3306.01 General Provisions.
3306.01 General Provisions.
This chapter shall be administered by the state board of education. The superintendent of public instruction shall calculate the amounts payable to each school district and shall certify the amounts payable to each eligible district to the treasurer of the district as determined under this chapter. As soon as possible after such amounts are calculated, the superintendent shall certify to the treasurer of each school district the district’s adjusted charge-off increase, as defined in section 5705.211 of the Revised Code. No moneys shall be distributed pursuant to this chapter without the approval of the controlling board.
The state board of education shall, in accordance with appropriations made by the general assembly, meet the financial obligations of this chapter.
Annually, the department of education shall calculate and report to each school district the district’s adequacy amount utilizing the calculations in sections 3306.03 and 3306.13 of the Revised Code. The department shall calculate and report separately for each school district the district’s total state and local funds for its students with disabilities, utilizing the calculations in sections 3306.05, 3306.11, and 3306.13 of the Revised Code. The department shall calculate and report separately for each school district the amount of funding calculated for each factor of the district’s adequacy amount.
Not later than the thirty-first day of August of each fiscal year, the department of education shall provide to each school district a preliminary estimate of the amount of funding that the department calculates the district will receive under section 3306.13 of the Revised Code. Not later than the first day of December of each fiscal year, the department shall update that preliminary estimate.
Moneys distributed pursuant to this chapter shall be calculated and paid on a fiscal year basis, beginning with the first day of July and extending through the thirtieth day of June. Unless otherwise provided, the moneys appropriated for each fiscal year shall be distributed at least monthly to each school district. The state board shall submit a yearly distribution plan to the controlling board at its first meeting in July. The state board shall submit any proposed midyear revision of the plan to the controlling board in January. Any year-end revision of the plan shall be submitted to the controlling board in June. If moneys appropriated for each fiscal year are distributed other than monthly, such distribution shall be on the same basis for each school district.
The total amounts paid each month shall constitute, as nearly as possible, one-twelfth of the total amount payable for the entire year.
Payments shall be calculated to reflect the reporting of formula ADM. Annualized periodic payments for each school district shall be based on the district’s final student counts verified by the superintendent of public instruction based on reports under section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, as adjusted, if so ordered, under division (K) of that section.
(A) Except as otherwise provided, payments under this chapter shall be made only to those school districts that comply with divisions (A)(1) to (3) of this section.
(1)Each city, exempted village, and local school district shall levy for current operating expenses at least twenty mills. Levies for joint vocational or cooperative education school districts or county school financing districts, limited to or to the extent apportioned to current expenses, shall be included in this qualification requirement. School district income tax levies under Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code, limited to or to the extent apportioned to current operating expenses, shall be included in this qualification requirement to the extent determined by the tax commissioner under division (D) of section 3317.021 of the Revised Code.
(2) Each city, exempted village, local, and joint vocational school district, during the school year next preceding the fiscal year for which payments are calculated under this chapter, shall meet the requirement of section 3313.48 or 3313.481 of the Revised Code, with regard to the minimum number of days or hours school must be open for instruction with pupils in attendance, for individualized parent-teacher conference and reporting periods, and for professional meetings of teachers. The superintendent of public instruction shall waive a number of days in accordance with section 3317.01 of the Revised Code on which it had been necessary for a school to be closed because of disease epidemic, hazardous weather conditions, inoperability of school buses or other equipment necessary to the school’s operation, damage to a school building, or other temporary circumstances due to utility failure rendering the school building unfit for school use.
A school district shall not be considered to have failed to comply with this division or section 3313.481 of the Revised Code because schools were open for instruction but either twelfth grade students were excused from attendance for up to three days or only a portion of the kindergarten students were in attendance for up to three days in order to allow for the gradual orientation to school of such students.
The superintendent of public instruction shall waive the requirements of this section with reference to the minimum number of days or hours a school must be open for instruction with pupils in attendance for the school year succeeding the school year in which a board of education initiates a plan of operation pursuant to section 3313.481 of the Revised Code. The minimum requirements of this section shall again be applicable to the district beginning with the school year commencing the second July succeeding the initiation of the plan, and for each school year thereafter.
A school district shall not be considered to have failed to comply with this division or section 3313.48 or 3313.481 of the Revised Code because schools were open for instruction but the length of the regularly scheduled learning day, for any number of days during the school year, was reduced by not more than two hours due to hazardous weather conditions.
(3) Each city, exempted village, local, and joint vocational school district shall have on file, and shall pay in accordance with, a teachers’ salary schedule which complies with section 3317.13 of the Revised Code.
(B) A school district board of education or educational service center governing board that has not conformed with other law, and the rules pursuant thereto, shall not participate in the distribution of funds authorized by this chapter, except for good and sufficient reason established to the satisfaction of the state board of education and the state controlling board.
(C) All funds allocated to school districts under this chapter, except those specifically allocated for other purposes, shall be used only to pay current operating expenses or for either of the following purposes:
(1) The modification or purchase of classroom space to provide all-day kindergarten as required by section 3321.05 of the Revised Code, provided the district certifies its shortage of space for providing all-day kindergarten to the department of education, in a manner specified by the department;
(2) The modification or purchase of classroom space to reduce class sizes in grades kindergarten through three to attain the goal of fifteen students per core teacher, provided the district certifies its need for additional classroom space to the department, in a manner specified by the department.
(D) On or before the last day of each month, the department of education shall certify to the director of budget and management for payment, for each county:
(1)(a) That portion of the allocation of money under section 3306.13 of the Revised Code that is required to be paid in that month to each school district located wholly within the county subsequent to the deductions described in division (D)(1)(b) of this section;
(b) The amounts deducted from such allocation under sections 3307.31 and 3309.51 of the Revised Code for payment directly to the school employees and state teachers retirement systems under such sections.
(2) If the district is located in more than one county, an apportionment of the amounts that would otherwise be certified under division (D)(1) of this section. The amounts apportioned to the county shall equal the amounts certified under division (D)(1) of this section times the percentage of the district’s resident pupils who reside both in the district and in the county, based on the average daily membership reported under division (A) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code in October of the prior fiscal year.
Added by 128th General Assembly File No. 9, HB 1, § 101.01, eff. 7/17/2009.