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Tools for Schools Act

An Act relating to career and technical education and state-funded workforce training programs, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.

Page one

The short version

What's broken, what the bill does, and what it costs, in plain English. If you read one thing, read this.

I've designed tools and systems for a living. A good tool solves a problem and lasts for years under hard use, but none of that engineering matters without skilled hands on the shop floor to build it.

Out here, kids tinker. They take apart a mower, fix a four-wheeler, or weld a trailer back together in the shed. For a lot of them, that's where a lifelong career starts, and it deserves a real place in our schools.

State law makes every high school teach career and technical classes in at least four of six subject areas. Shop is only one of them, so a school can skip it. Industrial technology teachers have been on Iowa's shortage list every year since 2003-04.

The state counted 672 high school programs in shop, manufacturing and the building trades in 2017-18, and 544 in 2021-22. The Department of Education says most of the statewide drop in programs came from cleaning up duplicate records, so the count doesn't prove shops closed.

Manufacturing is Iowa's largest industry by output, with about 216,000 jobs last year. A state that builds things needs people who know how to build them. AI is not going to plumb a hospital, wire a house, or set up a machine shop. Trust me on that.

Not every student needs a four-year degree and the debt that comes with it. An apprentice electrician or welder earns a paycheck while mastering the trade. College and the trades both deserve respect, and both deserve public investment.

The state helped Indian Hills build its career center in Centerville with $1.5 million in grants. Students in every local school should get that hands-on experience at an earlier age.

The bill does three things:

A rural equipment fund. Small high schools get grants for welders, lathes and CNC machines in their own shops, so students don't rely only on distant regional centers. The smallest schools put up no match.
Shop teachers. Industrial technology teachers in small districts go first in line for Teach Iowa Scholar grants. Journeymen and masters active in the trade within the last decade count as experienced enough to teach, and the state pays for their teaching courses.
Results you can check. Every training program taking state tax dollars publishes its completion rate and the median wages of those who finish.

The equipment fund and teacher help cost five million dollars a year for four years, twenty million dollars in all, then end unless renewed. The results reporting stays on. We haven't estimated its staff cost or the waived license fees.

We all want our kids to have the tools they need to build a good life right here at home.

That's the whole bill in brief. The rest of this page is the detail behind it, for anyone who wants to dig in.

See where it goes

Where state money for shop equipment goes

How to read this Money starts on the left and flows right along the streams; the moving dots show which way. A thicker stream carries more. Point at or tap a box or a stream to see the amounts.

The career academy fund figure is the most it can award in a year, not what it spent. Its grants can buy equipment too, but the law puts new regional centers first. The new fund pays only for equipment in a small district's own high school.

The same numbers, side by side

Today

Yearly cap on the career academy fundSchool infrastructure sales tax to Career academy fund
$5 million
Grants go first to new regional centersCareer academy fund to Regional career centers
$5 million

Under this bill

Sales tax money for the career academy fund, unchangedSchool infrastructure sales tax to Career academy fund
$5 million
Grants to regional centers, unchangedCareer academy fund to Regional career centers
$5 million
New money each year for four yearsState general fund to Rural shop equipment fund
five million dollars
Grants to small districts for their own shopsRural shop equipment fund to Shops in our own high schools
five million dollars

The analysis

What it costs, and what we don't know yet

For anyone who wants the costs and the tradeoffs. Every figure is a range where the future is uncertain, and every one links back to where it came from.

The math

What it costs and who pays

Sales tax money for the career academy fund, unchanged
$5 million
Grants to regional centers, unchanged
$5 million
New money each year for four years
five million dollars
Grants to small districts for their own shops
five million dollars

Under this bill, stream by stream. Each bar starts at zero, and they all share one scale. A pale band is a range; the analysis below says how it was built.

New state money: five million dollars a year from the general fund, for four budget years starting with the one that begins July 1, 2028, when the voucher savings that pay for it begin. That is twenty million dollars in all. The equipment section and the teacher section both end on July 1, 2032, so any money after that takes a new vote. The reporting section has no end date. It keeps running each year until lawmakers change it, and the bill sets aside no money for it.

The teacher changes cost little on their own. The state pays for the teaching courses a new shop teacher has to take, out of the same fund, so that is not extra money. Waiving the first authorization fee costs the licensing board a small amount of fee revenue we haven't estimated. Putting industrial technology teachers first in line for teach Iowa scholar grants moves them up the list for money the state already spends; it doesn't add any, which means other teachers move down.

