§ 299A.6 — Failure to make adequate progress

Iowa § 299A.6

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title VII: EDUCATION, HISTORY, AND CULTURE
• Ch. 299A: PRIVATE INSTRUCTION

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1. If the results of evaluations, administered to a child of compulsory attendance age
who is under competent private instruction, indicate that the student has failed to make
adequate progress, the parent, guardian, or legal custodian shall cause the child to attend
an accredited public or nonpublic school at the beginning of the next school year unless,
before the beginning of the next school year, the child retakes a different form of the
same evaluation, or another evaluation from the approved list of tests or assessment tools
recognized by the department of education, and the results indicate that adequate progress
has been made, the child has demonstrated adequate performance in the opinion of an
evaluator and documented in a report under section 299A.4, subsection 7, or the director
of the department of education, or the director’s designee, grants approval for competent
private instruction to continue under a plan for remediation.
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2. A child who is required to attend an accredited public or nonpublic school under this
section shall continue attendance at an accredited public or nonpublic school until the child
achieves adequate progress.
3. This section shall not be construed to require or prohibit testing on any subject matter
at intervals more frequently or at grade levels other than those set forth in section 256.7,
subsection 21, paragraph “b”, subparagraph (2).
4. Forpurposesofthischapter, “adequateprogress”means, forchildreninallgradelevels
of competent private instruction, evaluation scores which are above the thirtieth percentile,
nationallynormed,ineachoftheareasofreading,mathematics,andlanguagearts,andwhich
indicate either that the child has made six months’ progress from the previous evaluation
results or that the child is at or above grade level for the child’s age. For children in grade
levels six and above, “adequate progress” also means that the child has achieved evaluation
scores in both science and social studies which are above the thirtieth percentile, nationally
normed, and which either indicate that the child has made six months’ progress from the
previous evaluation results or that the child is at or above grade level for the child’s age.