§ 273.9 — Funding

Iowa § 273.9

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title VII: EDUCATION, HISTORY, AND CULTURE
• Ch. 273: AREA EDUCATION AGENCIES

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1. School districts shall pay for the programs and services provided through the area
education agency and shall include expenditures for the programs and services in their
budgets, in accordance with this section.
2. School districts shall pay the costs of special education instructional programs with the
moneys available to the districts for each child requiring special education, by application
of the special education weighting plan in section 256B.9. Special education instructional
programs shall be provided at the local level if practicable, or otherwise by contractual
arrangements with the area education agency board as provided in section 273.3, subsection
5, but in each case the total money available through section 256B.9 and chapter 257 because
of weighted enrollment for each child requiring special education instruction shall be
made available to the district or agency which provides the special education instructional
program to the child, subject to adjustments for transportation or other costs which may be
paid by the school district in which the child is enrolled. Each district shall cooperate with
its area education agency to provide an appropriate special education instructional program
for each child who requires special education instruction, as identified and counted within
the certification by the area director of special education or as identified by the area director
of special education subsequent to the certification, and shall not provide a special education
instructional program to a child who has not been so identified and counted within the
certification or identified subsequent to the certification.
3. The costs of special education support services provided through the area education
agency shall be funded as provided in chapter 257. Special education support services shall
not be funded until the program plans submitted by the special education directors of each
area education agency as required by section 273.5 are modified as necessary and approved
by the director of the department of education according to the criteria and limitations of
chapters 256B and 257.
4. The costs of media services provided through the area education agency shall not
be funded until the program plans submitted by the administrators of each area education
agency as required by section 273.4 are modified as necessary and approved by the director
of the department of education according to the criteria of section 273.6.
5. The state board of education shall adopt rules under chapter 17A relating to the
approval of program plans under this section.

Legislative History

[C51, §417; R60, §648, 2074; C73, §771, 1776; C97, §2742, 2831, 2832; S13, §2742, 2831, 2832; SS15, §2734-b; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §4456 – 4458, 5232 – 5234; C46, §301.12 – 301.14, 340.13 – 340.15; C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, §273.13; C75, 77, 79, 81, §273.9]