Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 581 - OREGON DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › Division 24 - STANDARDS FOR EDUCATION SERVICE DISTRICTS › Section 581-024-0285 - Local Service Plans

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) The
			 district board must develop and adopt a local service plan pursuant to ORS
			 334.175 and this rule.
(2) Following adoption by the district board,
			 the local service plan must be approved by the boards of the component school
			 districts by resolution on or before March 1 pursuant to ORS
			 334.175(5)(b).
			 The local service plan must include all services and facilities provided by an
			 ESD, including the core services as defined in 334.175(2) and section (7) of
			 this rule, those services required by state and federal law and services
			 provided under contract to component school districts, non-component school
			 districts and other public and private entities and must be approved annually
			 by the ESD board and the component school districts. A local service plan shall
			 also contain annual performance measures. A local service plan must be approved
			 by the affirmative vote of at least two thirds of the boards of the ESD's
			 component school districts, representing at least 50 percent of the total
			 number of students enrolled in component school districts of the ESD.
(3) Pursuant to ORS
			 334.177 an education service
			 district board shall expend at least 90 percent of all amounts received from
			 the State School Fund and at least 90 percent of all amounts considered to be
			 local revenues of an education service district on services or programs that
			 have been adopted by the district board in the local service plan and approved
			 by the component school districts of the education service district through the
			 resolution process described in 334.175. For purposes of this section, amounts
			 considered to be local revenues of an education service district are those
			 local revenues defined in 327.019(1)(b) less the amounts required to be
			 distributed to component school districts under 327.019(8).
(4) Pursuant to ORS
			 334.177, an education service
			 district board shall expend 100 percent of all amounts received from the School
			 Improvement Fund on services or programs that have been adopted by the district
			 board in the local service plan and approved by the boards of the component
			 school districts of the education service district through the resolution
			 process described in 334.175.
(5)
			 Appropriate allocated costs of personnel, supplies, materials, equipment, and
			 facilities associated with providing resolution services may be allocated to
			 the local service plan and included in the 90% calculation.
(6) An approved local service plan may be
			 amended at any time by the affirmative vote of at least two thirds of the
			 boards of the ESD's component school districts, representing at least 50
			 percent of the total number of students enrolled in component school districts
			 of the ESD.
(7) ESDs shall offer
			 the following core services to component school districts, including:
(a) Programs for children with special needs,
			 including but not limited to special education services, services for at-risk
			 students and professional development for employees who provide those
			 services;
(b) Technology support
			 for component school districts and the individual technology plans of those
			 districts, including but not limited to technology infrastructure services,
			 data services, instructional technology services, distance learning and
			 professional development for employees who provide those services;
(c) School improvement services for component
			 school districts, including but not limited to services designed to support
			 component school districts in meeting the requirements of state and federal
			 law, services designed to allow the education service district to participate
			 in and facilitate a review of the state and federal standards related to the
			 provision of a quality education by component school districts, services
			 designed to support and facilitate continuous school improvement planning,
			 services designed to address schoolwide behavior and climate issues and
			 professional technical education and professional development for employees who
			 provide those services;
(d)
			 Administrative and support services for component school districts, including
			 but not limited to services designed to consolidate component school district
			 business functions, liaison services between the Department of Education and
			 component school districts and registration of children being taught by private
			 teachers, parents or legal guardians pursuant to ORS
			 339.035; and
(e) Other services that an education service
			 district is required to provide by state or federal law, including but not
			 limited to services required under ORS
			 339.005 to
			 339.090.