Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3301 - Department of Education - Administration and Director
Chapter 3301-61 - Vocational Education
Section 3301-61-06 - Contracts between school districts for career-technical education

(1) All districts that are parties to the agreement will agree upon the department of education and workforce approved plan for providing career-technical education programs.

(2) The method of assessing student need used to determine the number of students for which each district will provide funding for career-technical programs will be set out in the agreement. The scope for the education programs will be set out in the agreement. The scope of the education programs will be a minimum of five percent of the eleventh and twelfth grade enrollment from the previous year.

(3) The educating district's documented cost per student and the transfer of state and local funds will be identified in the agreement. The amount due will be at least the cost per student, less the amount of state reimbursement per student, times no less than the number of students as stated in the agreement.

(4) Each district's responsibility regarding facilities and equipment value and any repayment of state or federal funding related to construction and/or purchase of equipment will be stated in the agreement.

(5) Agreements will be in effect for a term of at least five years and will be renewable on the basis of at least five-year periods. In cases where a board of education offering the scope of the career-technical offerings has obligated funds for the construction and for equipping career-technical facilities, the contract between the boards of education will either cover a period of years necessary to amortize the obligation, or the contract will specify the parties' responsibility for repayment if the contract is not renewed at the expiration of a contract period.

(6) Any district not renewing the contractual agreement at the end of a contract term will provide written notice of the intention to not renew the agreement to all other parties to the agreement at least eighteen months prior to the expiration of the contract term in effect at the time.

(7) Arrangements for changes in contractual relationships at the expiration of each contract period or modifications of the contractual relationships during the life on the contract will have approval of all participating districts and notice will be provided to the department .