282.30 Special programs.
1. a. An area education agency shall provide or make provision for an appropriate educational program for each child living in the following types of facilities located within its boundaries:
(1) An approved or licensed shelter care home, as defined in section 232.2, subsection 34.
(2) An approved juvenile detention home, as defined in section 232.2, subsection 32.
b. The area education agency shall provide the educational program by any one of, but not limited to, the following:
(1) Providing for the enrollment of the child in the district of residence of the child, subject to the approval of the district in which the child is living.
(2) Cooperating with the district of residence of the child and obtaining the course of study and textbooks of the child for use in the special facility into which the child has been placed.
(3) Providing for the enrollment of the child in the district in which the child is living, subject to the approval of the district in which the child is living.
c. An area education agency shall not provide educational services to a facility specified in paragraph “a” unless the facility makes a request for educational services to the area education agency by either of the following dates:
(1) December 1 of the school year prior to the beginning of the school year for which the services are being requested.
(2) Ninety days prior to the beginning of the time for which the services are being requested if the facility is a newly established facility.
2. The area education agency where the child is living, the school district of residence, the other appropriate area education agency or agencies, and other appropriate agencies involved with the care or placement of the child shall cooperate with the school district where the child is living in sharing educational information, textbooks, curriculum, assignments, and materials in order to plan and to provide for the appropriate education of the child living in such facility specified in subsection 1.
87 Acts, ch 233, §483; 2000 Acts, ch 1121, §1, 2
Referred to in §256.7, 282.31
Structure Iowa Code
Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Chapter 282 - SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AND TUITION
Section 282.1 - School age — nonresidents.
Section 282.1A - Extended school programs.
Section 282.2 - Offsetting tax.
Section 282.3 - Admission and exclusion of pupils.
Section 282.4 - Suspension — expulsion.
Section 282.5 - Readmission of student.
Section 282.7 - Attending in another corporation — payment.
Section 282.8 - Attending school outside state.
Section 282.9 - Enrollment of person listed on sex offender registry.
Section 282.10 - Whole grade sharing.
Section 282.11 - Procedure for whole grade sharing agreements.
Section 282.12 - Funding of whole grade sharing agreements.
Section 282.18 - Open enrollment.
Section 282.19 - Child living in substance abuse or foster care placement.
Section 282.20 - Tuition fees — payment.
Section 282.21 - Collection of tuition fees.
Section 282.24 - Tuition fees established.
Section 282.26 - High school students attending advanced courses.
Section 282.27 - Children living in psychiatric hospitals or institutions — payment.
Section 282.28 - Children at Eldora and Toledo.
Section 282.29 - Children placed by district court.
Section 282.30 - Special programs.
Section 282.31 - Funding for special programs.
Section 282.33 - Funding for children residing in state mental health institutes or institutions.
Section 282.34 - Educational programs for children’s residential facilities.