Iowa § 276.8 Duties of district-wide advisory council

Iowa Statutes

§ 276.8 — Duties of district-wide advisory council

Iowa § 276.8

Title VIIEDUCATION, HISTORY, AND CULTURE

Ch. 276COMMUNITY EDUCATION

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Iowa Code § 276.8 (2026).

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The district-wide advisory council shall:

1.Provide guidance to local advisory councils, training and orientation for community persons, evaluation and assessment of needs and delivery systems for school districts.

2.Develop a “sense of total community” and promote democratic thinking and action.

3.Promote meaningful involvement of total community in the identifying, prioritizing, and resolving of school-community concerns.

4.Serve as an advocate of community education and foster community cooperation.

5.Provide an annual budget recommendation and annual report to the local board of education.

6.Mobilize available human and financial resources of the community to meet needs, interests, and concerns of people in the total community.

7.Make school facilities and resources available to

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The district-wide advisory council shall:
1. Provide guidance to local advisory councils, training and orientation for community
persons, evaluation and assessment of needs and delivery systems for school districts.
2. Develop a “sense of total community” and promote democratic thinking and action.
3. Promote meaningful involvement of total community in the identifying, prioritizing,
and resolving of school-community concerns.
4. Serve as an advocate of community education and foster community cooperation.
5. Provide an annual budget recommendation and annual report to the local board of
education.
6. Mobilize available human and financial resources of the community to meet needs,
interests, and concerns of people in the total community.
7. Make school facilities and resources available to all age groups from the total
community, day and night, year round.
8. Facilitate the assessment of community-wide needs with the understanding that local
advisory councils will manage their own assessments of needs.

9. Provide support and act as a resource group for local advisory councils and the
community education director.
10. Help plan and recommend a community education budget for approval by the local
board of education.
11. Recommend to the board, regulations, guidelines, and fees, if any, for facility usage.
12. Define short and long-range community education goals and objectives.
13. Communicate through inquiring, informing, suggesting, recommending and
evaluating community education for the community.
14. Cooperate with other agencies and organizations including the community colleges
and institutions under the control of the state board of regents toward common goals.
15. Perform the functions of the local advisory council in the event that the board
determines that the size of the district does not warrant the establishment of a local advisory
council.