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...Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, the provisions of sections 3319.313 and 3319.314 of the Revised Code prevail over any conflicting provisions of a collective bargaining agreement or contract for employment entered into after the effective date of this section.

...The state board of education shall be a participating public office for purposes of the retained applicant fingerprint database established under section 109.5721 of the Revised Code and shall receive notification from the bureau of criminal identification and investigation of the arrest or conviction of the following persons: (A) Persons to whom the state board has issued a license, as defined in section 3319.31 ...

... award the prevailing party reasonable attorney's fees and costs that the prevailing party incurred in the civil action or as a result of the false report that was the basis of the violation. (2) If a person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of division (B) or (D) of this section, if the subject of the false report that was the basis of the violation was charged with any violation of a law or ord...

... A member of a school district board of education, chartered nonpublic school governing body, or county board of developmental disabilities. (2) "Student" means a child who is enrolled in a school district or chartered nonpublic school or who is receiving services from a county board of developmental disabilities. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, no school representative shall knowingly eng...

...ate may request from the state board of education any report received under sections section 3314.40, 3319.313, 3326.24, 3328.19, or 5126.253 of the Revised Code regarding an individual who is under consideration for employment by the district or school. If the superintendent of public instruction has received a report under any of those sections regarding the individual, the state superintendent shall provide the co...

...Boards of education shall require all teachers and superintendents to keep the school records and to prepare reports in such manner as to enable the preparation of the annual reports required by law and shall withhold the pay of such teachers and superintendents who fail to file the reports required of them. The records of each school, in addition to all other requirements, shall be so kept as to exhibit the names of...

...s section, no school district board of education shall impose any restriction on the presentation of directory information that it has designated as subject to release in accordance with the "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 571, 20 U.S.C. 1232q, as amended, to representatives of the armed forces, business, industry, charitable institutions, other employers, and institutions of higher ed...

...The principal or chief administrative officer of each public school shall request any person authorized to take photographs of students of the school, to provide one wallet size photograph, free of charge, to the school for inclusion in the school's student files. The principal or chief administrative officer shall indicate that the request is being made in order that the school has a current photograph of a child th...

...f transferring a student's record to an educational institution for a legitimate educational purpose as specified under division (C) of section 3319.321 of the Revised Code, no school district or school shall alter, truncate, or redact any part of a student's record so that any information on the student's record is rendered unreadable or unintelligible.

...rmation for which there is a legitimate educational interest. (B) Except as provided for in division (C) of this section, when any school district or chartered nonpublic school receives a request from another district or school to which a student has transferred for that student's school records, the district or school receiving the request shall respond, within five school days after receiving the request, by tra...

...d 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 revealed to any other person except a substitu...

... as if it were a school district. (A) Education records created, received, maintained, or disseminated by a technology provider pursuant or incidental to a contract with a school district are solely the property of the school district. (B) If education records maintained by the technology provider are subject to a breach of the security of the data, as described in section 1347.12 of the Revised Code, the technol...

... activity is limited to a noncommercial educational purpose for instruction, technical support, or exam-proctoring by school district employees, student teachers, staff contracted by a district, a vendor, or the department of education and workforce. (2) The activity is permitted under a judicial warrant or subpoena unless otherwise prohibited by state or federal law. (3) The school district or technology provide...

...ay of August in each year, the board of education of each city, exempted village, and local school district shall report to the department of education and workforce the school statistics of its district. Such report shall be made on forms furnished by the department and shall contain such information as the department requires. The report shall also set forth with respect to each civil proceeding in which the board ...

... or treasurer of any school district or educational service center fails to prepare any required report, that superintendent shall be liable in the sum of three hundred dollars, to be recovered by a civil action. In the case of reports required to be submitted to the superintendent, such action shall be instituted in the name of the governing board of the service center upon the complaint of the service center superi...

...(A) No treasurer of a board of education or educational service center shall draw a check for the payment of a teacher for services until both of the following conditions are satisfied : (1) The treasurer receives a written statement from the district or service center superintendent, or superintendent's designee, that the teacher has filed with the superintendent or designee such reports as are required by the ...

...(F) of this section, the state board of education shall establish rules for the issuance of a supplemental teaching license. This license shall be issued at the request of the superintendent of a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district, educational service center, or the governing authority of a STEM school, chartered nonpublic school, or community school to an individual who meets all of t...

... the schools of any district within the educational service center to make the required reports, by the time specified, the superintendent of the service center must appoint some suitable person to make such reports, who shall receive a reasonable compensation therefor to be paid from the service center's general fund. The amount of such compensation shall be withheld by the county auditor from the funds due such dis...

...nting or hiring officer of the board of education of a school district, the governing board of an educational service center, or of a chartered nonpublic school shall request the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to conduct a criminal records check with respect to any applicant who has applied to the school district, educational service center, or school for employment in any p...

... any person hired by a school district, educational service center, or chartered nonpublic school and any contractor or person hired by a contractor engaged in providing services that may involve routine interaction with a child or regular responsibility for the care, custody, or control of a child to a school district, educational service center, or chartered nonpublic school in any position that does not require a ...

...e, in the case of a school district or educational service center and the chief administrator, or the chief administrator's designee, in the case of a chartered nonpublic school. (2) "Essential school services" means services provided by a private company under contract with a school district, educational service center, or chartered nonpublic school that the district or service center superintendent or the ch...

...d on the web site of the state board of education prior to making any hiring decision. (2) After consulting the "educator profile" database, a district or chartered nonpublic school may further discern the employment, disciplinary, or criminal record of an applicant for employment in either or both of the following ways: (a) Consulting the state board of education's office of professional conduct in accordance ...

...the superintendent, treasurer, board of education, chief administrative officer, or governing authority that imposed the suspension promptly shall report the person's suspension to the state board of education. The report shall include the offense for which the person was arrested, summoned, or indicted.

...(A) No person employed or engaged as a teacher, principal, administrator, nonlicensed school employee, or bus driver in a public school may inflict or cause to be inflicted corporal punishment as a means of discipline upon a pupil attending such school. (B) A person employed or otherwise engaged as a teacher, principal, or administrator by a nonpublic school, except as otherwise provided by the governing auth...

...ease the availability of educational manpower. Article II. Definitions. As used in this Agreement and contracts made pursuant to it, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: 1. "Educational personnel" means persons who must meet requirements pursuant to state law as a condition of employment in educational programs. 2. "Designated state official" means the education official of a state selected by that stat...