2009 Iowa Code
Title 7 - Education and Cultural Affairs
Subtitle 5 - Educational Development and Professional Regulation
CHAPTER 272 - EDUCATIONAL EXAMINERS BOARD
272.15 - REPORTING REQUIREMENTS -- COMPLAINTS.

        272.15  REPORTING REQUIREMENTS -- COMPLAINTS.
         1.  The board of directors of a school district or area education
      agency, the superintendent of a school district or the chief
      administrator of an area education agency, and the authorities in
      charge of a nonpublic school shall report to the board the nonrenewal
      or termination, for reasons of alleged or actual misconduct, of a
      person's contract executed under sections 279.12, 279.13, 279.15
      through 279.21, 279.23, and 279.24, and the resignation of a person
      who holds a license, certificate, or authorization issued by the
      board as a result of or following an incident or allegation of
      misconduct that, if proven, would constitute a violation of the rules
      adopted by the board to implement section 272.2, subsection 14,
      paragraph "b", subparagraph (1), when the board or reporting
      official has a good faith belief that the incident occurred or the
      allegation is true.  Information reported to the board in accordance
      with this section is privileged and confidential, and except as
      provided in section 272.13, is not subject to discovery, subpoena, or
      other means of legal compulsion for its release to a person other
      than the respondent and the board and its employees and agents
      involved in licensee discipline, and is not admissible in evidence in
      a judicial or administrative proceeding other than the proceeding
      involving licensee discipline.  The board shall review the
      information reported to determine whether a complaint should be
      initiated.  In making that determination, the board shall consider
      the factors enumerated in section 272.2, subsection 14, paragraph
      "a".  For purposes of this section, unless the context otherwise
      requires, "misconduct" means an action disqualifying an applicant
      for a license or causing the license of a person to be revoked or
      suspended in accordance with the rules adopted by the board to
      implement section 272.2, subsection 14, paragraph "b",
      subparagraph (1).
         2.  If, in the course of performing official duties, an employee
      of the department becomes aware of any alleged misconduct by an
      individual licensed under this chapter, the employee shall report the
      alleged misconduct to the board of educational examiners under rules
      adopted pursuant to subsection 1.
         3.  If the executive director of the board verifies through a
      review of official records that a teacher who holds a practitioner's
      license under this chapter is assigned instructional duties for which
      the teacher does not hold the appropriate license or endorsement,
      either by grade level or subject area, by a school district or
      accredited nonpublic school, the executive director may initiate a
      complaint against the teacher and the administrator responsible for
      the inappropriate assignment of instructional duties.  

         2003 Acts, ch 180, §16; 2007 Acts, ch 214, §33
         Referred to in § 256.9