Iowa Association of School Board Finance Info March 2022
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Shawn Snyder, Associate Executive Director, Government Relations & School Finance, Iowa Association of School Boards and Phil Jeneary, Government Relations Director, Iowa Association of School Boards presented school finance information at the Taxpayers Association of Central Iowa March meeting.
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Thanks to IASB officials, this presentation covers 7.5 hours of details in 50 minutes.
Topics:
- Iowa currently has 327 school districts
- Dillion’s Rule:
- Schools can only do what is expressly authorized in law or rule.
- 2016: some opportunity to innovate if law doesn’t prohibit it.
- Revenues and expenditures
- COVID stimulus Federal Funding
- Enrollment: 485,630 students, down 20,000 from1998 high .
- Iowa’ school Finance formula
- School Property taxes – types and levies
- Student First Scholarship proposal & status of charter school expansion
