Professional Report

the joint vocational school district.

JOINT VOCATIONAL SCHOOL LIMITATION ON SPENDING OF STATE FUNDING JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS

3317.16

A joint vocational school can expend its state vocational weighted funds only for the delivery of career-technical programming to its students.

3313.603

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. 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. 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 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. 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). 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 Any school district may provide all-day, daily kindergarten.

JVS SUPERINTENDENT, ESC SUPERINTENDENT AS

3311.19

KINDERGARTEN, ALL DAY

3321.05

KINDERGARTEN FEES

3321.01

KINDERGARTEN, MANDATORY

3321.01

LATCH-KEY

3313.207 3313.208 3313.209