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education were required to adopt by July 1, 2013 an interim end-of-
course examination that complies with this requirement.
AMOUNT, FORMULA
A per pupil "formula amount" is currently used to compute transfer
payments for students attending community schools, STEM schools,
other districts through open enrollment, and colleges and universities
through the Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Program. The formula
amount is set at $5,900 for fiscal year 2016 and $6,000 for fiscal year
2017. Community schools (except for digital schools) will also receive
25% of the per pupil amount of Tier 1 targeted assistance funds.
3317.02
APPOINTMENT OF
EMPLOYEES
If the board has adopted an annual appropriation, it may, “by general
resolution, authorize the superintendent or other officer to appoint
janitors, superintendents of buildings, and such other employees as are
provided for in such annual appropriation resolution.” This applies to
city, exempted village, local, and career-technical education planning
districts (by inference, see Section 3311.19).
3313.47
APPROPRIATE
PROPERTY
A board of education may appropriate property in accordance with
Sections 163.02 to 163.22 for technical training, administrative, storage,
or other educational purposes.
One Ohio district court of appeals has ruled that the commission
collected by the clerk of courts for collecting and distributing the money
in connection with a judgment obtained by a landowner in an
“appropriations action” brought by a school district was a cost to be paid
by the school district rather than subtracted from the landowner’s award.
3313.39
APPROPRIATIONS
MEASURE, ANNUAL
The board shall pass an annual appropriations measure on or before
the first day of July and such supplemental appropriations as it finds
necessary during the year when funds are available. The appropriations
measure may be temporary until not later than October 1 of the current
year.
5705.38
ASSESSMENTS,
COLLEGE AND
WORK READY
The Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Chancellor are
required to select multiple assessments measuring college and career
readiness, and districts must choose one of the assessments to
administer to their students. The assessment is to be administered to all
eleventh grade students in the spring of the school year.
3301.0712
ATHLETIC
ELIGIBILITY
School districts cannot deny the opportunity for students to participate in
interscholastic athletics solely because the student’s parents do not
reside in Ohio, if the student resides in Ohio with the student’s
grandparent, uncle, aunt, or sibling who has legal or temporary custody
of the student or is the guardian of the student.
3313.538
ATTENDANCE,
EXCUSING A CHILD
FROM
The superintendent of the resident school district of a student may
excuse that child from attendance in the event of bodily or mental
conditions that do not permit attendance at school or in a special
education program. Such excuses are only good for all or part of the
school year in which they are issued.
Superintendents are also authorized under limited circumstances to
excuse a child for a limited period in order to perform necessary work
directly and exclusively for the parents or legal guardians.
3321.04
ATTENDANCE
OFFICER
City and exempted village boards of education shall either employ an
attendance officer or shall obtain these services from an educational
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