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...Ohio deaf and blind education services is hereby established and shall include the state school for the deaf and the state school for the blind. Ohio deaf and blind education services shall operate under the control and supervision of the department of education and workforce. The department shall appoint a superintendent for Ohio deaf and blind education services, who shall supervise the state school for the deaf an...

...egulations adopted by the department of education and workforce, the state school for the deaf shall be open to receive persons who are deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind residents of this state, who, in the judgment of the director of education and workforce and the superintendent of Ohio deaf and blind education services, due to such disability, cannot be educated in the public school system and are suitable pers...

...egulations adopted by the department of education and workforce, the state school for the blind shall be open to receive persons who are residents of this state, whose disabilities are visual impairments, and who, in the judgment of the director of education and workforce and the superintendent of Ohio deaf and blind education services, due to such disability, cannot be educated in the public school system and are su...

...e superintendent of Ohio deaf and blind education services may return any pupil under the superintendent's jurisdiction to the pupil's resident school district if, in the opinion of the superintendent and the director of education and workforce, that pupil is not making sufficient progress to justify continuance as a pupil at the state school for the deaf or the state school for the blind.

...e superintendent of Ohio deaf and blind education services, with the approval of the director of education and workforce, shall, subject to the rules and regulations of the civil service, employ suitable teachers, nurses, and other staff necessary to operate Ohio deaf and blind education services and provide proper instruction and care to the pupils under the jurisdiction of the superintendent of Ohio deaf and blind ...

...The department of education and workforce may provide for the further and higher education of any blind pupils, who in its judgment are capable of receiving sufficient benefit to render them more efficient as citizens, by providing appropriate assistive technology to enable such persons to read from textbooks and pamphlets used in their studies while in attendance as regularly matriculated students in any college, un...

...(A) Ohio deaf and blind education services, in consultation with the department of children and youth, shall institute and establish a program of education to train parents of deaf or hard of hearing children of preschool age. The object and purpose of the educational program shall be to aid and assist the parents of deaf or hard of hearing children of preschool age in affording to the children the means of optimum c...

...Ohio deaf and blind education services, in consultation with the department of children and youth, in carrying out this section and division (A) of section 3325.06 of the Revised Code shall, insofar as practicable, plan, present, and carry into effect an educational program by means of any of the following methods of instruction: (A) Classes for parents of deaf or hard of hearing children of preschool age; (B) ...

...Ohio deaf and blind education services, in consultation with the department of children and youth, in carrying out this section and division (B) of section 3325.06 of the Revised Code shall, insofar as practicable, plan, present, and carry into effect an educational program by means of any of the following methods of instruction: (A) Classes for parents of children of preschool age whose disabilities are visual im...

...e superintendent of Ohio deaf and blind education services to any student enrolled in the state school for the blind or the state school for the deaf to whom all of the following apply: (1) The student has successfully completed the curriculum in any high school or the individualized education program developed for the student for the student's high school education pursuant to section 3323.08 of the Revised Code;...

...(A) Ohio deaf and blind education services shall institute and establish career-technical education and work training programs for secondary and post-secondary students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deafblind. These programs shall develop communication, mobility, and work skills and assist students in becoming productive members of society so that they can contribute to their communities...

...Ohio deaf and blind education services may receive and administer any federal funds relating to the education of students at the state school for the blind whose disabilities are visual impairments, including secondary and post-secondary students. Ohio deaf and blind education services also may accept and administer any gifts, donations, or bequests made to it for programs or services relating to the education of stu...

... the state treasury Ohio deaf and blind education services student activity and work-study fund. Moneys received from donations, bequests, the vocational programs of the state school for the blind and the state school for the deaf, and any other moneys designated for deposit in the fund by the superintendent of Ohio deaf and blind education services shall be credited to the fund. Notwithstanding section 3325.01 of th...

...e superintendent of Ohio deaf and blind education services by parents, relatives, guardians, and friends for the special benefit of any pupil at the state school for the blind or the state school for the deaf shall remain in the hands of the superintendent for use accordingly. The superintendent shall deposit the money into one or more personal deposit funds. The superintendent shall keep itemized book accounts of th...

