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...(A) The department of education and workforce is the designated state agency responsible for the coordination and administration of sections 110 to 118 of the "National and Community Service Act of 1990," 104 Stat. 3127 (1990), 42 U.S.C. 12401 to 12431, as amended. With the assistance of the Ohio commission on service and volunteerism created in section 121.40 of the Revised Code, the department shall coordinate with...

...henever the United States department of education makes changes in its policies or rules regarding implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, the Ohio department of education and workforce shall submit a written description of those changes to each member of the standing committees on education of the senate and house of representatives. (B) If the Ohio department of education and workforce plans to c...

...(B) and (C) of this section, a board of education of a local school district that severed and annexed its territory under section 3311.059 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to June 30, 2011, may by a resolution approved by a majority of all its members propose to sever that local school district from the territory of the educational service center in which the local school district is currently included and to ...

...rict, subject to the supervision of the educational service center governing board for the school year commencing the first day of July following the publication by the secretary of state of such census, and thereafter. This section does not apply to any exempted village school district organized as such exempted village school district prior to June 1, 1943. The board of education of an exempted village school dist...

...of this amendment or by the director of education and workforce on and after the effective date of this amendment. (2) "Mayor" means the mayor of the municipal corporation containing the greatest portion of a municipal school district's territory. (B) Whenever any municipal school district is released by a federal court from an order requiring supervision and operational, fiscal, and personnel management of the...

...(A) The educational regional service system is hereby established. The system shall support state and regional education initiatives and efforts to improve school effectiveness and student achievement. Services, including special education and related services, shall be provided under the system to school districts, community schools established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, and chartered nonpublic schools...

...apacity shall be a member of a board of education. An assistant prosecuting attorney may serve as a member of a board of education of a school district in any county other than the county in which the assistant prosecuting attorney is employed if the board of education's school district is not contiguous to the county in which the assistant prosecuting attorney is employed. A city director of law who was appointed ...

...(A) The board of education of a school district or the governing board of an educational service center shall make any rules that are necessary for its government and the government of its employees, pupils of its schools, and all other persons entering upon its school grounds or premises. Rules regarding entry of persons other than students, staff, and faculty upon school grounds or premises shall be posted conspicu...

...ly to a joint vocational or cooperative education school district unless otherwise specified. Except in city, joint vocational, and cooperative education school districts, the prosecuting attorney of the county shall be the legal adviser of all boards of education and the governing board of an educational service center in the county in which the prosecuting attorney is serving. The prosecuting attorney shall prosec...

... of the Revised Code, the department of education and workforce shall analyze the district's financial condition and ascertain what elements of the district's educational program exceed or fail to meet the minimum standards of the director of education and workforce and requirements set forth in the Revised Code, and what, if any, additional revenues or revenue sources may be available to the district that are not in...

...a high school for which the director of education and workforce sets standards pursuant to section 3301.07 of the Revised Code. Such programs are limited to courses for which credit may be granted toward the issuance of a high school diploma. (B) The board of education of any school district may establish and operate an adult high school continuation program. Two or more boards of education may jointly establish a...

...(A) A student who is receiving home education in accordance with section 3321.042 of the Revised Code shall be afforded, by the superintendent of the school district in which the student is entitled to attend school under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code, the opportunity to participate in any extracurricular activity offered at the district school to which the student otherwise would be assigned during ...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall adopt, by rule, standards for awarding high school credit equivalent to credit for completion of high school academic and vocational education courses to applicants for diplomas under this section. The standards may permit high school credit to be granted to an applicant for any of the following: (1) Work experiences or experiences as a volunteer; (2) Completi...

... requirements specified by the board of education of a school district or governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school, each student entering ninth grade for the first time on or after July 1, 2014, but prior to July 1, 2019, shall satisfy at least one of the following conditions or the conditions prescribed under division (B) of this section in order to qualify for a high school diploma: (1) Be remediation...

...A board of education may admit to the schools of its district, free of any tuition obligation, any resident of the district not otherwise eligible to be admitted who meets criteria established by the department of education and workforce. The department shall adopt rules establishing criteria for the admission of persons to schools under this division. The rules may authorize restrictions or limitations on the classe...

...t to rules adopted by the department of education and workforce, a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district may establish a policy guaranteeing a specific level of competency of certain graduates of the district. The guarantee policy shall specify that any graduate meeting specified criteria established by the board is capable of performing specified functions at a level established in the p...

