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...(A) A person who meets all of the following criteria shall be permitted to take a high school equivalency test approved by the department of education and workforce pursuant to division (B) of section 3301.80 of the Revised Code: (1) The person is at least eighteen years of age. (2) The person is officially withdrawn from school. (3) The person has not received a high school diploma or honors diploma awarded...

...The department of education and workforce shall begin conducting its duties under this section one year after the effective date of this section. (A) The department of education and workforce annually shall collect employment and vacancy data for each city, local, exempted village, and joint vocational school district, community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, and STEM school established...

...(A) The department of education and workforce, in conjunction with the department of higher education and the department of children and youth, shall create, administer, and oversee the prenatal-to-five early childhood to post-secondary regional partnerships program to support existing and establish new early childhood to post-secondary regional partnerships throughout Ohio in regions that choose to participate. The ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "National school breakfast program" means the federal school breakfast program created under 42 U.S.C. 1773. (2) "National school lunch program" means the federal school lunch program created under 42 U.S.C. 1751. (3) "Public school" means a school building operated by a school district, a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, a STEM school est...

...The department of education and workforce shall establish a clearinghouse of best practices that schools may use to promote student health. The department shall update the clearinghouse as necessary.

...The department of education and workforce and the chancellor of higher education may enter into a memorandum of understanding under which the department, on behalf of the chancellor, will receive and maintain copies of data records containing student information reported to the chancellor for the purpose of combining those records with the data reported to the education management information system, established unde...

...As used in this section, "early childhood program" means any publicly funded program providing services to children younger than compulsory school age, as defined in section 3321.01 of the Revised Code. Student level data records collected and maintained for purposes of administering early childhood programs shall be assigned a unique student data verification code in accordance with division (D)(2) of section 330...

...Data collected in the course of testing under sections 3301.079, 3301.0710, 3301.0711, and 3301.0712 of the Revised Code shall be used for the sole purpose of measuring and improving the academic progress and needs of students, educators, school districts, and schools. In the course of such testing, no student's or a student's family's social security numbers, religious affiliation, political party affiliation,...

...Notwithstanding anything in the Revised Code to the contrary, the department of education and workforce, any school district, any school, or any third party under contract with the state, a school district, or a school shall not provide student names and addresses to any multi-state consortium that offers summative assessments.

...On at least an annual basis, the department of education and workforce shall provide all school districts with best practices to help ensure the educational stability of students who are in the custody of a public children services agency or private child placing agency.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Performance index score" means the average of the totals derived from calculations, for each subject area, of the weighted proportion of untested students and students scoring at each level of skill described in division (A)(2) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code on the state achievement assessments, as follows: (1) For the assessments prescribed by division (A)(1) of section ...

...(A) Not later than one year after the adoption of rules under division (D) of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code and at least every sixth year thereafter, the department of education and workforce shall establish all of the following: (1) A set of performance indicators that considered as a unit will be used as one of the performance categories for the report cards required by section 3302.03 of the Revised Cod...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall implement a value-added progress dimension for school districts and buildings and shall incorporate the value-added progress dimension into the report cards and performance ratings issued for districts and buildings under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code. The department shall adopt rules, pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, for the implementation of ...

...Not later than the thirty-first day of July of each year, the department of education and workforce shall submit preliminary report card data for overall academic performance and for each separate performance measure for each school district, and each school building, in accordance with this section. Annually, not later than the fifteenth day of September or the preceding Friday when that day falls on a Saturday o...

...In addition to the report cards required under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code, the department of education and workforce shall annually prepare the following reports for each school district and make a copy of each report available to the superintendent of each district: (A) A funding and expenditure accountability report which shall consist of the amount of state aid payments the school district will receive...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall establish a measure of the following: (1) Student success in meeting the benchmarks contained in the physical education standards adopted under division (A)(3) of section 3301.079 of the Revised Code; (2) Compliance with the requirements for local wellness policies prescribed by section 204 of the "Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004," 42 U.S.C...

...The department of education and workforce, in consultation with the chancellor of higher education, any office within the office of the governor concerning workforce development, the Ohio association of career and technical education, the Ohio association of city career-technical schools, and the Ohio association of career-technical superintendents, shall approve a report card for joint vocational school districts an...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall adopt and specify measures in addition to those included on the report card issued under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code. The measures adopted under this section shall be reported separately, as specified under division (B) of this section, for each school district, each building in a district, each community school established under Chapter 3314., each STEM sch...

...(A) Not later than October 1, 2015, and not later than the first day of October each year thereafter, the department of education and workforce shall report for each school district, each community school established under Chapter 3314., each STEM school established under Chapter 3326., and each college-preparatory boarding school established under Chapter 3328. of the Revised Code, the following measures for student...

...(A) Notwithstanding anything in the Revised Code to the contrary, the department of education and workforce shall not assign an overall letter grade under division (C)(3) of section 3302.03 of the Revised Code for any school district or building for the 2014-2015, 2015-2016, or 2016-2017 school years, may, at the discretion of the department, not assign an individual grade to any component prescribed under division (...

...(A) Not more than thirty days after the department of education and workforce issues report cards under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code, each school district and school building shall do the following: (1) Notify parents that the report card has been released and how parents can access the report card. Notification may include mailed letters, emails, newsletters, or any other proactive notification method used...

...Not later than December 31, 2024, the department of education and workforce shall issue a report regarding the effectiveness of the state report cards issued under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code. In preparing the report, the department shall study the data included in the state report cards issued for the 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 school years. Based on that study, the department shall include in the r...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Online high school" means a high school that is either: (a) A school operated by a city, local, or exempted village school district using an online learning model in accordance with section 3302.42 of the Revised Code; (b) An internet- or computer-based community school, as defined in section 3314.02 of the Revised Code. (2) "Graduation eligible student" means a student w...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall establish a system of intensive, ongoing support for the improvement of school districts and school buildings. In accordance with the model of differentiated accountability described in section 3302.041 of the Revised Code, the system shall give priority to districts and buildings in the manner prescribed by any agreement currently in force between the department of...

...Beginning July 1, 2008, and contingent upon continued approval by the United States department of education, each school district that has been identified for improvement, or that contains a school building that has been identified for improvement, shall implement all corrective actions required by the model of differentiated accountability developed by the Ohio department of education and workforce and approved by t...