Title 30, Education and Culture

(1) A school district board that withdrew a school district from an education service district as provided in ORS 334.015 may choose to rejoin the school district to the education service district. (2) A school district board that chooses to rejoin a school district to an educati…

In adopting any rule relating to the distribution of state funds to education service districts, the State Board of Education shall not make any distinction based on the administrative structure of multicounty education service districts and the administrative structure of single…

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) The board of directors of an education service district shall consist of seven, nine or 11 members. (2) In education service districts, not fewer than five of the directors shall be elected, one from each of the zones established …

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) The board of directors of an education service district shall divide the education service district into not more than 11 zones as nearly equal in census population as may be practicable, measured along common school district boun…

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) In education service districts having a population of less than 550,000 according to the latest federal census, a candidate for the district board shall be nominated in accordance with ORS 255.235 except as provided in this sectio…

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) In education service districts, members of the board shall be elected at the time of the regular district election described in ORS 255.335 for the term commencing July 1 as provided in ORS 334.090. For this purpose, a district el…

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) The term of office of director of an education service district shall be four years. (2) The term of office of each director of an education service district shall begin on July 1 next following the date of election. A director sh…

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) The education service district board shall declare the office of a director vacant when the incumbent: (a) Dies or resigns; (b) Is removed from office or a court declares the election for the office void; (c) Ceases to be a reside…

(1) Each education service district board shall meet during July and organize by electing one of its members chairperson and one vice chairperson, each of whom shall serve until a successor is elected and qualified. No member shall serve as chairperson for more than two years in …

As used in ORS 334.108 to 334.115, “pilot education service district” means: (1) The Willamette Education Service District; (2) The High Desert Education Service District; and (3) The Northwest Regional Education Service District. [2005 c.828 §10; 2007 c.589 §1; 2010 c.59 §1] Not…

(1) Notwithstanding ORS chapter 334, the board of directors of a pilot education service district shall consist of nine members as follows: (a) Five directors shall represent zones established under ORS 334.032 and shall be elected by the boards of the component school districts;…

(1) ORS 334.095 does not apply to a pilot education service district. However, the board of directors of a pilot education service district shall declare the office of a director vacant when the incumbent: (a) Dies or resigns; (b) Is removed from office or a court declares the el…

Each pilot education service district shall biennially report to the interim legislative committees relating to education on the governance structure of the board of the pilot education service district prior to October 1 of each even-numbered year. [2005 c.828 §13; 2007 c.589 §4…

(1) The education service district is a body corporate. (2) The education service district board is authorized to transact all business coming within the jurisdiction of the education service district and may sue and be sued. (3)(a) The education service district board shall perf…

(1) Whenever an education service district ceases to exist, its real property shall pass to the successor district, which is authorized to treat the property in the same manner as did the predecessor district. (2) Whenever a school district withdraws from an education service dis…

(1) At the discretion of the county court or board of county commissioners of any county within the education service district, the county may provide space for the board, superintendent and staff of the education service district and may charge the district a reasonable sum as r…

(1) An education service district shall provide regionalized core services to component school districts. The goals of these services are to: (a) Assist component school districts in meeting the requirements of state and federal law; (b) Improve student learning; (c) Enhance the …

(1) As used in this section, “local revenues of an education service district” has the meaning given that term in ORS 327.019 but does not include any local revenues distributed under ORS 327.019 (8). (2) An education service district board shall expend at least 90 percent of all…

(1) An education service district may provide entrepreneurial services and facilities to public and private entities and to school districts that are not component school districts of the education service district if: (a) The services are part of the local service plan developed…

(1) An education service district board may accept gifts and bequests of money for the establishment and conduct of child guidance clinics and for any other purpose consistent with the powers and duties of the district. (2) The board shall deposit any such money received in a spe…

(1) The State Board of Education by rule shall establish standards to determine the adequacy of services and facilities provided by the education service districts. In establishing such standards, the state board shall consider the most economic method of providing services and f…

(1) No later than October 1 of each year, the board of directors of an education service district shall produce an annual report related to the performance and the finances of the education service district for the previous school year. The purpose of the report is to provide inf…

(1) The education service district board shall employ a superintendent who must hold an administrative license as a superintendent. The superintendent shall serve as the board’s executive officer, give an official bond or an irrevocable letter of credit issued by an insured insti…

(1) As used in this section, “classified school employee” includes all employees of an education service district in a position represented by a collective bargaining unit, except those for whom a teaching or administrative license is required as a basis for employment in an educ…

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the education service district board shall be subject in all respects to ORS 294.305 to 294.565, except that in addition to other qualifications, members of the budget committee who are not members of the education service…

