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

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, §60