Senate Sub HB59

Department of Education Executive School Funding EDUCD92 R.C. Jon Peterson Scholarship Funding Formula 3310.56, 3310.51 R.C.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House In Senate Finance
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3310.56, 3310.51
R.C.
3310.56, 3310.51
Replaces the formula used to calculate deductions from school districts and payments for the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship Program. Specifies the formula for each student as the sum of the per pupil amount of the opportunity grant for the resident district and the amount for the student's special education category. Maintains current law that restricts the amount to the least of the fees charged by the provider, the amount calculated above, or $20,000. Fiscal effect: Under current law, each scholarship has a base amount of $5,704 plus the additional special education weighted funds. The provision decreases the base amount to the per pupil opportunity grant, which differs for each school district, but is never more than $5,000, and increases the additional amount depending on the student's special education category. EDUCD85 R.C. Community School Funding Formula 3314.08, 3313.88, 3314.029, 3314.03, 3314.083, 3314.084, 3314.087, 3314.088 (repealed), 3314.11, 3314.13 (repealed), 3314.26, 5727.84
Replaces the Executive provision with a provision that modifies the current calculation by replacing the formula amount and base funding supplements from FY 2009, with the current year formula amount, and updating the special education category weights to match those used for school districts. Same as the Executive.
Same as the House.
Same as the Executive.
Fiscal effect: Increases the base amount to $5,732 in FY 2014 and $5,789 in FY 2015. The new special education weights generally result in higher amounts than the ones in current law.
Fiscal effect: Same as the House.
R.C.
3314.08, 3313.88, 3314.029, 3314.03, 3314.083, 3314.084, 3314.087, 3314.088 (repealed), 3314.11, 3314.13 (repealed), 3314.26, 5727.84
R.C.
3314.08, 3313.88, 3314.029, 3314.03, 3314.083, 3314.084, 3314.087, 3314.088 (repealed), 3314.11, 3314.13 (repealed), 3314.26, 5727.84, Section 263.253
Replaces the formula used to calculate deductions from school districts and transfers to community schools with a formula that is similar to the formula for traditional districts. Specifies the formula for each student as the sum of: Department of Education
Same as the Executive, but makes the following changes:
Same as the House, but makes the following changes:
Prepared by the Legislative Service Commission
Department of Education Executive (1) An opportunity grant of $5,000 ($250,000 x 0.02);
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House (1) Replaces the Executive calculation with the formula amount, which is equal to $5,732 in FY 2014 and $5,789 in FY 2015. (2) Same as the Executive, but provides only the per-pupil amount of tier 1 targeted assistance funds for the student's resident district and multiplies this amount by 0.25. (3) Same as the Executive, but (a) instead of an amount for each category, uses a category weight x the formula amount, where the category weights and the formula amount are the same as those used for traditional school districts under the House proposal and (b) eliminates the transfers to the Exceptional Cost Fund. (4) Replaces the Executive calculation with a per pupil amount if the child is in kindergarten through third grade, where the per pupil amount equals $300 in FY 2014 and $303 in FY 2015. Does not provide this funding to e-schools. (5) Same as the Executive, but reduces the per pupil amount to $340 in FY 2014 and $343 in FY 2015 (under the House proposal, each traditional school district's economically disadvantaged index is the square of the Executive calculation) and does not provide this funding to e-schools. (6) Same as the Executive, but does not provide funding for category 4, which the bill eliminates, increases the amounts by 1% in FY 2015, and prohibits e-schools from receiving this funding. (7) No provision. In Senate Finance (1) Same as the House.
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(2) The per-pupil amount of targeted assistance funds for the student's resident district, except does not provide this funding for e-schools; (3) The amount for the student's special education category, if the student has a disability, where the category amount is the same as that used for traditional school districts (see EDUCD83). Transfers 15% of this amount to the Special Education Exceptional Cost Fund (see EDUCD91). (4) The per-pupil amount of early childhood access funds for the student's resident district, if the student is in kindergarten, except does not provide this funding for eschools. (5) Economically disadvantaged funds equal to $500 x the resident district's economically disadvantaged index.
(2) Same as the House.
(6) The amount for the student's LEP category, if the student is LEP.
(7) Gifted funds equal to $50.
(7) No provision.
(8) No provision. (See EDUCD88)
(8) Career-technical education funds equal to the category weight x the formula amount, where the category weights and the formula amount are the same as those used for traditional school districts under the House proposal. Subjects the deduction and payment of these funds to the 2
(8) Same as the House, but also (1) specifies that a community school that receives funds for career-technical education must spend those funds only for the purposes that ODE designates as approved for career-technical education expenses, and specifies that ODE must require the school to
Department of Education
Department of Education Executive
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House review and approval of the school's career-technical program by the lead district of the career-technical planning district to which the school is affiliated (see EDUCD88). In Senate Finance
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report data annually in order to monitor the school's compliance with this provision (these provisions were present in the As Introduced version of the bill; see EDUCD88) and (2) requires a community school to spend at least 75% of the state career-technical education funding it receives on costs directly associated with career-technical education programs and not more than 25% on personnel expenditures (an existing rule prescribes these same percentages for the expenditure of career-technical education funds by all types of providers). Provides an additional state payment that guarantees, in FY 2014 and FY 2015, a community school that was declared to be excellent or higher on the local report cards for the 20092010, 2010-2011, and 2011-2012 school years receives at least the amount of the community school's payments for FY 2013. Clarifies that a student enrolled in a community school may simultaneously enroll in the career-technical program operated by the CTPD to which the student's resident district belongs, rather than the career-technical program operated by the student's resident district as under current law. Clarifies that the resident district of a student enrolled in a community school that is simultaneously enrolled in the career-technical program of the CTPD to which the student's resident district belongs must count the student in the category one through five career-technical education ADM for the proportion of the time that the student is in a careertechnical program of the CTPD, and requires ODE to calculate funds for the resident district based on that count (under current law, the resident district is required to count the student for the proportion of time the student is enrolled in the district's career-technical program).
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Department of Education Executive Fiscal effect: Alters the per pupil amount deducted from school district state funding allocations compared to current law, which is based on a formula amount of $5,653 plus additional amounts based on FY 2009 levels for special education, career-technical education, poverty-based assistance, and parity aid. In FY 2012, transfers of state aid to community schools amounted to $774.4 million. In addition to the transfers described here, community schools, other than e-schools, are provided $100 per ADM for facilities costs (see EDUCD78). EDUCD93 R.C. 3315.18 No provision. Capital and Maintenance Fund Set Aside
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive. In Senate Finance
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Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive, with the addition of guarantee payments funded by the state through an earmark of GRF appropriation item 200550, Foundation Funding (see EDUCD23).
Revises the capital and maintenance fund set aside requirement for school districts to specify they set aside 3% of their opportunity grant, rather than 3% of the formula amount as under current law. Fiscal effect: All else being equal, decreases the amount required to be set aside in a district's capital and maintenance fund. EDUCD88 R.C. Career-Technical Education Funding 3317.162, 3317.014, 3317.023, 3317.05, 3317.163, 3314.085
No provision.
R.C.
3317.014, 3317.161, 3317.022, 3317.023, 3317.05, 3317.16
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3317.014, 3317.161, 3317.022, 3317.023, 3317.05, 3317.16, 3314.08, 3326.39
Removes career-technical additional funding from the main funding formula, so that is it no longer part of the main formula's guarantee or cap. Pays this funding to careertechnical planning districts (CTPDs) based on the ADM of their member districts and schools. Department of Education
No provision.
No provision.
Department of Education Executive Replaces the existing two categories of career-technical education with five categories. Allocates funding to each CTPD equal to the ADM in each category x an amount for each category, where the amounts for categories 1-5 are: $2,900, $2,600, $1,650, $1,200, and $900.
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Same as the House. Same as the Executive, but directly allocates careertechnical education funding to traditional and joint vocational districts inside the main funding formulas and, instead of using an amount for each category, determines the careertechnical education cost using category weight x formula amount, where the 1-5 category weights are: 0.76, 0.68, 0.43, 0.31, and 0.24. Pays associated services funding to traditional and joint vocational school districts based on a weight of 0.05. Applies the state share index (for traditional districts) or the state share percentage (for JVSDs) to the calculated cost to determine the state share (see EDUCD83). Same as the Executive, but (1) also requires ODE, in reviewing the decision of a lead district of a CTPD to disapprove a career-technical education program from receiving funding, to consider the demand for the careertechnical education program and the availability of the program within the CTPD and (2) eliminates the requirement that ODE transfer the funding calculated for its ADM to each approved district and school. Same as the House, but more clearly specifies that community and STEM schools may be assigned to a CTPD.
Requires the lead district of each CTPD to approve or disapprove the career-technical program of all member districts and schools. Requires ODE to review any program disapprovals and provides that, if ODE approves the program, ODE's decision is final. Requires ODE to transfer the funding calculated for its ADM to each approved district and school. Extends to community and STEM schools current law requirements that (1) traditional and joint vocational school districts receiving career-technical education funds spend those funds only for the purposes that ODE designates as approved for career-technical education expenses, and that (2) ODE require districts to report data annually in order to monitor the district's compliance with the spending requirements. Specifies that the current law formula for crediting careertechnical associated services funding to each lead district of a CTPD does not apply after FY 2013 and pays state funds for career-technical associated services, at a rate of $150 per career-technical ADM, directly to each lead district of a CTPD. Department of Education
Same as the Executive, but does not extend the spending Same as the Executive (see EDUCD85 and EDUCD86). and reporting requirements to community and STEM schools.
Replaces the Executive provision with a provision that restores current law, except that the credit is calculated using (1) the formula amount instead of $5,732, (2) the state share index instead of the state share percentage, and (3) the sum of categories 1-5 career-technical education ADM instead of the sum of categories 1 and 2 vocational education ADM. 5
Same as the House.
Department of Education Executive Fiscal effect: Allocates to CTPDs, from GRF appropriation item 200550, Foundation Funding, an estimated $118.1 million per year in career-technical education funds and $8.8 million per year in funding for associated services, for a total of $126.9 million per year. EDUCD96 R.C. 3317.021
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Fiscal effect: Eliminates the earmark allocating funding to CTPDs and instead allocates career-technical education funds in the main formulas for traditional and joint vocational school districts. In Senate Finance Fiscal effect: Same as the House.
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Reporting Requirements Associated with Certain Tax Exempt Property R.C. 3317.021 R.C. 3317.021
Eliminates data reporting requirements of the Department of Taxation (TAX) and the Development Services Agency (DEV) concerning certain property values exempt from taxation (these values were used in prior funding models to reflect the revenue base of school districts from payments in lieu of taxes attributable to property exempted from taxation pursuant to tax incentive financing (TIF) arrangements). Fiscal effect: Decrease in administrative burden for TAX and DEV. EDUCD89 R.C. Pupil Transportation Funding 3317.0212, Section 263.170
Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive.
R.C.
3317.0212
R.C.
3317.0212
Modifies the pupil transportation formula to use the state share index from the new formula (see EDUCD83) instead of the state share percentage. Requires ODE to prorate the calculated amount for each district to fit within the appropriation. Removes pupil transportation funding from the main funding formula, so that it is no longer part of the main formula's guarantee or cap.
Same as the Executive, but (1) removes the following adjustments from the pupil transportation formula so that funding is based only on the greater of per rider or per mile costs for each district: (a) nontraditional ridership, (b) high school ridership, (c) distance adjustment to school districts that transport K-8 students who live between one and two miles from school, (d) efficiency; and (2) includes the formula payments and payments for students transported by means other than school bus service in the main formula.
Same as the House.
Department of Education Executive No provision.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Provides a transportation supplement for low-wealth and low density school districts equal to the difference between the district's unrestricted pupil transportation formula amount and the prorated amount. Requires school districts to report transportation funding data through the Education Management Information System. Fiscal effect: Increases funding for pupil transportation formula payments by $37.6 million in FY 2014 and by $58.3 million in FY 2015. Provides an additional $25.3 million in FY 2014 and $23.1 million in FY 2015 for the low wealth/low density supplement. In Senate Finance Same as the House.
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No provision.
Same as the House.
Fiscal effect: Allocates $375.8 million each year for this funding from GRF appropriation item 200502, Pupil Transportation.
EDUCD90 R.C.
Preschool Special Education Funding 3317.0213, 3323.13, 3317.03, 3317.05, 3317.19, 3323.08, 3323.09, 3323.091, 3323.13, 3323.14, 3323.141, 3323.142, Repealed: 3317.051 - 3317.053, 3323.16 R.C. 3317.0213, 3323.13, 3317.013, 3317.03, 3317.05, 3317.19, 3323.08, 3323.09, 3323.091, 3323.13, 3323.14, 3323.141, 3323.142, Repealed: 3317.051 - 3317.053, 3323.16 R.C. 3317.0213, 3323.13, 3317.013, 3317.03, 3317.05, 3317.19, 3323.08, 3323.09, 3323.091, 3323.13, 3323.14, 3323.141, 3323.142, Repealed: 3317.051 - 3317.053, 3323.16
Replaces the unit funding formula for preschool special education funding for school districts and institutions. Specifies the formula as the sum of the following: (1) $4,000 x the number of pre-school special education students; and (2) The sum of (the number of preschool students in each special education category x the amount specified for each special education category x state share index x 0.5), where the state share index for a state institution is the state share index of the student's resident district and the amount for each special education category is the same as that for K-12 students (see EDUCD83). Department of Education
(1) Same as the Executive.
(2) Same as the Executive, but state share index and special education amounts are calculated according to the House proposal.
Department of Education Executive Multiplies the tuition paid from one school district to another for preschool special education students by 0.5. Permits a school district for which an educational service center or county DD board is providing preschool special education services for resident children to authorize ODE to transfer the district's additional aid for preschool special education to the educational service center or county DD board providing those services. No provision.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Same as the Executive. In Senate Finance Same as the Executive.
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Same as the Executive, but requires ODE to deduct from a school district's additional state aid for preschool special education children the funds that are attributable to students receiving services from a county DD board and pay those funds to the county DD board, rather than to transfer those funds to the county DD board upon the district's request. Requires ODE to ensure that a county DD board receives at least the same amount of state funding for preschool special education services it received for the previous fiscal year, as determined by ODE. Permits ODE to increase the state payment to a county DD board, if necessary, to comply with this requirement. Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Fiscal effect: Allocates $103.0 million in FY 2014 and $104.0 million in FY 2015 for preschool special education funding from GRF appropriation item 200540, Special Education Enhancements. EDUCD91 R.C. Special Education Exceptional Cost Fund 3317.0214, 3317.0215, 3314.08, 3317.16, 3326.34
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3317.0214, 3314.08, 3317.16, 3326.34
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3317.0214, 3314.08, 3317.16, 3326.34
Creates the Special Education Exceptional Cost Fund and requires the transfer of 15% of the additional special education aid for traditional school districts, joint vocational school districts (JVSDs), community schools, and STEM schools to the Fund. Renames "catastrophic" cost to "exceptional" cost.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
Department of Education Executive Replaces "state share percentage" in the formula to "state share index" to reflect the new funding formula. Pays aid for exceptional costs from the new Fund (under current law these costs are paid through a GRF set aside). Fiscal effect: Effectively pools a portion of additional special education aid to pay these costs. The amount pooled is estimated to be $111.6 million in FY 2014 and $119.5 million in FY 2015. EDUCD83 R.C. Traditional School District Funding 3317.022, 3317.0217, 3317.013, 3317.03, 3317.016, Section 263.240, other various sections R.C.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Same as the Executive for traditional school districts, but retains "state share percentage" for JVSDs (both elements are calculated differently under the House proposal). No provision. In Senate Finance Same as the House.
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No provision.
Fiscal effect: Earmarks $40 million per fiscal year for catastrophic special education costs in GRF appropriation item 200550, Foundation Funding (see EDUCD23).
3317.022, 3317.01, 3317.013, 3317.014, 3317.016, 3317.017, 3317.02, 3317.023, 3317.0217, 3317.051, 3321.01, Section 263.240, other various sections
R.C.
3317.022, 3317.01, 3317.013, 3317.014, 3317.016, 3317.017, 3317.02, 3317.023, 3317.0217, 3317.051, 3321.01, Section 263.240, other various sections
Counts kindergarten students as a true full-time equivalent (FTE) student in average daily membership (ADM), the student count used for the funding formula, instead of counting all kindergarten students as one FTE, regardless of the time spent in school (typically either full or half day).
Same as the Executive, but also (1) requires traditional and joint vocational school districts to certify ADM during the first full school week of each month, rather than only the first full week of October as required under current law, (2) specifies that a district's computed state operating funding be based on the annualized average of monthly ADM counts, (3) prohibits a traditional school district from categorically excluding a student from its reported number of economically disadvantaged students based on anything other than family income (this provision also applies to such reports by JVSDs, community schools, and STEM schools), and (4) permits a school district to charge fees or tuition for a student enrolled in all-day kindergarten only as long as the student is included in the student count reported to ODE as less than one FTE student.
Same as the House, but also eliminates provisions of current law and the bill that exclude any student enrolled in an Internet- or computer-based community school from the ADM of the district's students enrolled in each category of career-technical education programs.
Department of Education Executive Replaces the school funding formula in the Revised Code, which hasn't been used for city, local, and exempted village school districts since FY 2009, with a new formula that computes core foundation funding as the sum of the following: (1) An opportunity grant of {$250,000 - [district's 3-year average valuation /( total ADM + preschool scholarship ADM)]} x 0.02 x (formula ADM + preschool scholarship ADM) (if the result is negative, then "0"); where formula ADM counts only 20% of the JVSD ADM and preschool scholarship ADM counts preschool children participating in the Autism Scholarship Program.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Same as the Executive, but makes the following changes: In Senate Finance
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(1) Replaces the Executive calculation with an opportunity grant equal to formula amount x formula ADM x state share index, where formula amount equals $5,732 in FY 2014 and $5,789 in FY 2015; state share index equals 5% if a district's adjusted valuation index (AVI) is greater than or equal to 1.8, a scaled amount from 5% to 50% if a district's AVI is between 1.8 and 0.9, 50% if a district's AVI is 0.9, a scaled amount from 50% to 90% if a district's AVI is between 0.9 and 0.35, and 90% if AVI is less than or equal to 0.35; AVI is equal to a district's valuation index, unless a district's median income index is less than it's valuation index, in which case AVI is equal to 1/3 the median income index plus 2/3 the valuation index; a district's valuation index is equal to the district's adjusted three-year average valuation in FY 2014 divided by the state average; a district's median income index is equal to the district's median Ohio adjusted gross income divided by the median district's median Ohio adjusted gross income; and a district's adjusted three-year average valuation is equal to the average of total valuation for fiscal years 2012, 2013, and 2014, adjusted for districts with exempt property equal to at least 30% of exempt plus taxable property by subtracting that 30%. (2) Same as the Executive, but target millage equals 0.006 in FY 2015, and a second tier is added, where the second tier equals a percentage of the first tier allocation and the percentage ranges from 40% for a district with agricultural property that is 10% or more of real property to 0% for a district with no agricultural property.
(2) Targeted assistance funds for 490 districts with lowest wealth per pupil, equal to: {[threshold district wealth per pupil district wealth per pupil] x target millage x district wealth index x (formula ADM e-school ADM EdChoice ADM Autism Scholarship ADM), where wealth per pupil is the average of 3-year average valuation and 3-year average income (FAGI) per formula ADM, the threshold district has the 490th lowest wealth per pupil, target millage equals Department of Education
(2) Same as the House, but subtracts Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship Program ADM.
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Department of Education Executive 0.006 in FY 2014 and 0.007 in FY 2015, and the district wealth index equals state wealth per pupil/local wealth per pupil. (3) Special education additional aid equal to the sum of (the ADM in each special education category x an amount for each category) x state share index, where state share index equals {(district valuation index x (maximum district valuation index minimum district valuation index)/0.9} x 0.1, with minimum of 0.05 and a maximum of 0.95, district valuation index equals state 3-year average valuation per total ADM/district 3-year average valuation per total ADM, and the amounts for categories 1-6 are: $1,902; $4,827, $11,596, $15,475, $20,959, $30,896. Transfers 15% of this amount to the Special Education Exceptional Cost Fund (See EDUCD91). (4) Early childhood access funds for districts with an economically disadvantaged index greater than 1.0 and an early childhood access index greater than 0.5, equal to 2 x kindergarten ADM x $600 x early childhood access index, where early childhood access index equals district kindergarten ADM per pre-school/state kindergarten ADM per pre-school and economically disadvantaged index equals district % of total ADM who are economically disadvantaged/state % of total ADM who are economically disadvantaged. (5) Economically disadvantaged funds equal to economically disadvantaged ADM x $500 x economically disadvantaged index. (6) Limited English proficiency (LEP) funds equal to the sum of (ADM for each LEP category x an amount for each LEP category) x state share index, where the amounts for categories 1-4 are $1,500, $1,125, $750, and $375.
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(3) Same as the Executive, but instead of an amount for each category, uses a category weight x 90% x formula amount, and the state share index is the same as that for the opportunity grant (see (1) above), where the 1-6 category weights are: 0.2906, 0.7374, 1.7716, 2.3643, 3.2022, and 4.7205.
(4) Replaces the Executive calculation with a district's kindergarten through third grade ADM x a per pupil amount x state share index, where the per pupil amount is $300 in FY 2014 and $303 in FY 2015.
(5) Same as the Executive, but the index is the square of the Executive calculation and decreases the per pupil amount to $340 in FY 2014 and $343 in FY 2015. (6) Same as the Executive, but does not provide funding for category 4 and increases the amounts by 1% in FY 2015.
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Department of Education Executive (7) Gifted funds equal to $50 x formula ADM.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House (7) Replaces the Executive calculation with a per pupil amount of $5 in FY 2014 and $5.05 in FY 2015 for gifted identification plus unit funding where each district is assigned units based on the district's formula ADM minus it's community school ADM, total units assigned are equal to a unit for every 3,300 students with a minimum of 0.5 and maximum of 8 for gifted coordinators, plus a unit for every 1.100 students with a minimum of 0.3 for gifted intervention specialists, the total number of units is multiplied by $37,000 in FY 2014 and $37,370 in FY 2015. Requires a school district to use the funding it receives for gifted coordinator services or gifted intervention specialist services only for that purpose. Requires a school district to employ qualified personnel to provide gifted coordinator services or gifted intervention specialist services on a full-time equivalency basis that corresponds to the units allocated to the district for that purpose. Permits a school district to assign its gifted unit funding to another school district, an ESC, a community school, or a STEM school. (8) Provides career-technical education funds in the main formula equal to the formula amount x the district's total career-technical education weight x state share index and subjects the payment of these funds to the review and approval of the district's career-technical education program by the lead district of the career-technical planning district (CTPD) to which the district is affiliated (see EDUCD88). Requires a comprehensive single-district CTPD or a school district that is a party to a career-technical educational compact (not JVSDs) to spend at least 75% of careertechnical education funding on costs directly associated with career-technical education programs and not more than 25% on personnel expenditures (an existing rule prescribes these same percentages for these same purposes for the expenditure of career-technical education funds by all types of providers). 12 In Senate Finance (7) Same as the House.