...Ohio deaf and blind education services employees food service fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of payments received from employees who make purchases from the food service program of the state school for the blind or state school for the deaf. Notwithstanding section 3325.01 of the Revised Code, the approval of the department of education and workforce is not required to designate ...

...Ohio deaf and blind education services may receive and administer any federal funds relating to the education of deaf, hard of hearing, or deafblind students. Ohio deaf and blind education services also may accept and administer any gifts, donations, or bequests given to it for programs or services relating to the education of deaf or hard of hearing students and the state school for the deaf.

... treasury the state school for the deaf educational program expenses fund. Moneys received by Ohio deaf and blind education services for the state school for the deaf from donations, bequests, student fundraising activities, fees charged for camps and workshops, gate receipts from athletic contests, and the student work experience program operated by the school, and any other moneys designated for deposit in the fund...

...treasury the state school for the blind educational program expense fund. Moneys received by Ohio deaf and blind education services for the state school for the blind from donations, bequests, student fundraising activities, fees charged for camps, workshops, and summer work and learn cooperative programs, gate receipts from school activities, and any other moneys designated for deposit in the fund by the superintend...

...hapter: (1) "Compact career-technical education provider" means two or more city, exempted village, or local school districts that are not members of a joint vocational school district and that have entered into a compact under which students enrolled in any of the participating districts may access career-technical education programs provided by a participating district. (2) "Comprehensive career-technical educa...

...the STEM committee of the department of education and workforce consisting of the following members: (A) The director of education and workforce, or the director's designee; (B) The chancellor of higher education, or the chancellor's designee; (C) The director of development, or the director's designee; (D) Four members of the public, two of whom shall be appointed by the governor, one of whom shall be ap...

...(A) As authorized by the STEM committee, a single governing body may direct a group of multiple STEM schools to operate from multiple facilities located in one or more school districts to be organized and operated in the manner prescribed under this chapter except as specified by this section. Each school within the group shall operate as a separate school but under the direction of a common governing body. The gover...

... (2) A school offering career-technical education programs that is operated by a school district that is a comprehensive career-technical education provider; (3) A school offering career-technical education programs that is operated by a school district that is a participant in a compact career-technical education provider; (4) A community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code; (5) A cha...

...stricts, comprehensive career-technical education providers, compact career-technical education providers, and educational service centers in accordance with this section. (B) A joint vocational school district, comprehensive career-technical education provider, compact career-technical education provider, or educational service center may submit a proposal to the STEM committee seeking distinction as a STEM progr...

...oordination of public and private STEM education initiatives and resources focused on curriculum development, instruction, assessment, teacher quality enhancement, leadership recruitment and training, and community engagement. The nonprofit enterprise selected by the STEM committee shall have the proven ability to accumulate resources to enhance education quality across the educational continuum, fro...

...ing employees. (B) The department of education and workforce shall monitor the oversight of each STEM school exercised by the school's governing body and shall monitor the school's compliance with this chapter and with the proposal for the establishment of the school as it was approved by the STEM committee under section 3326.03 of the Revised Code. Except in the case of a STEM school that is governed and controll...

...ning classes as will add to the child's education for literacy, citizenship, or vocational preparation which may be made available to the child in the school district and which the child may be directed to attend by the superintendent, or in case no such classes are available, that the child will pursue such reading and study and report monthly thereon as may be directed by the superintendent. (B) Beginning July 1...

...The age and schooling certificate provided in sections 3331.01 to 3331.04 of the Revised Code shall be issued only with the word "limited" printed, marked, or stamped thereon if the medical certificate provided in section 3331.02 or 3331.07 of the Revised Code is a limited certificate, and in that case, the particular employment to which it is limited shall be stated in the certificate, and the certificate cannot ...

...When an age and schooling certificate is reissued, the pledge of the new employer shall be secured and filed. A physical fitness certificate from a physician, physician assistant, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner as described in division (A)(4) of section 3331.02 of the Revised Code shall also be secured and filed if the physical fitness certificate used in the issuing of the previously i...

...In case a superintendent of schools refuses to excuse a child from attendance at school for one of the reasons stated in section 3321.04 of the Revised Code, or a superintendent or a chief administrative officer refuses upon request to grant an age and schooling certificate as provided in section 3331.01 of the Revised Code, an appeal may be taken from such decision to the juvenile judge of the county, upon the givin...

