279.50A Educational standards — agreements for mathematics and science units.
1. If a school district’s total enrollment exceeds six hundred pupils, the school district may enter into an agreement with a community college under which the community college may offer, or provide a community college-employed instructor to teach, one of the units in accordance with section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph “a”, or one of the units in accordance with section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph “d” or “e”, and if the unit of coursework under the agreement meets the requirements specified in section 257.11, subsection 3, paragraph “b”, subparagraphs (2) through (7), the unit offered shall be deemed to meet the education program requirement for a unit of mathematics or science, as applicable, under section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph “a”, “d”, or “e”. The provisions of this subsection are applicable only if all of the following conditions are met:
a. The school district has made every reasonable and good faith effort to employ a teacher licensed under chapter 272 for the unit of science or mathematics, as applicable, and is unable to employ such a teacher. For purposes of this subsection, “good faith effort” means the same as defined in section 279.19A, subsection 9.
b. Enrollment for the unit exceeds five pupils.
c. The unit is offered during the regular school day.
d. The unit is made accessible by the school district to all eligible pupils.
2. Pupils enrolled in a unit of coursework offered pursuant to subsection 1 are not eligible for supplementary weighting under section 257.11, subsection 3.
2019 Acts, ch 164, §4, 5; 2020 Acts, ch 1062, §94; 2020 Acts, ch 1063, §127
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Subsection 1, unnumbered paragraph 1 amended