Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3310 - Educational Choice Scholarship Pilot Program

• Section 3310.01 - Definitions.
  As used in sections 3310.01 to 3310.17 of the Revised Code: (A) "Chartered nonpublic school" means a nonpublic school that holds a valid charter...
• Section 3310.02 - Educational Choice Scholarship Pilot Program Established.
  (A) The educational choice scholarship pilot program is hereby established. Under the program, the department of education annually shall pay scholarships to attend chartered...
• Section 3310.03 - Eligibility Of Students To Participate In Program.
  A student is an "eligible student" for purposes of the educational choice scholarship pilot program if the student's resident district is not a school...
• Section 3310.031 - Procedures For Granting Educational Choice Scholarships.
  (A) The state board of education shall adopt rules under section 3310.17 of the Revised Code establishing procedures for granting educational choice scholarships to...
• Section 3310.032 - Expansion Of Educational Choice Scholarship Pilot Program; Income-based Eligibility.
  (A) A student is an "eligible student" for purposes of the expansion of the educational choice scholarship pilot program under this section if the...
• Section 3310.035 - Students Qualifying Under More Than One Category.
  (A) A student who is eligible for an educational choice scholarship under both sections 3310.03 and 3310.032 of the Revised Code, and applies for...
• Section 3310.04 - Transportation Of Eligible Students.
  Any eligible student who is enrolled in a chartered nonpublic school and for whom a scholarship under the educational choice scholarship pilot program has...
• Section 3310.05 - Program Not Available In District With Existing Pilot Program.
  A scholarship under the educational choice scholarship pilot program is not available for any student whose resident district is a school district in which...
• Section 3310.06 - Program Nonexclusive For Students In Eligible Schools.
  It is the policy adopted by the general assembly that the educational choice scholarship pilot program shall be construed as one of several educational...
• Section 3310.07 - Notice Of Applicant To Department.
  Any parent, or any student who is at least eighteen years of age, who is seeking a scholarship under the educational choice scholarship pilot...
• Section 3310.08 - Amount Paid For Eligible Student - Periodic Payments - Deductions.
  (A) The amount paid for an eligible student under the educational choice scholarship pilot program shall be the lesser of the tuition of the...
• Section 3310.09 - Maximum Award To Eligible Students.
  The maximum amount awarded to an eligible student under the educational choice scholarship pilot program shall be as follows: (A) For grades kindergarten through...
• Section 3310.10 - Tuition Sole Use Of Scholarship Award.
  A scholarship awarded under section 3310.08 of the Revised Code may be used only to pay tuition to any chartered nonpublic school. Effective Date:
• Section 3310.11 - Request For Data Verification Code Of Applicant.
  (A) Only for the purpose of administering the educational choice scholarship pilot program, the department of education may request from any of the following...
• Section 3310.12 - Program Documents As Public Records.
  Except as provided in division (D) of section 3310.11 of the Revised Code, documents relative to the educational choice scholarship pilot program that the...
• Section 3310.13 - Tuition Charged By Chartered Nonpublic Schools.
  (A) No chartered nonpublic school shall charge any student whose family income is at or below two hundred per cent of the federal poverty...
• Section 3310.14 - Chartered Nonpublic Schools With Enrolled Students To Administer Tests.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, each chartered nonpublic school that is not subject to division (K)(1)(a) of section 3301.0711...
• Section 3310.15 - Aggregation Of Assessment Scores.
  (A) The department of education annually shall compile the scores attained by scholarship students to whom an assessment is administered under section 3310.14 of...
• Section 3310.16 - Application Periods For The Educational Choice Scholarship Pilot Program.
  For the 2013-2014 school year and each school year thereafter, the department of education shall conduct two application periods each year for the educational...
• Section 3310.17 - Board To Adopt Rules For Administration Of Program.
  (A) The state board of education shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code prescribing procedures for the administration of...
• Section 3310.41 - Autism Scholarship Program - Rc 3317.03 Adm Calculation.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Alternative public provider" means either of the following providers that agrees to enroll a child in the...
• Section 3310.42 - Autism Scholarship Program - Data Verification Code Request.
  (A) Only for the purpose of administering the autism scholarship program, the department of education may request from any of the following entities the...
• Section 3310.43 - Instructional Assistant Permit.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Registered private provider" has the same meaning as in section 3310.41 of the Revised Code. (2) "Two...
• Section 3310.51 - Definitions For Sections To 3310.64.
  As used in sections 3310.51 to 3310.64 of the Revised Code: (A) "Alternative public provider" means either of the following providers that agrees to...
• Section 3310.52 - Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship Program.
  (A) The Jon Peterson special needs scholarship program is hereby established. Under the program, beginning with the 2012-2013 school year, subject to division (B)...
• Section 3310.521 - Profiles For Special Application Programs.
  (A) As a condition of receiving payments for a scholarship, each eligible applicant shall attest to receipt of the profile prescribed by division (B)...
• Section 3310.522 - Maintaining Eligibility.
  In order to maintain eligibility for a scholarship under the program, a student shall take each assessment prescribed by sections 3301.0710 and 3301.0712 of...
• Section 3310.53 - Availability Of Free Public Education; Development Of Individualized Education Program.
  (A) Except for development of the child's individualized education program, as specified in division (B) of this section, the school district in which a...
• Section 3310.54 - Inclusion Of Students In Formula Adm And Category One Through Six Special Education Adm.
  A qualified special education child in any of grades kindergarten through twelve for whom a scholarship is awarded under the Jon Peterson special needs...
• Section 3310.55 - Deductions From State Education Aid.
  The department of education shall deduct from a school district's state education aid, as defined in section 3317.02 of the Revised Code, and if...
• Section 3310.56 - Amount Of Scholarship.
  (A) The amount of the scholarship awarded and paid to an eligible applicant for services for a qualified special education child under the Jon...
• Section 3310.57 - Payments.
  The department of education shall make periodic payments to an eligible applicant for services for each qualified special education child for whom a scholarship...
• Section 3310.58 - Registration With Superintendent Of Public Instruction.
  No nonpublic school or entity shall receive payments from an eligible applicant for services for a qualified special education child under the Jon Peterson...
• Section 3310.59 - Revocation Of Registration.
  The superintendent of public instruction shall revoke the registration of any school or entity if, after a hearing, the superintendent determines that the school...
• Section 3310.60 - Student Transportation.
  A qualified special education child attending a special education program at an alternative public provider or a registered private provider with a scholarship shall...
• Section 3310.61 - Withdrawal Of Child From Public Special Education Program To Attend Alternative Public Or Private Program.
  An eligible applicant on behalf of a child who currently attends a public special education program under a contract, compact, or other bilateral agreement,...
• Section 3310.62 - Denial Of Awards For Certain First-time Applicants.
  (A) A scholarship under the Jon Peterson special needs scholarship program shall not be awarded for the first time to an eligible applicant on...
• Section 3310.63 - Requests For Data Verification Code.
  (A) Only for the purpose of administering the Jon Peterson special needs scholarship program, the department of education may request from any of the...
• Section 3310.64 - Adoption Of Rules.
  The state board of education shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code prescribing procedures necessary to implement sections 3310.51...

Last modified: October 10, 2016