| Issue |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
 Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Defines "career-technical planning district". Directs the state board, in consultation with the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents, any office within the office of the governor concerning workforce development, the Ohio association of career and technical education, the Ohio association of city career-technical schools, and the Ohio association of career-technical superintendents, to approve a report card for joint vocational school districts and for other career-technical planning districts that are not joint vocational school districts. Directs the state board to submit details of the approved report card to the governor, and certain legislative leaders principally responsible for education policy. Directs the department of education to annually issue a report card for each joint vocational school district and career-technical planning district, beginning with report cards for the 2012-2013 school year to be published by September 1, 2013. Requires the department to combine certain information so as to report it on the report card for joint vocational school districts and other career-technical planning districts (more details on this information on pages 46-52 of 592).
Pages 51, 53-54 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Report Card for Joint Vocational School Districts & Other Career-Technical Planning Districts
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that when a student enrolls in a school operated by a school district, a school official with responsibility for admissions must provide the student's parent, during the admissions process, with a copy of the most recent public accountability report card. Pages 95-96 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Public Accountability Report Card at Student Enrollment
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
From final bill analysis: Specifies that the provisions of the "parent trigger" restructuring petition, under the Columbus pilot program, prevail over the general restructuring law for low-performing schools, if a district school becomes subject to both, unless the parent petition is rejected for certain reasons. Requires that a parent petition be filed by December 31 of any school year a school qualifies for restructuring under the Columbus
"parent trigger" pilot program. Specifies that if either the parent petition or the state's general restructuring plan for a public school conflicts with federal law, federal law prevails. Specifies that if a school is restructured under a parent petition, under the general restructuring law, by a district academic distress commission, or under federal law, the school does not have to restructure again under state law for three years after implementing the prior restructuring.
Bill text (pages 54-59 of 592): http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Final bill analysis (pages 18-19 of 78): http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses129/s0316-rrh-129.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Parent Trigger in Columbus
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Assessment |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Directs the department or a contractor responsible for scoring of assessments to send each district board a list of the individual scores of all persons taking any of specified state assessments within 75 days of assessment administration; requires that scores be provided no later than June 15, 2013. Pages 396-397 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Scores on State Assessments, Including OGT
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Not later than June 30, 2013, directs the state board, in consultation with any office housed in the governor's office that deals with workforce development, to adopt K-12 model curricula that embed career connection learning strategies into regular classroom instruction. Page 6 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Career Connection Learning Strategies
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Amends provisions related to department development of standards for determining each district, community school, and STEM school's annual operating expenditures for classroom instructional purposes and for nonclassroom purposes. Requires the department to align the expenditure categories required for reporting under the standards with the categories required for reporting to the U.S. Department of Education under federal law. Directs the state board to adopt a final set of such standards. Requires districts, community schools, and STEM schools to begin reporting data in accordance with these standards by July 2013.
Amends public reporting requirements based on these expenditure standards. New provision requires the department to report each district in the 20% of all joint vocational school districts (JVSD) statewide with the highest report card scores under new section 3302.033 (pages 53-54 of S.B. 316) (former provision required reporting of top 20% of all JVSD with the highest performance measures required for career-technical education under federal law). Repeals provision requiring the department to rank all districts, community schools, and STEM schools according to federally-required performance measures required for career-technical education. Adds provision requiring the department to rank all districts, community schools, and STEM schools according to current operating expenditures per pupil as determined under the aforementioned state board-approved standards. Pages 59-65 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - District Expenditure Reporting
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Amends definition of "apprentice" to apply to a person at least 16 years old, except when a higher minimum age is otherwise set by law, who is in a registered apprenticeship program to learn a skilled occupation, pursuant to a registered apprenticeship agreement. Replaces most references to "apprenticeship council" to "council office." Places "council office" under the department of job and family services, and transfers to department of job and family services administrative and oversight functions for state's registered apprenticeship system. Provides that minimum standards for apprenticeship programs are set by federal regulations and state rules governing the registered apprenticeship system. Makes function of council/office advisory only (previously council had authority to establish standards and issue rules). Clarifies powers of executive secretary of the council office. Pages 162-164 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Apprenticeships and Oversight
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a board of education to sell real or personal property to certain to a nonprofit institution of higher education or the governing authority of a nonpublic school. Prior to disposing of real property, requires the district to first offer the property for sale to the board of trustees of any college-preparatory boarding school located in the district (previous provision required offering of sale only to communty school governing authority). Requires such offering to be made at a price not higher than the property's appraised fair market value as determined in an appraisal not more than one year old.
Also amends provisions related to district sale of unused school facilities. Permits the district, at the same time it offers the unused school facilities for lease or sale to governing authorities of community schools or the board of trustees of any college-preparatory boarding school, to also offer that property for sale or lease to the governing authorities of community schools with plans either to relocate their operations to the territory of the district or to add facilities to be located within the territory of the district.
Pages 79-86 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - District Sale or Lease of Property or Facilities
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits the department's office of Ohio school sponsorship to assume sponsorship of a community school whose sponsorship has been revoked by the department. Permits the office to extend the term of a contract for a school whose sponsorship it has assumed. Provides that certain limits on directly authorized community schools do not apply to community schools sponsored by the office of Ohio school sponsorship. Provides that nothing precludes a community school whose sponsorship has been assumed by the office of Ohio school sponsorship from applying for sponsorship under the Ohio school sponsorship program established under section 3314.029 (http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3314.029). Requires all community schools sponsored by the office of Ohio school sponsorship to be ranked together for purposes of the department's composite performance index score for academic performance of community schools sponsored by the same entity. Directs the department to exclude from the calculation of an entity's composite performance index score all community schools that have been in operation for less than 2 full school years. Provides certain community schools will cease to be excluded from the index if those schools become subject to closure. Requires the sponsoring entities' annual rankings from highest to lowest to be published between October 1-15. Amends definition of "sponsor" in provisions relating to certain community schools, to include a district board of education or the governing board of an educational service center that agrees to the conversion of all or part of a school or building. Increases from 2 to 5 the number of governing authorities of start-up community schools on which an individual may serve at a time.
Authorizes the department to deny an application submitted by the governing authority of an existing community school, if a previous sponsor of that school did not renew its contract with the school. Requires the department to make available a copy of every approved, executed community school contract filed with the state superintendent. Requires community schools to comply with public school promotion/retention policies, and provision that requires a parent enrolling his/her child to be provided upon enrollment with a copy of the school's most recent accountability report card. Permits children under the age of 5 to be admitted to a community school in the same manner as early enrollees in traditional public schools, and requires a local board and a community school governing authority to include such early enrollee figures in their respective community school enrollment reports. Permits the governing authority of a community school to either (1) establish a single-gender school for either sex, or (2) establish single-gender schools for each sex under the same contract, provided facilities for boys and girls are substantially equal. Establishes procedures by which districts must monthly review enrollment of students in community schools who are entitled to attend school in the district, to verify the community school in which the student is enrolled, and that the student is entitled to enroll in school in the district.
Provides that if, by March 31, 2013, the general assembly does not enact for certain community schools performance standards, a report card rating system, and criteria for closure, those schools are required to permanently close upon meeting certain criteria; provides exceptions.
Pages 117-170 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Community Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits a community school that was open for operation as a community school as of May 1, 2005 to operate from or in a home in Ohio, regardless of when the community school's operations from or in a particular home began. Pages 392-393 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Operation of Community School from/in a Home
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Not later than 90 days after the effective date of these provisions, directs the department of education to publish on its website every approved, executed contract with a community school that was filed with the superintendent of public instruction under section 3314.03 of the Revised Code (http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3314.03) before the effective date of this section. Page 395 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Contracts Between State Superintendent and Community School Governing Authorities
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Establishes the intent of the general assembly to enact a law, not later than December 31, 2012, that establishes a battery of measures to be used to rate the performance of the sponsors of community schools and to determine whether an entity may sponsor additional community schools. Page 396 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Community School Sponsors' Performance
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits the governor, operator, or any other person or entity who appoints a member to the board of trustees of a college-preparatory boarding school to remove that member from the board at any time. Pages 237-238 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Removal of College-Preparatory Boarding School Board of Trustees Member
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Extends eligibility for an EdChoice Scholarship to a student outside Cleveland who is enrolled in a nonpublic school at the time the state board grants the school a charter under 3301.16 (http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3301.16) and the school meets the eligibility requirements established in 3310.031. Establishes section 3310.031. Directs the state board to establish procedures for granting educational choice scholarships to eligible students attending a nonpublic school at the time the state board grants the school a charter under section 3301.16. Provides a student in a nonpublic school granted a charter is eligible for an EdChoice Scholarship if any of enumerated criteria apply. In making EdChoice scholarship payments, directs the department, in the case of certain students living outside the district in which the student's parent resides, to deduct the payments from the district that includes the student in its average daily membership. Amends provisions related to reporting of student performance data for EdChoice scholarship students. Requires data to be disaggregated by grade level (formerly was "age").
Pages 68-76 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Educational Choice (EdChoice) Scholarship Pilot Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires Cleveland pilot project scholarship (voucher) students' performance data to be disaggregated, among other factors, by grade level (previously required disaggregation by "age"). Page 113 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Cleveland Voucher Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Each time a child's district completes evaluation for a child with a disability or undertakes the development, review, or revision of the child's IEP, requires the district to notify the child's parent about both the autism scholarship program and the Jon Peterson special needs scholarship program. Requires the notice to include specified contact information.
Pages 228-229 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Autism Scholarship and Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship Programs
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Directs the department to conduct a second Educational Choice Scholarship application period for the 2012-2013 school year to award scholarships to eligible students who were enrolled in a nonpublic school in the 2011-2012 school year that was granted a charter by the state board during the 2011-2012 school year. Provides that a scholarship awarded during this second application period must be used in the 2012-2013 school year only to pay tuition at the nonpublic school in which the eligible student was enrolled in the 2011-2012 school year. Page 396 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - EdChoice Vouchers in 2012-13
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Postsec. |
Creates the Cybersecurity, Education, and Economic Development Council. Includes among council membership two representatives from institutions of higher education and one representative from a community or technical college that have cybersecurity-related programs. Directs the council to conduct a study and make recommendations regarding (1) Improving the infrastructure of the state's cybersecurity operations
with existing resources and through partnerships between government, business, and institutions of higher education; and (2) Specific actions that would accelerate growth of the cybersecurity industry in the state. Directs the council, by December 31, 2012, to submit a report to the governor, lieutenant governor, and specified legislative leaders. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_331_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 331
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires all state agencies engaged in workforce development activities to assist the state workforce policy board in the performance of its duties. Directs governor to designate 9 members of board as voting members; provides other members are ex officio members. Establishes duties of board, including to establish a statewide employment and data collection system, develop statewide performance measures for workforce development and investment, and develop a state workforce development plan. Pages 253-254 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Workforce Development
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits the Ohio school facilities commission to provide assistance to a district that has entered into an expedited local partnership agreement before the district is otherwise eligible for that assistance, if the commission determines all of specified criteria. Requires that assistance be offered to eligible districts in the order of their percentile rankings at the time they entered into their expedited local partnership agreements, from lowest to highest percentile. Provides that in the event that more than one district has the same percentile ranking, those districts must be offered assistance in the order of the date they entered into their expedited local partnership agreements, from earliest to latest date. Pages 189-190 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Ohio School Facilities Commission Assistance
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Amends provisions related to provision of Ohio school facilities commission funding to a STEM school to assist in the acquisition of classroom facilities. Provides that in the case of a governing body of a group of STEM schools, the governing body must submit a proposal for each school separately, and the commission must consider each proposal separately.
Pages 194-195 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - STEM School Facility Assistance
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Waives from calculation of full-time equivalency/minimum school calendar requirements for traditional public schools and community schools any hours or days that learning opportunities were not offered due to law enforcement emergencies.
Pages 159 and 173 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Schools Not Open Due to Law Enforcement Emergencies
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--Regional Entities |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Repeals provision that if an educational service center governing board acquired, leased, purchased, or entered into a contract to purchase, lease, or sell office or classroom space, the board of county
commissioners has no obligation to provide and equip offices and to provide heat, light, water, and janitorial services for the use of the service center absent a contract set forth in section 3319.19. Repeals section 3319.19, "Offices of educational service center superintendent and governing board." Repeals a provision that required any agreement for provision of services between a local board and the governing board of an
educational service center to be filed with the department by the first day of the school year for which the agreement was in effect.
Adds new provision permitting an educational service center contracting with a juvenile facility or detention facility to provide educational services to a child in the custody of the facility to submit its request for payment for services directly to the district responsible for bearing the cost of educating the child. Requires the district paying a service center for such services to include the child in the district's average daily membership. Prohibits any other district from including the child in its average daily membership. Pages 76-78, 106-107 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Educational Service Centers
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--Regional Entities |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Repeals section 3319.19 of the revised code, which provided relative to the offices of the superintendent and governing board of an educational service center. Page 256 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Offices of the Educational Service Center Superintendent and Governing Board
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires that, notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary, an employee of a county board of developmental disabilities also may be a member of the governing board of a political subdivision, including a district board of education, or an agency that does not provide specialized services. Permits the county board to contract with such a governing board. Prohibits that member of the governing board from voting on any matter concerning a contract with the county board or participating in any discussion or debate regarding such a contract. Page 234 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - County Board of Developmental Disabilities Employee Eligibility to Serve on Local School Board
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Repeals provisions directing the state board to hold regular meetings once every three months. Replaces with provisions directing the state board to adopt, by March 31 of each year, a calendar of regular meetings for the following fiscal year. Authorizes the board to hold special meetings on dates not indicated on the calendar. Extends to the president's designee authority to give notice of any special meeting; permits such notice to be provided by regular mail or electronic means. Page 6 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - State Board Meetings
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Makes participation in the body mass index and weight screenings program for kindergartners and students in grades 3, 5, and 9 optional, and removes references to local board waivers from screening program participation. Requires the department of education to issue an annual report on program participation (formerly "compliance") by public and chartered nonpublic schools. Adds new provisions permitting the governing authority of a community school (other than an internet- or computer-based community school) or the governing body of a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school, to screen students for body mass index and weight status category. Requires a participating community school to comply with same statutory requirements applicable to participating public and chartered nonpublic schools. Removes references to dates by which parents must be provided information about the screening program, and date by which screenings must be annually conducted.
Page 44, 53, 96-98, 164-165 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Body Mass Index and Weight Screenings
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that provision requiring at least 50% of a la carte beverage items available for sale to be water or other beverages containing not more than 10 calories per 8 ounces does not include milk. Page 103 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Milk Not Included in Determining Proportion of Healthy Beverages to Be Offered for Sale
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--Advanced Placement |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits a Technology Operations earmark for eTech Ohio to be used to cover student costs for taking Advanced Placement courses and courses that the chancellor of the board of regents has determined to be eligible for postsecondary credit through the OhioLearns Gateway. Provides that to the extent that funds remain available, students in public and nonpublic schools and homeschooled students who are taking Advanced Placement or postsecondary courses through the OhioLearns Gateway must be eligible to receive a fee waiver to cover the cost of participating in one course. Requires that the fee waivers be distributed until the funds appropriated to support the waivers have been exhausted. Page 393 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Student Fee Waivers for AP and Postsecondary Courses through OhioLearns Gateway
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
By December 31, 2013, directs the state board to submit recommended scoring ranges on the state English language arts assessments (including on 3rd grade ELA assessment to be promoted to 4th grade) and Ohio graduation tests necessary to successfully implement the Common Core curriculum and assessments in the 2014-2015 school year. Pages 391-392 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Common Core and State Assessment Scoring Ranges
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that evaluation procedures for assistant principals must be based on principles comparable to the teacher evaluation policy adopted by the board, but must be tailored to the duties and responsibilities of assistant principals (previously policy required local boards to adopt procedures for the evaluation of all principals and assistant principals, but did not distinguish between the two in the metrics by which these administrators were to be evaluated). Page 134 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Assistant Principal Evaluations
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
From final bill analysis: Extends the deadlines for a district or educational service center (ESC) to notify a teacher or administrator that the person's contract will not be renewed for the following school year, as follows: (1) From April 30 to June 1, in the case of teachers; and (2) From March 31 to June 1, in the case of assistant superintendents, principals, assistant principals, business managers, supervisors, and other administrators. (To correspond with these changes, the amendment also extends from April 30 to June 1 the deadline by which a school district employee must be notified of nonrenewal in order for the employee to qualify for unemployment benefits. The amendment does not affect the date for notice of nonrenewal for superintendents and treasurers, which under continuing law is March 1.) Elsewhere provides that any district employee must be notified by June 1 if the individual is not to be reemployed the following academic year.
Extends from June 1 to June 15 the deadline for a teacher or administrator to notify a school district or ESC that the person is declining reemployment, in cases where the person is automatically reemployed due to the district's or ESC's failure to comply with the statutory nonrenewal procedures
Bill text (pages 195-212 of 592): http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Final bill analysis: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses129/s0316-rrh-129.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Teacher and Administrator (Not Superintendent) Contract Renewal/Non-Renewal
Source: www.lsc.state.oh.us |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Defines "blended learning" and "digital learning." Permits a local district, community school, STEM school, college-preparatory boarding school, or chartered non-public school to operate all or part of a school using a blended learning model. Requires the department to be notified if a school is operating using a blended learning model or is ceasing operating using a blended learning model. Directs the state board to revise operating standards for districts and nonpublic schools to include standards for the operation of blended learning. Requires the blended learning standards to provide for (1) Revised student-teacher ratios; (2) Extent to which school is obligated to provide students with digital learning tools; (3) Student ability to progress upon demonstration of mastery; (4) Exemption from minimum school day/year requirements; and (5) Adequate provisions for staff qualifications, instructional materials and equipment, facilities, student admission, promotion, and graduation. When the state board is adopting standards or model curricula, directs the department to also provide infomation on the use of blended or digital learning. Clarifies that an Internet- or computer-based community school is not a blended learning school authorized under these provisions.
Pages 10-11, 66-68 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Blended Learning
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-3 |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Directs the state board and the early childhood advisory council, in consultation with the governor's office of 21st century education, to develop legislative recommendations regarding the state's policies on literacy education for birth through 3rd grade with the goal of increasing kindergarten readiness, K-3 reading proficiency, and increasing school success and college- and career-readiness for Ohio's children. Directs the state board and early childhood advisory council to submit these recommendations no later than February 28, 2013. Requires that the recommendations address (1) alignment of state's policies and resources for reading readiness and proficiency from birth through 3rd grade; (2) identification of birth through kindergarten entry strategies to reduce the kindergarten readiness gap, increase literacy success throughout the K-12 continuum, and increase college- and career-readiness; and (3) recommendations for implementing reading proficiency strategies. Page 395 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Birth through 3rd Grade Literacy Education
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-3 Child Care |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires that the "career pathways" alternative pathway for meeting child-care staff member or administrator requirements include both a framework to document formal education, and allow the child-care staff member or administrator to achieve a designation as an early childhood professional level 1 through 6. Requires framework to be approved by the director of job and family services. Defines "licensed child-care program." Repeals and rewrites requirements for child day-care center administrators and staff members. Amends annual inservice training requirements for each child-care staff member; provides exceptions. Replaces reference to "voluntary child day-care center quality-rating program" with reference to "tiered quality rating and improvement system" to be used for various purposes. Provides that effective July 1, 2020, publicly funded child care may be provided only by a provider rated through the tiered quality rating and improvement system. Directs the director of job and family services to adopt rules (1) establishing minimum requirements for child day-care centers, (2) governing the operation of type A family day-care homes, including parent cooperative type A homes, part-time type A homes, drop-in type A homes, and school-age child type A homes, (3) type B family day-care homes, and (4) in-home aides (for children receiving publicly funded child care in their own home). Requires that rules adhere to specified parameters. Directs the director of job and family services to provide notification of proposed rules to specified stakeholders. Authorizes the director to contract with a government entity or a private nonprofit entity for the inspection and licensure of type B family day-care homes; requires search of abuse and neglect reports upon receipt of an application for licensure as a type B family day-care home to provide publicly funded child care. Requires a child day-care center to have at least 35 square feet per child of usable indoor floor space regularly available for the child care operation, and an enclosed safe outdoor play space with at least 60 square feet per child using such space; provides exceptions. Requires a child day-care center to have at least two responsible adults available on the premises at all times when 7 or more children are in the center; establishes other child:adult ratios for child care centers. Establishes requirements for records to be maintained by the administrator of a child day-care center. Requires that parents/legal custodians of children enrolled in a child day-care center have unlimited access to the center during its hours of operation for the purposes for specified purposes.
Pages 196, 200, 207-210, 221-223, 226-229, 357-368, 371-372 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Child Care Quality
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-3 Ensuring Quality |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Defines "school child," "child care," and other terms. Removes various references to preschool or school child program license renewal and to issuance of a two-year license to such a program upon successful completion of term of provisional license. Adds new language that the license issued after the provisional license remains valid unless revoked or the program ceases operations. Requires the department of education to annually inspect/investigate each licensed preschool and school child program; requires the department to notify each program of its results.
Page 39-44 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Licensure of Preschool and Child Care Programs
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-3 Governance |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Amends the duties of the early childhood advisory council. Repeals provision directing the council to advise the state regarding the creation and duties of the center for early childhood development. Page 44 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Duties of Early Childhood Advisory Council
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-3 Kindergarten |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Repeals existing requirements providing exceptions to minimum ages for admission to kindergarten or 1st grade. Replaces with provision providing an exception for a child recommended for early admittance in accordance with the district's acceleration policy. Requires a child to be evaluated for early admittance upon referral by the child's parent/guardian, an educator employed by the district, or a preschool educator, pediatrician, or psychologist who knows the child. Provides that after a student has been admitted to kindergarten in a district or nonpublic school, no district to which the student transfers may deny that student admission based on the student's age. Repeals provision that previously allowed a district to, upon parental request, admit to 1st grade a student who had not successfully completed kindergarten and who meets certain age and other criteria. Repeals provisions related to "pupil personnel services committee," which each district was required to establish, and whose sole authority was to issue waivers allowing admittance to the first grade without the successful completion of kindergarten. Pages 220-223 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Kindergarten, 1st Grade Entrance
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Promotion/Retention |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Directs the state board to determine a level of achievement on the 3rd grade English language arts assessment for a student to be promoted to the 4th grade, and to review and adjust upward the level of achievement until the level is set at the "proficient" level. Effective with entering 3rd graders in the 2013-14 school year, prohibits a district from promoting to the 4th grade any student who does not achieve a benchmark on the 3rd grade English language arts assessment; excludes certain English language learners and students with disabilities, students demonstrating ability on alternate assessment, and certain students receiving remediation who were previously retained from this requirement. Replaces requirement that districts assess reading skills at the end of 1st and 2nd grade with requirement that each K-3 student's reading skills be assessed by September 30. Permits districts to use a state diagnostic tool or comparable tool approved by the department of education for this purpose. Requires, upon identifying a student reading below grade level, (1) written parental notification and description of current services and proposed services to remediate areas of reading deficiency, and (2) intensive reading instruction to the student immediately following identification of a reading deficiency. Specifies such reading instruction must include research-based strategies shown to be successful in improving reading among low-performing readers; removes requirement that instruction be in intensive, systematic phonetics. Requires any intervention or remediation services required by these provisions to include intensive, explicit, and systematic instruction. Requires a reading improvement and monitoring plan to be developed within 60 days after receiving the student's results on the diagnostic assessment. Identifies required components of each reading improvement and monitoring plan. Requires each student with a reading improvement and monitoring plan entering 3rd grade in 2013-14 school year or thereafter to be assigned to a teacher who has either received a passing score on a rigorous test of principles of scientifically-based reading instruction approved by the state board of education or has a reading endorsement on the teacher's license.
