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ORGANIZATION
$2,500 or less. Board must adopt a resolution, advertise, and follow
other procedures. The Board must also maintain a list of such items,
which is to be “posted continually in a conspicuous location in the
board’s office” and on the district’s web site (if it has one).
DISTRICT,
CREATION BY
STATE BOARD OF
EDUCATION OF
Following a study, the state board of education may propose by
resolution the creation of a new school district consisting of all or part of
the territory of two or more contiguous local, exempted village, or city
school districts. The state board must then file a copy of the proposal
with the board of education of each district whose boundaries would be
altered and with the governing board of any ESC in which the affected
district is located.
Following its adoption of the resolution, the state board must certify the
proposal with the board of elections of any county with districts affected
by the boundary changes. The proposal is then placed on the ballot for
the next general or primary election held at least 90 days following the
certification of the state board’s resolution.
Those qualified to vote on the proposal are the electors residing in the
school districts, or parts thereof, included in the proposed new school
district.
The net indebtedness of the previous district shall be assumed by the
“new” district in the same ratio that the assessed valuation of the
transferred area bears to the assessed valuation of the original district
as of the effective date of the creation of the new district.
The state board is also charged with apportioning “equitably” any
available funds and with determining to which ESC the “new” district will
be assigned.
Since a new district is created, the state board of education will appoint
five “electors” from within the “new” district to serve as board of
education members until their successors are elected and qualified at a
general election held in an odd-numbered year and not less than 105
days after the appointment of the board members.
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DISTRICTS,
DEFINITION OF
SCHOOL
School districts are defined (or, as the law states, “styled”) as city,
exempted village, local, educational service centers, joint vocational, or
county school financing districts.
No new exempted village districts may be formed. If a city reverts to
village status as a result of the census, the city school district which
included that territory becomes a local district. The exception is that, if
the city school district includes two or more “municipal corporations” with
an aggregate population greater than 5,000, the board of education may
by majority vote remain a city school district.
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3313.90
DISTRICT
RANKINGS
The department of education is required to rank order all school districts
according to the following measures:
1)Performance index score for each district and for each school
within the district;
2) Student performance growth from year to year;
3)Current per pupil operating expenditures;
4) Percentage of operating expenditures spent for classroom
instruction; and
5)Performance of, and opportunities provided to, gifted students.
3302.21
DOOR SECURITY
DEVICES
A school may install security devices, including devices that prevent
both ingress and egress so long as they are used for a finite period of
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