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...There shall be the following sixteen regions in the educational regional service system: (A) Region one shall consist of the territory contained in Defiance, Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Lucas, Ottawa, Paulding, Putnam, Sandusky, Seneca, Van Wert, Williams, and Wood counties. (B) Region two shall consist of the territory contained in Erie, Huron, and Lorain counties. (C) Region three shall consist of the territor...

...(A) Each region of the educational regional service system shall have an advisory council. Except as provided in division (F) of this section, each advisory council shall consist of the following members and the members appointed under division (B) of this section: (1) The superintendent of each educational service center that has territory in the region; (2) The director of the special education regional resourc...

...The advisory council of each region of the educational regional service system shall do all of the following: (A) Identify regional needs and priorities for educational services to inform the department of education and workforce in the development of the performance contracts entered into by the fiscal agent of the region under section 3312.08 of the Revised Code; (B) Develop policies to coordinate the deliver...

...(A) The advisory council of each region of the educational regional service system shall establish the following specialized subcommittees of the council: (1) A school improvement subcommittee, which shall include one classroom teacher appointed jointly by the Ohio education association and the Ohio federation of teachers and representatives of community schools and education personnel with expertise in the area of ...

...Each advisory council subcommittee established under section 3312.05 of the Revised Code shall make recommendations to the advisory council regarding the implementation of state and regional education initiatives and school improvement efforts in the subcommittee's area of specialization. The recommendations may include strategies to tailor state education initiatives to regional needs and priorities or to maximize f...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall select a school district or educational service center in each region of the educational regional service system to be the fiscal agent for the region. For this purpose, the department shall issue a request for proposals from districts and service centers interested in being a fiscal agent. The department shall select each fiscal agent based upon the following crite...

...Each fiscal agent selected by the department of education and workforce pursuant to section 3312.07 of the Revised Code shall do all of the following: (A) Enter into performance contracts with the department in accordance with section 3312.09 of the Revised Code for the implementation of state and regional education initiatives and school improvement efforts; (B) Receive federal and state funds, including feder...

...(A) Each performance contract entered into by the department of education and workforce and the fiscal agent of a region for implementation of a state or regional education initiative or school improvement effort shall include the following: (1) An explanation of how the regional needs and priorities for educational services have been identified by the advisory council of the region, the advisory council's subcomm...

...The board of education of a city, exempted village, or local school district or the governing authority of a community school may enter into an agreement, through the adoption of identical resolutions, with the governing authority of an information technology center, under which the information technology center will provide services to the school district or community school. Services provided under the agreement an...

...The department of education and workforce shall consider the following when entering into performance contracts with the fiscal agent of each region of the educational regional service system and when allocating funds for the implementation of statewide education initiatives by regional service providers ; (A) The unique needs and circumstances of the region; (B) The regional needs and priorities for educational...

...Except in an island school district, where the superintendent of an educational service center otherwise may serve as superintendent of the district and except as otherwise provided for any cooperative education school district pursuant to division (B)(2) of section 3311.52 or division (B)(3) of section 3311.521 of the Revised Code, the board of education in each school district and the ...

...If a board of education determines the superintendent is incapacitated in such a manner that he is unable to perform the duties of the office of superintendent, the board may, by a majority vote of the members of the board, appoint a person to serve in his place pro tempore. Each board of education shall adopt a written policy establishing standards for determining whether the superintendent is incapacitated, and sha...

...(A)(1) As used in this section, "other administrator" means any of the following: (a) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, any employee in a position for which a board of education requires a license designated by rule of the state board of education for being an administrator issued under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code, including a professional pupil services employee or administrative spec...

...The board of education of each city, exempted village, and local school district may create the position of business manager. The board shall appoint such business manager who shall serve pursuant to a contract in accordance with section 3319.02 of the Revised Code. In the discharge of all official duties, the business manager may be directly responsible to the board, or to the superintendent of schools, as the b...

...Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, if the board of education of a city, local, or exempted village school district does not appoint a business manager under section 3319.03 of the Revised Code, the board may assign powers and duties specified in section 3319.04 of the Revised Code to one or more employees or officers of the board, including the treasurer, and may give the employe...

...The business manager shall have the care and custody of all property of the school district, real or personal, except moneys, supervise the construction of buildings in the process of erection, and the maintenance, operation, and repairs thereof, advertise for bids, and purchase and have custody of all supplies and equipment authorized by the board. The business manager shall assist in the preparation of the annual ...

...The business manager shall receive such compensation as is fixed by the board of education before election, which shall not be decreased during the business manager's term of office. Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, the business manager shall give such bond as prescribed by the board for the faithful discharge of official duties.

...(A) The board of education of each city, exempted village, or local school district may create the position of internal auditor. Any person employed by the board as an internal auditor shall hold a valid permit issued under section 4701.10 of the Revised Code to practice as a certified public accountant or a public accountant. (B) The board shall execute a written contract of employment with each internal aud...

...(A) The board of education of each city, exempted village, local, and joint vocational school district shall employ the teachers of the public schools of their respective districts. The governing board of each educational service center may employ special instruction teachers, special education teachers, and teachers of academic courses in which there are too few students in each of the school districts enter...

...The board of education of any school district may, by resolution, establish a professional development program for teachers in accordance with which it may reimburse teachers employed by the district for all or any part of the cost incurred by the teacher in the successful completion of a course or training program in which the teacher enrolled as part of the development program. The terms and conditions for pa...

...Each teacher employed by the board of education of a school district or a governing board of an educational service center shall be granted at least thirty minutes for lunch each school day, during which time the teacher shall not be required to perform any school activity; except that in a one-teacher school where enforcement of the foregoing provisions may work a hardship, the governing board of the service center ...

...(A) The board of education of each city and exempted village school district and the governing board of each educational service center shall adopt or adapt the curriculum developed by the department of education and workforce for, or shall develop in consultation with public or private agencies or persons involved in child abuse prevention or intervention programs, a program of in-service training in the prevention ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Core subject area" means reading and English language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, foreign language, and fine arts. (2) "Properly certified or licensed teacher" means a classroom teacher who has successfully completed all requirements for certification or licensure under this chapter applicable to the subject areas and grade levels in which the teacher provides i...

...Once the state board of education adopts professional development standards pursuant to section 3319.61 of the Revised Code, the board of education of each school district shall use the standards for the following purposes: (A) To guide the design of teacher education programs serving both teacher candidates and experienced teachers; (B) To guide school-based professional development that is aligned with student ac...

...No school district shall employ any classroom teacher initially hired on or after July 1, 2013, to provide instruction in physical education in any of grades kindergarten through twelve unless the teacher holds a valid license issued pursuant to section 3319.22 of the Revised Code for teaching physical education.