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...cessary in order to maintain or improve educational opportunities of pupils in the school district, the plan may include a proposal to restructure or refinance outstanding debt obligations incurred by the board under section 3313.483 of the Revised Code contingent upon the approval, during the period of the fiscal emergency, by district voters of a tax levied under section 718.09, 718.10, 5705.194, 5705.21, 5748.02, ...

...sion fails to submit to the director of education and workforce under section 3316.06 of the Revised Code a financial recovery plan that is acceptable to the director of education and workforce, or if the director of education and workforce and the director of budget and management find that a commission is not materially complying with the provisions of its financial recovery plan, the directors may jointly dissolve...

...ive preference to those employees with continuing contracts or non-probationary status and who have greater seniority. If revenues and expenditures cannot be balanced by reasonable reductions in administrative and nonteaching employees, the commission may also make reasonable reductions in the number of teaching contracts. If the commission finds it necessary to suspend teaching contracts, it shall suspend the...

...y that determination to the director of education and workforce, the financial planning and supervision commission, and the board of education of the school district. Upon receiving the auditor of state's certification, the commission shall adopt a resolution requesting that the board of education work with the county auditor or tax commissioner to estimate the amount and rate of a tax levy that is needed under secti...

...(A) The members of a school district financial planning and supervision commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be paid by the commission their necessary and actual expenses incurred while engaged in the business of the commission. (B) Any expense or obligation incurred by a commission under this chapter shall be payable solely from appropriations made by the general assembly.

...supervision commission and the board of education of the school district. (B) Modifying and supplementing the system of financial accounting and reporting to record and report its fiscal activities on an accurate, current, and continuous basis in order to facilitate the effective management of the affairs of the school district, and to assist in refining and improving the restructuring plan and amendments of it, fac...

...on by providing to the commission, on a continuing basis, all fiscal information requested, ordered, or needed by the commission to formulate judgments regarding revenue and expenditure estimates, the financial recovery plan or any modification of it, the monitoring of the implementation of the plan, and consideration of any amendments of the financial recovery plan. All information and reports by the school district...

...ate, or to the school district board of education or county budget commission and cause the same to be mailed or delivered to appropriate officials as designated by this chapter or, where not so designated, as it considers appropriate. Any such certification, notification, order, or request, including preparation and submission of a financial recovery plan in accordance therewith and with this chapter, shall be effec...

...(A) No debt obligation, including any debt incurred pursuant to section 3313.483 of the Revised Code, may be issued or incurred by the school district, whether purchased by the school district or by others, except with the prior approval of the school district financial planning and supervision commission. (B) The commission shall disapprove the issuance of debt obligations upon a determination that, in its judgment...

...(A) A school district financial planning and supervision commission, with respect to its functions under this chapter, shall continue in existence until such time as a determination is made under division (B) of this section that all of the following have occurred: (1) An effective financial accounting and reporting system in accordance with section 3316.10 of the Revised Code is in the process of being implemente...

...A financial planning and supervision commission may remove the superintendent or the treasurer of a school district for failing to comply with the commission's orders concerning the preparation or implementation of the financial recovery plan.

...(A) During a fiscal emergency period for a school district, no school board member, officer, or employee of the school district shall do any of the following: (1) Knowingly enter into any contract, financial obligation, or other liability of the school district involving an expenditure, or make any expenditure in excess of the amount permitted by the commission pursuant to this chapter; (2) Knowingly enter into any...

...e made from the fund by the director of education and workforce in accordance with rules adopted by the director of budget and management, after consulting with the director, specifying approval criteria and procedures necessary for administering the fund. The fund shall be reimbursed for any solvency assistance amounts paid under division (A)(2) or (3)(a) of this section not later than the end of the second fisca...

...llage, joint vocational, or cooperative education school district and any educational service center. This chapter shall be administered by the department of education and workforce. The department of education and workforce shall calculate the amounts payable to each school district and shall certify the amounts payable to each eligible district to the treasurer of the district as provided by this chapter. Certif...

...ata, as determined by the department of education and workforce. (2) "Average bookkeeping and accounting employee salary" means the average salary of bookkeeping employees and accounting employees employed by city, local, and exempted village school districts in this state with salaries greater than $20,000 but less than $80,000, using fiscal year 2022 data, as determined by the department. (3) "Average clerica...

