257.18 - INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT PROGRAM.

        257.18  INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT PROGRAM.
         1.  An instructional support program that provides additional
      funding for school districts is established.  A board of directors
      that wishes to consider participating in the instructional support
      program shall hold a public hearing on the question of participation.
      The board shall set forth its proposal, including the method that
      will be used to fund the program, in a resolution and shall publish
      the notice of the time and place of a public hearing on the
      resolution.  Notice of the time and place of the public hearing shall
      be published not less than ten nor more than twenty days before the
      public hearing in a newspaper which is a newspaper of general
      circulation in the school district.  At the hearing, or no later than
      thirty days after the date of the hearing, the board shall take
      action to adopt a resolution to participate in the instructional
      support program for a period not exceeding five years or to direct
      the county commissioner of elections to submit the question of
      participation in the program for a period not exceeding ten years to
      the registered voters of the school district at an election held on a
      date specified in section 39.2, subsection 4, paragraph "c".  If
      the board submits the question at an election and a majority of those
      voting on the question favors participation in the program, the board
      shall adopt a resolution to participate and certify the results of
      the election to the department of management.
         2. a.  If the board does not provide for an election and
      adopts a resolution to participate in the instructional support
      program, the district shall participate in the instructional support
      program unless within twenty-eight days following the action of the
      board, the secretary of the board receives a petition containing the
      required number of signatures, asking that the question to approve or
      disapprove the action of the board in adopting the instructional
      support program be submitted to the voters of the school district.
      The petition must be signed by eligible electors equal in number to
      not less than one hundred or thirty percent of the number of voters
      at the last preceding regular school election, whichever is greater.
      The board shall either rescind its action or direct the county
      commissioner of elections to submit the question to the registered
      voters of the school district at an election held on a date specified
      in section 39.2, subsection 4, paragraph "c".  If a majority of
      those voting on the question at the election favors disapproval of
      the action of the board, the district shall not participate in the
      instructional support program.  If a majority of those voting on the
      question favors approval of the action, the board shall certify the
      results of the election to the department of management and the
      district shall participate in the program.
         b.  At the expiration of the twenty-eight day period, if no
      petition is filed, the board shall certify its action to the
      department of management and the district shall participate in the
      program.
         3.  Participation in an instructional support program is not
      affected by a change in the boundaries of the school district, except
      as otherwise provided in this section.  If each school district
      involved in a school reorganization under chapter 275 has approved an
      instructional support program, and if the voters have not voted upon
      the question of participation in the program in the reorganized
      district, the instructional support program shall be in effect for
      the reorganized district that has been approved for the least amount
      and the shortest time in any of the districts.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         89 Acts, ch 135, § 18; 92 Acts, ch 1171, §1; 95 Acts, ch 67, §53;
      96 Acts, ch 1112, §1, 2; 2008 Acts, ch 1115, §32, 33, 71
         Referred to in § 257.27, 257.29