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S. B. No. 19 As Introduced
As Introduced
128th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2009-2010 |
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Cosponsor:
Senator Sawyer
A BILL
To enact sections 3302.033 and 3317.60 of the Revised
Code to establish a bipartisan committee to
recommend a system that pays one hundred per cent
of the actual cost of a thorough and
efficient
education
and to require the Department of
Education to
report certain school funding
information to
parents and taxpayers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1.
That sections 3302.033 and 3317.60 of the Revised
Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 3302.033. As a component of the funding and expenditure
accountability report required under division (A) of section
3302.031 of the Revised Code, the department of education shall
include the following information about the state's performance on
public education funding:
(A) The current and five-year projected cost of a thorough
and efficient education for every student and the added cost of
providing services for special education, career-technical
education, gifted students, and economically disadvantaged
students as determined by the committee established under section
3317.60 of the Revised Code;
(B) By district and building, expenditures for operation and
facilities construction and maintenance;
(C) The amount of operations funding disparity among school
districts in the state using all of the following methods of
measurement:
(1) Ratio of revenue of the highest-funded district to the
revenue of the lowest-funded district;
At the time the information prescribed under this section is
published, the department also shall report the items described in
divisions (B) and (C) of this section to the committee established
under section 3317.60 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3317.60. (A) Within sixty days after the effective date
of this section, the president of the senate and the speaker of
the house of representatives shall appoint a joint bipartisan
committee to study and determine the current and five-year
projected cost of providing a thorough and efficient education to
each public school student and to recommend legislative changes
necessary to establish a system to provide state funding to each
public school in the state in an amount equal to one hundred per
cent of the actual cost as determined by the committee. The
committee shall make its recommendations to the general assembly
not later than eighteen months after the effective date of this
section.
(B) The school funding system recommended by the committee
shall provide for all of the following:
(1) State funding for one hundred per cent of the actual base
cost of a thorough and efficient education for each student in a
public school and one hundred per cent of the actual cost of all
special education, career-technical education, gifted education,
poverty-based assistance, and transportation costs attributable on
a per pupil basis;
(2) Calculation of actual costs without the use of an
inferential method;
(3) Recalculation of actual costs once every two years;
(4) Authority for a school district to levy additional taxes
with the approval of the district's electors for funding of
operating costs of providing services not paid for with state
funds. The system shall specify the services for which state
funding will and will not be provided.
(5) Guarantee to each school district that for the first ten
years following the enactment of the new system the district will
not receive in state funding an amount less than the district
received under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code, as it existed on
June 30, 2010. After the end of the ten-year period, the guarantee
shall be phased out in annual increments of three percentage
points on a district-by-district basis until the amount of state
funding received by a district equals the amount calculated for
the district under the system described in division (B)(1) of this
section. The goal of the system shall be that by the end of the
ten-year period, the disparity between the highest-funded school
district and the lowest-funded school district in base-cost per
pupil funding is not more than twenty percentage points.
(6) Uniform statewide accounting and auditing procedures for
all school districts.
Section 2. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
section 3302.033 of the Revised Code, until the committee
established under section 3317.60 of the Revised Code has
determined the actual cost of a thorough and efficient education
for primary and secondary students, the Department of Education is
not required to include in the report prescribed under section
3302.033 of the Revised Code the information described in division
(A) of that section. The Department shall include in that report
all other information described in that section.
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