Iowa Code 257.36 – Special education support services balances
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1. Notwithstanding chapters 256B and 273 and sections of this chapter relating to the moneys available to area education agencies for special education support services, for each school year, the department of education may direct the department of management to deduct amounts from the portions of school district budgets that fund special education support services in an area education agency. The total amount deducted in an area shall be based upon excess special education support services unreserved and undesignated fund balances in that area education agency for a school year as determined by the department of education. The department of management shall determine the amount deducted from each school district in an area education agency on a proportional basis. The department of management shall determine from the amounts deducted from the portions of school district budgets that fund area education agency special education support services the amount that would have been local property taxes and the amount that would have been state aid and for the next following budget year shall increase the district’s total state school aid available under this chapter for area education agency special education support services and reduce the district’s property tax levy for area education agency special education support services by the amount necessary for the property tax portion of the deductions made under this section during the budget year.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 257.36
- Budget year: means the school year beginning during the calendar year in which a budget is certified. See Iowa Code 257.2
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Property: means a tangible object, animate or inanimate, under a museum's care which has intrinsic historic, artistic, scientific, or cultural value. See Iowa Code 305B.2
- School: means an agency of the state or political subdivision of the state, individual, partnership, company, firm, society, trust, association, corporation, or any combination which meets any of the following criteria:a. See Iowa Code 261B.2
- School district: means a school corporation organized under chapter 274. See Iowa Code 257.2
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
- year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. The amount deducted from a school district’s budget shall not affect the calculation of the state cost per pupil or its district cost per pupil in that school year or a subsequent year.