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...ns on admitting applicants because of disability, except that a board may refuse to admit an applicant receiving services under Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code if the services described in the student's IEP are not available in the district; (3) A requirement that the student be proficient in the English language; (4) Rejection of any applicant because the student has been subject to disciplinary proceed...

...The governing authority of any community school established under this chapter may contract with the governing authority of another community school, the board of education of a school district, the governing board of an educational service center, a county board of developmental disabilities, or the administrative authority of a nonpublic school for provision of services for any disabled student enrolled at the sch...

...A copy of every contract entered into under this section shall be filed with the director of education and workforce. The department of education and workforce shall make available on its web site a copy of every approved, executed contract filed with the director under this section. (A) Each contract entered into between a sponsor and the governing authority of a community school shall specify the following: (...

...The sponsor of each community school shall provide the following assurances in writing to the department of education and workforce not later than ten business days prior to the opening of the school's first year of operation or, if the school is not an internet- or computer-based community school and it changes the building from which it operates, the opening of the first year it operates from the new building: (...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and section 3314.355 of the Revised Code, this section applies to any community school that meets one of the following criteria: (1) The school does not offer a grade level higher than three and, for the three most recent school years, satisfies either of the following criteria: (a) The school has received a performance rating of one star for early literacy...

...ools of Ohio, except for death or total disability, or fails to file with the board by July first of each year a statement concerning the recipient's previous year's employment and address for the ensuing year, any and all unpaid or uncancelled notes and interest thereon shall become due and payable and the board shall transmit all such notes promptly to the treasurer of state and the treasurer of state shall enforce...

...nd related services to a student with a disability, as calculated under division (C)(1) of that section, the department shall deduct the amount of that payment from the city, local, or exempted village school district that is responsible as specified in that section for the excess costs. (K)(1) If the district reports an amount of excess cost for special education services for a child under division (C) of section...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) For fiscal years 2024 and 2025, "assigned bus" means a school bus used to transport qualifying riders. (2) For fiscal years 2024 and 2025, "density" means the total riders per square mile of a school district. (3) For fiscal years 2024 and 2025, "nontraditional ridership" means the average number of qualifying riders who are enrolled in a community school established under Ch...

...A membership record shall be kept by grade level in each city, local, exempted village, joint vocational, and cooperative education school district and such a record shall be kept by grade level in each educational service center that provides academic instruction to pupils, classes for pupils with disabilities, or any other direct instructional services to pupils. Such membership record shall show the following info...

...Moneys paid to school districts under division (E)(1) of section 3317.024 of the Revised Code shall be used for the following independent and fully severable purposes: (A) To purchase such secular textbooks or digital texts as have been approved by the department of education and workforce for use in public schools in the state and to loan such textbooks or digital texts to pupils attending nonpublic schools withi...

...ount. (C)(1) For each student with a disability receiving special education and related services under an individualized education program, as defined in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code, at a joint vocational school district, the resident district or, if the student is enrolled in a community school, the community school shall be responsible for the amount of any costs of providing those special education and ...

...(A) As used in this section, "disadvantaged pupil impact aid" means the following: (1) For a city, local, or exempted village school district, the funds received under division (A)(4)(a) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code; (2) For a joint vocational school district, the funds received under division (A)(3) of section 3317.16 of the Revised Code; (3) For a community school established under Chapter 3314....

...(A) As used in this section, "subgroup" means one of the following subsets of the entire student population of a school district or a school building: (1) Students with disabilities; (2) Economically disadvantaged students; (3) English learners; (4) Students identified as gifted in superior cognitive ability and specific academic ability fields under Chapter 3324. of the Revised Code. (B) It is the int...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Drinking fountain" means a fountain to which all of the following apply: (a) The fountain is designed to allow an individual to drink from the fountain. (b) The fountain dispenses filtered, clean drinking water. (c) The fountain is equipped with a protective cowl. (d) The fountain is equipped with a water spout at least one inch above the overflow rim of the fountain. (2)...

...This section does not apply to any applicant for an educator license that is designed for persons specializing in teaching children in kindergarten through twelfth grade, or the equivalent, in the area of dance, drama, theater, music, visual arts, or physical education or a specialty area substantially equivalent to any of these when such applicant will be teaching children in the specialty area specified in th...

...As used in sections 3319.325, 3319.326, and 3319.327 of the Revised Code: (A) "Education records" has the same meaning as in the "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974," 20 U.S.C. 1232g, and does not include any of the following: (1) Records of instructional, supervisory, and administrative personnel and educational personnel that are in the sole possession of the maker and are not accessible or reve...

...As used in this section and section 3321.04 of the Revised Code, "special education program" means a school or the educational agency that provides special education and related services to children with disabilities in accordance with Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code. Except as provided in this section, the parent of a child of compulsory school age shall cause such child to attend a school in the school district...

...bject to recall upon the removal of the disability of the child or the cessation of home instruction; and thereupon the child or the child's parents may be proceeded against after due notice whether such excuse be recalled or not. (B) The department of education and workforce may adopt rules authorizing the superintendent of schools of the district in which the child resides to excuse a child over fourteen years of...

...(A) The individualized education program required for any student with a visual impairment under this chapter shall include the following, in addition to the statements required pursuant to section 3323.011 of the Revised Code: (1) A statement that instruction in braille reading and writing was carefully considered for the student and that pertinent literature describing the educational benefits of instructio...

...The board of education of each school district shall annually assess the reading and writing skills of each student with a visual impairment enrolled in the district in each medium in which instruction is specified as appropriate for the student pursuant to division (A)(2) of section 3323.013 of the Revised Code. The results of each assessment shall be provided in a written statement that specifies the st...

...ogate 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 conflict of interest arises subsequent to the assign...

...pletes an evaluation for a child with a disability or undertakes the development, review, or revision of the child's IEP, the district shall notify the child's parent, by letter or electronic means, about both the autism scholarship program, under section 3310.41 of the Revised Code, and the Jon Peterson special needs scholarship program, under sections 3310.51 to 3310.64 of the Revised Code. The notice shall include...

...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.

...(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,...

...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.