Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3314 - Community Schools

• Section 3314.01 - Creation Of Community School - General Powers.
  (A) (1) A board of education may permit all or part of any of the schools under its control, upon request of a proposing...
• Section 3314.011 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Designated Fiscal Officer - Bond - Licensing.
  Every community school established under this chapter shall have a designated fiscal officer. The auditor of state may require by rule that the fiscal...
• Section 3314.011 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Designated Fiscal Officer - Bond - Licensing.
  (A) Every community school established under this chapter shall have a designated fiscal officer. Except as provided for in division (C) of this section,...
• Section 3314.012 - Development Of Report Cards.
  (A) Within ninety days of September 28, 1999, the superintendent of public instruction shall appoint representatives of the department of education, including employees who...
• Section 3314.013 - Limits On Internet- Or Computer-based Community Schools.
  (A) Until the sixty-first day after the effective date of this amendment, no internet- or computer-based community school shall operate unless the school was...
• Section 3314.014 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2011.
• Section 3314.015 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Oversight Of Sponsors.
  (A) The department of education shall be responsible for the oversight of any and all sponsors of the community schools established under this chapter...
• Section 3314.015 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Oversight Of Sponsors.
  (A) The department of education shall be responsible for the oversight of any and all sponsors of the community schools established under this chapter...
• Section 3314.016 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Entities Sponsoring Community Schools .
  This section applies to any entity that sponsors a community school, regardless of whether section 3314.021 or 3314.027 of the Revised Code exempts the...
• Section 3314.016 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Entities Sponsoring Community Schools .
  This section applies to any entity that sponsors a community school, regardless of whether section 3314.021 or 3314.027 of the Revised Code exempts the...
• Section 3314.017 - Academic Performance Rating And Report Card System.
  (A) The state board of education shall prescribe by rules, adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, an academic performance rating...
• Section 3314.018 - Pooling Agreements Between Community Schools.
  The governing authorities of two or more community schools may enter into a pooling agreement under which the schools may act jointly to do...
• Section 3314.019 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Communication With State Auditor.
  A community school's sponsor shall communicate with the auditor of state regarding an audit of the school or the condition of financial and enrollment...
• Section 3314.02 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Proposal For Converting Public School To Community School.
  (A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Sponsor" means the board of education of a school district or the governing board of an educational...
• Section 3314.02 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Proposal For Converting Public School To Community School.
  (A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Sponsor" means the board of education of a school district or the governing board of an educational...
• Section 3314.021 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Requirements For Sponsorship.
  (A) This section applies to any entity that is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that satisfies the...
• Section 3314.021 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Requirements For Sponsorship.
  (A) This section applies to any entity that is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that satisfies the...
• Section 3314.022 - Contract For Provisions Of Services For Disabled Student.
  The governing authority of any community school established under this chapter may contract with the governing authority of another community school, the board of...
• Section 3314.023 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Monitoring And Technical Assistance; Review Of Financial Records.
  In order to provide monitoring and technical assistance, a representative of the sponsor of a community school shall meet with the governing authority or...
• Section 3314.023 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Monitoring, Oversight, And Technical Assistance; School Closure.
  A sponsor shall provide monitoring, oversight, and technical assistance to each school that it sponsors. In order to provide monitoring, oversight, and technical assistance,...
• Section 3314.024 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Detailed Accounting By Management Company.
  A management company that provides services to a community school that amounts to more than twenty per cent of the annual gross revenues of...
• Section 3314.024 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Detailed Accounting By Management Company; Categories Of Expenses.
  (A) A management company that receives more than twenty per cent of the annual gross revenues of a community school shall provide a detailed...
• Section 3314.025 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Report On Expendituresto Provide Monitoring, Oversight, And Technical Assistance.
  (A) Beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, each sponsor of a community school shall submit, not later than the fifteenth day of August of...
• Section 3314.026 - [Repealed Effective 2/1/2016] Termination Of Contract With Operator.
  If the governing authority of a community school intends to terminate its contract with the school's operator prior to expiration or intends not to...
• Section 3314.027 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Community School Sponsorship.
  Notwithstanding the requirement for initial approval of sponsorship by the department of education prescribed in divisions (A)(2) and (B)(1) of section 3314.015 of the...
