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... all state laws and rules pertaining to schools, school districts, and boards of education, except those laws and rules that grant certain rights to parents.

...In the case there exists any business or familial relationship between a governing authority of a community school or any of its officers or employees and a management company contracted by the school or any of that company's officers or employees, other than the operator agreement itself, the management company shall agree to indemnify the school for financial losses to the community school up to the amount of the m...

...Any contract entered into by the governing authority or any officer or director of a community school, including the contract required by sections 3314.02 and 3314.03 of the Revised Code, is deemed to be entered into by such individuals in their official capacities as representatives of the community school. No officer, director, or member of the governing authority of a community school incurs any personal liability...

...The governing authority or operator of a community school established under this chapter shall consult with each school district board of education that transports students to the community school under sections 3314.09 and 3327.01 of the Revised Code prior to making any change in the hours or days in which the community school is open for instruction.

...(A) As used in this section, "license" has the same meaning as in section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. (B) If a person who is employed by a community school established under this chapter or by an operator is arrested, summoned, or indicted for an alleged violation of an offense listed in division (C) of section 3319.31 of the Revised Code, if the person holds a license, or an offense listed in division (B)(1) of ...

...No community school teacher shall terminate the teacher's contract after the tenth day of July of any school year or during the school year, prior to the termination of the annual session, without the consent of the community school's governing authority or operator, and such teacher may terminate the teacher's contract at any other time by giving five days' written notice to the employing governing authority or oper...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, each internet- or computer-based community school shall comply with the national standards for quality online learning developed under a project led by a partnership between quality matters, the virtual learning leadership alliance, and the digital learning collaborative, or any successor organization. (B) Each internet- or computer-based community school that initially...

...No student enrolled in an internet- or computer-based community school may participate in more than ten hours of learning opportunities in any period of twenty-four consecutive hours. Any time such a student participates in learning opportunities beyond the limit prescribed in this section shall not count toward the annual minimum number of hours required to be provided to that student as prescribed in division (A)(1...

...The governing authority of each community school shall require that the reports of any investigation by the governing authority of the school or by an operator of an employee who works in the school, regarding whether the employee has committed an act or offense for which the chief administrator of the community school or the president or chairperson of the governing authority is required to m...

...the existing teacher shortage in public schools, to be administered and expended as prescribed in sections 3315.33 to 3315.35 of the Revised Code. Appropriations by the general assembly for the purpose of scholarships for teacher trainees shall be paid into this fund. Each scholarship for a teacher trainee shall have a maximum value of five hundred dollars annually and shall be awarded as follows: (A) The depar...

...r of service as a teacher in the public schools of Ohio by a person who has benefited from a scholarship granted under sections 3315.33 to 3315.35 of the Revised Code, such person shall submit to the department of education and workforce a statement of service on a form provided for that purpose and certified by the superintendent of the school district in which the person has taught. Upon receipt of such statement i...

...A board of education may create a trust for investment of money in the education foundation fund created pursuant to section 3315.40 of the Revised Code. The instrument creating such a trust shall do all of following: (A) Appoint a nonprofit foundation that is exempt from income tax under section 501(a) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 501(a), as amended, and that is described in se...

...The auditor of state, on the auditor of state's initiative, may conduct a performance audit of a school district that is under a fiscal caution under section 3316.031 of the Revised Code, in a state of fiscal watch, or in a state of fiscal emergency, in which the auditor of state reviews any programs or areas of operation in which the auditor of state believes that greater operational efficiencies or enhanced program...

...(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...

...(A)(1) Subject to division (C) of this section, for fiscal years 2024 and 2025, 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 -...

...As used in this section, "institution" means a residential facility that receives and cares for children maintained by the department of youth services and that operates a school chartered under section 3301.16 of the Revised Code. (A) On or before the thirty-first day of each January and July, the superintendent of each institution that during the six-month period immediately preceding each January or July provid...

...(A) On or before the first day of March of each year, the department of job and family services shall certify to the department of education and workforce the unduplicated number of children ages five through seventeen residing in each school district and living in a family that, during the preceding October, participated in Ohio works first. The department of job and family services shall certify this information...

...Any board of education participating in funds distributed under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code shall annually adopt a salary schedule for nonteaching school employees based upon training, experience, and qualifications with initial salaries no less than the salaries in effect on October 13, 1967. Each board of education shall prepare and may amend from time to time, specifications descriptive of duties, responsibi...

...(A) For fiscal years 2024 and 2025, the department of education shall pay temporary transitional aid to each joint vocational 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 3317.16 of the Revised Code for the fiscal year for which the payment is computed) If the computation ...

...(A)(1) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, the department of education and workforce shall calculate a joint vocational school district's per-pupil local capacity amount according to the following formula: (0.0005 X the lesser of the district's three-year average valuation or the district's most recent valuation) / (the district's base cost enrolled ADM) (2) For fiscal year 2028 and each fiscal year thereafter, the ...

...Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 3318.02 of the Revised Code, within two years following the request of the school district, the Ohio facilities construction commission shall assess the current conditions of the classroom facilities needs of any school district that is not yet eligible for state assistance under Chapter 3318. of the Revised Code and that requests such an assessment. The assessment ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Formula ADM" has the same meaning as in section 3317.02 of the Revised Code. (2) "Open enrollment net gain" has the same meaning as in section 3318.011 of the Revised Code. (B) This section applies to each school district that meets the following criteria: (1) The Ohio facilities construction commission certified its conditional approval of the district's project under se...

...(A) This section applies only if there is a change in the assessment rates on gas pipelines imposed under state law. (B) If at any time division (A) of this section applies and if the change in assessment rates described in that division affects a school district's valuation as determined under division (P) of section 3318.01 of the Revised Code by greater than ten per cent and if the Ohio facilities construction co...

...If the board of education of a city, exempted village, or local school district that has entered into an agreement under section 3318.051 of the Revised Code to make transfers of money in lieu of levying the tax for maintenance or upgrade of the classroom facilities included in the district's project determines that it no longer can continue making the transfers so agreed to and desires to rescind that agreement, the...

...Notwithstanding any provision of sections 5705.27 to 5705.50 of the Revised Code, the tax to be levied on all taxable property within a school district for the purpose of paying the cost of maintaining the classroom facilities included in the project under the agreement provided in section 3318.08 of the Revised Code or the supplemental agreement provided in section 3318.081 of the Revised Code shall be included in t...