Requires districts to include (1) documents related to administration of diagnostic assessments and (2) information in any student improvement plan in the information provided to student's parent. Requires every district to submit diagnostic assessment results to the department of education, regardless of the type of assessment used, and authorizes the department to issue reports with the data collected.
Specifies services that must be offered a student retained in grade 3 pursuant to these provisions, including at least 90 minutes of daily reading. Requires a district to adopt a policy for mid-year promotion of a student subsequently reading on grade level. Requires a district to assign a retained student to a high-performing teacher, as determined by the teacher's student performance data, when available, and performance reviews. Requires the district to offer the option for students to receive applicable services from one or more approved providers other than the district. Requires a retained student who shows grade-level proficiency in math, science, writing, or social studies to be provided instruction commensurate with student achievement levels in that subject.
Requires each district to annually report to the department on implementation and compliance with these provisons. Directs the superintendent of public instruction to annually report to the governor and general assembly the number and percentage of students in grades K-4 reading below grade level based on the diagnostic assessments and the 3rd grade achievement assessments in English language arts, aggregated
by school district and building; the types of intervention services provided to students; and, if available, an evaluation of the efficacy of the intervention services provided.
Pages 13, 34-36, 86-93 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Third-Grade Reading Proficiency
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
By June 20, 2013, directs the department to conduct a study of the licensure requirements for educational staff responsible for the development of informational sources for the support of curriculum and literacy development in schools. Directs the department and the state board to use the study to make any necessary updates or revisions to the licensure requirements for those staff. Pages 394-395 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Licensure Requirements for Staff Developing Informational Sources to Support Curriculum and Literacy Development
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
By December 31, 2012, directs the superintendent of public instruction and the governor's director of 21st century education to issue a report to the governor and general assembly on the department's ability to to reprioritize state and federal funds appropriated or allocated to the department (including Title I and Title III funds and funds from "Enhancing Education Through Technology Act of 2001"), in order to identify additional funds that may be used to support the assessments and interventions associated with the 3rd grade reading guarantee (i.e., potential retention of a child not achieving a benchmark score on 3rd grade English language arts assessment). Pages 395-396 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Additional State and Federal Funds to Support Early Literacy Assessment and Interventions
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Increases the number of miles a district board may authorize its motor vehicles for out-of-state travel from 240 to 1,000 miles per trip. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_437_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 437
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Directs the department of education to annually (1) Notify each district and community school of the requirements under section 3323.19 (requiring a student identified with disabilities to undergo a comprehensive eye examination performed by a licensed optometrist or physician); and (2) Collect from districts and community schools the total number of students who were subject to the requirements of 3323.19 and the total number of students who received the examination, as verified by documentation received from the district. Additionally requires the department, by December 31, 2013, to issue a report on the compliance of districts and community schools with the requirement to have students with disabilities undergo a comprehensive eye examination.
Pages 155-156, 397 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Eye Examination for a Student Identified with Disabilities
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Special Education--Transition |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires transition plan to be developed during first IEP meeting after student turns 14 (previously was 16). Replaces existing reference to "employment" in transitions plans with requirement that plan include a statement describing "appropriate measurable post-secondary goals based on age-appropriate transition assessments related to employment in a competitive environment in which workers are integrated regardless
of disability." Pages 225-227 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - IEP Transition Plans
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Amends procedures for STEM committee awarding of grants to establish STEM schools. Permits the committee to authorize the establishment of a group of STEM schools operating from multiple facilities in one or more school districts under the direction of a single governing body. Amends leadership and funding provisions to account for group of STEM schools operating under single governing body. Directs the committee to weigh the merits of each proposed STEM school within a group, and to authorize each such school separately. After authorizing such a group of STEM schools, permits the committee to authorize one or more schools to operate as part of that group. Directs the department to (1) issue a separate report card for each STEM school within a group, and (2) compute a rating for each group of schools and report that rating in a distinct report card for the group.
Permits the STEM committee to authorize one or more STEM schools serve only gifted students.
Pages 230-237 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - STEM Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Amends provisions related to the statewide education management information system. Requires that the assignment of data verification codes for other entities (i.e., any state agency that administers a publicly funded program providing services to children younger than compulsory school age, including the directors of health, job and family services, mental health, and developmental disabilities), the use of those codes, and the reporting and use of associated individual student data be coordinated by the department of education in accordance with state and federal law. Clarifies districts as the entities responsible for reporting individual student data to the department. Requires the aforementioned other entities to report individual student data to the department in the manner prescribed by the department. Adds that community schools must ensure the data verification code is included in the student's records reported to any subsequent school district, community school, or state institution of higher education in which the student enrolls (previously only districts required to include this code in transferred records).
For purposes of state data collection, defines "early childhood program"as any publicly funded program providing services to children younger than compulsory school age. Requires that student-level data records maintained for administering early childhood programs be assigned a unique student data verification code and be included in the combined data repository. Authorizes the department to require certain personally identifiable student data to be reported to the department for purposes of administering early childhood programs but to not be included in the combined data repository. Limits release of personally-identifiable information to certain individuals in compliance with FERPA. Authorizes any state agency administering an early childhood program to use student data in the combined data repository to evaluate the effectiveness of and investments in that program, in compliance with FERPA and related regulations.
Pages 26-27, 37-38, 45-46 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - State Data System
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Specifies that a local board employee who is a substitute, adult education instructor who is scheduled to work the full-time equivalent of less than 120 days per school year, or a person employed on an as-needed, seasonal, or intermittent basis are not entitled to same sick leave allotment as other local board employees. Pages 3-4 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Sick Leave for Certain Local Board Employees
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that, notwithstanding other provisions, each local board's teacher evaluation policy applies to any person employed under a teacher license, or under a professional or permanent teacher's certificate issued under former statute, and who spends at least 50% of his/her time employed providing student instruction. Provides teacher evaluation provisions do not apply to substitute teachers. Extends from April 1 to May 1 the date by which teacher evaluations must be completed; extends to May 10 date by which teachers must receive written report of evaluation results. Requires only one annual evaluation of teachers on limited or extended limited contract. Makes the providing of peer review optional under a local board's evaluation agreement. Requires at least 3 formal observations of a teacher under consideration for non-renewal who is under limited or extended limited contract. Permits the local board to elect to require only one formal observation of a teacher who received a rating of accomplished on the teacher's most recent evaluation, provided the teacher completes a project that has been approved by the board to demonstrate the teacher's continued growth and practice at the accomplished level.
Requires evaluations to be conducted by persons holding a department-established credential for being an evaluator, and adds an administrative specialist as person eligible to hold such a credential. Also permits evaluations to be conducted by a person employed by an entity contracted by the board who holds a license for being a superintendent, assistant superintendent, principal, vocational director, administrative specialist, or supervisor in any educational area. Adds requirements regarding annual local reporting to department on the number of teachers (1) evaluated and (2) assigned each of the available ratings, aggregated by the teacher preparation programs from which and the years in which the teachers graduated. Prohibts personally-identifiable information from being reported. Provides that statutory provisions on teacher evaluation prevail over any conflicting provisions of a collective bargaining agreement entered into on or after the effective date of the amendment.
Authorizes the state board to periodically update the standards-based state framework for the evaluation of teachers. Provides that in calculating student growth for a teacher evalution, a student cannot be included if the student has 60 or more unexcused absences for the school year. Not later than June 30, 2013, directs the state board, in consultation with state agencies that employ teachers, to develop a standards-based framework for the evaluation of teachers employed by those agencies. Requires each state agency that employs teachers to adopt a standards-based teacher evaluation policy that conforms with the framework developed under these provisions. (This particular provision must become operative at the expiration of any collective bargaining agreement covering teachers employed by the agency that is in effect upon enactment of these provisions, and must be included in any renewal or extension of such an agreement.)
Pages 212-218 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Teacher Evaluations
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Prior provisions required all district, community school, and STEM school classroom teachers, teaching in a core subject area, whose schools' performance index scores were in the lowest 10% of all buildings statewide, to take all written examinations required for licensure to teach that subject area and grade level. New provisions: (1) remove teachers employed by local boards (i.e., non-communiity school and STEM-school teachers) from this requirement; (2) move start date for this requirement to 2015-2016 school year; and (3) replace written examinations required for subject area licensure with written examinations selected by the department as appropriate to determine content area expertise.
Effective with the 2015-16 school year, requires a district classroom teacher in a core subject area who, in two of three most recent school years has received a rating of "ineffective" to take all written examinations of content knowledge selected by the department of education to determine expertise to teach the core subject area and grade level to which the teacher is assigned. Provides that if such a district teacher passes that exam, the employer must require the teacher, at the teacher's expense, to complete professional development targeted to the deficiencies identified in the teacher's evaluations. Requires the teacher's receipt of a rating of "ineffective" on the teacher's next evaluation after completion of the professional development, or the teacher's failure to complete the professional development, to be grounds for termination.
Provides that if a teacher under any of the aforementioned circumstances passes an examination, the teacher is not required to take the exam again for three years, regardless of the teacher's evaluation ratings. Permits results of a teacher examination (regardless of whether teacher at district, community school, or STEM school), to be used in developing and revising professional development plans and deciding whether or not to continue employing the teacher. Continues existing prohibition from using exam results as sole basis for decision to terminate or not renew a teacher's contract (until teacher has not attained a passing score on three consecutive administrations of the same assessment). Pages 218-220 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Testing Low-Performing Teachers
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
By December 31, 2014, and annually thereafter, directs the chancellor of the board of regents to report for each teacher preparation program the number and percentage of program graduates who were rated at each of the performance levels in the teacher evaluation system for the previous school year. Pages 239-240 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Teacher Preparation Program Graduate Outcomes
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Directs the state board to incorporate into the grades 4-12 social studies standards content regarding the Declaration of Independence, the Northwest Ordinance, the U.S. Constitution and its amendments, with emphasis on the Bill of Rights, and the Ohio Constitution, and to revise the model curricula and assessments to reflect the additional American history and American government content. Directs the state board to make available a list of suggested grade-appropriate supplemental readings that teachers may use as a resource to assist students. Replaces references to social studies end-of-course (EOCs) exams with references to EOCs in American history and American government. By July 2013, requires each local board to adopt interim EOCs to assess mastery of American history and American government standards. Requires all high schools to use such EOCs until the state superintendent and chancellor of the board of regents select EOCs in American history and American government. By July 2014, requires the state superintendent and chancellor to select EOCs in American history and American government.
Revises high school graduation requirements to require one-half unit each of American history and government (legislation previously required one unit of "American history and government". Revises prerequisite provisions on certain social studies courses to allow demonstrated mastery to substitute for basic instruction. Effective with entering 9th graders in the 2012-13 school year, requires American history and American government to include the aforementioned documents to be incorporated in state standards (Declaration of Independence and ff.). Specifies that a valid educator license for teaching social studies in the
applicable grade must be considered sufficient to teach the additional American history and American government content. Directs the state board, by July 2012, to review the revised code and recommend legislation to make changes necessary to fully implement additional American history and American government content. Specifies that nothing limits the ability of a district or public or nonpublic school to offer specified academic content through summer school, online, or any other method offered by the district or school.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_165_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 165
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
Adopted 02/2012 |
P-12 |
Approves the Ohio Department of Education's proposed changes to the state accountability system to incorporate four-year and five-year adjusted cohort graduation rates, a graduation rate goal and annual graduation rate targets (prior statute requires modifications to the state accountability system to be approved by a concurrent resolution of the general assembly prior to implementation). http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/ResolutionText129/129_SCR_11_AH_Y.pdf
Title: S.C.R. 11
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 02/2012 |
Postsec. |
Permits a student who completed the final year of high school at home and establishes domocile in Ohio to be recognized as an Ohio resident for tuition purposes.
Pages 4-6 of 9: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_116_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 116 - Determining Student Residency
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 02/2012 |
P-12 |
Enacts the Jessica Logan Act. Amends anti-bullying law to prohibit bullying via an electronic act. Requires local boards to adopt anti-bullying policies that prohibit harassment, intimidation or bullying on a school bus, and that expressly provide for the possibility of student suspension for an electronic act of harassment, intimidation or bullying. Requires local policies to (1) provide protection for persons other than a victim after a report of bullying, including a means of reporting a bullying act anonymously, and (2) prohibit students from making false reports of bullying and provide a disciplinary procedure for students found to have made a false report of bullying. Requires local anti-bullying policy and an explanation of the seriousness of bullying by electronic means to be made available to district students and their custodial parents or guardians. Requires, subject to state or federal appropriation, annual age-appropriate instruction for all students on local anti-bullying policy, including a written or verbal discussion of the consequences for violations of the policy. Requires a written statement describing the local anti-bullying policy and the consequences for violations of the policy to be sent annually to all custodial parents/guardians. Requires training on local anti-bullying to be incorporated into mandated in-service training. Requires the state board to update its model policy to prohibit harassment, intimidation or bullying to include harassment, intimidation or bullying by
electronic means. Pages 1-4 and 7 of 9: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_116_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 116 - Anti-Bullying
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
Signed into law 12/2011 |
P-12 |
Repeals provision requiring any board of trustees of a college-preparatory boarding school to secure at least $20 million dollars of private money to satisfy its share of facilities acquisition to be eligible for state assistance (under new revisions, some boards of trustees may avoid this requirement). Repeals provision requiring a board of trustees receiving assistance under the program to fund the acquisition of residential facilities and any other facilities other than classroom facilities through private means. Repeals provision requiring that lease payments made by the boards of trustees of college-preparatory boarding schools receiving assistance under the program be deposited into the state treasury and credited to the common schools capital facilities bond service fund. Establishes alternative methods for acquisition of college-preparatory boarding school facilities.
Specifies that, acting through its board of trustees, a college preparatory boarding school may sue and be sued, acquire facilities as needed, contract for any services necessary for the operation of the school, and enter into contracts with the department of education. Permits the board of trustees to carry out any act and ensure the performance of any function that is in compliance with the Ohio Constitution, chapter 3328 of the Ohio Code, other statutes applicable to college-preparatory boarding schools, and the contract entered into under chapter 3328 establishing the school. Requires that each college-preparatory boarding school have a fiscal officer who meets state board-established standards. Directs the department of education to monitor the operation, programs, and facilities of the school, including conducting on-site visits of the school. Authorizes the department to take actions, as specified in the contract, to resolve issues of noncompliance by the school of certain legislative provisions, the contract, the bylaws adopted by the board of trustees, or state board rules. Provides such specified actions must include procedures for notice of noncompliance and appeal to the state board of the decisions of the department. Repeals all provisions requiring the state board to grant a charter to each college-preparatory boarding school. Transfers certain powers from college-preparatory school operators to schools' boards of trustees. Clarifies that district responsibility to transport college-preparatory boarding school students on a weekly basis may be met by providing the transportation itself, contracting with another entity to provide the transportation, or entering into an agreement with the college-preparatory boarding school board of trustees under which the board will provide the transportation and the district will pay the board an amount specified in the agreement. Clarifies that transportation to and from college-preparatory boarding schools is subject to all school transportation requirements set forth in statute and administrative code.
Pages 7-10 and 13-19 of 22: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_157_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 157 - College-Preparatory Boarding School Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance |
Signed into law 12/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that if the educational service center in which the territory of a local school district is located is dissolved under section 3311.0510 of the Revised Code, the territory of that local school district may not constitute part of any educational service center. Moves the date by which an agreement for services from an educational service center may be terminated to March 1, 2012 (or January 1 of any odd-numbered year thereafter, as previously provided). Provides that failure of a district board to notify an educational service center of its intent to terminate an agreement by March 1, 2012, will result in renewal of the existing agreement for the following school year. Makes other clarifying changes. Pages 1-7 of 22: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_157_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 157 - Educational Service Centers
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 12/2011 |
P-12 |
Specifies dyslexia as a specific learning disability. Directs the superintendent of public instruction to establish a pilot project, to operate for three school years in three districts, to provide early screening and intervention services for children with risk factors for dyslexia, including low phonemic awareness. In establishing and operating the pilot, directs the superintendent to consult with the international dyslexia association or any other nationally recognized organization that specializes in multisensory structured language programs for the treatment of dyslexia. Requires participating districts to report annually to the superintendent data about the operation and results of the pilot project. Directs the state superintendent, not later than December 31 of the third school year of the pilot, to report to the general assembly the superintendent's evaluation of the results of the pilot project and legislative recommendations whether to continue, expand or make changes to the pilot project. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_96_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 96
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us/ |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 12/2011 |
P-12 |
Defines "dyslexia" and "dyslexia specialist". Permits the governing board of any educational service center to engage the services of a dyslexia specialist to provide training for teachers of grades K-4 on the indicators of dyslexia and the instruction that children with dyslexia need to learn, read, write and spell. Provides that if a service center provides this training, it must make the training available to districts within the service center's territory and to other districts, community schools, and STEM schools that have contracted for the training from the service center. Provides that if an educational service center's governing board does not provide the training, a group of local districts within the service center's territory may engage the services of a dyslexia specialist to provide training for teachers independently. Permits a district or school to require the aforementioned training for its teachers as part of the district's or school's regular in-service training programs. Pages 11-12 of 22: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_157_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 157 - Dyslexia Training for K-4 Teachers
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Issued 10/2011 |
P-12 |
Creates the position of Early Education and Development Officer ("Officer") within the Governor's Office of 21st Century Education. Directs the Officer to work through and in conjunction with existing state agencies to (1) Define and measure kindergarten readiness, as well as develop and implement a comprehensive kindergarten readiness assessment process including academic, social and emotional, and physical health measures of readiness; (2) Break down silos that exist between agencies and programs; (3) Improve system performance by (i) Including outcome and performance measures in the statewide quality rating and improvement system; (ii) Ensuring that all publicly funded, licensed early learning and development providers are part of the quality rating system, (iii) Evaluating and implementing innovative financing strategies that support high-quality services for Ohio's young children; and (iv) Engaging parents as resources in the development of state policies and programs. Also establishes the Early Education and Development Innovation Committee ("Committee") to advise the governor, the Officer and the Office of 21st Century Education on (i) Efforts to mobilize business partnerships at the local level to achieve community and statewide kindergarten readiness goals; (ii) Opportunities to bring private-sector tools and resources to early education and development; (iii) Methods and opportunities to disseminate information to the legislature and leaders in local communities on the status of school readiness in Ohio. http://www.governor.ohio.gov/Portals/0/pdf/executiveOrders/2011-21K.pdf
Title: Executive Order 2011-21K
Source: www.governor.ohio.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 08/2011 |
P-12 |
Permits a school to apply to its district board to be designated as an innovation school. Requires an application to include numerous elements, including a statement of the school's mission and an explanation of how the designation would enhance the school's ability to fulfill its mission; a description of the innovations the school would implement; a description of the improvements in student academic performance the school expects to achieve by implementing the innovations; and estimate of the cost savings and increased efficiencies, if any, that the school expects to achieve by implementing the innovations. Permits two or more schools in the district to apply for designation as an innovation school zone, if the schools share common geographical proximity or similar educational programs, or if the schools serve the same classes of students as they advance to higher grade levels. Directs local boards in approving innovation school or innovation school zone applications to give preference to applications that propose innovations in any of a number of areas. Permits the board to approve an application that allows an innovation school or innovation school zone-participating school to determine employee compensation, but provides that total compensation for all such employees must not exceed the financial resources allocated to the school by the board. Permits an innovation school or innovation school zone-participating school to remove employees from the school, but no employee may be terminated except as provided in section 3319.081 or 3319.16. Also permits a local board to designate a school as an innovation school, and to designate two or more schools as an innovation school zone, by creating an innovation plan for the school(s).
Directs a local board that has approved an application for an innovation school or innovation school zone, or that has designated an innovation school or innovation school zone, to apply to the state board of education for designation as a school district of innovation. Permits the state board to deny the application if the innovation plan is deemed not financially feasible or to likely result in decreased academic achievement, in which case the district must not implement the innovation plan. Permits a district to reapply for designation as a school district of innovation at any time. Establishes a process for a district to submit a preliminary review of an innovation plan before submitting a formal application for designation as a school district of innovation. Provides that upon designation of a school district of innovation, the state board must waive laws specified in the innovation plan as needing to be waived to implement the plan, but only for those schools participating in the innovation plan. Identifies provisions of law from which no waivers may be applied. Requires collective bargaining agreements entered into after the effective date of this act to allow for the waiver of any provision of the agreement in the event the district is designated as a school district of innovation. Directs local boards to make every reasonable effort to accommodate requests for transfer of employees in innovation schools or innovation school zones to another school in the district.
Requires local boards to evaluate the performance of innovation schools and innovation school zones no later than every three years to determine if the school is achieving, or making sufficient progress toward achieving, the improvements in student academic performance described in its innovation plan. Permits a district to revoke innovation status if achievement or progress toward achievement is deemed insufficient. Permits a school to be removed from an innovation school zone, or for the designation of all schools in an innovation school zone to be revoked, if insufficient achievement or progress toward achievement is found. Permits a district to revise an innovation plan in collaboration with school(s) participating in the plan, to further enhance student performance; however, any revisions to an innovation plan must require the consent, in
each school participating in the plan, of a majority of the administrators and a majority of the teachers assigned to that school. Permits the board of any district designated a school district of innovation, or any school participating in an innovation plan to accept, receive, and expend gifts, grants, or donations from any public or private entity to support the implementation of the plan.
Requires the department of education to annually report on school districts of innovation, including an overview of the innovations implemented in innovation schools and innovation school zones; data on the academic performance of the students enrolled in an innovation school or an innovation school zone, including a comparison of the students' academic performance before and after the district's designation as a school district of innovation; and recommendations for legislative changes based on the innovations implemented or to enhance the ability of schools and districts to implement innovations.
Page 43-50 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Innovation Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Rewards |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Directs the department of education to develop a system to rank all districts, community schools and STEM schools according to: (1) performance index score for district/community school/STEM school and for each separate building of such; (2) Student performance growth from year to year, using the value-added progress dimension, if applicable, and other measures of student performance growth designated by the superintendent of public instruction for subjects and grades not covered by the value-added progress dimension; (3) Performance measures required for career-technical education; (4) Current per-pupil operating expenditures; (5) Of total current operating expenditures, percentage spent for classroom instruction as determined under standards adopted by the state board of education; (6) Performance of, and opportunities provided to, students identified as gifted using value-added progress dimensions, and other relevant measures as designated by the superintendent of public instruction. Directs the department to rank each district, community school, and STEM school annually in accordance with this system. Requires the department to annually issue a report for school district, each community school, and each STEM school indicating the district's or school's rank on each measure (1) through (5) above, including each separate building's rank among all public school buildings according to performance index score in (1) above.
Creates the governor's effective and efficient schools recognition program. Directs the governor to annually recognize the top 10% of public schools in the state, including district schools, community schools and STEM schools. Requires that the top 10% be identified by the department according to department-established standards, which must include but need not be limited to student performance and fiscal performance, including cost-effectiveness measures.
