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Title 33, Title 33. Education-Libraries

61 chapters · 2,497 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 332,497 Ch 3313, Chapter 3313 | Boards of Education301 Ch 3309, Chapter 3309 | Public School Employe…157 Ch 3333, Chapter 3333 | Department of Higher …153 Ch 3307, Chapter 3307 | State Teachers Retire…152 Ch 3319, Chapter 3319 | Schools - Superintend…149 Ch 3345, Chapter 3345 | State Universities - …147 Ch 3314, Chapter 3314 | Community Schools115 Ch 3301, Chapter 3301 | Department of Educati…111 Ch 3318, Chapter 3318 | School Facilities83 Ch 3375, Chapter 3375 | Libraries80 Ch 3311, Chapter 3311 | School Districts; Cou…76 Ch 3317, Chapter 3317 | Foundation Program72 Ch 3326, Chapter 3326 | Science, Technology, …60 Ch 3335, Chapter 3335 | Ohio State University50

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.01 Styling of school districts
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The school districts of the state shall be styled "city school districts," "local school districts," "exempted village school districts," and "cooperative education school districts"; and joint vocational school districts may be styled either "joint vocational school districts" o…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.02 City school district defined
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The territory within the corporate limits of each city, excluding the territory detached therefrom for school purposes and including the territory attached thereto for school purposes, constitutes a city school district. When a city is reduced to a village, the city school distri…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.03 Local school district defined
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Each school district, other than a city school district, exempted village school district, joint vocational school district, or district then known as a county school district, in existence on September 16, 1943, shall be known as a "local school district" and shall continue to b…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.04 Exempted village school district defined
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Each school district known as an exempted village school district on September 16, 1943, shall be known as an "exempted village school district" and shall continue to be known as an exempted village school district until it has lost its identity as a separate school district or h…

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.05 Educational service center defined - county school financing district

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(A) The territory within the territorial limits of a county, or the territory included in a district formed under section 3311.053 of the Revised Code, exclusive of the territory embraced in any city school district or exempted village school district, and excluding the territory…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.051 Performance audit

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The auditor of state, on the auditor of state's initiative, may conduct a performance audit of an educational service center.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.0510 Termination of service center agreements; abolishment of educational service center governing board

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(A) If all of the client school districts of an educational service center have terminated their agreements with the service center under division (D) of section 3313.843 of the Revised Code, upon the latest effective date of the terminations, the governing board of that service …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.053 Joint educational service center

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(A) The boards of education of up to five adjoining educational service centers may, by identical resolutions adopted by a majority of the members of each governing board within any sixty-day period, combine such educational service centers into one educational service center. Th…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.054 Membership of governing board of joint service center

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(A) The initial members of any new governing board of an educational service center established in accordance with this section shall be all of the members of the governing boards of the former educational service centers whose territory comprises the new educational service cent…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.055 School board, board of education and school district construed

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Wherever in Title XXXIII of the Revised Code the term "school board" or "board of education" is used without expressly referring to boards governing city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school districts, or some specific combination thereof, the term shall be constr…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.056 Plan for adding appointed members to board

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The elected members of an educational service center governing board may by resolution adopt a plan for adding appointed members to that governing board. A plan may provide for adding to the board a number of appointed members that is up to one less than the number of elected mem…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.057 Service center board following merger

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(A) Any educational service center that is formed by merging two or more educational service centers or former county school districts may determine the number of members of its governing board and whether the members are to be elected at large or by subdistrict, provided each bo…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.058 When merger to achieve minimum average daily membership not required

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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 45.32 of Am. Sub. H.B. 117 of the 121st General Assembly, 146 Ohio Laws 900, 1805, as subsequently amended, or in Chapter 3311. of the Revised Code, no educational service center shall be required to merge in order to achieve an…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.059 Severance from one educational service center and annexation to adjacent service center

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The procedure prescribed in this section may be used in lieu of a transfer prescribed under section 3311.231 of the Revised Code. (A) Subject to divisions (B) and (C) of this section, a board of education of a local school district that severed and annexed its territory under sec…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.06 Territory of district to be contiguous; exceptions; annexation of territory

