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Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 19, 2022
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 19, 2022
- Done: Senate committeeJanuary 26, 2022
- Done: Passes the SenateFebruary 22, 202248–0
- Skipped: House committeeSkipped
- Done: Passes the HouseMarch 2, 202299–0
- Done: To the GovernorApril 21, 2022
- Done: Signed into lawApril 21, 2022
SF 2128 became law → The same legislation passed as SF 2128, so this version was set aside. Go to SF 2128 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to education, including the education of students who are not fully English proficient and the standards applicable to the hiring, developing, and evaluation of community college faculty. The bill modifies the Code to replace references to a student who is “limited English proficient” with “English learner”. Current law requires a community-college administration to establish a committee consisting of instructors and administrators to develop a plan for hiring and developing quality faculty that includes several provisions.
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_____ also requires that one of those provisions include compliance with the faculty accreditation standards of the higher learning commission.48 (standards for accrediting community college programs). Current law requires that community-college-employed instructors in the subject area of arts and sciences shall either possess a master’s degree from a regionally accredited graduate school or have two or more years of successful experience in a professional field in which the instructor is teaching classes and in which postbaccalaureate recognition or professional licensure is necessary. 602 and by the federal Higher Education Opportunity Act. Current law provides that the standards relating to quality assurance of community college faculty and ongoing quality professional development shall include the accreditation standards of the higher learning commission.48. 602 and by the federal Higher Education Opportunity Act.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 19, 2022. On January 25, 2022 it recommended passage.
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Iowa Code it changes
Amends§256.16§256.7§256E.4§256E.5§256E.9§256F.3§260C.36§260C.48§280.4§284.11
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