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(8) Same as the House, but, in regard to the 75%-25% spending requirements, eliminates the reference to a comprehensive single-district CTPD or a school district that is a party to a career-technical educational compact so that the requirement applies to any type of provider.
Department of Education Executive (9) No provision. (See EDUCD88)
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House (9) Provides career-technical education associated services funding in the main formula and equal to formula amount x career-technical education ADM x 0.05 x state share index (see EDUCD88). Same as the Executive, but makes the following changes: In Senate Finance (9) Same as the House.
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Makes the following adjustments to core foundation funding to calculate final core funding: (1) Caps funding by limiting it to the minimum of calculated core foundation funding, base x 1.25, or base + (total resources x 0.1), where base for FY 2014 equals FY 2013 state aid - FY 2011 transportation funding - FY 2011 careertechnical additional funding, base for FY 2015 equals FY 2014 final core funding, total resources for FY 2014 equals state aid and tax revenues for FY 2012, and total resources for FY 2015 equals state aid and tax revenues for FY 2013. Requires ODE to reduce a district's payments under components (2) through (7) above proportionately as necessary to implement the cap. (2) Guarantees funding by calculating final core funding as the maximum of the base, the calculated opportunity grant, or the capped aid calculated above.
Same as the House.
(1) Same as the Executive, but (a) limits foundation funding (defined to include the components described above plus pupil transportation funding) in FY 2014 and FY 2015 to 1.06 times the district's FY 2013 state aid and 1.06 times FY 2014 foundation funding, respectively, and (b) requires ODE to proportionally reduce payments for all components except special education additional funding and career-technical education funding to comply with the cap unless those amounts are insufficient, in which case special education additional funding and career-technical education funding are also to be proportionately reduced. (2) Same as the Executive, but (a) specifies that a district's base for both fiscal years is equal to its FY 2013 state aid, which includes pupil transportation and career-technical education funding since those components are included in the main formula under the House proposal, and (b) eliminates the guarantee based on the district's opportunity grant. Same as the Executive.
Modifies the special education categories by including developmentally delayed preschool special education students in category 2. Establishes the LEP categories as follows:
Same as the Executive, but makes the following changes.
Same as the House.
(1) Enrolled in U.S. schools 180 school days or less and not previously exempted from spring English assessments; Department of Education
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Department of Education Executive (2) Enrolled in U.S. schools for more than 180 school days or was previously exempted from spring English assessments; (3) Not in categories 1 or 2, but in a trial-mainstream period;
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House (2) Same as the Executive. In Senate Finance (2) Same as the Executive.
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(4) Not in categories 1-3, but main language spoken at home is not English. Requires districts spend the portion of the opportunity grant calculated for the district's special education ADM plus the additional special education aid paid to the district for approved special education expenses. Eliminates requirements that (a) each school district report data to ODE that allows for monitoring compliance with minimum special education spending requirements and that (b) ODE annually report to the Governor and the General Assembly the amount of money spent by school districts on special education and related services. Modifies the amount credited on an FTE basis to an educating school district pursuant to a shared education contract, compact, or cooperative education agreement from the formula amount + (if applicable) $5,732 x state share percentage x applicable category weight for special education or career-technical education to the per pupil amount of the opportunity grant of the resident district + any applicable amount for special education or career-technical education. Fiscal effect: Appropriates $6.24 billion in FY 2014 and $6.44 billion in FY 2015 for final core funding for traditional school districts.
(4) No provision.
(4) No provision.
Same as the Executive, but revises the calculation to the following: (formula amount x total special education ADM) + (formula amount x the district's total special education weight). Same as the Executive.
Same as the House.
Replaces the Executive provision with a provision that restores current law, except that the categorical component of the credit is calculated as follows: formula amount x the state share index x applicable category weight for special education (educating districts will no longer be credited amounts for career-technical education funding).
Same as the House.
Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive, but increases the amount calculated for final core funding for traditional school districts to $6.61 billion in FY 2014 and to $6.90 billion in FY 2015. Requiring monthly certifications of ADM may lower ADM, resulting in lower amounts of state aid. 14
Department of Education Executive EDUCD84 R.C. Joint Vocational School District Funding 3317.16, 3317.161, Section 263.250 R.C.
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3317.16, Section 263.250
R.C.
3317.16, Section 263.250
Replaces the JVSD school funding formula in the Revised Code, which hasn't been used since FY 2009, with a new formula for core foundation funding that mirrors the formula for traditional school districts (see EDUCD83) with the following modifications: (1) Calculates the opportunity grant as: [$10 million - (JVSD's three-year average valuation / formula ADM)] x 0.0005 x formula ADM (if the result is negative, then "0");
(1) Replaces the Executive calculation with (formula amount x formula ADM) - (0.0005 x three year average property valuation), where formula amount equals $5,732 in FY 2014 and $5,789 in FY 2015 (as under the Executive proposal, if the result is negative, then "0"). (2) No provision.
(2) Calculates targeted assistance funds for the 39 JVSDs with lowest wealth per pupil, as: {[threshold JVSD wealth per pupil JVSD wealth per pupil] x target millage x JVSD wealth index x formula ADM, where the threshold JVSD has the 39th lowest wealth per pupil and target millage equals 0.00025. (3) Provides no early childhood access funds.
(2) No provision.
(4) Calculates special education additional aid, economically disadvantaged funds, LEP funds, and gifted funds as they are calculated for traditional districts. As with traditional districts, transfers 15% of special education additional aid to the Special Education Exceptional Cost Fund (see EDUCD91).
(4) Same as the Executive, but (a) calculates special education additional aid, economically disadvantaged funds, and LEP funds as they are calculated for traditional school districts under the House proposal, (b) provides no gifted funds, (c) calculates the state share of special education additional aid and LEP funds according to the state share percentage, where this percentage equals opportunity grant amount/(formula amount x formula ADM), and (d) eliminates the transfer of 15% to the Exceptional Cost Fund.
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Department of Education Executive (5) No provision. (See EDUCD88)
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House (5) Provides career-technical education funds in the main formula equal to the formula amount x the district's total career-technical education weight x state share percentage and subjects the payment of these funds to the review and approval of the district's career-technical program by the lead district of the career-technical planning district to which the district is affiliated (see EDUCD88). (6) Provides career-technical education associated services funding in the main formula and equal to formula amount x career-technical education ADM x 0.05 x state share percentage (see ECUCD88). Same as the Executive, but makes the same adjustments to core foundation funding to calculate final core funding as are made for traditional districts under the House proposal (see EDUCD83). Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive, but increases the amount calculated for final core funding for JVSDs to $269.2 million in FY 2014 and to $274.9 million in FY 2015. In Senate Finance
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(5) Same as the House, but also requires a JVSD to spend at least 75% of the state career-technical education funding it receives on costs directly associated with career-technical education programs and not more than 25% on personnel expenditures (an existing rule prescribes these same percentages for the expenditure of career-technical education funds by all types of providers). (6) Same as the House.
Makes same adjustments to core foundation funding to calculate final core funding as are made for traditional districts except no cap is made based on total resources and the base for FY 2014 equals FY 2013 state aid - FY 2009 career-technical additional funding. Fiscal effect: Allocates an estimated $204.3 million in FY 2014 and $207.0 million in FY 2015 for final core funding to JVSDs. EDUCD95 R.C.
Same as the House.
Funding for County Boards of Development Disabilities and State Institutions 3317.20, 3317.201, 3317.03 R.C. 3317.20, 3317.03 R.C. 3317.20, 3317.03
Discontinues the practice of counting a portion of students enrolled in county DD board schools in resident district ADM and transferring funding for these students from the resident district to the county board.
Same as the Executive, but also specifies that an existing requirement for a city, local, or exempted village school district to report the number of children, other than preschool children with disabilities, the district placed with a county DD board in fiscal year 1998 does not apply after fiscal year 2013. Replaces the Executive provisions with the same formula for computing payments to county DD boards as exists under current law, except that the formula continues to use the 16
Same as the House.
Replaces the funding formula for K-12 students educated at county boards with a new formula that adds, for each child placed in a DD board's program: Department of Education
Same as the House, but makes a technical correction related to a cross-reference to the calculation of funding for county DD boards providing special education for children
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House resident district's state share index in recognition of the new school funding formula (under the House proposal, the formula amount used to determine these payments increases from $5,653 in FY 2013 to $5,732 in FY 2014 and $5,789 in FY 2015). In Senate Finance
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with disabilities other than preschool children with disabilities.
(1) (Opportunity per pupil amount of child's resident district + special education category amount) x state share index of child's resident district, and (2) Targeted assistance per pupil for the child's resident district. Replaces the funding formula for K-12 students educated at institutions with a new formula that adds: (1) Sum of (ADM in each special education category x the amount specified for each category); and (2) Sum of (targeted assistance per pupil amounts for each student's resident district x the total number of each resident district's students enrolled at the institution. Fiscal effect: Earmarks up to $50 million per year from GRF appropriation item 200540, Special Education Enhancements, to make these payments to county boards and state institutions.
(1) No provision.
(1) No provision.
(2) No provision.
(2) No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
(1) No provision.
(1) No provision.
(2) No provision.
(2) No provision.
Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive, but also requires ODE, if necessary, to proportionately reduce the amounts calculated for each county DD board and state institution for special education and related services so as not to exceed the amount appropriated in each fiscal year.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD56 R.C. 3317.40 Accountability for Subgroups R.C.
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3317.40
R.C.
3317.40
(1) Specifies the General Assembly's intent that state operating funds provided to school districts be used to provide all students the opportunity to master a common knowledge base to graduate from high school prepared for a career or post-secondary education. Requires that districts and schools be held accountable for those funds. (2) Expresses the General Assembly's intent that funds provided for specific subgroups of students be used to allow these students to master the knowledge required for high school graduation. (3) Requires school districts and schools that fail to show "consistent progress," as determined by ODE, for a student subgroup for which funds are allocated (special education, economically disadvantaged, LEP, and gifted) to partner with, and pay these funds to, an organization that has a demonstrated ability to improve the educational outcome of students within that subgroup.
(1) No provision.
(1) No provision.
(2) Replaces the Executive provision with a provision that requires school districts and schools to account for the expenditure of state education funds provided for services to these subgroups of students. (3) Replaces the Executive provision with provisions that (a) require a district or school to submit an improvement plan to ODE if ODE determines that a district or school has not reached satisfactory achievement and progress for a subgroup, (b) permit ODE to require that the plan include partnering with another entity for services to that subgroup, (c) require the State Board of Education to establish measures of satisfactory achievement and progress not later than December 31, 2014, and (d) require ODE to use the measures established by the State Board to determine if a district or school has made satisfactory achievement and progress for certain subgroups by September 1, 2015, and annually thereafter. (4) Same as the Executive.
(4) Requires ODE to publish a list of schools, districts, and providers that have a demonstrated ability to serve each subgroup of students.
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Department of Education Executive Fiscal effect: Potential increase in administrative burden for ODE to determine the specific measures used to determine if sufficient progress is being made. May restrict the use of a portion of state aid for some districts and schools. EDUCD86 R.C. STEM School Funding Formula 3326.33, 3326.31, 3326.32, 3326.34 (repealed and re-enacted), 3326.38, 3326.39 (repealed) R.C.
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Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive, but the State Board Fiscal effect: Same as the House. instead of ODE is tasked with determining the measures.
3326.33, 3326.31, 3326.32, 3326.34, 3326.38, 3326.39 (repealed)
R.C.
3326.33, 3326.31, 3326.32, 3326.34, 3326.38, 3326.39 (repealed and re-enacted)
Replaces the formula used to calculate deductions from school districts and transfers to STEM schools with a formula that is the same as that for community schools (see EDUCD85) except that it does not provide funds for early childhood access.
Replaces the Executive calculations with a formula that is the Same as the House, but also (1) specifies that a STEM same as that for community schools under the House school that receives funds for career-technical education proposal. must spend those funds only for the purposes that ODE designates as approved for career-technical education expenses, and specifies that ODE must require the school to report data annually in order to monitor the school's compliance with this provision (these provisions were present in the As Introduced version of the bill; see EDUCD88) and (2) requires a STEM school to spend at least 75% of the state career-technical education funding it receives on costs directly associated with career-technical education programs and not more than 25% on personnel expenditures (an existing rule prescribes these same percentages for the expenditure of career-technical education funds by all types of providers).
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Department of Education Executive Fiscal effect: Alters the per pupil amount deducted from school district state funding allocations compared to current law, which is based on a formula amount of $5,653 plus additional amounts based on FY 2009 levels for special education, career-technical education, poverty-based assistance, and parity aid. In FY 2012, transfers of state aid to STEM schools (specifically, Greater Dayton Regional STEM) amounted to $2.2 million. EDUCD104 Parental School Transportation Subsidy R.C. No provision.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive. In Senate Finance Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive.
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3327.01, 3327.02, Sections 263.170 and 263.463
R.C.
3327.01, 3327.02, Sections 263.170 and 263.463
Eliminates provisions from current law that provide for a payment in lieu of transportation to a student's parent when a school district board determines it is impractical to transport the student by school vehicle. (Under current law, the payment is no more than the average cost of pupil transportation in the previous year.) If a student meets certain requirements, permits a student's parent, or the student if at least 18 years old, to apply for and receive a transportation subsidy in an amount equal to the lesser of (1) the statewide average cost of pupil transportation for the preceding school year or (2) the average cost of pupil transportation for the previous school year for the student's resident school district. Requires ODE to deduct the amount of each subsidy awarded to a student's parent or student from the state aid account of the student's resident school district. Prescribes that the implementation of the transportation subsidy provisions take effect on July 1, 2014. 20
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Requires ODE to prescribe procedures and deadlines for the application and notice process for parents or students who choose to apply for the transportation subsidy. Fiscal effect: Eliminates a FY 2015 earmark of $5 million for payments in lieu of transportation from GRF appropriation item 200502, Pupil Transportation. Subsidies provided to parents in FY 2015 will be deducted from school districts' state aid. It is likely that more students will qualify for subsidies than qualify for payments in lieu of transportation. In addition, the amount of the subsidies will likely be more than the amount of the payments in lieu of transportation. In Senate Finance Same as the House.
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EDUCD145
Property Tax Levy for School Safety and Security R.C. 5705.21
No provision.
No provision.
Authorizes school districts to levy a property tax exclusively for school safety and security purposes. Requires the levy to comply with the same requirements that apply to general school district levies in excess of the 10-mill limitation. Fiscal effect: Provides a new option for school districts to use in raising local revenues. School districts that opt to put a school safety and security levy on the ballot will incur some election-related costs.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD55 R.C. 3317.52 Straight A Program Section:
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263.325
Section:
263.325
Creates the Straight A Program to provide grants to school districts, JVSDs, ESCs, community schools, STEM schools, individual school buildings, education consortia, institutions of higher education, and private entities for projects that aim to achieve significant advancement in student achievement, spending reduction in the five year fiscal forecast, or utilization of a greater share of resources in the classroom. Creates a seven-member governing board to award the grants. Requires ODE to provide administrative support to the board. Requires the board to select advisors with fiscal and education expertise to evaluate grant proposals. Requires the board to issue an annual report concerning the program.
Same as the Executive, but (1) establishes the program in uncodified law for FYs 2014 and 2015, (2) adds college preparatory boarding schools as entities eligible to apply for the grants, and (3) modifies the goals of the grant program to increased student achievement and progress, improved productivity, and sustainable cost reduction of operations. Same as the Executive, but (1) increases the number of governing board members to eight, (2) specifies that the members serve without compensation, (3) permits, instead of requires, the governing board to select grant advisors, (4) specifies that the grant advisors form an advisory council, (5) requires the the advisors to consult with the board regarding strategic planning, and (6) specifies that no advisor will be compensated for their service. Same as the Executive, but also (1) requires the board to create a grant application and publish on ODE's web site the grant application and the timeline for the submission, review, notification, and awarding of grant proposals, (2) requires ODE, with approval from the board, to establish a system for evaluating and scoring grant applications, (3) specifies certain priorities to be used in awarding the grants, (4) specifies that grants for education consortia cannot exceed $1 million while grants for all other eligible entities cannot exceed $500,000, and (5) specifies that the grants are subject to approval of the Controlling Board. No provision.
Same as the House.
Same as the House.
Specifies the required components for each grant application and agreement as well as procedures and certain criteria to be used by the board in awarding the grants.
Same as the House.
Establishes an advisory committee for the Straight A Fund consisting of up to 21 members to annually review the Straight A Program and provide strategic advice to the governing board and the Governor's Office of 21st Century Department of Education
No provision.
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Department of Education Executive Education. Fiscal effect: The bill appropriates $100 million in FY 2014 and $200 million in FY 2015 from LPE Fund 7017 appropriation item 200648, Straight A Fund, for the grants. May increase ODE's administrative burden to provide support to the program's governing board. EDUCD60 Educational Service Center Funding
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Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive, but reduces appropriations for the grant program to $50 million in FY 2014 and to $100 million in FY 2015.
Sections: 263.360, R.C. 3317.11 (Repealed) Repeals the requirement that ESCs provide supervisory services to client districts, the unit funding provided for those services, and the $6.50 per pupil transfer to the ESC from the client district's state aid.
Sections: 263.360, 263.230, R.C. 3317.11 (Repealed), 3313.843 Same as the Executive.
Sections: 263.360, 263.230, R.C. 3317.11 (Repealed), 3313.843 Same as the Executive, but reinstates the $6.50 per pupil transfer and reinstates current law that permits the board of education of any client school district to pay an amount in excess of $6.50 per student and that specifies, if a majority of a service center's districts approve the higher amount, ODE must deduct the approved excess from all of the service center's client school districts. Same as the House.
Repeals the per pupil state payment for ESCs of $37.00 or $40.52.
Same as the Executive, but includes a temporary law provision that sets the per pupil state payment amounts for ESCs at $37.00 per pupil in FY 2014 and $35.00 per pupil in FY 2015. Replaces the Executive provision with a provision that provides for a per pupil payment (see above) and, if necessary, prorates the per pupil payments to fit the earmark for state reimbursement of ESCs. Specifies that the student count for purposes of calculating any state subsidy to be paid to an ESC for services provided to a school district is the sum of the average daily student enrollments reported on the most recent report cards issued by ODE for all of the school districts with agreements with the ESC. 23
Specifies that state funding for ESCs in FY 2014 is 77.5% of the funding provided in FY 2013 and that funding in FY 2015 is 72.3% of the funding provided in FY 2014. No provision.
Same as the House.
Same as the House.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Requires the governing board of any ESC that has received all moneys owed to it by a school district on the effective date of the termination of the district's agreement for services with the ESC to submit an affidavit certifying that fact not later than 15 days after the termination's effective date. Prohibits ODE from making any payments to any other ESCs with which the district enters into an agreement for services that the ESC provides to the district until ODE receives the affidavit. States that an ESC may apply for federal, state, and private grants. Requires each ESC, not later than January 1, 2014, to post on its web site a list of all of the services that it provides and the corresponding cost for each of those services. Requires ODE to ensure that, when a district enters into an agreement with a new ESC, the state subsidy for services provided to the school district is paid to the new ESC rather than the prior one. Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive, but increases the earmark for ESC funding to $43.5 million in FY 2014 and $40.0 million in FY 2015, in addition to a $3.8 million earmark for ESC gifted funding (see EDUCD23). May increase ESCs' administrative burden for posting services and corresponding costs to their web sites. In Senate Finance Same as the House.
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No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
Fiscal effect: Limits funding of ESCs by school districts to contractual agreements entered into between ESC governing boards and client districts. The bill earmarks $27.5 million in FY 2014 and $20.0 million in FY 2015 for state funding of ESCs.
Fiscal effect: Same as the House, but expands funding of ESCs to include the $6.50 per pupil deduction under current law, thereby increasing deductions from school districts and revenues to ESCs.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD40 Section: 263.410
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Foundation and Transitional Aid Funding Reimbursement Section: 263.410 Section: 263.410 In Senate Finance
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Specifies that no school district for which a reduction was made in its reported formula ADM for FY 2005 based on community school enrollment reports and, accordingly, for which a reduction was made in its foundation or transitional aid funding for FY 2005, FY 2006, or FY 2007, has a legal right to reimbursement for that reduction in funding except as expressly provided in a final court judgment or a settlement agreement executed on or before June 1, 2009. Fiscal effect: None. EDUCD127 Study on Funding for Gifted Students
Section: No provision.
263.433
Section:
263.433
Requires ODE to conduct a study to determine the amounts of funding, method of funding, and the costs of statewide support for gifted students, including costs for effective and appropriate identification, staffing, professional development, technology, materials and supplies at the district level. Requires ODE to issue a report of its findings to the General Assembly not later than March 31, 2014. Fiscal effect: Possible increase in administrative costs for ODE to conduct the study.
Same as the House.
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Department of Education Executive School Choice Programs EDUCD135 Physical Education Exemption for E-schools
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R.C. No provision. No provision.
3302.032, 3313.603, 3313.6016
Exempts students enrolled in e-schools from the physical education requirement to graduate from high school. Specifies that students that are enrolled in e-schools not be included in the measure established by the State Board of Education to gauge certain physical education and wellness activities. Exempts students that are enrolled in e-schools from the requirements for students currently attending districts or schools that chose to participate in the physical activity pilot project. Fiscal effect: None.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
EDUCD64 R.C.
EdChoice Eligibility 3310.03, 3310.02 R.C. 3310.03, 3310.02 R.C. 3310.03, 3310.02
Beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, qualifies for the EdChoice scholarship students in kindergarten through third grade who are enrolled in a district-operated school that has received a grade of "D" or "F" in "making progress in improving K-3 literacy" in two of the three most recent state report cards and has not received an "A" in "making progress in improving K-3 literacy" in the most recent report card issued prior to the first day of July of the school year for which the scholarship is sought. No provision.
No provision.
Qualifies for an EdChoice scholarship a student who will be enrolling in school in Ohio for the first time and would be 26
