The director shall:
 1. Designate a community college as an “area career and technical education school” within the meaning of, and for the purpose of administering, the federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006. A community college shall not be so designated by the director for the expenditure of funds under 20 U.S.C. § 2301 et seq., as amended, which has not been designated and classified as a community college by the state board.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 260C.5

  • Board: means a board of directors of a community college. See Iowa Code 260C.56
  • Community college: means a publicly supported school which may offer programs of adult and continuing education, lifelong learning, community education, and up to two years of liberal arts, preprofessional, or occupational instruction partially fulfilling the requirements for a baccalaureate degree but confers no more than an associate degree; or which offers as the whole or as part of the curriculum up to two years of career and technical education, training, or retraining to persons who are preparing to enter the labor market. See Iowa Code 260C.2
  • Department: means the department of education. See Iowa Code 260C.2
  • Director: means the director of the department of education. See Iowa Code 260C.2
  • Merged area: means an area where two or more school systems or parts of school systems merge resources to operate a community college in the manner provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 260C.2
  • Property: means a tangible object, animate or inanimate, under a museum's care which has intrinsic historic, artistic, scientific, or cultural value. See Iowa Code 305B.2
  • School: means an agency of the state or political subdivision of the state, individual, partnership, company, firm, society, trust, association, corporation, or any combination which meets any of the following criteria:
     a. See Iowa Code 261B.2
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • State board: means the state board of education. See Iowa Code 260C.2
 2. Change boundaries of director districts in a merged area when the board fails to change boundaries as required by law.
 3. Make changes in boundaries of merged areas with the approval of the board of directors of each merged area affected by the change. When the boundaries of a merged area are changed, the director of the department of education may authorize the board of directors of the merged area to levy additional taxes upon the property within the merged area, or any part of the merged area, and distribute the taxes so that all parts of the merged area are paying their share toward the support of the college.
 4. Administer, allocate, and disburse federal or state funds made available to pay a portion of the cost of acquiring sites for and constructing, acquiring, or remodeling facilities for community colleges, and establish priorities for the use of such funds.
 5. Administer, allocate, and disburse federal or state funds available to pay a portion of the operating costs of community colleges.
 6. Propose administrative rules to carry out this chapter subject to approval of the state board.
 7. Enter into contracts with local school boards within the area that have and maintain a career and technical education program and with private schools or colleges in the cooperative or merged areas to provide courses or programs of study in addition to or as a part of the curriculum made available in the community college.
 8. Make arrangements with boards of merged areas and local school districts to permit students attending high school to participate in career and technical education programs and advanced college placement courses and obtain credit for such participation for application toward the completion of a high school diploma. The granting of credit is subject to the approval of the director of the department of education.
 9. Prescribe a uniform system of accounting for community colleges.
 10. Ensure that community colleges that provide intercollegiate athletics as a part of their program comply with section 216.9.
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