Iowa Code

Iowa Code § 276.8 (2026)

Duties of district-wide advisory council

✓ current as of July 2026

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The district-wide advisory council shall:

1. Provide guidance to local advisory councils, training and orientation for community persons, evaluation and assessment of needs and delivery systems for school districts.

2. Develop a “sense of total community” and promote democratic thinking and action.

3. Promote meaningful involvement of total community in the identifying, prioritizing, and resolving of school-community concerns.

4. Serve as an advocate of community education and foster community cooperation.

5. Provide an annual budget recommendation and annual report to the local board of education.

6. Mobilize available human and financial resources of the community to meet needs, interests, and concerns of people in the total community.

7. Make school facilities and resources available to all age groups from the total community, day and night, year round.

8. Facilitate the assessment of community-wide needs with the understanding that local advisory councils will manage their own assessments of needs. \n Tue Dec 09 22:17:58 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 276 (19, 0) 3 COMMUNITY EDUCATION, §276.10\n\n 9. Provide support and act as a resource group for local advisory councils and the community education director.

10. Help plan and recommend a community education budget for approval by the local board of education.

11. Recommend to the board, regulations, guidelines, and fees, if any, for facility usage.

12. Define short and long-range community education goals and objectives.

13. Communicate through inquiring, informing, suggesting, recommending and evaluating community education for the community.

14. Cooperate with other agencies and organizations including the community colleges and institutions under the control of the state board of regents toward common goals.

15. Perform the functions of the local advisory council in the event that the board determines that the size of the district does not warrant the establishment of a local advisory council. [C79, 81, §276.8] Referred to in §276.1, 276.3 \n

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 5 cases, 1954–1956 · leading case: Anderson v. Hadley, 63 N.W.2d 234 (Iowa 1954).

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Anderson v. Hadley, 63 N.W.2d 234 (Iowa 1954). · cites it 11× “The day before the first of these elections the objectors commenced in the district court this action in certiorari challenging the legality of the joint boards’ act in failing to fix the boundaries for the proposed district as required by sections 276.8, 276.9, and the legality…”

State Ex Rel. Howson v. Consol. Sch. Dist., 65 N.W.2d 168 (Iowa 1954). · cites it 4× “This it had full power to do under section 276.8, Code, 1950. Such action is to be presumed regular in the absence of a showing to the contrary.”

Everding v. Bd. of Educ., 76 N.W.2d 205 (Iowa 1956). “In the first place, the statute (principally section 275.15) contains no provision for such an appeal.”

State ex rel. Cox v. Consol. Indep. Sch. Dist., 68 N.W.2d 305 (Iowa 1955). · cites it 2× “Code section 276.8. *570 Code section 276.11 provided the county superintendent shall call an election “when the boundaries * * * have been determined * * *, by giving notice * * * in the same newspaper as previous notices concerning it have been published * * This notice was…”

State v. Consolidation Indep. Sch. Dist., 68 N.W.2d 305 (Iowa 1955). · cites it 2× “Code section 276.8, I.C.A. Code section 276.11, I.”

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