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assigned to a qualifying school, regardless of grade level. Fiscal effect: May qualify more students for EdChoice. If the expansion attracts incoming kindergarten students who would have attended nonpublic schools using private funds without the scholarship, statewide enrollment may increase, thereby increasing costs to the state. If more scholarships are awarded, deductions from school districts will increase to fund the scholarships. Districts may also experience a decrease in expenditures due to educating fewer students. EDUCD65 R.C. Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive. Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive, but may further increase the number of scholarship applicants.
EdChoice Expansion (Low-Income Students) 3310.032, Section 263.320 R.C. 3310.032, 3310.035, Section 263.320 R.C. 3310.032, 3310.035, Section 263.320
Beginning with the 2013-2014 school year, expands the EdChoice scholarship program to qualify students with family incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines, regardless of the academic rating of the school they otherwise would attend. Specifies that scholarships for students from low-income families are to be funded through an appropriation made by the General Assembly, rather than through deductions from their resident school districts' state education aid. Limits the number of scholarships awarded to students from low-income families to the amount appropriated for that purpose. Phases in this EdChoice expansion by qualifying only kindergartners for the scholarship in the 2013-2014 school year, with the next grade higher added in each subsequent year.
Same as the Executive, but specifies that scholarships are available through the appropriation only for students from low-income families who do not already qualify for EdChoice based on the performance of the student's public school. Same as the Executive.
Same as the House.
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Department of Education Executive Prioritizes the awarding of scholarships if applications exceed the number of scholarships that can be funded by the appropriation, as follows: (1) First, to students who received scholarships in the previous year; (2) Second, to students with family incomes at or below 100% of the federal poverty guidelines; (3) Third, to students with family incomes between 100% and 200% of the federal poverty guidelines. Qualifies a scholarship recipient under the new income criteria for scholarships in subsequent school years, through grade 12, even if the student's family income exceeds 200% of the federal poverty guidelines. No provision.
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Specifies that if a student is eligible for the EdChoice scholarship based on the student's public school performance and the bill's new EdChoice scholarship expansion based solely on family income, the student, applying for the scholarship for the first time, must receive the scholarship based on public school performance and not family income. Specifies that once a student receives an EdChoice scholarship, the student will continue to receive the scholarship under the provision for which the student received the scholarship in the previous year.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
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Department of Education Executive Fiscal effect: The bill appropriates $8.5 million in FY 2014 and $17.0 million in FY 2015 in LPE Fund 7017, appropriation item 200666, EdChoice Expansion, to finance the scholarships. Assuming every student uses the maximum scholarship amount ($4,250 for grades K8; $5,000 for grades 9-12), there will be 2,000 scholarships available in FY 2014 and 4,000 scholarships available in FY 2015. Districts may realize a decrease in expenditures due to educating fewer students. EDUCD108 Cleveland Scholarship Maximum Amount R.C. No provision.
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3313.978
R.C.
3313.978
Increases from $5,000 to $5,700 the maximum scholarship amount awarded to students in grades 9 through 12 under the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program (CSTP). Fiscal effect: As a result of the higher scholarship amount, the number of scholarships available may decrease. Scholarships are funded through two earmarks in GRF appropriation item 200550, Foundation Funding; one uses funds deducted directly from the Cleveland Municipal School District's state foundation aid (about $11.9 million in each fiscal year) and the other (about $18.7 million in each fiscal year) may be used for any school choice program. Spending on CSTP has historically exceeded the $11.9 million earmark taken from the district. Funding for CSTP, along with other school choice programs, will likely depend on how spending is allocated within the earmark for school choice programs.
Same as the House.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD76 R.C. Dual Enrollment/Advanced Standing 3313.6013, 3328.24 R.C.
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3313.6013, 3328.24
R.C.
3313.6013, 3328.24
Renames "dual-enrollment program" as "advanced standing program." Adds college-preparatory boarding schools to the public schools required to offer an advanced standing program. Modifies programs that qualify as advanced standing to specifically include the International Baccalaureate Program. Eliminates from the list of advanced standing programs any similar program established under an agreement between a district or chartered nonpublic high school and an institution of higher education. No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
Specifies that early college high schools are a type of dual enrollment program. Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive.
Same as the House.
Fiscal effect: None.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD59 R.C. 3314.015 Oversight of Community Schools R.C.
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3314.015, 3314.029, 3314.072
R.C.
3314.015, 3314.029, 3314.072, 3314.027
Permits ODE, if a community school sponsor is found not to be compliant with applicable laws and administrative rules, to require the sponsor to remedy the reasons why it was noncompliant and to place temporary limits on the breadth and scope of the sponsor's authority until the sponsor remedies its noncompliance, in lieu of revoking a sponsor's authority to sponsor.
Same as the Executive, but permits ODE to place the sponsor on probationary status and prohibit its ability to sponsor additional schools if the sponsor does not implement a plan to remedy its noncompliance.
Same as the House, but also requires ODE to approve or disapprove the compliance plan of the sponsor and creates a process by which a sponsor, upon receiving notification of disapproval of a compliance plan, may submit a revised plan to ODE for approval. Specifies that ODE must declare in written notice to the sponsor that the sponsor is in probationary status if the sponsor does not receive approval of a compliance plan by the 60th day after the sponsor received notification of noncompliance from ODE. Same as the House.
No provision.
Requires a probationary sponsor to provide evidence of its compliance with applicable laws and administrative rules in order for its probationary status to be lifted by ODE. Specifies that ODE's authority to approve, disapprove, or revoke the approval of an entity's sponsorship applies to both start-up community schools and conversion community schools. Authorizes ODE to deny an application submitted under the Ohio School Sponsorship Program by an existing community school, if the school's contract with its sponsor was terminated, not just if the contract is not renewed as under current law. No provision.
No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Specifies that the initial term under agreement between ODE and a community school sponsor runs for up to seven years. Requires ODE to add one year to the agreement term for every year that the sponsor either (1) prior to January 1, 2015, is not ranked in the bottom 20% of sponsors statewide according to composite performance index score, or (2) on and after January 1, 2015, is rated as "exemplary" or 31
No provision.
No provision.
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"effective" under the new sponsor rating system, and in either case continues to meet all the statutory requirements pertaining to community school sponsors. Fiscal effect: If ODE revokes a sponsor's authority, it takes over temporary sponsorship of the sponsor's schools, so this provision may decrease ODE's sponsorship duties if sponsors are able to come into compliance before having sponsorship authority revoked. EDUCD117 Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive. Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive, but may minimally increase ODE's administrative burden.
Dropout Prevention and Recovery Community Schools R.C. 3314.017 R.C. 3314.017
No provision.
Includes the rating of "exceeds standards," in addition to "meets standards" under current law, as a rating a community school that primarily serves students enrolled in a dropout prevention and recovery program can attain if the program improves by 10% both its graduation rates and percentage of twelfth-grade students and other students passing the graduation assessments. Requires the State Board of Education, not later than December 31, 2014, to review the performance levels and benchmarks for report cards issued for dropout recovery community schools. Fiscal effect: Possible administrative burden for the State Board of Education to review report card criteria.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD114
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Licensing Requirements for Physical Education Instructors at Community Schools R.C. 3314.03 No provision. In Senate Finance
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No provision.
Removes a provision of current law that requires any classroom teacher initially hired by a community school after July 1, 2013 to provide physical education instruction, to hold a valid license from the State Board of Education for teaching physical education. Fiscal effect: None. Community School Operating in Multiple Facilities R.C. 3314.05
EDUCD107
R.C.
3314.05
No provision.
Removes from a list of requirements that community schools must meet to operate in multiple facilities that their contracts were filed by May 15, 2008, and they were not open prior to July 1, 2008. Fiscal effect: None. Tuition for Out-of-State Community School Students R.C. 3314.06, 3314.08
Same as the House.
EDUCD129
R.C.
3314.06, 3314.08
No provision.
Permits a community school to charge tuition for the enrollment of any student who is not an Ohio resident. Specifies that the current law prohibition on charging tuition for enrollment in a community school applies to the enrollment of students who are Ohio residents. Prohibits the governing authority of a community school from including any student for whom tuition is charged in its annual report of enrolled students, which is used to calculate 33
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House state education aid deductions from school districts and payments to the community school. In Senate Finance
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No provision.
Provides that admission to a community school may be open on a tuition basis to any individual age five to twenty-two who is not an Ohio resident, subject to other enrollment restrictions that a community school may establish under current law. Fiscal effect: Community schools that enroll and charge tuition to out-of-state students will experience increased revenues.
Same as the House.
EDUCD118
Community School Contracts R.C. 3314.072 R.C. 3314.072, 3314.027
No provision.
Specifies that a community school's contract that has been suspended is void, if the school's governing authority fails to provide a proposal to remedy issues for which the school's contract was suspended by September 30. No provision.
Same as the House, but clarifies that this provision begins with the 2013-2014 school year.
No provision.
Specifies that, if a community school sponsor has suspended the operation of a school prior to the bill's effective date, the contract with the sponsor is void if the school's governing authority fails to provide by September 30, 2014, a proposal to remedy issues for which the school's contract was suspended. Clarifies that community school sponsors not subject to approval by ODE may continue to sponsor community schools and enter into new contracts to sponsor community schools as long as the contracts conform with current community school laws. Fiscal effect: None.
No provision.
No provision.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD81 R.C. 3314.074 Equipment Return R.C.
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3314.074
R.C.
3314.074
Requires any closing community school that has received hardware or software from the former Ohio SchoolNet or eTech to turn over the equipment to ODE, rather than eTech. Fiscal effect: None. EDUCD115
Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive. Community Schools and Vocational Education R.C. 3314.086
R.C.
3314.086
No provision.
Specifically authorizes community schools, including eschools, to provide career-technical education in the same manner as school districts. Fiscal effect: E-schools will receive additional funding for students participating in career-technical education (see EDUCD88).
Same as the House.
EDUCD119
Community School Transportation R.C. 3314.091 R.C. 3314.091
No provision.
Allows a new community school, beginning with the 20142015 school year, to accept responsibility for providing or arranging for the transportation of the district's native students before it is open for its first year of operation. Requires community schools that are scheduled to open in the 2014-2015 school year and each school year thereafter, to notify districts of the assumption of responsibility to transport students not later than April 15 of the previous school year. 35
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Requires the community school to follow current law once the school has been open for one year for renewing or relinquishing transportation responsibility. Fiscal effect: Generally, a school district is responsible for transporting students to community schools. If a community school accepts this responsibility, state transportation funding may be transferred to the school. In Senate Finance Same as the House.
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EDUCD122
Division of Existing E-Schools into Separate Schools R.C. 3314.29 R.C. 3314.29
No provision.
Allows an Internet- or computer-based community school (eschool) that is in operation on the bill's effective date and that serves at least grades one through eight to divide into two schools by grade level, as long as the school's sponsor approves the division and the school exercises that option during the 2013-2014 or 2014-2015 school year.
Same as the House, but requires the following additional qualifications for an e-school to divide into two schools: (1) for a school that wishes to divide in the 2013-2014 school year, the original school must have been rated in continuous improvement or higher on the report card for the 2011-2012 school year and received a "C" or higher for its performance index score on the report card for the 2012-2013 school year, and (2) for a school that wishes to separate in the 2014-2015 school year, the original school must have received a "C" or higher for its performance index score on the report cards for the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 school years. Same as the House.
No provision.
Specifies that the authority to operate as two schools continues through the life of the schools. Specifies that a school created by a division of an existing eschool, under the amendment, does not count toward the annual cap on new e-schools prescribed by current law. (That law permits up to five new e-schools each year.) No provision.
No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
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Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Fiscal effect: None. In Senate Finance Fiscal effect: None.
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EDUCD134
Community School Closure R.C. 3314.35
No provision.
No provision.
Specifies that in order to trigger permanent closure of a community school after July 1, 2013, a school that offers any of grades 4 to 8 and does not offer a grade higher than grade 9, in at least two of the three most recent school years, must have been both, (1) in a state of academic emergency and (2) showed less than one standard year of academic growth in either reading or mathematics, as determined by ODE. (Both criteria apply for such schools before July 1, 2013. Current law requires only that such schools be in academic emergency for 2 of the last 3 years to trigger permanent closure after July 1, 2013.) Fiscal effect: May be more difficult to close community schools after July 1, 2013 (compared with current law after that date).
EDUCD139
Re-Testing of Teachers in Schools Primarily Comprised of Students with Disabilities R.C. 3319.58
No provision.
No provision.
Exempts a community school primarily comprised of students with disabilities from the current law requirement that each teacher teaching a core subject area in a school ranked in the lowest 10% of all public school buildings according to performance index score, take all written examinations of content knowledge selected by ODE. Fiscal effect: None.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD138 STEM School Personnel
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3326.07, 3326.08
Expressly permits a STEM school to contract for any services necessary for the operation of the school. Specifies that the governing body of each STEM school must "engage the services of" administrative officers, teachers, and nonteaching employees, instead of "employ and fix the compensation" of such individuals as under current law. Specifies that the governing body of each STEM school must "engage the services of" a chief administrative officer, instead of "employ" such an individual as under current law. Fiscal effect: May provide STEM schools with more flexibility in allocating resources.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
EDUCD38 Section: 263.390
Community School Operation from Residential Facilities Section: 263.390 Section: 263.390
Permits a community school that was open for operation as of May 1, 2005, to operate from certain homes, institutions, foster homes, group homes, or other residential facilities. Fiscal effect: None. EDUCD41 Section: 263.420 Unauditable Community Schools
Section:
263.420
Section:
263.420
Prescribes procedures for the Auditor of State, community school sponsors, and ODE, with regard to community schools that are declared unauditable. Department of Education
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Department of Education Executive Fiscal effect: None. Continues current law. EDUCD43 Section: 263.440
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Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship Program Evaluation Section: 263.440 Section: 263.440
Requires ODE to conduct an evaluation of the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship Program by December 31, 2014. Requires the study to include an assessment of the level of student and parent satisfaction with the program and the fiscal impact to the state and resident school districts affected by the program. Requires ODE to gather comments from parents, school officials, representatives of registered private providers, educators, and representatives of educational organizations for the purposes of the study. Permits ODE to contract with qualified researchers who have previous experience evaluating school choice programs and permits ODE to accept grants for funding the study. Fiscal effect: None, continues a requirement established under current law. Other Education Provisions EDUCD71 R.C. Detention and Juvenile Facilities 2151.362, 3313.64, 3317.30
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
Fiscal effect: May reduce costs related to conducting the Fiscal effect: Same as the House. evaluation.
R.C.
2151.362, 3313.64, 3317.30
R.C.
2151.362, 3313.64, 3317.30
Prescribes that a county or joint-county juvenile or detention facility that cares for a child is responsible for coordinating the education of that child and provides that the facility, under certain circumstances, may provide the child with inhouse education. Department of Education
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Department of Education Executive Permits a juvenile or detention facility to contract with an ESC or the school district in which the facility is located to provide education to a child in the facility's care. No provision.
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Permits a student who is placed in a detention or juvenile facility who is also enrolled in an internet- or computer-based school (e-school) to continue receiving instruction from the eschool. Specifies that the payment for educating an e-school student in such a facility is limited to the amount of the payment to the e-school from the child's resident district. Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive.
Same as the House.
Fiscal effect: Detention and juvenile facilities may incur costs for coordinating the education of a child. However, the bill retains law requiring that the child's school district, as determined by the court or ODE, pay the cost of educating the child. EDUCD57 R.C.
Financial Reporting Requirements for Schools 3301.07, 3314.042, 3317.01, 3326.112, 3328.27 R.C. 3301.07, 3314.042, 3317.01, 3326.112, 3328.27 R.C. 3301.07, 3314.042, 3317.01, 3326.112, 3328.27
Modifies a provision requiring the State Board of Education to develop standards for financial reporting by school districts and educational service centers to also include community schools, STEM schools, and college-preparatory boarding schools. Requires that the State Board develop a format for financial reporting standards to include, both at the school district and at the school building level, revenue by source and expenditures separated by classroom and nonclassroom purposes, in the aggregate and for categories of students for which particular state and federal funds are paid. (The current provision requires that financial information be provided at either the school district or the school building level, but not both, and also requires that expenditures be Department of Education
Same as the Executive, but restores current law requiring that the State Board develop financial reporting standards for the following categories: (1) expenditures for salaries, wages, and benefits of employees, showing such amounts separately for (a) classroom teachers, (b) other employees required to hold licenses issued by the State Board, and (c) all other employees; (2) expenditures other than for personnel, by category, including utilities, textbooks and other educational materials, equipment, permanent 40
Same as the House.
Department of Education Executive separated into a greater number of more specific categories for reporting purposes.) Requires public school and district governing bodies to report annually to ODE all financial information required by the standards for financial reporting. Requires ODE to post these financial reports in a prominent location on its web site and to notify each school when the reports are made available. Requires currently-required ODE certifications to school district treasurers of the various amounts payable to school districts under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code to also include the amount payable to each school building, at a frequency determined by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for certain categories of students receiving services, provided for by state funding, from the district or school. Fiscal effect: Potential increase in administrative burden for the State Board and public schools and districts to comply with the new reporting requirements.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House improvements, pupil transportation, extracurricular athletics, and other extracurricular activities; and (3) per pupil expenditures. Same as the Executive. Same as the Executive. In Senate Finance
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD62 R.C.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House School District and Building Operating Standards In Senate Finance
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3301.07, Section 263.460
R.C.
3301.07
R.C.
3301.07
Makes changes to the requirements for minimum operating standards for all elementary and secondary schools, including the (a) removal of language regarding assignment of personnel "according to training and qualifications," (b) removal of instructional materials standards, (c) removal of policy statements, (d) addition of standards for promotion and graduation based on mastery and competency-based learning models, (e) addition of staff assignment standards based on an "appropriate level of interaction to meet each student's personal learning goals." Removes a requirement that instructional materials standards be aligned with academic content standards. Removes descriptive language of permissive school standards for school districts and buildings.
Same as the Executive, but (1) adds that the minimum standards should provide access to a high quality education "according to the learning needs of each individual, including students with disabilities, economically disadvantaged students, limited English proficient students, and students identified as gifted" and (2) restores current law in regard to items (a), (b), and (c).
Same as the House.
Same as the Executive, but clarifies existing law with respect to the permissive standards including a commitment to high expectations and a commitment to closing the achievement gap so that the expectations are based on the learning needs of each individual, including students with disabilities, economically disadvantaged students, limited English proficient students, and students identified as gifted and that the commitment to closing the achievement gap must not suppress the achievement levels of higher achieving students. No provision.
Same as the House.
Removes the required use of phonics as a technique for teaching reading in grades kindergarten through three and in in-service training. Requires the State Board of Education to review and revise school operating standards by December 31, 2013 such that the standards are limited to the requirements to ensure the health and safety of students and to ensure each student Department of Education
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
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Department of Education Executive has mastered a common knowledge base in order to graduate from high school. Requires, as much as possible, that the State Board provide schools with flexibility in meeting the revised operating standards. Fiscal effect: Possible increase in ODE's administrative burden to evaluate and revise school district and building operating standards, which were last updated in January 2011. May provide school districts with additional flexibility to deliver instructional programs. EDUCD51 R.C. Kindergarten Readiness Assessments 3301.0715 R.C.
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Fiscal effect: Minimal.
3301.0715
R.C.
3301.0715
Modifies the timeline for administering kindergarten readiness assessments, beginning July 1, 2014, to not earlier than the first day of the school year and not later than November 1 (except for the language and reading skills portions of the assessment, which still must be administered by September 30 pursuant to requirements associated with the third grade reading guarantee), from not earlier than four weeks prior to the first day of the school year and not later than October 1, as under current law. Fiscal effect: Provides an extended time frame, once the school year begins, for administration of a new expanded kindergarten readiness assessment that will begin to be administered in the 2014-2015 school year and provides public districts and schools the option of using the language and literacy portion of the expanded assessment to meet two assessment requirements in current law, rather than having to administer two separate assessments.
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Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Extended Programming for Career-Technical Education Students R.C. In Senate Finance
H. B. 59
3301.0725, 3313.6018, 3313.6019, 3319.0811, 3319.0812
No provision.
No provision.
Requires that extended programming for career-technical education students offered by school districts be used for activities that involve direct contact with students, or are directly related to student programs and activities and be provided for at least one hour on any given day that it is provided. Provides that extended programming funds may be used for teacher professional development activities. Permits a school district to employ certificated instructional personnel for hours outside of the normal school day (rather than for more days during a school year than the district normally employs its regular classroom teachers as provided in current law). Requires that a school district board pay each licensed educator providing extended programming on an hourly basis at the regular per diem rate determined under the educator's employment contract or collective bargaining agreement and the educator not provide more than eight hours of extended programming in a twenty-four hour day. Requires ODE to issue a report, not later than December 31, 2013, with recommendations for quality agricultural education programs based on certain specified standards. Permits ODE to periodically review and update the report as it considers necessary. Requires all agricultural education instructors to utilize a three-part model of agricultural education instruction focusing on classroom instruction, FFA activities, and extended programming projects. Requires agricultural education instructors to submit a monthly time log to the 44
