OAR 581-003-0055: Agency Authority to Direct State School Funds and Student Investment Account Funds

(1) After four or more years of a school district not meeting the performance growth targets, the department shall require the school district to authorize the department to prescribe the uses of up to 25% of the district’s State School Funds and Student Investment Account Funds. (a) Any proposed uses of the moneys must be presented to the governing body of the school district at an open meeting of the governing body that occurs no later than January 31 of the school year preceding the school year during which the department will be prescribing the uses of the moneys. (b) Additional proposed uses of the moneys or changes to the proposed uses of the moneys must be presented to the governing body of the school district at an open meeting. (2) The department shall enter into a partnership with an organization that specializes in budgets for public kindergarten through grade 12 schools to provide additional training and consultation services for a school district for which the uses of moneys will be prescribed.