2011 Ohio Revised Code
Title [33] XXXIII EDUCATION - LIBRARIES
Chapter 3314: COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
3314.013 Limits on internet- or computer-based community schools.

(A) Until January 1, 2013, no internet- or computer-based community school shall operate unless the school was open for instruction as of May 1, 2005. No entity described in division (C)(1) of section 3314.02 of the Revised Code shall enter into a contract to sponsor an internet- or computer-based community school, including a conversion school, between May 1, 2005, and January 1, 2013, except as follows:

(1) The entity may renew a contract that the entity entered into with an internet- or computer-based community school prior to May 1, 2005, if the school was open for operation as of that date.

(2) The entity may assume sponsorship of an existing internet- or computer-based community school that was formerly sponsored by another entity and may enter into a contract with that community school in accordance with section 3314.03 of the Revised Code.

If a sponsor entered into a contract with an internet- or computer-based community school, including a conversion school, but the school was not open for operation as of May 1, 2005, the contract shall be void and the entity shall not enter into another contract with the school until January 1, 2013.

(B) Beginning January 1, 2013, up to five new internet- or computer-based community schools may open each year. If the governing authorities of more than five new schools notify the department of education under division (D) of section 3314.02 of the Revised Code, by a deadline established by the department, that they have signed a contract with a sponsor to open in the following school year, the department shall hold a lottery within thirty days after the deadline to choose the five schools that may open in that school year. The contract signed by the governing authority of any school not selected in the lottery shall be void, but the school may enter into a contract with a sponsor to open in a subsequent school year, subject to this division.

(C) Nothing in divisions (A) or (B) of this section prohibits an internet- or computer-based community school from increasing the number of grade levels it offers.

(D) Not later than July 1, 2012, the director of the governor’s office of 21st century education and the superintendent of public instruction shall develop standards for the operation of internet- or computer-based community schools. The director shall submit those standards to the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate for consideration of enactment by the general assembly.

Amended by 129th General Assembly File No. 28, HB 153, § 101.01, eff. 9/29/2011.

Effective Date: 04-08-2003; 06-30-2005