• Section 3314.027 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Community School Sponsorship.
  Notwithstanding the requirement for initial approval of sponsorship by the department of education prescribed in divisions (A)(2) and (B)(1) of section 3314.015 of the...
• Section 3314.028 - Conditions For Continued Operation.
  (A) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, beginning in the 2009-2010 school year, a community school that meets the following conditions...
• Section 3314.029 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Ohio School Sponsorship Program.
  This section establishes the Ohio school sponsorship program. The department of education shall establish an office of Ohio school sponsorship to perform the department's...
• Section 3314.029 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Ohio School Sponsorship Program.
  This section establishes the Ohio school sponsorship program. The department of education shall establish an office of Ohio school sponsorship to perform the department's...
• Section 3314.0210 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Property Purchased By Operator Or Management Company.
  When an operator or management company purchases furniture, computers, software, equipment, or other personal property for use in the operation of a community school...
• Section 3314.03 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Specifications Of Contract Between Sponsor And Governing Authority - Specifications Of Comprehensive Plan.
  A copy of every contract entered into under this section shall be filed with the superintendent of public instruction. The department of education shall...
• Section 3314.03 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Specifications Of Contract Between Sponsor And Governing Authority - Specifications Of Comprehensive Plan.
  A copy of every contract entered into under this section shall be filed with the superintendent of public instruction. The department of education shall...
• Section 3314.031 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Publication Of Information Regarding Management Or Operation Of Community Schools.
  (A) Beginning March 31. 2016. the department shall do the following: (1) Maintain and annually publish an accurate record of the names and identifying...
• Section 3314.032 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Contents Of Contract Between Governing Authority And Operator.
  (A) On and after the effective date of this section, any new or renewed contract between the governing authority of a community school and...
• Section 3314.033 - Standards Governing Operation Of Internet- Or Computer-based Community Schools.
  Not later than September 30, 2003, the state board of education shall recommend to the general assembly standards governing the operation of internet- or...
• Section 3314.034 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Conditions Which Would Prohibit Contract With New Sponsor.
  (A) Subject to division (B) of this section, any community school to which either of the following conditions apply shall be prohibited from entering...
• Section 3314.035 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Publication Of Names Of Members Of Governing Authority.
  Each community school shall post on the school's web site the name of each member of the school's governing authority. Each community school also...
• Section 3314.036 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Employment Of Attorney.
  The governing authority of a community school shall employ an attorney, who shall be independent from the school's sponsor or the operator with which...
• Section 3314.037 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Training On Public Records And Open Meetings Laws.
  The members of the governing authority of a community school, the designated fiscal officer of the school, the chief administrative officer and other administrative...
• Section 3314.038 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Children Residing In Residential Center; Reporting.
  Each community school shall annually submit to the department of education and auditor of state a report of each instance under which a student...
• Section 3314.039 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Compilation And Publication Of Information On Community Schools.
  The department of education shall compile and publish the following information, for each year since the 2010-2011 school year, in a simple, easily accessible...
• Section 3314.04 - Exemption From State Laws And Rules.
  Except as otherwise specified in this chapter and in the contract between a community school and a sponsor, such school is exempt from all...
• Section 3314.041 - Distributing Statement Concerning State-prescribed Testing And Compulsory Attendance Law To Parents.
  The governing authority of each community school and any operator of such school shall distribute to parents of students of the school upon their...
• Section 3314.042 - Compliance With Standards Of Financial Reporting.
  The governing authority of each community school shall comply with the standards for financial reporting adopted under division (B)(2) of section 3301.07 of the...
• Section 3314.05 - Specification Of Use And Acquisition Of Facilities.
  (A) The contract between the community school and the sponsor shall specify the facilities to be used for the community school and the method...
• Section 3314.051 - Disposal Of Real Property Acquired From School District.
  (A) When the governing authority of a community school that acquired real property from a school district pursuant to former division (G)(2) of section...
• Section 3314.06 - Admission Procedures.
  The governing authority of each community school established under this chapter shall adopt admission procedures that specify the following: (A) That, except as otherwise...
• Section 3314.061 - Community Schools Serving Autistic And Nonhandicapped Students.
  A governing authority may establish a community school under this chapter that is limited to providing simultaneously special education and related services to a...