The reporting section uses wage records the state already keeps. We don't have a cost estimate for the staff work, and the Legislative Services Agency would produce one if the bill were filed.

Who pays: the state, through the general fund. Districts with five hundred students or more add a local match worth a quarter of the grant, in cash or in equipment an employer donates. Smaller districts add nothing. In the state's latest count, 108 of Iowa's 325 districts are that small.

How far the money goes. The cost is fixed by the appropriation. What isn't known yet is how big the grants will be. So our model, published with the bill, brackets it. If every grant hits the cap, the fund makes the fewest grants. If grants average what Wisconsin's program has paid ($8.2 million over 253 school projects, with the same cap), it makes the most. That gives about 50 to 150 grants a year, enough for between 200 and all 288 of the 288 eligible districts to get one grant each over the life of the fund. At that pace, reaching every eligible district would take about 2 to 6 years. Wisconsin's figures are stated as "more than" and "over", so its average is approximate, and Iowa districts could ask for less than that too. The eligible count is an upper bound, because some of those districts send their high school students to a neighbor.

Open questions

What we don't know yet

I can't say how many shops Iowa has lost. The state's count of programs in the service area that holds shop, manufacturing and the building trades was 672 in school year 2017-18, and 544 in 2021-22, a drop of 128. Four reasons that number doesn't show how many shops shut down:

The Department of Education says most of the statewide drop in programs "can be explained due to more accurate reporting and clean-up of programs and course duplication." All programs statewide fell by 123, from 1,830 to 1,707. This one area fell by more than that, so the cleanup could account for much of it.
The 672 count was the highest in any year we found. In school year 2013-14 it was 568.
The area is wider than shop class. It also covers engineering, transportation, logistics, architecture and construction.
The two counts are four school years apart. The Department's report calls its table a five-year period because it shows five yearly counts.

No newer count exists that we could find. The Department's annual report stopped breaking programs out by area after school year 2021-22, and the report that replaced it doesn't have the count.

The shortage list points to a steady shortage, not a growing one. Industrial technology has been on the federal list for Iowa every year since 2003-04, 24 years in a row. It stayed on even in school year 2021-22, when Iowa listed only six areas in all. But Iowa now lists every teaching area with at least one vacancy, so being on the list today takes very little. The shortage Iowa reported for industrial technology was 43 full-time positions in school year 2023-24, and 13 for the year that began this fall.

Manufacturing is the largest industry by output, not by jobs. It was the biggest of the industry sectors the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis measures in Iowa's economy in every year since 2016, before and after inflation. The lead is thin: 15.9 percent of the state's output in 2025, against 15.5 percent for finance and insurance. Manufacturing jobs averaged about 216,000 in 2025, down from 222,300 in 2024, and the count was 212,900 in July 2026.

I couldn't find a statewide list of what equipment each high school has, or how old it is, so I can't tell you how many shops need new machines.

Who gives something up

The tradeoffs

The state already pays for career and technical equipment. The career academy fund can award up to $5 million a year from the school infrastructure sales tax, in grants of up to $1 million for buildings and equipment (Code section 257.51 and section 423F.2). Regional planning partnerships may also use state and federal money to buy equipment for their districts (section 256.136). The career academy fund gave Indian Hills $1.5 million in two grants for its regional center in Centerville. Local voters had approved a $28 million bond for the college in 2021, and state and federal grants helped close the gap when construction costs rose. This bill doesn't replace any of that. It adds money aimed at the small district's own high school shop, which the career academy fund puts behind new regional centers. The regional centers should keep what they get now. The state should also make sure a kid's first turn on a welder or a lathe can happen in their own school, and that is the lane this fund adds.

Tradespeople can already teach. Iowa's career and technical authorization lets someone with 6,000 hours of work experience from the last ten years teach in their field, then finish the teaching courses over the first three years. In a trade that needs a state license, they need the license on top of the hours. The board's executive director can already accept older or different experience case by case. What this bill changes: a journeyman card from a registered apprenticeship, or an Iowa journeyman or master license, stands in for counting hours. The person still has to have worked in the trade within the last ten years, the same window today's rule uses. An apprentice license or an unclassified helper's license doesn't count, because those go to people still in training. The bill also drops the fee and pays for the courses. That is a real change, but a modest one. Modest is the right size for this step. Someone with a journeyman card has already shown they know the trade, and the state, not the tradesperson, should cover the cost of switching to the classroom.

