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...(A) As used in this section: (1) "School representative" includes all of the following: (a) An employee of a school district, chartered nonpublic school, or county board of developmental disabilities; (b) An employee of an entity with which a school district, chartered nonpublic school, or county board of developmental disabilities contracts for the provision of services; (c) A member of a school district boa...

...(A) No person shall release, or permit access to, the directory information concerning any students attending a public school to any person or group for use in a profit-making plan or activity. Notwithstanding division (B)(4) of section 149.43 of the Revised Code, a person may require disclosure of the requestor's identity or the intended use of the directory information concerning any students attending a publ...

...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...

...During the course of 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.

...(A) As used in this section, "school records" includes any academic records, student assessment data, or other information 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 ...

...As used in sections 3319.325, 3319.326, and 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 reve...

...A technology provider shall comply with Chapter 1347. of the Revised Code with regard to the collection, use, and protection of data 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 techn...

...(A) Except as described in division (B) of this section, a school district or technology provider shall not electronically access or monitor any of the following: (1) Location-tracking features of a school-issued device; (2) Audio or visual receiving, transmitting, or recording feature of a school-issued device; (3) Student interactions with a school-issued device, including, but not limited to, keystrokes and ...

...On or before the first day 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 procee...

...(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...

...The interstate agreement on qualification of educational personnel is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all states legally joining therein in form substantially as follows: THE INTERSTATE AGREEMENT ON QUALIFICATION OF EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL Article I. Purpose, findings, and policy. 1. The States party to this Agreement, desiring by common action to improve their respective school systems by utilizing t...

...True copies of all contracts made on behalf of this state pursuant to sections 3319.42 and 3319.43 of the Revised Code shall be kept on file in the offices of the department of education and workforce and of the secretary of state. The department of education and workforce shall publish all such contracts in convenient form.

...(A)(1) The department of education and workforce shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish both of the following: (a) A policy and standards for the implementation of positive behavior intervention and supports framework; (b) A policy and standards for the use of physical restraint or seclusion on students. (2) The department shall amend or update rule 3301-35-15 of the Administ...

...The school districts, public schools, and chartered nonpublic schools of this state may provide counseling to any victim of sexual harassment or sexually related conduct.

...(A) As used in this section, "operating expenses" includes the cost of administering requirements related to the issuance and renewal of licenses, certificates, or permits described in this chapter and sections 3301.071 and 3301.074 of the Revised Code and any other cost incurred by the state board of education to perform a duty prescribed by law. (B) The state board of education shall annually establish the amount...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Intervention in lieu of conviction" means intervention in lieu of conviction under section 2951.041 of the Revised Code. (2) "License" has the same meaning as in section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. (3) "Pre-trial diversion program" means a pre-trial diversion program under section 2935.36 of the Revised Code or a similar diversion program under rules of a court. (4) "Prosecutor...

...(A) Within ninety days after the effective date of this section, the board of education of each school district shall adopt a policy that states all of the following: (1) The school district shall not solicit or require an employee or applicant for employment or academic admission to affirmatively ascribe to, or opine about, specific beliefs, affiliations, ideals, or principles concerning political movements, or id...

...The state board of education shall establish a credential review board. The credential review board shall carry out any functions assigned to it by the state board with respect to assessing individuals pursuing alternative routes to educator licensure and out of state educators seeking licensure in Ohio. The credential review board may also carry out any other duties the state board considers appropriate.

...(A) The state board of education may establish an annual teacher of the year recognition program for outstanding teachers. (B) Notwithstanding division (A) of section 2921.43 of the Revised Code, a person or entity may make a voluntary contribution to the recognition program described in division (A) of this section. (C) Notwithstanding division (A) of section 2921.43 of the Revised Code, a teacher who is recognize...

...(A) The governing board of any educational service center may engage the services of a dyslexia specialist to provide training for teachers of grades kindergarten to four on the indicators of dyslexia and the types of instruction that children with dyslexia need to learn, read, write, and spell. If a service center provides this training, it shall make the training available to local school districts within the...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Biological sex" means the biological indication of male and female, including sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present at birth, without regard to an individual's psychological, chosen, or subjective experience of gender. An individual may use the individual's official birth record, as defined in section 370...

...(A) Whoever violates division (B)(1) of section 3319.151 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (B) Whoever violates division (H)(1) of section 3319.311 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (C) Whoever violates division (F) of section 3319.313 of the Revised Code shall be punished as follows: (1) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(2) of this section, the p...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Electronic signature" has the same meaning as in section 1306.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Insurer" has the same meaning as in section 3901.32 of the Revised Code. (B) An insurer may use an electronic signature to comply with any signature requirement placed upon insurers by this title, including any requirement that a document submitted by an insurer to the department of insur...

...Any domestic insurer and any foreign or alien insurer authorized to do business in this state may retain, invest in, or acquire the whole or any part of the capital stock of any other insurer, or have a common management with any other insurer, provided such retention, investment, acquisition, or common management is not inconsistent with any other law relating to the investment of the funds of domestic insurers, and...

...Any person otherwise qualified may be a director of two or more insurers which are competitors or which have a common management, but no such interlocking directorate shall be used as a means of substantially lessening competition generally in the business of insurance or of creating a monopoly therein.