Title 30, Education and Culture

(1) There is established the School Improvement Fund, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the School Improvement Fund shall be credited to the fund. (2) The moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the Department of Education for purposes of…

(1) In addition to those moneys distributed through the State School Fund, the Department of Education shall award grants to school districts, education service districts, the Youth Corrections Education Program and the Juvenile Detention Education Program for activities that rel…

(1) The Department of Education shall make grants to improve student achievement in schools that: (a) Are considered high poverty under Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (b) The department had not identified prior to January 1, 2014, as focus …

As used in ORS 327.300 to 327.320: (1) “Construction” includes land acquisition, planning, design, construction, remodeling, altering, furnishing and equipping public school facilities. (2) “Maintenance” includes repairing, replacement and other capital maintenance but does not i…

The Legislative Assembly finds that: (1) The construction and maintenance of public school facilities accomplish the purpose of creating jobs and furthering economic development in Oregon by, among other advantages: (a) Furnishing an important element of the public school system …

There is hereby created the School Facility Improvement Fund, separate and distinct from the General Fund. The fund shall be an investment fund for purposes of ORS 293.701 to 293.857. Moneys in the fund are appropriated continuously for the purpose of carrying out ORS 327.330. In…

(1) Subject to the rules of the State Board of Education, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall make grants to school districts that apply therefor for the purpose of construction and maintenance of public school facilities. (2) Grants shall not exceed $500,000 in any bi…

(1) In addition to moneys distributed through the State School Fund, the Department of Education shall award grants to school districts as provided by subsections (5) and (6) of this section for up to 50 percent of student transportation costs described in subsection (2) of this …

The Legislative Assembly declares that it is the policy of this state to provide substantial equity in opportunity among school districts in which electors support local option taxes for primary and secondary education. This policy will be accomplished by providing grant suppleme…

(1) As used in this section: (a) “Extended ADMw” means the district extended weighted average daily membership computed under ORS 327.013 (1)(c). (b) “Local option tax rate” means the amount of local option taxes imposed by the school district for the current fiscal year, after c…

(1) The Local Option Equalization Grants Account is created in the General Fund. (2) From the biennial legislative appropriation to the Local Option Equalization Grants Account to fund the local option equalization grant program described in ORS 327.336, amounts necessary to make…

(1) In addition to those moneys distributed through the State School Fund, the Department of Education shall make grants to improve student achievement in schools that: (a) Are considered high poverty under Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (b…

(1) The Department of Education shall establish and administer the Summer Learning Grant program. (2)(a) Under the grant program, the department shall award grants for summer learning programs that are provided to incoming kindergarten students through outgoing grade 12 students.…

(1) The Summer Learning Grant Program Fund is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. (2) The Summer Learning Grant Program Fund shall consist of: (a) Moneys appropriated or otherwise transferred to the fund by the Legislative Assembly; and…

(1) The Statewide English Language Learner Program Account is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the Statewide English Language Learner Program Account shall be credited to the General Fund. (2) Moneys in the Statewi…

(1) As used in this section, “ELL student” means a student who is eligible for and enrolled in an English language learner program under ORS 336.079. (2) In addition to distributing moneys through the State School Fund, the Department of Education may award grants to school distr…

(1) There is established within the State School Fund a High Cost Disabilities Account. (2) Each fiscal year, the Department of Education shall distribute moneys from the account to school districts as high cost disabilities grants. A school district may receive moneys from the a…

As used in this section and ORS 327.358: (1)(a) “Small high school” means a public school that is operated by a small school district and that has students in: (A) Grades 9 through 12, with an ADM of less than 350 in grades 9 through 12; or (B) Grades 10 through 12 only, with an …

(1) In addition to those moneys distributed through the State School Fund, the Department of Education shall award grants to small school districts with one or more small high schools from moneys appropriated to the department from the Small School District Supplement Fund. (2) T…

(1) There is established the Small School District Supplement Fund, separate and distinct from the General Fund. (2) The moneys in the Small School District Supplement Fund are appropriated continuously to the Department of Education for purposes of the grant program created by O…

(1) As used in this section: (a) “ADMw” means weighted average daily membership, as calculated under ORS 327.013. (b) “Eligible public charter school” means a public charter school that is not a virtual public charter school, as defined in ORS 338.005, and that has a student popu…

(1) As used in this section, “public school facility” means a building or premanufactured structure used by a school district or public charter school to provide educational services to children. (2) In addition to those moneys distributed through the State School Fund, the Depar…

(1) As used in this section, “eligible recipient” means: (a) A school district; (b) The Youth Corrections Education Program; (c) The Juvenile Detention Education Program; (d) The Oregon School for the Deaf; or (e) The school district or education service district that is providin…

