Ohio Revised Code
Chapter 3317 | Foundation Program
Section 3317.01 | School Foundation Program; Eligibility; Administration of Funds.

Effective: March 27, 2020
Latest Legislation: House Bill 197 - 133rd General Assembly
As used in this section, "school district," unless otherwise specified, means any city, local, exempted village, joint vocational, or cooperative education school district and any educational service center.
This chapter shall be administered by the state board of education. The superintendent of public instruction shall calculate the amounts payable to each school district and shall certify the amounts payable to each eligible district to the treasurer of the district as provided by this chapter. Certification of moneys pursuant to this section shall include the amounts payable to each school building, at a frequency determined by the superintendent, for each subgroup of students, as defined in section 3317.40 of the Revised Code, receiving services, provided for by state funding, from the district or school. No moneys shall be distributed pursuant to this chapter without the approval of the controlling board.
The state board of education shall, in accordance with appropriations made by the general assembly, meet the financial obligations of this chapter.
Moneys distributed to school districts pursuant to this chapter shall be calculated based on the annual enrollment calculated from the three reports required under sections 3317.03 and 3317.036 of the Revised Code and paid on a fiscal year basis, beginning with the first day of July and extending through the thirtieth day of June. In any given fiscal year, prior to school districts submitting the first report required under section 3317.03 of the Revised Code, enrollment for the districts shall be calculated based on the third report submitted by the districts for the previous fiscal year. The moneys appropriated for each fiscal year shall be distributed periodically to each school district unless otherwise provided for. The state board, in June of each year, shall submit to the controlling board the state board's year-end distributions pursuant to this chapter.
Except as otherwise provided, payments under this chapter shall be made only to those school districts in which:
(A) The school district, except for any educational service center and any joint vocational or cooperative education school district, levies for current operating expenses at least twenty mills. Levies for joint vocational or cooperative education school districts or county school financing districts, limited to or to the extent apportioned to current expenses, shall be included in this qualification requirement. School district income tax levies under Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code, limited to or to the extent apportioned to current operating expenses, shall be included in this qualification requirement to the extent determined by the tax commissioner under division (C) of section 3317.021 of the Revised Code.
(B) The school year next preceding the fiscal year for which such payments are authorized meets the requirement of section 3313.48 of the Revised Code, with regard to the minimum number of hours school must be open for instruction with pupils in attendance, for individualized parent-teacher conference and reporting periods, and for professional meetings of teachers.
A school district shall not be considered to have failed to comply with this division because schools were open for instruction but either twelfth grade students were excused from attendance for up to the equivalent of three school days or only a portion of the kindergarten students were in attendance for up to the equivalent of three school days in order to allow for the gradual orientation to school of such students.
A board of education or governing board of an educational service center which has not conformed with other law and the rules pursuant thereto, shall not participate in the distribution of funds authorized by this chapter, except for good and sufficient reason established to the satisfaction of the state board of education and the state controlling board.
All funds allocated to school districts under this chapter, except those specifically allocated for other purposes, shall be used to pay current operating expenses only.

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Ohio Revised Code

Title 33 | Education-Libraries

Chapter 3317 | Foundation Program

Section 3317.01 | School Foundation Program; Eligibility; Administration of Funds.

Section 3317.011 | City, Local, and Exempted Village School District Base Cost.

Section 3317.012 | Joint Vocational School District Base Cost.

Section 3317.013 | Special Education Program Multiples.

Section 3317.014 | Career-Tech Education Program Funding.

Section 3317.015 | Certification of Additional Information.

Section 3317.016 | Amounts for English Learners.

Section 3317.017 | City, Local, and Exempted Village School District Per-Pupil Local Capacity Amount.

Section 3317.018 | Statewide Average Base Cost per Pupil.

Section 3317.019 | Temporary Transitional Aid.

Section 3317.0110 | Community and Stem School Base Cost.

Section 3317.02 | Definitions.

Section 3317.021 | Tax Commissioner Information for School Funding Computations.

Section 3317.022 | Formulas for State Operating Funds to School Districts, Schools, and Scholarships.

Section 3317.023 | Adjustments to Amount Paid to District.

