HF 628: Relating to teacher career paths, multiple leadership roles, and compensation for teachers, school foundation aid distributed to teachers for salaries and additional duties, and to class size management strategies approved for Iowa’s school districts

What it does

37A under Code 2021 will continue to be distributed to area education agency teachers, and provides that teacher salary supplement foundation aid and teacher leadership supplement foundation aid currently used for purposes of the student achievement and teacher quality program, including the framework and comparable systems, shall be used for purposes of class size management strategies. Currently, teacher salary supplement foundation aid is distributed to teachers employed by school districts and area education agencies for purposes of the salary minimums required under a framework or comparable system, while the teacher leadership supplement foundation aid is used to increase the pay of teachers assigned to leadership roles; to increase the percentages of teachers assigned to leadership roles; to increase the minimum teacher starting salary; to cover the costs for the time mentor and lead teachers are not providing instruction to students in a classroom; for coverage of a classroom when a teacher is observing or co-teaching with a teacher assigned to a leadership role; for professional development time; and for other costs associated with a framework or comparable system.

Lobbying · 0 for, 5 against

Against: Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa State Education Association; Rural School Advocates of Iowa; School Administrators of Iowa; Urban Education Network of Iowa

In plain words

1. February 22, 2021Filed in the House and sent to the Education committee