Advocacy Network

Advocacy Network Sign-up Form

Use this form to become a member of the IASB Advocacy Network!

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* 1. Please Tell Us Your:

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IASB Director District:

School District:

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* 2. What is your role?


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* 3. Of the six IASB Priorities, which is most important to you and why?

The 2015 IASB Legislative Priorities are:

Iowa Core
Supports continued progress in the development of rigorous content standards and benchmarks consistent with the Iowa Core focused on improving student achievement, including the following state actions:
 Provide and fund technical assistance to help school districts fully implement the Iowa Core.
 Adopt high-quality summative and formative assessments, aligned to the skills students should know and be able to do to succeed globally and locally.
 Include and fund all the components of successful standards systems: assessments aligned to high expectations, improved and aligned instruction and quality professional development.
 Research based professional development that provides educators with training, support and time to work together so that they can successfully teach a rigorous curriculum to all students.

Preschool
Supports an increase in funding to ensure all 4-year-olds have access to a high quality public school preschool program. The increase should include transportation and facility development costs. We should continue to allow 4-year-olds to be included in the enrollment count if those programs can demonstrate meeting the collaboration and quality standards requirements of the statewide voluntary preschool program.

Children’s Mental Health System
Supports increased statewide access to and funding for mental health services for children. Students are struggling in school and there are not adequate resources, financial and human, for necessary services. It is often unclear whose role it is to provide the services and to provide funds for programming. Neither the education nor children’s mental health delivery systems have the resources to meet current needs. The legislature also needs to clarify roles and secure full funding.

Supplemental State Aid
Supports setting supplemental state aid (replaces the term allowable growth):
a) 400 days (or 14 months) prior to the certification of the school district’s budget;
b) at the rate of 6 percent to encourage continuous school improvement and reflect the actual cost increases experienced by school districts and AEAs.
Our priority is to increase the state cost per pupil and the spending authority associated with it to build a strong base for future education resources.

Statewide Support of the AEA’s
Supports adequate financial support of the Area Education Agencies to provide essential services in a cost effective manner to school districts including:
 special education;
 technology;
 professional development;
 curriculum assessment; and,
 student assessment data analysis.

Transportation Funding
Supports a funding mechanism for school districts’ transportation costs that does not reduce funding for the educational program.

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* 4. What other advocacy priorities are important to your district/AEA?

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* 5. What advocacy strategies have you successfully used in the past, and what can IASB do to help you achieve advocacy goals?

Thank you for signing up to be an advocate for your district! Be on the look-out for correspondence as we move into the 2015 legislative session. Visit the IASB website www.ia-sb.org for tools and resources, or feel free to contact members of our government relations team at (515) 288-1991. We look forward to working with you!