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... In determining how best to provide transportation, where persons or firms on or after April 1, 1965, were providing transportation to and from schools pursuant to contracts with persons or agencies responsible for the operation of such schools, the board of education responsible for transportation in accordance with section 3327.01 of the Revised Code shall give preference if economically feasible during the term of...

... Payments to school districts for transportation of school pupils shall be made on a current basis according to an estimate which shall be filed with the department of education and workforce by respective school districts in accordance with rules which the department shall promulgate. The sum due the respective school district as calculated from approved cost in accordance with the rules of the board of education sh...

...(A) A board of education, other than a board of a cooperative education school district established pursuant to divisions (A) to (C) of section 3311.52 of the Revised Code, that operates a preschool program under section 3313.646 of the Revised Code may provide transportation for children participating in the program. (B) If the board of education of any cooperative education school district established pursuant to ...

...The board of education of a city, exempted village, local, joint vocational, or cooperative education school district may adopt a policy authorizing the district superintendent or other district administrative personnel as provided in the policy to suspend a student only from school bus riding privileges for a period of time as provided in the policy. A policy adopted under this section shall provide a student notice...

...No board of education of a school district shall reduce the transportation it provides to students the district is not required to transport under section 3327.01 of the Revised Code, but that the district chooses to transport, during a school year after the first day of that school year.

... (A) As used in this section, "eligible student" means a student entitled to transportation services from the city, local, or exempted village school district pursuant to section 3327.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Each community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code or chartered nonpublic school shall establish the school's start and end times for a particular school year not later than the firs...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Eligible student" has the same meaning as in section 3327.016 of the Revised Code. (2) "Mass transit system" has the same meaning as in section 4511.78 of the Revised Code. (B) No city, local, or exempted village school district shall provide or arrange for transportation for any eligible student enrolled in any of grades kindergarten through eight in a community school establi...

... The board of education of each city, local, or exempted village school district that owns and operates buses for transporting students may contract, in writing, with a public or private not-for-profit agency, group, or organization, with a municipal corporation or other political subdivision or agency of the state, or with an agency of the federal government to operate its buses to assist the agency, group, organiza...

... (A) After considering each of the following factors, the board of education of a city, exempted village, or local school district, or a community school governing authority providing transportation pursuant to section 3314.091 of the Revised Code, may determine that it is impractical to transport a pupil who is eligible for transportation to and from a school under section 3327.01 of the Revised Code: (1) The tim...

... (A) As used in this section, "out of compliance" means that, for a period of five consecutive school days or ten school days within a school year, at least one of the following has occurred on each of those days: (1) Students transported to and from school by a school bus arrive more than thirty minutes late to school; (2) Students transported to and from school by a school bus are picked up more than thirty m...

...Notwithstanding division (D) of section 3311.19 and division (D) of section 3311.52 of the Revised Code, this section does not apply to any joint vocational or cooperative education school district. The boards of education of city, local, or exempted village school districts may by resolution designate certain places as depots from which to gather children for transportation to school, when such districts provide tr...

...(A) The board of education of any city, exempted village, or local school district may contract with the board of another district for the admission or transportation, or both, of pupils into any school in such other district, on terms agreed upon by such boards. (B) The boards of two school districts may enter into a contract under this section to share the provision of transportation to a child who resides...

... (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no board of education of any school district shall provide transportation for any pupil who is a school resident of another school district unless the pupil is enrolled pursuant to section 3313.98 of the Revised Code or the board of the other district has given its written consent thereto. If the board of any school district files with the department of educati...

...(A) When a pupil attends school pursuant to section 3327.04 of the Revised Code in a district other than the district in which he is entitled to attend school pursuant to division (B) or (F) of section 3313.64 or section 3313.65 of the Revised Code, tuition for such attendance shall be credited and paid in the manner provided in section 3317.08 of the Revised Code. (B) When the board of education of a city, exempted...

...(A) The governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school that transports a student enrolled in the school to and from school and to and from school-sponsored activities, including extracurricular activities, may charge the parent or guardian of the student a fee for the transportation, if the governing authority purchased the vehicle that transports the student using no state or federal funds. The fee shall not ex...

... Boards of education of city school districts, local school districts, exempted village school districts, cooperative education school districts, and joint vocational school districts and governing boards of educational service centers may purchase on individual contract school buses and other equipment used in transporting children to and from school and to other functions as authorized by the boards, or the boards,...

...The board of education of each school district shall procure for the benefit of its employees who operate a school bus, motor van, or other vehicle used in the transportation of school children motor vehicle liability insurance for injuries to persons and property. Such insurance shall be in amounts not less than one hundred thousand dollars per person, three hundred thousand dollars per occurrence, fifty thousand do...

... (A) Except as provided in division (L) of this section, no person shall be employed as driver of a school bus or motor van, owned and operated by any school district or educational service center or privately owned and operated under contract with any school district or service center in this state, who has not received a certificate from either the educational service center governing board that has entered into an...

... Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this chapter or Chapter 3301-83 of the Administrative Code, the department of education and workforce shall develop an online bus driver training program to satisfy the classroom portion of pre-service and annual in-service training for school bus driver certification. On-the-bus training for drivers shall continue to be completed in person.

... (A) The department of education and workforce shall develop the bus driver flex career path model that creates a pathway for bus drivers to work as educational aides or student monitors at school districts and other public schools, as defined in section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code. (B) In developing the model, the department shall do all of the following: (1) Ensure that bus drivers work an eight to ten hour...

...A board of education in a district which does not maintain a high school and which pays the tuition of a school resident of the district in a high school in another district, or a board which pays the tuition of a school resident of the district, in a high school in another district, of higher grade than that maintained in the given district may furnish the cost of such child's room and board while attending such sch...

...Notwithstanding division (D) of section 3311.19 and division (D) of section 3311.52 of the Revised Code, this section does not apply to any joint vocational or cooperative education school district. The board of education of a city, local, or exempted village school district may maintain school bus turn-around points. At the request of such a board, a municipal corporation may maintain turn-around points on municipa...

... The board of education of a school district that owns and operates busses for transporting pupils to and from school may contract with a nonpublic school located within the district to make available to the nonpublic school under a lease agreement, one or more of the district's busses to be used by the nonpublic school for transporting nonpublic school pupils to and from a school related activity that would be an ap...

... The board of education of any school district that owns and operates buses for transporting pupils may contract under a lease agreement with a municipal corporation or a public or nonprofit private agency or organization delivering services to the aged, to make available one or more of the district's buses or other vehicles to be used for transporting persons sixty years of age or older. The board of education of an...

...The board of education of any school district that owns and operates motor vehicles for transporting pupils may permit such vehicles to be used outside this state for any lawful purpose provided the entire distance traveled outside this state on any trip does not exceed one thousand miles.