Sec. 3306.01. This chapter shall be administered by the | 11 |
state board of education. The superintendent of public instruction | 12 |
shall calculate the amounts payable to each school district and | 13 |
shall certify the amounts payable to each eligible district to the | 14 |
treasurer of the district as determined under this chapter. As | 15 |
soon as possible after such amounts are calculated, the | 16 |
superintendent shall certify to the treasurer of each school | 17 |
district the district's adjusted charge-off increase, as defined | 18 |
in section 5705.211 of the Revised Code. No moneys shall be | 19 |
distributed pursuant to this chapter without the approval of the | 20 |
controlling board. | 21 |
Annually, the department of education shall calculate and | 25 |
report to each school district the district's adequacy amount | 26 |
utilizing the calculations in sections 3306.03 and 3306.13 of the | 27 |
Revised Code. The department shall calculate and report separately | 28 |
for each school district the district's total state and local | 29 |
funds for its students with disabilities, utilizing the | 30 |
calculations in sections 3306.05, 3306.11, and 3306.13 of the | 31 |
Revised Code. The department shall calculate and report separately | 32 |
for each school district the amount of funding calculated for each | 33 |
factor of the district's adequacy amount. | 34 |
Moneys distributed pursuant to this chapter shall be | 42 |
calculated and paid on a fiscal year basis, beginning with the | 43 |
first day of July and extending through the thirtieth day of June. | 44 |
Unless otherwise provided, the moneys appropriated for each fiscal | 45 |
year shall be distributed at least monthly to each school | 46 |
district. The state board shall submit a yearly distribution plan | 47 |
to the controlling board at its first meeting in July. The state | 48 |
board shall submit any proposed midyear revision of the plan to | 49 |
the controlling board in January. Any year-end revision of the | 50 |
plan shall be submitted to the controlling board in June. If | 51 |
moneys appropriated for each fiscal year are distributed other | 52 |
than monthly, such distribution shall be on the same basis for | 53 |
each school district. | 54 |
(1) Each city, exempted village, and local school district | 67 |
shall levy for current operating expenses at least twenty mills. | 68 |
Levies for joint vocational or cooperative education school | 69 |
districts or county school financing districts, limited to or to | 70 |
the extent apportioned to current expenses, shall be included in | 71 |
this qualification requirement. School district income tax levies | 72 |
under Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code, limited to or to the | 73 |
extent apportioned to current operating expenses, shall be | 74 |
included in this qualification requirement to the extent | 75 |
determined by the tax commissioner under division (D) of section | 76 |
3317.021 of the Revised Code. | 77 |
(2) Each city, exempted village, local, and joint vocational | 78 |
school district, during the school year next preceding the fiscal | 79 |
year for which payments are calculated under this chapter, shall | 80 |
meet the requirement of section 3313.48 or 3313.481 of the Revised | 81 |
Code, with regard to the minimum number of days or hours school | 82 |
must be open for instruction with pupils in attendance, for | 83 |
individualized parent-teacher conference and reporting periods, | 84 |
and for professional meetings of teachers. The superintendent of | 85 |
public instruction shall waive a number of days in accordance with | 86 |
section 3317.01 of the Revised Code on which it had been necessary | 87 |
for a school to be closed because of disease epidemic, hazardous | 88 |
weather conditions, inoperability of school buses or other | 89 |
equipment necessary to the school's operation, damage to a school | 90 |
building, or other temporary circumstances due to utility failure | 91 |
rendering the school building unfit for school use. | 92 |
The superintendent of public instruction shall waive the | 100 |
requirements of this section with reference to the minimum number | 101 |
of days or hours a school must be open for instruction with pupils | 102 |
in attendance for the school year succeeding the school year in | 103 |
which a board of education initiates a plan of operation pursuant | 104 |
to section 3313.481 of the Revised Code. The minimum requirements | 105 |
of this section shall again be applicable to the district | 106 |
beginning with the school year commencing the second July | 107 |
succeeding the initiation of the plan, and for each school year | 108 |
thereafter. | 109 |
(2) If the district is located in more than one county, an | 152 |
apportionment of the amounts that would otherwise be certified | 153 |
under division (D)(1) of this section. The amounts apportioned to | 154 |
the county shall equal the amounts certified under division (D)(1) | 155 |
of this section times the percentage of the district's resident | 156 |
pupils who reside both in the district and in the county, based on | 157 |
the average daily membership reported under division (A) of | 158 |
section 3317.03 of the Revised Code in October of the prior fiscal | 159 |
