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Requiring the director of the department of education to establish a low-income student and poverty weighting work group
Topics:K–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 27, 2023
- 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 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, 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 The director of the Department of Education will create a group of people to study how Iowa measures student poverty and provides money to low-income students. This group will look for new ways to fund schools that help close achievement gaps and improve results for students in need. They must give their suggestions to the governor and the state legislature by early 2024.1
Read the official explanation
This bill directs the director of the department of education to establish and appoint members to a work group to examine various topics related to Iowa’s current methodology for determining levels of student poverty and funding related to students from low-income households. The bill directs the department of education to work cooperatively to provide staffing assistance for the work group and establishes the minimum persons comprising the work group. By January 2, 2024, the work group is required to submit recommendations to the general assembly and the governor for new or modified funding methodologies that demonstrate positive results for lowering achievement gaps and improving outcomes for students from low-income households.
Lobbying
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- HF 2370 Requiring the director of the department of education to establish a low-income student an…88th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 2490 Requiring the director of the department of education to establish a low-income student an…88th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · very similarCleared committee
Matched by wording or an identical title.