Ohio Code 3314.20 – Enrollment limits for internet- or computer-based schools
(A) As used in this section:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 3314.20
- Internet- or computer-based community school: means a community school established under this chapter in which the enrolled students work primarily from their residences on assignments in nonclassroom-based learning opportunities provided via an internet- or other computer-based instructional method that does not rely on regular classroom instruction or via comprehensive instructional methods that include internet-based, other computer-based, and noncomputer-based learning opportunities unless a student receives career-technical education under section 3314. See Ohio Code 3314.02
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
(1) “Base enrollment” for an internet- or computer-based community school means either of the following:
(a) If the school was open for instruction on September 29, 2013, the number of students enrolled in the school at the end of the 2012-2013 school year;
(b) If the school opens for instruction after September 29, 2013, one thousand students.
(2) “Enrollment limit” for an internet- or computer-based community school means the following:
(a) For the 2014-2015 school year, the base enrollment increased by the prescribed annual rate of growth, as calculated by the department of education and workforce.
(b) For the 2015-2016 school year and each school year thereafter, the previous school year’s enrollment limit increased by the prescribed annual rate of growth, as calculated by the department.
(3) “Prescribed annual rate of growth” for an internet- or computer-based community school means either of the following:
(a) For a school with an enrollment limit equal to or greater than three thousand students, fifteen per cent.
(b) For a school with an enrollment limit of less than three thousand students, twenty-five per cent.
(B) Beginning in the 2014-2015 school year, no internet- or computer-based community school shall enroll more students than the number permitted by its enrollment limit.
(C) If, in any school year, an internet- or computer-based community school enrolls more students than permitted under the enrollment limit, the department shall deduct from the community school the amount of state funds credited to the community school attributable to each student enrolled in excess of the enrollment limit, as determined by the department.
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