(1) Before July 15 of each year, the education service district board shall certify the amount of ad valorem property taxes as provided in ORS 310.060 and the apportionment to the county assessor. The county assessor shall extend the levy on the assessment and tax roll as the lev…

Notwithstanding ORS 334.240 and 334.285, each education service district shall ascertain and levy annually, in addition to all other taxes, a direct ad valorem tax on all taxable property in the education service district sufficient to pay the maturing interest and principal of a…

The education service district board may include in its own budget, adopted pursuant to ORS 334.240, an emergency aid fund for use, at the discretion of the board, in aiding school districts within the education service district with emergency expenses unforeseen at the time of m…

(1) As used in this section: (a) “Obligations” means all contractual obligations, employment and service contracts and collective bargaining agreements. (b) “Reorganized” means a change in: (A) The boundaries of an education service district, including a merger; or (B) The govern…

(1) Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424, the State Board of Education shall constitute the boundary board for education service districts. In examining any proposal to reorganize education service districts, the state board shall consider whether the proposed district wo…

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) If two or more education service districts desire to join together for the purpose of forming one education service district, a petition from each such district shall be presented to the State Board of Education when: (a) Resoluti…

(1) At the public hearings conducted pursuant to ORS 334.710, the State Board of Education shall cause to have discussed the effect of the proposed district and any resident of the affected districts may be heard with reference to the proposal. (2) If, after the hearings, the Sta…

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) Immediately after the order to join two or more education service districts together, the boards of directors of all education service districts within the boundaries of the new district shall meet together upon the call of the ch…

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424, the nomination of a candidate to serve as a director of the new education service district from a zone, when made by a petition, shall be signed by electors registered in the zone in which the candidate is a resident. The nomination o…

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) The board of directors of the new education service district shall take office on July 1 of the year following its election. (2) The minority of directors of the new education service district shall serve terms expiring June 30 ne…

During the period following their election and prior to the date the new education service district comes into existence, the board of directors of the new education service district may take such action as is essential in order that the new district may carry out its required fu…

The board of directors of the new education service district shall have the same duties and exercise the same authority over the district as does the board of directors of every education service district. [1963 c.544 §50g]

(1) The high school education of all children of school age resident within a school district that does not operate a high school or that is not a component part of a union high school district shall be the responsibility of the district. (2) The district shall pay the tuition of…

The amounts required to meet the expenses of a school district under ORS 335.090 shall be certified to the county assessor separately. No tax shall be levied for the purposes of ORS 335.090 against property included in a union high school district. [1961 c.688 §2; 2003 c.226 §16]

All applicable laws governing common school districts apply to union high school districts. [Amended by 1965 c.100 §213; 1975 c.770 §45]

The creation of a common school district out of territory included in a union high school district, or the changing of boundaries of any common school district included in a union high school district does not affect the union high school district. [Amended by 1965 c.100 §214]

The union high school board may for high school purposes contract with a common school district board for the use of any property belonging to the common school district and may purchase an undivided interest in the property of a common school district for the purpose of operatin…

As used in ORS 335.495 to 335.505: (1) “Component school district” means a common school district lying wholly or partly inside the boundaries of a union high school district. (2) “Split school district” means a component school district lying partly inside and partly outside the…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, any union high school district may, when authorized by the electors of the district, extend the course of study in the district to include five years above the seventh grade or six years above the sixth grade, an…

(1) Any union high school board may, or shall upon petition of 100 electors of the district, submit to the electors of the district the question of lengthening the course of study in the district. The petition is subject to ORS 332.118. The election shall be held at the next date…

(1) If the union high school board determines that a majority of votes cast in the union high school district at an election under ORS 335.495 are for the proposal to lengthen the course of study, it shall: (a) Declare the proposal carried and certify the result to the district b…

Whenever the course of study in a union high school district is extended to include grades below the ninth grade, the union high school district shall be responsible for providing for the education of the pupils in the included grades and the cost of educating such pupils shall b…

(1) Notwithstanding any other statute, whenever kindergarten and grades 1 through 12 of the common schools within the union high school district come under the jurisdiction of the union high school board or whenever as a result of merger or boundary change the area within the bou…

In an election to add districts to a union high school district, if the district boundary board determines that the proposition carried in the union high school district by a majority of votes cast, and also carried in one or more of the common school districts by a majority of t…

(1) The common school month consists of 20 days. (2) No pupil shall be required to attend school on any Saturday or on any legal school holiday. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this section, a legal school holiday is any holiday specified in ORS 187.010. (3) Days on …