257.38 - PROGRAMS FOR RETURNING DROPOUTS AND DROPOUT PREVENTION.

        257.38  PROGRAMS FOR RETURNING DROPOUTS AND DROPOUT
      PREVENTION.
         1.  Boards of school districts, individually or jointly with
      boards of other school districts, requesting to use modified
      allowable growth for programs for returning dropouts and dropout
      prevention, shall submit comprehensive program plans for the programs
      and budget costs, including annual requests for modified allowable
      growth for funding the programs, to the department of education as a
      component of the comprehensive school improvement plan submitted to
      the department pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 21.  The program
      plans shall include:
         a.  Program goals, objectives, and activities to meet the
      needs of children who may drop out of school.
         b.  Student identification criteria and procedures.
         c.  Staff in-service education design.
         d.  Staff utilization plans.
         e.  Evaluation criteria and procedures and performance
      measures.
         f.  Program budget.
         g.  Qualifications required of personnel delivering the
      program.
         h.  A provision for dropout prevention and integration of
      dropouts into the educational program of the district.
         i.  A provision for identifying dropouts.
         j.  A program for returning dropouts.
         k.  Other factors the department requires.
         2.  Program plans shall identify the parts of the plan that will
      be implemented first upon approval of the request.  If a district is
      requesting to use modified allowable growth to finance the program,
      the school district shall not identify more than five percent of its
      budget enrollment for the budget year as returning dropouts and
      potential dropouts.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         89 Acts, ch 135, § 38; 2001 Acts, ch 159, §9; 2006 Acts, ch 1152,
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