• Section 3314.07 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Expiration, Termination Or Nonrenewal Of Contract For Community School.
  (A) The expiration of the contract for a community school between a sponsor and a school shall be the date provided in the contract....
• Section 3314.07 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Expiration, Termination Or Nonrenewal Of Contract For Community School.
  (A) The expiration of the contract for a community school between a sponsor and a school shall be the date provided in the contract....
• Section 3314.071 - Liability On Contracts.
  Any contract entered into by the governing authority or any officer or director of a community school, including the contract required by sections 3314.02...
• Section 3314.072 - Suspending Operation Of Noncomplying School.
  The provisions of this section are enacted to promote the public health, safety, and welfare by establishing procedures under which the governing authorities of...
• Section 3314.073 - Declaring School To Be In Probationary Status.
  (A) In lieu of termination of a contract or suspension of the operation of a school as provided for in sections 3314.07 and 3314.072...
• Section 3314.074 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Distributing Assets Of School Permanently Closed.
  Divisions (A) and (B) of this section apply only to the extent permitted under Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code. (A) If any community...
• Section 3314.074 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Distributing Assets Of School Permanently Closed.
  Divisions (A) and (B) of this section apply only to the extent permitted under Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code. (A) If any community...
• Section 3314.08 - Annual Enrollment Reports; Payments From Department.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) (a) "Category one career-technical education student" means a student who is receiving the career-technical education services described...
• Section 3314.081 - Annual Allocation Of Federal Moneys.
  To the extent permitted by federal law, the department of education shall include community schools established under this chapter in its annual allocation of...
• Section 3314.082 - Community Schools; Application For Funds.
  A community school shall be considered a school district and its governing authority shall be considered a board of education for the purpose of...
• Section 3314.083 - Deducting Excess Costs Of Providing Special Education And Related Services To Handicapped Student.
  If the department of education pays a joint vocational school district under division (C)(3) of section 3317.16 of the Revised Code for excess costs...
• Section 3314.084 - Reporting Rules For Community School Students Living In Home.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Formula ADM" has the same meaning as in section 3317.03 of the Revised Code. (2) "Home" has...
• Section 3314.085 - Additional Payments To Community Schools.
  (A) For purposes of this section: (1) "Formula amount" has the same meaning as in section 3317.02 of the Revised Code. (2) "Four-year adjusted...
• Section 3314.086 - Community Schools; Career-technical Education.
  A community school established under this chapter, including an internet- or computer-based community school, may provide career-technical education in the manner prescribed by section...
• Section 3314.087 - Community School Student May Enroll In Career-technical Program.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Career-technical program" means career-technical programs or classes described in division (A) , (B), (C), (D), or (E)...
• Section 3314.088 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153, §101.01, eff. 6/30/2011....
• Section 3314.09 - Transportation Of Native Students Provided By Board Of Each School District.
  (A) As used in this section and section 3314.091 of the Revised Code, "native student" means a student entitled to attend school in the...
• Section 3314.091 - Transportation Of Native Students Provided By Community School - Agreement.
  (A) A school district is not required to provide transportation for any native student enrolled in a community school if the district board of...
• Section 3314.092 - Consultation With Board Regarding Changes In Schedule.
  The governing authority or operator of a community school established under this chapter shall consult with each school district board of education that transports...
• Section 3314.10 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Teachers And Nonteaching Employees.
  (A) (1) The governing authority of any community school established under this chapter may employ teachers and nonteaching employees necessary to carry out its...
• Section 3314.10 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Teachers And Nonteaching Employees.
  (A) (1) The governing authority of any community school established under this chapter may employ teachers and nonteaching employees necessary to carry out its...
• Section 3314.101 - Suspension Of Employee Pending Criminal Action.
  (A) As used in this section, "license" has the same meaning as in section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. (B) If a person who...
• Section 3314.102 - Removal Of Conversion Community School Employees From Collective Bargaining Unit.
  (A) As used in this section : (1) "Chief executive officer" means a chief executive officer appointed by an academic distress commission pursuant to...
• Section 3314.11 - Verification Of Residency.
  (A) The board of education of each city, exempted village, and local school district monthly shall review enrollment for students enrolled in community schools...
• Section 3314.111 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153, §105.01, eff. 6/30/2011.
