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...No community school shall employ an individual in any position if the state board of education permanently revoked or permanently denied the individual a license under section 3319.31 of the Revised Code or if the individual entered into a consent agreement under division (E) of section 3319.311 of the Revised Code in which the individual agreed never to apply for a license after the date on which the agreement was e...

... internet- and computer-based community schools.

...Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, each internet- or computer-based community school may provide its students with a location within a fifty-mile radius of the student's residence at which the student may receive counseling, instructional coaching, and testing assistance.

...The board of education of every district shall provide by a tax levy for the payment of the annual interest on its bonded indebtedness, for the payment of its serial bonds as they mature, and for a sinking fund for the extinguishment of its other bonded indebtedness, which funds shall be managed and controlled by a board of commissioners designated as the "board of commissioners of the sinking fund of ______________"...

...The board of commissioners of the sinking fund shall invest that fund in bonds of the United States, of Ohio, of any municipal corporation, county, township, or school district of any state, or in bonds of its own issue. All interest received from such investments shall be deposited as other funds of such sinking fund, and reinvested in like manner. For the extinguishment of any bonded indebtedness included in such f...

...In any school district the salaries of all employees and officers of the board of education and all payrolls may be paid in such manner as the board may authorize. To provide money for such payment if made in cash, the president and the treasurer of the board shall, upon receipt of the proper payroll and warrant, issue checks upon the depositories payable to the treasurer of the board for the aggregate amounts stated...

...The custody, management, and administration of all estates or funds, given or transferred in trust to any municipal corporation for the promotion of education, and accepted by the council thereof, and any institution for the promotion of education so founded, other than a university, shall be committed to, and exercised by, the board of education of the school district including such municipal corporation. Such board...

...The board of education of any city, exempted village, or local school district may establish and maintain a replacement fund, and for that purpose, set aside annually out of its revenue such sum as is necessary for said purpose. In case of total or partial destruction of any of the property of said board from any cause or in case, because of the unfitness of such property, it becomes necessary at any time to demolish...

...The replacement fund provided for in section 3315.11 of the Revised Code may be invested in the same manner as is provided for the investment of the sinking fund of any school district having a bonded indebtedness, and all interest received from such investments, shall form a part of said fund and may be invested in like manner.

...Money shall be drawn from the replacement fund by orders only, passed by a majority vote of the full membership of the board of education, signed by the president, or by the vice-president in his absence, and the treasurer. All securities or evidence of debt, held by said board as a part of the replacement fund, shall be deposited with safe deposit companies within the school district, or, if none exists, then in a p...

...The replacement fund shall not be reduced, disposed of, or expended for purposes other than those specified in section 3315.11 of the Revised Code, except by a strict compliance with sections 5705.15 and 5705.16 of the Revised Code. Whenever the replacement fund reaches the maximum amount deemed necessary by the board of education for the purposes specified in section 3315.11 of the Revised Code, the interest receive...

...Any city, local, or exempted village board of education may by resolution set aside each year from the general fund a sum not to exceed two dollars for each child enrolled in the district, or twenty thousand dollars, whichever is greater. Any educational service center governing board may by resolution set aside each year from the educational service center fund a sum not to exceed twenty thousand dollars. The amount...

...A school district may have a deficit in any special fund of the district only if both of the following conditions are satisfied: (A) The district has a request for payment pending with the state sufficient to cover the amount of the deficit and there is a reasonable likelihood that the payment will be made. (B) The unspent and unencumbered balance in the district's general fund is greater than the aggregate of defi...

...If parts of an original surveyed township or fractional township are situated in two or more counties, the amount of interest on common school fund due to such township shall be paid in the manner provided in sections 3315.27 and 3315.28 of the Revised Code to the county treasurer of the county wherein the greatest relative portion of such township is situated. If it is uncertain in which county such portion is situ...

...(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.

...This section shall apply only for fiscal years 2024 and 2025. For each fiscal year, the department of education shall compute supplemental targeted assistance for each city, local, and exempted village school district as follows: (A) Determine if the district satisfies both of the following criteria: (1) The wealth index calculated for the district for fiscal year 2019 under division (A)(4) of former section...

...Each city, local, exempted village, and cooperative education school district, each educational service center, each county board of developmental disabilities, and each institution operating a special education program pursuant to section 3323.091 of the Revised Code shall, in accordance with procedures adopted by the department of education and workforce, maintain a record of district membership of all preschool ch...

...In accordance with rules which the department of education and workforce shall adopt, each joint vocational school district shall do both of the following: (A) Maintain a record of district enrollment of any persons who are not eligible to be included in the district's formula ADM as that term is defined in section 3317.02 of the Revised Code; (B) Annually certify to the department the number of persons for who...

...The auditor of state may conduct annual audits of the information certified under section 3317.03 of the Revised Code by a number of school districts determined by the auditor of state and selected at random.

...For fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the department of education and workforce shall implement a program to distribute bus purchasing grants of not less than $45,000 to city, local, and exempted village school districts for the purpose of replacing the oldest and highest mileage buses in the state assigned to routes. The department shall annually collect age, mileage, and vehicle condition data from districts through its ...

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...A school district ranked in the first through twenty-fifth percentiles may adopt and certify to the Ohio facilities construction commission a resolution specifying a proposed project that meets the requirements of this chapter and the needs of the district, as confirmed through an on-site visit pursuant to section 3318.02 of the Revised Code. The commission shall consider such projects for conditional approval pursua...

...(A) Any city, exempted village, or local school district that commences a project under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20, 3318.36, 3318.37, or 3318.38 of the Revised Code on or after September 5, 2006, need not levy the tax otherwise required under division (B) of section 3318.05 of the Revised Code, if the district board of education adopts a resolution petitioning the Ohio facilities construction commission to approve t...

...Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, a school district board may use proceeds from the tax described in division (B) or (C) of section 3318.05 of the Revised Code for infrastructure improvements on and leading to the project sites that are not included in the basic project cost. The board may use proceeds of the tax in this manner only during the three-year period following the execution of ...

...If the board of education of a school district authorized to impose a tax pursuant to section 3318.06 of the Revised Code determines that taxable value of property subject to the tax has increased to the extent it will not be necessary to impose such tax for twenty-three years in order to generate an amount equal to the amount of the project cost supplied by the state, it may request the county auditor to determine t...