...The superintendent of schools or chief administrative officer issuing an age and schooling certificate may revoke such certificate on account of noncompliance with stipulations, physical condition of the child, or other sufficient cause, or for failure to attend part-time schools or classes as required by sections 3321.08 and 3321.10 of the Revised Code.

...Records shall be available from the office issuing the age and schooling certificate: (A) Giving all the facts contained in every age and school certificate issued; (B) The names and addresses of the children to whom certificates have been refused, together with the names of the schools and grades which such children should attend and the reasons for the refusal; (C) All certificates no longer used, as provided ...

...When any officer charged with the enforcement of child labor laws discovers any child who in the officer's judgment is under fourteen years of age employed by a person who is not the parent or guardian of such child, the officer may cause such child to discontinue employment until satisfactory proof of lawful age is furnished.

...Whenever the school record of a child or notification regarding a child, as specified in section 3331.02 of the Revised Code, is required for the purpose of determining the child's eligibility to an age and schooling certificate, such record shall be furnished by the superintendent, principal, teacher, or other official in charge of the school attended by the child within two days after a request for the same is m...

...The parent or guardian of a child of compulsory school age shall secure and keep on file the proper age and schooling certificate of the parent's or guardian's child or ward if such child or ward is employed by the parent or guardian.

...As used in this section and sections 3332.03 to 3332.99 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agent" means any individual whose primary duties, performed while on or off school premises, include distribution of literature or information on behalf of a person offering a program, and the solicitation of prospective students in Ohio to enroll for a fee in a program. (B) "Certificate of registration" means a certificate issued by ...

...r chartered by the chancellor of higher education; (D) Courses of instruction required by law to be approved or licensed by a state board or agency other than the state board of career colleges and schools, except that a school so approved or licensed may apply to the state board of career colleges and schools for a certificate of registration to be issued in accordance with this chapter; (E) Schools for which ...

...iscipline or holds a master's degree in education with proficiency in the subject matter discipline demonstrated in accordance with the standards adopted by the board. (2) Except as provided under the standards adopted pursuant to division (P)(3) of this section, a prohibition against employing or reemploying on or after July 1, 1998, any full-time faculty member to teach the general study portion of any degree prog...

...he regulation of commerce, business, or education. The board may also arrange for services and facilities to be provided by the department of education and workforce or the department of higher education. All receipts of the board shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the occupational licensing and regulatory fund.

...een approved by the state department of education pursuant to the "Act of March 3, 1966," 80 Stat. 20, 38 U.S.C.A. 1771.

...The state board of career colleges and schools shall direct that a written survey be obtained by schools subject to this chapter, which shall be used to solicit comments from students enrolled at such schools. The board shall establish the guidelines for the survey by rule. The survey shall be designed to determine student satisfaction with the quality of instruction, facilities, school personnel, and business opera...

...(A)(1) No program shall be established, offered, or given for a charge, fee, or other contribution; no certificate, diploma, degree, or other written evidence of proficiency or achievement shall be offered whether in a specified place, by correspondence, or any other means of communication, or awarded; and no student enrollment in such program shall be solicited through advertising, agents, mail circulars, or other m...

...(A) Each application for issuance and renewal of a certificate of registration, for the issuance and renewal of program authorization, for issuance and renewal of agent's permits, and for any other service specified by the state board of career colleges and schools shall be accompanied by the required fee. Fees submitted under this section are not returnable even if approval or renewal is denied. (B) Fee schedules ...

...A college or school that holds a certificate of registration under this chapter shall pay any fee required by the state board of career colleges and schools for a new student disclosure course fee. No college or school shall charge a student for the fee paid under this section, either directly or through any increase in fees or tuition charged to a student to pay the disclosure course fee.

...The student tuition recovery authority is created as a body corporate and politic of this state. The purpose of the authority is to protect students of any school registered by the state board of career colleges and schools from prepaid tuition loss for the academic term due to a school closure. The authority shall consist of five members as follows: the executive director of the state board of career colleges and ...

...The state board of career colleges and schools may pursue any lawful means of assuring that students of any school registered by the state board do not suffer prepaid tuition loss as a result of the closure of a school. This may include lawsuits against a school or any individual who may reasonably have liability as a result of the default, in which the attorney general shall advise and represent the board. Any stude...