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
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principal of the school at which the extended programming is offered, or the principal's designee, for review. Fiscal effect: Minimal. EDUCD106 Preparing Students for Education Success R.C. No provision. 3301.80 No provision.
Establishes the Preparing Students for Education Success Grant program. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to award grants to nonprofit charitable corporations that meet certain requirements. Specifies that grant recipients must plan to use the funds to establish new after-school programs that serve youth and generally aim to improve educational outcomes. Fiscal effect: Funds are not appropriated for the grant program.
EDUCD120
No Child Left Behind Waiver Approval R.C. 3302.01, 3302.043 (repealed) R.C. 3302.01, 3302.043 (repealed)
No provision.
Repeals a provision that permitted implementation of changes in the No Child Left Behind waiver application once the application is approved by the U.S. Department of Education (the application has been approved and the changes have been implemented). Modifies the Revised Code definition of the No Child Left Behind Act to include any waiver approved by the U.S. Department of Education. Fiscal effect: None.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD121 Report Card Rating System Benchmarks R.C. No provision.
H. B. 59
3302.03
R.C.
3302.03
Specifies that the State Board of Education, beginning with the 2015-2016 school year and at least once every three years thereafter, must review and may adjust the benchmarks for assigning letter grades to the 18 performance measures and six components that comprise the composition of the report cards for school districts and schools. Fiscal effect: Possible increase in administrative burden for the State Board to perform the periodic reviews.
Same as the House.
EDUCD58 R.C. 3302.042
Parent Triggered Reforms for Low Performing Schools
Modifies the parent triggered reform mechanism, established under the Columbus City School District Pilot Project, to become a permanent provision applicable to any school of a city, exempted village, or local school district in the state (the provision allows the parents of students enrolled in a school to petition for school reforms if that school has been ranked in the lowest 5% of all public schools by performance index score for three or more consecutive years). Eliminates the requirement that ODE annually report its recommendations to the General Assembly on the expansion of the Columbus City School District Pilot Project to other school districts in the state or to apply the project as a statewide program (ODE is still required to annually evaluate the parent triggered reform mechanism and to annually report its recommendations on the continuation of this mechanism to the General Assembly). Department of Education
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
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Department of Education Executive Fiscal effect: Implementation of one of the reform plans specified under current law would likely increase administrative costs for the affected school district. No school would be eligible for the reform mechanism until after the 2013-2014 school year, as the mechanism requires at least three years of performance index score data. EDUCD141 School Operating Expenditure Rankings
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3302.20, 3302.21
In regard to the current statutory system for ranking school districts, community schools, and STEM schools by operating expenditures, adds a definition prescribing that "operating expenditures per pupil" has the same meaning as "expenditure per equivalent pupils," as prescribed by the bill for other performance measure reporting purposes (see EDUCD63). Fiscal effect: None.
EDUCD50 R.C. 3302.22
Governors Effective and Efficient Schools Recognition Program R.C. 3302.22 R.C. 3302.22
Modifies the Governor's Effective and Efficient Schools Recognition Program to allow the standards for recognition to vary based on types of public schools. Specifies that the standards established by ODE to determine the top schools must be made in consultation with the Governor's Office for 21st Century Education. Fiscal effect: None.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD63 R.C. 3302.26 Performance Management Information R.C.
H. B. 59
3302.26
R.C.
3302.26
Requires ODE to create a performance management section on its website that includes academic and performance metrics for each school district, based on performance index score and the expenditure per equivalent pupils, and graphs with comparisons of the performance of like districts. Permits ODE to contract with an independent organization to develop and host the performance management section of its website. Fiscal effect: Likely minimal. According to ODE, this work will be considered an extension of current projects associated with the revised report card system. Much of the information needed for the web site is already available to ODE or is in development. EDUCD61 R.C.
Educational Service Center Definition and Governing Boards 3311.05, 3311.051, 3311.053, 3311.0510, 3313.01, 3313.11, 3313.35, 3513.04, 3513.041, 3513.052, 3513.10, 3513.251, 3513.253, 3513.254, 3513.256, 3513,257, 3513.261, Repealed: 3311.054, 3311.056, 3311.057, 3513.255 No provision. No provision.
Removes the current law definition of an educational service center (ESC) based on the territorial lines of the local school districts served by the ESC and, instead, defines an ESC as a regional public entity that provides services to public and nonpublic schools and local governments with whom they enter into an agreement for those services.
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Department of Education Executive Defines "client" as any local government; local, city, or exempted village school district; STEM school; community school; or chartered nonpublic school that receives services from an ESC. Eliminates all future elections for governing board members of ESCs, but permits elected members serving unexpired terms on the bill's effective date to continue to serve until their terms expire. Requires that the governing board of an ESC consist of one or more persons who are appointed by the governing authority of the clients that receive services from the ESC. Prescribes that representation on an ESC board for every client that receives services from the ESC is not required. Fiscal effect: Possible decrease in administrative costs related to elections. EDUCD74 R.C. School Districts and Educational Service Centers 3311.19, 3313.60, 3313.82, 3315.06, 3315.07, 3315.33, 3317.03, 3317.14, 3321.04, 3321.133321.15, 3327.02, 3327.10 No provision.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House No provision. In Senate Finance No provision.
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No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
Removes references to differentiated treatment by educational service centers (ESCs) to client districts and makes the following changes regarding the relationship between school districts and ESCs: (1) Requires each local school district board to prescribe a curriculum for all schools under its control, and removes this requirement for ESCs with respect to local districts. (2) Removes a requirement that each ESC annually certify the ADM of students receiving services from schools under the ESC superintendent's supervision. Department of Education
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
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Department of Education Executive (3) Permits a local district superintendent to excuse a child that resides in the district from attendance for any part of the remainder of the current school year upon satisfying conditions specified in law and in accordance with district board and State Board rules, and removes this authority for an ESC superintendent acting on behalf of a local district. (4) Requires the superintendent of a local district in which a child withdraws from school to immediately receive notice of the withdrawal from the child's teacher, and removes this requirement as it applies to ESC superintendents acting on behalf of local districts. (5) Permits a city or exempted village district board to obtain services from an ESC attendance officer instead of employing its own attendance officer. (6) Permits, rather than requires, every ESC governing board to employ an ESC attendance officer, and requires an ESC to make the decision regarding employment of an attendance officer based on consultation with the districts that have agreements with the ESC. (7) Removes a requirement that a local district board submit a copy of a resolution declaring the impracticality of transportation for certain students to an ESC for its concurrence. (8) Permits a local district to provide an instructional program for the employees of the district, in the same manner as currently authorized for city and exempted village districts. (9) Specifies that any school district board that has an agreement with an ESC to receive services may authorize the ESC to purchase or accept upon donation supplies and equipment for the district. (Current law specifies that a city or exempted village district may make this authorization, subject to approval by the ESC, and a local district may make this authorization without any approval from the ESC.) Department of Education
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No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
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Department of Education Executive (10) Permits the superintendent of a local district to certify the qualifications of the school bus drivers employed or contracted by the district. (11) Requires a local district board to appoint a business advisory council unless the district and an ESC have an agreement providing that the ESC's business advisory council will represent the district's business. (12) Applies the above exception to the requirement to appoint a business advisory council to city and exempted village districts, which are already required to appoint a council under existing law. (13) With respect to an ESC that has members of its governing board serving on a JVSD board, does both of the following: (a) Provides that the ESC may request that one or more board members of city, exempted village, and local districts within the JVSD that have agreements with the ESC, rather than only members of local district boards within the JVSD that are also within the territory of the ESC's territory, serve in place of or in addition to its board members; (b) Provides that a majority of all of the district boards within the JVSD that have agreements with the ESC must approve revisions to a JVSD's plan regarding the JVSD's board membership, rather than a majority of the local districts within the JVSD that are within the territory of the ESC's service district. (14) Provides that each ESC governing board may call and pay the expenses of conducting a meeting of the members of all district boards served by the ESC, rather than only the members of all local district boards within the ESC's territory. (15) Permits ESCs to appoint a high school principal or classroom teacher from a local district to the committee for selecting and recommending high school graduates for the Department of Education
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No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
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Department of Education Executive Ohio Scholarship Fund for Teacher Trainees. (Current law allows only principals and teachers from exempted village and city districts to serve on the committee.) Fiscal effect: Possible increase in administrative costs for local district boards for prescribing curricula and appointing business advisory councils. May reduce ESCs' administrative burden. Potential increase in flexibility for ESCs and city and exempted village district boards in allocating resources. EDUCD146 JVSD Board of Education
H. B. 59
3311.19, 3313.911
Replaces the current method of appointing members of a JVSD board of education with a system where the school districts that belong to a JVSD each appoint one member to a JVSD board. Specifies that the appointed individuals may not be members of the appointing board. Requires the appointing board to select members who represent regional employers and who are qualified to consider a region's workforce needs. Limits a JVSD board to the number of member school districts. Specifies that a term of office for a JVSD board member be three years and limits members to two consecutive terms. Specifies that no more than three members of the board be affiliated with or a member of a labor organization. Requires two members of the board to be selected based on their experience in career development and career counseling for grades K-12 and career counseling for adult 52
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House In Senate Finance education. Fiscal effect: None.
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EDUCD147
Cleveland Transformation Alliance R.C. 3311.86
No provision.
No provision.
Authorizes the board of directors of a municipal school district (Cleveland) transformation alliance to hold an executive session, as if it were a public body with public employees, for any of the reasons for which an executive session may be held under the Open Meetings Act. Fiscal effect: None.
EDUCD72 R.C.
Minimum School Year 3313.48, 3313.481, 3313.482, 3313.533, 3313.62, 3313.88, 3314.092, 3317.01, 3317.03, 3321.05, 3326.11, Sections 733.10, 803.50 R.C. 3313.48, 3313.481, 3313.482, 3313.533, 3313.62, 3313.88, 3314.092, 3317.01, 3317.03, 3321.05, 3326.11, 3327.01, Sections 733.10, 803.50 R.C. 3313.48, 3313.481, 3313.482, 3313.533, 3313.62, 3313.88, 3314.092, 3317.01, 3317.03, 3321.05, 3326.11, 3327.01, Sections 733.10, 803.50
Changes, beginning with school year 2014-2015, the minimum school year for school districts, STEM schools, and chartered nonpublic schools from 182 days to (a) 455 hours for half-day kindergarten; (b) 910 hours for all-day kindergarten and grades 1 to 6; and (c) 1,001 hours for grades 7 to 12.
Eliminates excused calamity days for schools generally, as Same as the Executive. well as the requirement for a contingency plan to make up calamity days, but retains (a) a recently enacted allowance of calamity days for community schools and (b) a recently enacted option for districts and schools to make up some calamity days via online lessons or paper "blizzard bags."
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Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Requires school district boards to hold a public hearing on the school calendar 30 days prior to adopting the school calendar. Requires each board to publish notice of the hearing in a newspaper no later than 30 days prior to the hearing. Prohibits a school district from reducing the total number of hours of instruction from the previous school year, unless the reduction is approved by the district board. Same as the Executive. In Senate Finance
H. B. 59
Same as the House, but removes the requirement that each board publish notice of the hearing in a newspaper no later than 30 days prior to the hearing.
No provision.
Same as the House.
Requires school districts, prior to changing the hours or days in which a school is open to: (1) consider the compatibility of the proposed change on the scheduling needs of JVSDs in which any of the school's students are enrolled and any community school to which the district must transport students; (2) provide a JVSD or community school with advance notice of the proposed change and enter into a written agreement prescribing reasonable accommodations to meet the JVSD or community school's scheduling needs; and, (3) consult with chartered nonpublic schools to which the district must transport students, and to consider the impact on the schedule for transportation of the chartered nonpublic school's students. Requires the governing authority of a community school to consult with each school district that transports students to the school prior to making any change in the hours or days in which the school is open. Removes the requirements that a school week consist of five days and a school month consist of four weeks. Specifies that a chartered nonpublic school may be open for instruction on any day of the week, including Saturday and Sunday. No provision.
Same as the Executive, but extends the requirement to operators as well as governing authorities.
Same as the House.
Same as the Executive, but restores to current law that a school week consist of five days.
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Same as the House.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House made prior to July 1, 2014. In Senate Finance
H. B. 59
Provides that the restructuring of the minimum school year does not apply to any collective bargaining agreement executed prior to July 1, 2014, but that any collective bargaining agreement or renewal executed after that date must comply with those changes. Fiscal effect: This provision will likely provide more flexibility in scheduling for most schools and districts. The elimination of excused time for public calamities may result in schools just meeting the current minimum number of days and hours to incur additional operating costs to make up any time lost. EDUCD116
Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive, but the administrative costs for school districts may increase for holding a public hearing and for publishing notice of the hearing. These additional costs are unlikely to exceed minimal.
Fiscal effect: Same as the House, but school districts would no longer incur costs for publishing notice of the hearing.
Chiropractors Authorized to Assess and Clear Concussed Athletes R.C. 3313.539, 3707.511 R.C. 3313.539, 3707.511
No provision.
Authorizes chiropractors to assess and clear for return athletes removed from play for exhibiting concussion and head injury symptoms. Fiscal effect: None. H.B. 143 of the 129th G.A. enacted certain requirements related to youth concussions and head injuries that apply to schools and youth sports organizations.
Same as the House.
EDUCD144
Exemption from End-of-Course Evaluations R.C. 3313.612, 3301.0712, 3313.615
No provision.
No provision.
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Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House In Senate Finance Fiscal effect: None.
H. B. 59
EDUCD142
ESC Fee-for-service Agreements R.C. 3313.844, 3313.845
No provision.
No provision.
Permits a joint vocational school district to enter into a feefor-service agreement with an ESC in the same manner as a city, exempted village, or local school district. Permits a school district or community school that has entered into a fee-for-service agreement with an ESC to direct ODE to make deductions and transfers of funds to cover the payments owed under the agreements. Fiscal effect: Possible minimal increase in ODE's administrative burden if a school chooses to direct ODE to deduct or transfer funds covered by an agreement.
No provision.
No provision.
EDUCD124
Unexpended Funds Paid to an Educational Service Center R.C. 3313.848 R.C. 3313.848
No provision.
Permits the board of education of a school district, governing authority of a community school, governing body of a STEM school, or governing body of a municipal or other political subdivision (client) to elect, at the end of a fiscal year, to have unexpended funds that were paid to an ESC during that fiscal year applied toward any payment owed to the ESC in the next fiscal year. Requires the client's treasurer or fiscal officer to indicate this decision and the amount of funds retained by the ESC on the client's end-of-year financial report. Requires the treasurer of an ESC, upon fulfilling the request of a client's chief administrator to spend a portion of the client's retained funds for a purpose other than services 56
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House specifically set forth under a service agreement, to keep a record of the expenditure and its purpose and to notify the client's treasurer or fiscal officer of the recorded expenditures on at least an annual basis or upon request. In Senate Finance
H. B. 59
No provision.
Requires the treasurer or fiscal officer of the client to include the information received from the ESC's treasurer in the financial report made at the next meeting of the client's governing body.
Same as the House.
Fiscal effect: Possible administrative burden to ESCs for Fiscal effect: Same as the House. record keeping. EDUCD136 Shared ESC Services R.C. No provision. No provision. 3313.849
Authorizes school districts, community schools, or STEM schools to agree to share any services offered by an ESC with one another, provided that each participant in those shared services specifies in its service agreement: (1) the amount of funds it will be contributing toward the total cost of the shared services, (2) the services that will be shared, and (3) the other participating districts or schools. Provides that a participant's funding contribution must be paid in a manner that is statutorily permitted. Specifies that the authority described above is in addition to the authority to share the services of supervisory teachers, special instruction teachers, special education teachers, and other licensed personnel granted to school district boards of education under continuing law. Fiscal effect: May reduce costs for districts, community schools, or STEM schools that choose to share ESC services with one another.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
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Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Participation by Home-schooled and Private School Students in School District Extracurricular Activity R.C. 3313.5311, 3313.5312 No provision. In Senate Finance
H. B. 59
No provision.
Permits students enrolled in chartered or nonchartered nonpublic schools and students receiving home instruction to participate in an extracurricular activity at the school of the student's resident school district to which the student would otherwise be assigned. Permits the superintendent of a school district to allow any student who is enrolled in a nonpublic school and is not entitled to attend school in that district to participate in a school's extracurricular activities if: (1) the nonpublic school in which the student is enrolled does not offer the extracurricular activity, and (2) the extracurricular activity is not interscholastic athletics or interscholastic contests or competition in music, drama, or forensics. Authorizes, but does not require, the superintendent of a school district to allow a student receiving home instruction who is not entitled to attend school in that district to participate in a school's extracurricular activities, if the activity is not offered by the student's resident district. Prohibits a school district, interscholastic conference, or organization that regulates interscholastic conferences or events from imposing eligibility requirements on nonpublic school or homeschooled students that conflict with the provisions above. Fiscal effect: May increase expenses related to extracurricular activities in any district that enrolls nonpublic or home-schooled students in its schools' extracurricular activities.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD109 Physical Activity Pilot Program R.C. No provision.
H. B. 59
3313.6016
R.C.
3313.6016
Requires a school district participating in the Physical Activity Pilot Program to select one or more, instead of all, school buildings to participate in the program. Modifies the Program's requirement for a participating school's students to engage in at least 30 minutes of physical activity daily by allowing the students, alternatively, to satisfy the requirement with at least 150 minutes of physical activity in a week. Fiscal effect: More school districts may choose to participate in the program if not all of the schools in the district have to operate a program. Provides schools participating in the program with more flexibility in meeting the physical activity requirement.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
EDUCD130
Auxiliary Services Funds R.C. 3317.06 R.C. 3317.06
No provision.
Replaces the term "electronic textbook," as used under current law with the term "digital text" and alters the definition only to specify that they are "consumable" books or substitute books accessed through electronic means. Specifies that mobile instructional applications that cost less than $10 distributed to students be considered "consumable," without the expectation of the return of those applications. Fiscal effect: None.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
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Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Nonpublic School Administrative Cost Reimbursement R.C. 3317.063 In Senate Finance
H. B. 59
No provision.
No provision.
Increases to $360 (from $325 under current law) the maximum per pupil amount for reimbursement of chartered nonpublic school administrative costs. Fiscal effect: The bill appropriates about $59.0 million in FY 2014 and $60.9 million in FY 2015 for these reimbursements. Increasing the per pupil amount may allow more of this appropriation to be disbursed.
EDUCD70 R.C.
Salary Schedules for Teachers and Nonteaching School Employees 3313.42, 3311.78, 3317.12, 3317.14, 3317.141, 5126.24, 5705.412, Repealed: R.C. 3317.13 R.C. 3313.42, 3311.78, 3317.12, 3317.14, 3317.141, 5126.24, 5705.412, Repealed: R.C. 3317.13 R.C. 3317.14
Eliminates from current law the provisions specifying minimum salary steps for teachers. Eliminates current law specifying salary schedule filing deadlines and the conditions upon which the salary schedules for nonteaching school employees must be based, and instead generally requires a school district board annually to adopt salary schedules for teachers and nonteaching school employees. Eliminates the requirement that each "local" school district board file a copy of all salary schedules with the superintendent of the educational service center serving the district. Eliminates the requirement that teachers who have completed training resulting in eligibility for a higher salary under a district's schedule file evidence of the completion of Department of Education
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
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Department of Education Executive that training with the district treasurer who then must place the teacher in the appropriate salary bracket. Fiscal effect: The provision may provide school districts with some flexibility in determining teacher salaries from year to year. These changes do not affect separate provisions of current law governing teacher salaries in a municipal school district (i.e. Cleveland). EDUCD53 R.C. 3317.15 No provision.
H. B. 59
Elimination of Requirement to Offer Speech-language Pathology and School Psychologist Services
Eliminates the requirement of current law for school districts to provide both speech-language pathology services at a ratio of one pathologist per 2,000 students and school psychological services at a ratio of one psychologist per 2,500 students. Fiscal effect: Provides flexibility for school districts associated with the provision of speech language pathology and psychological services. EDUCD54 R.C. Loans to School Districts 3317.62, 3317.63, 3317.64, 3313.4811 (all repealed)
No provision.
R.C.
3317.62, 3317.63, 3317.64, 3313.4811 (all repealed)
R.C.
3317.62, 3317.63, 3317.64, 3313.4811 (all repealed)
Repeals provisions that authorize the Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue loans from the Lottery Profits Education Fund to qualifying school districts (subject to Controlling Board approval) and to administer those loans. Fiscal effect: None. Currently, there are no outstanding loans under the program.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD68 R.C.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Assignment of Business Manager Functions In Senate Finance
H. B. 59
3319.031, Section 733.20
R.C.
3319.031, Section 733.20
R.C.
3319.031, Section 733.20
Authorizes the board of education of a school district that elects not to appoint a licensed business manager to assign the statutory duties of a business manager to other employees or officers of the board, including the treasurer, and to give those employees any title that reflects the assignment of those duties. Specifies that if a board assigns the duties of a business manager to the district treasurer, the district superintendent, and not the treasurer, has the authority to recommend the appointment or discharge of noneducational employees. Specifies that the General Assembly's intent is to supersede the 2007 decision of the Eighth District Court of Appeals (Cuyahoga County) that current law prohibits the assignment of a business manager's duties to the district treasurer (OAPSE/AFSCME Local 4 v. Berdine, 174 Ohio App.3d 46). Fiscal effect: May provide districts with more flexibility in determining who can provide business manager duties. EDUCD103 Superintendent Nominations of Teachers
R.C. No provision.
3319.07
R.C.
3319.07
Permits the board of education of a school district or the governing board of an educational service center to designate a different individual to perform the task of nominating for employment any teacher who is related to the superintendent of that district or board. Fiscal effect: None.
Same as the House.
Fiscal effect: Same as the House. 62

