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...The superintendent of schools shall be the judge of the availability or accessibility of part-time schools for children who are holders of age and schooling certificates.

... Notwithstanding division (D) of section 3311.19 and division (D) of section 3311.52 of the Revised Code, the provisions of this section that require reporting to the treasurer of a city school district do not require reporting to the treasurer of any joint vocational or cooperative education school district. The principal or teacher in charge of any public, private, or parochial school, shall report to the treasur...

... (A) Whenever any child of compulsory school age withdraws from school the teacher of that child shall ascertain the reason for withdrawal. The fact of the withdrawal and the reason for it shall be immediately transmitted by the teacher to the superintendent of the city, local, or exempted village school district. If the child who has withdrawn from school has done so because of change of residence, the next residenc...

...Notwithstanding division (D) of section 3311.19 and division (D) of section 3311.52 of the Revised Code, the provisions of this section and sections 3321.15 to 3321.21 of the Revised Code that apply to a city school district or its superintendent do not apply to any joint vocational or cooperative education school district or its superintendent unless otherwise specified. The board of education of every city,...

... (A)(1) Within one hundred twenty minutes after the beginning of each school day, the attendance officer, attendance officer's assistant for each individual school building, or other person the attendance officer designates to take attendance for each school building shall make at least one attempt to contact, in accordance with division (A)(2) of this section, the parent, guardian, or other person having care of any...

...Every governing board of an educational service center may employ an educational service center attendance officer, and may employ or appoint such assistants as the board deems advisable. The decision to employ an attendance officer shall be based on consultation with the districts that have entered into agreements with the educational service center under section 3313.843 or 3313.845 of the Revised Code and th...

... (A) An attendance officer or assistant provided for by section 3321.14 or 3321.15 of the Revised Code may investigate any case of nonattendance at school or part-time school of a child under eighteen years of age or supposed to be under eighteen years of age resident in the district for which such attendance officer or assistant is employed, or of any such child found in the district or enrolled in any school within...

...The attendance officer and assistants provided for by section 3321.14 or 3321.15 of the Revised Code shall be vested with police powers, may serve warrants, and may enter workshops, factories, stores, and all other places where children are employed and do whatever is necessary in the way of investigation or otherwise to enforce the laws relating to compulsory education and the employment of minors. The attenda...

... The attendance officer provided for by section 3321.14 or 3321.15 of the Revised Code shall institute proceedings against any officer, parent, guardian, or other person violating laws relating to compulsory education and the employment of minors, and otherwise discharge the duties described in sections 3321.14 to 3321.21 of the Revised Code, and perform any other service that the superintendent of schools or board o...

... (A) As used in this section and section 3321.16 of the Revised Code, "habitual truant" has the same meaning as in section 2151.011 of the Revised Code. (B) When a board of education of any city, exempted village, local, joint vocational, or cooperative education school district or the governing board of any educational service center determines that a student in its district has been truant and the parent, guardia...

... (A) As used in this section, "chronically absent" means missing at least ten per cent of the minimum number of hours required in the school year under section 3313.48 of the Revised Code for the school a student attends. (B) Not later than August 1, 2026, the board of education of each school district shall adopt a policy to address student absences. In developing the policy, the board shall consult with the juve...

...When any child, in violation of section 3321.08 or 3321.09 of the Revised Code, is not attending a part-time school or class, the attendance officer shall warn the child and the child's parent, guardian, or other person in charge of the child in writing of the legal consequences of the child's failure to attend the part-time school or class. If the parent, guardian, or other person in charge of that child fails to ca...

... A notice under section 3321.19 or 3321.20 of the Revised Code, sent by registered mail, regular mail with a certificate of mailing, or other form of delivery with proof of delivery, including electronic delivery and electronic proof of delivery, is a legal notice.

... If a complaint is filed against the parent, guardian, or other person in charge of a child for a failure to cause the child to attend school or a part-time school or class and if the parent, guardian, or other person proves an inability to do so, then the parent, guardian, or other person in charge of a child shall be discharged. Upon the discharge, the attendance officer shall file a complaint before the judge of t...

... (A) No parent, guardian, or other person having care of a child of compulsory school age shall violate any provision of section 3321.01, 3321.03, 3321.04, 3321.07, 3321.10, 3321.19, 3321.20, or 3331.14 of the Revised Code. The juvenile court, which has exclusive original jurisdiction over any violation of this section pursuant to section 2151.23 of the Revised Code, may require a person convicted of violating this d...

...Whoever violates division (A) of section 3321.38 of the Revised Code may be fined not more than five hundred dollars or may be ordered to perform not more than seventy hours of community service work.

... (A) The Ohio computer science promise program is hereby established. Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, under the program, a student in any of grades seven through twelve who is a resident of this state may, at no cost to the student, enroll in and receive high school credit for one computer science course per academic year that is not offered by the student's public or nonpublic secondary school, provided th...

... (A) All governing entities shall count courses successfully completed under this chapter for high school credit toward the graduation requirements and subject area requirements of the governing entity. If a course comparable to one a participant completed with an approved provider is offered by the governing entity, the governing entity shall award comparable credit. If no comparable course is offered, the governing...

... As used in this chapter: (A) "Child with a disability" means a child who is at least three years of age and less than twenty-two years of age; who has an intellectual disability, a hearing impairment (including deafness), a speech or language impairment, a visual impairment (including blindness), a serious emotional disturbance, an orthopedic impairment, autism, traumatic brain injury, an other health impairment,...

... As used in this chapter, "individualized education program" or "IEP" means a written statement for each child with a disability that is developed, reviewed, and revised in accordance with this definition and that includes: (A) A statement of the child's present levels of academic achievement and functional performance, including: (1) How the child's disability affects the child's involvement and progress in th...

...A community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code shall be considered a school district for the purposes of this chapter.

...(A) The individualized education program required for any student with a visual impairment under this chapter shall include the following, in addition to the statements required pursuant to section 3323.011 of the Revised Code: (1) A statement that instruction in braille reading and writing was carefully considered for the student and that pertinent literature describing the educational benefits of instructio...

...If an agency other than the school district responsible for a child's IEP fails to provide the transition services described in the IEP, the school district that is responsible for the IEP shall reconvene the IEP team to identify alternative strategies to meet the transition objectives for the child set out in the child's IEP.

... As used in this section, "IDEIA" means the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004," Pub. L. No. 108-446. It is the purpose of this chapter to ensure that all children with disabilities residing in this state who are at least three years of age and less than twenty-two years of age, including children with disabilities who have been suspended or expelled from school, have available to the...

... As used in this section, "participating county board of developmental disabilities" means a county board of developmental disabilities electing to participate in the provision of or contracting for educational services for children under division (D) of section 5126.05 of the Revised Code. (A) When a school district, educational service center, or participating county board of developmental disabilities enters in...