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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
Topics:State budgetK–12 educationSchool fundingTeacher pay & licensing
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 22, 2021
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Iowa would get rid of the current system used to pay teachers for leadership roles and career paths. Instead of using those specific funds for teacher pay and leadership tasks, school districts must use the money to help manage class sizes. This change requires schools to create plans to keep class sizes for basic skills instruction at the state's goal.1
Read the official explanation
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. The bill requires school districts to develop class size management strategies to work toward, or to maintain, class sizes in basic skills instruction for kindergarten through grade that are at the state goal of students for every teacher, and to use teacher salary supplement foundation aid and teacher leadership supplement foundation aid to further this purpose.16; and teacher leadership supplement foundation aid must not be combined with regular wages to create a combined salary. The bill does not modify these provisions. The bill makes conforming changes to eliminate references relating to the framework and comparable systems.