257.11A - SUPPLEMENTARY WEIGHTING AND SCHOOL REORGANIZATION.

        257.11A  SUPPLEMENTARY WEIGHTING AND SCHOOL
      REORGANIZATION.
         1.  In determining weighted enrollment under section 257.6, if the
      board of directors of a school district has approved a contract for
      sharing pursuant to section 257.11 and the school district has
      approved an action to bring about a reorganization to take effect on
      and after July 1, 2007, and on or before July 1, 2014, the
      reorganized school district shall include, for a period of three
      years following the effective date of the reorganization, additional
      pupils added by the application of the supplementary weighting plan,
      equal to the pupils added by the application of the supplementary
      weighting plan in the year preceding the reorganization.  For the
      purposes of this subsection, the weighted enrollment for the period
      of three years following the effective date of reorganization shall
      include the supplementary weighting in the base year used for
      determining the combined district cost for the first year of the
      reorganization.  However, the weighting shall be reduced by the
      supplementary weighting added for a pupil whose residency is not
      within the reorganized district.
         2.  For purposes of this section, a reorganized district is one in
      which the reorganization was approved in an election pursuant to
      sections 275.18 and 275.20 and takes effect on or after July 1, 2007,
      and on or before July 1, 2014.  Each district which initiates, by a
      vote of the board of directors or jointly by the affected boards,
      action to bring about a reorganization or dissolution to take effect
      on or after July 1, 2007, and on or before July 1, 2014, shall
      certify the date and the nature of the action taken to the department
      of education by January 1 of the year in which the reorganization or
      dissolution takes effect.
         3.  A school district shall be eligible for a combined maximum
      total of six years of supplementary weighting under the provisions of
      this section and section 257.11, subsection 2, paragraph "c".  A
      school district participating in a whole grade sharing arrangement
      during the budget year beginning July 1, 2001, that adopted a
      resolution jointly with other affected boards to study the question
      of undergoing a reorganization or dissolution to take effect on or
      after July 1, 2002, and on or before July 1, 2006, shall continue to
      receive the supplementary weighting to which it was entitled pursuant
      to the provisions of this section and section 257.11, subsection 2,
      paragraph "c".  
         Section History: Recent Form 2001 Acts, ch 126, §7; 2007 Acts, ch 130, §5