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(A) As used in this section:(1) "Annexation" and "annexed" mean annexation for municipal purposes under sections 709.02 to 709.37 of the Revised Code.(2) "Annexed territory" means territory that has been annexed for municipal purposes to a city served by an urban school district,…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.062 Forming district from noncontiguous districts

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Notwithstanding anything prohibiting the existence of school districts with noncontiguous territory in section 3311.06 or 3311.37 of the Revised Code or in any other section of this chapter, a new school district may be formed under this chapter after the effective date of this s…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.07 Change of classification upon advancement

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When a local or exempted village school district contains within its territorial boundaries the major portion of the territory lying within the corporate limits of a village advanced to a city, such school district may be BY a majority vote of the full membership of such board of…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.08 School districts that may become exempt from board supervision - census

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The board of education of any local school district which contains within its territorial boundaries: (A) All the territory lying within the corporate limits of a village having a population of three thousand or more according to the last federal census; (B) All the territory lyi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.10 Change of classification upon reduction of population in village school district - exception

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If an exempted village school district fails to contain within its territorial boundaries territory lying within the corporate limits of a village having a population, according to the latest federal census of two thousand or more, such exempted village school district shall beco…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.11 New school district to be approved by general assembly

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If the state board of education adopts a resolution under this chapter proposing the creation of a new city or local school district that was not in operation during the 2004-2005 school year, the district shall not be created unless both houses of the general assembly approve th…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.16 Plan for joint vocational school district

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Any local, exempted village, or city board of education, any educational service center governing board, or any combination of boards of such districts and centers, referred to in sections 3311.16, 3311.17, and 3311.18 of the Revised Code as the initiating unit, may make or contr…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.17 Copy of plan to be filed with board of each district

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On approval of the plan by the department of education and workforce, the initiating unit shall file a copy of such plan with the board of education of each district whose territory is proposed to be included in the proposed joint vocational school district. Within thirty days af…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.18 Creation of joint vocational school districts

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Subject to the consent of the board of education of each school district whose territory is proposed to be included within a joint vocational school district, the initiating unit may create a joint vocational school district within the county or within an area comprised of two or…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.19 Joint vocational school district board of education

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(A) The management and control of a joint vocational school district shall be vested in the joint vocational school district board of education which, beginning on September 29, 2013, shall be appointed under division (C) of this section. All members of a joint vocational school …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.191 Terms of additional members

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(A)(1) Subject to division (A)(2) of this section, if a joint vocational school district has an even number of member districts each appointing a member to the joint vocational school district board of education and the joint vocational school district's plan on file with the dep…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.20 Bond issue - annual levy

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A joint vocational school district board of education by a vote of at least two-thirds of its full membership may, at any time, submit to the electors of the joint vocational school district the question of issuing bonds of such district for the purpose of paying the cost of purc…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.21 Tax levy - rate

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(A) In addition to the resolutions authorized by sections 5705.194, 5705.199, 5705.21, 5705.212, and 5705.213 of the Revised Code, the board of education of a joint vocational or cooperative education school district by a vote of two-thirds of its full membership may at any time …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.211 Tuition - acceptance of funds

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The board of education of the joint vocational school district shall be authorized to charge and collect tuition for the attendance of pupils who are school residents of districts not a part of the joint vocational school district pursuant to arrangements made between the board o…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.212 Use of buildings

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The board of education of a school district which is a part of a joint vocational school district and the board of education of such joint vocational school district may enter into agreements to permit the school buildings of the district first noted to be used for the purposes o…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.213 Procedure for district to join existing joint vocational school district

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(A) With the approval of the board of education of a joint vocational school district that is in existence, any school district in the county or counties comprising the joint vocational school district or any school district in a county adjacent to a county comprising part of a j…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.214 Procedure for merging existing joint vocational school districts

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(A) With the approval of the department of education and workforce, the boards of education of any two or more joint vocational school districts may, by the adoption of identical resolutions by a majority of the members of each such board, propose that one new joint vocational sc…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.215 Facilities of joint districts

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Facilities of the joint vocational school districts may be used for post-high school training, technical training, and re-training programs of vocational education. A joint vocational school district operating a vocational school may construct, maintain, and operate facilities ot…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.216 Funds of joint districts