(1) Activities related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics education and activities related to career and technical education that can lead to high wage and high demand jobs shall be funded as provided by this section. (2) The Department of Education shall distrib…

(1) The STEM Investment Grant Program is established to provide funding to school districts, education service districts, community colleges and public universities listed in ORS 352.002 to advance the goals described in ORS 326.500 (2). (2) The STEM Investment Council shall eval…

The STEM Investment Grant Account is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the STEM Investment Grant Account shall be credited to the account. Moneys in the account are continuously appropriated to the Department of Edu…

(1) The Oregon State University Extension Service shall assist school districts and education service districts in providing outdoor school programs. The Oregon State University Extension Service shall provide assistance by administering a grant program, providing program leaders…

As used in ORS 327.405 to 327.480, unless the context requires otherwise, “administrative office for the county” means the administrative office of the education service district or of any common school district that includes an entire county. [1965 c.100 §30; 1991 c.167 §2; 2003…

(1) The Common School Fund is composed of: (a) The proceeds from the sales of the 16th and 36th sections of every township or of any lands selected in lieu thereof; (b) All the moneys and clear proceeds of all property that may accrue to the state by escheat or forfeiture; (c) Th…

The Department of State Lands shall transfer the balance of the Distributable Income Account of the Common School Fund established under ORS 273.105, after deductions authorized by law, to the Superintendent of Public Instruction semiannually, or more frequently if the State Land…

(1) The basis of all apportionments of the Common School Fund shall be the reports of the resident average daily membership for the preceding fiscal year as reported by the school district to the Department of Education. (2) In the case of a joint school district, the resident av…

(1) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall prorate the annual estimate of census as provided in ORS 327.410 and 327.420 in proportion as the resident average daily membership of each education service district bears to the total resident average daily membership of the st…

(1) All moneys belonging to the Common School Fund and not required to meet current expenses shall be loaned by the Department of State Lands at a rate of interest fixed by the department. The department may consult with and obtain the recommendation of the Oregon Investment Coun…

(1) The principal and interest of all loans shall be paid in lawful money of the United States. (2) Loans shall be secured by note specifying the fund from which the loan is made and mortgage to the Department of State Lands on improved land within this state, or upon range or gr…

The Department of State Lands shall adopt methods, rules and regulations for ascertaining the value of and state of the title of any lands proposed as security for any loan under the provisions of ORS 327.425 and 327.430. All expenses of ascertaining title shall be borne by the a…

Secured loans authorized by ORS 327.430 shall be repaid in semiannual, quarterly or monthly installments, as may mutually be agreed upon between the borrower and the Department of State Lands, and the installments shall aggregate each year an amount equal to one year’s interest o…

The Department of State Lands shall have custody of all notes, bonds and other securities covering secured loans made by it from any fund. The department shall take proper measures for the prompt collection of interest due on all loans from any such fund and place it to the credi…

(1) The Department of State Lands shall foreclose all mortgages taken to evidence loans from the Common School Fund or other funds whenever more than one year’s interest on the loan is due and unpaid or whenever any mortgage becomes inadequate security for the money loaned. The d…

The Director of the Department of State Lands shall keep a correct record of all purchases on foreclosures under ORS 327.450 with a description of the lands so purchased or acquired, and a statement of the fund to which they belong. Such lands shall be placed in the hands of the …

Whenever the Department of State Lands receives a deed to the State of Oregon of lands covered by a mortgage given to secure a loan from the Common School Fund in liquidation of the debt represented by the loan, the department shall send a written notice of the transaction to the…

(1) Excepting tax liens of irrigation or drainage districts organized before the effective date of the Department of State Lands’ lien, whenever the State of Oregon acquires property or lands through foreclosure of a mortgage given to secure a loan from the Common School Fund and…

Whenever the Department of State Lands receives a deed as described in ORS 327.465, the county court of the county in which the lands are situated may, within one year from the recorded date of such deed, acquire from the state the property so conveyed by paying to the state the …

(1) Where the judgment in a suit instituted by the State of Oregon to cancel and set aside any deed of lands from the State of Oregon alleged to have been procured by fraud and in violation of law grants relief to the State of Oregon which is conditioned on the payment of money, …

Out of the moneys in the General Fund, there is continuously appropriated such sums as are necessary but not to exceed $100,000 in total to reimburse the Common School Fund for any amount that may result from the failure of loans to earn at least four percent interest. The comput…

Moneys may be withdrawn annually on July 1 from the General Fund by order of the Department of State Lands to be credited to the Common School Fund to pay to the Common School Fund any amount resulting from the failure of the total student loans to earn at least four percent inte…

(1) The Education Cash Account of the General Fund consists of all moneys made available to the Department of Education by: (a) Charitable and philanthropic foundations, organizations and agencies if the moneys have not been dedicated for specific use by requirements of other sec…