The teach Iowa scholar priority may help few shop teachers. The grant goes to teachers who finished in the top quarter of a teacher preparation program, or who have comparable academic credentials, and many tradespeople who come in through the authorization won't qualify. I also haven't confirmed how much the program is funded this year. The state should fund those grants well enough that moving shop teachers up the list doesn't push other teachers down. It should also open the rural teacher commitment awards in the PACE Act, my school funding bill, to shop teachers. Those awards pay a teacher for each year of a five-to-seven-year commitment to a rural district, and as written they cover licensed teachers, so a shop teacher hired on a career and technical authorization would have to be added.

Iowa already publishes some training results. The state's student outcomes site reports employment for community college graduates and median earnings for people who finish registered apprenticeships. This bill puts the requirement in law and applies it program by program to everything that takes state money. That's the reason to write it down. A report a department chooses to publish can stop the year it chooses not to, and every program that takes tax dollars should have to show what students got for them.

Regional centers exist for a reason: machines are expensive, and a small school may not fill a welding class every year. Some equipment bought with this fund could sit idle. The three-year reports the bill requires will show that, and I'd rather know. Districts that share a program can apply together, and a partner regional center can use the machines too, so a small school doesn't have to fill a welding class on its own. If a machine still sits idle, the state should send the next grant to a school that will use it.

Most Iowa high schoolers already take at least one career and technical class: 107,508 students in school year 2024-25, or 69.3 percent of all high schoolers, according to the Department. The problem this bill goes after is narrower than whether students take these classes at all. It's whether the small schools have the shop and the teacher to offer the hands-on trades. The Department's annual report should list programs by area again, as it did through school year 2021-22, so anyone can check whether those programs are coming back.

The draft text

The draft bill language

For legislators, reporters and anyone who wants the legal wording. This is our draft, written the way Iowa bills are written, so you can see exactly what we mean. If I'm elected, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office, the Legislative Services Agency, writes the version that gets filed, and the wording will change. Page one and the costs above are the commitment.

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Proposed legislation

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to career and technical education and state-funded workforce training programs, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

Section 1. NEW SECTION. Rural career and technical education equipment grant program —— fund. This section joins chapter 256.

1. For purposes of this section, unless the context otherwise requires:
a. “Eligible school district” means a school district that offers grades nine through twelve and whose certified enrollment, as determined under section 257.6 for the most recent school year, is fewer than two thousand five hundred students.
b. “Manufacturing and trades program” means a career and technical education program in the service area of applied sciences, technology, engineering, and manufacturing, including transportation, distribution, logistics, architecture, and construction, as listed in section 256.11.
c. “Program equipment” means tools, machines, software, and safety equipment used to teach a manufacturing and trades program, including but not limited to welders, lathes, mills, three-dimensional printers, and computer numerical control machines, and the training needed for instructors to operate them safely.
2. The department shall establish a rural career and technical education equipment grant program to award grants to eligible school districts for the purchase of program equipment to be used in manufacturing and trades programs taught at the high school of the eligible school district. Two or more eligible school districts that share a high school or a program may apply jointly.
3. a. A grant shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars for any eligible school district in any fiscal year.
b. An eligible school district with a certified enrollment of five hundred students or more shall provide matching funds of at least one dollar for every four dollars of grant moneys. Matching funds may be in the form of money or the monetary value of program equipment contributed by an employer or other donor. An eligible school district with a certified enrollment of fewer than five hundred students is not required to provide matching funds.
c. In awarding grants, the department shall give first priority to eligible school districts that do not offer a manufacturing and trades program at their high school or that propose to replace program equipment that is no longer safe or no longer meets current industry standards, and second priority to eligible school districts with the smallest certified enrollment.
d. Program equipment purchased with grant moneys shall be located at the high school of the eligible school district, and may also be used by a regional center or career academy with which the district partners. Grant moneys shall supplement and not supplant other moneys available to the eligible school district for program equipment.
4. Each school district receiving a grant shall report to the department by September 1 of each of the three fiscal years following the fiscal year in which the grant was received. The report shall describe the program equipment purchased, the number of students who used it, the courses taught with it, and the industry-recognized credentials students earned in those courses. The department shall publish on its internet site each year a list of grants awarded, by school district and amount, and a summary of the reports received.
5. A rural career and technical education equipment fund is created in the state treasury under the control of the department. For each fiscal year beginning on or after July 1, 2028, there is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the department for deposit in the fund five million dollars. Moneys in the fund are appropriated to the department for grants under this section and for payments under section 2 of this Act.
6. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys in the fund that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of each fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available for expenditure for the purposes of this section.
7. The department shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to implement and administer this section.
8. This section is repealed July 1, 2032.