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All joint vocational school district funds shall be kept in depositories selected pursuant to sections 135.01 to 135.21 of the Revised Code. The treasurer of the joint vocational school district shall be the custodian of such funds. Such funds shall be disbursed only pursuant to …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.217 Dissolution of district

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Upon approval by a majority of the full membership of the board of education of a joint vocational school district, or upon the receipt of resolutions formally adopted by a majority of the boards of education of the school districts participating in the joint vocational school di…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.218 Sharing use of facilities, equipment or funds

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The board of education of a joint vocational school district may enter into a written agreement with the board of trustees of any technical college district, the boundaries of which are coterminous with such joint vocational school district, which agreement may provide for the sh…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.22 Transfer of school district territory

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A governing board of an educational service center may propose, by resolution adopted by majority vote of its full membership, or qualified electors of the area affected equal in number to at least fifty-five per cent of the qualified electors voting at the last general election …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.221 Acquisition of territory due to eligible school district transfer; transition agreement

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(A) As used in this section, an "eligible school district transfer" means the transfer, not later than June 30, 2015, of the entire territory of a local school district that has fewer than five hundred students to a contiguous local school district under section 3311.22 of the Re…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.231 Transferring local school district territory to adjoining service center or city or exempted village school district

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A governing board of an educational service center may propose, by resolution adopted by majority vote of its full membership, or qualified electors of the area affected equal in number to not less than fifty-five per cent of the qualified electors voting at the last general elec…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.24 Transfer of city, exempted village or local school district territory to adjoining district

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(A)(1) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the board of education of a city, exempted village, or local school district shall file with the state board of education a proposal to transfer territory from such district to an adjoining city, exempted village, or loca…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.241 Transfer or school district territory; cancellation of debt to solvency assistance fund

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(A) In the case of a voluntary transfer of the territory of a school district in accordance with section 3311.38 or division (A)(1)(a) of section 3311.24 of the Revised Code, and where the transfer is initiated under either of those sections not later than December 31, 2015, and …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.242 Mandatory school district territory transfer based on poor performance rating

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In the case of a proposed transfer of school district territory filed under section 3311.24 of the Revised Code, the state board of education shall approve a proposed transfer that satisfies all of the following conditions: (A) The territory is being transferred to an adjacent sc…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.25 Merger of districts located primarily in same county with population of less than 100,000

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(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, two or more city, local, or exempted village school districts whose territory is primarily located within the same county may be merged as provided in this section, if the county has a population of less than one hundred th…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.26 New local school district may be created

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The state board of education may, by resolution adopted by majority vote of its full membership, propose the creation of a new local school district from one or more local school districts or parts thereof, including the creation of a local district with noncontiguous territory f…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.27 Report to tax commissioner by board of surviving school district

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The board of education of a surviving school district, as that term is defined in section 5748.10 of the Revised Code, shall notify the tax commissioner as and in the manner required by that section.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.29 District public schools to maintain all grade levels - dissolution of district - authorization of exceptions

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(A) Except as provided under division (B), (C), or (D) of this section, no school district shall be created and no school district shall exist which does not maintain within such district public schools consisting of grades kindergarten through twelve and any such existing school…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.34 No exempted village school districts to be created

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After June 1, 1954 no exempted village school districts shall be created under section 3311.08 of the Revised Code.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.37 State board may propose creation of new district

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The state board of education may conduct studies where there is evidence of need for consolidation of contiguous local, exempted village, or city school districts or parts of such districts. The possibility of making improvements in school district organization as well as the des…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.38 State board may propose transfers of districts

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The state board of education may conduct, or may direct the superintendent of public instruction to conduct, studies where there is evidence of need for transfer of local, exempted village, or city school districts, or parts of any such districts, to contiguous or noncontiguous l…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.50 County school financing district

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(A) As used in this section: (1) "County school financing district" means a taxing district consisting of the following territory: (a) The territory that constitutes the educational service center on the date that the governing board of that educational service center adopts a re…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3311.51 Creation of special education districts - disposition of county school financing district tax levy proceeds

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Nothing in this section or sections 3311.50 and 5705.215 of the Revised Code shall be construed to permit or require the education of children with disabilities other than in the manner required by Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code. To the maximum extent appropriate, children wit…