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...ll be conducted by an impartial hearing officer in accordance with standards and procedures adopted by the department. A hearing officer shall not be an employee of the department or any agency involved in the education or care of the child or a person having a personal or professional interest that conflicts with the person's objectivity in the hearing. A hearing officer shall possess knowledge of, and the ability t...

...No individual shall be assigned to act as a surrogate for the parents of a child with a disability under division (B) of section 3323.05 of the Revised Code if the individual is an employee of the department of education and workforce or the school district or any other agency involved in the education or care of the child or if the individual has any interest that conflicts with the interests of the child. If a conf...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall develop a document that compares a parent's and child's rights under this chapter and 20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq. with the parent's and child's rights under the Jon Peterson special needs scholarship program, established in sections 3310.51 to 3310.64 of the Revised Code, including the provisions of divisions (A) and (B) of section 3310.53 of the Revised Code. The depart...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall develop, implement, provide general supervision of, and assure compliance with a state plan for the following: (1) The identification, location, and evaluation of all children with disabilities in the state; (2) The provision of special education and related services to ensure a free appropriate public education for all children with disabilities at least thre...

...The department of education and workforce shall authorize the establishment and maintenance of special education and related services for all children with disabilities who are at least three years of age and less than twenty-two years of age, including children with disabilities who have been suspended or expelled from school, and may authorize special education and related services for children with disabilities wh...

...(A) Each school district shall submit a plan to the department of education and workforce that provides assurances that the school district will provide for the education of children with disabilities within its jurisdiction and has in effect policies, procedures, and programs that are consistent with the policies and procedures adopted by the department in accordance with section 612 of the "Individuals with Disabil...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Home" has the meaning given in section 3313.64 of the Revised Code. (2) "Preschool child" means a child who is at least age three but under age six on the thirtieth day of September of an academic year. (B) Each county board of developmental disabilities shall establish special education programs for all children with disabilities who in accordance with section 3323.04 of th...

...(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. (B) The superintende...

...(A) As used in this section, "public school preschool integrated class" means a class that is operated by a public school, educational service center, or county board of developmental disabilities in which fifty per cent of the students in the class are children with disabilities. (B) Notwithstanding any change to administrative rule adopted by the state board of education prescribing licensure qualifications for ...

...Each school district shall employ, as necessary, the personnel to meet the needs of the children with disabilities enrolled in its schools. Personnel shall possess appropriate qualifications and certificates or licenses as prescribed in section 3319.077 of the Revised Code and in rules of the state board of education.

...The board of education of a school district shall provide home instruction for children with disabilities who are at least three years of age and less than twenty-two years of age and who are unable to attend school, even with the help of special transportation. The board may arrange for the provision of home instruction for a child by a cooperative agreement or contract with a county board of developmental disabili...

...(A) If a child who is a school resident of one school district receives special education from another district, the board of education of the district providing the education, subject to division (C) of this section, may require the payment by the board of education of the district of residence of a sum not to exceed one of the following, as applicable: (1) For any child except a preschool child with a disability...

...(A) Where a child who is a school resident of one school district receives special education from another district and the per capita cost to the educating district for that child exceeds the sum of the amount received by the educating district for that child under division (A) of section 3317.08 of the Revised Code and the amount received by the district from the department of education and workforce for that child,...

...(A) When a child who is not in the legal or permanent custody of an Ohio resident or a government agency in this state and whose natural or adoptive parents are not known to have been residents of this state subsequent to the child's birth is a resident of a home as defined in section 3313.64 of the Revised Code and receives special education and related services from a school district or county board of developmenta...

...As used in this section, "per pupil amount" for a preschool child with a disability included in such an approved unit means the amount determined by dividing the amount received for the classroom unit in which the child has been placed by the number of children in the unit. For any other child, "per pupil amount" means the amount paid for the child under section 3317.20 of the Revised Code. When a school district ...

...If a child with a disability's custodial parent has made a unilateral placement of the child, the parent shall be responsible for payment of tuition to the program or facility the child is attending as a result of that placement as long as the district of residence has offered a free appropriate public education to that child. As used in this section, "unilateral placement" means withdrawing a child with...

...The department of education and workforce may arrange to pay to any board of education, the board for any children with disabilities who are not residents of the district but for whom the district is providing special education. Payments shall be made in accordance with rules and standards of the state board of education.

...The department of education and workforce shall: (A) Provide supervision and technical assistance to school districts in all accepted methods of educating children with disabilities who have hearing impairments, including the oral, manual, and total communication methods, with no demonstrable bias toward any one method over another; (B) Consult with employees of school districts and chartered nonpublic schools ...

...If any special education program provided pursuant to this chapter or Chapter 3325. of the Revised Code serves a student with a visual impairment for whom instruction in braille reading and writing is specified as appropriate pursuant to division (A)(2) of section 3323.011 of the Revised Code, the entity providing the program shall integrate the use of braille reading and writing into the student's entire c...

...(A) Within three months after a student identified with disabilities begins receiving services for the first time under an individualized education program, the school district in which that student is enrolled shall require the student to undergo a comprehensive eye examination performed either by an optometrist licensed under Chapter 4725. of the Revised Code or by a physician authorized under Chapter 4731. of the ...

...Annually on the first day of July, the department of education and workforce, in consultation with the department of children and youth, shall electronically report to the general assembly the number of preschool children with disabilities who received services for which the department of education made a payment to any provider during the previous fiscal year, disaggregated according to each area of developmental de...

...(A) As used in this section and section 3323.251 of the Revised Code: (1) "Dyslexia" means a specific learning disorder that is neurological in origin and that is characterized by unexpected difficulties with accurate or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities not consistent with the person's intelligence, motivation, and sensory capabilities, which difficulties typically result from a ...

...(A) Each school district and other public school shall do all of the following: (1) For the 2023-2024 school year, administer a tier one dyslexia screening measure to a student to whom either of the following applies: (a) The student is enrolled in any of grades kindergarten through three, or the student transfers into the district or school midyear and is enrolled in any of grades kindergarten through three. A...

...As used in sections 3323.31 to 3323.35 of the Revised Code, "autism and low incidence disabilities" includes any of the following: (A) Autism; (B) Hearing impairment; (C) Multiple disabilities; (D) Orthopedic disability; (E) Other health impairment; (F) Traumatic brain injury; (G) Visual impairment.

...The Franklin county educational service center shall establish the Ohio center for autism and low incidence. The center shall administer programs and coordinate services for infants, preschool and school-age children, and adults with autism and low incidence disabilities. The center's principal focus shall be programs and services for persons with autism. The center shall be under the direction of an executive ...