Department of Education Executive EDUCD69 R.C. 3319.073
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House In-Service Training for Human Trafficking Prevention R.C. 3319.073 R.C. 3319.073 In Senate Finance
H. B. 59
Requires that human trafficking content be included in a school's in-service staff training program for school safety and violence prevention. Fiscal effect: School districts may incur increased administrative costs to include human trafficking content in their in-service training. However, any costs are likely not to exceed minimal because the in-service training is already required for certain school district staff. Also, content regarding human trafficking may already be available for districts to use in the training. For example, ODE has information on human trafficking in its Safety and Violence Prevention Curriculum. EDUCD143 Teacher Evaluations
3319.112
Prescribes that the student academic growth factor must account for 35% (rather than 50% as under current law) of each evaluation under the standards-based state framework for evaluation of teachers developed by the State Board of Education and permits a school district to attribute an additional percentage to the student academic growth factor, not to exceed 15% of each evaluation. Specifies that, when calculating student academic growth for a teacher evaluation, students who have had 30 or more excused or unexcused absences for the school year must be excluded (rather than excluding students with 60 or more unexcused absences as under current law). 63
No provision.
No provision.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House In Senate Finance Fiscal effect: None.
H. B. 59
EDUCD112
Prohibit Pupil Transportation by Public Transit Buses R.C. 3327.01 No provision.
No provision.
Prohibits a school district from using public transit buses as a means to transport students in grades K through five to and from school. Fiscal effect: May reduce a district's flexibility in providing transportation for these students.
EDUCD99
Student Transportation by Chartered Nonpublic Schools R.C. 3327.07 R.C. 3327.07
No provision.
Permits the governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school to charge a student's parent or guardian a fee for transportation to and from school, regardless of whether the student is eligible for transportation by a school district, if the governing authority purchased the vehicle transporting the student using no state or federal funds. Prohibits the transportation fee from exceeding the per student cost of transportation, as determined by the governing authority. Authorizes the governing authority to charge a fee for transportation to the parent or guardian of a student who is transported to and from school on a vehicle purchased using no state or federal funds, and who opts to receive a subsidy instead of transportation from a school district. Permits the parent or guardian of a student who is enrolled in a chartered nonpublic school and who is eligible for transportation by a school district to decline that transportation and accept transportation from the chartered 64
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House nonpublic school. Fiscal effect: None. Fiscal effect: Same as the House. In Senate Finance
H. B. 59
EDUCD73 R.C.
Post-Secondary Enrollment Options 3365.01, 3345.42, 3365.01-3365.04, 3365.041, 3365.05-3365.08, Repealed: 3365.01, 3365.07, 3365.021, 3365.09-3365.12, 3365.15, 3328.34, Section 803.60 R.C. 3365.01, 3345.42, 3365.02-3365.12, 3365.021, 3365.022, 3365.041, 3365.15 R.C. 3365.01, 3345.42, 3365.02-3365.12, 3365.021, 3365.022, 3365.041, 3365.15, Section 363.590
Renames the Post-Secondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) Program as the College Credit Plus Program.
No provision.
Replaces the Executive provision with a provision that requires the Chancellor of the Board of Regents to report, by December 31, 2013, recommendations to establish the College Credit Plus Program.
Makes the following changes to the renamed program:
Replaces the Executive provision with a provision that makes Same as the House. the following changes to the existing PSEO program: (1) No provision. (1) No provision.
(1) Requires all state institutions of higher education to participate in the program, except for the Northeastern Ohio Universities Medical College. (2) Requires that students be considered qualified to participate in the College Credit Plus Program based solely on the participating college's established admission standards. (3) Requires student participation in the program to be based on a participating institution of higher education's established admission standards, and requires each institution to give priority to its current students regarding course enrollment. (4) Requires the Chancellor of the Board of Regents to develop a standard information packet on the College Credit Plus Program that secondary schools must distribute to each participating student and requires secondary schools to keep a record of dates that such packets are sent to students' homes. Department of Education
(2) Same as the Executive, but refers to PSEO instead of College Credit Plus.
(3) No provision.
(3) No provision.
(4) No provision.
(4) No provision.
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Department of Education Executive (5) Changes notification of participation in the program from students informing the school (current law) to the colleges notifying students and schools. (6) Removes the requirement that a participating student or parent sign a form stating that they have received required counseling for the program. (7) Removes the requirement that a student may not enroll in any specific college course through the program if the student has taken high school courses in the same subject area and failed to attain at least a 3.0 cumulative grade point average in the course. (8) Replaces the tuition base, which is the current formula amount ($5,704 per participant), with an amount based on the statewide average public in-state tuition per credit hour, as calculated by the Chancellor. (9) Prescribes the following methods to determine payments based on how students receive instruction: (a) For students who receive instruction on the college campus, at another location operated by the college, or online, and taught by college faculty: 50% for students enrolled in public colleges and 75% for students enrolled in private colleges of the statewide average in-state tuition per credit hour for the type of college attended. (b) For students who receive instruction at the student's school taught by a college faculty member: 25% for students enrolled in public colleges and 50% for students enrolled in private colleges of the statewide average in-state tuition per credit hour for the type of college attended. (c) For students who receive instruction on the college campus, at another location operated by the college, or online but taught by a teacher employed by a secondary school, 25% for students enrolled in public colleges and 50% Department of Education
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House (5) No provision. In Senate Finance (5) No provision.
H. B. 59
(6) No provision.
(6) No provision.
(7) No provision.
(7) No provision.
(8) Replaces the Executive provision with a provision that returns to current law but defines the tuition base as the current year formula amount. (9) No provision.
(9) No provision.
(a) No provision.
(1) No provision.
(b) No provision.
(b) No provision.
(c) No provision.
(c) No provision.
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Department of Education Executive for students enrolled in private colleges of the statewide average in-state tuition per credit hour for the type of college attended. (d) For students who receive instruction at the student's school taught by a teacher at that school accredited by the college: nothing for students enrolled in public colleges and 25% for students enrolled in private colleges of the statewide average in-state tuition per credit hour for the type of college attended. (10) Permits a public college to include a student enrolled under the College Credit Plus Program in its count for "State Share of Instruction" state higher education subsidy purposes. (11) Eliminates a provision allowing the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Chancellor to adopt rules permitting a secondary school and an institution of higher education to enter into an agreement to use an alternative funding formula for payments to the institution. (12) Prohibits an institution of higher education from receiving reimbursement through an alternative funding agreement with a secondary school. (d) No provision.
H. B. 59
(d) No provision.
(10) No provision.
(10) No provision.
(11) No provision.
(11) No provision.
(12) Replaces the Executive provision with a provision that allows alternative funding agreements (as under current law), but prohibits an institution from receiving reimbursement through an alternative funding agreement that involves charging a participating student any tuition or fees. (13) No provision.
(13) Qualifies students enrolled in a college-preparatory boarding school for the College Credit Plus Program. (14) Eliminates the requirement to bring an action for reimbursement from a student that receives a failing grade in a college course under the program. (15) Permits an institution of higher education to charge a participating student for textbooks, materials, or other fees directly related to the student's course and to enter into an Department of Education
(13) No provision.
(14) No provision.
(14) No provision.
(15) No provision.
(15) No provision.
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Department of Education Executive agreement with a student's public or nonpublic school to pay any amount of such charges or to outline any other terms for the student's use of textbooks or materials. Specifies that nothing in the new College Credit Plus Program should be construed as altering any existing agreements between any state institution of higher education and a career-technical planning district. Requires ODE and the Board of Regents to study and make recommendations by July 1, 2014, for including career-technical programs in the College Credit Plus Program. No provision. No provision.
H. B. 59
No provision.
Specifies that ODE is prohibited from reimbursing a participating college for any courses that are not included in, or equivalent to courses included in, a transfer module or the Chancellor of the Board of Regents' Transfer Assurance Guide. Qualifies students who have been excused from the compulsory attendance law for the purpose of home education to participate in PSEO and includes such students in the definition of "participants." Allows ODE to accept late applications for PSEO for the 2013-2014 school year from home-schooled students who wish to participate in the program during the 2013-2014 school year. No provision.
Replaces the House provision with a provision that prohibits ODE from reimbursing a college for any remedial college courses.
No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Requires ODE annually to compile a list of all institutions of higher education that currently participate in PSEO or in other dual enrollment programs and, not later than December 31 of each school year, to distribute that list to all school districts, community schools, STEM schools, and chartered nonpublic schools in the state. Same as the House.
No provision.
Requires that payments made to a participating college in which home-schooled students are enrolled in PSEO must be made in the same manner as payments made for participating students from nonpublic secondary schools. 68
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House No provision. In Senate Finance
H. B. 59
Requires a district or school to provide the list of participating higher education institutions, as part of the counseling services required of the district or school prior to a student's participation in PSEO, to both the interested student and the student's parents or guardians. Fiscal effect: Same as the House, but also a minimal increase in administrative burden for the Chancellor to make recommendations regarding the College Credit Plus Program and a minimal increase in administrative burden for ODE to compile and distribute a list of participating institutions.
Fiscal effect: Deduction amounts from schools to make payments to institutions of higher education will likely change, but will depend on the statewide average instate tuition per credit hour amount calculated by the Chancellor. Increase in the number of students counted in the State Share of Instruction (SSI) subsidy formula could result in a small decrease in the amount of subsidy funding per student. The bill earmarks about $1.89 million in FY 2014 and $1.94 million in FY 2015 in GRF appropriation item 200511, Auxiliary Services, to fund students enrolled in the program who attend nonpublic secondary schools. Possible increase in costs for institutions, school districts, and the Ohio Board of Regents due to additional administrative requirements. EDUCD66 R.C. 5751.21
Fiscal effect: Increases the tuition base to $5,732 in FY 2014 and $5,789 in FY 2015. Because home-schooled students may qualify for PSEO, more students may be eligible to participate in the program. Funding for nonpublic students is limited by the earmark in GRF appropriation item 200511, Auxiliary Services, and funding for home-schooled students is limited by the earmark in GRF appropriation item 200550, Foundation Funding (see CDEDU23).
Due Date for Tangible Personal Property Tax Replacement Payments to School Districts R.C. 5751.21 R.C. 5751.21
Postpones the due date for November tangible personal property tax replacement payments to school districts to the last day of the month (under current law, replacement payments for both fixed-rate and fixed-sum levies are due on May 31 and November 20). Fiscal effect: Resolves a cash flow issue associated with the replacement payments.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD2 Section: 263.20 Early Childhood Education Section: 263.20
H. B. 59
Section:
263.20
Continues the GRF-funded early childhood education program at school districts, JVSDs, and ESCs for children at least three years old but not yet eligible for kindergarten, and whose families earn not more than 200% of the federal poverty guidelines. Specifies the following for participating programs: (1) prohibits development and administration costs from exceeding 15% of the cost of each program, (2) requires maintenance of fiscal records, (3) requires implementation of a corrective action plan, when needed, (4) requires certain qualifications for teachers, (5) requires alignment of curriculum to the early learning content standards, (6) requires documentation and reporting of child progress, (7) requires adherence to early learning program standards, (8) requires certain child or program assessments, (9) requires charging a fee, based on a sliding scale, to families who earn more than the 200% of the federal poverty guidelines, and (10) requires participation in a tiered quality rating and improvement system. Requires ODE to provide an annual report regarding early childhood education programs and the early learning program standards. Specifies that per-pupil funding must be sufficient to provide eligible children with services for a standard early childhood schedule, defined as a minimum of 12.5 hours per week, for the minimum school year. Requires ODE to conduct an annual survey of each provider to determine whether the provider charges families tuition or fees, the amount the families are charged relative to family Department of Education
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Department of Education Executive income levels, and the number of families and students charged. Requires eligible expenditures to be claimed each fiscal year to help meet the state's TANF maintenance of effort requirement and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Director of Job and Family Services to enter into an interagency agreement to fulfill this requirement including developing reporting guidelines for these expenditures. Fiscal effect: The bill appropriates $23.3 million in FY 2014 and $25.3 million in FY 2015 to GRF appropriation item 200408 for the program, including an earmark of 2% for ODE's administrative costs. EDUCD132 Ready to Learn Section: No provision.
H. B. 59
263.163
Section:
263.163
Requires ODE to contract with public and private early childhood education providers to fund early childhood education services for 2,200 preschool-aged children whose family income is no more than 200% of the federal poverty guidelines. Requires that funding be provided for at least 3 children in each county. Requires that private providers have at least a three star rating in the Department of Job and Family Services "Step Up to Quality" program. Requires programs receiving funding to meet certain teacher qualification and professional development criteria, align to ODE's early learning content standards, assess and report on child progress as required by ODE, and participate in the Step Up to Quality program.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
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Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Fiscal effect: The bill appropriates $5.0 million each fiscal year to GRF appropriation item 200468, Ready to Learn, for the program. In Senate Finance
H. B. 59
Fiscal effect: Same as the House, but increases 200468 by $50,000 in each fiscal year to support the "Ready, Set, Goto Kindergarten" program. (See EDUCD137)
National Assessment of Education Progress Section: 263.370 Section: 263.370
Expresses the General Assembly's intention that Ohio school Same as the Executive. districts participate in the administration of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). Requires each school and school district selected to participate. Fiscal effect: Minimal cost for districts chosen to participate. Federal funding is provided for coordination of the state's participation in NAEP. EDUCD39 Section: 263.400 Use of Volunteers Section: 263.400 Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive.
Section:
263.400
Authorizes ODE to use the services of volunteers to accomplish any of the purposes of ODE. Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to reimburse volunteers for necessary expenses in accordance with state guidelines and to designate volunteers as state employees for the purposes of motor vehicle accident liability insurance and for indemnification from liability incurred in the performance of their duties. Fiscal effect: Potential cost savings for ODE if they can utilize volunteers for purposes which they would otherwise need to hire additional employees. This is a continuation of current law.
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Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Family and Children First Flexible Funding Pool Sections: 263.430, 327.110 Same as the Executive. Sections: 263.430, 327.110 Same as the Executive. In Senate Finance
H. B. 59
Sections: 263.430, 327.110 Permits school districts, community schools, STEM schools, JVSDs, ESCs, and county DD boards that receive state aid to transfer portions of their allocations to a flexible funding pool created by a county family and children first council to support the provision of services to families and children. Fiscal effect: None. EDUCD44 Section: 263.450 Open Enrollment Task Force
Section:
263.450
Section:
263.450
Establishes the Ohio Open Enrollment Task Force, consisting of representatives from school districts representing all sectors of Ohio's educational community, to review and make recommendations regarding open enrollment to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by December 31, 2013. Requires the Task Force to cease to exist upon issuance of the report. Fiscal effect: Minimal.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD75 Section: 263.470 Educational Technology Practice Office Section:
H. B. 59
263.470
Section:
263.470
Creates the Educational Technology Practice Office as a cross-functional office comprised of employees of ODE and the Ohio Board of Regents, including former employees of the eTech Ohio Commission. Requires the Office to work with ESCs and information technology centers to develop digital learning, blended learning, and professional development materials using shared infrastructure. Requires the Office to evaluate new educational technology and methodologies of teaching and learning and to work with educators to increase awareness of the technologies and methodologies shown to be helpful to Ohio students. Fiscal effect: Probable increase in administrative costs relating to the establishment and operations of the Office. EDUCD111 Kindergarten Early Enrollment
263.473
Section:
263.473
Prohibits, for the 2012-2013 school year, any entity from requiring a student who was admitted to and successfully completed kindergarten in that school year to repeat kindergarten based solely on the student's age. Fiscal effect: None.
Same as the House.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD128 Private Treatment Facility Project Section: No provision.
H. B. 59
263.480
Section:
263.480
Establishes procedures by which Ohio youth who have been assigned to a participating residential treatment center are enrolled in an approved educational program in or near the facility. Lists the participating residential treatment centers as (1) private residential treatment facilities that have contracted with the Department of Youth Services to provide services and which are paid through appropriation item 470401, RECLAIM Ohio, (2) Abraxas, in Shelby, (3) Paint Creek, in Bainbridge, and (4) F.I.R.S.T., in Mansfield. Requires that the school district responsible for tuition for a residential child pay the tuition to the provider of the educational programs. Prohibits a district from including the youth in the district's average daily membership (ADM). Requires that ODE track the utilization of funds and monitor the program for educational accountability. Fiscal effect: In addition to the tuition payment, the bill earmarks $700,000 in each fiscal year from GRF appropriation item 200550, Foundation Funding, for the Private Treatment Facility Project.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD123 Academic Distress Commissions Section: No provision.
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263.490 No provision.
Allows the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in uncodified law, to create an academic distress commission for any school district that is found by the Auditor of State to have knowingly manipulated student data with evidence of intent to deceive. Consistent with current law, charges such a commission with assisting the district for which it was established in improving the district's academic performance. Appoints five members to the commission, three appointed by the state Superintendent and two appointed by the mayor of the largest municipality in the affected district. Dissolves an academic distress commission established under the bill's uncodified provision in accordance with rules adopted by the State Board of Education, which rules the State Board must adopt not later than 90 days after the bill's (immediate) effective date. Fiscal effect: Potential increase in costs for any applicable school district to implement an academic recovery plan. Potential increase in costs for ODE to provide administrative support for any such commission.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
Appropriation Language EDUCD1 Section: 263.20 Operating Expenses Section: 263.20 Section: 263.20
Specifies that a portion of GRF appropriation item 200321, Operating Expenses, be used by ODE to provide matching funds under 20 U.S.C. 2321, which pertains to federal career and technical education assistance to the states. Department of Education
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD97 Section: 263.20 Early Childhood Education Section: 263.20
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Section:
263.20
Earmarks up to 2% in each fiscal year of GRF appropriation item 200408, Early Childhood Education, for ODE program support and technical assistance for the early childhood education program. (See EDUCD2) Requires that the remainder be distributed to serve eligible children. EDUCD3 Section: 263.30
Information Technology Development and Support Section: 263.30 Section: 263.30
Specifies that GRF appropriation item 200420, Information Technology Development and Support, be used to support the development and implementation of information technology solutions designed to improve the performance and services provided by ODE. Permits this appropriation to also be used to support data-driven decision-making and differentiated instruction and to communicate academic content standards and curriculum models through the Internet.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD4 Section: 263.40 Alternative Education Programs Section: 263.40
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Section:
263.40
Specifies that GRF appropriation item 200421, Alternative Education Programs, be used for the renewal of successful implementation grants and for competitive matching grants to school districts for alternative education programs for atrisk and delinquent youth. Permits a portion of the appropriation to be used for program administration, monitoring, technical assistance, support, research, and evaluation. Permits ODE to waive compliance with minimum education standards for schools receiving grants if the waiver enables the program to more effectively educate students. EDUCD5 Section: 263.50 School Management Assistance
Section:
263.50
Section:
263.50