• Section 3314.12 - Sponsor To Submit Annual Report Of Services And Expenditures.
  On or before the first day of November each year, the sponsor of each community school established under this chapter shall submit to the...
• Section 3314.13 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153, §101.01, eff. 6/30/2011....
• Section 3314.14 - Possession And Use Of Inhalers By Student - School And Employees Not Liable.
  A community school, community school governing authority, or community school employee is not liable in damages in a civil action for harm allegedly arising...
• Section 3314.141 - No Civil Liability For Prohibition Of Use Of Autoinjector.
  A community school, community school governing authority, or community school employee is not liable in damages in a civil action for harm allegedly arising...
• Section 3314.142 - Liability For Damages Due To Concussions.
  (A) A community school, member of a community school governing authority, community school employee or volunteer, community school operator, or employee or volunteer of...
• Section 3314.143 - Procurement Of Epinephrine Autoinjectors For Community Schools.
  (A) With the approval of its governing authority, a community school established under this chapter may procure epinephrine autoinjectors in the manner prescribed by...
• Section 3314.144 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Procurement Of Inhalers By Community School.
  (A) As used in this section, "inhaler" has the same meaning as in section 3313.7113 of the Revised Code. (B) With the approval of...
• Section 3314.15 - Body Mass Index And Weight Status Category Screening.
  The governing authority of a community school, other than an internet- or computer-based community school, may screen students for body mass index and weight...
• Section 3314.16 - Placement Of Automatic External Defibrillator In Schools - Staff Training - Qualified Immunity.
  (A) (1) As used in this section, "automated external defibrillator" means a specialized defibrillator that is approved for use as a medical device by...
• Section 3314.17 - Statewide Education Management Information System.
  (A) Each community school established under this chapter shall participate in the statewide education management information system established under section 3301.0714 of the Revised...
• Section 3314.18 - Breakfast And Lunch Programs - Summer Extension.
  (A) Subject to division (C) of this section, the governing authority of each community school shall establish a breakfast program pursuant to the "National...
• Section 3314.19 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Annual Assurances By Community School Sponsor.
  The sponsor of each community school annually shall provide the following assurances in writing to the department of education not later than ten business...
• Section 3314.19 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Annual Assurances By Community School Sponsor.
  The sponsor of each community school annually shall provide the following assurances in writing to the department of education not later than ten business...
• Section 3314.191 - Prerequisites For Payments From Department.
  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in the Revised Code, the department of education shall make no payment under section 3314.08 of the Revised...
• Section 3314.20 - Community Schools; Enrollment Limits.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Base enrollment" for an internet- or computer-based community school means either of the following: (a) If the...
• Section 3314.21 - Internet- Or Computer-based Schools.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Harmful to juveniles" has the same meaning as in section 2907.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Obscene"...
• Section 3314.22 - Child Entitled To Computer Supplied By School.
  (A) (1) Each child enrolled in an internet- or computer-based community school is entitled to a computer supplied by the school; however, the parent...
• Section 3314.23 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Compliance With Standards.
  (A) Subject to division (B) of this section, each internet- or computer-based community school shall do the applicable one of the following: (1) If...
• Section 3314.23 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Compliance With Standards.
  (A) Subject to division (B) of this section, each internet- or computer-based community school shall comply with the standards developed by the international association...
• Section 3314.24 - No Contracts For Facility Space After 7-1-04.
  (A) On or after July 1, 2004, no internet- or computer-based community school shall enter into a contract with a nonpublic school to use...
• Section 3314.25 - Computer-based Schools To Provide Location For Statewide Tests.
  Each internet- or computer-based community school shall provide its students a location within a fifty-mile radius of the student's residence at which to complete...
• Section 3314.251 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Locations For Counseling, Instructional Coaching, And Testing Assistance.
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, each internet- or computer-based community school may provide its students with a location within a fifty-mile...
• Section 3314.26 - Withdrawal Of Computer-based School Student Not Taking Tests.
  (A) Each internet- or computer-based community school shall withdraw from the school any student who, for two consecutive school years, has failed to participate...
• Section 3314.27 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Maximum Daily Hours By Computer-based School Student.
  No student enrolled in an internet- or computer-based community school may participate in more than ten hours of learning opportunities in any period of...
