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PUBLIC SCHOOL OPTIONS FUND - Adds to existing law to create the Public
Schools Option Fund; to provide that grants may be awarded by the State
Board of Education to school districts, schools or grades within a school
to encourage public schools to offer curriculums, settings, processes or
structures that offer students clear choice options within public schools;
and to provide a sunset date.
03/07 House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
03/08 Rpt prt - to Educ
03/16 Rpt out - to Gen Ord
03/16 Rpt out amen - to engros
03/17 Rpt engros - 1st rdg - to 2nd rdg as amen
03/20 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg as amen
03/21 3rd rdg as amen - FAILED - 24-45-1
AYES -- Alltus, Barraclough, Black, Bruneel, Deal, Denney, Hadley,
Hammond, Jones, Kunz, Loertscher, Mader, Meyer, Montgomery, Reynolds,
Ridinger, Sali, Schaefer, Sellman, Smylie, Stoicheff, Tilman, Trail,
Zimmermann
NAYS -- Barrett, Bell, Bieter, Boe, Callister, Campbell, Chase,
Cheirrett, Clark, Crow, Cuddy, Ellsworth, Field(13), Field(20),
Gagner, Geddes, Gould, Hansen(23), Hansen(29), Henbest, Hornbeck,
Jaquet, Judd, Kellogg, Kempton, Kendell, Lake, Linford, Marley,
McKague, Mortensen, Moss, Moyle, Pearce, Pischner, Pomeroy, Ringo,
Robison, Shepherd, Smith, Stevenson, Stone, Taylor, Wheeler, Wood
Absent and excused -- Mr Speaker
Floor Sponsor - Kunz
Filed with Chief Clerk
H0716
|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ||||
Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2000
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE BILL NO. 716, As Amended
BY EDUCATION COMMITTEE
1 AN ACT
2 RELATING TO OPTIONS WITHIN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS; PROVIDING LEGISLATIVE INTENT;
3 AMENDING CHAPTER 9, TITLE 33, IDAHO CODE, BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION
4 33-907, IDAHO CODE, TO CREATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OPTIONS FUND, TO PROVIDE
5 FOR WHAT MONEYS IN THE FUND MAY BE EXPENDED, TO PROVIDE FOR GRANTS AND TO
6 PROVIDE FOR MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF GRANTS; AND PROVIDING A SUNSET CLAUSE.
7 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
8 SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE INTENT. The Legislature finds that individual stu-
9 dents can respond differently in different educational settings. Where one
10 individual child can flourish under one set of educational circumstances, a
11 second can experience great difficulties in those identical circumstances.
12 School districts that offer students a broad array of educational options are
13 responding to the tenet that students are best served when they and their par-
14 ents are able to better match individual circumstances and needs to educa-
15 tional opportunities. This legislation is intended to encourage public schools
16 to experiment with differing curriculums, settings, processes and structures
17 that offer students clear choice options within the public schools.
18 SECTION 2. That Chapter 9, Title 33, Idaho Code, be, and the same is
19 hereby amended by the addition thereto of a NEW SECTION, to be known and des-
20 ignated as Section 33-907, Idaho Code, and to read as follows:
21 33-907. PUBLIC SCHOOL OPTIONS FUND. There is hereby created in the state
22 treasury the public school options fund which shall be administered by the
23 state board of education through the department of education. Moneys in the
24 fund may be expended pursuant to appropriation. The fund may accept donations,
25 grants or funds from any source. The fund is created to award one-time grants
26 on a competitive basis to Idaho public schools that develop an implementation
27 plan to be financed by grant dollars from the fund, which plan offers some
28 clear choice available to some segment of a public school population. The
29 choice may be offered within an individual school district, school or grade
30 within a school. It is expected that school districts will use grant moneys
31 from the fund for start-up purposes and will devise ways to maintain these
32 choice opportunities in subsequent years. As a condition of securing a grant a
33 school district must, at a minimum, outline in its application the following:
34 a brief description and rationale for the proposed plan; a list of the stu-
35 dents and staff who have committed to participate in the "choice program"; a
36 brief background on why the proposal is a new choice opportunity for stu-
37 dents; an outline of how the school district will evaluate the effects and
38 effectiveness of the program; the recipient district shall agree to report to
39 the state department of education the results of their evaluation; an itemized
40 spending plan and a brief description of how the district can maintain this
41 program in subsequent years without additional funding from the public school
42 options fund. Public school options grants shall have a maximum amount of one
2
1 hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) if funds are available.
2 SECTION 3. This act shall be null, void and of no force and effect on and
3 after July 1, 2003.
AH0716
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Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2000
Moved by Kunz
Seconded by
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE AMENDMENT TO H.B. NO. 716
1 AMENDMENT TO SECTION 2
2 On page 1 of the printed bill, in line 40, following "program;" insert:
3 "the recipient district shall agree to report to the state department of edu-
4 cation the results of their evaluation;".
5 On page 2, delete lines 1 through 3 and insert: "grants shall have a maxi-
6 mum amount of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) if funds are avail-
7 able.".
8 AMENDMENT TO THE BILL
9 On page 2, delete lines 4 through 6 and insert:
10 "SECTION 3. This act shall be null, void and of no force and effect on and
11 after July 1, 2003.".
12 CORRECTION TO TITLE
13 On page 1, delete lines 6 through 8 and insert: "PROVIDE FOR MAXIMUM
14 AMOUNTS OF GRANTS; AND PROVIDING A SUNSET CLAUSE.".
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 10206
The purpose of this legislation is to establish a special fund with the Idaho State
Board of Education that will be used to award competitive grants to school
districts wishing to establish new choice options within their public schools. The
grant awards are on a one-time basis and are intended as startup funds to establish
new learning options to parents and students. Often times a district or school is
restricted in their thinking "outside of the box" because of the costs associated
with change. The public school option fund is developed to assist in this area.
FISCAL IMPACT
A $500,000.00 appropriation request for FY2001 was included in the Governor's
Executive Budget request. Actual funding is subject to Joint
Finance-Appropriation Committee action.
Contact
Name: Rep. Kent Kunz
Phone: 332-1000
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE Bill No. 716