year. | 160 |
Sec. 3321.01. (A)(1) As used in this chapter, "parent," | 161 |
"guardian," or "other person having charge or care of a child" | 162 |
means either parent unless the parents are separated or divorced | 163 |
or their marriage has been dissolved or annulled, in which case | 164 |
"parent" means the parent who is the residential parent and legal | 165 |
custodian of the child. If the child is in the legal or permanent | 166 |
custody of a person or government agency, "parent" means that | 167 |
person or government agency. When a child is a resident of a home, | 168 |
as defined in section 3313.64 of the Revised Code, and the child's | 169 |
parent is not a resident of this state, "parent," "guardian," or | 170 |
"other person having charge or care of a child" means the head of | 171 |
the home. | 172 |
A child between six and eighteen years of age is "of | 173 |
compulsory school age" for the purpose of sections 3321.01 to | 174 |
3321.13 of the Revised Code. A child under six years of age who | 175 |
has been enrolled in kindergarten also shall be considered "of | 176 |
compulsory school age" for the purpose of sections 3321.01 to | 177 |
3321.13 of the Revised Code unless at any time the child's parent | 178 |
or guardian, at the parent's or guardian's discretion and in | 179 |
consultation with the child's teacher and principal, formally | 180 |
withdraws the child from kindergarten. The compulsory school age | 181 |
of a child shall not commence until the beginning of the term of | 182 |
such schools, or other time in the school year fixed by the rules | 183 |
of the board of the district in which the child resides. | 184 |
(2) No child shall be admitted to a kindergarten or a first | 185 |
grade of a public school in a district in which all children are | 186 |
admitted to kindergarten and the first grade in August or | 187 |
September unless the child is five or six years of age, | 188 |
respectively, by the thirtieth day of September of the year of | 189 |
admittance, or by the first day of a term or semester other than | 190 |
one beginning in August or September in school districts granting | 191 |
admittance at the beginning of such term or semester, except that | 192 |
in those school districts using or obtaining educationally | 193 |
accepted standardized testing programs for determining entrance, | 194 |
as approved by the board of education of such districts, the board | 195 |
shall admit a child to kindergarten or the first grade who fails | 196 |
to meet the age requirement, provided the child meets necessary | 197 |
standards as determined by such standardized testing programs. If | 198 |
the board of education has not established a standardized testing | 199 |
program, the board shall designate the necessary standards and a | 200 |
testing program it will accept for the purpose of admitting a | 201 |
child to kindergarten or first grade who fails to meet the age | 202 |
requirement. Each child who will be the proper age for entrance to | 203 |
kindergarten or first grade by the first day of January of the | 204 |
school year for which admission is requested shall be so tested | 205 |
upon the request of the child's parent. | 206 |
(D) Upon request of a parent, the requirement of division (C) | 236 |
of this section may be waived by the district's pupil personnel | 237 |
services committee in the case of a child who is at least six | 238 |
years of age by the thirtieth day of September of the year of | 239 |
admittance and who demonstrates to the satisfaction of the | 240 |
committee the possession of the social, emotional, and cognitive | 241 |
skills necessary for first grade. | 242 |
The board of education of each city, local, and exempted | 243 |
village school district shall establish a pupil personnel services | 244 |
committee. The committee shall be composed of all of the following | 245 |
to the extent such personnel are either employed by the district | 246 |
or employed by the governing board of the educational service | 247 |
center within whose territory the district is located and the | 248 |
educational service center generally furnishes the services of | 249 |
such personnel to the district: | 250 |
(c) How many of the students for whom tuition is charged are | 290 |
eligible for free lunches under the "National School Lunch Act," | 291 |
60 Stat. 230 (1946), 42 U.S.C. 1751, as amended, and the "Child | 292 |
Nutrition Act of 1966," 80 Stat. 885, 42 U.S.C. 1771, as amended, | 293 |
and how many of the students for whom tuition is charged are | 294 |
eligible for reduced price lunches under those acts; | 295 |
(D) Nono district shall require any student to attend | 323 |
kindergarten for more than one-half of the number of clock hours | 324 |
required each day for grades one through sixtraditional | 325 |
kindergarten by the minimum standards adopted under division (D) | 326 |
of section 3301.07 of the Revised Code. Each school district that | 327 |
operates all-day or extended kindergarten shall accommodate | 328 |
kindergarten students whose parents or guardians elect to enroll | 329 |
them for
one-half of the minimum number of hours required each | 330 |
day for grades one through six. | 331 |