...," "average counselor salary," "average education management information system support employee salary," "average librarian and media staff salary," "average other district administrator salary," "average principal salary," "average superintendent salary," and "average teacher cost" have the same meanings as in section 3317.011 of the Revised Code. (B) When calculating a district's aggregate base cost under this ...

...for the following categories of special education programs, as these programs are defined for purposes of Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code, are as follows: (A) A multiple of 0.2435 for students whose primary or only identified disability is a speech and language disability, as this term is defined pursuant to Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code; (B) A multiple of 0.6179 for students identified as specific learni...

...ollowing categories of career-technical education programs approved by the department of education and workforce under section 3317.161 of the Revised Code shall be as follows: (1) A multiple of 0.6230 for students enrolled in career-technical education workforce development programs in agricultural and environmental systems, construction technologies, engineering and science technologies, finance, health science,...

...ormation certified to the department of education and workforce and the office of budget and management under division (A) of section 3317.021 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner shall, at the same time, certify the following information to the department and the office of budget and management for each city, exempted village, and local school district to be used for the same purposes as described under that di...

...As used in this section, "English learner" has the same meaning as in section 3301.0731 of the Revised Code. The multiples for English learners shall be as follows: (A) A multiple of 0.2104 for each student who has been identified as an English learner following the state's standardized identification process enrolled in schools in the United States for 180 school days or less. (B) A multiple of 0.1577 for e...

...2026 and 2027. (A) The department of education and workforce shall compute a city, local, or exempted village school district's per-pupil local capacity amount for a fiscal year as follows: (1) Calculate the district's valuation per pupil for that fiscal year as follows: (a) Determine the minimum of the district's three-year average valuation for the fiscal year for which the calculation is made and the dist...

...(A) The statewide average base cost per pupil shall be determined as follows: (1) For fiscal year 2024, the statewide average base cost per pupil shall be equal to the sum of the aggregate base cost calculated for all city, local, and exempted village school districts in the state for that fiscal year under section 3317.011 of the Revised Code divided by the sum of the base cost enrolled ADMs of all of the city, l...

... years 2026 and 2027, the department of education and workforce shall pay temporary transitional aid to each city, local, and exempted village school district according to the following formula: (The district's funding base, as that term is defined in section 3317.02 of the Revised Code) - (the district's payment under section 3317.022 of the Revised Code) If the computation made under division (A)(1) of this s...

...t under this section, the department of education and workforce shall use data from fiscal year 2022 for the average teacher cost. (C) A community or STEM school's aggregate base cost for a fiscal year shall be equal to the following sum: (The school's teacher base cost for that fiscal year computed under division (D) of this section) + (the school's student support base cost for that fiscal year computed under...

... (E)(1) "Category one career-technical education ADM" means the enrollment of students during the school year on a full-time equivalency basis in career-technical education programs described in division (A)(1) of section 3317.014 of the Revised Code and, in the case of a funding unit that is a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district, certified under division (B)(11) or (D)(2)(h) of sectio...

...with the approval of the state board of education, become a city school district.

...Each school district known as an exempted village school district on September 16, 1943, shall be known as an "exempted village school district" and shall continue to be known as an exempted village school district until it has lost its identity as a separate school district or has acquired a different styling as provided by law.

...eto for school purposes constitutes an educational service center. If the educational service center in which the territory of a local school district is located is dissolved under section 3311.0510 of the Revised Code, the territory of that local school district shall not constitute part of any educational service center. (B) A county school financing district created under section 3311.50 of the Revised Cod...

..., may conduct a performance audit of an educational service center.

...(A) The boards of education of up to five adjoining educational service centers may, by identical resolutions adopted by a majority of the members of each governing board within any sixty-day period, combine such educational service centers into one educational service center. The resolutions shall state the name of the new center, which may be styled as a "joint educational service center." The resolutions sh...

...embers of any new governing board of an educational service center established in accordance with this section shall be all of the members of the governing boards of the former educational service centers whose territory comprises the new educational service center. The initial members of any such governing board shall serve until the first Monday of January immediately following the first election of governing board...

...de the term "school board" or "board of education" is used without expressly referring to boards governing city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school districts, or some specific combination thereof, the term shall be construed to include the governing boards of educational service centers. Wherever in Title XXXIII of the Revised Code the term "school district" is used without expressly referring to ci...

...The elected members of an educational service center governing board may by resolution adopt a plan for adding appointed members to that governing board. A plan may provide for adding to the board a number of appointed members that is up to one less than the number of elected members on the board except that the total number of elected and appointed board members shall be an odd number. A plan shall provide for the t...