...school employees requires. Boards of education shall require and provide, in accordance with section 3313.67 of the Revised Code, such tests and examinations for tuberculosis of pupils in selected grades and of school employees as may be required by the director of health. Boards may require annual tuberculin tests of any grades. All pupils with positive reactions to the test shall have chest x-rays and all pos...

...The boards of education and governing boards of two or more city, local, joint vocational, or exempted village school districts or educational service centers may contract in accordance with the terms of this section for the sharing on a cooperative basis of the services of supervisory teachers, special instruction teachers, special education teachers, and other licensed personnel necessary to conduct approved ...

...is approved by the chancellor of higher education. (2) "Approved institution" means an eligible institution that has been approved to participate in the adult diploma pilot program under this section. (3) "Approved program of study" means a program of study offered by an approved institution that satisfies the requirements of division (B) of this section. (4) An eligible student's "career pathway training pr...

...ed under federal law, the department of education and workforce shall consider an industry-recognized credential, as approved under section 3313.6113 of the Revised Code, or a license issued by a state agency or board for practice in a vocation that requires an examination for issuance of that license as an acceptable measure of technical skill attainment and shall not require a student with such credential or licens...

... first day of November, the director of education and workforce shall notify the pilot project school district of the number of initial scholarships that the director will be awarding in each of grades kindergarten through twelve. The director shall provide information about the scholarship program to all students residing in the district and shall accept applications from any such students during the application ...

...gnates as approved for career-technical education expenses. Career-technical education expenses approved by the department shall include only expenses connected to the delivery of career-technical programming to career-technical students. The department shall require the school to report data annually so that the department may monitor the school's compliance with the requirements regarding the manner in which fundin...

...llage, joint vocational, or cooperative education school district and any educational service center. This chapter shall be administered by the department of education and workforce. The department of education and workforce shall calculate the amounts payable to each school district and shall certify the amounts payable to each eligible district to the treasurer of the district as provided by this chapter. Certif...

...ms, shall align with a career-technical education program approved under section 3317.161 of the Revised Code. The dropout prevention and recovery community school shall offer the program, or programs, using classroom teachers employed by the school. (2) "Dropout prevention and recovery community school" has the same meaning as in section 3314.02 of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter...

...9.141 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 electing to effect such a policy o...

...an 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 report any re...

...t shall commence once the department of education and workforce establishes implementation guidelines for the pilot project in consultation with the Columbus city school district. (B) Except as provided in division (D), (E), or (F) of this section, if the parents or guardians of at least fifty per cent of the students enrolled in a school to which this section applies, or if the parents or guardians of at least fi...

...ngs, as determined by the department of education and workforce, under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code. (2) The district is not subject to an academic distress commission under section 3302.10 of the Revised Code. (B) The department shall establish the career promise academy summer demonstration pilot program. Under the pilot program, which shall operate in the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years, the depa...

...The department of education and workforce shall adopt rules freeing school districts from specified state mandates if one of the following applies: (A) For the 2011-2012 school year, the school district was declared to be excellent under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code, as that section existed prior to March 22, 2013, and had above expected growth in the overall value-added measure. (B) For the 2012-2013 sc...

...rict may apply to the district board of education to be designated as an innovation school. Each application shall include an innovation plan that contains the following: (1) A statement of the school's mission and an explanation of how the designation would enhance the school's ability to fulfill its mission; (2) A description of the innovations the school would implement; (3) An explanation of how implemen...

...(A) If a school district board of education approves an application under division (B)(1) of section 3302.061 of the Revised Code or designates an innovation school or innovation school zone under division (D) of that section, the district board shall apply to the department of education and workforce for designation as a school district of innovation by submitting to the department the innovation plan included in th...

...A school district board of education may revise an innovation plan approved or created under section 3302.061 of the Revised Code, in collaboration with the school or schools participating in the plan, to further improve student academic performance. The revisions may include identifying additional laws in Title XXXIII of the Revised Code, rules adopted by the department of education and workforce, requirements enact...

...he results of the audit to the board of education of the school district and the academic distress commission established for the district. The performance audit shall be conducted in the same manner as prescribed by section 3316.042 of the Revised Code. (C) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Revised Code, the district board of a school district to which this section applies, in consultation with the ...

... section applies, the district board of education in control of that building shall do one of the following at the conclusion of the school year in which the building first becomes subject to this section: (a) Close the school and direct the district superintendent to reassign the students enrolled in the school to other school buildings that demonstrate higher academic achievement; (b) Contract with another scho...

