Ohio Code 3323.091 – Superintendent of each institution to apply for unit funding
(A) The department of mental health and addiction services, the department of developmental disabilities, the department of youth services, and the department of rehabilitation and correction shall establish and maintain special education programs for children with disabilities in institutions under their jurisdiction according to standards adopted by the department of education and workforce.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 3323.091
- Child: includes child by adoption. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Child with a disability: means a child who is at least three years of age and less than twenty-two years of age; who has an intellectual disability, a hearing impairment (including deafness), a speech or language impairment, a visual impairment (including blindness), a serious emotional disturbance, an orthopedic impairment, autism, traumatic brain injury, an other health impairment, a specific learning disability (including dyslexia), deaf-blindness, or multiple disabilities; and who, by reason thereof, needs special education and related services. See Ohio Code 3323.01
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Preschool child with a disability: means a child with a disability who is at least three years of age but is not of compulsory school age, as defined under section 3321. See Ohio Code 3323.01
- Related services: means transportation, and such developmental, corrective, and other supportive services (including speech-language pathology and audiology services, interpreting services, psychological services, physical and occupational therapy, recreation, including therapeutic recreation, school nurse services designed to enable a child with a disability to receive a free appropriate public education as described in the individualized education program of the child, counseling services, including rehabilitation counseling, orientation and mobility services, school health services, social work services in schools, and parent counseling and training, and medical services, except that such medical services shall be for diagnostic and evaluation purposes only) as may be required to assist a child with a disability to benefit from special education, and includes the early identification and assessment of disabling conditions in children. See Ohio Code 3323.01
- School district: means a city, local, or exempted village school district. See Ohio Code 3323.01
- Special education: includes instruction conducted in the classroom, in the home, in hospitals and institutions, and in other settings, including an early childhood education setting, and instruction in physical education. See Ohio Code 3323.01
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
(B) The superintendent of each state institution required to provide services under division (A) of this section may apply to the department of education and workforce for special education and related services funding for children with disabilities other than preschool children with disabilities, calculated in accordance with section 3317.201 of the Revised Code.
Each county board of developmental disabilities providing special education for children with disabilities other than preschool children with disabilities may apply to the department of education and workforce for opportunity funds and special education and related services funding calculated in accordance with section 3317.20 of the Revised Code.
(C) In addition to the authorization to apply for state funding described in division (B) of this section, each state institution required to provide services under division (A) of this section is entitled to tuition payments calculated in the manner described in division (C) of this section.
On or before the thirtieth day of June of each year, the superintendent of each institution that during the school year provided special education pursuant to this section shall prepare a statement for each child with a disability under twenty-two years of age who has received special education. The statement shall contain the child‘s data verification code assigned pursuant to division (D)(2) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code and the name of the child’s school district of residence. Within sixty days after receipt of such statement, the department of education and workforce shall perform one of the following:
(1) For any child except a preschool child with a disability described in division (C)(2) of this section, pay to the institution submitting the statement an amount equal to the tuition calculated under division (A) of section 3317.08 of the Revised Code for the period covered by the statement, and deduct the same from the amount of state funds, if any, payable under Chapter 3317 of the Revised Code, to the child’s school district of residence or, if the amount of such state funds is insufficient, require the child’s school district of residence to pay the institution submitting the statement an amount equal to the amount determined under this division.
(2) For any preschool child with a disability, perform the following:
(a) Pay to the institution submitting the statement an amount equal to the tuition calculated under division (B) of section 3317.08 of the Revised Code for the period covered by the statement, except that in calculating the tuition under that section the operating expenses of the institution submitting the statement under this section shall be used instead of the operating expenses of the school district of residence;
(b) Deduct from the amount of state funds, if any, payable under Chapter 3317 of the Revised Code to the child’s school district of residence an amount equal to the amount paid under division (C)(2)(a) of this section.
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