Section 3317.024 | Amounts Paid to School Districts and Schools for Certain Purposes.

Section 3317.025 | Recomputation Excluding Certain Property Where Value Is Disputed.

Section 3317.026 | Community or Stem School Unit Payment Amount.

Section 3317.028 | Recomputing Where Change in Taxable Value.

Section 3317.0210 | Adjusting for Taxes Uncollectable Due to Bankruptcy.

Section 3317.0211 | Adjusting for Uncollected Port Authority Taxes.

Section 3317.0212 | Transportation Payment.

Section 3317.0213 | Additional State Aid for Preschool Special Education Children.

Section 3317.0214 | Additional State Aid to School Districts for Students in Categories Two Through Six Special Education Adm.

Section 3317.0215 | Catastrophic Cost Pool.

Section 3317.0217 | Targeted Assistance Funding.

Section 3317.0218 | Supplemental Targeted Assistance Funding.

Section 3317.03 | Report of Average Daily Membership Figures and Additional Data.

Section 3317.031 | Membership Record for Each Pupil - Mandatory Compliance.

Section 3317.032 | Membership Record of Preschool Children With Disabilities.

Section 3317.033 | Joint Vocational District to Maintain Record of Persons Not Eligible for Inclusion in Average Daily Membership.

Section 3317.034 | Enrollment Status.

Section 3317.035 | Annual Audits of Certified Membership - Other Information.

Section 3317.036 | Enrollment Reports.

Section 3317.037 | Attendance Records for Career-Technical Planning District.

Section 3317.05 | Calculating Payments of Approved Career-Technical Education Units.

Section 3317.051 | Calculation of Gifted Funding Units.

Section 3317.06 | Providing Materials to Nonpublic Schools.

Section 3317.061 | Annual Report on Teaching Staff.

Section 3317.062 | Use of Appropriations to Chartered Nonpublic Schools for Auxiliary Services.

Section 3317.063 | Reimbursing Nonpublic School for Mandated Service Costs.

Section 3317.064 | Auxiliary Services Mobile Unit Replacement and Repair Fund.

Section 3317.07 | Reassignment of School Buses.

Section 3317.071 | Bus Purchasing Grants.

Section 3317.072 | Transportation Collaboration Grants.

Section 3317.08 | Tuition for Nonresident Pupils.

Section 3317.081 | Computing Tuition.

Section 3317.082 | Tuition for Children in Care of Department of Youth Services.

Section 3317.09 | State and Federal Moneys to Account for and Coded - Annual Statistical Report.

Section 3317.10 | Certifying Number of Ohio Works First Children in District.

Section 3317.11 | Educational Service Center Funding.

Section 3317.12 | Salary Schedule and List of Job Classifications for Nonteaching School Employees.

Section 3317.13 | Minimum Salary Schedule for Teachers.

Section 3317.14 | Boards to Annually Adopt Teachers' Salary Schedule.

Section 3317.141 | Recipients of Race to the Top Program Grants.

Section 3317.15 | Children With Disabilities; Speech-Language Pathology and Psychological Services.

Section 3317.16 | Computation and Distribution of State Core Foundation Funding to Joint Vocational School Districts.

Section 3317.161 | Approval of Career-Technical Education Programs.

Section 3317.162 | Temporary Transitional Aid for Joint Vocational School Districts.

Section 3317.164 | Business Work-Based Learning Financial Incentives.

Section 3317.18 | Withholding Payments in Order to Pay Debt Charges on Securities.

Section 3317.19 | Computation and Distribution of Payments to Cooperative Education School Districts.

Section 3317.20 | Calculation of Payment to County Dd Board.

Section 3317.201 | Payment to Institutions Providing Special Education Services.

Section 3317.23 | Enrollment in Dropout Prevention Recovery Program.

Section 3317.231 | Adoption of Rules.

Section 3317.24 | Enrollment in Program to Earn High School Diploma.

Section 3317.25 | Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid Spending.

Section 3317.30 | Payment for Services for Child in Juvenile Facility.

Section 3317.40 | Accountability for Funding.

Section 3317.50 | Telecommunity Education Fund.

Section 3317.51 | Distance Learning Fund.