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Public records maintained by the dissolved ESC in connection with
services provided to the client districts shall be transferred to the client
districts. All other public records shall be transferred to the Ohio
Historical Society for analysis and disposition.
When an ESC is dissolved, the territory of a local school district located
within that ESC does not automatically become part of the ESC which
will provide services following the dissolution of the former ESC. It
would appear that the local school district must select and contract with
any ESC for those services.
3311.05
EDUCATIONAL
SERVICE CENTER
FUNDING
This section describes the funding of educational service centers
(including supervisory units and per pupil deductions) and authorizes
ESC’s to provide direct special education, gifted education, and driver
education classes for students. Each city or exempted village school
district with a contract with an ESC under ORC 3313.843 is considered
to be securing supervisory services from that ESC.
However, any district with an enrollment greater than 16,000 students
may elect not to receive supervisory services so long as that election is
specified in the agreement.
3317.11
EDUCATIONAL
SERVICE CENTER
FUNDING FOR
EDUCATIONAL
SERVICES
If a juvenile detention facility contracts with an educational service
center for services for the students in the custody of the facility, the ESC
may bill directly to the school district responsible for the cost of
educating the student. The bill for these services does not need to
“pass through” the school district in which the juvenile detention facility
is physically located.
3313.847
EDUCATIONAL
SERVICE CENTER
GOVERNING BOARD
MEMBERSHIP
The number of governing board members of an educational service
center may vary somewhat. Under legislation enacted in 1995,
educational service centers formed by combining two or more such
centers (formerly, county boards of education) may have five members.
Law specifies how the initial members of the new educational service
centers are named.
If the plan for the new educational service center provides that
members will be elected from sub-districts, the initial members of the
new service center are all board members currently holding office in the
combining service centers. The plan for such a service center can
specify up to nine sub-districts of nearly equal population. The plan can
be developed by the entire board or by an executive committee of the
governing board appointed by the governing board. Board members
then are elected from the sub-districts at the next municipal election.
After at least one election of board members, the elected governing
board members may by resolution adopt a plan to add appointed
members (who may be representatives of the client districts) to the
governing board. The number of appointed members shall be up to
one member less than the elected board members, and these
appointed members shall be appointed by a majority of the elected
governing board members.
The plan, which will specify terms and qualifications of the appointed
members, must be submitted to the state board of education for
approval and becomes effective thirty days after the state board
approval. By a unanimous vote, the elected governing board members
may revise or rescind the plan, but the state board must approve or
disapprove of the plan or suggest modifications. If the state board
approves, the plan will go into effect as provided in the plan revision or
3311.053
3311.054
3311.056