Earmarks $1,000,000 in each fiscal year of GRF appropriation item 200422, School Management Assistance, to be used by the Auditor of State, in consultation with ODE, for expenses incurred in the Auditor's role relating to fiscal caution, fiscal watch, and fiscal emergency activities (unless an amount less than $1,000,000 is mutually agreed to by the Auditor of State and ODE). Authorizes these funds to also be used by the Auditor to conduct performance audits of districts in fiscal distress, including those that the Auditor, in consultation with ODE, determines are employing fiscal practices or experiencing budgetary conditions that could produce a state of fiscal watch or emergency.
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Department of Education Executive Specifies that the remainder be used by ODE to provide fiscal technical assistance and in-service education for school district management personnel and to administer, monitor, and implement the fiscal caution, fiscal watch and fiscal emergency provisions of the Revised Code. EDUCD6 Section: 263.60 Policy Analysis Section: 263.60
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Section:
263.60
Specifies that GRF appropriation item 200424, Policy Analysis, be used to support a system of administrative, statistical, and legislative education information to be used for policy analysis. Allows ODE to use funding from this appropriation item to purchase or contract for the development of software systems or contract for policy studies that will assist in the provision and analysis of policyrelated information. EDUCD7 Section: 263.60 Tech Prep Consortia Support
Section:
263.60
Section:
263.60
Specifies that GRF appropriation item 200425, Tech Prep Consortia Support, be used to support state-level activities in support of tech prep programs.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD8 Section: 263.70 Ohio Educational Computer Network Section: 263.70
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Section:
263.70
Specifies that GRF appropriation item 200426, Ohio Educational Computer Network, be used to maintain a system of information technology throughout Ohio and to provide technical assistance in support of the P-16 State Education Technology Plan. Makes the following earmarks:
(1) Up to $10,705,569 in each fiscal year to support (1) Same as the Executive. connection of all public school buildings and participating chartered nonpublic schools to the state's education network, to each other, and to the Internet. (2) Up to $2,500,000 in each fiscal year for the Union Catalog and InfOhio Network. (3) Up to $5,220,000 in each fiscal year to subsidize the activities of designated information technology centers. (4) Up to $10,000,000 in FY 2014 for middle mile connections for information technology centers and select large urban districts to connect to the state broadband backbone and for other connectivity upgrades necessary for K-12 school buildings with severely restricted broadband connections. Requires ODE to develop an expenditure plan aligned with the capacity and timeline requirements of the PARCC assessments and other instructional technology/blended learning initiatives and subjects the plan to the review and approval of the State Chief Information Officer and the Education Technology Division of the Ohio Board of Regents. Specifies that the remainder of the appropriation be used to support a network of uniform and compatible computerbased information and instructional systems and the teacher Department of Education (2) Same as the Executive.
(4) Same as the Executive, but removes the requirement that the expenditure plan be aligned with the capacity and timeline requirements of the PARCC assessments and requires the expenditure plan to facilitate (rather than be aligned with) instructional technology/blended learning initiatives.
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Department of Education Executive student linkage/roster verification process and the eTranscript/student records exchange initiatives. EDUCD9 Section: 263.80 Academic Standards Section: 263.80
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Section:
263.80
Specifies that GRF appropriation item 200427, Academic Standards, be used by ODE for the development and dissemination of academic content standards and curriculum models and for the development of professional development programs and other tools on the new content standards and model curriculum. EDUCD10 Student Assessment
Sections: 263.90, 263.100 Earmarks up to $95,000 of GRF appropriation item 200437, Student Assessment, in each fiscal year for costs associated with the state's required diagnostic assessments. Specifies that the remainder of the appropriation be used to develop, field test, print, distribute, score, and report results of assessments, including the English language arts, mathematics, and science assessments and the Ohio Graduation Test. Permits ODE to use the funds to update and develop certain diagnostic assessments for students in grades kindergarten through three. Authorizes the transfer in each fiscal year of unexpended and unencumbered GRF appropriations within ODE to GRF appropriation item 200437, Student Assessment, if the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Director of OBM determine that additional funds are needed to fully fund the assessments. Department of Education
Sections: 263.90, 263.100 Same as the Executive.
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Department of Education Executive Authorizes, with Controlling Board approval, the transfer of up to $9,000,000 cash from the Lottery Profits Education Reserve Fund (Fund 7018) to the GRF and appropriates the transferred funds for student assessments, if the transfer of unexpended and unencumbered GRF appropriations within ODE to GRF appropriation item 200437, Student Assessment, continues to be insufficient to fully fund the cost of the assessments. Prohibits the administration of the elementary writing and social studies achievement assessments during the 20132014 school year, unless the Superintendent of Public Instruction determines that ODE has sufficient funds to pay the costs of furnishing and scoring the assessments. EDUCD11 Section: 263.110 Accountability/Report Cards Section:
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263.110
Section:
263.110
Permits a portion of GRF appropriation item 200439, Accountability/Report Cards, in each fiscal year to be used to train district and regional specialists and district educators in the use of the value-added progress dimension and data as it relates to improving student achievement. Allows a portion of this appropriation to be provided to a credible nonprofit organization with expertise in value-added progress dimensions. Specifies that the remainder of the appropriation be used to incorporate a statewide value- added progress dimension into performance ratings for school districts and develop an accountability system that includes the preparation and distribution of school report cards, funding and expenditure accountability reports, and the development and maintenance of teacher value-added reports.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD12 Section: 263.110 Child Care Licensing Section:
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263.110
Section:
263.110
Specifies that GRF appropriation item 200442, Child Care Licensing, be used by ODE to license and to inspect preschool and school-age child care programs. EDUCD13 Section: 263.120
Education Management Information System Section: 263.120 Section: 263.120
Specifies that GRF appropriation item 200446, Education Management Information System, be used to improve the education management information system (EMIS) and makes the following earmarks: Up to $729,000 in each fiscal year to be distributed to information technology centers for costs related to processing, storing, and transferring data for the effective operation of EMIS. Specifies that the remainder of the appropriation be used to develop and support a common core of data definitions and standards as adopted by the Education Management Information System Advisory Board. Specifies that any provider of software meeting the standards approved by the Board be designated as an approved vendor and be permitted to enter into contracts with educational entities for the purpose of collecting and managing data required under Ohio's EMIS law. Prohibits school districts, STEM schools, and community schools that are not implementing a common and uniform set of data definitions and data format standards from receiving funding until they are in compliance.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD14 Section: 263.130 GED Testing Section:
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263.130
Section:
263.130
Specifies that GRF appropriation item 200447, GED Testing, be used to provide General Educational Development (GED) testing under rules adopted by the State Board of Education. EDUCD15 Section: 263.140 Educator Preparation
Section:
263.140
Section:
263.140
Specifies the following for GRF appropriation item 200448, Educator Preparation: (1) Earmarks up to $500,000 in each fiscal year for ODE to monitor and support Ohio's State System of Support under federal law. (2) Permits a portion of the appropriation to be used by ODE to support the Educator Standards Board and various school reforms. (3) Permits the remainder of the appropriation in FY 2015 to be used for implementation of teacher and principal evaluation systems, including incorporation of student growth as a metric in those systems, and teacher value-added reports.
(2) Same as the Executive, but earmarks up to $100,000 in each fiscal year instead of "a portion." (3) Same as the Executive.
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Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Community Schools and Choice Programs Section: 263.150 Section: 263.150 In Senate Finance
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Permits GRF appropriation item 200455, Community Schools and Choice Programs, to be used by ODE to support the Office of Community Schools and to operate school choice programs. Permits a portion of the appropriation in each fiscal year to be used by ODE for developing and conducting training sessions for sponsors and prospective sponsors of community schools and other schools participating in school choice programs. EDUCD46 Section: 263.160
Technology Integration and Professional Development Section: 263.160 Section: 263.160
Specifies that GRF appropriation item 200465, Technology Integration and Professional Development, be used by ODE to contract with educational television stations and education technology centers to provide Ohio public schools with instructional resources and services. Specifies that priority be given to resources and services aligned with state academic content standards. Specifies that such resources and services be based upon the advice and approval of ODE, based on a formula used by eTech unless a substitute formula is developed in consultation with the Ohio Board of Regents.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD137 Ready to Learn
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Section: No provision. No provision.
263.163
Earmarks $50,000 in each fiscal year in GRF appropriation item 200468, Ready to Learn, for the operations of the "Ready, Set, Go...to Kindergarten" program in Lorain County. Requires program participants' scores on the "Get It, Got It, Go!" assessment and the kindergarten readiness assessment to be reported to ODE. (See EDUCD132)
Pupil Transportation Section: 263.170 Section: 263.170
Makes the following earmarks to GRF appropriation item 200502, Pupil Transportation: (1) Up to $838,930 in each fiscal year for training school bus drivers. (2) Up to $60,469,220 in each fiscal year for special education transportation reimbursements to school districts and county DD boards. (3) Up to $5,000,000 in each fiscal year to reimburse school districts for payments to parents in lieu of providing school bus service. (4) No provision.
Same as the House.
(3) Same as the Executive, except eliminates the FY 2015 earmark for this purpose. (4) Earmarks up to $25,300,000 in FY 2014 and up to $23,100,000 in FY 2015 for additional transportation aid for specified low-wealth, low-rider density school districts. Requires ODE to pay each school district a pro rata portion of the amounts calculated for the supplement so that the amount appropriated is not exceeded. 86
Department of Education Executive (5) Specifies that the remainder of the appropriation be used for the pupil transportation aid formula. Requires ODE to pay each school district a pro rata portion of the amounts calculated pursuant to the formula so that the aggregate amount appropriated is not exceeded. EDUCD18 Section: 263.180 School Lunch Match Section:
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House (5) Same as the Executive, but removes the proration requirement as it is moved to a codified section of the bill. In Senate Finance (5) Same as the House.
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263.180
Section:
263.180
Specifies that GRF appropriation item 200505, School Lunch Match, be used to provide matching funds to obtain federal funds for the school lunch program. Permits any remaining appropriation to be used to partially reimburse school buildings required to have a school breakfast program. EDUCD19 Section: 263.190 Auxiliary Services
Section:
263.190
Section:
263.190
Specifies that GRF appropriation item 200511, Auxiliary Services, be used for providing services and materials to certain students enrolled in nonpublic schools. Earmarks up to $1,888,106 in FY 2014 and up to $1,944,949 in FY 2015 for nonpublic school student participation in the College Credit Plus Program. Permits ODE, in FY 2014, to spend above the set aside to pay for outstanding obligations for the Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Program for FY 2013.
Same as the Executive, but refers to the Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Program instead of College Credit Plus.
Same as the House.
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Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Nonpublic Administrative Cost Reimbursement Section: 263.200 Section: 263.200 In Senate Finance
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Specifies that GRF appropriation 200532, Nonpublic Administrative Cost Reimbursement, be used to reimburse chartered nonpublic schools for their administrative costs associated with maintaining their state charter. EDUCD21 Section: 263.210 Special Education Enhancements
Section:
263.210
Section:
263.210
Makes the following earmarks to GRF appropriation item 200540, Special Education Enhancements: (1) Up to $50,000,000 in each fiscal year to fund special education and related services at county DD boards and state institutions.
Same as the House.
(1) Same as the Executive, but also requires ODE, if necessary, to proportionately reduce the amounts calculated for each county DD board and state institution for special education and related services so as not to exceed the amount appropriated in each fiscal year. (2) Same as the Executive.
(2) Up to $1,333,468 in each fiscal year for parent mentoring programs. (3) Up to $2,537,824 in each fiscal year for school psychology interns. Specifies that the remainder of the appropriation be used to distribute preschool special education funding for school districts and state institutions. Requires funded entities to adhere to Ohio's early learning program standards, to participate in the tiered quality rating and improvement system, to document child progress using research-based indicators, and to report results annually. Department of Education
Same as the Executive, but also requires ODE, if necessary, to proportionately reduce the amount calculated for each school district and institution for preschool special education services so as not to exceed the amount appropriated in each fiscal year.
Same as the House.
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Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Career-Technical Education Enhancements Section: 263.220 Section: 263.220 In Senate Finance
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Makes the following earmarks to GRF appropriation item 200545, Career-Technical Education Enhancements: (1) Up to $2,563,568 in each fiscal year to fund secondary career-technical education at institutions. Notwithstands the unit funding formula and specifies the funding be distributed using a grant-based methodology. (2) Up to $2,838,281 in each fiscal year to fund competitive expansion grants to tech prep consortia. (3) Up to $3,100,850 in each fiscal year to support existing High Schools That Work (HSTW) sites, develop and support new sites, fund technical assistance, and support regional centers and middle school programs. (4) Up to $300,000 in each fiscal year to fund the Agriculture 5th Quarter Project.
(4) Same as the Executive, but increases the earmark to up to $600,000 in each fiscal year and requires the eligibility criteria developed by ODE for the project to allow the earmarked funds to support supervised agricultural experience that occurs anytime outside of the regular school day. (5) Same as the House.
(5) No provision.
(5) Up to $162,200 in each fiscal year for distribution to Cleveland and Cincinnati school districts to be used for a VoAg Program in one at-risk nonvocational school in each district. Specifies that the amount distributed to Cleveland is equal to $78,600 and to Cincinnati is equal to $83,600 minus the amount allocated to each district for additional careertechnical education formula funding for the students participating in the program.
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Department of Education Executive (6) No provision.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House (6) $108,100 in each fiscal year to be used to prepare students for careers in culinary arts and restaurant management under the Ohio ProStart school restaurant program. Foundation Funding In Senate Finance (6) Same as the House.
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Section:
263.230
Section:
263.230
Makes the following earmarks to GRF appropriation item 200550, Foundation Funding: (1) Up to $675,000 in FY 2014 to support the distance learning clearinghouse work of the College of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University. (2) No provision.
Same as the Executive, but makes the following changes in the earmarks: (1) Same as the Executive, but also earmarks up to $675,000 in FY 2015. (2) Up to $40,000,000 in each fiscal year for additional state aid to school districts, joint vocational school districts, STEM, and community schools for special education students exceeding certain specified catastrophic cost thresholds. (3) Same as the Executive.
Same as the House, but makes the following changes in the earmarks: (1) Same as the House.
(3) Up to $2,000,000 in each fiscal year for Youth Services tuition payments. (4) No provision.
(4) Up to $3,800,000 in each fiscal year to fund gifted education units at ESCs. Specifies that the distribution of gifted education funds to ESCs is based on a unit methodology used prior to FY 2010. (5) Same as the Executive, but increases to $43,500,000 in FY 2014 and $40,000,000 in FY 2015. (6) Same as the Executive.
(5) Up to $27,500,000 in FY 2014 and up to $20,000,000 in FY 2015 to fund the state reimbursement of ESCs. (6) Up to $3,500,000 in each fiscal year to be distributed to ESCs for School Improvement Initiatives and for the provision of technical assistance as required by federal law.
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Department of Education Executive (7) Up to $20,000,000 in each fiscal year for payments to school districts resulting from property tax refunds and certain recomputations of state foundation aid due to changes in property tax valuation. Requires that ODE prorate the payments to not exceed the set aside. (8) Up to $2,000,000 in each fiscal year to pay careertechnical planning districts (CTPDs) for reimbursements provided to first-time GED on-line test-takers for application/test fees in excess of $40. Requires each CTPD to designate a site or sites where individuals may register and take GED exams and to offer career counseling services for each individual that registers for the GED. (9) Up to $410,000 in each fiscal year to pay CTPDs $500 for each student that receives a journeyman certification, as recognized by the U.S. Department of Labor. (10) Up to $18,713,327 in each fiscal year to support school choice programs. (11) Earmarks up to $11,901,887 in each fiscal year of the foundation program funds credited to the Cleveland Municipal School District for the Cleveland school choice program. Earmarks of that amount, up to $1,000,000 in each fiscal year for the district to provide tutorial assistance. (12) No provision.
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(12) Up to $2,000,000 in each fiscal year for the purpose of making payments to college-preparatory boarding schools for the per pupil boarding amount ($25,000 per pupil with annual inflationary increases). (13) Up to $500,000 in each fiscal year for the Jobs for Ohio's Graduates program. (14) Up to $250,000 in fiscal year 2015 for home-schooled students to participate in the Post-Secondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) Program. 91
(12) Same as the House, but removes this earmark for FY 2014.
(13) No provision.
(14) No provision.
Department of Education Executive (15) An amount to fund joint vocational school districts (JVSDs). (16) An amount to fund CTPDs.
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(16) No provision.
(16) No provision.
(17) No provision.
(17) Up to $700,000 in each fiscal year for the private treatment facility project. (18) No provision.
(18) No provision.
(18) An amount in each fiscal year to pay certain high performing community schools the amounts necessary to ensure that those community schools receive at least the amount of funding received for FY 2013 (see EDUCD85). Same as the Executive.
Specifies that the remainder of this appropriation be used to distribute to city, local, and exempted village school districts the amounts calculated for formula aid and temporary transitional aid. Specifies that GRF appropriation items 200502, Pupil Transportation, 200540, Special Education Enhancements, and 200550, Foundation Funding, other than specific setasides, are to fund state formula aid obligations. Provides that ODE seek Controlling Board approval to transfer funds among these items, or other GRF appropriation items in which there are excess appropriation, in order to meet these obligations. Authorizes the payment of school operating funds in amounts substantially equal to those made in the prior year until the new school funding formulas take effect.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD24 Section: 263.260 Property Tax Allocation-Education Section:
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263.260
Section:
263.260
Prohibits the Superintendent of Public Instruction from requesting, and the Controlling Board from approving, the transfer of funds from GRF appropriation item 200901, Property Tax Allocation -Education, to any other appropriation item. Specifies that GRF appropriation item 200901, Property Tax Allocation - Education, be used to pay for the state's costs incurred for school districts and JVSDs because of the homestead exemption, the property tax rollback, and reimbursements associated with conversion levies. Appropriates any additional amount needed to fully fund these costs. EDUCD25 Section: 263.270 Teacher Certification and Licensure
Section:
263.270
Section:
263.270
Specifies that GSF Fund 4L20 appropriation item 200681, Teacher Certification and Licensure, be used in each fiscal year to administer and support teacher certification and licensure activities.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD26 Section: 263.270 School District Solvency Assistance Section:
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263.270
Section:
263.270
Specifies that funds in GSF Fund 5H30 appropriation item 200687, School District Solvency Assistance, be used to provide assistance and grants to school districts to enable them to remain solvent. Requires that assistance and grants be subject to the approval of the Controlling Board. Earmarks $20,000,000 in each fiscal year for the School District Shared Resource Account to make advances to districts that must be repaid. Earmarks $5,000,000 in each fiscal year for the Catastrophic Expenditures Account to make grants to school districts that need be repaid only if the district receives third party reimbursement funding. Permits the Director of Budget and Management to make cash transfers into the School District Solvency Assistance Fund (Fund 5H30) in each fiscal year from the GRF or any funds used by ODE to maintain sufficient cash balances in the fund. Appropriates any funds so transferred. Requires the Director to notify the Controlling Board of any such transfers. Permits, if the cash balance of Fund 5H30 is insufficient to pay solvency assistance, and with approval of the Controlling Board, the transfer of cash from the Lottery Profits Education Reserve Fund (Fund 7018) to Fund 5H30 to provide assistance and grants. Appropriates any funds so transferred to Fund 5H30 appropriation item 200670, School District Solvency Assistance - Lottery.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD79 Section: 263.270 Exceptional Cost Reimbursement
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No provision. Specifies that GSF Fund 5MX0 appropriation item 200670, Exceptional Cost Reimbursement, be used in each fiscal year to provide additional state aid to school districts, joint vocational school districts, community schools, and STEM schools for special education students in categories two through six if a district or school's costs for such a student exceed the threshold exceptional cost for serving the student. EDUCD27 Section: 263.280 Schools Medicaid Administrative Claims Section: 263.280