Pages 54-55 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - More Efficiency and Effectiveness
Source: |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes a pilot project for any school operated by the Columbus school district that has been ranked in the lowest 5% of all public schools statewide for three or more consecutive years. Requires the district board to implement any of five requested reforms if at least 50% of the parents of students in a school, or 50% of parents and of parents in feeder schools, sign a petition requesting that reform. Directs the board not to implement the requested reform under any of specified circumstances. Directs the state board, within 6 months after the first such petition has been resolved, to annually evaluate the pilot program and submit a report to the general assembly with its recommendations with respect to the continuation of the pilot program, its expansion to other districts, or the enactment of further legislation establishing the program statewide under permanent law. Pages 41-43 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Parent Trigger Pilot for Columbus
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that for any building that is ranked in the lowest 5% of all public school buildings statewide for three consecutive years and is declared to be under an academic watch or in a state of academic emergency, the district board must do one of the following: (1) Close the school and direct the district superintendent to reassign the students to another school; (2) Contract with another school district or a nonprofit or for-profit entity with a demonstrated record of effectiveness to operate the school; (3) Replace the principal and all teaching staff and, upon request from the new principal, exempt the school from all requested policies and regulations of the board regarding curriculum and instruction. The board must also distribute funding to the school in an amount that is at least equal to the product of the per pupil amount of state and local revenues received by the district multiplied by the student population of the school. (4) Reopen the school as a conversion community school. Provides that if any of the actions described above causes the district to no longer maintain all grades K-12, the district must contract with another district for enrollment of students. Provides that if the district board fails to or is unable to enter into or maintain such a contract, the state board of education shall take all necessary actions to dissolve the district. Pages 50-51 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Sanctions for the Lowest-Performing Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Directs the board of education of each city, exempted village, and local school district, the governing authority of each community school, and the governing body of each STEM school with a building ranked in the lowest 10% of all public school buildings according to its performance index score, to require each classroom teacher teaching in a core subject area to register for and take all written exams prescribed by the state board of education for licensure to teach that core subject area and the grade level to which the teacher is assigned. Provides that a teacher who passes such exam must not be required to take the exam again for three years, regardless of the performance index score ranking of the building in which the teacher teaches. Permits district boards, community schools and STEM schools to use the results of such exams in
developing and revising professional development plans and in deciding whether or not to continue employing a teacher. Provides, however, that no decision to terminate or not to renew a teacher's employment
contract may be made solely on the basis of the results of a teacher's exam until and unless the teacher has not attained a passing score on the same required exam for at least three
consecutive administrations of that exam. Pages 400-401 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Licensure Exam Retakes for Teachers in Lowest-Performing Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Assessment |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that for administrations of each state assessment in the 2011-2012 school year and thereafter, the administrations are not to be public record (previously at least 40% of the questions were to be public record).
Amends provisions related to the exit exam system (the "college and work ready assessment system"):
--Repeals provision that the nationally standardized assessment measure competencies in science, math and English language arts. Replaces with provision that nationally standardized assessment measure college and career readiness.
--Adds that for the end-of-course exams in science, math, English language arts and social studies, the state superintendent and the chancellor must select multiple assessments that districts, schools, and chartered nonpublic schools may use, which must include nationally recognized subject area assessments, such as AP examinations, SAT subject tests, International Baccalaureate exams, and other assessments of college and work readiness.
--Repeals the senior project that was the third part of the college and work ready assessment system.
--Repeals provision relating to scoring rubrics and a required overall composite score for the college and work ready assessment system.
Pages 16-19 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - State Assessments
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Assessment |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides the administration of the English language arts assessments for elementary grades as a replacement for the separate reading and writing assessments shall not be required until a date prescribed by rule of the state board of education. Until that date, directs the department of education and school districts and schools to continue to administer separate reading assessments for elementary grades. Provides that the intent for delaying implementation of the replacement English language arts assessment is to provide adequate time for the complete development of the new assessment.
Page 981 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part3.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - English Language Arts Assessments in Elementary Grades
Source: |
Assessment |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Directs the state board not to prescribe the three ranges of scores for the assessments prescribed by division (A)(2) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3301.0710, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of the 128th General Assembly, until the board adopts the rule required by division (A) of this section. Until that date, the board must continue to prescribe the five ranges of scores required by the version of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code in effect prior to the effective date of Section 265.20.15 of Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of the 128th General Assembly, and the following apply:
(1) The range of scores designated by the state board as a proficient level of skill remains the passing score on the Ohio Graduation Tests for purposes of sections 3313.61, 3313.611, 3313.612, and 3325.08 of the
Revised Code;
(2) The range of scores designated as a limited level of skill remains the standard for applying the third-grade reading guarantee under division (A) of section 3313.608 of the Revised Code;
(3) The range of scores designated by the state board as a proficient level of skill remains the standard for the summer remediation requirement of division (B)(2) of section 3313.608 of the Revised Code.
(C) This section is not subject to expiration after June 30, 2013, under Section 809.10 of this act.
Pages 981-982 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part3.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Ranges of Scores on State Assessments
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Assessment |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Directs the department of education in the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school years not to furnish, and school districts and schools not to administer, the elementary writing and social studies achievement assessments prescribed by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code, unless the superintendent of public instruction determines the department has sufficient funds to pay the costs of furnishing and scoring those assessments. Page 982 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part3.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Elementary Writing and Social Studies Assessments
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that local policies to allow a student to enroll in an alternative school may permit a student to permanently transfer to an alternative school so that the student need not reapply annually for
permission to attend the alternative school. Page 169 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Transfer to Alternative School
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires that the rules adopted by the board of education regarding standards and requirements for educator licenses include requirements for the issuance and renewal of professional career-technical teaching licenses, including requirements relating to life experience, professional certification, and practical ability. Provides nothing in statute requires, and prohibits the state board of education from requiring, an applicant for the issuance or renewal of a professional career-technical teaching license who meets the requirements relating to life experience, professional certification, and practical ability to complete a degree applicable to the career field, classroom teaching or an area of licensure. Page 388 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Licensure Requirements for CTE Teachers
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Permits community schools to enter into agreements for joint or cooperative establishment and operation of any educational program. Provides that except as otherwise provided in 3321.01(H), no fees or tuition may be charged for students participating in the program. Page 162 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Cooperative Educational Programs at Community Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Repeals existing language regarding charter caps for charter operators that were operating fewer than 50, 50-75 and more than 75 schools as of May 1, 2005. New provision states that subject to section 3314.016, an entity that sponsors community schools may enter into preliminary agreements and sponsor up to 100 schools. Creates new 3314.016, which applies to any entity that sponsors a community school. Directs the department of education to develop a composite performance index score that measures the academic performance of students enrolled in community schools sponsored by the same entity; provides exceptions. Provides that such schools are not excluded beginning January 1, 2013 if the general assembly does not by that date enact separate performance standards for community schools operating dropout prevention and recovery programs, and community schools serving students with disabilities. Directs the department to annually rank all entities that sponsor community schools according to the entities' composite performance index scores.
Specifies that an entity sponsoring a community school may enter into contracts to sponsor additional community schools only if (1) the entity is in compliance with all legislative provisions requiring sponsors of community schools to report data or information to the department of education, and (2) the entity is not ranked in the lowest 20% of community school sponsors. Provides a contract is void if the governing authority of a community school enters into a contract with a sponsor prior to the date on which the sponsor is prohibited from sponsoring additional schools and the school has not opened for operation as of that date.
184-187 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Charter Caps, Charter Performance Index
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
For purposes of start-up community schools, adds to definition of "challenged school district" any district ranked in the lowest 5% according to its performance index score. Defines "operator" as either an individual or organization that manages the daily operations of a community school pursuant to a contract between the operator and the school's governing authority, or a nonprofit organization that provides programmatic oversight and support to a community school under a contract with the school's governing authority and that retains the right to terminate its affiliation with the school if the school fails to meet the organization's quality standards. Adds start-up schools created while a district ranked in the lowest 5% according to the performance index to those schools that may continue once their district's status as low-performing no longer applies. Permits the governing authority of a start-up community school to provide by resolution for its members' compensation; provides, however, that no member of a start-up community school governing board may be compensated more than $425 per meeting, or more than $5,000 per year for all governing authorities on which the individual serves. Repeals provision requiring the sponsor of a community school to be located or have representatives within 50 miles of the community school, or in the case of an Internet- or computer-based school, within 50 miles of the school's base of operation. Requires a represenative of a community school sponsor to meet every month rather than every other month with either the governing authority or treasurer of the school; requires that enrollment records also be reviewed (previously only financial records were required to be reviewed).
Amends deadlines related to termination or nonrenewal of a community school's contract. Specifies procedures for appealing a contract termination to the state board of education. Specifies that any community school whose contract is terminated must close permanently at the end of the school year or on a date specified in the notification of termination. Specifies that a sponsor of a community school and the officers, directors, or employees of such a sponsor are immune from civil liability for any action authorized under chapter 3314 (community schools) or the contract entered into with the school.
Pages 187-192 and 204-206 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Community Schools (Miscellaneous Provisions)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Ohio School Sponsorship Program; directs the department of education to establish an office of Ohio school sponsorship. Authorizes any person, group of individuals or entity to apply to the department for direct authorization to establish a community school. Also permits the governing authority of an existing community school, upon the expiration or termination of its contract with its sponsor, to apply to the department for direct authorization to continue operating the school. Identifies numerous elements that must be addressed in applications submitted to the department, including the school's business plan, including a five-year financial forecast, and a description of the learning opportunities to be offered to students, including both classroom- and nonclassroom-based learning opportunities. Establishes application approval process. Permits the department to approve up to 20 applications for each of five calendar years for community schools to be established or continue operation; provides, however, that no more than five such applications may be for the establishment of new schools. Provides that the governing authority of community schools approved by the department must enter into a contract; provides such contract may be for up to five years. Permits the department to require a community school approved by the department to post and file with the superintendent of public instruction a bond payable to the state or to file with the state superintendent a guarantee, to be used to pay the state any funds owed the state if the school closes. Directs the department, by December 31, 2012 and annually thereafter, to issue a report on the program. In the fifth report, directs the department to include a complete evaluation of the program and recommendations regarding the program's continuation.
Pages 192-195 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Ohio School Sponsorship Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Permits a community school under the same contract to be located in multiple facilities and to assign students in the same grade level to multiple facilities, as long as the facilities are all located in the same county, and the governing authority has entered into and maintains a contract with an operator. Permits two or more separate community schools to be located in the same facility. Provides that for a community school located in multiple facilities, beginning July 1, 2012, the department must assign a unique identification number to the school and to each facility maintained by the school, for identification purposes only. Provides that nothing requires the department to calculate the amount of funds paid, or to compute any data required for the report cards for each facility separately, but requires the department to make all such calculations or computations for the school as a whole. Pages 202-203 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Community Schools in More Than One or Sharing a Facility
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that the employees of a conversion community school sponsored by the Cleveland board of education will cease to be subject to any future collective bargaining agreement if the mayor submits to the board of education sponsoring the school and to the state employment relations board a statement requesting that all employees of the community school be removed from a collective bargaining unit. Provides that the employees of the community school who are covered by a collective bargaining agreement in effect when the mayor submits the statement must remain subject to that collective bargaining agreement
until the agreement expires on its terms. Upon expiration of that collective bargaining agreement, the employees of that school are not subject to Chapter 4117 of the Revised Code and may not organize or collectively bargain pursuant to that chapter. Page 229 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Collective Bargaining at Cleveland Board-Sponsored Community School
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Prohibits a community school that opened for operation after May 1, 2005 from operating from a home. Page 2 of 264: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part4.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Community School Cannot Operate from a Home
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Permits any early college high school operated by a big eight school district (as defined in statute http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3314.02) in partnership with a private university to operate as a new start-up community school beginning in the 2007-2008 school year, if all of specified conditions are met. Pages 2-3 of 264: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part4.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Early College Start-Up Community School
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Amends criteria applicable to community schools that must permanently close at the end of the school year in which criteria first apply. Pages 235-236 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Community School Closure Criteria
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that until January 2013, no Internet- or computer-based community school may operate unless the school was open for instruction as of May 1, 2005; provides exceptions. Adds that effective January 1, 2013, up to five new Internet- or computer-based community schools may open each year. Provides for a lottery if more than 5 operators notify the department that they have signed with a sponsor to open in the following year. By July 1, 2012, requires the director of the governor's office of 21st century education and the superintendent of public instruction to develop standards for the operation of Internet- or computer-based community schools. Requires the director to submit those standards to the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate for consideration of enactment by the general assembly. Directs each Internet- or computer-based to either comply with the general assembly-adopted standards for for the operation of Internet- or computer-based community schools, if those have been adopted by January 2013; if those have not been adopted by January 2013, each Internet- or computer-based community school must comply with the standards developed by the international association for K-12 online learning. Requires that each Internet- or computer-based school that initially opens on or after January 1, 2013 to comply with the applicable set of standards at the time it opens, and for each Internet- or computer-based school that initally opened before January 1, 2013 to comply with the appropriate standards by July 1, 2013. Page 181-183 and 233 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Internet- and Computer-Based Community Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that except as otherwise specified, beginning in the 2011-2012 school year, any student who completed the prior school year in an Internet- or computer-based community school must be considered to be enrolled in the same school in the subsequent school year until the student's enrollment has ceased as specified in statute. Directs the department to continue subtracting and paying amounts for the student
without interruption at the start of the subsequent school year. Specifies that if the student without a legitimate excuse fails to participate in the first 105 consecutive hours of learning opportunities offered the student in that subsequent school year, the student must be considered not to have re-enrolled for that school year and the department must recalculate the payments to the school for that school year to account for the fact that the student is not enrolled. Page 216 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Enrollment in, State Payments for Student in Cyber Charter
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Directs the department to develop standards for determining, from existing data, the amount of annual operating expenditures for classroom instructional purposes and for nonclassroom purposes for each school district, each community school that is not an internet- or computer-based community school, each Internet- or computer-based community school, and each STEM school. Directs the department to present these standards to the state board for consideration no later than January 1, 2012. Requires the state board to consider the proposed standards and adopt a final set of standards by July 1, 2012. Directs the department to categorize all districts, joint vocational school districts, and community schools that are not computer- or Internet-based, into 3-5 categories (3-5 categories for each type of school), based on average daily student enrollment (joint vocational school districts = average daily membership), and to categorize all internet- or computer-based community schools into a single category, and to categorize all STEM schools into a single category. Using the aforementioned standards, directs the department to compute for fiscal years 2008-2012, and annually for each fiscal year thereafter:
(1) The percentage of each district's, community school's, or STEM school's total operating budget spent for classroom instructional purposes
(2) The statewide average percentage for all districts, community schools, and STEM schools combined spent for classroom instructional purposes
(3) The average percentage for each of the aforementioned categories of districts and schools spent for classroom instructional purposes
(4) The ranking of each district, community school, or STEM school within its respective category according to:
(a) From highest to lowest percentage spent for classroom instructional purposes
(b) From lowest to highest percentage spent for noninstructional purposes.
Requires the department to note within each category of district, joint vocational school district, the districts/joint vocational school districts, and among non-internet or community based community schools, internet- and computer based community schools and STEM schools, schools that are among the 20% for lowest operating expenditures or among the 20% for highest performance index scores (for joint vocational school districts, among the 20% with the highest performance measures required for career-technical education under 20 U.S.C. 2323). Requires specified operating information to be reported on the department Web site and on each district's, community school's and STEM school's report card.
Requires the department, in accordance with the board standards for categorization of school district expenditures as described above, to annually determine each fiscal year for each district: (1) The ratio of the district's operating expenditures for instructional purposes compared to its operating expenditures for administrative purposes; (2) The per-pupil amount of the district's expenditures for instructional purposes; (3) The per pupil amount of the district's operating expenditures for administrative purposes (4) The percentage of the district's operating expenditures attributable to school district funds; and to determine the statewide average among all school districts for each of the items (1) through (4) above. Directs the department to annually report to each district the district's information for (1) through (4) and the statewide averages in (5). Requires each district, upon receipt of the report, to publish the information on its Web site and publish the report in another way so that it is available to all parents of students enrolled in the district and to taxpayers of the district. Pages 51-54 and 55-56 of 1000 (some provisions of pages 54-55 in separate record): http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Highly Efficient and Highly Effective Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Repeals certain language related to unused school property. Adds new language requiring districts to offer unused school facilities (that have not been used for two years) for lease or sale to the governing authorities of community schools located in the school district. Establishes procedures for the purchase of such property. Provides that if no community school governing authority accepts the offer to lease or buy the property within 60 days after the offer is made, the district board may offer the property to any other entity.
Pages 117 and 119-120 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Lease or Sale of Unused School Facilities
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires that staff at a nonpublic school participating in the Jon Peterson special needs scholarship program or at a college-preparatory boarding school undergo criminal background checks. Permits the chief administrator of a registered private provider participating in the autism scholarship program to request criminal background information. Specifies that when the superintendent receives a request from a nonpublic school participating in the Jon Peterson special needs scholarship program or the autism scholarship program, the superintendent must proceed as if the request came from a local board
Pages 79-100 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Background Checks at Certain Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Creates chapter 3318 regarding college preparatory boarding schools. Defines an eligible student as a student who is entitled to attend school in a participating school district; is at risk of academic failure; is from a family whose income is below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines; meets any additional criteria prescribed by agreement between the state board of education and the operator of the college-preparatory boarding school in which the student seeks enrollment; and meets at least two of various additional conditions indicating the child may be at risk of educational success. Provides that a participating school district may either be the district in which the boarding school is located, or a district that, pursuant to state board procedures, agrees to be a participating school district so that eligible students entitled to attend school in that district may enroll in a college-preparatory boarding school. Provides that no agreement or contract entered into may create an obligation of state funds for more than two years, although the general assembly may authorize renewal of such obligation. Directs the state board to select a private nonprofit corporation that meets specified qualifications to operate each college-preparatory boarding school. Directs the state board to issue an RFP from private nonprofit corporations qualified to operate a college-preparatory boarding school. Identifies information to be included in each RFP response. Specifies that no college-preparatory boarding school may open before the 2013-14 school year. Requires the board of education to enter into a contract with the operator of each college-preparatory boarding school; identifies elements that must be included in the contract, including that the school meet the academic goals and other performance standards specified in the contract. Requires each operator to adopt bylaws for the oversight and operation of the school; requires such bylaws to address specified components. Requires each operator of a college-preparatory boarding school to adopt an outreach program to inform districts about the school and the procedures for admission to the school and for becoming a participating school district. Requires that each college-preparatory boarding school be governed by a board of trustees; provides relative to the establishment of the board of trustees. Permits employees of a college-preparatory boarding school to bargain collectively. Provides relative to suspension from duties of an employee or chief administrator of a school who violate certain provisions, and for licensure suspension or revocation under specified circumstances. Provides relative to the admission of eligible students. In the first year of operation, permits the school to admit no more than 60 students; prohibits the school's student population from exceeding 400 students. Specifies the components that must be included in a college-preparatory boarding school's educational program. Requires a college preparatory boarding school to comply with state and federal laws regarding the provision of special education services to students with disabilities in the same manner as school districts. Directs the department of education to issue an annual report card for each college-preparatory boarding school that includes all information applicable to school buildings under the annual report card for schools. Requires each school and its operator to comply with statutes related to specified accountability provisions for low-performing schools. Identifies data that each college-preparatory boarding school must report to the department of education. Provides for funding formula for college-preparatory boarding schools, which includes the the sum of the amount deducted from a participating school district's account for that child plus the per-pupil boarding amount, which for the first fiscal year for which a boarding school may be established, is $25,000. Provides for the adjustment of the per-pupil boarding amount in subsequent years. Permits the state board to accept funds from federal and state noneducation support services programs to fund the per pupil boarding amount. Specifies that each participating school district is responsible for providing transportation on a weekly basis for each student enrolled in a college-preparatory boarding school to and from that college-preparatory boarding school. Permits the state board to initiate termination procedures if the state board determines that a school is not in compliance with any provision of statute or the terms of the contract, or that the school has failed to meet the academic goals or performance standards specified in that contract.
Establishes the college-preparatory boarding school facilities program to provide assistance for the acquisition of classroom facilities for college-preparatory boarding schools. To be eligible to participate, requires a board of trustees to secure at least $20 million of private funds to satisfy its share of facilities acquisition. Requires acquisition of residential and all other non-classroom facilities to be funded through private means.
Also provides that a boarding school, its operator and its board of trustees are subject to various provisions applicable to school districts (those provisions on pages 231-232 of bill summary).
Boarding school facilities bill text: pages 357-358 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Chapter 3318 bill text: pages 415-432 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Bill summary (pages 226-237): http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses129/11-hb153-129.pdf).
Title: H.B. 153 - College-Preparatory Boarding Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Amends various provisions of the Educational Choice Scholarship Pilot Program (voucher for students in low-performing schools, not Cleveland voucher). Increases total number of students who may participate from 14,000 annually to 30,000 in the 2011-12 school year, and 60,000 in the 2012-13 school year and thereafter. Adds 4th and 5th level priority for scholarship awards to low-income and other students in specified low-performing schools. Adds provision directing the department to cease awarding first-time scholarships to students in buildings that no longer meet specified low-performance criteria. Removes language specifying dollar amount to be deducted from school district payment for each eligible student. Page 69-74 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Educational Choice Scholarship Pilot Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Specifies that the services provided under the scholarship must include an educational component. Pages 74-77 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Autism Scholarship Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship Program, effective with the 2012-13 school year, for K-12 students with disabilities to attend either (1) a registered private provider (i.e., a nonpublic school or other nonpublic entity that has been registered by the superintendent of public instruction), (2) a school district that is not the school district in which the child is entitled to attend school or the child's school district of residence, or (3) a public entity other than a school district, to which a parent or person in loco parentis owes fees for services provided to a child. Provides that an eligible student may not be participating in the educational choice scholarship pilot program (low-performing schools scholarship program), the pilot project scholarship program (Cleveland scholarship program), or the autism scholarship program in a year for which scholarship funds are sought. Provides that the scholarship may cover all or a part of the fees for the child to attend the special education program, and other services agreed to by the provider and eligible applicant that are not included in the individualized education program but are associated with educating the child. Specifies the number of scholarships awarded in any fiscal year may not exceed 5% of the total number of students in the state identified as chidlren with disabilities. Requires participating students to take state-mandated assessments and for those results to be reported to the department of education, unless the student is excused from an assessment under federal law or the student's IEP. Establishes a method for determining the amount to be paid for a qualified special education child under the program. Specifies the criteria a nonpublic provider must meet to be eligible to receive payments under the program.
Pages 77-86 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Makes changes to the "pilot project scholarship program" (Cleveland voucher program). Expands eligibility to new applicants through grade 12 (previously new students only accepted through grade 8). Increases scholarship amount effective fiscal year 2012. Pages 170-176 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Cleveland Voucher Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Data-Driven Improvement |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that of a specified department of education appropriation, a portion in each fiscal year may be used to train district and regional specialists and district educators in the use of the value-added progress
dimension and in the use of data as it relates to improving student achievement. This training may include teacher and administrator professional development in the use of data to improve instruction and student learning, and teacher and administrator training in understanding teacher value-added reports and how they can be used as a component in measuring teacher and administrator effectiveness. A portion of this funding may be provided to a credible nonprofit organization with expertise in value-added progress dimensions. Requires that the remainder of the appropriation be used by the department to incorporate a statewide
value-added progress dimension into performance ratings for school districts and for the development of an accountability system that includes the preparation and distribution of school report cards and funding and
expenditure accountability reports. Page 982 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part3.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Using Data to Improve Student Achievement
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Bonds |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
From bill analysis: Authorizes transfers from a bond fund or bond retirement fund to a permanent improvement fund, even if all of the obligations payable from the fund have not been retired. Limits the availability of this new option to school districts that receive approval for such a transfer from the county budget commission. When approving such transfers, requires a county budget commission to determine that the
money to be transferred will not be necessary to meet any outstanding obligations of the fund after considering the amount of outstanding obligations, the balance of the fund, and the fund's revenue sources.
