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...The director of education and workforce shall exercise under the acts of the general assembly general supervision of the system of public education in the state. In addition to the powers otherwise imposed on the director under the provisions of law, the director shall have the powers described in this section. (A) The director shall exercise policy forming, planning, and evaluative functions for the public school...

...ed by the director of education and workforce under section 3301.16 of the Revised Code shall pay a fee in the amount established under division (A) of section 3319.51 of the Revised Code. Any fees received under this division shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the state board of education certification fund established under division (B) of section 3319.51 of the Revised Code. (C) A person app...

...The department of education and workforce shall establish continuing programs of in-service training in school district budget and finance for superintendents of schools or their designees, business managers, members of boards of education, and treasurers of boards of education for the purpose of enhancing their background and working knowledge of government accounting, state and federal laws relating to school distr...

...(A) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, the state board of education shall, by rule adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, establish standards for licensing school district treasurers and business managers, for the renewal of such licenses, and for the issuance of duplicate copies of licenses. Licenses of the following types shall be issued or renewed by the board to applicants w...

...The director of education and workforce shall adopt rules governing the purchasing and leasing of data processing services and equipment for all local, exempted village, city, and joint vocational school districts and all educational service centers. Such rules shall include provisions for the establishment of an Ohio education computer network under procedures, guidelines, and specifications of the department of edu...

... of the department of education and workforce that conflicts with this section is void.

...The department of education and workforce shall adopt reading competencies for all reading credentials and training. Such competencies shall include, but not be limited to, an understanding of phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, appropriate use of assessments, differentiated instruction, and selection of appropriate instructional materials and application of research-based instructional p...

...(C) The department of education and workforce shall request that each assessment vendor contracted by the department provide an analysis explaining how questions on each of the assessments prescribed under section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code and the end-of-course examinations prescribed under division (B)(2) of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code developed by that vendor are aligned to the academic content standa...

...(1) The department of education and workforce periodically shall adopt statewide academic standards with emphasis on coherence, focus, and essential knowledge and that are more challenging and demanding when compared to international standards for each of grades kindergarten through twelve in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. (a) The department shall ensure that the standards do all ...

...The department of education and workforce shall adopt rules establishing a statewide program to assess student achievement. The department shall ensure that all assessments administered under the program are aligned with the academic standards and model curricula adopted by the department and are created with input from Ohio parents, Ohio classroom teachers, Ohio school administrators, and other Ohio school personnel...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall: (1) Annually furnish to, grade, and score all assessments required by divisions (A)(1) and (B)(1) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to be administered by city, local, exempted village, and joint vocational school districts, except that each district shall score any assessment administered pursuant to division (B)(10) of this section. Each assessment so fu...

...(A) The department of education and workforce and the chancellor of higher education shall develop a system of college and work ready assessments as described in division (B) of this section to assess whether each student upon graduating from high school is ready to enter college or the workforce. Beginning with students who enter the ninth grade for the first time on or after July 1, 2014, the system shall replace t...

...The department of education and workforce shall establish an education management information system advisory council. The council shall make recommendations to the department to improve the operation of the education management information system established under section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code and shall provide a forum for communication and collaboration between the department and parties affected by the col...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall adopt rules for a statewide education management information system. The rules shall require the department to establish guidelines for the establishment and maintenance of the system in accordance with this section and the rules adopted under this section. The guidelines shall include: (1) Standards identifying and defining the types of data in the system in acc...

...(A) Except as required under division (B)(1) of section 3313.608 or as specified in division (D)(3) of section 3301.079 of the Revised Code, the board of education of each city, local, and exempted village school district shall administer each applicable diagnostic assessment developed and provided to the district in accordance with section 3301.079 of the Revised Code to the following: (1) Any student who transfe...

...de, the department of education and workforce may have access to personally identifiable information about any student under the following circumstances: (A) An entity with which the department contracts for the scoring of assessments administered under section 3301.0711 or 3301.0712 of the Revised Code has notified the department that the student's written response to a question on an assessment included threats ...

...The department of education and workforce shall not adopt or revise any standards or curriculum in the area of health unless, by concurrent resolution, the standards, curriculum, or revisions are approved by both houses of the general assembly. Before the house of representatives or senate votes on a concurrent resolution approving health standards, curriculum, or revisions, its standing committee having jurisdiction...

...(B) The department of education and workforce shall adopt standards for business education in grades seven through twelve. The standards shall incorporate existing business education standards as appropriate to help guide instruction in the state's schools. The department shall provide the standards, and any revisions of the standards, to all school districts, community schools established under Chapter 3314. of the ...

...n, with special emphasis on recommended safety equipment; (C) Acquisition and replacement schedules for the supplies and equipment listed under division (B) of this section. The schedules shall ensure availability of at least minimum inventories in every high school. (D) Suggested safety procedures, including all of the following: (1) Training for students and teachers in the safe handling and use of hazardo...

...The department of education and workforce shall develop a model curriculum for instruction in college and career readiness and financial literacy. The curriculum shall focus on grades seven through twelve, but may include other grade levels. When the model curriculum has been developed, the department shall notify all school districts, community schools established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, and STEM sc...

... by the department of education and workforce to create and maintain for school districts and community schools the student data verification codes required by division (D)(2) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code: (1) Upon request of the director of any state agency that administers a publicly funded program providing services to children who are younger than compulsory school age, including the directors of h...

... of the department of education and workforce, shall be based upon learner needs and, if applicable, business and industry validated standards and competencies and shall enhance student learning opportunities. Extended programming shall be subject to the requirements of sections 3313.6018 and 3313.6019 of the Revised Code. No rule of the department shall require extended programming employment of certificated inst...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall develop a packet of high school instructional materials on personal financial responsibility, including instructional materials on the avoidance of credit card abuse, and shall distribute that packet to all school districts. The board of education of any school district may adopt part or all of the materials included in the packet for incorporation into the district...

...ed by the director of education and workforce under division (C) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code, administer the examinations in an online or paper format based on the needs of the student; (2) Adhere to security requirements prescribed under section 3319.151 of the Revised Code for the online examinations administered under division (B)(1) of this section. (C) The director of education and workforce s...

... by the department of education and workforce. If, for any reason, a student does not take an end-of-course examination on the scheduled administration date, the department shall make available to the student the examination for which the student was absent, or a substantially similar examination as determined by the department, so that the student may take the examination or a substantially similar examination at a ...