Title 33, Title 33. Education-Libraries

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…

Any school district board of education or educational service center governing board participating in funds distributed under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code shall annually adopt a teachers' salary schedule with provision for increments based upon training and years of service.…

The board of education of any city, exempted village, local, or joint vocational school district that is the recipient of moneys from a grant awarded under the federal race to the top program, Division (A), Title XIV, Sections 14005 and 14006 of the "American Recovery and Reinves…

(A) As used in this section, "child with a disability" has the same meaning as in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Each city, exempted village, local, and joint vocational school district shall continue to comply with all requirements of federal statutes and regulations, …

The department of education and workforce shall compute and distribute state core foundation funding to each funding unit that is a joint vocational school district for the fiscal year as follows: For fiscal years 2026 and 2027: The district's funding base + [(the district's stat…

(A) As used in this section, "lead district" has the same meaning as in section 3317.023 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) A career-technical education program or a dropout prevention and recovery program of a city, local, or exempted village school district, community school, or STEM …

(A) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, the department of education and workforce shall pay temporary transitional aid to each joint vocational school district according to the following formula: (The district's funding base, as that term is defined in section 3317.02 of the Revised …

(A) As used in this section: (1) "Credential-only program" means an industry-approved credentialing program, or a series of such programs, offered by a dropout prevention and recovery community school in which students enrolled in grades eleven and twelve may earn an industry-rec…

(A) As used in this section, "JobsOhio" has the same meaning as in section 187.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The governor's office of workforce transformation, in collaboration with the department of education and workforce, the chancellor of higher education, and JobsOhio, shall c…

(A)(1) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, the department of education and workforce shall calculate a joint vocational school district's per-pupil local capacity amount according to the following formula: (0.0005 X the lesser of the district's three-year average valuation or the dis…

(A) As used in this section, the terms "Chapter 133. securities," "credit enhancement facilities," "debt charges," "general obligation," "legislation," "public obligations," and "securities" have the same meanings as in section 133.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The board of educati…

The department of education and workforce shall compute and distribute to each cooperative education school district for each fiscal year an amount equal to the sum of the following: (A) An amount equal to the total of the amounts credited to the cooperative education school dist…

This section does not apply to preschool children with disabilities. (A) As used in this section: (1) "Applicable special education amount" means the amount specified in section 3317.013 of the Revised Code for a disability described in that section. (2) "Child's school district"…

This section does not apply to preschool children with disabilities. (A) As used in this section, the "total special education amount" for an institution means the following: (1) For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, the sum of the following amounts: (a) The number of children certifie…

(A) As used in this section: (1) "Eligible internet- or computer-based community school" means an internet- or computer-based community school that is a dropout prevention and recovery community school, as defined in section 3314.02 of the Revised Code. (2) "Statewide average bas…

(A) As used in this section, "disadvantaged pupil impact aid" means the following: (1) For a city, local, or exempted village school district, the funds received under division (A)(4)(a) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code; (2) For a joint vocational school district, the fund…

(A) As used in this section, "student wellness and success funds" means the following: (1) For a city, local, or exempted village school district, the funds received under division (E)(3) of section 3317.011 of the Revised Code, subject to the state share and any phase-in establi…

The quality community school support program is established. Under the program, the department of education and workforce shall pay each community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code and designated as a community school of quality under section 3317.28 of t…

Not later than the thirty-first day of December of each fiscal year, the department of education and workforce shall designate as a community school of quality each community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code that meets the criteria established in divisio…