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EDUCATIONAL
SERVICE CENTER
INFRASTRUCTURE
LOANS TO
COUNCILS OF
GOVERNMENT
An ESC serving as a fiscal agent for a regional council of
governments may establish a program in which it enters into
agreements with the governing body of member governments to
lend them money to improve infrastructure within the territory of
members located within Ohio.
167.041
EDUCATIONAL
SERVICE CENTER
MERGERS
The boards of education of up to five adjoining educational service
centers may by identical resolutions adopted by a majority of the
members of each governing board within a 60-day period combine
these centers into one ESC, which may be “styled” as a joint
educational service center.
Apparently, no approval is required from the state board of education.
The former governing boards are dissolved, and the new board is
created 30 days after the date on which the final resolution of merger is
filed with the state board.
The composition of the new governing board has three different options
found in ORC sections 3311.053, 3311.054, and 3311.057. Please see
EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER GOVERNING BOARD
MEMBERSHIP
(above).
While all funds of each former ESC are paid to the new governing
board and the legal title of all property becomes vested in the new
governing board, the new governing board must also honor all contracts
made by the former boards.
No educational service centers can be “required” to merge if the
resulting territory would exceed 800 square miles.
3311.053
3311.054
3311.057
3311.058
EDUCATIONAL
SERVICE CENTER
SPONSORSHIP OF
COMMUNITY
SCHOOLS
An educational service center can convert all or a portion of a building
operated by the ESC to a community school. An ESC can also create a
conversion school within its service territory or an contiguous county
without receiving approval from or an agreement with the Ohio
Department of Education. However, any conversion community school
which the ESC sponsors outside its service territory (or a contiguous
county) and any start-up school will require ODE approval and an
agreement with ODE regarding the manner in which it will conduct its
sponsorship.
The agreement between the ESC governing board and the board of the
sponsoring entity must occur by March 15, and the contract must be
signed by May 15 prior to the school year in which the conversion
community school will open.
3314.02
3314.03
EDUCATOR
STANDARDS BOARD
MEMBER,
PROFESSIONAL
LEAVE FOR
Board of education must grant paid professional leave to any employee
appointed to the educator standards board “for the purpose of attending
meetings and conducting official business of the educator standards
board.”
3319.63
ELECTION OF CITY
SCHOOL DISTRICT
BOARD OF
EDUCATION
MEMBERS
If the number of members of a board of education of any city school
district to be elected at large is even, one half is to be elected in the year
preceding, and the remaining one half in the year following, a calendar
year divisible by four. If the number to be elected is odd, one half of the
remainder, after reducing the number by one, shall be elected in the
year preceding, and the remaining number shall be elected in the year
following the calendar year divisible by four. All members to be elected
3313.08