257.40 - APPROVAL OF PROGRAMS FOR RETURNING DROPOUTS AND DROPOUT PREVENTION -- ANNUAL REPORT.

        257.40  APPROVAL OF PROGRAMS FOR RETURNING DROPOUTS
      AND DROPOUT PREVENTION -- ANNUAL REPORT.
         1.  The board of directors of a school district requesting to use
      modified allowable growth for programs for returning dropouts and
      dropout prevention shall submit requests for modified at-risk
      allowable growth, including budget costs, to the department not later
      than December 15 of the year preceding the budget year during which
      the program will be offered.  The department shall review the request
      and shall prior to January 15 either grant approval for the request
      or return the request for approval with comments of the department
      included.  An unapproved request for a program may be resubmitted
      with modifications to the department not later than February 1.  Not
      later than February 15, the department shall notify the department of
      management and the school budget review committee of the names of the
      school districts for which programs using modified allowable growth
      for funding have been approved and the approved budget of each
      program listed separately for each school district having an approved
      request.
         2.  Beginning January 15, 2007, the department shall submit an
      annual report to the chairpersons and ranking members of the senate
      and house education committees that includes the ways school
      districts in the previous school year used modified allowable growth
      approved under subsection 1; identifies, by grade level, age, and
      district size, the students in the dropout and dropout prevention
      programs for which the department approves a request; describes
      school district progress toward increasing student achievement and
      attendance for the students in the programs; and describes how the
      school districts are using the revenues from the modified allowable
      growth to improve student achievement among minority subgroups.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         89 Acts, ch 135, § 40; 2006 Acts, ch 1152, §28; 2007 Acts, ch 22,
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