263.8A International center for talented and gifted education — Iowa online advanced placement academy science, technology, engineering, and mathematics initiative.
1. a. The state board of regents shall establish and maintain at Iowa City as an integral part of the state university of Iowa the international center for talented and gifted education. The international center shall provide programs to assist classroom teachers to teach gifted and talented students in regular classrooms, provide programs to enhance the learning experiences of gifted and talented students, serve as a center for national and international symposiums and policy forums for enhancing the teaching of gifted and talented students, and undertake other appropriate activities to enhance the programs of the center, including, but not limited to, coordinating and working with the world council for gifted and talented children, incorporated.
b. An international center endowment fund is established at the state university of Iowa and gifts and grants to the international center and investment earnings and returns on the endowment fund shall be deposited in the fund and may be expended by the state university of Iowa for the purposes for which the international center was established.
2. The Iowa online advanced placement academy science, technology, engineering, and mathematics initiative is established within the international center for talented and gifted education at the state university of Iowa to deliver, with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics coursework, preadvanced placement and advanced placement courses to high school students throughout the state, provide training opportunities for teachers to learn how to teach advanced placement courses in Iowa’s high schools, and provide preparation for middle school students to ensure success in high school.
88 Acts, ch 1284, §44; 96 Acts, ch 1184, §3; 2011 Acts, ch 132, §17, 106
Referred to in §257B.1B
Structure Iowa Code
Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Chapter 263 - UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
Section 263.1 - Objects — departments.
Section 263.3 - Cabinet of natural history.
Section 263.4 - Homeopathic materia medica and therapeutics.
Section 263.5 - Institute of child behavior and development.
Section 263.7 - State hygienic laboratory — investigations.
Section 263.8 - Reports — tests.
Section 263.8B - Interest earnings.
Section 263.8C - Advanced placement summer program.
Section 263.9 - Establishment and objectives.
Section 263.10 - Persons admitted.
Section 263.12 - Payment by counties.
Section 263.13 - Gifts accepted.
Section 263.17 - Center for health effects of environmental contamination.
Section 263.18 - Treatment of patients — use of earnings for new facilities.
Section 263.20 - Collecting and settling claims for care.
Section 263.21 - Transfer of patients from state institutions.
Section 263.22 - Medical care for parolees and persons on work release.