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... (A) The department of education and workforce shall develop standards for determining, from the existing data reported in accordance with sections 3301.0714 and 3314.17 of the Revised Code, the amount of annual operating expenditures for classroom instructional purposes and for nonclassroom purposes for each city, exempted village, local, and joint vocational school district, each community school established under ...

... (A) The department of education and workforce shall develop a system to rank order all city, exempted village, and local school districts, community schools established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code except those community schools to which section 3314.017 of the Revised Code applies, and STEM schools established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code according to the following measures: (1) Performance...

... (A) In accordance with standards prescribed by the department of education and workforce for categorization of school district expenditures adopted under division (A) of section 3302.20 of the Revised Code, the department annually shall determine all of the following for the previous fiscal year: (1) For each school district, the ratio of the district's operating expenditures for classroom instructional purposes ...

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "Expenditure per equivalent pupils" is the total operating expenditures of a school district divided by the measure of equivalent pupils. (2) "Measure of equivalent pupils" is the total number of students in a school district adjusted for the relative differences in costs associated with the unique characteristics and needs of each category of pupil. (B) The department of ed...

... As used in this section, "blended learning" has the same meaning as in section 3301.079 of the Revised Code. (A) Any local, city, exempted village, or joint vocational school district, community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, STEM school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code, college-preparatory boarding school established under Chapter 3328. of the Revised Code, or char...

... As used in this section, "online learning" has the same meaning as in section 3301.079 of the Revised Code. (A) Any local, city, exempted village, or joint vocational school district, with approval of the department of education and workforce, may operate a school using an online learning model. If a school is operated using an online learning model or is to cease operating using an online learning model, the sup...

...Except when utilized in Chapter 3311. of the Revised Code, whenever the term vocational education occurs anywhere in the Revised Code, it shall be deemed to refer to career-technical education, except that joint vocational school districts shall continue to be styled as and shall maintain their legal existence as either joint vocational school districts or vocational school districts pursuant to section 3311.01 .

... (A) The act of congress entitled, "An act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to provide for cooperation with the states in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades and industries; to provide for cooperation with the states in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure," is hereby accepted. The department of educati...

...The benefits of all funds appropriated under the act of congress referred to in section 3303.02 of the Revised Code is hereby accepted as to: (A) Appropriations for the salaries of teachers, supervisors, and directors of agricultural subjects; (B) Appropriations for salaries of teachers of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects; (C) Appropriations for the preparation of teachers, supervisors, and directors...

... The department of education and workforce may cooperate with the United States department of education in the administration of the act of congress referred to in section 3303.02 of the Revised Code and of any legislation pursuant thereto enacted by the state, and in the administration of the funds provided by the federal government and by the state under sections 3303.02 to 3303.06 of the Revised Code, for the impr...

... Any school, department, or class giving instruction in agricultural, commercial, industrial, trade, and home economics subjects approved by the department of education and workforce and any school or college so approved, training teachers of such subjects, which receives the benefit of federal moneys is entitled also to receive for the salaries of teachers of said subjects an allotment of state money equal in amount...

... The treasurer of state is hereby designated as the custodian of all federal funds received for vocational education. All money so received or appropriated by the state for the purposes contemplated in the act of congress referred to in sections 3303.02 to 3303.06 of the Revised Code, or in acts supplementary thereto, shall be disbursed upon the order of the department of education and workforce.

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "Lead district" has the same meaning as in section 3317.023 of the Revised Code; (2) "Ohio technical center" has the same meaning as in section 3333.94 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of education shall establish the student pathways for career success grant program to provide grants to lead districts and Ohio technical centers for the purpose of improving or expanding ...

... The director of education and workforce shall appoint a supervisor of agricultural education within the department of education and workforce. The supervisor shall be responsible for administering and disseminating to school districts information about agricultural education. The supervisor also may serve as the chair of the board of trustees of the Ohio FFA association, and may assist with the association's program...

...As used in sections 3304.11 to 3304.27 of the Revised Code: (A) "Eligible individual with a disability" means an individual who has a physical or mental impairment that constitutes or results in a substantial impediment to employment and who requires vocational rehabilitation services to prepare for, secure, retain, advance in, or regain employment. (B) "Physical or mental impairment" means any physiological, menta...

... (A) There is hereby created a state rehabilitation services council to be known as the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities council. The opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency shall provide administrative support to the council. The council shall consist of the following members: (1) An individual who represents a parent training and information center established in accordance with the federal...

... The opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities council shall hold its first meeting at the call of the governor. Regular meetings shall be held not less than four times a year. Special meetings may be held with the approval of the governor. Eight members constitute a quorum. The council, by a majority vote, shall select one of its members to serve as its chairperson. The member selected shall serve as chairp...

... (A) The opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities council, in collaboration with the governor's office of workforce transformation, shall do all of the following: (1) Examine all of the following related to the state vocational rehabilitation program: (a) The process for determining eligibility, including the order of selection; (b) The extent, scope, and effectiveness of services provided; (c) The impact...

... (A) There is hereby created the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency. The agency is the designated state unit authorized under the "Rehabilitation Act of 1973," 87 Stat. 355, 29 U.S.C. 701, as amended, to provide vocational rehabilitation services to eligible individuals with disabilities. (B) The governor shall appoint an executive director of the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency to...

...The executive director of the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency shall establish administrative subdivisions as necessary or appropriate to carry out the agency's functions and duties, but there shall be a bureau of services for the visually impaired and a bureau of vocational rehabilitation, each of which has as its head a deputy director appointed by the executive director. The executive direc...

...The opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency shall provide vocational rehabilitation services to all eligible individuals with disabilities, including any eligible individual with a disability who is eligible under the terms of an agreement or arrangement with another state or with the federal government. If vocational rehabilitation services cannot be provided to all eligible individuals with disabilities ...

...(A) As used in this section, "OhioMeansJobs web site" has the same meaning as in section 6301.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Each eligible individual receiving vocational rehabilitation services provided under section 3304.17 of the Revised Code shall create an account with the OhioMeansJobs web site upon initiation of a job search as a part of receiving those vocational rehabilitation services. (C) Division (B) of th...

...The treasurer of state shall be the custodian of all moneys received from the federal government for vocational rehabilitation services programs and shall disburse the money upon the certification of the executive director of the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency. If federal funds are not available to the state for vocational rehabilitation services, the governor shall include as part of the governor...

... If the total of all funds available from nonfederal sources to support the activities of the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency does not comply with the expenditure requirements of 34 C.F.R. 361.60 and 361.62 for those activities or would cause the state to lose an allotment or fail to receive a reallotment under 34 C.F.R. 361.65, the agency may solicit additional funds from, and enter into agr...

...Any agreement between the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency and a private or public entity providing funds under section 3304.181 of the Revised Code may permit the agency to receive a specified percentage of the funds, but the percentage shall be not more than twenty-five per cent of the total funds available under the agreement. The agency may terminate an agreement at any time for just cause. It m...