...the Revised Code, the district board of education or community school governing authority shall create a school action team for the school building. The team shall consist of twelve members, as follows: (a) Seven individuals, consisting of parents or guardians of students enrolled in the school and members of the community who are not teachers or nonteaching employees, as elected by their peers; (b) Five teachers...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall develop standards for determining, from the existing data reported in accordance with sections 3301.0714 and 3314.17 of the Revised Code, the amount of annual operating expenditures for classroom instructional purposes and for nonclassroom purposes for each city, exempted village, local, and joint vocational school district, each community school established under C...

...l federal funds received for vocational education. All money so received or appropriated by the state for the purposes contemplated in the act of congress referred to in sections 3303.02 to 3303.06 of the Revised Code, or in acts supplementary thereto, shall be disbursed upon the order of the department of education and workforce.

...ubmit to the United States secretary of education an annual report on the progress made in improving the program's effectiveness as part of the unified or combined state plan; (5) Advise the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency regarding vocational rehabilitation program activities; (6) Assist the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency in the preparation of the vocational rehabilitation ...

...loyee of a public institution of higher education who makes an election under division (B)(2) or (3) of section 3305.05 or division (B) of section 3305.051 of the Revised Code to participate in the public institution's alternative retirement plan shall, not later than thirty days after the date on which the certified copy of the employee's election is filed with the state retirement system under that section, do one ...

...llowing members: (1) The director of education and workforce or a designee of the director who has the following qualifications: (a) The designee is a resident of this state. (b) Within the three years immediately preceding the appointment, the designee has not been employed by the public employees retirement system, police and fire pension fund, state teachers retirement system, school employees retirement ...

... employed by a school district board of education in positions requiring a license issued under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code in accordance with uniform criteria applicable to all such members or if paid to members employed by an employer other than a school district board of education in accordance with uniform criteria applicable to all such members. (C) The state teachers retirement board shall determine th...

... Payments by school district boards of education to the employers' trust fund of the school employees retirement system may be made from the amounts allocated under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code prior to their distribution to the individual school districts. The amount due from each school district may be certified by the secretary of the system to the department of education and workforce monthly, or at such ti...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall adopt rules under section 3310.17 of the Revised Code establishing procedures for granting educational choice scholarships to eligible students attending a nonpublic school at the time the director of education and workforce grants the school a charter under section 3301.16 of the Revised Code. The procedures shall include at least the following: (1) Provisions f...

...t" for purposes of the expansion of the educational choice scholarship pilot program under this section if the student's resident district is not a school district in which the pilot project scholarship program is operating under sections 3313.974 to 3313.979 of the Revised Code and the student is entering any of grades kindergarten through twelve in the school year for which a scholarship is sought. A student's pare...

...ll annually report to the department of education and workforce in the manner prescribed by the department the following: (1) The number of students charged; (2) The average of the amounts charged to such students. (D) On and after July 1, 2024, the department shall not require the parent of a student to submit a complete copy of the parent's federal income tax return, or a return filed under section 5747.08...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code prescribing procedures for the administration of the educational choice scholarship pilot program. (B) The department shall not require chartered nonpublic schools to comply with any education laws or rules or other requirements that are not specified in sections 3310.01 to 3310.17 of the Revised Cod...

...ited States Code. A qualified special education child, as defined in section 3310.41 of the Revised Code, receiving home education under section 3321.042 of the Revised Code who participates in a junior reserve officer training corps program maintained by the child's resident school district in accordance with 10 U.S.C. 2031f(1) shall not be considered enrolled in that district for purposes of determining eligibili...

...deral law, the student's individualized education program, or division (C)(1)(c)(i) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code. (2) The student is enrolled in a chartered nonpublic school that meets the conditions specified in division (K)(2) or (L)(4) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code. (3) The student is enrolled in any of grades three to eight and takes an alternative standardized assessment under divisi...

...ited States Code. A qualified special education child receiving home education under section 3321.042 of the Revised Code who participates in a junior reserve officer training corps program maintained by the child's resident school district in accordance with 10 U.S.C. 2031f(1) shall not be considered enrolled in that district for purposes of determining eligibility for a Jon Peterson special needs scholarship unde...

...A qualified special education child in any of grades kindergarten through twelve for whom a scholarship is awarded under the Jon Peterson special needs scholarship program shall be counted in the formula ADM of the school district in which the child is entitled to attend school. A qualified special education child shall not be counted in the formula ADM of any other school district.