OH HB387

Dissolves all existing academic distress commissions and repeals laws authorizing their creation, effective immediately upon passage as an emergency measure.

Restores full governing authority to school district boards of education and reinstates employee rights previously limited under academic distress commission oversight.

Removes references to academic distress commissions from provisions governing school indebtedness, energy conservation measures, alternative fuel vehicles, and community school conversions.

Modifies educational choice scholarship eligibility by eliminating new first-time scholarships for students in districts formerly subject to academic distress commissions, though existing scholarship holders retain eligibility through grade twelve.

Eliminates requirements for academic distress commission approval before school districts can incur certain indebtedness for improvements and energy conservation projects.