...The student tuition recovery fund is created in the custody of the treasurer of state, but not as a part of the state treasury. All revenues received from payments received under section 3332.085 of the Revised Code from schools registered by the state board of career colleges and schools and any other sources shall be deposited into the fund. The treasurer of state shall invest any portion of the fund not needed f...

...The student tuition recovery authority may: (A) Adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (B) Maintain a principal office at such place within the state as is designated by the authority; (C) Direct moneys to be paid by the surety on the bond required by section 3332.08 of the Revised Code and distribute moneys from the student tuition recovery fund to or on behalf of studen...

...(A) Not later than the thirty-first day of August in each year, each school registered by the state board of career colleges and schools shall pay into the student tuition recovery fund in the following amounts: (1) Schools initially registered or sold on or after July 28, 1989, for the first five payments $500; (2) Any other school, according to its prior year's tuition receipts: Up to $400,000 $ 200 $4...

...nt in accredited institutions of higher education after entering or completing programs offered by the holder of a certificate of registration; (7) Failure to provide or maintain premises or equipment for offering programs in a safe and sanitary condition; (8) Refusal by an agent to display the agent's permit upon demand of a prospective student or other interested person; (9) Failure to maintain financial reso...

...(A)(1) Any person adversely affected by the actions of a certificate holder may file a complaint with the state board of career colleges and schools alleging that any school registered with the board has violated any provision of section 3332.09 of the Revised Code. The complaint shall be in writing and signed by the complainant and shall be filed with the board within six months after the violations allegedly were ...

...In establishing an STRS defined contribution plan, the state teachers retirement board may do all things necessary to avoid the system being required to pay federal or state income taxes on contributions to the plan or amounts earned under the plan and, to the extent permitted under federal or state law, to allow members participating in the plan to make tax deferred contributions for periods of interrupted or ...

...The right of each member participating in an STRS defined contribution plan to a retirement, disability, or survivor benefit, to health care insurance coverage, or to a withdrawal of contributions shall be governed by the plan selected by the member under section 3307.25 or 3307.251 of the Revised Code.

...For each member participating in an STRS defined contribution plan, the state teachers retirement system may transfer to the employers' trust fund a portion of the employer contribution required under section 3307.28 of the Revised Code. If the state teachers retirement board elects to make a transfer under this section, the portion transferred shall not exceed the percentage of compensation of members describe...

...The state teachers retirement system may require members participating in an STRS defined contribution plan and their employers to furnish the contributions and information required under this chapter at more frequent intervals than those required for members participating in the STRS defined benefit plan. The system has no duty to accept contributions by or on behalf of a member if a contribution or informatio...

... the member and one-half of the amount continuing after the member's death to the spouse for the life of the spouse. (B) If a member participating in an STRS defined contribution plan is married at the time of the member's death, any benefits that are payable to the member shall be paid to the member's spouse, unless the spouse has consented under division (C) of this section to the designation of a different ...

...The state teachers retirement board may offer to members participating in the STRS defined benefit plan the opportunity to also participate in one or more of the benefit options available under an STRS defined contribution plan. A member's contributions to an option shall be credited to an individual account established for the member in the defined contribution fund.

...(A) Whoever violates division (A) of section 3307.073 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for each day of the violation. (B) Whoever violates division (B) of section 3307.073 of the Revised Code shall be imprisoned for not more than six months or fined not more than five thousand dollars, or both.

...r" or "public employer" means boards of education, school districts, joint vocational districts, governing authorities of community schools established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code, educational institutions, technical colleges, state, municipal, and community colleges, community college branches,...

... in a public school in this state in an educational position, as determined by the department of education and workforce, under programs provided for by federal acts or regulations and financed in whole or in part from federal funds, but for which no licensure requirements for the position can be made under the provisions of such federal acts or regulations; (B) Any person who participates in an alternative retire...

...(A) As used in this section, "operator" has the same meaning as in section 3314.02 of the Revised Code. (B) "Employee," as defined in division (B) of section 3309.01 of the Revised Code, does not include either of the following: (1) Any person initially employed on or after July 1, 2016, by a community school operator and for whom the operator withholds and pays employee and employer taxes pursuant to 26 U.S.C. 310...

