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256.22 EXTENDED YEAR SCHOOL GRANT PROGRAM.
1. Subject to an appropriation of sufficient funds by the general
assembly, the department shall establish an extended year school
grant program to provide for the allocation of grants to school
districts, or a collaboration of school districts, to provide
technical assistance for conversion of an existing school to an
extended school year calendar, or for investigating the possibility
of converting an existing school within a district to an extended
school year calendar.
2. Grant moneys shall be distributed to qualifying school
districts by the department no later than October 15, 1999. Grant
amounts shall be distributed as determined by the department.
3. By February 15, 1999, a school district or collaboration of
districts receiving moneys under this section shall submit an interim
report to the department describing the planning activities conducted
by the school district or the collaboration and providing preliminary
conclusions. The school district or collaboration shall submit a
final report by June 1, 1999, to the department. The department
shall summarize the school district reports in a final report to the
chairpersons and ranking members of the house and senate standing
education committees by January 1, 2000.
4. Notwithstanding section 8.33, unencumbered or unobligated
funds remaining on June 30 of the fiscal year for which the funds
were appropriated shall not revert but shall be available for
expenditure for the following fiscal year for purposes of this
section. Section History: Recent Form
98 Acts, ch 1215, § 27; 98 Acts, ch 1216, §4; 99 Acts, ch 205, §19