Sec. 2. NEW SECTION. Industrial technology instructors —— rural school districts. This section joins chapter 256.

For purposes of this section, “eligible school district” and “manufacturing and trades program” mean the same as defined in section 1 of this Act.
The board of educational examiners shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A providing that an applicant for a career and technical authorization to teach a manufacturing and trades program meets the requirement for recent and relevant work experience if the applicant has worked in the trade the applicant will teach within the ten years before the date of application and holds either of the following:
a. A certificate of completion, as a journeyworker, of an apprenticeship program registered with the United States department of labor, office of apprenticeship, in the occupation the applicant will teach.
b. A current journeyman, journeyperson, or master license, or an equivalent license that authorizes the holder to practice the trade without the supervision of another licensee, issued by this state for the trade the applicant will teach. An apprentice license or a license as an unclassified person does not satisfy this paragraph.
The board of educational examiners shall not charge a fee for an initial career and technical authorization to an applicant who has been offered employment to teach a manufacturing and trades program in an eligible school district.
The department shall pay, from the fund created in section 1 of this Act, the tuition and fees for the coursework the board of educational examiners requires during the term of an initial career and technical authorization, for a person who holds that authorization and is employed to teach a manufacturing and trades program in an eligible school district.
Notwithstanding section 256.218, in selecting applicants for teach Iowa scholar grants, the college student aid commission shall give first priority to eligible applicants who teach industrial technology in an eligible school district.
This section is repealed July 1, 2032.

Sec. 3. NEW SECTION. State-funded training programs —— completion and wage reporting. This section joins chapter 84A.

1. For purposes of this section, unless the context otherwise requires:
a. “State-funded training program” means a program of instruction or training that prepares participants for employment and that, in the most recent fiscal year, received moneys appropriated by the general assembly, or enrolled students whose tuition was paid in whole or in part by a state grant or scholarship. “State-funded training program” includes but is not limited to a career and technical education program offered by a community college under chapter 260C, for credit or not for credit; an apprenticeship program whose sponsor received financial assistance under chapter 84E; and a program in which a student may use a scholarship under section 256.228.
b. “Completer” means a participant who completed a state-funded training program.
2. By December 31 of each year, the department of workforce development, in cooperation with the department of education and the college student aid commission, shall publish on its internet site, for each state-funded training program, all of the following for participants who left the program in the most recent year for which wage records are complete:
a. The number of participants who enrolled and the number who became completers.
b. The completion rate, meaning the number of completers divided by the number of participants who enrolled.
c. The median quarterly wages of completers employed in this state in the second and the fourth full calendar quarters after completion, and the share of completers employed in each of those quarters.
3. The department of workforce development shall use unemployment insurance wage records and other data held by the state to prepare the report. Each provider of a state-funded training program shall furnish the participant records the department of workforce development requires for the report. The report shall not identify any individual, and a figure for a group of fewer than ten participants shall be withheld and marked as withheld.
4. The department of workforce development shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to implement and administer this section.

Sec. 4. PAY-AS-YOU-GO SCORECARD. This Act is subject to the pay-as-you-go scorecard.

Sec. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.

EXPLANATION

The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.

This bill relates to career and technical education in rural high schools and to reporting on state-funded workforce training programs.

The bill creates a new Code section in chapter 256, establishing a rural career and technical education equipment grant program and fund. An eligible school district is one that offers high school grades and has a certified enrollment of fewer than two thousand five hundred students. Grants buy equipment for high school programs in the applied sciences, technology, engineering, and manufacturing service area, such as welders, lathes, three-dimensional printers, and computer numerical control machines. A grant may not exceed one hundred thousand dollars per district per year. Districts with five hundred students or more add a local match worth a quarter of the grant, in money or donated equipment; smaller districts add nothing. The equipment must be located at the district’s own high school. Districts report for three years on how the equipment was used, and the department of education publishes the grants and reports. The bill appropriates five million dollars a year to the fund for the four fiscal years beginning July 1, 2028. Unspent money does not revert. The section is repealed July 1, 2032.

