Professional Report

opportunity to buy or lease the property. If one community school notifies the district treasurer, in writing within 60 days after the district board makes the offer, of its intention to purchase the property, the district board must sell that property to the community school for the appraised fair market value of the property. However, if more than one community school notifies the district treasurer, in writing within the 60-day period, of their intention to purchase, the district board must conduct a public auction to sell the property. All community schools within the school district, regardless of whether they accepted the offer, may bid on the property at auction. The district board is not required to accept any bid for the property that is lower than the appraised fair market value of the property. If two or more community schools located within the district notify the district treasurer, in writing, of their intention to lease the property, the district board must conduct a lottery to select the community school to which the district board must lease the property. The lease price offered by a district board cannot be higher than the fair market value of the leasehold. If no community school governing authority accepts the offer to purchase or lease the property within 60 days after the offer is made, the district board may offer the property to any other entity. At the time that the district offers the property for lease or sale, it may offer the property for sale or lease to a community school with plans either to relocate operations or add facilities within the district’s territory. However, notwithstanding any of the above, when a school district board decides to dispose of its real property, it must first offer that property for sale to the governing authorities of high-performing community schools and newly established community schools with a community school model that has a track record of high quality academic performance, as determined by ODE, before offering it to all start-up community schools and any college preparatory boarding schools located in the district as required under current law. Governing authority of a community school may negotiate with a board of education of a school district, educational service center, or a non- public school to provide services for a disabled student, but the board of education or board of an educational service center “shall” negotiate with the community school governing authority in the same manner as it would with a board of education seeking such services. The cost of special education or related services provided by a JVS to a community school student will be reimbursed to the JVS by a deduction from the state subsidy to the community school. Start-up community schools can be located in “challenged school districts,” defined as any district in the lowest 5% of all school districts as ranked according to performance index scores, as well as the urban eight and those districts in academic watch or academic emergency. A student enrolled in a community school or STEM school must be afforded the opportunity to participate in any extracurricular activities at the school of the student's resident school district to which the student would have been assigned (regardless of whether the community school or STEM school is sponsored or operated by the

3313.413

COMMUNITY SCHOOL SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES

3314.022

3314.083

COMMUNITY SCHOOL, START-UP

3314.02

COMMUNITY SCHOOL STUDENT AND EXTRACURRICULAR PARTICIPATION

3313.537