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Iowa Code § 275.8 (2026)

Cooperation of department of education — planning joint districts

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1. For purposes of this chapter the planning of joint districts is defined to include all of the following acts:

a. Preparation of a written joint plan in which contiguous territory in two or more area education agencies is considered as a part of a potential school district in the area education agency on behalf of which such plan is filed with the department of education by the area education agency board.

b. Adoption of the written joint plan at a joint session of the several area education agency boards in whose areas the territory is situated. A quorum of each of the boards is necessary to transact business. Votes shall be taken in the manner prescribed in section 275.16.

c. Filing said plan with the department of education.

2. For purposes of subsection 1, paragraph “a”, joint planning shall be evidenced by filing the following items with the department of education:

a. A plat of the entire area of such potential district.

b. A statement of the number of pupils residing within the area of said potential district enrolled in public schools in the preceding school year.

c. A statement of the assessed valuation of taxable property located within such potential district.

d. An affidavit signed on behalf of each of said boards of directors of area education agencies by a member of such board stating the boundaries as shown on such plat have been agreed upon by the respective boards as a part of the overall plan of school district reorganization of each such school.

3. Planning of joint districts shall be conducted in the same manner as planning for single districts, except as provided in this section. Studies and surveys relating to the planning of joint districts shall be filed with the area education agency in which one of the districts is located which has the greatest taxable property base. In the case of controversy over the planning of joint districts, the matter shall be submitted to the director of the department of education. Judicial review of the director’s decision may be sought in accordance with the terms of the Iowa administrative procedure Act, chapter 17A. Notwithstanding the terms of that Act, petitions for judicial review must be filed within thirty days after the decision of the director. [C46, 50, §275.10, 276.4; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §275.8] 84 Acts, ch 1078, §5; 86 Acts, ch 1245, §1462; 2001 Acts, ch 24, §43, 44; 2010 Acts, ch 1069, §76 Referred to in §275.9, 275.16 \n

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 23 cases, 1955–2003 · leading case: Bd. of Directors, Etc. v. Bd. of Educ., Etc..

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Bd. of Directors, Etc. v. Bd. of Educ., Etc. (Iowa 1960). · cites it 32× “Both the county boards of education for Dallas and Guthrie Counties filed answers, and on February 21, 1959, the Redfield Community School District, which had none of its territory involved in the proposed new district, filed a petition of intervention in the proceedings. The…”

Everding v. Bd. of Educ. (Iowa 1956). · cites it 12× “15 hereof, or dismiss the petition, unless county plans are amended in which event the decision of the joint county boards may be appealed as provided in section 275.8. * * *. “275.18 Special election called — time.”

Bd. of Educ. v. Bd. of Educ. (Iowa 1959). · cites it 11× “Section 275.8, Code of 1954, is as follows: “Co-operation of state department.”

Eden Twp. Sch. Dist. v. Carroll Cnty. Bd. of Educ. (Iowa 1970). · cites it 10× “The aggrieved party, as defined in section 275.8, shall initiate the appeal or appeals to a court of record, as provided for in this chapter.”

Appeal of Bd. of Directors of Grimes Ind. Sch. Dist. (Iowa 1964). · cites it 7× ““* * * This decision [of the state department] may be appealed to a court of record in one of the counties by any aggrieved party to the controversy as defined in section 275.8, «8 # # » Section 275.8, in part, provides: *109 “* * * An aggrieved party is hereby defined as the…”

Bd. of Directors v. Iowa State Bd. of Pub. Instruction (Iowa 1960). · cites it 4× “16 contains this vital provision for bringing a controversy like this to the state department: “In ease a controversy arises from such meeting, the county board or boards or any school district aggrieved may bring the controversy to the state department of public instruction, as…”

Turnis v. Bd. of Educ. of Jones Cnty. (Iowa 1961). · cites it 3× “This section provides in part: “* * * In case a controversy arises from such meeting [of the joint boards acting as a single board], the county board or boards or any school district aggrieved may bring the controversy to the state department of public instruction, as provided…”

Bd. of Educ., Etc. v. Bd. of Educ., Etc. (Iowa 1960). · cites it 4× “275 of the 1958 Code of Iowa, Sections 275.8, 275.32 and 275.16, as hereinabove mentioned.”

Sioux City Cmty. Sch. Dist. v. Iowa Dep't of Educ. (Iowa 2003). · cites it 4× “Iowa Code § 275.8 (1958). Based upon this statute, we found the legislature delegated authority to the state Department of Public Instruction to review the substance of a decision made by the county board or boards or any school district.”

State Ex Rel. Schilling v. Cmty. Sch. Dist. (Iowa 1960). · cites it 2× “” Section 275.8. Section 275.18 further provides that when boundaries of the territory and the method of electing school directors have been determined “the county superintendent * * * shall call a special election in such proposed school corporation within thirty da/ys from the…”

Bd. of Directors v. Bd. of Educ. (Iowa 1960). · cites it 12× “Upon motion of the Board of Education of Ida County the Cushing Board was stricken as a party plaintiff, on the basis that it was not an aggrieved party under section 275.8, Code, 1954. The Cushing Board appeals.”

Bd. of Directors v. Cnty. Bd. of Educ. (Iowa 1967). · cites it 2× “This is best illustrated by section 275.8 which provides in part: “The state department of public instruction shall co-operate with the several county boards of education in making the studies and surveys required hereunder.”

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