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Modifying the earliest possible start date of the school calendar for school districts and accredited nonpublic schools
Topics:K–12 education
Same legislation: SF 205
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 22, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 22, 2025
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 4, 2025
- Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 205
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 205 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 205 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Schools and private schools in Iowa would be allowed to start their school year a little earlier. Instead of being required to wait until August 23, they could start on the Monday before the last Monday in August.1
Read the official explanation
This bill modifies the earliest possible start date of the S.F. _____ school calendar for school districts and accredited nonpublic schools. Current law provides that the school calendar for school districts and accredited nonpublic schools shall begin no sooner than August 23. The bill modifies this provision to provide that the school calendar shall, instead, begin no sooner than the Monday immediately preceding the last Monday in August.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 22, 2025. On January 30, 2025 it recommended passage.
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- SF 2010 Modifying the earliest possible start date of the school calendar for school districts and…90th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · very similarCleared committee
- HSB 603 HSB 60390th General Assembly · In committee · very similarCleared committee
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