...(A) Any educational service center that is formed by merging two or more educational service centers or former county school districts may determine the number of members of its governing board and whether the members are to be elected at large or by subdistrict, provided each board shall have an odd number of members. (B) The governing board of each service center that is merging to form the new service center s...

...n Chapter 3311. of the Revised Code, no educational service center shall be required to merge in order to achieve any prescribed minimum average daily membership if such a merger will cause the territory of the resultant joint educational service center to comprise more than eight hundred square miles.

...(B) and (C) of this section, a board of education of a local school district that severed and annexed its territory under section 3311.059 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to June 30, 2011, may by a resolution approved by a majority of all its members propose to sever that local school district from the territory of the educational service center in which the local school district is currently included and to ...

...ll of the client school districts of an educational service center have terminated their agreements with the service center under division (D) of section 3313.843 of the Revised Code, upon the latest effective date of the terminations, the governing board of that service center shall be abolished and such service center shall be dissolved by order of the director of education and workforce. The director's order shall...

...has been approved by the state board of education or an agreement entered into prior to September 24, 1986, that meets the requirements of division (F) of this section and has been filed with the state board. (B) The territory included within the boundaries of a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district shall be contiguous except where a natural island forms an integral part of the district,...

...l districts, provided that the board of education of any school district containing territory lying between the noncontiguous portions of such a new school district adopts a resolution approving the establishment of the new district.

...of the full membership of such board of education, declare that such local or exempted village school district shall become a city school district, such change to become effective the next succeeding first day of July. In the event a minor portion of the territory lying within the corporate limits of a village advanced to a city is contained within the territorial boundaries of a local or exempted village school dis...

...The board of education of any local school district which contains within its territorial boundaries: (A) All the territory lying within the corporate limits of a village having a population of three thousand or more according to the last federal census; (B) All the territory lying within the corporate limits of a village having a population of two thousand or more according to the last federal census and a pop...

...If the state board of education adopts a resolution under this chapter proposing the creation of a new city or local school district that was not in operation during the 2004-2005 school year, the district shall not be created unless both houses of the general assembly approve the creation of the district through passage of a concurrent resolution.

...cal, exempted village, or city board of education, any educational service center governing board, or any combination of boards of such districts and centers, referred to in sections 3311.16, 3311.17, and 3311.18 of the Revised Code as the initiating unit, may make or contract for the making of a study pertaining to the need to establish within one county, or within an area comprised of two or more adjoining counties...

...proval of the plan by the department of education and workforce, the initiating unit shall file a copy of such plan with the board of education of each district whose territory is proposed to be included in the proposed joint vocational school district. Within thirty days after receiving such copy, such board of education shall determine whether its district shall become a part of the proposed joint vocational school...

...Subject to the consent of the board of education of each school district whose territory is proposed to be included within a joint vocational school district, the initiating unit may create a joint vocational school district within the county or within an area comprised of two or more adjoining counties, composed of the territory of all the school districts whose boards of education have approved the formation of the...

...int vocational school district board of education by a vote of at least two-thirds of its full membership may, at any time, submit to the electors of the joint vocational school district the question of issuing bonds of such district for the purpose of paying the cost of purchasing a site or enlargement thereof, and for the erection and equipment of buildings, or for the purpose of enlarging, improving, or rebuilding...

...The board of education of the joint vocational school district shall be authorized to charge and collect tuition for the attendance of pupils who are school residents of districts not a part of the joint vocational school district pursuant to arrangements made between the board of education of such district and the joint vocational school district board of education. The board of education of the joint vocational sc...

...The board of education of a school district which is a part of a joint vocational school district and the board of education of such joint vocational school district may enter into agreements to permit the school buildings of the district first noted to be used for the purposes of carrying on a vocational school program. Such use may be either free of cost or pursuant to such rental arrangements as may be stipulated ...

...(A) With the approval of the board of education of a joint vocational school district that is in existence, any school district in the county or counties comprising the joint vocational school district or any school district in a county adjacent to a county comprising part of a joint vocational school district may become a part of the joint vocational school district. On the adoption of a resolution of approval by th...

... With the approval of the department of education and workforce, the boards of education of any two or more joint vocational school districts may, by the adoption of identical resolutions by a majority of the members of each such board, propose that one new joint vocational school district be created by adding together all of the territory of each of the districts and dissolving such districts. A copy of each resolut...