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the joint vocational school district.
JOINT VOCATIONAL
SCHOOL LIMITATION
ON SPENDING OF
STATE FUNDING
A joint vocational school can expend its state vocational weighted funds
only for the delivery of career-technical programming to its students.
3317.16
JUNIOR RESERVE
OFFICERS TRAINING
CORPS
Junior Reserve Officer Training (JROTC) is one of the permitted
electives in Ohio’s curriculum requirements for graduation.”
Districts may excuse JROTC students from the half-credit physical
education requirement if they participate in the JROTC program for “at
least” two full school years. The academic credit from the JROTC class
will fulfill the requirement of an elective in place of the physical education
requirement.
3313.603
JVS
SUPERINTENDENT,
ESC
SUPERINTENDENT
AS
If the governing board of an educational service center is designated as
the board of education for the joint vocational school district (JVSD), the
superintendent of the ESC shall be the CEO of the JVSD. The
governing board may provide for additional compensation for this
service, and such additional compensation will be paid by the JVSD.
3311.19
KINDERGARTEN, ALL
DAY
Any school district may provide all-day, daily kindergarten.
While the all-day, daily program may be offered, no school district may
require that a kindergarten student attend for more than the number of
clock hours required each day for traditional half-day kindergarten by the
minimum operating standards
3321.05
KINDERGARTEN
FEES
If a district is offering all-day kindergarten for the first time or charged
fees for all-day kindergarten in 2012-2013 for all-day kindergarten, it may
continue to charge fees or tuition for students enrolled in the all-day
kindergarten in any school year after 2013-2013. However, those
kindergarten students for whom the tuition is charged will only be
counted as 0.5 full-time equivalency students. A district charging such
fees or tuition shall develop a sliding fee scale based on family incomes.
3321.01
KINDERGARTEN,
MANDATORY
A board of education may adopt a resolution establishing August 1
rather than September 30 as the required date by which children must
have turned five or six to enter kindergarten or first grade, respectively.
Apparently, there is also no penalty for preventing the establishing of a
“cutoff date” sometime between August 1 and September 30 nor for
phasing in an earlier date over time.
No student shall be admitted to the first grade if the child has not
successfully completed kindergarten unless the child is recommended
for admission in accordance with the district’s acceleration policy (under
ORC 3324.10).
3321.01
LATCH-KEY
A district or ESC may operate latch-key programs or provide certain
services or payments to latch-key programs in which children who reside
in the district or within the territory (if operated by an educational service
center) are enrolled.
A board is authorized to charge for participation in the program and may
not use money from the general fund for direct support, unless such
funds are from an appropriation of the state legislature earmarked for
this purpose. However, it may provide ancillary service, which includes
3313.207
3313.208
3313.209