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...be granted at least thirty minutes for lunch each school day, during which time the teacher shall not be required to perform any school activity; except that in a one-teacher school where enforcement of the foregoing provisions may work a hardship, the governing board of the service center in which the one-teacher school is located may require the teacher to remain on duty. The granting of the lunch period to a teac...

...work in a school as a nurse, teacher, counselor, school psychologist, or administrator shall complete at least four hours of the in-service training within two years of commencing employment with the district or center, and every five years thereafter. A person who is employed by any school district or service center to work in an elementary school as a nurse, teacher, counselor, school psychologist, or administrator...

...t least two years of coursework at an accredited institution of higher education; (c) Holds an associate degree or higher from an accredited institution of higher education; (d) Meets a rigorous standard of quality as demonstrated by attainment of a qualifying score on an academic assessment specified by the department of education and workforce. (B) Beginning July 1, 2019, no city, exempted village, local, ...

...e; (D) To guide how state and federal funding for professional development should be spent; (E) To develop criteria for decision making by the local professional development committees established under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code; (F) To guide the school district in the hiring of third-party providers of instructional services who use or meet the professional development standards; (G) To guide all licen...

...f grades kindergarten through twelve unless the teacher holds a valid license issued pursuant to section 3319.22 of the Revised Code for teaching physical education.

...hysical education. (B)(1) The department of education and workforce, in collaboration with the Ohio dyslexia committee, shall maintain a list of training that fulfills the professional development requirements prescribed in division (C) of this section. The list may consist of online or classroom learning models. (2) Each approved training shall align with the guidebook developed under section 3323.25 of the Re...

...hall align with the guidebook developed under section 3323.25 of the Revised Code.

...h a grade band specification prescribed under division (A)(1) of section 3319.22 of the Revised Code, as that division existed prior to October 3, 2023, who renews that license may receive either of the following: (1) A grade band specification prescribed under division (A)(1) of section 3319.22 of the Revised Code, as that division existed prior to October 3, 2023; (2) A grade band specification prescribed under...

...te teaching issued under section 3319.226 of the Revised Code.

...ract may be increased but not reduced unless such reduction is a part of a uniform plan affecting the nonteaching employees of the entire district. (C) The contracts as provided for in this section may be terminated by a majority vote of the board of education. Except as provided in sections 3319.0810 and 3319.172 of the Revised Code, the contracts may be terminated only for violation of written rules and regulati...

...paid during the preceding school year unless such reduction is a part of a uniform plan affecting the nonteaching employees of the entire district. This section does not prevent increases of salary after the board's annual notice has been given.

...employee on or before the first day of June, said employee shall be deemed re-employed.

...ccrued and unused vacation leave to his credit at the time of separation, not to exceed the vacation leave accrued to his credit for the two years immediately preceding his separation and the prorated portion of his earned but unused vacation leave for the current year. In case of the death of a non-teaching school employee such accrued and unused vacation leave and prorated portion for the current year shall be paid...

...uired by the "Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994," 108 Stat. 3149, 38 U.S.C. 4303. The board of education of the district in which the nonteaching school employee was employed and is re-employed under this section may suspend the contract of the nonteaching school employee whose services become unnecessary by reason of the return of a nonteaching school employee from service in the un...

...work in excess of forty hours in any seven day period or to work on days declared by the employing board of education to be school holidays, they shall be compensated for such time worked at not less than their regular rate of pay, or be granted compensatory time off. As used in this section, "non-teaching school employees" does not include any person employed in the public schools of the state in an administrative o...

... Martin Luther King day, Memorial day, Juneteenth day, Independence day, Labor day, Thanksgiving day, and Christmas day of each year. All regular nonteaching school employees employed on a nine or ten month basis, whether salaried or compensated on an hourly or per diem basis, are entitled to a minimum of the following holidays for which they shall be paid their regular salary or their regular rate of pay, provided e...

... be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the occupational licensing and regulatory fund established in section 4743.05 of the Revised Code. (2) Any person applying for or holding a permit or license pursuant to this section is subject to sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code and sections 3319.31 and 3319.311 of the Revise...

...experience program who has a child enrolled in a public school in that district to fulfill the work requirements of the work experience program by volunteering or working in that public school in accordance with section 5107.541 of the Revised Code. Such recipients are not employees of such board of education. Before a school district places a participant in a public school under this section, the appointing off...

...ployees whose positions are terminated under this section and the board has expired or will expire within sixty days and has not been renewed in conformance with provisions of that agreement and with Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, or the agreement contains provisions permitting the termination of positions for reasons of economy and efficiency while the agreement is in force and the board is in conformance ...

...shall enter into supplemental contracts under section 3319.08 of the Revised Code with the teachers assigned to teach those courses and shall not include such assignment of duties within the teachers' regular employment contracts under that section. (B) A supplemental contract shall not be required under this section if a teacher voluntarily agrees to a regularly occurring schedule that begins or ends outside the n...

...an individual who holds a permit issued under this section as a substitute teacher. The individual may teach for up to the equivalent of one full semester, subject to the approval of the employing district board of education or school governing authority and may be compensated for that service. The district superintendent or chief administrator of the school may request that the board or governing authority approve o...

... for professional advancement with full credit for service. (C) "Continuing service status" for a teacher means employment under a continuing contract.

...ers absent on account of illness or on leaves of absence or to fill temporarily positions created by emergencies; such assignment to be subject to termination when such services no longer are needed. A teacher employed as a substitute with an assignment to one specific teaching position shall after sixty days of service be granted sick leave, visiting days, and other local privileges granted to regular teache...

...ncing on the date on which the person files an application with the state board of education for a teacher's certificate and ending on the date on which the district board receives notice from the superintendent of the district that the teacher has filed with the superintendent a valid teacher's certificate. (B) If a person conditionally employed under division (A) of this section is denied a teacher's certificate b...

...e Revised Code, or the administrative rules of the state board of education, a school governing body may employ an individual who does not hold a post-secondary degree as a substitute teacher provided that the individual also meets the following requirements: (1) The individual meets the district's or school's own set of educational requirements. (2) The individual is deemed to be of good moral character. (3...