Page 475 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part3.pdf
Bill analysis (page 696): http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses129/11-hb153-129.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Transfers from School District Bond Fund or Bond Retirement Fund
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides an exception to the provision that districts must reimburse the school district solvency assistance fund no later than the end of the second fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the solvency assistance payment was made. Permits the fund to be reimbursed no later than the tenth fiscal year after the fiscal year in which the solvency assistance payment was made, with the approval of the director of budget and management and the superintendent of public instruction. Page 242: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - School District Solvency Assistance Fund
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes the procedure for a district to levy a property tax or income tax. Pages 752-757 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part3.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Local Property Tax or Income Tax Levy
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Sections 9.33 to 9.335: Makes certain provisions related to a public authority's contracting for construction (that are already applicable to school districts) applicable to any state institution of higher education. Defines "construction manager at risk" as a person with substantial discretion and authority to plan, coordinate, manage, direct and construct all phases of a project for the construction, demolition, alteration, repair or reconstruction of any public building, structure or other improvement and who provides the public authority a guaranteed maximum price. Defines "open book pricing method" as a method in which a construction manager at risk provides the public authority, at the public authority's request, all books, records, documents, and other data in its possession pertaining to the bidding, pricing, or performance of a construction management contract awarded to the construction manager at risk.
In provisions related to negotiating with a construction manager or a construction manager at risk, specifies that nothing affects a public authority's right to accept or reject any or all proposals in whole or in part. Creates similar provisions for a public authority's selection of a construction manager at risk; requires among other provisions that the contract negotiations be directed toward agreeing upon a procedure and schedule for determining a guaranteed maximum price using an open book pricing method that must represent the total maximum amount to be paid by the public authority to the construction manager at risk for the project. Requires a construction manager at risk to provide a surety bond to the public authority before beginning construction.
Section 153.01: Releases from specified requirements any construction management contract entered into with a construction manager at risk, or a design-build contract entered into with a design-build firm as described in section 153.693. Increases the minimum cost of a project that would trigger reporting requirements of 153.01 from $50,000 to $200,000, or the amount determined pursuant to 153.53.
Section 153.02: Specifies that the director of administrative services may debar a contractor on the director's own initiative or upon request of the Ohio school facilities commission. Permits a contractor to be debarred from contract awards for projects as defined in Section 3318.01 ("a project to construct or acquire classroom facilities, or to reconstruct or make additions to existing classroom facilities, to be used for housing the applicable school district and its functions").
Pages 38-43 and 306-307 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - K-12 and Higher Education Construction Contracts
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Directs public entities (including a state agency and a state institution of higher education), upon completion of a capital facilities project funded wholly or partially through state funds, to submit a report about the project to the director of administrative services. Requires that the report provide the total original contract bid, total cost of change orders, total actual cost of the project, total costs incurred for mediation and
litigation services, and any other data requested by the director. Provides that this reporting requirement applies to any capital facilities project completed on or after July 1, 2011, with the exception of facilities projects funded wholly or in part through appropriations made to the Ohio school facilities commission, the Ohio public works commission, or the Ohio cultural facilities commission, or for which a joint use agreement has been entered into with any public entity. Requires the attorney general to report annually, beginning by July 2012, on any mediation and litigation costs associated with capital facilities projects for which a judgment has been rendered. Pages 197-198 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Reporting on Costs of Capital Facilities Projects
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Permits a regional council to enter into a contract that establishes a unit price for materials, labor, services, overhead, profit, and associated expenses for the repair, enlargement, improvement or demolition of a building or structure if the contract is awarded pursuant to a school district's competitive bidding procedure. Pages 341-342 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Unit Prices Established in Contract
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Permits a district board to rent or lease facilities under its control to any public or nonpublic institution of higher education for the institution's use in providing evening and summer classes. Page 160 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Renting Facilities to Postsecondary Institutions
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Permits the Ohio school facilities commission to provide assistance under the exceptional needs school facilities program to any school district for the purpose of the relocation or replacement of classroom facilities required as a result of any contamination of air, soil or water that impacts the occupants of the facility. Directs the commission to make a determination in accordance with commission-adopted guidelines regarding eligibility and funding for such projects. Authorizes the commission to contract with an independent environmental consultant to conduct a study to assist the commission in making the determination. If the federal government or other public or private entity provides funds for restitution of costs incurred by the state or school district in the relocation or replacement of the classroom facilities, requires the school district to use such funds in excess of the school district's share to refund the state for the state's contribution to the environmental contamination portion of the project. Permits the school district to apply an amount of such restitution funds up to an amount equal to the school district's portion of the project, as defined by the commission, toward paying its portion of that project to reduce the amount of bonds the school district otherwise must issue to receive state assistance. Pages 348-349 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Relocation or Replacement of Classroom Facilities
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Specifies actions after which a district capital project must be considered complete and the Ohio school facilities commission must issue a certificate of completion to the district board of education. Permits the commission to issue a certificate of completion to a district board prior to the satisfaction of all of the conditions specified in legislation, if the commission determines that the circumstances preventing the conditions from being satisfied are sufficiently minor. Permits the commission to issue a certificate of completion to a district board that does not voluntarily participate in the process of closing out the district's project, if the construction manager for the project verifies that all facilities to be constructed, as specified in the project agreement, have been completed and the commission determines that those facilities have
been occupied for at least one year. In that case, requires all funds due to the commission be returned within 30 days after receipt of the certificate of completion. If the funds due to the commission have not been
returned within 60 days after receipt of the certificate of completion, the auditor of state must issue a finding for recovery against the school district and must request legal action. Specifies that upon issuance of a certificate of completion, the commission's ownership of and interest in the project ceases.
Creates the corrective action program to provide funding for the correction of certain publicly-funded work that is found after occupancy of the facility to be defective or to have been omitted. Directs the commission to establish procedures and deadlines for school districts to follow in applying for assistance. Identifies procedures if the the work to be corrected or remediated is part of a project not yet completed. Requires districts to contribute a portion of the cost of the corrective action, regardless of whether the project is completed.
Page 355-357 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Facilities
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Directs the state lottery commission to promulgate rules on the type of notices that must appear on lottery tickets, including one that must appear if the word "education" is used in any advertising for a
statewide lottery, which must include information as to the percentage that lottery profits contribute to all education funding in the state. Requires the notice as to what percentage that lottery profits contribute to all education funding in the state to also appear on any television advertising for the Ohio lottery and on the first page of the Web site for the Ohio lottery.
Pages 699 and 701 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Lottery Funds for Education
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that at the request of the superintendent of public instruction, any entity that receives a budget earmark under the department of education must submit annually to the chairpersons of the committees of the house of representatives and the senate primarily concerned with education and to the department of education a report that includes a description of the services supported by the funds and of the results achieved by those services, an analysis of the effectiveness of the program, and an opinion as to the program's applicability to other school districts. For an earmarked entity that received state funds from an earmark in the prior fiscal year, no funds are to be provided by the department of education to an earmarked entity for a fiscal year until its report for the prior fiscal year has been submitted. Page 2 of 264: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part4.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Earmark Accountability
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Student Fees |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Permits districts to charge fees (including to low-income students) for any tools, equipment, and materials that are necessary for workforce-readiness training within a career-technical education program that, to the extent the tools, equipment, and materials are not consumed, may be retained by the student upon course completion.
Page 157 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Student Fees for CTE Courses
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Prohibits a state agency or state institution of higher education from entering into a contract with a lobbyist for more than $50,000 in a calendar year without the approval of the controlling board. Provides that this does not apply to an employment contract through which a lobbyist is employed directly by a state agency or state institution of higher education.
Pages 61-62 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Lobbyists for State Agencies and Postsecondary Institutions
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires an exam to be administered when a position in the classified service of the state is to be filled (provides exceptions). Authorizes the director of administrative services, with sufficient justification from the appointing authority, to allow the appointing authority to fill the position by noncompetitive exam. Directs the director to establish in administrative code standards to be used to determine what serves as "sufficient justification" for these purposes. Amends provisions related to the eligible list of candidates for a position. Repeals provision that promotions in the classified service are to be made based in part on seniority.
Pages 201-207 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Exams for Classified Service
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that upon the request of a state agency or the director of budget and management, the agency's controlling board may approve a purchase if the agency used specified competitive selection or evaluation and selection processes and the agency provided in its request to the board a detailed explanation of the competitive selection or evaluation and selection process it utilized. Permits the controlling board to either deny or defer a request, or request that the agency resubmit the request if the agency fails to demonstrate it utilized one of the competitive selection or evaluation and selection requirements. Page 238 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Agency Purchases
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Permits the department of education to utilize the services of volunteers to accomplish any of the purposes of the department. Directs the superintendent of public instruction to approve for what purposes volunteers may be used and for these purposes may recruit, train, and oversee the services of volunteers. Authorizes the superintendent to reimburse volunteers for necessary and appropriate expenses in accordance with state guidelines and to designate volunteers as state employees for the purpose of motor vehicle accident liability insurance, for immunity, and for indemnification from liability incurred in the performance of their duties. Page 3 of 264: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part4.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Use of Volunteers at DOE
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Repeals requirement that the healthy choices for healthy children council assist the department of health in developing a list of resources on health risks associated with weight status for distribution to parents. Repeals requirement that the state board establish a measure of whether a district or building is complying with a provision (section 3313.674) requiring students in certain grades to undergo screenings for body mass index and weight status category, or operating under a waiver from these requirements. Pages 32 and 34 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Health
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
In list of beverages that may be sold a la carte during the regular and extended school day, replaces specifics of quantity, types of, or calories of milk with "milk".
Page 160-161 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Milk Sales During School Day
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires a person who is at least 16 but under the age of 19 who is applying to the department to take the tests of general education development to submit with the application written approval from the superintendent of the school district in which the person was last enrolled, or the superintendent's designee (if the person was last enrolled in a community school or STEM school, the approval must be from the school principal or his/her designee). Provides the department may require the person to submit approval from the person's parent or guardian, or a court official, if the person is under 18. Specifies that for purposes of calculating graduation rates, the department must count any person for whom approval is obtained from the superintendent or principal as a dropout. Pages 144-145 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Permission to Take GED
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Removes requirement that the state assessment program assess "other skills necessary in the twenty-first century" (beyond English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies). Page 6 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Exit Exam
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Removes "whenever praticable" from provisions directing school districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic schools to integrate technology into learning experiences, and directing districts and schools to utilize technology access and electronic learning opportunities provided by the eTech Ohio commission, the Ohio learning network, education technology centers, public television stations, and other public and private providers. Makes mandatory the provision that districts and schools use distance and web-based course delivery as a method of providing or augmenting all instruction required for high school graduation. Removes nonpublic schools from the provision requiring districts and community schools to comply with the state board plan for awarding credit for a demonstration of subject area competency.
Pages 131-136 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Technology and Competency-Based Credit in Graduation Requirements
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Permits any person assigned to a school as a principal or any other position to also serve as the district's gifted education coordinator, if qualified to do so pursuant to state board of education rules. Page 407 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Gifted and Talented Coordinators
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires that local board procedures for principal evaluations be based on principles comparable to the teacher evaluation policy adopted by the board under section 3319.111, but be tailored to the duties and responsibilities of principals and the environment in which principals work. Page 361 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Principal Evaluations
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Permits a local board, or the governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school or a community school, prior to the start of the school year, to submit a plan to the department to require students to complete classroom lessons posted to the district's or nonpublic school's Web portal or Web site to make up for days lost due to school closures in excess of the number of days permitted in statute. Permits up to three days or the equivalent hours to be made up via online lessons. Defines elements that the plan must provide for.
Pages 165-167 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Making Up Lost Instructional Days Online
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes the following as principles on which the clearinghouse of distance learning courses for grades K-12 must be based: (1) All Ohio students shall have access to high-quality distance learning courses at any point in their educational careers; (2) All students must be able to customize their education using distance learning courses offered through the clearinghouse and no student may be denied access to any course in the clearinghouse in which the student is eligible to enroll; (3) Students may take distance learning courses for all or any portion of their curriculum requirements and may utilize a combination of distance learning courses and courses taught in a traditional classroom setting; (4) Students may earn an unlimited number of academic credits through distance learning courses; (5) Students may take distance learning courses at any time of the calendar year; (6) Student advancement to higher coursework must be based on a demonstration of subject area competency instead of completion of any particular number of hours of instruction.
Directs The eTech Ohio commission, in consultation with the chancellor and the state board, to distribute information describing the clearinghouse to students and parents in an easily understandable format. Repeals language specifying conditions that must be met for a student in a school district, community school or STEM school to enroll in a course through the clearinghouse. Directs school districts, community schools, and STEM schools to encourage students to take advantage of the distance learning opportunities offered through the clearinghouse, and to assist any student with the selection and scheduling of clearinghouse courses that satisfy the district's or school's curriculum requirements and promote the student's postsecondary college or career plans. Provides that nothing shall be construed to require the school
district, community school, or STEM school in which a student is enrolled to pay the fee charged for a course taken by the student. Requires that the district or school enrolling the student award the student
credit for successful completion of the course, and that such credit must be equivalent to any credit that would be granted for successful completion of a similar course offered by the district or school. Previous language directed the chancellor of the board of regents to adopt rules to administer the program; new language requires such rules to be adopted jointly by the chancellor and the state board of education, in consultation with the director of the governor's office of 21st century education.
Pages 441-445 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Clearinghouse of Distance Learning Courses
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Information Technology Service Fund. Provides that the fund consists of money received by the eTech Ohio commission pursuant to agreements with educational entities for the provision of IT services to support initiatives to align education from preschool through college, and any other money deposited into the fund by the commission. Provides the fund must be used to provide the services specified in the agreements, including implementation and maintenance of an electronic clearinghouse for student transcript transfers and development of the education data repository.
Pages 460-461 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Information Technology Service Fund
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-3 Special Ed./Inclusion |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that one of the purposes of the Help Me Grow program is to provide early intervention services in accordance with part C of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act". Authorizes the director of health to enter into an interagency agreement with one or more state agencies to implement the Help Me Grow program and ensure coordination of early childhood programs. Authorizes the director to distribute Help Me Grow program funds through contracts, grants, or subsidies to entities providing services and directs the department of health, to the extent funds are available, to establish a system of payment to providers of home visiting and part C early intervention services. Requires that, as a condition of receiving payments for home visiting services, providers must report to the director specified data on the program performance
indicators that are used to assess progress toward achieving the goals of the program. Requires the director of health to prepare an annual report on the data received from the providers. Requires the director to adopt rules on specified components of the program. Specifies that a family enrolled in the Help Me Grow at-risk program on the effective date of H.B. 153 must be eligible for at-risk services until December 31, 2013, or until the eligible child reaches three years of age, whichever occurs first.
486-488 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Early Intervention Services
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Existing policy directs the chancellor of the board of regents to encourage state universities and colleges to submit proposals under the choose Ohio first scholarship program for initiatives that recruit Ohio residents enrolled in colleges and universities in other states or other countries to return to Ohio and enroll in state universities or colleges as graduate students in STEM or medicine or STEM or medical education. New provision also permits state colleges and universities to submit proposals for initiatives that recruit graduates, or undergraduates who will graduate in time to participate in the subsequent school year, from an Ohio college or university who received, or will receive, a degree in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or medicine to participate in a graduate-level teacher education master's program in one of those fields that requires the student to establish a domicile in the state and to commit to teach for a minimum of three years in a hard-to-staff school district in the state upon completion of the master's degree program. Permits the chancellor to require a college or university to give priority to qualified candidates who graduated from a high school in the state. Provides "hard to staff" must be defined by the department of education.
Page 440 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Choose Ohio First Scholarship Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Amends various provisions related to the Ohio National Guard Scholarship Program. Makes students at private institutions of higher education, community colleges, state community colleges, university branches, and technical colleges eligible for participation. Clarifies that "tuition" for purposes of the amount of scholarship payments does not include laboratory fees, room and board, or other similar fees and charges. Provides that scholarships will be approved for all eligible applicants. Repeals language regarding reducing an applicant's scholarship amount based on the amount of certain other service-related benefits. Makes applicants enrolled in 3 but fewer than 6 credit hours eligible for a scholarship. Establishes procedures for projecting the potential costs of the program (i.e., scholarship recipients) and identifies actions to be taken if the amounts available for the program are inadequate to provide scholarships for all eligible applicants.
Pages 801-807 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part3.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - National Guard Scholarship Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Requires that the chancellor's rules for determining student residency for purposes of determining tuition costs must grant residency status to a person who graduated from an Ohio high school, if the person enrolls in an institution of higher education and establishes domicile in the state, regardless of the student's residence prior to that enrollment. Provides that an alien may not be granted resident status if the alien is not also an immigrant (granted right to permanent residency in the U.S.) or nonimmigrant (granted right to temporary residency in the U.S.).
Pages 437-438 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Resident for Determining Tuition
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires that the Ohio tuition trust authority's investment policies and guidelines be utilized in administering the investment options offered by the authority. Requires that the investment options include a default option to benefit contributors who are first-time investors or have low to moderate incomes. Page 448 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Ohio Tuition Trust Authority Investment Options
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Directs the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents to develop a plan for designating public institutions of higher education as charter universities. Directs the chancellor to study specified issues and consult with the presidents of constituent institutions of the university system of Ohio in developing the plan. Directs the chancellor to specify in the plan (1) The manner in which a state institution of higher education may become eligible for restructured financial and operational authority, and performance measures and criteria to determine eligibility; (2) Specific areas of financial and operational authority subject to increased flexibility; and (3) The nature and term of the management agreement required between the state and an institution. By August 15, 2011, directs the chancellor to submit to the general assembly and the governor a report of findings and recommendations for use in developing policy changes necessary to implement the plan. Provides no institution may be designated a charter university until the general assembly, after considering the chancellor's plan, has enacted legislation establishing a procedure for making the designation. Prohibits the chancellor from adopting, amending or rescind any rules with respect to designating institutions as charter universities until that legislation is enacted. Establishes legislative intent that the general assembly, governor and chancellor take actions necessary for implementation of the plan for charter universities to commence July 1, 2012. Pages 457-458 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Charter Universities
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Creates new section to outline the capital bonding requirements for community colleges. Pages 336-339 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Capital Bonding Requirements for Community Colleges
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Authorizes the the board of trustees of a state institution, with the approval of the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents and the controlling board, to enter into a financing agreement with a conduit entity (i.e., 501(c)(3)) and an independent funding source selected either through a competitive selection process or by direct negotiations, and to convey to the conduit entity title to any auxiliary facilities (as defined in 3345.12 http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3345.12) owned by the state institution pursuant to the terms of a financing agreement. Establishes the parameters for such a financing agreement. Permits the state institution and the conduit entity to enter into such other management agreements or other contracts regarding the conveyed property the parties deem appropriate, including agreements allowing the state institution to maintain or administer the conveyed property and collect and disburse revenues from the conveyed property on behalf of the conduit entity. Requires that the conveyed property retain its exemption from property taxes and assessments as though title to the conveyed property were held by the state institution during any part of a tax year that title is held by the conduit entity. Pages 455-456 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Auxiliary Facilities May Be Transferred to 501(c)(3)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Permits each university to enter into a lease agreement with a nonpublic vendor to provide housing services in campus housing facilities to students of the university. Permits the lease agreement to require the vendor to construct new campus housing facilities to serve students. Provides that such leases must be for at least 20 years but no longer than 30 years.
Pages 456-457 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Leasing Campus Housing Facilities to Nonpublic Vendors
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures--State Executives/State Agencies |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Removes provision prohibiting the chancellor of the board of regents from assuming any duties until the senate has consented to the chancellor's appointment. Replaces provisions limiting the term of the chancellor to five years and on the filling of vacancies with provision that the term of the chancellor must coincide with the term of that chancellor's appointing governor, and that subsequent appointments are to be filled in the same manner as the governor's initial appointment. Pages 433-434 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - SHEEO's Term
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Success--Completion |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Directs the chancellor of the board of regents to require all state institutions of higher education that offer baccalaureate degrees to submit a statement describing how each major for which the school offers a baccalaureate degree may be completed within three academic years. Provides the statement may include but is not limited to specified methods to contribute to earning a baccalaureate degree in three years, including Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and a waiver of degree and credit-hour requirements by completion of courses that are widely available at community colleges in the state or through online programs offered by state institutions of higher education or private nonprofit institutions or through postsecondary enrollment options (dual enrollment), completion of coursework in summer sessions, and a waiver of foreign language requirements by demonstration of proficiency. By October 15, 2012, requires each state institution of higher education to provide such statements for 10% of all baccalaureate degree programs offered by the institution, and by June 30, 2014, to provide such statements for 60% of all baccalaureate degree programs offered by the institution. Requires every state institution of higher education required to submit statements to post its three-year option on its Web site and also provide that information to the department of education. Directs the department to distribute that information to the superintendent, high school principal, and guidance counselor, or equivalents, of each school district, community school and STEM school. Provides that nothing in statute requires an institution to take any action that would violate the requirements of any independent association accrediting baccalaureate degree programs. Pages 438-439 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Three-Year Baccalaureate
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
By December 31, 2012, requires the presidents of all state institutions of higher education, or their designees, to jointly establish uniform statewide standards in mathematics, science, reading and writing that each student in a state institution of higher education must meet to be considered in remediation-free status. Requires the presidents to also establish assessments, if deemed necessary, to determine if a student meets the standards. Directs the chancellor to assist in coordinating the work of the presidents. Directs each state institution of higher education to annually report the following to the governor, the general assembly, the chancellor and the superintendent of public instruction: (1) The institution's aggregate costs for providing academic remedial or developmental courses; (2) The amount of those costs disaggregated according to the city, local, or exempted village school districts from which the students taking those courses received their high school diplomas; and (3) Any other information with respect to academic remedial and developmental courses that the chancellor considers appropriate. Directs the chancellor and the superintendent of public instruction to annually issue a report recommending policies and strategies for reducing the need for academic remediation and developmental courses at state institutions of higher education. Pages 452-453 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Postsecondary Remediation
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Private Schools |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes certification requirements for teaching foreign language, music, religion, computer technology or fine arts in nontax-supported or nonchartered, nontax-supported schools. Page 2 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Certain Teacher Certification Requirements in Private Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Privatization |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Permits the board of a district to which the provisions of Chapter 124 of the revised code do not apply to terminate any of its transportation staff positions and enter into a contract with an independent agent for the provision of transportation services for some or all of its students. Permits a contract to be entered into only if specified conditions are satisfied (i.e., expiration of effective collective bargaining agreements, an employee whose position is terminated is permitted to fill any district vacancy for which the employee is qualified, the contract contains a stipulation that the contracting agent must consider hiring any district employees whose positions are terminated, etc.) Provides that if the board, after terminating any positions, fails to comply with the conditions specified in statute or fails to enforce on the agent specified contractual obligations, the terminations must be void and the board must reinstate the positions, fill them with the employees who filled those positions just prior to the terminations, and compensate them at a rate equal to their rate of compensation in those positions just prior to the terminations, plus any increases paid since the terminations to other nonteaching employees. Provides the employees must also be entited to back pay from the date of the terminations. Provides any employee aggrieved by the failure of the board to comply with any condition specified in statute or to enforce on the agent its contractual obligations must have the right to sue the board for reinstatement of the employee's former position.