• Section 3314.27 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Maximum Daily Hours By Computer-based School Student.
  No student enrolled in an internet- or computer-based community school may participate in more than ten hours of learning opportunities in any period of...
• Section 3314.271 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Orientation Course.
  (A) Each internet- or computer-based community school shall offer a student orientation course and shall notify each student who enrolls in that school of...
• Section 3314.28 - Plan By Computer-based Schools For Services To Disabled Students.
  (A) Each internet- or computer-based community school established under this chapter shall submit to the school's sponsor a plan for providing special education and...
• Section 3314.30 - Community School Revolving Loan Fund.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Start-up community school" means a "new start-up school" as that term is defined in division (A) of...
• Section 3314.31 - Community School Security Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the community school security fund. The fund shall consist of moneys paid into the fund under...
• Section 3314.35 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Permanent Closure; Criteria.
  (A) (1) Except as provided in division (A)(4) of this section, this section applies to any community school that meets one of the following...
• Section 3314.35 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Permanent Closure; Criteria.
  (A) (1) Except as provided in division (A)(4) of this section, this section applies to any community school that meets one of the following...
• Section 3314.351 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Closure Of Certain Community Schools.
  (A) This section applies to any community school in which a majority of the students are enrolled in a dropout prevention and recovery program....
• Section 3314.351 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Closure Of Certain Community Schools.
  (A) This section applies to any community school in which a majority of the students are enrolled in a dropout prevention and recovery program....
• Section 3314.352 - Reopening Under New Name.
  No community school that is permanently closed under section 3314.35 or 3314.351 of the Revised Code may be reopened under another name if any...
• Section 3314.36 - Applicability Of Rc 3314.35 Closure Rule.
  (A) Section 3314.35 of the Revised Code does not apply to any community school in which a majority of the students are enrolled in...
• Section 3314.361 - Operation Of Drug Recovery Program.
  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this chapter, a community school that operates a drug recovery program in cooperation with a court shall be...
• Section 3314.37 - Five-year Isus Institutes Demonstration Project.
  (A) A five-year demonstration project is hereby established at the community schools known as the ISUS institutes. The project is a research and development...
• Section 3314.38 - Enrollment In Dropout Prevention And Recovery Program.
  (A) An individual who is at least twenty-two years of age and who is an eligible individual as defined in section 3317.23 of the...
• Section 3314.40 - Report Of Employee Conviction Or Alternative Disposition.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Conduct unbecoming to the teaching profession" shall be as described in rules adopted by the state board...
• Section 3314.401 - Employee Investigation Report Kept In Personnel File.
  The governing authority of each community school shall require that the reports of any investigation by the governing authority of the school or by...
• Section 3314.402 - Application Of Collective Bargaining Agreement.
  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, the provisions of sections 3314.40 and 3314.401 of the Revised Code...
• Section 3314.403 - False Report Of Employee Misconduct Prohibited.
  (A) As used in this section, "license" has the same meaning as in section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. (B) No employee of a...
• Section 3314.41 - Criminal Records Check Of Private Contract Employee.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Designated official" means the chief administrator of a community school, or the chief administrator's designee. (2) "Essential...
• Section 3314.44 - Collection And Transmittal Of School Records After Closing; Compliance; Penalty.
  (A) If a community school established under this chapter closes for any reason, the chief administrative officer of the school at the time the...
• Section 3314.46 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Sponsors; Sales Of Goods Or Services Prohibited.
  As used in this section, "sponsor" includes any officer, director, employee of the sponsor of a community school, and any person with decision-making authority...
• Section 3314.50 - [Effective Until 2/1/2016] Community School; Surety Bond.
  No community school shall, on or after the effective date of this section, open for operation in any school year unless the governing authority...
• Section 3314.50 - [Effective 2/1/2016] Community School; Bond.
  No community school shall initiate operation, on or after the effective date of this amendment, unless the governing authority of the school has posted...
• Section 3314.51 - Unauditable Community School.
  (A) If the auditor of state or a public accountant, under section 117.41 of the Revised Code, declares a community school to be unauditable,...
• Section 3314.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates division (F) of section 3314.40 of the Revised Code shall be punished as follows: (1) Except as otherwise provided in division...

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