261E.4 - ADVANCED PLACEMENT PROGRAM. - Iowa Statutes

261E.4 ADVANCED PLACEMENT PROGRAM. 1. A school district shall make available advanced placement courses to its resident students through direct instruction on-site, collaboration with another school district, or by using the online Iowa advanced placement academy. 2. A school district shall provide descriptions of the advanced placement courses available to students using a course registration handbook. 3. A school district shall ensure that advanced placement course teachers or instructors are appropriately licensed by the board of educational examiners in accordance with chapter 272 and meet the minimum certification requirements of the national organization that administers the advanced placement program. 4. A school district shall establish prerequisite coursework for each advanced placement course offered and shall describe the prerequisites in the course registration handbook, which shall be provided to every junior high school or middle school student prior to the development of a core curriculum plan pursuant to section 279.61.          Section History: Recent Form 2008 Acts, ch 1181, §54 Referred to in § 261E.1, 261E.2