Effective: September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
(A) As used in this section:
(1) "Resident district" has the same meaning as in section 3326.31 of the Revised Code.
(2) "STEM school sponsoring district" means a municipal, city, local, or exempted village school district that governs and controls a STEM school pursuant to this section.
(B) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary:
(1) If a proposal for a STEM school submitted under section 3326.03 of the Revised Code proposes that the governing body of the school be the board of education of a municipal, city, local, or exempted village school district that is one of the partners submitting the proposal, and the STEM committee approves that proposal, that school district board shall govern and control the STEM school as one of the schools of its district.
(2) The STEM school sponsoring district shall maintain a separate accounting for the STEM school as a separate and distinct operational unit within the district's finances. The auditor of state, in the course of an annual or biennial audit of the school district serving as the STEM school sponsoring district, shall audit that school district for compliance with the financing requirements of this section.
(3) With respect to students enrolled in a STEM school whose resident district is the STEM school sponsoring district:
(a) The department of education shall make payments to the school in accordance with section 3317.022 of the Revised Code from the STEM school sponsoring district's state payments.
(b) The STEM school sponsoring district is responsible for providing children with disabilities with a free appropriate public education under Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code.
(c) The STEM school sponsoring district shall provide student transportation in accordance with laws and policies generally applicable to the district.
(4) With respect to students enrolled in the STEM school whose resident district is another school district, the department shall consider the students as open enrollment students and shall make payments to the school in accordance with section 3317.022 of the Revised Code.
(5) A STEM school sponsoring district and its board may assign its district employees to the STEM school, in which case section 3326.18 of the Revised Code shall not apply. The district and board may apply any other resources of the district to the STEM school in the same manner that it applies district resources to other district schools.
(6) Provisions of this chapter requiring a STEM school and its governing body to comply with specified laws as if it were a school district and in the same manner as a board of education shall instead require such compliance by the STEM school sponsoring district and its board of education, respectively, with respect to the STEM school. Where a STEM school or its governing body is required to perform a specific duty or permitted to take a specific action under this chapter, that duty is required to be performed or that action is permitted to be taken by the STEM school sponsoring district or its board of education, respectively, with respect to the STEM school.
(7) No provision of this chapter limits the authority, as provided otherwise by law, of a school district and its board of education to levy taxes and issue bonds secured by tax revenues.
(8) The treasurer of the STEM school sponsoring district or, if the STEM school sponsoring district is a municipal school district, the chief financial officer of the district, shall have all of the respective rights, authority, exemptions, and duties otherwise conferred upon the treasurer or chief financial officer by the Revised Code.
Last updated August 12, 2021 at 9:42 AM
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 33 | Education-Libraries
Chapter 3326 | Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics Schools
Section 3326.01 | Stem and Steam Defined.
Section 3326.02 | Stem Committee Established.
Section 3326.03 | Stem School Proposals.
Section 3326.031 | Single Governing Body May Direct Group of Multiple Stem Schools.
Section 3326.032 | Stem School Equivalent Designation.
Section 3326.04 | Stem or Steam Program of Excellence Designation.
Section 3326.06 | Nonprofit Enterprise to Support Coordination of Efforts.
Section 3326.07 | Schools Part of State Program - Dissolution.
Section 3326.08 | Stem School Administration and Oversight.
Section 3326.081 | Suspension of Employee Pending Criminal Action.
Section 3326.082 | Computer Science and Technology Fund.
Section 3326.09 | Team Responsible for Curriculum Development.
Section 3326.10 | Admission Procedures.
Section 3326.101 | Tuition for Nonresidents.
Section 3326.11 | Statutory Compliance Requirements.
Section 3326.112 | Compliance With Standards for Financial Reporting.
Section 3326.12 | Schools to Comply With Rc Chapter 3323.
Section 3326.13 | Qualifications and Licensure of Teachers.
Section 3326.14 | State Assessment Requirements.
Section 3326.15 | High School Credit.
Section 3326.16 | Schools to Comply With Health and Safety Provisions.
Section 3326.17 | Annual Report Card for Each School.
Section 3326.18 | Employees May Organize and Bargain Collectively.
Section 3326.19 | Rc Chapter 124 Inapplicable to Nonteaching Employees.
Section 3326.20 | Transportation for Native Students.
Section 3326.21 | School Treasurer - Financial Records.
Section 3326.211 | Unauditable Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics School.
Section 3326.22 | Enforcement of Truancy Laws.
Section 3326.23 | Annual Assurances of Schools to Department.
Section 3326.24 | Report of Employee Conviction or Alternative Disposition.
Section 3326.241 | Employee Investigation Report Kept in Personnel File.
Section 3326.242 | Application of Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Section 3326.243 | False Report of Employee Misconduct Prohibited.
Section 3326.25 | Criminal Records Check of Private Contract Employee.
Section 3326.26 | Body Mass Index and Weight Status Category Screening.
Section 3326.27 | Liability for Damages Due to Concussions.
Section 3326.271 | Stem School Employees; Liability.
Section 3326.28 | Procurement of Epinephrine Autoinjectors for Stem Schools.
Section 3326.29 | Liability Related to Sudden Cardiac Arrest.
Section 3326.30 | Procurement of Inhalers by Stem School.
Section 3326.31 | Stem School Funding Definitions.
Section 3326.32 | Report of Information Required by Department.
Section 3326.34 | Costs in Excess of Threshold Catastrophic Costs.
Section 3326.35 | Payment Adjustment for Students Enrolled Only Part of the Year.
Section 3326.36 | Payment Adjustment for Students Participating in College Credit Plus Program.
Section 3326.37 | Exclusions From Department Payments to Schools or Governing Bodies.
Section 3326.38 | Permitted Applications by Schools.
Section 3326.39 | Expenditures of Career-Technical Education Funding.
Section 3326.40 | Expenditure of Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid.
Section 3326.44 | Stem School Spending for English Learners.
Section 3326.45 | Stem School May Contract for Provision of Services.
Section 3326.49 | Schools May Not Levy Taxes or Issue Tax-Secured Bonds.
Section 3326.50 | Schools Shall Not Charge Tuition.
Section 3326.51 | Government of Stem School by District.
Section 3326.52 | Policies for Use of Credit Card Accounts.
Section 3326.60 | Procurement of Glucagon, Qualified Immunity.