The bill creates a second new Code section in chapter 256. The board of educational examiners must count a journeyworker certificate from a registered apprenticeship, or a journeyman, journeyperson, master, or equivalent license issued by this state that allows the holder to practice the trade without supervision, as meeting the experience requirement for a career and technical authorization to teach in that service area, if the applicant has worked in the trade within the ten years before applying. An apprentice license or an unclassified person license does not qualify. The board may not charge a fee for the initial authorization to a person hired to teach in that service area in an eligible district. The state pays for the coursework those teachers must complete, out of the appropriation for the equipment grants. Industrial technology teachers in eligible districts receive first priority for teach Iowa scholar grants. The section is repealed July 1, 2032.

The bill creates a new Code section in chapter 84A. Each year the department of workforce development must publish, for every workforce training program that receives state money, including community college career programs, state-assisted apprenticeship programs, and programs eligible for the future ready Iowa last-dollar scholarship, the number enrolled, the number and share who complete, and the median wages and employment of completers in the second and fourth quarters after completion. No individual may be identified, and figures for groups of fewer than ten are withheld. Unlike the first two sections, this section has no repeal date, and the bill appropriates no money for it.

The bill is subject to the pay-as-you-go scorecard, which a separate bill would create. In any fiscal year, the bill’s cost to the general fund is limited to the savings the scorecard counts against it.

The bill takes effect upon enactment.

Sources

Where every number comes from

For anyone checking our work. Each figure with the site it came from and the day we checked it, and each law the bill cites.

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Figures

at least four of sixState law makes every high school teach career and technical classes in at least four of six subject areas.legis.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
672The state counted 672 high school programs in shop, manufacturing and the building trades in 2017-18, and 544 in 2021-22.educate.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
544The state counted 672 high school programs in shop, manufacturing and the building trades in 2017-18, and 544 in 2021-22.educate.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
128The state's count of programs in the service area that holds shop, manufacturing and the building trades was 672 in school year 2017-18, and 544 in 2021-22, a drop of 128.educate.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
568In school year 2013-14 it was 568.educate.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
1,830The Department of Education says most of the statewide drop in programs "can be explained due to more accurate reporting and clean-up of programs and course duplication." All programs statewide fell by 123, from 1,830 to 1,707.educate.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
1,707The Department of Education says most of the statewide drop in programs "can be explained due to more accurate reporting and clean-up of programs and course duplication." All programs statewide fell by 123, from 1,830 to 1,707.educate.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
123The Department of Education says most of the statewide drop in programs "can be explained due to more accurate reporting and clean-up of programs and course duplication." All programs statewide fell by 123, from 1,830 to 1,707.educate.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
2003-04Industrial technology teachers have been on Iowa's shortage list every year since 2003-04.tsa.ed.govchecked 2026-09-27
24Industrial technology has been on the federal list for Iowa every year since 2003-04, 24 years in a row.tsa.ed.govchecked 2026-09-27
sixIt stayed on even in school year 2021-22, when Iowa listed only six areas in all.tsa.ed.govchecked 2026-09-27
every teaching area with at least one vacancyBut Iowa now lists every teaching area with at least one vacancy, so being on the list today takes very little.educate.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
43The shortage Iowa reported for industrial technology was 43 full-time positions in school year 2023-24, and 13 for the year that began this fall.tsa.ed.govchecked 2026-09-27
13The shortage Iowa reported for industrial technology was 43 full-time positions in school year 2023-24, and 13 for the year that began this fall.tsa.ed.govchecked 2026-09-27
216,000Manufacturing is Iowa's largest industry by output, with about 216,000 jobs last year.api.bls.govchecked 2026-09-27
222,300Manufacturing jobs averaged about 216,000 in 2025, down from 222,300 in 2024, and the count was 212,900 in July 2026.api.bls.govchecked 2026-09-27
212,900Manufacturing jobs averaged about 216,000 in 2025, down from 222,300 in 2024, and the count was 212,900 in July 2026.api.bls.govchecked 2026-09-27
15.9 percentThe lead is thin: 15.9 percent of the state's output in 2025, against 15.5 percent for finance and insurance.apps.bea.govchecked 2026-09-27
15.5 percentThe lead is thin: 15.9 percent of the state's output in 2025, against 15.5 percent for finance and insurance.apps.bea.govchecked 2026-09-27
$1.5 millionThe state helped Indian Hills build its career center in Centerville with $1.5 million in grants.educate.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
$28 millionLocal voters had approved a $28 million bond for the college in 2021, and state and federal grants helped close the gap when construction costs rose.educate.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
$5 millionThe career academy fund can award up to $5 million a year from the school infrastructure sales tax, in grants of up to $1 million for buildings and equipment (Code section 257.51 and section 423F.2).legis.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
$1 millionThe career academy fund can award up to $5 million a year from the school infrastructure sales tax, in grants of up to $1 million for buildings and equipment (Code section 257.51 and section 423F.2).legis.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
6,000 hoursIowa's career and technical authorization lets someone with 6,000 hours of work experience from the last ten years teach in their field, then finish the teaching courses over the first three years.legis.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
$100,000Wisconsin's cap on a single school equipment grant, used to bracket how far the fund goes.docs.legis.wisconsin.govchecked 2026-09-27
$8.2 millionIf grants average what Wisconsin's program has paid ($8.2 million over 253 school projects, with the same cap), it makes the most.dwd.wisconsin.govchecked 2026-09-27
253If grants average what Wisconsin's program has paid ($8.2 million over 253 school projects, with the same cap), it makes the most.dwd.wisconsin.govchecked 2026-09-27
325In the state's latest count, 108 of Iowa's 325 districts are that small.educate.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
288That gives about 50 to 150 grants a year, enough for between 200 and all 288 of the 288 eligible districts to get one grant each over the life of the fund.educate.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
107,508Most Iowa high schoolers already take at least one career and technical class: 107,508 students in school year 2024-25, or 69.3 percent of all high schoolers, according to the Department.educate.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
69.3 percentMost Iowa high schoolers already take at least one career and technical class: 107,508 students in school year 2024-25, or 69.3 percent of all high schoolers, according to the Department.educate.iowa.govchecked 2026-09-27
108In the state's latest count, 108 of Iowa's 325 districts are that small.educate.iowa.govchecked 2026-10-01

