Iowa Code

Iowa Code § 276.2 (2026)

Purpose

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It is the purpose of this chapter to provide educational, recreational, cultural, and other community services and programs through the establishment of the concept of community education with the community school serving as the center for such activity. In cooperation with other community agencies and groups, it is the purpose of the community education Act to mobilize community resources to solve identified community concerns and to promote a more efficient and expanded use of existing school buildings and equipment, to provide leadership in working with other entities, to mobilize the human and financial resources of a community, and to provide a wide range of opportunities for all socioeconomic, ethnic, and age groups. A related purpose of this chapter is to develop a sense of community in which the citizenry cooperates with the school and community agencies and groups to resolve their school and community concerns and to recognize that the schools belong to the people, and that as the entity located in every neighborhood, the schools are available for use by the community day and night, year-round or any time when the programming will not interfere with the elementary and secondary program. [C79, 81, §276.2] Referred to in §276.1, 276.3

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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases, 1947–1955 · leading case: Zilske v. Albers, 29 N.W.2d 189 (Iowa 1947).
Zilske v. Albers, 29 N.W.2d 189 (Iowa 1947). · cites it 4× “Code section 276.2 requires the original petition to be signed by one third of the voters in the territory described.”
Anderson v. Hadley, 63 N.W.2d 234 (Iowa 1954). · cites it 2× “The petition was filed pursuant to chapter 276, Code, 1950, and was signed by more than “one-third of the voters residing within the limits of the territory described” as required by Code section 276.2. Defendant superintendent fixed a final date for filing objections to the…”
Smaha v. Simmons, 60 N.W.2d 100 (Iowa 1953). · cites it 2× “” It is admitted the petition was filed under the provisions of section 276.2, Code, 1950, and it is not argued it was insufficient under said section.”
State ex rel. Cox v. Consol. Indep. Sch. Dist., 68 N.W.2d 305 (Iowa 1955). · cites it 2× “Defendants contend the county superintendent acquires jurisdiction “by the filing with him of the petition required under” Code section 276.2 “and his jurisdiction once acquired is not lost by subsequent omission to follow literally and strictly the statutes.”
State v. Consolidation Indep. Sch. Dist., 68 N.W.2d 305 (Iowa 1955). · cites it 2× “Defendants contend the county superintendent acquires jurisdiction "by the filing with him of the petition required under" Code section 276.2, I.C.A., "and his jurisdiction once acquired is not lost by subsequent omission to follow literally and strictly the statutes.”
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