Title 33, Title 33. Education-Libraries

The multiples for the following categories of special education programs, as these programs are defined for purposes of Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code, are as follows: (A) A multiple of 0.2435 for students whose primary or only identified disability is a speech and language di…

(A) The multiples for the following categories of career-technical education programs approved by the department of education and workforce under section 3317.161 of the Revised Code shall be as follows: (1) A multiple of 0.6230 for students enrolled in career-technical education…

(A) In addition to the information certified to the department of education and workforce and the office of budget and management under division (A) of section 3317.021 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner shall, at the same time, certify the following information to the dep…

As used in this section, "English learner" has the same meaning as in section 3301.0731 of the Revised Code. The multiples for English learners shall be as follows: (A) A multiple of 0.2104 for each student who has been identified as an English learner following the state's stand…

This section shall apply only for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. (A) The department of education and workforce shall compute a city, local, or exempted village school district's per-pupil local capacity amount for a fiscal year as follows: (1) Calculate the district's valuation per …

(A) The statewide average base cost per pupil shall be determined as follows: (1) For fiscal year 2024, the statewide average base cost per pupil shall be equal to the sum of the aggregate base cost calculated for all city, local, and exempted village school districts in the stat…

(A)(1) Subject to division (C) of this section, for fiscal years 2026 and 2027, the department of education and workforce shall pay temporary transitional aid to each city, local, and exempted village school district according to the following formula: (The district's funding bas…

As used in this chapter: (A) "Alternative school" has the same meaning as in section 3313.974 of the Revised Code. (B) "Autism scholarship unit" means a unit that consists of all of the students for whom autism scholarships are awarded under section 3310.41 of the Revised Code. (…

(A) On or before the first day of June of each year, the tax commissioner shall certify to the department of education and workforce and the office of budget and management the information described in divisions (A)(1) to (5) of this section for each city, exempted village, and l…

(A) As used in this section: (1) "Bankruptcy Reform Act" means the "Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978," 92 Stat. 2558, 11 U.S.C. 301, as amended.(2) "Chapter 11 corporation" means a corporation, company, or other business organization that has filed a petition for reorganization unde…

(A) As used in this section: (1) "Port authority" means any port authority as defined in section 4582.01 or 4582.21 of the Revised Code. (2) "Real property" includes public utility real property and "personal property" includes public utility personal property. (3) "Uncollected t…

(A) As used in this section: (1) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, "assigned bus" means a school bus used to transport qualifying riders. (2) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, "density" means the total riders per square mile of a school district. (3) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, "…

(A) The department of education and workforce shall compute and pay in accordance with this section additional state aid for preschool children with disabilities to each city, local, and exempted village school district and to each institution, as defined in section 3323.091 of t…

(A) The department of education and workforce shall compute and pay in accordance with this section additional state aid to school districts for students in categories two through six special education ADM. If a district's costs for the fiscal year for a student in its categories…

(A)(1) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, the department of education and workforce shall withhold from the aggregate amount paid for a fiscal year to each city, local, exempted village, and joint vocational school district an amount equal to the following: (a) In the case of a city…

This section shall apply only for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Payment of the amount calculated for a school district under this section shall be made under division (A) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code. (A) For each fiscal year, the department of education and workforce sh…

The department of education and workforce shall compute and distribute state core foundation funding to each eligible funding unit that is a city, local, or exempted village school district, the community and STEM school unit, the educational choice scholarship unit, the pilot pr…

(A) The amounts required to be paid to a district under this chapter shall be adjusted by the amount of the computations made under divisions (B) to (K) of this section. As used in this section: (1) "Career-technical planning district" or "CTPD" means a school district or group o…

The following shall be distributed monthly, quarterly, or annually as may be determined by the department of education and workforce: (A) An amount for each island school district and each joint state school district for the operation of each high school and each elementary schoo…

On or before the first day of June of each year, the tax commissioner shall certify the following information to the department of education and workforce and the office of budget and management, for each school district in which the value of the property described under division…

This section shall apply only for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. (A) For each fiscal year, the department of education and workforce shall calculate an amount for the community and STEM school unit as follows: (1) For each community school and STEM school, determine the sum of the f…

(A) On or before May 15, 2007, and the fifteenth day of May in each calendar year thereafter, the tax commissioner shall determine for each school district whether the taxable value of all utility tangible personal property subject to taxation by the district in the preceding tax…