Pages 366-368 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Privatization of Transportation Services
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us/ |
Religion |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Prohibits a state institution of higher education from taking any action or enforcing any policy that would deny a religious student group any benefit available to any other student group based on the religious
student group's requirement that its leaders or members adhere to its sincerely held religious beliefs or standards of conduct. Defines "benefits" for purposes of this section. Page 450 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Prohibition of Denying Benefits to a Religious Student Group
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Section 9.482: Authorizes a political subdivision (including a school district), when authorized by their respective legislative authorities, to enter into an agreement with another political subdivision to allow the contracting political subdivision to exercise any power, perform any function or render any service that the contracting recipient political subdivision is otherwise legally authorized to exercise, perform or render. Establishes parameters for such agreements. Provides that employees acting outside the boundaries of their employing political subdivision while providing a service under an agreement may participate in any pension or indemnity fund established by the political subdivision to the same extent as while they are acting within the boundaries of the political subdivision, and are entitled to all the rights and benefits of
Chapter 4123 of the Revised Code to the same extent as while they are performing a service within the boundaries of the political subdivision. Pages 43-44 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Powers of Political Subdivisions
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Creates new sections 189.01 through 189.09. Creates the local government innovation program to provide loans and grants for local government innovation projects. Creates the local government innovation council to establish criteria for and make loans and awards to political subdivisions, including school districts, for local government innovation projects. Provides that not more than $100,000 may be awarded to an individual political subdivision, and that not more than $500,000 may be awarded per innovation project. Requires the council to begin evaluating proposals by March 2012, and to make its first round of awards by July 2012. Provides the local government innovation council will cease to exist on December 31, 2015. Pages 389-393 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Local Government Innovation Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Makes permissive rather than mandatory certain minimum operating standards for school districts established by 2009 H.B. 1, and found in Sec. 3301.07(D)(3). Replaces references to "organizational units" with references to "buildings" in this passage of 3301.07.Repeals provision that the state board may revoke the charter of any school district that fails to meet the operating standards established under 3301.07(D)(3). Repeals provision that a high school or elementary school may consist of less than one or more than one organizational unit
Page 998-1000 of 1000 (Part I): http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf, and page 29-30 of 1000 (Part II): http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Minimum Operating Standards for School Districts
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Authorizes an educational service center's governing board to task an executive committee of the governing board with performing specified actions. Provides that the appointed members of an educational service center governing board may be representative of the client school districts of the service center. Establishes that if all of the local school districts that make up the territory of an educational service center have severed from the territory of that service center, the service center is dissolved and the governing board is abolished. Provides procedures relative to the dissolution of a service center.
Directs districts with an average daily student membership of 16,000 or less to enter into an agreement with the governing board of an educational service center to provide services. Permits districts with an average daily student membership of more than 16,000 to enter into such agreements. Specifies that contracts may be entered into for any services the district board and service center governing board agree can be better provided by the service center and that are not provided under an agreement established through 3313.845 http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3313.845. Establishes parameters for a district to terminate an agreement for an educational service center's services. Permits the governing board of an educational service center to enter into a contract to provide services to any political subdivision as defined in section
2744.01 of the Revised Code, not including school districts, community schools, or STEM schools,
Pages 87-90 and 162-165 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Educational Service Centers
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Defines "life cycle cost analysis". Specifies that certain provisions related to energy-efficient designs for state-funded facilities do not apply to facilities operated by a political subdivision (including a school district). (Facilities of state institutions of higher education were already exempted from these provisions.)
Pages 191-196 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Energy-Efficient Buildings
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Permits a contracting subdivision (i.e., a municipal corporation, township, joint recreation district, township park district, county, school district, educational service center, or state institution of higher education), jointly with one or more other contracting subdivisions, to acquire property for, construct, operate and maintain educational facilities, and appropriate money for such purposes. Permits fees to be charged in connection with the use of educational facilities acquired or maintained by a contracting subdivision. Page 596-598 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Contracting Subdivision May Acquire and Maintain Educational Facilities
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Service-Learning |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Renames the Ohio community service council the Ohio commission on service and volunteerism.
Pages 156-162 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Ohio Commission on Service and Volunteerism
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the director of developmental disabilities to establish an interagency workgroup on autism to improve the coordination of the state's efforts to address the service needs of individuals with autism spectrum disorders and those individuals' families. Authorizes the director to enter into interagency agreements with the government entities represented on the workgroup. Creates the interagency workgroup on autism fund in the state treasury to suppor the activities of the workgroup.
Pages 342-343 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part3.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Interagency Workgroup on Autism
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Special Education--Federal Law/Regulations |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Directs the department of education to develop a document that compares a parent's and child's rights under Chapter 3323 of the Ohio code and the Individuals with Disabilities Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.) with the parent's and child's rights under the Jon Peterson special needs scholarship program, and to revise that document as necessary to reflect any pertinent changes in state or federal statutory law after the initial document is developed. Directs the department and each school district to ensure that this document is distributed in conjunction with the notice required under 20 U.S.C. 1415(d), and any provision of the Code of Federal Regulations implementing that requirement, in the manner and at all the times specified for such notice in federal law or regulation.
Pages 401-402 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Parental Rights and Special Education
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Standards |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Removes provision that the state board adopt state standards every five years after June 30, 2010; replaces with provision that state board adopt standards periodically. Repeals requirements that the standards specify "the development of skill sets as they relate to creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, and communication and collaboration" and "the development of skill sets that promote personal management, productivity and accountability, and leadership and responsibility". Replaces requirement for development of standards and model curricula in "computer literacy" with "technology". Page 3 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - State Standards
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
STEM |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Permits the Ohio school facilities commission, upon receipt of a written proposal by the governing body of a STEM school, to provide funding to assist the STEM school in acquiring classroom facilities. Requires the STEM school to pledge at least a matching amount of nonstate funds. Page 358 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Funding for STEM School Facilities
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides a student may not be denied the opportunity to participate in interscholastic athletics solely because the student's parents do not reside in this state, if the student resides in this state with the student's grandparent, uncle, aunt or sibling who has legal or temporary custody of the student or is the guardian of the student. Page 128 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Participation in Athletics
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Prohibits the state board from adopting additional requirements for the resident educator license beyond those established in statute. Page 385 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Resident Educator License Requirements
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
By July 2012, directs the state superintendent to develop a list of states that the superintendent considers to have standards for teacher licensure that are inadequate to ensure that persons licensed as teachers in other states are qualified for a professional educator license issued in Ohio. Following development of the list, directs the superintendent to establish a panel of experts to evaluate the adequacy of the teacher licensure standards of each state on the list. Directs the panel, by April 2013, to recommend to the state board that the list be approved without changes, or that specified states be removed from the list prior to approval. By July 2013, directs the state board to approve a final list of states with teacher licensure standards that are inadequate to ensure that a person is qualified for a professional educator license. Provides that, with the following exception, until the state board approves a final list of states with inadequate teacher licensure standards, the state board must issue a one-year provisional educator license to any applicant licensed in another state who meets specified other criteria. Provides that upon expiration of the provisional license, a professional educator license must be issued if the person satisfies either of specified conditions. Exception: also provides that from July 2012 to when the state board approves a final list of states with inadequate teacher licensure standards, the state board must issue a professional educator license to any applicant who meets specified criteria and who was licensed in a state that is not on the list developed by the state superintendent. Provides that beginning on the date on which the state board approves a final list of states with inadequate teacher licensure standards, the state board must issue a professional educator license to any applicant licensed out of state who meets specified criteria, and who was most recently licensed to teach by a state that is not on that list. Pages 386-388 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Teaching Certification Reciprocity with Other States
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides that an applicant for employment by a school district, the governing board of an educational service center or a chartered nonpublic school who is applying to be an instructor of adult education and who will not have routine contact with children and who, within the two-year period prior to the date of application, was the subject of a criminal records check prior to being hired for short-term employment with the school district, educational service center, or chartered nonpublic school to which application is being made must not be required to undergo a criminal records check prior to the applicant's rehiring by that district, service center or school. Pages 395-396 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Criminal Records Check for Adult Educators
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Previous law directed the state board of education to adopt by rule requirements for obtaining an alternative resident educator license for teaching grades 4-12; new provision requires rulemaking for obtaining alternative licensure for teaching grades K-12. Prohibits state board from requiring an applicant for an alternative resident educator license to have completed a major in the subject area for which application is being made. Provides that, as an alternative to completion of an intensive pedagogical training institute on the principles and practices of teaching, an alternative resident educator license candidate may complete a summer training institute provided to participants of a teacher preparation program operated by a nonprofit organization and that has been approved by the chancellor. Replaces mandate that alternative resident educator license candidates complete at least 12 semester hours or the equivalent in certain pedagogical topics with option that candidate complete either the 12 semester hours (or equivalent), or professional development provided by the aforementioned chancellor-approved teacher preparation program. Specifies that a person who is assigned as a teach for America participant or who has completed two years of teaching through the teach for America program in another state is eligible for licensure only through provisions specific to licensure of teach for America program participants, and is not eligible for an alternative resident educator license. 388-390 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Alternative Resident Educator License
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires any local board or community school or STEM school receiving federal Race to the Top grant monies to pay teachers based on performance. Requires any such local board to adopt a salary schedule for teachers based on performance; requires a board to measure performance considering specified elements, including the teacher's evaluation conducted under section 3319.111. Requires a local salary schedule to provide for annual adjustments based on performance (i.e., the annual performance-based adjustment for a teacher rated as accomplished must be greater than the annual performance-based adjustment for a teacher rated as proficient), and permits a salary schedule to provide for additional compensation for teachers who agree to perform duties, not contracted for under a supplemental contract, that the employing board determines warrant additional compensation, including assignment to a Title I building, low-performing school or other hard-to-staff school as determined by the board, or assignment to a high-needs subject or grade level. Requires the governing body of a community school or STEM school to comply with section 3319.111 as if it were a district board of education.
Pages 197-198, 313-314 and 409-410 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Pay for Performance for RTTT Districts/Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Section 9.833: Provides that any agreement for a political subdivision (including a school district) to jointly administer an individual self-insurance program with another political subdivision, establish and maintain a joint self-insurance program, or join with other political subdivisions to provide a health savings account program, among other actions, must (1) be in writing, (2) comply with specified legislative provisions, and (3) contain best practices established in consultation with and approved by the department of administrative services. Permits the best practices to be reviewed and amended at the discretion of the political subdivisions in consultation with the department. Requires that detailed information on the best practices be made available to any employee upon request. Requires political subdivisions to maintain certified audited financial statements for individual or joint self-insurance programs.
Section 9.90: Provides that certain provisions related to health care programs apply until the department of administrative services implements healthcare plans designed under section 9.901. Provides that once the department of administrative services releases in final form health care plans designed under section 9.901, all health care benefits provided to employees of state institutions of higher education, school districts or educational service centers may be through those plans. Provides that if those plans do not include or address any benefits listed in section 9.90, or if the board of trustees or other governing body of a state institution of higher education, a district board, or governing board of an educational service center do not elect to be covered under a plan offered by the department of administrative services under section 9.901, the provisions of 9.90 continue to apply for those benefits.
Section 9.901: Among other provisions: Before the department's release of the initial health care plans, the department must contract with an independent consultant to analyze costs related to employee health care benefits provided by existing political subdivision, school district and state institution plans. The consultant must (1) determine the benefits offered by existing plans, the employees' costs, and the cost-sharing arrangements used by political subdivisions, schools, and institutions participating in a consortium; (2)l determine what strategies are used by the existing plans to manage health care costs and study the potential benefits of state or regional consortiums of political subdivisions, public schools, and institutions offering multiple health care plans. Based on the findings of the analysis, the consultant must submit recommendations to the department for the development and implementation of a successful program for pooling purchasing power for the acquisition of employee health care plans. Requires that the recommendations address numerous specified issues. Specifies that nothing prohibits a political subdivision from adopting a delivery system of benefits that is not in accordance with the department's adopted best practices if it is considered to be most financially advantageous to the political subdivision.
Pages 46-61 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part1.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Health Care Benefits
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Removes substitutes, adult education instructors who are scheduled to work the full-time equivalent of less than 120 days per school year, or persons who are employed on an as-needed, seasonal or intermittent basis from those local board employees entitled to 15 days sick leave with pay per contract year. Specifies that part-time employees will receive sick leave calculated on a ratio to hours of service as specified in the government code. Page 378 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Calculation of Sick Leave
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
By December 31, 2011, directs the state board to develop a standards-based framework for teacher evaluation, which must incorporate numerous specified elements, including that student academic growth must account for 50% of each evaluation. Also requires that the framework provide for professional development to accelerate and continue teacher growth and provide support to poorly-performing teachers, and provide for the allocation of financial resources to support professional development. Also directs the state board to identify the standards and criteria that distinguish between four levels of performance for teachers and principals, and to develop a list of student assessments that measure mastery of the course content for grades/subjects for which the state assessment system and value-added progress dimension do not apply. Directs the department to serve as a clearinghouse of promising evaluation procedures and evaluation models that districts may use in developing evaluation policies, and provide technical assistance to districts in creating evaluation policies.
Requires that by July 2013, each district, in consultation with teachers, adopt a standards-based teacher evaluation policy that conforms with the framework for teacher evaluations required by statute. Requires each teacher to be evaluated at least once each school year (previously, teachers were evaluated only if the board was considering not re-hiring the teacher the following school year). Requires any limited contract or extended limited contract teacher to be evaluated at least twice in any school year in which the board may wish not to re-employ the teacher. Permits an evaluation once every two school years of a teacher who received a rating of "accomplished" on the teacher's most recent evaluation. Requires local policies to include procedures for using evaluation results for retention, promotion and dismissal decisions.
Pages 374-378 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Teacher Evaluations
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
By December 31, 2012 and annually thereafter, requires the chancellor of the board of regents to report aggregate academic growth data, using the value-added progress dimension, for students assigned to graduates of state-approved teacher preparation programs who teach English language arts or mathematics in any of grades 4-8 in a public school in Ohio. Directs the chancellor to aggregate the data by graduating class for each approved teacher preparation program, except that if a particular class has 10 or fewer graduates, the chancellor must report the data for a group of classes over a three-year period. Prohibits the report from identifying any individual graduate. Directs the department of education to share any data necessary for the report with the chancellor. Page 436 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Teacher Preparation Program Graduates' Performance
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Specifies that seniority may not be the basis to retain a teacher, except when making a decision between teachers with comparable evaluations. Removes language that in any reduction in force, a service center must suspend contracts in accordance with the recommendation of the superintendent, who must give preference first to teachers on continuing contract and then to teachers with greater seniority. Provides that seniority may not be the basis for rehiring a teacher, except in a decision between teachers with comparable evaluations. Removes provision that in reductions in force brought about by district transfers or consolidations, years of teaching service must be included as a part of the seniority on which the recommendation of the superintendent of schools must be based.
Pages 376 and 380-382 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Seniority Removed as Decisionmaking Factor
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Repeals existing definition of "electronic textbook". Establishes new defintion of electronic textbook as any book or book substitute accessed via a computer or other electronic medium or that is available through an Internet-based provider of course content, or any other material that contributes to the learning process through electronic means. Clarifies that monies paid to districts via section 3317.024 may also be used to purchase (1) "computer hardware and related equipment", including computer tablets, and other mobile handheld devices; and their operating systems and accessories and (2) life-saving medical or other emergency equipment for placement in nonpublic schools within the district or to maintain such equipment.
Page 300-302 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Definitions for Purposes of District Purchases
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
P-12 |
--Public employee pay: Does away with salary schedules and replaces with salary "ranges." Requires performance-based pay for teachers and nonteaching school employees. Requires a school board to measure performance by considering the level of license the teacher holds, whether the teacher is a "highly qualified teacher," the value-added measure the board uses to determine the performance of the students assigned to the teacher's classroom, the results of the teacher's performance evaluations or peer reviews (see Section 3317.13).
--Public employee benefits: Caps vacation leave at 7.7 hours per biweekly pay period. Reduces sick leave accrual for most public employees from 4.6 hours to 3.1 hours per biweekly pay period. Limits public employer contributions toward health care benefit costs to 85%. Requires health care benefits provided to management level employees to be the same as any health care benefits provided to other employees of the same public employer. Requires boards of education to adopt policies to provide leave with pay for school employees not covered by a collective bargaining agreement, and abolishes statutorily provided leave for teachers and nonteaching school employees. Prohibits a public employer from paying employee contributions to the five public employee retirement systems. Requires health care benefits provided through a jointly administered trust fund to be the same as the health care benefits provided to other public employees.
--Employment: Abolishes continuing contracts for teachers, except for those continuing contracts in existence prior to the effective date of the bill and revises the law relating to limited contracts.
Reduction in force: Prohibits a school district financial planning and supervision commission from using seniority as the only factor when making reductions in nonteaching employees. Prohibits a public employer from violating Ohio or federal civil rights law when conducting a reduction in force.
Bill text: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_5_EN_N.pdf
Bill summary: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses129/s0005-rs-129.pdf
Title: S.B. 5 - Compensation sections
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
P-12 |
To amend sections 3313.482, 3314.08, and 3317.01 of the Revised Code to excuse up to five, instead of three, calamity days for the 2010-2011 school year, to broaden schools' authority to make up calamity days by lengthening remaining days in the school year, to waive the number of hours a community school is closed for a public calamity if it meets certain requirements, and to declare an emergency.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_36_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 36
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
P-12 |
Qualifies Teach for America participants for a resident educator license. Provides Teach for America participants must meet specified conditions.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_21_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 21
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Permits the state superintendent to issue waivers from certain financial reporting standards for districts and educational service centers, and certain state board standards for the operation of K-12 programs defined in divisions (B)(2) and (D) of Section 3301.07. Directs the state board to adopt standards for the approval or disapproval of such waivers. Provides a waiver may not exceed five years, but that a district board may apply to renew a waiver. Permits the state board to revoke the charter of any school district that fails to meet the operating standards established under division (D)(3) of section 3301.07.
Pages 6-7 of 41: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_30_EN_N.pdf
Full text of repealed divisions (B)(2) and (D) of Section 3301.07 on page 980 and ff. of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 30 - Financial Reporting and Certain Standards for Operation of K-12 Programs
Source: |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Repeals references to the evidence-based school funding model (sections 3306.18, 3306.25, 3306.30, 3306.31, 3306.33, 3306.34, 3306.35, 3306.40 as created by 2009 H.B. 1 http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf). Repeals section 3315.17 creating a textbook and instructional material fund, and section 3315.171 relating to alternative revenue sources for textbook and instructional materials fund. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_30_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 30 - Evidence-Based Funding Model
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Student Fees |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Repeals provision requiring districts to provide all-day kindergarten to all students beginning in fiscal year 2011. Permits a district that did not receive for fiscal year 2009 poverty-based assistance for all-day kindergarten to charge tuition or fees for students in all-day kindergarten. Requires a district charging tuition or fees to develop a sliding fee scale based on family income. Requires the department of education's annual survey of kindergarten programs to include whether a district charges fees or tuition for all-day kindergarten, the amount of fees or tuition charged, and how many of the students for whom tuition is charged are eligible for free and reduced lunch. Prohibits a district from requiring a student to attend all-day kindergarten. Pages 37-39 of 41: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_30_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 30 - All-Day Kindergarten
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Repeals provision directing the superintendent of public instruction, when adopting expenditure and reporting standards, to include standards that encourage districts to give preference to employing licensed school nurses with funds received for the school nurse wellness coordinator factor and the district health professional factor. Page 20 of 41: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_30_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 30 - School Nurses
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Repeals Section 3306.31, which required each district with a three-year average graduation rate of 80% or less to have a linkage coordinator to serve as the primary mentor, coach and motivator for at-risk students and coordinate those students' participation in academic programs, social service programs, out-of-school cultural and work-related experiences, and in-school and out-of-school mentoring programs, based on student need, among other duties.
Repeals Section 3313.821, which directed each district board to appoint a family and civic engagement team to develop five-year family and civic engagement plans, among other responsibilities.
Repeals Section 3313.822, which provided that as an alternative to appointing both a business advisory council and a family and civic engagement team, a local board could appoint one committee to function as both.
Eliminates the requirement that school districts establish family and civic engagement teams, except as required for implementation of federal ''Race to the Top" grants. Directs districts required by Race to the Top funds to employ a linkage coordinator and engage in other activities for closing the achievement gap and increasing the graduation rate to continue such activities for the life of the grant award.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_30_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 30 - Family and Civic Engagement Teams, Linkage Coordinators
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Allows a public employer to determine the basis for selection, retention and promotion of employees, unless the public employer specifically agrees otherwise in an express written provision of a collective bargaining agreement. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_5_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 5 - Reductions in Force
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Abolishes continuing contracts for teachers, except for those continuing contracts in existence prior to the effective date of the bill. Revises the law relating to limited contracts. For teachers holding contracts prior to the effective date of amendments, contracts can be for no longer than 5 years. For those hired after the effective date of this law, the term of the contract cannot exceed 3 years. Any subsequent contract is required to be for a term of not less than 2 years and not more than 5 years. Clarifies the parameters for granting of a a continuing contract. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_5_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 5 - Teacher Tenure
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
From bill summary:
--Community schools (charter schools): Prohibits employees of community schools from collectively bargaining, except for conversion community schools. Allows the governing authority of a conversion community school to opt out of collectively bargaining with the community school's employees.
--"Management-level employees" at state institutions of higher education: Adds faculty who participate in the governance of a state institution of higher education, who are involved in personnel decisions, selection or review of administrators, planning and use of physical resources, budget preparation, and determination of education policies related to admissions, curriculum, subject matter, and methods of instruction and research to those employees who are considered management level employees, potentially making more people management level employees and ineligible to collectively bargain.
--Rights of public employees, including strikes: Removes continuation, modification or deletion of an existing collective bargaining agreement from the subject of collective bargaining. Removes a provision granting specific authority to public school employees to collectively bargain for health care benefits. Prohibits public employees from striking. Allows a public employer to enjoin a strike. Requires the public employer to deduct from the compensation of a striking employee an amount equal to twice the employee's daily rate of pay for each day or part thereof that the employee engaged in a strike. Provides that an employee that strikes in violation of an injunction can be fined no more than $1,000 or imprisoned for no longer than 30 days.
--Bargaining units and exclusive representatives: Changes the time limitations within which the State Employment Relations Board must act upon a request for recognition. Allows the Board to determine appropriate units, remove classifications from a bargaining unit, or hold an election regardless of an agreement or a memorandum of understanding granting nonexclusive recognition. Removes the provision prohibiting the appeal of a decision of the Board that determines the appropriate bargaining unit.
--Subjects for collective bargaining: Makes the following inappropriate subjects for collective bargaining: (1) employer-paid contributions to any of the five public employee retirement systems; (2) health care benefits for which the employer is required to pay more than 85% of the cost; (3) the privatization of a public employer's services or contracting out of the public employer's work; (4) the number of employees required to be on duty or employed in any department, division or facility of the public employer. Permits public employers to not bargain on any subject reserved to the management and direction of the governmental unit, even if the subject affects wages, hours, and terms and conditions of employment. Prohibits an existing provision of a collective bargaining agreement that was modified, renewed or extended that does not concern wages, hours, and terms and conditions from being a mandatory subject of collective bargaining. Allows the public employer to do any of the following, unless the public employer specifically agrees otherwise in an express written provision of a collective bargaining agreement: (1) Hire, discharge, transfer, suspend or discipline employees; (2) Determine the number of persons required to be employed or laid off; (3) Determine the qualifications of employees; (4) Determine the starting and quitting time and the number of hours to be worked by its employees; (5) Make any and all reasonable rules and regulations; (6) Determine the work assignments of its employees; (7) Determine the basis for selection, retention, and promotion of employees; (8) Determine the type of equipment used and the sequence of work processes; (9) Determine the making of technological alterations by revising either process or equipment or both; (10) Determine work standards and the quality and quantity of work to be produced; (11) Select and locate buildings and other facilities; (12) Establish, expand, transfer, or consolidate work processes and facilities; (13) Transfer or subcontract work; (14) Consolidate, merge, or otherwise transfer any or all of its facilities, property, processes, or work with or to any other municipal corporation or entity or effect or change in any respect the legal status, management, or responsibility of such property, facilities, processes, or work; (15) Terminate or eliminate all or any part of its work or facilities.
