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...(A) A school may do any of the following: (1) In accordance with rules adopted under section 4713.08 of the Revised Code, a school may offer clock hours, credit hours, or competency-based credits for the purpose of satisfying minimum hours of training and instruction; (2) Subject to division (B) of this section, employ an individual who does not hold a current, valid instructor or barber instructor license to tea...

...As used in sections 5107.40 to 5107.69 of the Revised Code: (A) "Alternative work activity" means an activity designed to promote self sufficiency and personal responsibility established by a county department of job and family services under section 5107.64 of the Revised Code. (B) "Developmental activity" means an activity designed to promote self sufficiency and personal responsibility established by a count...

...In addition to its duties under section 103.14 of the Revised Code, the legislative service commission shall, in accordance with this section, review all bills assigned to a committee of the general assembly, complete the appropriate local impact statements required by this section, and compile and distribute these statements as required by division (D) of this section. (A) Subject to division (F) of this section, ...

...(A) A person who meets all of the following criteria shall be permitted to take a high school equivalency test approved by the department of education and workforce pursuant to division (B) of section 3301.80 of the Revised Code: (1) The person is at least eighteen years of age. (2) The person is officially withdrawn from school. (3) The person has not received a high school diploma or honors diploma awarded...

...e the designation of all participating schools as an innovation school zone.

...As used in this section, "school board member" means a member of a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district board of education and a "governing board member" means a member of an educational service center governing board. (A) Within thirty days of a school board member's or a governing board member's initially taking office, the board member shall elect whether to become a member of the sc...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) In addition to the meaning in section 3309.01 of the Revised Code, when appropriate "compensation" has the same meaning as in section 3307.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Earnable salary" has the same meaning as in section 145.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "SERS position" means a position for which a member of the school employees retirement system is making contributions to the s...

...The territory within the corporate limits of each city, excluding the territory detached therefrom for school purposes and including the territory attached thereto for school purposes, constitutes a city school district. When a city is reduced to a village, the city school district shall thereupon become a local school district, except that when a city is reduced to a village but its city school district includes wit...

...Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, a municipal school district shall be subject to this section instead of section 3319.111 of the Revised Code. (A) The board of education of each municipal school district and the teachers' labor organization shall develop and adopt standards-based teacher evaluation procedures that shall either conform with the framework for evaluation of teachers ...

...No student who is enrolled in a public or nonpublic school shall be denied the opportunity to participate in interscholastic athletics offered by that school solely because the student is participating or has participated in the college credit plus program under Chapter 3365. of the Revised Code, so long as the student fulfills all other academic, nonacademic, and financial requirements that are not related to partic...

...As used in this section, "wearing religious apparel" means the wearing of headwear, clothing, jewelry, or other coverings while observing a sincerely held religious belief. (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no public or nonpublic school, school district, interscholastic conference, or organization that regulates interscholastic athletics shall adopt a rule, bylaw, or other regulation that proh...

...vance shall be at least one hour or, in schools that schedule class periods of less than one hour, at least one standard class period. The board shall determine the specific activities to constitute the observance in each school in the district after consultation with the school's administrators.

...(A) As used in this section, "school governing authority" means any of the following: (1) The governing authority of a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code; (2) The governing body of a STEM school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code; (3) The board of trustees of a college-preparatory boarding school established under Chapter 3328. of the Revised Code; (4) The go...

... of the board and the superintendent of schools shall sign it. Each diploma shall bear the date of its issuance, be in such form as the district board prescribes, and be paid for from the district's general fund, except that the department may by rule prescribe standard language to be included on each diploma. (E) As used in this division, "English learner" has the same meaning as in section 3301.0731 of the Revis...

...chool districts and chartered nonpublic schools under sections 3313.6111, 3113.6112, and 3313.6114 of the Revised Code.

...ocedures, and standards of conduct for schools and students in the district. The policy and an explanation of the seriousness of bullying by electronic means shall be made available to students in the district and to their custodial parents or guardians. Information regarding the policy shall be incorporated into employee training materials. (D)(1) To the extent that state or federal funds are appropriated for...

...No public or chartered nonpublic school shall permit the sale of a la carte beverage items other than the following during the regular and extended school day: (A) For a school in which the majority of grades offered are in the range from kindergarten to grade four: (1) Water; (2) Milk; (3) Eight ounces or less of one hundred per cent fruit juice, or a one hundred per cent fruit juice and water blend with no...

...o internet- or computer-based community schools for developing and delivering the orientation course. (C) Each internet- or computer-based community school may, at the time of a particular student's enrollment in that school, ask the student's parent or guardian to estimate the length of time the student will attend the school. Any information collected pursuant to this division shall be included in an aggregated ...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, if any section or provision of this chapter, including any condition or prerequisite to any action or determination thereunder, or if any act or action, or part thereof, made or taken under this chapter, or any application thereof, is for any reason held to be illegal or invalid, this illegality or invalidity shall not affect the remainder thereof or any other section or p...

...(A) During a fiscal emergency period for a school district, no school board member, officer, or employee of the school district shall do any of the following: (1) Knowingly enter into any contract, financial obligation, or other liability of the school district involving an expenditure, or make any expenditure in excess of the amount permitted by the commission pursuant to this chapter; (2) Knowingly enter into any...

...(A) On or before the first day of June of each year, the tax commissioner shall certify to the department of education and workforce and the office of budget and management the information described in divisions (A)(1) to (5) of this section for each city, exempted village, and local school district, and the information required by divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section for each joint vocational school district, an...

...(A) For purposes of this section: (1) "Eligible school district" is a city, local, or exempted village school district that satisfies both of the following conditions: (a) The district is either of the following: (i) A district that resulted from one of the following that became effective between July 1, 2013, and June 30, 2018: (I) A transfer of all of the territory of one school district to another school d...

...rustees of college-preparatory boarding schools established under Chapter 3328. of the Revised Code for the acquisition of classroom facilities. (C) The program shall comply with sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code, except as follows: (1) The commission, in consultation with the board of trustees of a college-preparatory boarding school, shall determine the basic project cost based on all campus facilit...

...hall be paid for all time lost when the schools in which they are employed are closed owing to an epidemic or other public calamity. Nothing in this division shall be construed as requiring payment in excess of an employee's regular wage rate or salary for any time worked while the school in which the employee is employed is officially closed for the reasons set forth in this division.

...As used in this section, "educational assistant" means any nonteaching employee in a school district who directly assists a teacher as defined in section 3319.09 of the Revised Code, by performing duties for which a license issued pursuant to sections 3319.22 to 3319.30 of the Revised Code is not required. (A) Except as provided in division (G) of this section, the state board of education shall issue educational ...