School Finance

Starting this month, Auditor of State (AOS) Keith Faber’s office will be issuing financial health indicator (FHI) reports for school districts. This AOS program to identify and monitor signs of financial stress in public agencies began nine years ago with cities and counties and is now expanding to include school districts.

House Bill 491, which took effect March 19, 2019 made some important changes to teacher payment procedures that schools have to comply with immediately. Under the new procedures, before a district can pay any teacher:

Today, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled, in Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow v. Ohio Dept.