Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) As used in this rule:
(1) "Client" means any city, exempted
village, local, or joint vocational school district or community school that
has entered into an agreement under section
3313.843
(primary contract),
3313.844
(community school contract), or
3313.845
(fee-for-service contract) of the Revised Code to receive services from an
educational service center.
(2)
"Primary services" means the five services provided by an educational service
center to its clients that the service center selects to demonstrate cost
savings for purposes of this rule. "Primary services" may include services
provided to clients by a regional council of government established under
Chapter 167. of the Revised Code, if the educational service center is a member
of the council and has contracted with the council for provision of those
services
(3) "Student count" means
the sum of the average daily student enrollment for each of an educational
service center's clients for the previous fiscal year.
(B)
Any
educational service center may apply to
the department of education in accordance with paragraph (C) of this rule to be
designated as a high-performing educational service center. The department
shall determine, for each educational service center submitting an application,
the total percentage of cost savings generated for the service center's clients
in the previous fiscal year due to the clients receiving primary services from
the service center instead of another source. The department shall designate
each educational service center that generated cost savings for its clients of
at least five per cent as a high-performing educational service
center.
(C) Application process:
(1) An educational service center may seek
designation as a high-performing educational service center by submitting an
application to the department by August thirty-first of the fiscal year in
which designation is sought.
(2)
The application shall include all of the following information for the previous
fiscal year:
(a) A brief description of the
primary services selected by the educational service center;
(b) A list of the clients that received each
of the primary services;
(c) The
actual amount of money that each client saved by electing to receive the
primary service from the educational service center instead of providing the
service itself or through another vendor; and
(d) Evidence to support the amount of cost
savings.
(3) Cost
savings shall be calculated based on the price charged to the client by the
educational service center for a primary service.
(4) The department shall notify educational
service centers by October thirty-first whether they have been designated as
high-performing or not.
(D) Payments
(1)
The department shall pay each educational service
center designated as high-performing and each other educational service center
the amount specified in the applicable appropriations act times the service
center's student count.
(2) If the amount
earmarked for payments to educational service centers is not sufficient to pay
the amounts specified in paragraph (D)(1) of this rule, the department shall prorate the payment amounts
so that the appropriation is not exceeded.
(3) The department
shall adjust payments to high-performing educational service centers
no
later than the first payment in December of the applicable fiscal
year.
