Professional Report

ORGANIZATION

$2,500 or less. Board must adopt a resolution, advertise, and follow other procedures. The Board must also maintain a list of such items, which is to be “posted continually in a conspicuous location in the board’s office” and on the district’s web site (if it has one). Following a study, the state board of education may propose by resolution the creation of a new school district consisting of all or part of the territory of two or more contiguous local, exempted village, or city school districts. The state board must then file a copy of the proposal with the board of education of each district whose boundaries would be altered and with the governing board of any ESC in which the affected district is located. Following its adoption of the resolution, the state board must certify the proposal with the board of elections of any county with districts affected by the boundary changes. The proposal is then placed on the ballot for the next general or primary election held at least 90 days following the certification of the state board’s resolution. Those qualified to vote on the proposal are the electors residing in the school districts, or parts thereof, included in the proposed new school district. The net indebtedness of the previous district shall be assumed by the “new” district in the same ratio that the assessed valuation of the transferred area bears to the assessed valuation of the original district as of the effective date of the creation of the new district. The state board is also charged with apportioning “equitably” any available funds and with determining to which ESC the “new” district will be assigned. Since a new district is created, the state board of education will appoint five “electors” from within the “new” district to serve as board of education members until their successors are elected and qualified at a general election held in an odd-numbered year and not less than 105 days after the appointment of the board members. School districts are defined (or, as the law states, “styled”) as city, exempted village, local, educational service centers, joint vocational, or county school financing districts. No new exempted village districts may be formed. If a city reverts to village status as a result of the census, the city school district which included that territory becomes a local district. The exception is that, if the city school district includes two or more “municipal corporations” with an aggregate population greater than 5,000, the board of education may by majority vote remain a city school district. The department of education is required to rank order all school districts according to the following measures: 1)Performance index score for each district and for each school within the district; 2) Student performance growth from year to year; 3)Current per pupil operating expenditures; 4) Percentage of operating expenditures spent for classroom instruction; and 5)Performance of, and opportunities provided to, gifted students.

DISTRICT, CREATION BY STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF

3311.37

DISTRICTS, DEFINITION OF SCHOOL

3311.01 – 3311.05 3313.90

DISTRICT RANKINGS

3302.21

DOOR SECURITY DEVICES

3781.106

A school may install security devices, including devices that prevent both ingress and egress so long as they are used for a finite period of