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Establishing a school district pandemic recovery competitive grant program in the department of education and making appropriations
Topics:State budgetK–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 23, 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 will provide hundreds of millions of dollars to the Department of Education to help school districts recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. These funds will go toward programs like mental health services, academic support, and preschool. The state will use a competitive application process to decide which schools receive the money, making sure to try and help districts all across Iowa.1
Read the official explanation
This bill makes appropriations from the general fund of the state to the department of education for fiscal years 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 in amounts of $100 million, $50 million, and $50 million, respectively, for a competitive grant program. The grant program is established under the department of education to assist school districts with COVID-19 pandemic recovery efforts, including but not limited to services and programs that address student mental health, provide academic support, before- and after-school programs, preschool services and programs, or reading recovery services and programs. The department is directed to establish a grant application and selection criteria, including but not limited to a method for prioritizing grant applications submitted by school districts. The department must make every effort to award grants geographically throughout the state. Grant funding may be awarded for one or more fiscal years. Moneys appropriated do not revert to the general fund of the state at the end of a fiscal year but instead are available for expenditure for the same purposes in the following fiscal year. The provision establishing the grant program is repealed July 1, 2025.