No provision.
Section:
263.280
Authorizes the Director of OBM, at the request of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to transfer up to $750,000 in each fiscal year from the GRF to the Schools Medicaid Administrative Claims Fund (Fund 3AF0) used by ODE. Specifies that these funds be used to pay expenses incurred in administering the Medicaid School Component of the Medicaid program. Requires the Director of OBM on June 1 of each fiscal year, or as soon as possible thereafter, to transfer cash from Fund 3AF0 back to the GRF in an amount equal to that transferred to Fund 3AF0 in that fiscal year. Appropriates the cash deposited into Fund 3AF0.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD28 Section: 263.290 Half-Mill Maintenance Equalization Section:
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263.290
Section:
263.290
Specifies that SSR Fund 5BJ0 appropriation item 200626, Half-Mill Maintenance Equalization, be used to make payments to eligible school districts to equalize districts' halfmill maintenance levies required under the Classroom Facilities Assistance program of the School Facilities Commission to the statewide average wealth level. EDUCD47 Section: 263.300 Gates Foundation Grants
Section:
263.300
Section:
263.300
Specifies that SSR Fund 5T30 appropriation item 200668, Gates Foundation Grants, be used by ODE to provide professional development to school district principals, superintendents, and other administrative staff on the use of education technology. EDUCD29 Section: 263.310 Auxiliary Services Reimbursement
Section:
263.310
Section:
263.310
Requires that the Treasurer of State transfer, if the unobligated cash balance is sufficient, $1,500,000 in each fiscal year from the Auxiliary Services Personnel Unemployment Compensation Fund to the Auxiliary Services Reimbursement Fund (Fund 5980) used by ODE.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD30 Section: 263.320 Lottery Profits Education Fund Section:
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263.320
Section:
263.320
Specifies that LPE Fund 7017 appropriation item 200612, Foundation Funding, be used in conjunction with GRF appropriation item 200550, Foundation Funding, to provide formula aid payments to school districts. Requires ODE, with the approval of the Director of Budget and Management, to determine the monthly distribution schedules of items 200550 and 200612. EDUCD77 Section: 263.320 Straight A Fund
Sections: 263.320, 263.323, 733.40 Same as the Executive, but makes the following earmarks to the appropriation item: (1) Earmarks $375,000 in each fiscal year for the Get Ready for Kindergarten program. Specifies that the program provide scholarships to parents of high-needs children to enroll them in high-quality preschools. (2) Earmarks $500,000 in FY 2014 and $3,000,000 in FY 2015 for the New Leaders for Ohio Schools Pilot Project. Authorizes the Superintendent to appoint three individuals to set up a nonprofit corporation to develop the pilot program. Specifies that the purpose of the program is to provide individuals with training and development in public school administration and to promote placement of those individuals in public schools with poverty percentages greater than fifty percent.
Sections: 263.320, 263.323, 263.324, 733.40 Same as the House, but makes the following earmarks to the appropriation item: (1) Same as the House.
Requires LPE Fund 7017 appropriation item 200648, Straight A Fund, to be used to make competitive grants for the Straight A Program (see EDUCD55). (1) No provision.
(2) No provision.
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Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Specifies the following with regard to the New Leaders program: (1) eight members are to serve on the Board of Directors, (2) the corporation's administrative costs are not to exceed 15% of the corporation's annual budget, and (3) state financial support for the corporation is to cease on the effective date of the authorizing law. In Senate Finance
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Makes the following changes to the program: (1) increases from eight to nine the number of members on the Board of Directors, specifies that the additional member is to represent major Ohio business enterprises, and specifies that this and another member are to be appointed by the statewide organization selected by the Governor, (2) specifies that the corporation's overhead expenses, rather than its administrative costs, are not to exceed 15% of the corporation's annual budget, and (3) specifies that state financial support for the corporation is to cease five years after the effective date of the authorizing law. (3) Earmarks $250,000 in each fiscal year for the purpose of providing grants to Promise Neighborhood programs for administrative costs associated with the program. Specifies that to be eligible for a grant, a program must have applied for or been awarded a Promise Neighborhood Implementation Grant from the US Department of Education. Specifies that a grant recipient must contribute local matching funds equal to the amount of the grant. (4) Earmarks up to $70,000 in each fiscal year for Kids Unlimited of Toledo for after-school tutoring and mentoring programs in two elementary schools. Requires Kids Unlimited of Toledo to provide local matching funds equal to the earmark. (5) Earmarks $5 million in FY 2015 to support the implementation of the College Credit Plus Program.
(3) No provision.
(3) No provision.
(4) No provision.
(4) No provision.
(5) No provision.
(5) No provision.
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Department of Education Executive EDUCD98 Section: 263.320 EdChoice Expansion Section:
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263.320
Section:
263.320
Requires that LPE Fund 7017 appropriation item 200666, EdChoice Expansion, be used to pay for EdChoice scholarships for students from families with incomes below 200% of the federal poverty level regardless of the performance of the school the student would otherwise attend (see EDUCD65). EDUCD78 Section: 263.320 Community School Facilities
Section:
263.320
Section:
263.320
Requires LPE Fund 7017 appropriation item 200684, Community School Facilities, to be used to pay each community school that is not an internet- or computer-based community school an amount equal to $100 for each fulltime equivalent pupil for assistance with the cost associated with facilities. Requires ODE, if the amount appropriated is not sufficient, to prorate the payment amounts so that the aggregate amount appropriated is not exceeded. EDUCD31 Section: 263.330 Lottery Profits Education Reserve Fund
Same as the Executive, but specifies that the appropriation item must also be used to pay STEM schools $100 per pupil for the cost of facilities.
Section:
263.330
Section:
263.330
Creates the Lottery Profits Education Reserve Fund (Fund 7018) in the State Treasury. Authorizes the Director of OBM to transfer cash from Fund 7018 to the Lottery Profits Education Fund (Fund 7017) in each fiscal year. Requires that the Director of the Ohio Lottery Commission, on July 15 or as soon as possible thereafter in each fiscal Department of Education
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Department of Education Executive year, certify the amount by which the lottery profit transfers received by Fund 7017 for FY 2013 exceed $680,500,000 and for FY 2014 exceed $841,000,000. Allows the OBM Director to transfer cash in excess of the amounts necessary to support appropriations in Fund 7017 from that fund to Fund 7018. EDUCD32 School District Property Tax Replacement - Business
H. B. 59
Sections: 263.340, 263.350 Permits the Director of OBM to make temporary transfers between the GRF and the School District Property Tax Replacement - Business Fund (Fund 7047) used by ODE to ensure sufficient balances in Fund 7047 and to replenish the GRF for such transfers. Specifies that RDF Fund 7047 appropriation item 200909, School District Property Tax Replacement - Business, be used to make direct reimbursement payments to school districts and joint vocational school districts for losses due to the phase-out of tangible personal property taxes. Appropriates any additional funds determined to be necessary by the Director of OBM. EDUCD33 Section: 263.350
School District Property Tax Replacement - Utility Section: 263.350 Section: 263.350
Same as the Executive. Specifies that RDF Fund 7053 appropriation item 200900, School District Property Tax Replacement - Utility, be used to make direct reimbursements to school districts and joint vocational school districts for losses incurred due to the reduction of assessment rates on public utility tangible personal property. Appropriates any additional appropriations determined to be necessary by the Director of OBM. Department of Education 100
Department of Education Executive EDUCD34 Section: 263.350 Distribution Formulas Section:
H. B. 59
263.350
Section:
263.350
Requires that ODE report to the Director of OBM and the Legislative Service Commission the following changes: (a) changes in formulas for distributing state appropriations; (b) discretionary changes in formulas for distributing federal appropriations; and (c) federally mandated changes in formulas for distributing federal appropriations. Requires these changes be reported two weeks prior to their effective date. EDUCD126 Community School SBH Subsidy
263.373
Section:
263.373
Continues the subsidy payment in current law for certain community schools that serve students with severe behavioral handicaps (SBH). Specifies that the amount of the subsidy is not deducted from the students' resident school district. Fiscal effect: Continues current law that may provide higher state payments to certain community schools.
Same as the House.
Earmark Accountability Section: 263.380 Section: 263.380
Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to request accountability reports from any entity that receives a budget earmark under ODE's budget.
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Department of Education Executive DASCD8 R.C.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Requirements that Apply to Health Care Plans Offered to Public Employees In Senate Finance
H. B. 59
9.901, 9.833, 9.90, 1545.071
R.C.
9.901, 9.833, 9.90, 1545.071
R.C.
9.901, 9.833, 9.90, 1545.071
(1) Provides DAS ongoing authority to prescribe best practices for public employers' health care plans, and requires state institutions of higher education (in addition to political subdivisions and school districts under current law) to offer health care plans that contain best practices established by DAS or the former School Employees Health Care Board. (2) Retains the current policy allowing a political subdivision to adopt a delivery system of benefits that is not in accordance with DAS's adopted best practices if it is considered to be most financially advantageous to the political subdivision, but adds that a consultation with DAS is required and that DAS must consider the plan to be most financially advantageous. (3) Requires DAS to do all of the following: (A) Identify strategies to manage health care costs; (B) Study the potential benefits of state or regional consortiums of public employers' health care plans; (C) Publish information regarding the health care plans offered by political subdivisions, school districts, state institutions, and existing consortiums; (D) Assist in the design of health care plans for political subdivisions, school districts, and state institutions of higher education separate from the plans for state agencies; (E) Adopt and release a set of standards that are to be considered the best practices for health care plans offered to employees of political subdivisions, school districts, and state institutions; (F) Promote cooperation among all organizations affected by this provision in identifying the elements for its successful implementation; and (G) Promote cost containment measures aligned with patient, plan, and Department of Education
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Department of Education Executive provider management strategies in developing and managing health care plans. (4) Abbreviates the name of the Political Subdivisions and Public Employees Health Care Fund to the Public Employees Health Care Fund. (5) Permits the Director of DAS to convene a Public Health Care Advisory Committee, instead of establishing the Committee in statute under current law. Requires Committee members to serve without compensation. Removes the requirement that the Committee include representatives from state and local government employers, state and local government employees, insurance agents, health insurance companies, and joint purchasing arrangements currently in existence. (6) Allows DAS to "work with," instead of "contract with" under current law, other state agencies to obtain services as DAS deems necessary for the implementation and operation of this provision. (7) Eliminates various provisions of current law that requires DAS to design health care plans for use by public employers that are separate from plans for state agencies. Fiscal effect: Presumably, health care plans that contain best practices would produce savings. The administrative costs for DAS to carry out those responsibilities are paid from GRF appropriation item 100403, Public Employees Health Care Program.
H. B. 59
(5) Same as the Executive, except restores the current law requirement that the Committee include representatives from state and local government employers, state and local government employees, insurance agents, health insurance companies, and joint purchasing arrangements currently in existence.
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Department of Education Executive MHACD9 Section: 327.60 Continuum of Care Services Section: 327.60
H. B. 59
Section:
327.60
Permits a portion of appropriation item 335421, Continuum of Care Services, to be allocated to community alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services boards according to a distribution methodology determined by the ODMHAS Director for purchases of mental health and addiction services, subsidized support of psychotropic medication needs for indigent citizens in the community, and provide support for medication assisted treatment costs. Permits a portion of appropriation item 335421, Continuum of Care Services, to be distributed to community alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services boards to provide grants in support of addiction services initiatives. No provision.
Same as the Executive, but requires, rather than permits, that a portion of appropriation item 335421, Continuum of Care Services, be allocated to local boards according to a distribution method developed by ODMHAS.
Allocates $665,196 in each fiscal year in appropriation item 335421, Continuum of Care Services, to The Ohio State University STAR House. No provision.
No provision.
No provision.
Allocates $250,000 in FY 2014 and FY 2015 to support the Chardon Pilot Program. Requires ODMHAS to provide a report to the General Assembly about the performance of this program by September 30, 2015. Allocates $250,000 in FY 2014 and $750,000 in FY 2015 to the Human Trafficking Center at The Ohio State University.
No provision.
No provision.
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Department of Education Executive BORCD81 eTech Abolishment
H. B. 59
Sections: 363.570, 263.470, R.C. 3319.235, 3333.90, 3317.50, 3317.51, 3301.41, Repealed or renumbered: Chapter 3353
Sections: 363.570, 263.470, 515.50 - 515.53, R.C.105.41, 125.05, 183.28, 3313.603, 3314.074, 3317.06, 3317.50, 3317.51, 3319.22, 3319.235, 3353.01, 3353.02, 3353.04, 3353.06, 3353.07, 3353.09, 3353.15, 3353.20 Replaces the Executive provision with a provision that renames and reconstitutes the eTech Ohio Commission as the Broadcast Educational Media Commission, effective July 1, 2013. Terminates all terms of members of eTech on June 30, 2013. Specifies that the membership of BEMC is the same as eTech except that public members must have a demonstrated interest in educational broadcast media. Requires that members of BEMC begin their terms on July 1, 2013. Same as the Executive.
Sections: 363.570, 263.470, 515.50 - 515.53, R.C.105.41, 125.05, 183.28, 3313.603, 3314.074, 3317.06, 3317.50, 3317.51, 3319.22, 3319.235, 3353.01, 3353.02, 3353.04, 3353.06, 3353.07, 3353.09, 3353.15, 3353.20 Same as the House.
Abolishes the eTech Ohio Commission, effective July 1, 2013.
Eliminates eTech's Interactive Distance Learning Pilot Project. Eliminates the requirement that eTech develop a state educational technology plan. Transfers to the Chancellor eTech's duties for educational telecommunications activities, teacher professional development, and capital. Transfers radio reading services to Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities Agency (OOD). Creates the Ohio Broadcasting and Public Radio Advisory Board within BOR. Requires that the Chancellor select the four members of the Board. Transfers services provided by eTech's North Star facility to the Chancellor. Requires the Chancellor to appoint an Executive Director of the Board to oversee the operations and staff of the North Star facility. Department of Education
Same as the Executive, but transfers all of the state's educational broadcast media services to BEMC, instead of BOR or RSC (OOD in the Executive proposal), including educational television, radio, and radio reading services. No provision.
Same as the House.
No provision.
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Department of Education Executive Creates the Educational Technology Practice Office as a cross-functional office with employees from BOR and the Department of Education (ODE), including former employees of eTech. Specifies that the Office develop digital learning, blended learning, and professional development materials, and evaluate and promote educational technology and methodologies. Requires that the annual eTech Ohio Conference be overseen by a Conference Operation Office comprised of employees of BOR and ODE. Transfers to the Chancellor and ODE eTech's employees. Requires the Chancellor, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Director of Budget and Management to jointly determine which employees transfer to the Chancellor and which to ODE. Transfers to the Chancellor the responsibility for eTech's outstanding capital appropriations. Cancels outstanding encumbrances against eTech line items as of July 1, 2013, and reestablishes them against the appropriate new line items created by the bill. Transfers on July 1, 2013, the cash balance of the Telecommunity Education Fund (Fund 4W90) to the Distance Learning Fund (Fund 4X10), the use of which is transferred from eTech to the Chancellor. Creates the Telecommunity Education Fund to be used by the Chancellor to finance technology grants. Eliminates the Education Technology Trust Fund and the Information Technology Service Fund, currently used by eTech.
H. B. 59
Replaces the Executive provision with a provision that allows for the continuation of some eTech employees with BEMC, as well as the transfer of some eTech employees to ODE or BOR in order to administer the activities transferred to ODE or the Chancellor from eTech. Same as the Executive.
Same as the House.
Same as the Executive
Same as the Executive, but maintains certain eTech line items with the newly reconstituted BEMC. Same as the Executive.
Same as the House.
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Department of Education Executive Property Taxes and Transfer Fees TAXCD69
H. B. 59
Additional School District Options for New and Existing Combined Levies R.C. 5705.217, 5705.192, 5705.218, 5705.25 R.C. 5705.217, 5705.192, 5705.218, 5705.25
No provision.
Allows a school district that levies an existing combined levy for current expenses and permanent improvements to replace or renew that levy solely for the purpose of funding general permanent improvements. Allows the district to replace the levy for a term of years different than the term for which the original tax was levied. (Under current law, a district may renew or replace such a levy only for the same purposes and the same term for which it was originally levied.) Specifies that new combined current expense and permanent improvement levies may be levied only for current expenses and general (but not specific) permanent improvements. (Current law allows such levies to be used for either general or specific improvements.) Fiscal effect: None. Property Tax Valuation of Gas and Condensate Reserves
Same as the House.
No provision.
Same as the House.
TAXCD13 R.C.
5713.051, 5713.05, Section 812.20 No provision. No provision.
Adjusts, for the purpose of property tax valuation, the calculation of the true value of gas reserves by valuing gas reserves according to its heat energy capacity as measured by BTU. Establishes, for the purpose of property tax valuation, a calculation of the true value of condensate reserves.
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Department of Education Executive Fiscal effect: Increases property tax revenues for applicable taxing jurisdictions; the increase is predicated upon the incidence of the newly defined gas reserves and condensate. TAXCD72 Property Tax Complaints
H. B. 59
5715.27, 307.699, 3735.67, 5715.19, 5717.01
Limits the right to file property tax complaints to the property owner, the owner's spouse, certain agents of the owner or spouse, and the county recorder of the county in which the property is located. (This limitation terminates the right of a school district, municipal corporation, or township to file a property tax complaint with respect to property it does not own. It also terminates the right of a municipal corporation or township to participate in complaint proceedings or appeals regarding other persons' property. Continuing law requires the county auditor to notify the school district where the property is located that a complaint has been filed. The school district may then respond to the complaint to support or oppose the underlying decision. This response is labeled a "complaint," but it is not prohibited by the amendment.) Fiscal effect: Eliminating the right to initiate appeals of real property valuations for some persons and entities might reduce the Board of Tax Appeals' case backlog, if fewer cases are filed with boards of revision and then appealed to that agency. The amendment might result in lower real property tax revenues to school districts and other units of local government.
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Department of Education Executive TAXCD10 R.C.
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Equalizing and Regionalizing County Appraisal Cycles In Senate Finance
H. B. 59
5715.33, 4503.06, 5713.01, 5715.24 (1) No provision. (1) No provision.
(1) Authorizes the Tax Commissioner to shorten or extend the sexennial reappraisal or triennial reassessment cycle for real property in a county for the purpose of equalizing and regionalizing real property assessment cycles. Specifies that the Commissioner may not reschedule any reappraisal or reassessment required by law after tax year 2023 for this purpose. (2) Specifies that mobile and manufactured homes taxed like real property are part of the same appraisal and assessment cycle as real property in the same county for the purpose of determining true value for the manufactured and mobile home tax. Fiscal effect: Delaying or expediting the reappraisal and/or reassessment from its current schedule will delay or expedite the increase (presumably) of property valuations used for property tax purposes, which would delay or expedite the local revenue growth derived from unvoted (inside) millage and other levies that are not subject to tax reduction factors.
(2) No provision.
(2) No provision.
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Department of Education Executive LOCCD19
Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House Community Reinvestment Areas: Pre-1994 Rules Application R.C. 3735.661, 757.40 No provision. In Senate Finance
H. B. 59
No provision.
Clarifies the types of amendments that, if made to a community reinvestment area (CRA) ordinance or resolution adopted before July 22, 1994 (the effective date of Am. Sub. S.B. 19 of the 120th General Assembly), cause the CRA to lose its grandfathered status and become subject to S.B. 19's requirements and limitations (e.g., notifications and compensation of school districts). Such amendments would include any that modify eligibility requirements for receiving CRA tax exemptions, increase the geographic size of a CRA, the percentage of assessed value of CRA property to be exempt, the term of any tax exemption or authorized category of tax exemptions, or the duration of a CRA. Clarifies that the amendment does not authorize a municipal corporation to decrease or increase the percentage of assessed value of grandfathered CRA property to be exempt. (Municipal corporations were and are allowed to exempt only 100% of property located in a grandfathered CRA.) Fiscal effect: None. The provision would retroactively clarify the intent of the General Assembly related to amendments under S.B. 19. A CRA is a geographic area designated by a municipal corporation or county in which the municipal corporation or county awards tax exemptions for residential, commercial, and industrial property located in the CRA.
No provision.
No provision.
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Department of Education Executive School Funding EDUCD92 R.C. Jon Peterson Scholarship Funding Formula 3310.56, 3310.51 R.C.

Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House In Senate Finance

Same as the House.

Same as the Executive.

Fiscal effect: Same as the House.

Same as the Executive, but makes the following changes:

Same as the House, but makes the following changes:

Prepared by the Legislative Service Commission

Department of Education Executive (1) An opportunity grant of $5,000 ($250,000 x 0.02);

(2) Same as the House.

(3) Same as the House.

(4) Same as the House.

(5) Same as the House.

(6) Same as the House.

(7) Gifted funds equal to $50.

(8) No provision. (See EDUCD88)

Department of Education Executive

Prepared by the Legislative Service Commission

3317.014, 3317.161, 3317.022, 3317.023, 3317.05, 3317.16

3317.014, 3317.161, 3317.022, 3317.023, 3317.05, 3317.16, 3314.08, 3326.39

Prepared by the Legislative Service Commission

Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House In Senate Finance

Same as the House.

Prepared by the Legislative Service Commission

Same as the Executive.

Same as the Executive.

Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive.

Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive.

Same as the House.

Prepared by the Legislative Service Commission

Department of Education Executive No provision.

Same as the House.

Fiscal effect: Same as the House.

Same as the Executive, but makes the following changes:

Same as the House, but makes the following changes:

(1) Same as the Executive.

(1) Same as the Executive.

(2) Same as the House.

Prepared by the Legislative Service Commission

Same as the House.

Fiscal effect: Same as the Executive.

3317.0214, 3314.08, 3317.16, 3326.34

3317.0214, 3314.08, 3317.16, 3326.34

Prepared by the Legislative Service Commission

Fiscal effect: Same as the House.

Prepared by the Legislative Service Commission

Same as the House, but makes the following changes:

(1) Same as the House.

Prepared by the Legislative Service Commission

Main Operating Appropriations Bill As Passed by the House In Senate Finance

(3) Same as the House.

(4) Same as the House.

(5) Same as the House.

(6) Same as the House.

Prepared by the Legislative Service Commission

(8) No provision. (See EDUCD88)

Prepared by the Legislative Service Commission

Department of Education Executive (9) No provision. (See EDUCD88)

Same as the House.