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SSB 1163
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedMarch 6, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 14, 2019
- Done: Senate committeeMarch 6, 2019
- Done: Passes the SenateApril 16, 201949–0
- Done: House committeeApril 23, 2019
- Done: Passes the HouseApril 26, 2019
- Done: To the GovernorMay 2, 2019
- Done: Signed into lawMay 23, 2019
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What’s in it
This bill authorizes school districts and accredited nonpublic schools with enrollments of 600 or fewer pupils to utilize concurrent enrollment programs to meet the requirements for science and mathematics units under the educational standards; allows school districts with enrollments over 600 pupils to enter into an agreement with a community college to meet the requirements for science and mathematics units under the educational standards; and allows accredited nonpublic schools to enter into concurrent enrollment contracts with community colleges for the provision of academic or career and technical coursework for high school students and provides for a standing unlimited appropriation to fund the enrollment of accredited nonpublic school pupils under concurrent enrollment contracts between accredited nonpublic schools and community colleges.
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The bill is organized in divisions. Division I of the bill provides an additional exception to a provision that limits concurrent enrollment programs to courses that supplement, rather than supplant, high school courses required to be offered and taught under the state’s educational standards. The educational standards require accredited schools to offer and teach five units of science and six units of mathematics. _____ units and one of these mathematics units to be offered and taught under a sharing agreement with a community college if the number of pupils enrolled in such a class exceeds and the school district’s total enrollment does not exceed 600 pupils. A school district that meets these requirements and offers a unit of science or mathematics under a sharing agreement with a community college shall be deemed to have met the requirement that the school district teach such a unit under the educational standards.11(3), pupils enrolled in such classes are assigned additional supplementary weighting.50. The division requires a pupil who does not complete such a class to reimburse the school district for its costs minus an amount equivalent to the amount of weighting assigned to the pupil and received by the school district. If the pupil is under years of age, the pupil’s parent or legal guardian must sign the student registration form indicating that the parent or legal guardian is responsible for such reimbursement amount. However, the school district at its discretion may waive the reimbursement requirement. Pupils enrolled in a class provided under the offer and teach exemptions is also exempted from the reimbursement requirement. A pupil attending and assigned weighting for a community college-offered class or attending a class taught by a community college-employed instructor may also be enrolled at an eligible postsecondary institution on a full-time basis, but the pupil shall only be assigned weighting for attending a college-offered class or attending a class taught by a community college-employed instructor. If the pupil is also participating in the postsecondary enrollment options (PSEO) program, the school district in which the pupil is enrolled is responsible for paying a tuition reimbursement amount for the pupil’s part-time enrollment under the PSEO program. _____ enrollment in classes that do not meet the requirements for supplementary weighting or tuition reimbursement under the PSEO program are the responsibility of the student. Pupils enrolled in a school district with an enrollment over 600 pupils that enters into an agreement with a community college to meet a science or mathematics requirement under the educational standards are ineligible for supplementary weighting under the district-to-community college sharing and concurrent enrollment programs. Division II of the bill expands the definition of “concurrent enrollment” for the senior year plus program to include academic and career and technical courses offered to students enrolled in an accredited nonpublic school under a contract with a community college. Similar to the exemption in Division I for school districts, the division provides an exemption to an accredited nonpublic school with an enrollment of 600 or fewer students to enter into a sharing agreement to provide career and technical, science, and mathematics courses that meet the unit requirements of the state’s educational standards. The division requires the community college that enters into such a contract to provide the department with a list of the accredited nonpublic school students enrolled, and to verify that the course work meets concurrent enrollment program requirements. The department is directed to calculate and pay to the community college an amount equivalent to the amount of supplementary weighting a school district would receive for enrolling such students. The division establishes a standing, unlimited appropriation, for each fiscal year beginning on or after July 1, 2019, from the general fund of the state to the department of education, in an amount necessary to make payments to community colleges for the concurrent enrollment of accredited nonpublic school students under a sharing agreement.
Changed since by amendments H-1318, H-1286; see Amendments.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 14, 2019. Meeting: Monday, February 18 · 2:30 PM · RM 315.
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Fiscal note
AI summary This bill changes rules for concurrent enrollment, including increasing funding weights for arts and science courses and allowing nonpublic schools to participate in these programs. For fiscal year 2020, the total estimated net impact on the state's General Fund is a minimum increase of $1.7 million and a maximum increase of $1.9 million. The Department of Education also expects to need one additional full-time employee at a cost of $108,000 per fiscal year to implement these changes.2
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Description
Senate File 603 makes various changes to the Iowa Code involving concurrent enrollment, which include:
- Division I
- Increasing the supplementary weighting of eligible arts and science concurrent enrollment units from 0.46 to 0.50. This change applies retroactively to the school budget year beginning on July 1, 2019.
- Allowing for an additional exception to the “supplement not supplant” requirements under Iowa Code section 257.11(3) for districts with enrollment of 600 or fewer to generate supplementary weighting for one math or one science unit under “offer and teach” requirements.
- Adding definitions under Iowa Code section 261E.2 for “full-time” and “part-time” enrollment under the Senior Year Plus Program.
- Allowing for school districts with enrollment of 600 or more to contract with a community college for certain “offer and teach” requirements without generating supplementary weighting. This provision of the Bill applies retroactively to July 1, 2018.
- Division II
- Expanding the definition of concurrent enrollment to include courses contracted between community colleges and accredited nonpublic schools.
- Allowing for an appropriation by the General Assembly to the Department of Education to pay the community colleges for the cost of contracted concurrent enrollment with accredited nonpublic schools. Community colleges shall decrease the amount billed to the accredited nonpublic schools by the amount paid to the community colleges under this Division.