Laws cited

chapter 256Department of education. Since the 2023 recodification it also holds career and technical education (subchapter VII, part 2, formerly chapter 258), the board of educational examiners (part 3) and the college student aid commission (part 4). Sections 1 and 2 of the bill join it. legis.iowa.gov
chapter 84ADepartment of workforce development. Section 3 of the bill joins it.legis.iowa.gov
chapter 84EIowa Apprenticeship Act: financial assistance from the department of workforce development to sponsors of apprenticeship programs registered with the United States department of labor, office of apprenticeship. legis.iowa.gov
chapter 260CCommunity colleges.legis.iowa.gov
chapter 17AIowa administrative procedure act; agencies adopt rules under it.legis.iowa.gov
8.33Reversion of unencumbered or unobligated appropriations at the end of the fiscal year.legis.iowa.gov
256.11Educational standards. For grades nine through twelve, requires a minimum of three sequential units in at least four of six career and technical education service areas, one of which is applied sciences, technology, engineering, and manufacturing, including transportation, distribution, logistics, architecture, and construction. legis.iowa.gov
257.6School district enrollment, including certified enrollment.legis.iowa.gov
256.218Teach Iowa scholar program: grants of up to four thousand dollars a year to teachers who were in the top quarter of their teacher preparation program (or have comparable academic credentials) and teach in fields such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics or in a hard-to-staff subject. legis.iowa.gov
256.228Future ready Iowa skilled workforce last-dollar scholarship program.legis.iowa.gov
256.136Regional career and technical education planning partnerships. A partnership may use state and federal funds received on behalf of its districts to, among other things, purchase career and technical education equipment. legis.iowa.gov
257.51Career academy fund: competitive grants of up to one million dollars to school corporations for career academy infrastructure, equipment, or both, with first priority to new career academies organized as regional centers. legis.iowa.gov
423F.2The school infrastructure sales tax fund; each year a career academy transfer amount, capped at five million dollars, goes to the career academy fund. legis.iowa.gov