...(A) As used in this section, "armed forces" includes both: (1) Army, navy, air force, marine corps, space force, coast guard, auxiliary corps as established by congress, army nurse corps, navy nurse corps, red cross nurse serving with the army, navy, air force, or hospital service of the United States, full-time service with the American red cross in a combat zone, and such other service as is designated by congres...

...(A)(1) A member may purchase service credit that shall be considered as the equivalent of Ohio service for each year or portion of a year of service incurred by reason of having been on active duty as a member of the armed forces of the United States, as defined in section 3309.02 of the Revised Code. (2) As used in division (A)(2) of this section, "reserves" means a reserve component of any of the armed forces of t...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Service in the uniformed services" means the performance of duty on a voluntary or involuntary basis in a uniformed service under competent authority and includes active duty, active duty for training, initial active duty for training, inactive duty training, full-time national guard duty, and a period for which a person is absent from a position of employment for the purpose of an ...

...A school employees retirement system is hereby established for the employees as defined in section 3309.01 of the Revised Code, which shall include the several funds created and placed under the management of the school employees retirement board for the payment of retirement allowances and other benefits provided in Chapter 3309. of the Revised Code. The board may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract an...

...The school employees retirement system shall consist of the plans described in section 3309.18 to 3309.70 of the Revised Code and the plan or plans established under section 3309.81 of the Revised Code.

...The general administration and management of the school employees retirement system and making effective Chapter 3309. of the Revised Code are hereby vested in the school employees retirement board which may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code and may authorize its administrative officers, or committees composed of members of said board, to act for the board in accordance with such polic...

...The school employees retirement board shall do all of the following: (A) In consultation with the Ohio ethics commission, review any existing policy regarding the travel and payment of travel expenses of members and employees of the school employees retirement board and adopt rules in accordance with section 3309.04 of the Revised Code establishing a new or revised policy regarding travel and payment of travel expen...

...The school employees retirement board shall, in consultation with the Ohio ethics commission, develop an ethics policy to govern board members and employees in the performance of their official duties. The board shall submit this policy to the commission for approval. The commission shall review the policy and, if the commission determines that the policy is adequate, approve the policy. If the commission determines...

...(A) The school employees retirement board shall designate a person who is a licensed state retirement system investment officer to be the chief investment officer for the school employees retirement system. The board shall notify the division of securities of the department of commerce in writing of its designation and of any change in its designation within ten calendar days of the designation or change. (B) The ch...

...The school employees retirement board shall appoint a committee to oversee the selection of an internal auditor. The committee shall select one or more persons for employment as an internal auditor. The board shall employ the person or persons selected by the committee. The committee shall consist of the following board members: one retirant member, one employee member, and one other member. The committee shall annu...

...(A) The school employees retirement board shall consist of the following members: (1) One member, known as the treasurer of state's investment designee, who shall be appointed by the treasurer of state for a term of four years and who shall have the following qualifications: (a) The member is a resident of this state. (b) Within the three years immediately preceding the appointment, the member has not been e...

...A person who served as an elected or appointed member of the school employees retirement board for one or more entire fiscal years in fiscal years 2000, 2001, or 2002 is ineligible for re-election or reappointment to the board if the board paid travel-related expenses of the person or reimbursed the person for travel-related expenses that averaged more than ten thousand dollars annually for those fiscal years.

...(A) Elections for employee and retirant members of the school employees retirement board shall be held on the first Monday of March. Terms of office of the employee and retirant members of the board shall be for four years each, commencing on the first day of July following the election and ending on the thirtieth day of June. The initial terms of the first retirant member and the new employee member shall commence o...

...(A) The office of a member of the school employees retirement board who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony, a theft offense as defined in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code, or a violation of section 102.02, 102.03, 102.04, 2921.02, 2921.11, 2921.13, 2921.31, 2921.41, 2921.42, 2921.43, or 2921.44 of the Revised Code shall be deemed vacant. A person who has pleaded guilty to or been convicted of an of...

...(A) All elections for employee or retirant members of the school employees retirement board shall be held under the direction of the board in accordance with rules adopted under section 3309.075 of the Revised Code. (B) Any member of the school employees retirement system, other than a disability benefit recipient, shall be eligible to be nominated for election as an employee member of the board who has been ...