percentage of the pupil's school
      day during which the pupil attends the virtual class.
         d.  For the purposes of this subsection, "virtual class"
      means either of the following:
         (1)  A class provided by a school district to a pupil in another
      school district via the Iowa communications network's video services.

         (2)  A class provided by a community college to a pupil in a
      school district via the Iowa communications network's video services.

         8.  Pupils ineligible.  A pupil eligible for the weighting
      plan provided in section 256B.9 is not eligible for supplementary
      weighting pursuant to this section.  A pupil attending an alternative
      program or an at-risk pupils' program, including alternative high
      school programs, is not eligible for supplementary weighting under
      subsection 2.
         9.  Shared classes and curriculum standards.  A school
      district shall ensure that any course made available to a student
      through any sharing agreement between the school district and a
      community college or any other entity providing course programming
      pursuant to this section to students enrolled in the school district
      meets the expectations contained in the core curriculum adopted
      pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 26.  The school district shall
      ensure that any course that has the capacity to generate college
      credit shall be equivalent to college-level work.
         10.  School finance appropriations report.  The department of
      education shall annually prepare a report regarding school finance
      provisions or programs receiving a standing appropriation, including
      supplementary weighting programs.  The report shall provide
      information regarding amounts received or accessed by school
      districts pursuant to the provisions or programs, whether the amounts
      received represent an increase or decrease over amounts received
      during the previous budget year and the percentage increase or
      decrease, conclusions regarding the adequacy of amounts received by
      school districts and whether the amounts received are equitable
      between school districts based upon input from the school districts
      and analysis by the department, and the rationale for current trends
      being observed by the department and projections regarding possible
      trends in the future.  The report shall be submitted to the general
      assembly by January 1 each year, and copies of the report shall be
      forwarded to the chairpersons and members of the committee on
      education in the senate and in the house of representatives.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         89 Acts, ch 135, § 11; 90 Acts, ch 1190, § 7; 93 Acts, ch 180, §
      96; 95 Acts, ch 111, § 1; 95 Acts, ch 209, § 13; 2000 Acts, ch 1198,
      §1, 6; 2001 Acts, ch 126, §5, 6; 2002 Acts, ch 1047, §3, 4, 20; 2002
      Acts, ch 1140, §8; 2003 Acts, ch 179, §111; 2003 Acts, ch 180, §11;
      2005 Acts, ch 19, §38; 2007 Acts, ch 130, §2--4; 2007 Acts, ch 214,
      §20, 44; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §43; 2008 Acts, ch 1181, §48, 49; 2008
      Acts, ch 1191, §157; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §247; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §100
         Referred to in § 11.6, 256.17, 257.6, 257.11A, 261E.2, 261E.8,
      261E.9, 261E.10, 261E.11, 280.13A, 282.7 
         Footnotes
         2007 strike and rewrite of subsection 7 applies to school budget
      years beginning on or after July 1, 2008; 2007 Acts, ch 214, §44