Relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to community college and department of education reporting requirements, employees of the Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired program or the Iowa school for the deaf, and employment contracts between community colleges and community college instructors

This bill relates to education, including by modifying provisions related to community college and department of education (DE) reporting requirements, employees of the Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired program or the Iowa school for the deaf, and employment contracts between community colleges and community college instructors. DIVISION I —— REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. Current law requires the state board of education to adopt rules directing the community colleges to submit certain specified data from the most recent fiscal year to the community colleges bureau using criteria determined by the community colleges bureau. The bill modifies these provisions to instead require the data to be submitted directly to DE. The bill makes several other modifications related to data submitted by the community colleges to DE, and related to data submitted by DE to the state board and the general assembly, including modifications related to the information to be included in the annual condition of community colleges report. DIVISION II —— IOWA EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED PROGRAM AND THE IOWA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF.27 (discharge of a teacher) applies to employees of the Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired program and employees of the Iowa school for the deaf, whether or not licensed by the board of educational examiners, who are responsible for the care, instruction, or supervision of children. The bill requires the department of administrative services, in consultation with DE, to establish an annual compensation schedule applicable to all employees of the Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired program and all employees of the Iowa school for the deaf and to set the employee benefits for such employees. DIVISION III —— COMMUNITY COLLEGE INSTRUCTORS —— EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS.27 (discharge of teacher), the term “teacher” includes instructors employed by a community college but does not include adjunct instructors employed by a community college.13 to provide that, for purposed of these Code sections, an instructor or faculty member who provides instruction to students enrolled in the community college that results in community college credit hours for the students, and such instruction constitutes more than one-half of the instructor’s or faculty member’s workload, is a teacher; however, neither an adjunct instructor, a continuing education instructor, nor a noncredit instructor is a teacher. The bill defines “continuing education instructor” and “noncredit instructor”.