- Permitting the Department of Education to prorate the amount available by appropriation if the funds are insufficient to pay for all contracted concurrent enrollment with an accredited nonpublic school.
- Division II is contingent upon an appropriation by the General Assembly to the Department of Education to fund the concurrent enrollment provisions of nonpublic schools and community colleges.
- Division III
- Expanding the definition of “school employee” under Iowa Code section 709.15 to include a person employed by a community college who provides instruction to high school students under a concurrent enrollment program.
Background
School districts may contract with community colleges to offer college-level courses to eligible high school students in subjects taught by instructors employed or contracted by community colleges. School districts may receive additional supplementary weighting based on the type of course and percentage of a student’s day spent in the class. The total amount of supplementary weighting being generated for the 2019-2020 school year is estimated to be the equivalent of 3,499.1 pupils. Weightings for school year 2019-2020 were collected from spring 2019 and fall 2019 class enrollment and were approved by the School Board Review Committee (SBRC) in December 2019.
2018 Iowa Acts, ch. 1119 (Regulation of Primary and Secondary Education — Miscellaneous Changes), created an exception to the “supplement not supplant” requirements under Iowa Code section 257.11 for one or more career and technical education (CTE) classes falling under a single technical educational area.
Under current law, nonpublic schools may contract with community colleges to provide access to community college courses for the nonpublic students. The nonpublic student attending classes at the community college is responsible for paying the tuition costs. Nonpublic schools may also enroll their students in concurrent enrollment classes in a public school district. In FY 2019, an estimated 1,525 nonpublic students attended concurrent enrollment classes in 23 school districts. A school district is eligible to generate supplementary weighting for nonpublic students, including those receiving private competent instruction under Iowa Code chapter 299A.
Assumptions
- Divisions I and II of this Bill will have a fiscal impact. Division III of this Bill is not expected to have a fiscal impact.
- Under the provisions of this Bill, the first year with an estimated fiscal impact will be FY 2020.
- Approximately 50.8% of concurrent enrollment weightings are for arts and science units.
- For estimating purposes, it is assumed the total number of concurrent enrollment weightings will increase by 5.0% each fiscal year.
- It is not known how many school districts will generate supplementary weighting for one math or for one science course under the “offer and teach” exception. For estimating purposes, the minimum fiscal impact assumes each district will generate the minimum amount of weighting for six pupils in a unit. The maximum fiscal impact assumes each eligible district will generate weightings based an eligible unit with the highest number of enrolled students.
- Weightings for FY 2020 (school year 2019-2020) have already been calculated using spring and fall 2019 concurrent enrollment data.
- State aid and property tax calculations under Division I use individual districts’ cost per pupil.
- There are 13 State-accredited nonpublic schools that may qualify to generate weighting under Division II for the “offer and teach” requirements for math or science units.
- There are 44 accredited nonpublic schools that may qualify to generate weighting for other eligible concurrent enrollment units.
- Weightings calculated under Division II use the FY 2020 State cost per pupil.
- Under current law, the State cost per pupil in FY 2020 and ensuing years is $6,880.
- In FY 2020, the appropriation for concurrent enrollment for accredited nonpublic schools will be $1.0 million if 2019 Iowa Acts, HF 758, is enacted.
- After FY 2020, additional funding under Division II of this Bill is subject to General Assembly appropriations.
- Accredited nonpublic schools may cease enrolling nonpublic students in concurrent enrollment classes in school districts, thereby reducing regular program State foundation aid and property taxes.
- The Department of Education will require one full-time equivalent (FTE) position to implement the provisions of this Bill.
Fiscal Impact
Table 1 shows the fiscal impact in Division I of the increase in supplementary weighting for concurrent enrollment arts and science units from 0.46 to 0.50.
Table 1 — SF 603 Table 2 shows the estimated minimum and maximum increase in General Fund State aid in Division I for the additional exceptions under “offer and teach” for school districts with enrollment of 600 or fewer.
Table 2 — SF 603 Table 3 shows the minimum and maximum estimated net General Fund fiscal impact in FY 2020 under Division II, as well as estimated reductions in property taxes if accredited nonpublic school students cease to enroll students in eligible concurrent enrollment classes through a public school district.
State Aid for Arts and Sciences Concurrent Enrollment Weighting (In Millions)
Fiscal
Year State Aid
Property
Taxes Total
Increase in State
Aid Compared to
Current Law
2020 11.8$ 1.5$ 13.3$ 0.9$ 2021 12.4 1.6 14.0 1.0 2022 13.0 1.6 14.7 1.0 2023 13.7 1.7 15.4 1.1 2024 14.4 1.8 16.2 1.2 Numbers may not equal totals due to rounding.
Estimated Increase in State Aid Due to Supplementary Weighting for Additional Exceptions Under Offer and Teach
Fiscal Year
Minimum Increase
in State Aid
Minimum Increase
in Property Taxes
Maximum Increase
in State Aid
Maximum Increase
in Property Taxes 2020 0$ 0$ 0$ 0$ 2021 243,650 31,050 584,745 74,464 2022 487,300 62,100 1,169,489 148,928 Table 3 — SF 603 Table 4 shows the minimum and maximum fiscal impact on the General Fund for FY 2020 and FY 2021.
Table 4 — SF 603 The Department of Education estimates it will need 1.0 additional FTE position ($108,000 per fiscal year) to implement the provisions under this Bill.
Sources
- Department of Education
- Department of Management
- LSA calculations and analysis
- Note: House File 758 (FY 2020 Education Appropriations Bill) includes a $1.0 million General Fund appropriation for
- the purpose of implementing Division II of the Bill.
- Final Fiscal Note – Concurrent Enrollment Functions and Funding · May 14, 2019
- Concurrent Enrollment Functions and Funding · March 26, 2019
- Concurrent Enrollment Functions and Funding · March 13, 2019
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