--Collective bargaining agreement provisions and approval: Prohibits a collective bargaining agreement from prohibiting a public employer that is in a state of fiscal emergency from serving a written notice to terminate, modify, or negotiate the agreement. Prohibits a collective bargaining agreement from prohibiting a public employer that is in a state of fiscal watch from serving a written notice to modify a collective bargaining agreement so that salary or benefit increases, or both, are suspended. Prohibits a collective bargaining agreement from prohibiting a public employer from entering into a contract with another public or private sector entity to privatize the public employer's services or the contracting out of the public employer's work. Prohibits a collective bargaining agreement from containing a provision that does any of the following: (1) Limits a public employer in determining the number of employees it employs or has working at any time, in any facility, building, classroom, on any work shift, or on any piece of equipment or vehicle; (2) Provides for the public employer to pay any portion of a public employee's state pension contributions or payments; (3) Provides for an hourly overtime payment rate that exceeds the overtime rate required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act; (4) Requires the public employer to adhere to, follow, or continue any practices or benefits not specifically set forth in the specific written provisions of the agreement. Prohibits a collective bargaining agreement from containing certain provisions regarding the deferred retirement option plan. Prohibits a collective bargaining agreement from containing any provision that allows accrual of leave credits in excess of the following: (1) 6 weeks annually of paid vacation prior to 20 years of service; (2) 12 paid holidays annually; (3) 3 paid personal days annually. Prohibits a collective bargaining agreement from containing a provision for the exchange or sell-back of a public employee.s accumulated paid sick leave balance at the public employee.s final retirement or death that provides for a cash payment that exceeds 50% of the public employee.s total sick leave accumulations and for accumulated sick leave in excess of 1,000 hours. Prohibits a public employer from agreeing to a provision in a collective bargaining agreement that requires the public employer, when a reduction in force is necessary, to use employee length of service as the only factor when making layoffs. Prohibits a public employer from agreeing to a provision in a collective bargaining agreement that requires the employer to pay more than 85% of the cost paid for benefits. Requires the parties to consider, when determining the ability of the employer to pay for any terms, only the financial status of the employer at the time period surrounding the negotiations and the employer's inability to pay for those terms. Prohibits the parties from considering, when determining the ability of the employer to pay for any terms, any potential future increase in the income of the public employer that would only be possible by the employer raising revenue, including, but not limited to, passing a levy or a bond issue, or the employer's ability to sell assets.
--Conflicting provisions of agreements: Makes laws pertaining to the provision of health care benefits to public employees prevail over conflicting collective bargaining agreements.
--School districts, educational service centers, community schools, and STEM schools: Prohibits a public employer that is a school district, educational service center, community school, or STEM school from entering into a collective bargaining agreement that (from Section 4117.081): (1) Requires the public employer to employ a minimum number of total personnel or any category of personnel; (2) Restricts the authority of the public employer or a district or service center superintendent to assign personnel to school buildings or restricts the authority of a building principal to designate the responsibilities and workloads of personnel assigned to the building; (3) Establishes a maximum number of students who may be assigned to a classroom or teacher; (4) Prohibits the public employer from making reductions in teachers or nonteaching employees for any applicable reason specified in statute or in a policy adopted under statute; (5) Restricts the authority of the public employer, when making personnel reductions, to determine the order of layoffs; (6) Restricts the authority of the public employer to acquire noneducational services from another public or private entity through competitive bidding; (7) Restricts the authority of the public employer to acquire any
products, programs, or services per statute; (8) Otherwise relinquishes, impairs, or restricts the managerial rights and responsibilities of the public employer. Requires collective bargaining agreements between such an education-related public employer and public employees to comply with all applicable state or local laws or ordinances regarding wages, hours, and terms and conditions of employment, unless the conflicting provision establishes benefits that are less than provided in the law or ordinance.
--Dispute resolution procedures, strikes, and unfair labor practices: Revises collective bargaining dispute resolution procedures. Requires the employer and the State Employment Relations Board to post in a conspicuous location on the web site maintained by the board and the employer the terms of the last collective bargaining agreements offered by the employer and the exclusive representative at specific times. Revises the factors that a person or group administering an alternate dispute resolution procedure must take into account. If either party rejects a fact finding panel's recommendations, permits the public
employer to implement, in whole or in part, any of those recommendations that have been approved by the appropriate legislative authority. Removes the mandatory final offer settlement conciliation procedure for public employees who do not have the right to strike. Requires a public employer to report certain information about compensation paid to public employees under a collective bargaining agreement. Specifies that expressions of views, opinions, and arguments are not unfair labor practices, and cannot be used as evidence of such, without a threat. Revises what constitutes an unfair labor practice. Revises the procedures for hearing an unfair labor practice complaint. Repeals the provision requiring the Public Employee Collective Bargaining Law to be liberally construed.
--Public employee pay: Does away with salary schedules and replaces with salary "ranges." Requires performance-based pay for teachers and nonteaching school employees. Requires a school board to measure performance by considering the level of license the teacher holds, whether the teacher is a "highly qualified teacher," the value-added measure the board uses to determine the performance of the students assigned to the teacher's classroom, the results of the teacher's performance evaluations or peer reviews (see Section 3317.13).
--Public employee benefits: Caps vacation leave at 7.7 hours per biweekly pay period. Reduces sick leave accrual for most public employees from 4.6 hours to 3.1 hours per biweekly pay period. Limits public employer contributions toward health care benefit costs to 85%. Requires health care benefits provided to management level employees to be the same as any health care benefits provided to other employees of the same public employer. Requires boards of education to adopt policies to provide leave with pay for school employees not covered by a collective bargaining agreement, and abolishes statutorily provided leave for teachers and nonteaching school employees. Abolishes continuing contracts for teachers, except for those continuing contracts in existence prior to the effective date of the bill and revises the law relating to limited contracts. Prohibits a public employer from paying employee contributions to the five public employee retirement systems. Requires health care benefits provided through a jointly administered trust fund to be the same as the health care benefits provided to other public employees.
Reduction in force: Prohibits a school district financial planning and supervision commission from using seniority as the only factor when making reductions in nonteaching employees. Prohibits a public employer from violating Ohio or federal civil rights law when conducting a reduction in force.
Bill text: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_5_EN_N.pdf
Bill summary: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses129/s0005-rs-129.pdf
Title: S.B. 5 - Collective Bargaining, Strikes, Dispute Resolution Section
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Healthy Choices for Healthy Children Council. Directs the council to:
(1) Monitor progress in improving student health and wellness
(2) Make periodic policy recommendations to the state board of education on ways to improve the nutritional standards for food and beverages served in public schools
(3) Make periodic recommendations to the department of education for the development of a clearinghouse of best practices in the areas of student nutrition, physical activity for students, and body mass index (BMI) screenings
(4) Assist the department of health in developing a list of resources on health risks associated with weight status, for distribution to parents
(5) Regularly review developments in science and nutrition to inform recommendations to the state board and department of education.
Requires the department of education, upon receipt of the council's initial recommendations, to establish a clearinghouse of best practices that schools may use to promote student health. Directs the department to update the clearinghouse as needed to reflect subsequent council recommendations.
Establishes new Section 3313.674, which requires students in kindergarten, 3rd, 5th and 9th grades to undergo a BMI and weight status category screening. Allows parents to opt their child out of screening requirement. Requires parents of each screened student to be notified of any health risks associated with the student's results and to be provided with information about appropriately addressing the risks. Requires local boards/charter school governing authorities to report aggregated BMI and weight status category data and any other demographic data required by the director of health, to the department of health. Allows a local board/governing authority to obtain a waiver from this requirement.
Directs the department of education to issue an annual report on public schools' compliance with new Section 3313.674. Establishes new Section 3313.6016, which directs the department of education, beginning in the 2011-12 school year, to administer a pilot program requiring daily physical activity for students. Permits any district, charter school, STEM school or nonpublic school to choose to participate; if a district elects to participate, requires all buildings operated by that district to participate. Specifies that participating schools must require students (grades K-12) to engage in at least 30 minutes of moderate to rigorous physical activity, not including recess, and that physical activity as part of a physical education course or before- or after-school activity may count towards this requirement. Identifies students excused from this requirement, including among others kindergarten students not enrolled in a full-day kindergarten program. Requires participating districts or schools to report to the department how the 30 minutes of daily physical activity was implemented and the financial cost of implementation; requires the department to issue an annual report of this data.
By December 31, 2011, directs the state board of education to develop a measure of (1) student success in meeting benchmarks in the physical education standards; (2) compliance with the requirements for local wellness policies prescribed by the federal "Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004"; (3) whether a school or district is complying with or operating under a waiver from Section 3313.674; and (4) whether a district or building is participating in the physical activity pilot program established through new Section 3313.6016. Requires the measure to be included in building and district report cards, beginning with report cards issued for the 2012-13 school year, but specifies that the measure will not be a factor in performance ratings issued. Permits the department to accept, receive and expend gifts, devises or bequests of money for the purpose of establishing this measure.
Amends high school graduation requirements to require the half-unit of health to include instruction in nutrition and the benefits of nutritious foods and physical activity for overall health.
Requires that each public, charter and STEM school teacher hired after July 2013 to teach physical education holds a valid license for teaching physical education.
Pages 1-14, 22 and 28-29 of 32: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_SB_210_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 210, Part I
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Permits schools participating in a school breakfast program to offer breakfast to students in their classrooms during the school day. Provides that in each fiscal year in which the general assembly appropriates funds, each district and charter school participating in a school breakfast program must provide a free breakfast to any student eligible under federal requirements for a reduced-price breakfast.
Existing law requires local boards to adopt and enforce standards for the types of food that may be sold on school premises; new provision extends these requirements to beverages sold on school grounds. In adopting standards for food and beverages sold on school premises, requires local boards to consult with a licensed dietitian or school nutrition specialist, and to consult the dietary guidelines jointly developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and to incorporate the guidelines into the standards as possible. Requires local standards to prohibit vending machines in classrooms. Requires local boards to designate staff responsible for ensuring that the district or charter school meets the adopted nutritional standards, and for this staff member to prepare an annual report on the district's or school's compliance with the standards and submit it to the department of education.
Defines an "a la carte" item as any individually priced food or beverage item sold through (1) a school food service program; (2) a vending machine; or (3) a store run by the school, a student association or other school-sponsored organization. (Excludes from the definition of "a la carte" item foods and beverages sold as a school fundraiser or school-sponsored event outside the regular school day, or at an interscholastic athletic event.) Bars schools from permitting the sale of a la carte beverage items during the regular and extended school day (excludes water, milk and juice beverages that meet specified nutritional standards). Sets additional limits on beverage sales during the regular and extended school day.
Provides that when the department of education obtains free computer software that evaluates the nutritional value of foods and performs specified functions, the department must make this software available to all public and charter schools. When this software is available, requires a la carte items to meet nutritional criteria set forth in legislation.
Pages 14-21, 27-28 of 32: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_SB_210_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 210, Part II
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Finance |
Adopted 04/2010 |
Postsec. |
Establishes new rules regarding the payment of bond service charges under the state credit enhancement program. Allows for community colleges and technical colleges to participate in a state credit enhancement program. This program would reduce the borrowing costs for a college. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3333/0/1/3333-1-15_PH_FF_N_RU_20100419_1205.pdf
Title: OAC 3333-1-15
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Special Education |
Adopted 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Amends rules to reflect recent changes in federal regulations regarding revocation of parental consent. Provides that if, at any time subsequent to the initial provision of special education and related services, a parent revokes consent in writing for the continued provision of special education and related services, the district:
(a) Must discontinue providing special education and related services to the child, and must provide prior written notice before ceasing provision of special education and related services
(b) Should not use the procedures in Subpart E of Part B of the IDEA, including the mediation procedures or the due process procedures described in state administrative code, to obtain agreement or a ruling that the services must be provided to the child
(c) Should not be considered to be in violation of the requirement to make FAPE available to the child for the failure to provide the child with further special education and related services
(d) Should not be required to convene an individualized education program (IEP) team meeting or develop an IEP pursuant to administrative code for the child for further provision of special education and related services. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/51/3301-51-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20100414_0849.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-51-05
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Creates the teen driver education license plate fund in the state treasury, from applicants who obtain teen driver education license plates. Directs the department of public safety to use the money in the fund to fund the rental, lease or purchase of the simulated driving curriculum of the Michelle's leading star foundation by local boards of education. Directs the department of public safety to adopt rules establishing a process for distributing money in the fund to those boards. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_HB_27
Title: H.B. 27
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Amends 371.50.90 of Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of the 128th General Assembly (enacted July 2009). Clarifies that from an appropriation item in 2009 H.B. 1, eTech Ohio must use up to $1 million in FY 2010 to maintain the clearinghouse of distance learning courses called for in section 3333.82, up to $1 million in FY 2011 to contract with an entity to provide online Advanced Placement (AP) courses, and up to $1 million in FY 2011 for the continued maintenance of the clearinghouse established under section 3333.82. A provision in H.B. 1 barred students from being charged a fee for clearinghouse courses in FY 2010 but permitted a student fee in FY 2011; new provision extends fee waiver through FY 2011. Adds provision that in choosing a vendor to provide AP courses, eTech may require that the courses be provided through the clearinghouse established under section 3333.82. Pages 31-32 http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_SB_155_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 155 - Section 6
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
Postsec. |
Allows taxpayers to direct that any refund of overpaid taxes be deposited into a checking account or preexisting college savings plan or program account offered by the Ohio tuition trust authority, as designated by the taxpayer, when the taxpayer files the annual return electronically. Page 29 of 37: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_SB_155_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 155 - End of Section 1
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Adopted 02/2010 |
P-12 |
123:4-1-03: Requires all new construction, renovation, repairs and replacements of buildings to use cost-effective, energy-efficient, green building practices to the maximum extent possible. Repeals references to life cycle cost analysis. Requires state agencies except institutions of higher education to design and construct state-funded facilities to reduce energy consumption incrementally, with energy consumption reduced by 100% for designs completed on and after January 1, 2030. Requires renovation projects to be designed such that energy consumption is reduced by 50%. Allows state agencies to apply for waivers from these provisions under specified circumstances. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/123/4/1/123$4-1-03_PH_FF_A_RU_20100204_1210.pdf
123:4-1-05: Requires procedures for leased facilities to use cost-effective, energy efficient, green building practices to the maximum extent possible. Requires leases negotiated after the effective date of these rules to include specified energy efficiency provisions. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/123/4/1/123$4-1-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20100204_1210.pdf
123:4-1-06: Establishes new rule requiring any state funded entity that manages or operates facilities to employ certified building operators to manage or operate facilities. Requires designated building operators to complete a building operator certification training program adopted by the department of administrative services. Authorizes state-funded entities to apply for a waiver if certain circumstances apply. Specifies that provisions do not apply to institutions of higher education. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/123/4/1/123$4-1-06_PH_FF_N_RU_20100204_1210.pdf
123:4-1-07: Establishes new rule that sets requirements for the local administration of installment payment energy conservation contracts. Specifies these provisions do not apply to an institution of higher education authorized to administer an installment payment energy conservation contract under section 3345.64 of the Revised Code. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/123/4/1/123$4-1-07_PH_FF_N_RU_20100204_1210.pdf
Title: OAC 123:4-1-01 thru -07
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
P-3 |
Adopted 01/2010 |
P-12 |
Revises rules relating to definitions http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/32/3301-32-01_PH_FF_A_RU_20100112_1441.pdf, staff http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/32/3301-32-02_PH_FF_A_RU_20100112_1441.pdf, health and safety http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/32/3301-32-06_PH_FF_A_RU_20100112_1441.pdf, licensure and monitoring http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/32/3301-32-11_PH_FF_A_RU_20100112_1441.pdf. Repeals and adopts new rules relating to complaint investigation http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/32/3301-32-12_PH_FF_N_RU_20100112_1441.pdf.
Requires staff to sign a non-guilty/non-conviction statement on an annual basis. Allows volunteers to be used as staff members if they pass a criminal background check, provide a signed non-guilty/non-conviction statement, and meet other criteria. Requires school child care programs to have emergency drill practice at least once per quarter during the school year and at least once during a summer program. Requires all programs to be inspected at least once every 12 months, and permits inspections to be unannounced.
Title: OAC 3301-32-01, -02, -06, -11, -12
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
Adopted 01/2010 |
P-12 |
Repeals and re-enacts rules related to the one-year educational aide permit
3301-25-01: One-Year Educational Aide Permit: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/25/3301-25-01_PH_FF_N_RU_20100112_1438.pdf
3301-25-02: Renewal of One-Year Educational Aide Permit: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/25/3301-25-02_PH_FF_N_RU_20100112_1438.pdf
3301-25-05: Four-Year Educational Aide Permit: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/25/3301-25-05_PH_FF_N_RU_20100112_1438.pdf
3301-25-07: Renewal of Four-Year Educational Aide Permit: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/25/3301-25-07_PH_FF_N_RU_20100112_1438.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-25-01, -02 and -05
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 12/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends accountability provisions applicable to charter schools. When determining whether a community school meets triggers for certain accountability sanctions, bars the state department of education from considering a community school's performance ratings during its first 2 years of operation. Directs the department to reevaluate each community school that the department directed to close at the conclusion of the 2009-10 school year to determine if the school still meets the criteria for such accountability sanctions when the performance ratings for the school's first 2 years of operation are not considered. Bars the department from requiring the school to close at the conclusion of that school year if the school no longer meets those criteria.
Pages 5-7 of 18: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_19_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 19 - Community Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 12/2009 |
P-12 |
Directs the department to amend rule 3301-83-23 of the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) that took effect August 27, 2009, and that specifies the offenses that disqualify a person for employment as a school bus or school van driver and establishes rehabilitation standards for school bus and school van drivers. Provides that beginning on the effective date of the legislatively required amendments to OAC Rule 3301-83-23, any
person who is the subject of a criminal records check and who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any offense that disqualifies him/her for employment to operate a pupil transportation vehicle may not be hired or must be released from employment unless the person meets the rehabilitation standards prescribed by the rule. Pages 8-16 of 18: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_19_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 19 - School Bus/Van Drivers
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 12/2009 |
P-12 |
Authorizes specified community schools (charter schools) to operate as conversion schools. Authorizes the governing authority of specified community schools to enter into a contract with a different sponsor that is either a local board, governing board of an educational service center, or sponsoring authority designated by the board of trustees of a state university (or the board of trustees itself), provided the school was rated in need of continuous improvement or better for the 2008-09 school year and the sponsor approves the change in sponsorship.
Specifies that the department may not consider a community school's performance ratings during its first two years of operation when determining whether the school meets certain criteria for accountability sanctions. Directs the department to reevaluate each community school that the department directed to close at the conclusion of the 2009-10 school year to determine if the school still meets the sanctions criteria when the school's performance ratings for its first two years of operation are not considered and, if the school no longer meets those criteria, prohibits the department from requiring the school to close at the conclusion of that school year. Pages 22-25 of 29: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_290_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 218 - Charter Schools
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 12/2009 |
P-12 |
Permits a district to seek a delay of the requirement to implement all-day kindergarten for all students until fiscal year 2012. Directs the state superintendent to grant the requested delay, which may affect some or all students in the district, upon submission of a request that provides (1) a resolution from the local board, providing its justification for seeking such a delay; and (2) a plan for the full implementation of all-day kindergarten in 2012. Page 17 of 20: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_318_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 318 - Section 9
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 12/2009 |
P-12 |
Enacts the Tina Croucher Act to require school districts to adopt a dating violence prevention policy as part of its policy prohibiting harassment, intimidation, or bullying, and to include age-appropriate dating violence prevention education in the health education curriculum in grades 7-12. Directs the state board to update its model policy to prohibit harassment, intimidation, or bullying to include violence within a dating relationship. Requires the department of education Web site to provide links to free curricula addressing dating violence prevention, to assist districts in developing a dating violence prevention education curriculum. Amends definition of "harassment, intimidation or bullying" to include violence within a dating relationship. Requires local boards to incorporate dating violence prevention training into certain in-service training already required for middle and high school employees. Pages 1-5, 7-8, 16 of 18: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_19_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 19 - Dating Violence Prevention
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 12/2009 |
Postsec. |
During fiscal year 2010, directs the chancellor of the board of regents to designate one construction project at three different state institutions of higher education as a Construction Reform Demonstration Project, which may use alternative methods of construction delivery. Identifies criteria chancellor must consider in selecting projects for designation. Requires a state institution of higher education to demonstrate specified elements for a project to be eligible for consideration, including, among others, that the project will qualify for LEED Certification. Identifies alternative methods of construction delivery that an eligible project must use at least one of (construction manager at risk, design build, general contracting, design assist). Requires state institutions of higher education to conform to specified provisions of law in developing their Construction Demonstration Reform Projects. Requires state institutions of higher education undertaking chancellor-designated Construction Reform Demonstration Projects to maximize EDGE business enterprises (http://www.osfc.state.oh.us/Construction/EDGEOtherContractingRequirements/tabid/96/Default.aspx) contracting on the project. Requires participating state institutions of higher education to provide the chancellor with all requested information, to facilitate the chancellor's study of the cost effectiveness and efficiencies associated with using the alternative construction delivery methods. Directs the chancellor to prepare semi-annual reports and a final report, all of which must be submitted to the governor, the house of representatives and the senate. Provides these provisions expire on the date that all of the Construction
Reform Demonstration Projects have been completed or on January 1, 2014, whichever is later. Pages 13-17 of 20: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_318_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 318 - Section 8
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 12/2009 |
P-12 |
Includes Junior ROTC as a permitted elective within the state's core curriculum for high school graduation. Permits schools to excuse Junior ROTC students from high school physical education. Permits a student who has participated in Junior ROTC for at least two full school years to use credit received for that participation to satisfy the requirement to complete one-half unit in another course of study.
Pages 15-22 of 29: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_290_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 290 - Junior ROTC
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 12/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Amends provisions related to data in the statewide education management information system. Requires districts to ensure that a student's data verification code is included in the student's records reported to any subsequent state institution of higher education. Adds new Section 3333.0410, requiring state institutions of higher education to use the student's data verification code if that code was included in the student's records submitted to the institution by the student's high school or by another state institution of higher education.
Adds new Section 3301.94. Upon state board approval, allows the state superintendent and chancellor of board of regents to enter into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) under which the department of education will house postsecondary student data records, so that these records may be combined with the data records reported to the education management information system to create a longitudinal data repository. Requires that the MOU specify a strategic plan for use of the data in the repository; adhere to procedures outlined in legislation when aligning postsecondary and department student data records; and develop data maintenance procedures (including designating the types of research that may be conducted using repository data). Requires that the data be managed in compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and that the department annually report to the state board and chancellor all requests for access to or use of the data in the repository and all costs related to the repository's establishment and ongoing maintenance.
Identifies permissible uses of repository data, including assisting the chancellor in performing audit and evaluation functions concerning higher education (including those specified in statute); and entering into written agreements to evaluate the effectiveness of programs or services or to measure progress against specific strategic planning goals, using data in the repository.
