Effective: September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation: House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) The state board of education shall adopt rules requiring all of the following:
(1) The board of education of each city, exempted village, and local school district to annually report to the department of education all of the following:
(a) The number of adjacent district or other district students in grades kindergarten through twelve, as applicable, the number of adjacent district or other district students who are preschool children with disabilities, as applicable, and the number of adjacent district or other district joint vocational students, as applicable, enrolled in the district, in accordance with a policy adopted under division (B) of section 3313.98 of the Revised Code;
(b) The number of native students in grades kindergarten through twelve enrolled in adjacent or other districts and the number of native students who are preschool children with disabilities enrolled in adjacent or other districts, in accordance with a policy adopted under division (B) of section 3313.98 of the Revised Code;
(c) Each adjacent district or other district student's or adjacent district or other district joint vocational student's date of enrollment in the district;
(d) The full-time equivalent number of adjacent district or other district students enrolled in each of the categories of career-technical education programs or classes described in section 3317.014 of the Revised Code;
(e) Each native student's date of enrollment in an adjacent or other district.
(2) The board of education of each joint vocational school district to annually report to the department all of the following:
(a) The number of adjacent district or other district joint vocational students, as applicable, enrolled in the district;
(b) The full-time equivalent number of adjacent district or other district joint vocational students enrolled in each category of career-technical education programs or classes described in section 3317.014 of the Revised Code;
(c) For each adjacent district or other district joint vocational student, the city, exempted village, or local school district in which the student is also enrolled.
(3) Prior to the end of each reporting period specified in section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, the superintendent of each city, local, or exempted village school district that admits adjacent district or other district students who are in grades kindergarten through twelve, adjacent district or other district students who are preschool children with disabilities, or adjacent district or other district joint vocational students in accordance with a policy adopted under division (B) of section 3313.98 of the Revised Code to report to the department of education each adjacent or other district's students and where those students who are enrolled in the superintendent's district under the policy are entitled to attend school under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code.
The rules shall provide for the method of counting students who are enrolled for part of a school year in an adjacent or other district or as an adjacent district or other district joint vocational student.
(B) From the payments made to a city, exempted village, or local school district under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code and, if necessary, from the payments made to the district under sections 321.24 and 323.156 of the Revised Code, the department of education shall annually subtract all of the following:
(1) An amount equal to the number of the district's native students in grades kindergarten through twelve reported under division (A)(1) of this section who are enrolled in adjacent or other school districts pursuant to policies adopted by such districts under division (B) of section 3313.98 of the Revised Code multiplied by the formula amount;
(2) The excess costs computed in accordance with division (E) of this section for any such native students in grades kindergarten through twelve receiving special education and related services in adjacent or other school districts or as an adjacent district or other district joint vocational student;
(3) For each of the district's native students reported under division (A)(1)(d) or (2)(b) of this section as enrolled in career-technical education programs or classes described in section 3317.014 of the Revised Code, the per pupil amount prescribed by that section for the student's respective career-technical category, on a full-time equivalency basis;
(4) For each native student who is a preschool child with a disability reported under division (A)(1) of this section who is enrolled in an adjacent or other district pursuant to policies adopted by such a district under division (B) of section 3313.98 of the Revised Code, $4,000.
(C) To the payments made to a city, exempted village, or local school district under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code, the department of education shall annually add all of the following:
(1) An amount equal to the formula amount multiplied by the remainder obtained by subtracting the number of adjacent district or other district joint vocational students from the number of adjacent district or other district students in grades kindergarten through twelve enrolled in the district, as reported under division (A)(1) of this section;
(2) The excess costs computed in accordance with division (E) of this section for any adjacent district or other district students in grades kindergarten through twelve, except for any adjacent or other district joint vocational students, receiving special education and related services in the district;
(3) For each of the adjacent or other district students who are not adjacent district or other district joint vocational students and are reported under division (A)(1)(d) of this section as enrolled in career-technical education programs or classes described in section 3317.014 of the Revised Code, the per pupil amount prescribed by that section for the student's respective career-technical category, on a full-time equivalency basis;
(4) An amount equal to the number of adjacent district or other district joint vocational students reported under division (A)(1) of this section multiplied by an amount equal to twenty per cent of the formula amount;
(5) For each adjacent district or other district student who is a preschool child with a disability reported under division (A)(1) of this section who is enrolled in the district, $4,000.
(D) To the payments made to a joint vocational school district under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code, the department of education shall add, for each adjacent district or other district joint vocational student reported under division (A)(2) of this section, both of the following:
(1) The formula amount;
(2) The per pupil amount for each of the students reported pursuant to division (A)(2)(b) of this section prescribed by section 3317.014 of the Revised Code for the student's respective career-technical category, on a full-time equivalency basis.
(E)(1) A city, exempted village, or local school board providing special education and related services to an adjacent or other district student in grades kindergarten through twelve in accordance with an IEP shall, pursuant to rules of the state board, compute the excess costs to educate such student as follows:
(a) Subtract the formula amount from the actual costs to educate the student;
(b) From the amount computed under division (E)(1)(a) of this section subtract the amount of any funds received by the district under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code to provide special education and related services to the student.
(2) The board shall report the excess costs computed under this division to the department of education.
(3) If any student for whom excess costs are computed under division (E)(1) of this section is an adjacent or other district joint vocational student, the department of education shall add the amount of such excess costs to the payments made under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code to the joint vocational school district enrolling the student.
(F) As provided in division (D)(1)(b) of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, no joint vocational school district shall count any adjacent or other district joint vocational student enrolled in the district in its enrollment certified under section 3317.03 of the Revised Code.
(G) No city, exempted village, or local school district shall receive a payment under division (C) of this section for a student, and no joint vocational school district shall receive a payment under division (D) of this section for a student, if for the same school year that student is counted in the district's enrollment certified under section 3317.03 of the Revised Code.
(H) Upon request of a parent, and provided the board offers transportation to native students of the same grade level and distance from school under section 3327.01 of the Revised Code, a city, exempted village, or local school board enrolling an adjacent or other district student shall provide transportation for the student within the boundaries of the board's district, except that the board shall be required to pick up and drop off a nonhandicapped student only at a regular school bus stop designated in accordance with the board's transportation policy. Pursuant to rules of the state board of education, such board may reimburse the parent from funds received for pupil transportation under section 3317.0212 of the Revised Code, or other provisions of law, for the reasonable cost of transportation from the student's home to the designated school bus stop if the student's family has an income below the federal poverty line.