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...st of transporting eligible pupils with disabilities attending a special education program approved by the department of education and workforce whom it is impossible or impractical to transport by regular school bus in the course of regular route transportation provided by the school district or educational service center. For fiscal years 2024 and 2025, this amount shall be equal to the actual costs incurred in the...

...es that a county board of developmental disabilities no longer needs a school bus because the board no longer transports children to a special education program operated by the board, or if the department determines that a school district no longer needs a school bus to transport pupils to a nonpublic school or special education program, the department may reassign a bus that was funded with payments provided pursuan...

...Upon the written request of a teacher or a regular nonteaching school employee, a board of education may grant a leave of absence for a period of not more than two consecutive school years for educational, professional, or other purposes, and shall grant such leave where illness or other disability is the reason for the request. Upon subsequent request, such leave may be renewed by the board. Without request, a...

...Notwithstanding section 3319.141 of the Revised Code, the board of education of a city, exempted village, local or joint vocational school district may adopt a policy of assault leave by which an employee who is absent due to physical disability resulting from an assault which occurs in the course of board employment will be maintained on full pay status during the period of such absence. A board of education electin...

...centers, county boards of developmental disabilities, college and university departments of education, head start programs, and the Ohio education computer network may establish local professional development committees to determine whether the coursework proposed by their employees who are licensed or certificated under this section or section 3319.222 of the Revised Code, or under the former version of either secti...

...cense for teaching students with visual disabilities that require the licensee to demonstrate competency in reading and writing braille. The standards for demonstrating competency shall be developed with reference to those adopted for transcribers by the national library service for the blind and print disabled, library of congress.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Biological sex" means the biological indication of male and female, including sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present at birth, without regard to an individual's psychological, chosen, or subjective experience of gender. An individual may use the individual's official birth record, as defined in section 370...

...r programs with preschool children with disabilities shall require the following: (A) A full-time staff member shall be provided when there are eight full-day or sixteen half-day preschool children eligible for special education enrolled in a center-based preschool special education program. (B) Staff ratios of one teacher for every eight children shall be maintained at all times for a program with a center-bas...

...vide 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 disabilities or other educational agency. For the purposes of...

...(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...

...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...

...m spectrum disorders and low incidence disabilities, as required under section 3323.34 of the Revised Code, the entity selected under section 3323.32 of the Revised Code shall do all of the following: (A) Maintain a collection of resources for public distribution; (B) Monitor information on resources, trends, policies, services, and current educational interventions; (C) Respond to requests for informa...

...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 students at the state school for the blind whose disabilities are visual impairments, including secondary and post-secondary ...

...egarding the education of students with disabilities. (D) Unless the school serves only students identified as gifted under Chapter 3324. of the Revised Code, the school will not limit admission to students on the basis of intellectual ability, measures of achievement or aptitude, or athletic or artistic ability. (E) The school will assert its best effort to attract a diverse student body that reflects the commun...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Board of trustees" means the board of trustees established for a college-preparatory boarding school in accordance with section 3328.15 of the Revised Code. (B) "Child with a disability," "IEP," and "school district of residence" have the same meanings as in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Eligible student" means a student who is entitled to attend school in a particip...

...r shall be to rehabilitate persons with disabilities whose rehabilitation requires extended residential care or intensive study and services; to cooperate with, aid, and supplement such public and private projects for rehabilitation as may be established in the various communities of the state; to provide training for persons seeking competence in the several disciplines pertaining to the field of rehabilitation; to ...

...tion in any proper case of persons with disabilities in respect of whom such department, office, or institution or political subdivision is responsible or exercises supervision under any law of the state or ordinance or regulation of a political subdivision thereof. Every appropriate effort shall be made to rehabilitate and restore to social and economic participation all persons who are or may probably become charge...

... drug addiction services, developmental disabilities, aging, and public safety; the medicaid director; the administrator of workers' compensation; the director of education and workforce; and the executive director of the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency. Any of the officials specified in this division may designate an individual to serve in the official's place as a member of the committee. Term...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Biological sex," "family facility," and "multi-occupancy facility" have the same meanings as in section 3319.90 of the Revised Code. (2) "Institution of higher education" has the same meaning as in section 3345.19 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Each institution of higher education shall designate with clear signage each student restroom, locker room, changing room, or shower roo...

...Each board of library trustees appointed pursuant to section 3375.06, 3375.10, 3375.12, 3375.15, 3375.22, or 3375.30 of the Revised Code may do the following: (A) Hold title to and have the custody of all real and personal property of the free public library under its jurisdiction; (B) Expend for library purposes, and in the exercise of the power enumerated in this section, all moneys, whether derived from t...

...As used in this section, "disability" has the same meaning as in section 4112.01 of the Revised Code. No board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services or any community addiction services provider or community mental health services provider under contract with such a board shall discriminate in the provision of addiction services, mental health services, or recovery supports under its authority, in em...

...he full-time position of Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator within the office of the secretary of state to do all of the following: (1) Assist the secretary of state with ensuring that there is equal access to polling places for persons with disabilities; (2) Assist the secretary of state with ensuring that each voter may cast the voter's ballot in a manner that provides the same opportunity for access...

...d in providing services to persons with disabilities under a state-funded program, and that agency provides services to a person with disabilities at a person's home, provide the services described in divisions (E)(1) and (2) of this section at the person's home; (4) Keep as confidential, except as required by the secretary of state for record-keeping purposes, the identity of an agency through which a person regist...

... the ingress and egress of persons with disabilities. Entrances shall be level or shall be provided with a nonskid ramp of not over eight per cent gradient, and doors shall be a minimum of thirty-two inches wide. Registration places located at polling places shall, however, comply with the requirements of section 3501.29 of the Revised Code for the elimination of barriers. As used in this section, "persons with dis...

...that is accessible for individuals with disabilities, including nonvisual accessibility for persons who are blind and visually impaired, in a manner that provides the same opportunity for access and participation, including privacy and independence, as for other voters.