(A) The superintendent of each city, local, and exempted village school district shall report to the department of education and workforce as of the last day of October, March, and June of each year the enrollment of students receiving services from schools under the superintende…

A membership record shall be kept by grade level in each city, local, exempted village, joint vocational, and cooperative education school district and such a record shall be kept by grade level in each educational service center that provides academic instruction to pupils, clas…

Each city, local, exempted village, and cooperative education school district, each educational service center, each county board of developmental disabilities, and each institution operating a special education program pursuant to section 3323.091 of the Revised Code shall, in a…

In accordance with rules which the department of education and workforce shall adopt, each joint vocational school district shall do both of the following: (A) Maintain a record of district enrollment of any persons who are not eligible to be included in the district's formula AD…

For purposes of section 3317.03 of the Revised Code:(A) A student shall be considered to be enrolled in the district for any portion of the school year the student is participating at a college under Chapter 3365. of the Revised Code.(B) A student shall be considered to be enroll…

The auditor of state may conduct annual audits of the information certified under section 3317.03 of the Revised Code. Last updated July 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM

(A) As used in this section: (1) "Contracting district" means a school district that has entered into a contract to provide career-technical education services that meet standards set by the department of education and workforce to one or more other school districts. (2) "Career-…

(A) The department of education and workforce shall determine for each institution, by the last day of January of each year and based on information certified under section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, the number of career-technical education units or fractions of units approved …

(A) The department of education and workforce shall compute and pay to a school district funds based on units for services to students identified as gifted under Chapter 3324. of the Revised Code as prescribed by this section. (B) The department shall allocate gifted units for a …

Moneys paid to school districts under division (E)(1) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code shall be used for the following independent and fully severable purposes: (A) To purchase such secular textbooks or digital texts as have been approved by the department of education and…

The superintendent of each school district, including each cooperative education and joint vocational school district and the superintendent of each educational service center, shall, on forms prescribed and furnished by the department of education and workforce, certify to the d…

(A) Moneys paid to chartered nonpublic schools under division (E)(2) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code shall be used for one or more of the following purposes: (1) To purchase secular textbooks or digital texts, as defined in divisions (A)(1) and (2) of section 3317.06 of t…

The department of education and workforce shall annually reimburse each chartered nonpublic school for the actual mandated service administrative and clerical costs incurred by such school during the preceding school year in preparing, maintaining, and filing reports, forms, and …

(A) There is hereby established in the state treasury the auxiliary services reimbursement fund. By the thirtieth day of January of each odd-numbered year, the director of job and family services and the department of education and workforce shall determine the amount of any exce…

If the department of education and workforce determines that a county board of developmental disabilities no longer needs a school bus because the board no longer transports children to a special education program operated by the board, or if the department determines that a scho…

(A) The transportation collaboration fund is hereby created in the state treasury for fiscal years 2022 and 2023. The fund shall consist of money appropriated for this purpose by the general assembly. The department of education and workforce shall use money in the fund for grant…

A board of education may admit to its schools a child it is not required by section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code to admit, if tuition is paid for the child. Unless otherwise provided by law, tuition shall be computed in accordance with this section. A district's tuition…

(A) Tuition shall be computed in accordance with this section if: (1) The tuition is required by division (C)(3)(b) of section 3313.64 of the Revised Code; or (2) Neither the child nor the child's parent resides in this state and tuition is required by section 3327.06 of the Revi…

As used in this section, "institution" means a residential facility that receives and cares for children maintained by the department of youth services and that operates a school chartered under section 3301.16 of the Revised Code. (A) On or before the thirty-first day of each Ja…

All moneys distributed to a school district, including any cooperative education or joint vocational school district and all moneys distributed to any educational service center, by the state whether from a state or federal source, shall be accounted for by the division of school…

(A) On or before the first day of March of each year, the department of job and family services shall certify to the department of education and workforce the unduplicated number of children ages five through seventeen residing in each school district and living in a family that,…

(A) As used in this section: (1) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, "base amount" is equal to $356,250. (2) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, "funding base" means an amount calculated by the department of education and workforce that is equal to the amount an educational service cente…

Any board of education participating in funds distributed under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code shall annually adopt a salary schedule for nonteaching school employees based upon training, experience, and qualifications with initial salaries no less than the salaries in effect …

(A) As used in this section and section 3317.14 of the Revised Code: (1) "Years of service" includes the following: (a) All years of teaching service in the same school district or educational service center, regardless of training level, with each year consisting of at least one…