Pages 1-13, 25 of 29: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_290_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 290 - P-16 Data System
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Adopted 10/2009 |
P-12 |
Repeals provision requiring nonlicensed individual, prior to directing, coaching or superivising a pupil-activity program, to obtain a state board-issued pupil activity permit. Adds provision requiring any licensed or nonlicensed individual who will direct, supervise or coach a pupil activity, to demonstrate evidence of completion of the National Federation of State High School Associations' fundamentals of coaching course. Amends other qualifications for such individuals. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/27/3301-27-01_PH_FF_A_RU_20091013_1401.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-27-01
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Urban--Governance |
Adopted 10/2009 |
P-12 |
Adds new paragraph regarding the "teacher leader" endorsement. Provides endorsement is valid for mentoring and coaching teachers, providing staff development and assisting the principal in developing and supporting a shared vision and clear goals for the school. Requires teacher leader endorsement candidates to have a master's degree and at least four years teaching experience. Requires that the preparation program include at least a practicum experience during which the candidate must demonstrate the knowledge, skills and dispositions at the distinguished level, as described in the Ohio standards for the teaching profession.
Also establishes an "urban principal" endorsement, which may be added to any standard principal license or certificate following completion of an approved preparation program for the endorsement. Requires that the approved preparation program for the endorsement include an extensive structured internship during which the candidate demonstrates effective urban leadership practices. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/24/3301-24-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20091013_1401.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-24-05
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Background Checks |
Rule Adoption 08/2009 |
P-12 |
Rescinds and establishes new rules regarding employment of individuals in positions that require a license and licensure of individuals with certain criminal convictions or other alternative dispositions.
--Employment of individuals in positions that require a license and licensure of individuals with certain criminal convictions or other alternative dispositions: 3301-20-01: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/20/3301-20-01_PH_FF_N_RU_20090817_0827.pdf
--Employment of non-licensed individuals with certain criminal convictions: 3301-20-03: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/20/3301-20-03_PH_FF_N_RU_20090817_0827.pdf
--Employment of school bus and school van with certain criminal convictions: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/83/3301-83-23_PH_FF_N_RU_20090817_0827.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-20-01, -03, -83-23
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
P-3 Ensuring Quality |
Signed into law 08/2009 |
P-12 |
Partially from DOE summary of H.B. 1: Reduces the number of annual inspections of preschool programs and licensed school child programs by the department of education from twice during each 12-month period of operation to once each 12-month period of operation. Permits the department of education to inspect any program more than once during any 12-month period if considered necessary by the department. Existing provision required at least one annual inspection to be unannounced. Amendment allows all inspections to be unannounced.
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Pages 1023-1024 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.57
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1:Modifies the current requirement for the state board to develop a standard for reporting financial information to the public. Requires districts and educational service center boards to report revenues and expenditures by school building, including expenditures for salaries, and with expenditures for classroom teachers, other certified staff, and all other employees reported separately, as well as per-pupil expenditures per building.
Provides that the state board's existing minimum standards for all public schools must require instructional materials and equipment, including library materials, to be aligned with the academic content standards. Directs the state board to adopt minimum operating standards for school districts, which districts must comply with unless they receive a waiver from the state superintendent. According to DOE summary, the operating standards override any conflicting provisions of a collective bargaining agreement. Provides the operating standards must include:
(1) Standards for the effective and efficient organization, administration and supervision of districts (full text of this provision in "full text" field below)
(2) Standards for the establishment of business advisory councils and family and civic engagement teams by school districts
(3) Standards incorporating the classifications for the components of the adequacy amount under Chapter 3306 of the Revised Code into core academic strategy components and academic improvement components, as specified in rules adopted under section 3306.25 of the Revised Code
(4) Standards for school district organizational units, as defined in sections 3306.02 and 3306.04 of the Revised Code, that require:
(i) The effective and efficient organization, administration and supervision of each school district organizational unit so that it becomes a thinking and learning organization according to principles of systems design and collaborative professional learning communities research as defined by the state superintendent, including a focus on the personalized and individualized needs of each student; a shared responsibility among organizational unit administrators, faculty and staff to develop a common vision, mission and set of guiding principles; a shared responsibility among organizational unit administrators, faculty and staff to engage in a process of collective inquiry, action orientation and experimentation to ensure the academic success of all students; commitment to job-embedded professional development and professional mentoring and coaching; established periods of time for teachers to pursue planning time for the development of lesson plans, professional development, and shared learning; commitment to effective management strategies that allow administrators reasonable access to classrooms for observation and professional development experiences; commitment to teaching and learning strategies that utilize technological tools and emphasize inter-disciplinary, real-world, project-based, and technology-oriented learning experiences to meet the individual needs of every student; commitment to high expectations for every student and commitment to closing the achievement gap so that all students achieve core knowledge and skills in accordance with the statewide academic standards adopted under section 3301.079 of the Revised Code; commitment to the
use of assessments to diagnose the needs of each student; effective connections and relationships with families and others that support student success; commitment to the use of positive behavior intervention supports throughout the organizational unit to ensure a safe and secure learning environment for all students
(ii) A school organizational unit leadership team to coordinate positive behavior intervention supports, family and civic engagement services, learning environments, thinking and learning systems, collaborative planning, planning time, student academic interventions, student extended learning opportunities, and other activities identified by the team and approved by the district board of education. Provides that the team must include the building principal, representatives from each collective bargaining unit, the building lead teacher, parents, business representatives and others that support student success.
Eliminates requirement that state board develop a state plan for technology to encourage the use of technology in educational settings.
DOE summary document: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Bill text (pages 979-984 of 3120): http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.07
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends types of data that must be maintained in the education management information system (EMIS http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEPrimary.aspx?page=2&TopicRelationID=1281). Adds that EMIS must include data on achievement levels on college and work ready assessments as created by 3301.0712 (as created in 2009 H.B. 1). Eliminates requirement that EMIS report the percentage of students receiving corporal punishment. Replaces "master teacher" with "lead teacher" in requirement that EMIS report on the number of such teachers in each district and building.
Pages 1003-1013 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.0714
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1:
3302.01: Amends performance index score to reflect combination of reading and writing tests into one English language arts test.
3302.02: Eliminates the requirement that there be a minimum of 17 performance indicators. Requires the state board, within a year of adoption of rules for implementation of the new assessment system for high school graduation and once every six years thereafter, to establish new performance indicators for district and school report cards, based on recommendation of the state superintendent. By December 31, 2011, requires the state board, upon recommendation of the state superintendent, to establish a performance indicator reflecting the level of services provided to, and the performance of, students identified as gifted.
Pages 1046-1047 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3302.01 and 3302.02
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that a separate accountability compliance commission must be established for each school district for which the state superintendent opts to establish a commission due to noncompliance with financial budgeting or reporting requirements per section 3306.33. Establishes protocols for accountability compliance commissions. Provides the commission may do any of the following:
(1) Prepare and submit the school district's spending plan required under section 3306.30 and, if applicable, section 3306.31
(2) Appoint school building administrators and reassign administrative personnel
(3) Terminate the contracts of administrators or administrative personnel
(4) Contract with a private entity to perform school or district management functions
(5) Establish a district budget and approve district appropriations and expenditures, unless a financial planning and supervision commission has been established for the district
(6) Exercise the powers, duties and functions with respect to the district as are granted to a financial planning and supervision commission, unless a financial planning and supervision commission has been established for the district.
Directs each commission to seek local board input on means to improve district operations and compliance with state requirements, but clarifies that any decision of the commission related to any authority granted the commission by statute is final. Provides that if any board of a district for which an accountability compliance commission has been established renews any collective bargaining agreement, the board cannot enter into any agreement that would render any decision of the commission unenforceable. Provides that an accountability compliance commission will cease to exist at the beginning of the first year that none of the circumstances described in division (A) of section 3306.33 apply to the district. Pages 1111-1113 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.34
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
From DOE summary of H.B. 1: Revises the current performance criteria that trigger automatic closure of a community school after July 1, 2009, as follows: (1) For schools that do not offer a grade higher than 3, requires closure if the school has been in academic emergency for three of the four most recent years, instead of four consecutive years; (2) For schools that offer any of grades 4 to 8 but no grade higher than 9, requires closure if the school has been in academic emergency for two of the three most recent years, instead of three consecutive years, and has shown less than one year of academic growth in reading or mathematics for at least two of the three most recent years; (3) For a school that offers any of grades 10 to 12, requires closure if the school has been in academic emergency for three of the four most recent years, instead of three consecutive years with two years not showing two years of academic growth in reading or mathematics. Exempts from automatic closure any community school in which a majority of the enrolled students are children with disabilities receiving special education and related services.
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Pages 1264-1265 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3314.35
Source: www.ode.state.oh.us |
Assessment |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
From DOE summary of H.B. 1:
Prohibits the administration of the elementary writing and social studies assessments during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years, unless the superintendent of public instruction determines the department has sufficient funds to pay the costs of furnishing and scoring those assessments
Page 2807 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.20.18
Source: www.education.ohio.gov |
Assessment--End-of-Course |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Replaces all references to "tests" to "assessments".
Section 3301.079: Existing law requires the state board to inform all districts when any achievement test has been completed; new provision extends this notification requirement to community schools, STEM schools, and nonpublic schools required to administer the assessment. Combines grades K-2 diagnostic assessments in reading and writing and grade 3 diagnostic assessment in writing into English language arts diagnostic assessment in those grades.
Section 3301.0710: Replaces grades 4, 5, 6 and 8 reading assessments with assessments in English language arts; replaces separate reading and writing assessments in grades 4 and 7 with single English language arts assessment (reducing from three to two the number of assessments administered in grades 4 and 7). Reduces the number of score designations on the state assessments from 5 to 3 (eliminating second-lowest "basic" and second-highest "accelerated" levels). Eliminates provisions establishing testing dates for grades 3-7 achievement tests and graduation tests; replaces with provision directing the state superintendent to designate dates and times for the administration of grades 3-8 assessments and Ohio graduation tests. In setting administration dates, directs the state superintendent to allow a reasonable length of time between the state assessments and the NAEP given in the same grade level. Eliminates provisions (1) directing the state board to require an alternate assessment to be submitted for scoring by a certain date, (2) allowing the state board to administer a state assessment to English language learners a week earlier than the date the instrument is administered to other students, and (3) requiring the state board to administer tests for each grade level over a two-week period.
Section 3301.0711: Specifies that once the new high school assessment system is implemented, the old Ohio graduation tests will not be administered to a person who has fulfilled the curriculum requirements for a high school diploma but who has not passed one or more of the old Ohio graduation tests.
3301.0712: Directs the state board, state superintendent and chancellor of the board of regents to develop a system of college and work ready assessments [OF NOTE: (the "college and work ready assessment system")] to assess whether students upon high school graduation are ready to enter college or the workforce. Provides that these assessments will replace the existing Ohio graduation tests as a prerequisite for a high school diploma. Provides that the system consists of three components:
(1) A nationally-standardized assessment measuring English language arts, math and science competencies, jointly selected by the state superintendent and chancellor
(2) A series of end-of-course exams in English language arts, math, science and social studies, [OF NOTE: jointly selected by the state superintendent and chancellor in consultation with subject area faculty] at University System of Ohio institutions]
[OF NOTE: (3) A senior project completed by a student or group of students. Specifies the purpose of the senior project is to assess the student's
(a) Mastery of core knowledge in a subject area chosen by the student
(b) Written and verbal communication skills
(c) Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
(d) Real-world and interdisciplinary learning
(e) Creative and innovative thinking
(f) Acquired technology, information and media skills
(g) Personal management skills such as self-direction, time management, work ethic, enthusiasm, and the desire to produce a high-quality product.]
[OF NOTE: Directs the state superintendent and chancellor to jointly develop standards for the senior project for students participating in dual enrollment programs. Also directs the state superintendent and chancellor to jointly designate the scoring rubrics and required overall composite score for the assessment system to assess whether each student is college or work ready. Requires that each senior project be judged by the student's high school in accordance with the rubrics designated by the state superintendent and chancellor.]
[OF NOTE: Requires the state board, within 30 days of adoption of the model curricula in English language arts, math, science and social studies (curricula must be adopted by March 31, 2011), to convene a group of national and state experts and local practitioners to provide advice, guidance and recommendations for the alignment of standards and model curricula to the assessments and in the design of the end-of-course exams and scoring rubrics.]
Directs the state board, upon completion of the assessment system, to adopt rules prescribing:
(1) A timeline and plan for implementing the assessment system, including a phased implementation if such is deemed warranted by the state board
(2) The date after which a person entering grade 9 must earn at least the composite score for the assessment system as a prerequisite for the high school diploma
(3) The date after which a person must attain the composite score for the entire assessment system as a prerequisite for an adult education diploma
(4) Whether and the extent to which a person may be excused from a social studies end-of-course exam (certain students are exempt from earning a minimum score on the social studies assessment under the current system)
(5) The date after which a person who has fulfilled the curriculum requirement for a diploma but has not passed one or more of the required assessments must attain at least the composite score for the entire assessment system as a prerequisite for a high school diploma
(6) The extent to which the assessment system applies to students enrolled in a dropout recovery and prevention program.
Requires the state superintendent, at least 45 days before the state board adopts a resolution to adopt the aforementioned rules, to present the assessment system to the house and senate education committees.
Pages 987-1003 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.079, 3301.0710, 3301.0711, 3301.0712
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Assessment--NAEP (NAEP Results and NAEP Organization) |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Existing Section 3301.27 provides the state department of education "may require school districts to administer tests in addition to those otherwise required by law, such as the national assessment of education progress" (NAEP). New provision establishes the general assembly's intent for the state superintendent to provide for district participation in the NAEP in accordance with section 3301.27. Requires each school and district selected for participation by the state superintendent to participate. Page 2831 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.50.40
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that an individual applying for any certificate, license or permit or for the renewal of any certificate, license or permit is not required to undergo a criminal records check if the individual underwent a criminal records check for such purposes less than five years earlier. Provides that a state bureau of investigation criminal background check is not required (only a federal check required) for (1) an individual seeking licensure or renewal, (2) a nonlicensed individual hired by a school district, educational service center, or chartered nonpublic school or (3) an individual hired by a district, educational service center, community school, chartered nonpublic school or STEM school to operate a vehicle for pupil transportation if (a) the state board or state superintendent had previously requested the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to determine whether the bureau has any information, gathered pursuant to division (A) of section 109.57 of the Revised Code, on the person, and (b) the person presents proof that he/she has been an Ohio resident for the five-year period immediately prior to the date upon which the person becomes subject to a criminal records check. In such an instance, the state superintendent or state board must ask the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to obtain any criminal records that the FBI has on the person.
Pages 1383-1386, 1387-1389, and 1430-1434 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.291, 3319.391 and 3327.10
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Section 3306.29: Establishes the Ohio school funding advisory council. Directs the council, by December 1, 2010 and every other year thereafter, to provide recommendations to the state board, the general assembly and the public for revisions to the adequacy components of the evidence-based school funding model . Requires that the recommendations be based on current, high quality research, information provided by school districts, and best practices in operational efficiencies. Requires that the December 2010 recommendations include analysis of the funding model's adequacy in financing for special education, gifted education services, career-technical education, arts education, services for limited English proficient students, and early college high schools.
Also requires the 2010 report to include:
(1) Recommendations for a student-centered evidence-based model that uses a per-pupil level of funding to follow a student to the school that best meets the student's individual learning needs
(2) A study of the extent to which current funding for joint vocational school districts and compact and comprehensive career-technical schools is responsive to state, regional and local business and industry needs, and recommendations for revisions to career-technical education programming and funding
(3) A study of the extent to which the current educational service center system supports school districts in academic achievement, teacher quality, shared educational services, and the purchasing of educational services and commodities, and recommendations for a new regional service delivery system, the educational service system governance structure, and accountability metrics for educational service centers
(4) A study of existing teacher compensation and retirement benefits structures, and recommendations for changes to the systems of teacher compensation and retirement benefits to improve the connections between teacher compensation, teaching excellence and higher levels of student learning
(5) A consideration of whether community schools (charter schools) and STEM schools should be subject to the expenditure and reporting standards and accountability requirements that apply to school districts
(6) An analysis of the effects of open enrollment on students and districts, and recommendations for ensuring that open enrollment policies and financing are equitable for students and districts.
Authorizes the council's analyses and recommendations for 2010 or subsequent biennia to address (but not be limited to):
(1) Strategies and incentives to promote cost-saving measures and efficiencies
(2) Options for adding learning time to the learning year, such as moving educator professional development to summer, adding learning time for children with greater educational needs, accounting for learning time by hours instead of days, and appropriate compensation to districts and staff for providing additional learning time
(3) The adequacy of the model's accounting for and financing of operational costs, including district-level administration and administrative and transportation challenges experienced by low-density and low-wealth school districts, and the effect of those costs on student achievement
(4) The accuacy of the calculation of each component of the funding model, and the model as a whole, in light of current educational needs and practices, and best practices
(5) Options to encourage districts and schools already attaining "excellent" ratings under the state accountability system to go beyond state standards and aspire to higher international norms.
Section 3306.291: Establishes a subcommittee of the Ohio school funding advisory council to study and make recommendations to foster collaboration between school districts and community schools. Directs the subcommittee to recommend fiscal strategies, including changes to the evidence-based funding model, that will provide incentives and compensation for districts and community schools to enter into collaborative agreements resulting in creative and innovative academic programming, and academic and fiscal efficiency. Directs the subcommittee to report its findings and recommendations to the general assembly by September 2010, and periodically thereafter at the direction of the state superintendent.
Section 3306.292: Permits the Ohio school funding advisory council to establish additional subcommittees. Leaves the membership and duties of the additional subcommittees to the discretion of the advisory council. Provides that up to one-half of the members of each additional subcommittee may be individuals who are not members of the council.
Pages 1103-1106 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.29, 3306.291 and 3306.292
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Clarifies language to specify that charter schools must adminster state assessments provided for in section 3313.612. Provides that a high school or an elementary school may consist of less than one or
more than one organizational unit, as defined in sections 3306.02 and 3306.04.
Pages 1019-1020 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.16
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Partially from DOE summary of H.B. 1: Eliminates the two-year wait before the department of education begins issuing annual report cards for a community school. Provides that the ratings a community school receives for its first two full school years will not be considered toward automatic closure of the school or any other matter that is based on report card ratings. Clarifies that the department of education's authority to oversee and monitor community school sponsors applies to all sponsors, regardless of whether or not they must initially be approved by the department for sponsorship. Requires the department's annual report on community schools to include the performance of community school sponsors. Provides that a contract may be signed with an existing community school operator only if at least one school has a rating higher than "academic watch". Permits the conversion of a building operated by a joint vocational school district board of education into a community school, in the same manner as a building operated by a city, local, or exempted village school district board of education or an education service center governing board may be converted under current law. Permits a community school, beginning in the 2009-2010 school year, to operate from its current facility, rather than relocating to another school district, if the school meets the following criteria: (1) it has been located in its current facility for at least three years, (2) it is sponsored by a school district adjacent to the district in which the school is located, (3) it emphasizes serving gifted students, and (4) it has been rated continuous improvement or higher for the previous three years.
Pages 1221-1232 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Link to DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3314.012, 3314.015, 3314.016 and 3314.02
Source: |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Specifies that no community school (charter school) that began operation after May 1, 2005 may be operated from a home.
Page 2833 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.50.80
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
From DOE summary of H.B. 1: Adds computers and software to the instructional items for which Internet or computer-based-community schools (e-schools) may use the per pupil amount of state funds calculated for base classroom teachers. (Current law allows those funds to be used only for teachers, curriculum, academic materials other than computers, and other instructional purposes designated by the state superintendent.)
Pages 1251 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3314.085
Source: www.ode.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that for purposes of calculating full-time equivalency for reimbursement, the department must waive the number of hours or days of learning opportunities not offered to a student because the community school was closed due to disease epidemic, hazardous weather conditions, inoperability of school buses or other equipment necessary to the school's operation, damage to a school building, or other temporary circumstances due to utility failure rendering the school building unfit for school use, so long as the school was actually open for instruction with students in attendance during that school year for
not less than the minimum number of hours required by statute. Directs the department to treat the school as if it were open for instruction with students in attendance during the hours or days waived.
Pages 1237-1251 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3314.08
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that if the Auditor of State or a public accountant declares a community school (charter school) to be unauditable, the Auditor of State must provide written notification of that declaration to the school, the school's sponsor, and the department of education, and to post notice of such on the Auditor of State's Web site. Bars a sponsor of a community school identified as unauditable from entering into contracts with any additional community schools until the Auditor of State or a public accountant completes a financial audit of the school. Requires the sponsor of a school deemed unauditable, within 45 days of receipt of such notice, to provide a written response to the Auditor of State including (1) an overview of the process the sponsor will use to review and understand the circumstances that led to the school's becoming unauditable, (2) a plan for providing the Auditor of State with the documentation necessary to complete an audit of the community school and for ensuring that all financial documents are available in the future, and (3) the actions the sponsor will take to ensure the aforementioned plan is implemented.
Provides that if a community school fails to make reasonable efforts and continuing progress to bring its accounts, records, files or reports into auditable condition within 90 days of being declared unauditable, the Auditor of State, in addition to requesting legal action, must notify the department of the school's failure, upon which the department must immediately cease all payments to the school. Directs the department to release all funds withheld from the school upon subsequent notification from the Auditor of State that the Auditor of State or a public accountant was able to complete a financial audit of the community school. Pages 2842-2843 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.80.20
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Extends eligibility to participate in the educational choice scholarship pilot program to students outside eligible districts. Specifies eligible students are those in a new building in its second or third year and to which all of the following apply (or who would be enrolling in kindergarten and entering such a building, or in a community school but who would otherwise be assigned to such a building):
(1) For the first school year the new building was open, at least 75% of the students had transferred directly from two or more school buildings that closed and to each of which all of the following apply:
(i) The closed buildings were operated by the same school district that operates the new building
(ii) The closed buildings offered at least some of the grade levels that the new building also offers
(iii) The closed buildings were declared, for at least two of their last three accountability ratings, to be in a state of academic emergency or academic watch
(iv) The closed buildings were not declared to be excellent or effective in their last accountability rating
(2) If the new building is conducting its second school year of instruction, the building was declared, based on its first school year of instruction, to be in a state of academic emergency or academic watch
(3) If the new building is conducting its third school year of instruction, the building was declared, based on either its first or second school year of instruction, to be in a state of academic emergency or academic watch, but was not declared to be excellent or effective under that section based on its second school year of instruction.
Existing provision provides differentiated amount deducted from a district's payment for each student participating in the educational choice scholarship pilot program, based on whether the student is in kindergarten or grades 1-12. New provision provides flat amount ($5,200) deducted from district payment for each participating student. Increases maximum scholarship award amounts for students in grades K-8 and 9-12. Repeals language establishing method of determining maximum scholarship amount.
Pages 1123-1127 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3310.03, 3310.08 and 3310.09
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
From DOE summary of H.B. 1: Prohibits school districts from preventing a teacher from having students recite the Pledge of Allegiance in the teacher's classroom. Prohibits school districts from altering the Pledge of Allegiance from the wording set forth in the United States Code (4 U.S.C. 4).
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Pages 1159-1160 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3313.602
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Class Size |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the state superintendent, in the 2009 or 2010 academic year (or both) to waive the teacher/pupil ratio for grades K-4 as required by paragraph A(3) of rule 3301-35-05 of the administrative code if the following conditions apply:
(1) The local board of education requests the waiver
(2) After the department of education conducts an on-site evaluation of the district related to meeting the required ratio, the local board demonstrates to the state superintendent's satisfaction that providing the facilities necessary to meet the ratio would impose an extreme hardship on the district
(3) The local board provides assurances to the satisfaction of the state superintendent that the board will act in good faith to meet the required ratio as soon as possible.
