1. Whole grade sharing isa procedure used by school districts whereby all or a substantial portion ofthepupils inany grade in twoormoreschool districts share an educational program for allor a substantial portion of a school day under a written agreement pursuant to section 256.13, 280.15, or 282.7, subsection 1 or 3. Whole grade sharing may either be one-way or two-way sharing. 2. One-way whole grade sharing occurs when a school districtsends pupils toone or more other school districts for instruction and does not receive a substantial number of pupils from those districts in return. 3. Two-way whole gradesharing occurs when a school district sends pupilsto one ormore other school districts for instruction and receives a substantial number of pupils from those school districts in return. 4. A whole grade sharing agreement shall be signed by the boards of the districts involved in the agreement not later than February 1 of the school year preceding the school year for which the agreement isto take effect. The boards of the districts shall negotiate as part of the new or existing agreement the disposition of funding provided under chapter 284, including the teacher leadership supplement state cost per pupil as provided in section 257.9, unless all of the districts subject to the agreement are receiving such funding.
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