Page 2828 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.50.20
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Defines "business education" for purposes of this section as including accounting, career development, economics and personal finance, entrepreneurship, information technology, management and marketing. Directs the state board, by July 2010, to adopt business education standards for grades 7-12. Directs the department to provide the standards to all school districts, community schools and STEM schools, and permits any school district, community school or STEM school to use the standards. Provides that the business education standards supplement, and do not supersede, academic content standards adopted under section 3301.079 of the Revised Code. Page 1016 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.0719
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Repeals 3701.77, which established in the department of health the 15-member governor's advisory council on physical fitness, wellness and sports. Repeals 3701.771, which established the duties of the council. Repeals 3701.772, which related to the awarding of certificates and awards to persons who participate in physical fitness, wellness and sports programs recommended by the governor's advisory council on physical fitness, wellness and sports, including through agreements with school districts. Page 2725 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Sections 3701.77, 3701.771 and 3701.772
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Repeals Section 3301.0718(A), which directed the state board to adopt the most recent standards developed by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education as the K-12 physical education standards, or to adopt its own K-12 P.E. standards, and moves such provisions to Section 3301.079(A)(3). Also repeals 3301.0718(B), which directed the department to employ a qualified full-time physical education coordinator to provide technical assistance to districts and community schools in implementing the physical education standards. Moves such provision to Section 3301.079(A)(3). Also extends duties of physical education coordinator to assisting STEM schools in implementing the physical education standards.
Pages 986-987 (Section 3301.079(A)(3)), 1015-1016 (Section 3301.0718(B)) of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.079(A)(3), 3301.0718(B)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
From DOE summary of H.B. 1: Allows school district boards to waive the requirement to take an American history course for promotion from 8th to 9th grade for academically accelerated students who are to demonstrate mastery of essential concepts and skills of the 8th grade course. (Retains current law requiring one unit of American history and government in high school for a diploma.)
Pages 1157-1159 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3313.60
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us/ |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Postsec. |
Defines "entrepreneurial project" as an effort to develop or commercialize technology through research or technology transfer or investment by an institution of higher education or others. Defines "stock or other ownership" as equity or other ownership rights held or received in return for the grant of rights to intellectual property developed by an institution of higher education. Declares that it is the state's public policy for institutions of higher education to facilitate and assist with establishing and developing entrepreneurial projects or to cooperate with any governmental agency in doing so. Specifies the actions a higher education institution's board of trustees may take in furtherance of such public policy. Pages 1488-1489 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3345.35
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Postsec. |
Directs the department of development, board of regents, air quality development authority, department of agriculture and the Third Frontier Commission to collaborate on appropriation items and programs referred to in H.B. 1 as "Technology-based Economic Development Programs" and other technology-related appropriations and programs in these departments/agencies, to ensure implementation of a coherent science and technology strategy. Identifies appropriation items categorized as "technology-based economic development programs". Specifies that technology-based economic development programs must be managed and administered in accordance with the following objectives:
(1) To build on existing competitive research strengths
(2) To encourage new and emerging discoveries and commercialization of products and ideas that will benefit the Ohio economy
(3) To ensure improved collaboration among programs administered by the Third Frontier Commission (http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/184) and with other state programs intended to improve economic growth and job creation.
Requires each Technology-based Economic Development Programs to undergo annual review on its development of relationships within a combined state science and technology investment portfolio, and with respect to its overall contribution to the state's science and technology strategy, including the adoption of appropriately consistent criteria for:
(1) The scientific and technical merit and relationship to Ohio's research strengths of activities supported by the program
(2) The relevance of the program's activities to commercial activities in the private sector
(3) The private sector's involvement in a process to continually evaluate commercial opportunities to use the work supported by the program
(4) The ability of the program and program grant funding recipients to engage in activities that are collaborative, complementary and efficient in the use of state funds.
Requires each Technology-based Economic Development Program to report annually to the Third Frontier Commission on existing, planned or possible collaborations between programs and between recipients of grant funding related to technology, development, commercialization and the support of Ohio's economic development. Pages 3069-3070 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 701.30
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
By July 2011, directs the department of education to provide technical assistance to that either has failed to comply with any applicable expenditure or reporting standard prescribed by rule adopted under section 3306.25, or that fails to submit a spending plan under section 3306.30 and, if applicable, section 3306.31, in order to bring the district into compliance with expenditure and reporting standards. Also requires such a district to develop and submit to the department a three-year operations improvement plan; notify all parents of students of the standards or requirements that were not met, the actions being taken to meet the standards or requirements and any progress to date toward meeting requirements; and present the plan, and take public testimony with respect to it, in a public hearing before the board. Provides that if one of the triggers applies a second consecutive year, the department must provide technical assistance and the district must perform the aforementioned actions, plus the department must establish a state intervention team to evaluate all aspects of the district's operations, including management, instructional methods, resource allocation and scheduling, and make recommendations on methods for bringing the district into compliance with the applicable standards. Provides that if one of the triggers applies a third consecutive year, whether it is the same or different trigger as in preceding years, the state superintendent must establish an accountability compliance commission or appoint a trustee to manage the district in place of the local board until the beginning of the first year that neither of the triggers applies to the district. Provides that if either trigger applies for a fourth consecutive year, the state board must take action to revoke the district's charter.
Pages 1109-1111 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.33
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Makes various changes to the accelerated urban school building assistance program for Big Eight districts. Amends provisions related to the bonded indebtedness of joint vocational school district boards
Pages 1351-1354 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3318.38, 3318.44
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Federal |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Section 265.50.53: In fiscal years 2010 and 2011, allows the state superintendent to recommend the reallocation of unexpended and unincumbered general revenue fund appropriations if the superintendent deems this necessary to meet the reporting requirements of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
Section 265.50.55: Authorizes the director of budget and management, on written request of the state superintendent and with the approval of the controlling board, to transfer appropriations to meet the maintenance of effort and use of funds provisions of ARRA, including transferring appropriation between FY 2010 and FY 2011.
Pages 2831-2832 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.50.53 and 265.50.55
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1: Adjusts payments to community schools and STEM schools as well as other payments/transfers:
--Sets the formula amount for community schools and STEM schools at $5,718 in FY 2010 and $5,703 in FY 2011, except for computing deductions and payments for special education and vocational education.
--For special education and vocational education, specifies that deductions and payments be computed by multiplying the respective fiscal year 2009 weight times $5,732.
--Sets the formula amount at $5,732 for both fiscal years for open enrollment and postsecondary enrollment options (dual enrollment) students.
--Authorizes the state superintendent and the chancellor of the board of regents jointly to adopt rules allowing school districts, community schools, STEM schools, and nonpublic schools to enter into alternative funding agreements to use an alternate funding formula to calculate or alternate method to transmit payments to colleges and universities for high school students taking college courses through postsecondary enrollment options (PSEO), including Seniors to Sophomores.
--Amends Section 3365.04, 3365.041, 3365.07, 3365.08 and 3365.10 to allow for alternate funding agreements to cover the costs of participation in PSEO programs.
Pages 1252-1253, 1503-1510 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3314.088, 3365.04, 3365.041, 3365.07, 3365.08, 3365.10 and 3365.12
Source: www.ode.state.oh.us |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the department of education to report the following to the director of budget and management and the legislative service commission:
(1) Changes in formulas for distributing state appropriations, including administratively defined formula factors
(2) Discretionary changes in formulas for distributing federal appropriations
(3) Federally mandated changes in formulas for distributing federal appropriations.
Requires that any such changes be reported two weeks prior to the effective date of the change.
Page 2826 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.40.80
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
At the state superintendent's request, requires any entity that receives a budget earmark under the state department of education to submit annually to the the chairs of the house and senate education committees and the department of education a report that includes a description of the services supported by the funds and of the results achieved by those services, an analysis of the effectiveness of the program, and an opinion as to the program's applicability to other school districts. Provides that for an earmarked entity that received state funds from an earmark in the prior fiscal year, the department shall provide no funds to an earmarked entity for a fiscal year until its report for the prior fiscal year has been submitted. Page 2833 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.50.70
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
New Chapter 3306.: As described in the bill analysis by the Ohio Legislative Service Commission (LSC), "The bill enacts a new R.C. Chapter 3306., and revises many other existing codified laws, to establish a new system of financing for school districts and other public entities that provide primary and secondary education. A detailed analysis of the current and proposed school funding systems is available in the LSC Redbook for the Department of Education, published on the LSC Web site at http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/budgetdocuments.html From DOE summary of H.B. 1: Also permits school districts to use state funds provided under the school funding formula for the modification or purchase of classroom space to provide all-day kindergarten or reduce class sizes in grades K-3 if those funds are not specifically allocated for another purpose and the district certifies to the department its need for additional space.
Section 3306.011: Requires that payments under the evidence-based model replace the former method of allocating funds to districts, beginning in FY 2010.
Section 3306.012: Specifies that the SF-3, the department of education form formerly used to calculate funding to a school district, after the effective date of this section will be known as the "PASS form", PASS being an acronym for "PAthway to Student Success". Requires the form to be available to the public in a format understandable to the average citizen.
Section 3306.02: Establishes certain definitions for funding purposes:
--"Building manager": Individual who supervises the administrative (non-curricular, non-instructional) functions of school operation so that a school principal can focus on supporting instruction, providing instructional leadership, and engaging teachers as part of the instructional leadership team. Specifies that a building manager is not required to be a licensed educator.
--"Category one ..." through "category six special education ADM", with category one being low-need students and category six being highest-need students.
--"Counselor": A licensed individual who provides pre-college and career counseling, general academic counseling, course planning and other counseling services that are not related to a student's individualized education plan.
--"Lead teacher": A teacher who provides mentoring and coaching for new teachers, and who also assists in coordinating professional development activities, developing professional learning communities and common planning time, and who assists teachers in developing project-based, real-world learning activities. Requires that the lead teacher position be a rotating position in which an individual serves no more than 3 years. Provides that, once lead teacher licenses become available under Section 3319.22, only teachers who hold such licensure may be appointed as lead teachers. Until that time, directs each district to designate qualifications for the lead teacher position and give preference for the position to national board-certified teachers or who meet the qualifications for a "master teacher" established by the educator standards board.
--"Ohio educational challenge factor": An index to adjust each district's funding amount to account for student and community socioeconomic factors affecting teacher recruitment and retention, professional development, and other factors related to quality instruction. Provides each district's challenge factor includes the district's college attainment rate, per-pupil wealth, and concentration of poverty (see new section 3306.051).
--"Organizational unit": Unit used to index a district's formula ADM in certain grade levels. In recognition of the fact that students have different educational needs at each developmental stage, organizational units group the grade levels into elementary school units, middle school units, and high school units. A district's "organizational units" is the sum of its elementary, middle and high school units.
Section 3306.051: Specifies that the Ohio educational challenge factor is based on:
(1) The college attainment rate of the school district's population
(2) The district's wealth per pupil, based on property valuation and federal adjusted gross income
(3) The district's concentration of poverty, based on its targeted poverty indicator.
Establishes each district's Ohio educational challenge factor for FY 2010 and 2011.
Pages 1060-1069 and 1071-1087 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.01, 3306.011, 3306.012, 3306.02, 3306.051
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Section 3306.03: Establishes the method for determining each district's adequacy amount.
Section 3306.04: Directs the department, in calculating each district's adequacy amount, to calculate the number of the district's organizational units. Specifies that for each small school district (district with formula ADM of under 418 students), the number of organizational units is one organizational unit.
Section 3306.05: Establishes the method for determining each district's instructional services support component.
Pages 1069-1071 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.03, 3306.04, 3306.05
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes the method of calculating the following components of each district's adequacy amount:
Section 3306.06: "Additional services support component" (includes 5 factors: family and community liaison; counselor; summer remediation; school nurse wellness coordinator; district health provider).
Section 3306.07: "Administrative services support component" (includes 3 factors: district administration; principal; administrative support personnel).
Section 3306.08: "Operations and maintenance support component"
Section 3306.09: "Gifted education support component" (includes 4 factors: gifted identification, gifted coordinator, gifted intervention specialist, gifted intervention specialist professional development).
Section 3306.091: "Enrichment support component" (calculated by multiplying the district's formula ADM times $100 times the Ohio educational challenge factor). Specifies the enrichment support component must be used for purposes other than services for students identified as gifted. Authorizes a district to spend the enrichment support component to pay for enrichment activities to encourage the intellectual and creative pursuits of all students, including the fine arts.
Section 3306.10: "Technology resources support component" (includes 2 factors: licensed librarian and media specialist, and technical equipment).
Section 3306.11: Calculating special education teacher and aide positions within "instructional services support" in new Section 3306.05.
Section 3306.12: Establishes definitions for purposes of funding student transportation, and methods for making such calculations.
Section 3306.13: Revises the definition of "potential value", used in calculating the adjustment to the local share of certain school districts, to distinguish between districts levying 20.1 or more effective class one mills and districts levying fewer than 20.1 effective class one mills.
Section 3306.18: Directs the state superintendent to annually certify to the state board of education the amount each district expended in the previous fiscal year on each factor of the district's adequacy amount.
Section 3306.19: [From DOE summary of H.B. 1:] Guarantees each district, in FY 2010, 99% of its previous year's base and, in FY 2011, 98% of its previous year's base. Sets the gain cap at 3/4 of 1% more than the previous year's base.
Sections 3306.191 and 3306.192: Method of calculating additional transitional aid in FY 2010 and 2011 to certain school districts.
Section 3306.25: Directs the state superintendent to adopt rules prescribing standards for the expenditure of funds under the school finance system as revised by H.B. 1, and for the reporting of expenditures of those funds for particular funded components, so that funds are directed toward the purposes for which they were calculated. Specifies that rules regarding reporting standards under the following components shall not take effect before July 2010; rules regarding spending standards shall not take effect before July 2011. Directs the superintendent to determine the funded components included in the three categories of:
(1) Core academic strategy components, i.e., those components fundamental to successful education practices in the 21st century for all students. [From DOE summary of H.B. 1:] Specifies that the superintendent's rules for spending and reporting of components in the core academic strategy components must provide flexibility in determining how to spend funds, depending on the district's current performance rating, instead of merely requiring flexibility for "effective" and "excellent" districts. Specifies that the higher the rating, the greater the flexibility the rules must provide, and that districts rated "excellent" or "excellent with distinction" are not subject to spending rules (except to the all-day kindergarten requirements), but are subject to reporting rules.
(2) Academic improvement components, i.e., components that have been demonstrated to make the greatest improvement in the academic achievement of underperforming students. Specifies that rules adopted for academic improvement components must prescribe spending and reporting standards, but that these will apply only to districts in "academic emergency" or "academic watch" for two or more consecutive years.
(3) Other components. Specifies that these rules will prescribe only reporting and not spending requirements or standards, but will be applicable to all school districts.
Pages 1088-1101 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.06, 3306.07, 3306.08, 3306.09, 3306.091, 3306.10, 3306.11, 3306.12, 3306.13, 3306.18, 3306.19, 3306.191, 3306.192,
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1:
--Sets the payment for career-technical education services at 3/4 of 1% more than the previous year's amount.
--[Section 3306.02(C)] Defines "career-technical education teacher" for purposes of funding the evidence-based model, as an educational professional holding a license to provide specialized instruction in career and technical courses.
--Specifies that districts may use career-technical funding under the evidence-based model only for career-technical programming approved by the state department of education. Directs the department to require districts to annually report data to allow the department to monitor spending of career-technical funding.
Pages 1064, 1087-1088 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.052, 3306.02(C)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Litigation |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Limits legal claim for reimbursement of amount of reduction in funding to districts named in a court's judgment or settlement agreement. Provides the state does not have liability for reimbursement of the amount of such reduction in foundation or transitional aid funding. Provides exceptions. Pages 2835-2836 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.60.70
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Lotteries |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Creates a special fund that will allow for excess lottery profits to be transferred to be made available by the Controlling Board in FY 2010 or 2011, at the request of the state superintendent. These funds will provide assistance and grants to school districts to enable them to remain solvent and to pay unforeseeable expenses of a temporary or emergency nature that they are unable to pay from existing resources.
Pages 2824-2825 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.40.60
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Applies only to school districts, and not to community schools or STEM schools. Directs the department of education to develop a form, to be known as the "Formula Accountability and Transparency" form or "FACT" form. Directs the department to annually publish on its Web site a FACT form for each district, comparing the payments to the district under each component prescribed by statute with the district's deployment of those payments as indicated in its spending plan. Clarifies the form will not be the basis of any accountability actions, but is to be a public document to inform parents, students and taxpayers about the district's spending. Page 1113 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.35
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires local boards to annually submit to the department of education a plan describing how the district will spend the funds received under the evidence-based model. Requires districts to spend funds received for each component, and for districts with a three-year average graduation rate of 80% or less, deployment of funds to increase high school graduation rates, as set forth in new Section 3306.31. Requires the department to annually reconcile each spending plan with the district's actual spending. Provides that if the deparment finds that a district has not complied with any applicable expenditure or reporting standard, the department must take action as set forth in Section 3306.33.
Pages 1106-1107 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.30
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Vetoed 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Excludes tangible personal property phase-out impacted districts from the definition of "average taxable value". Defines "tangible personal property phase-out impacted district" as a school district for which the taxable value of its tangible personal property for tax year 2005, excluding the taxable value of public utility personal property, made up 20%or more of its total taxable value for tax year 2005.
Pages 1340- of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3318.011
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Makes changes to the methods by which school district operating levies are approved.
Pages 2449-2455 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 5705.219, 5705.2110, 5705.211
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
From the DOE summary of H.B. 1:
--Authorizes school districts levying current expense taxes with an aggregate effective tax rate exceeding 20 mills on residential/agricultural real property to convert that excess millage, with voter approval, to a single levy for a specified amount of money and for a term of up to 10 years or continuously.
--Specifies that a school district conversion levy applies to the tax year in which voters approve it and authorizes voters to repeal a conversion levy that originally was imposed for a continuing period of time. Specifies that, if a conversion levy is repealed, reimbursement based on passage of the levy is terminated.
--Requires a conversion levy and the renewal of a conversion levy to be proposed only at a primary or general election.
--Requires the state to reimburse a school district levying a conversion tax for the amount of tax revenue lost from nonresidential/agricultural real property and public utility personal property due to the conversion. Phases out the requirement over 13 years.
--Authorizes school boards to propose conversion levies for five years (2010 through 2014).
--Authorizes a school board eligible to impose a conversion levy under the bill to propose that the levy raise a smaller amount (from Class I property) than the levies that the conversion levy would replace. Specifies that, if a school board chooses to levy a smaller amount, it will not receive additional reimbursement for the nonresidential/agricultural real property and public utility tangible personal property losses incurred by a smaller conversion levy.
--Prevents a school board eligible to impose a conversion levy from repealing fewer mills than is necessary to reduce the effective tax rate for current expense levies on residential/agricultural real property to 20 mills.
Pages 2449-2455 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 5705.219
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Authorizes local boards to apply to the state superintendent for waivers from financial provisions established in Chapter 3306, including any applicable expenditure or reporting standard prescribed by rule adopted by statutory requirement, or or a waiver of any operating standard adopted under division (D)(3) of section 3301.07. Directs the state board to adopt standards for the approval or disapproval of such waivers. Requires the state superintendent to consider every waiver application, and to determine whether to grant or deny a waiver in accordance with the state board's standards. For each waiver granted, directs the state superintendent to specify the time period during which the waiver is in effect, up to five years. Allows a district to apply to renew a waiver.
Pages 1113-1114 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.40
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Existing law allows waivers from certain state mandates to school districts identified as "excellent" or "effective" under the state accountability system. New provision provides that such districts may not be released from any standard or requirement of Chapter 3306 (school finance), or from any operating standard adopted under division (D)(3) of section 3301.07.
Existing law allows schools to submit applications to the state board proposing an innovative education pilot program the implementation of which requires exemptions from specific statutory provisions or rules. New provision adds that an exemption from Chapter 3306 or from any operating standard adopted under division (D)(3) of section 3301.07 of the Revised Code may be granted only pursuant to a waiver granted by the superintendent of public instruction under section 3306.40.
Pages 1056-1057 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3302.05 and 3302.07
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Vetoed 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Specifies the impacts the state board must consider in determining whether to approve a local district's resolution to sever from its educational service center and annexation to the territory of another educational service center. Prohibits the state board from voting on the local district's resolution until it has been heard at at least two state board meetings. Requires the state board to provide the opportunity for public testimony at each hearing, and for written prior notice of each hearing to be provided both affected educational service centers. Page 1135 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3311.059
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Adds new section. Requires the state board of education to make an audio recording of each regular and special business meeting, to be made available on the Internet within 5 business days of each meeting. Provides the state board must not make available audio recordings of executive sessions. Page 979 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.041
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Vetoed 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes procedures for the dissolution of an educational service center (ESC) from which all districts within the ESC's service area have withdrawn.
Pages 1135-1136 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1- Section 3311.0510
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Section 3301.90:Creates the Early Childhood Advisory Council to serve as the federally mandated state advisory council for early childhood education and care, and to advise the state regarding the creation and duties of the Center for Early Childhood Development in the state department of education. Directs the council to promote family-centered programs and services that acknowledge and support the social, emotional, cognitive, intellectual and physical development of children and the vital role of families in ensuring the well-being and success of children.
Section 265.70.20: Directs the Early Childhood Advisory Council (as created by H.B. 1) to establish an Early Childhood Financing Workgroup, to be chaired by the chair of the Early Childhood Advisory Council. Directs the workgroup to develop recommendations exploring the implementation of a single finance system for early care and education programs that includes aligned payment mechanisms and consistent eligibility and co-payment policies. Directs the workgroup to submit its recommendations to the governor by December 31, 2009, upon which time the workgroup shall cease to exist.
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Pages 1045-1046 and 2839 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.90 and 265.70.20
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Vetoed 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that if an educational service center that has received funding according to statutory provisions as they stood prior to September 26, 2003 for providing services to a school district is dissolved or scheduled to be dissolved, the district that previously contracted for those services may enter into a new agreement with another service center for the same or similar services.
Pages 1205-1207 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3313.843
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Places the Ohio tuition trust authority in the office of the chancellor of the board of regents. Provides that the Ohio tuition trust authority board must solely perform specified duties and responsibilities. Authorizes the Ohio tuition trust authority board, subject to the advice and consent of the chancellor, to remove the authority's executive director at any time. Directs the authority, by December 31, 2009, to conduct a study of guaranteed tuition program plans and submit a report with recommendations for a new guaranteed tuition plan to the speaker of the house, the senate president and the governor. Requires the authority to include in the report consideration of a guaranteed tuition program plan in which the risks of the plan are shared equitably among institutions of higher education, the state, the Ohio tuition trust authority, and program investors.
Authorizes the authority to establish and administer more than one plan for the sale of tuition units within the Ohio tuition trust fund using specified principles or modeled after a plan that was included in the aforementioned study. Provides that if the authority establishes and administers more than one plan for the sale of tuition units, the money received under each plan must be segregated and identified within the Ohio tuition trust fund. Specifies that in the hiring of the executive director, the Ohio tuition trust authority must obtain the advice and consent of the Ohio tuition trust board, provided that the
executive director may not be hired without a majority vote of the board in favor of the hiring. Authorizes the authority to enter into an agreement with any business, entity or governmental agency to perform
the investment duties of the authority, in a manner agreed upon by the authority.
Pages 1464-1474 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3334.03, 3334.07, 3334.08, 3334.11
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the department of education to use volunteers to accomplish any of the purposes of the department. Directs the state superintendent to approve the purposes for which volunteers may be used. Authorizes the superintendent to recruit, train and oversee volunteers for such purposes, and reimburse volunteers for necessary and appropriate expenses in accordance with state guidelines, and designate them as state employees for purposes of motor vehicle accident liability insurance, immunity and indemnification from liability. Page 2834 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1- Section 265.60.30
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Health |
Adopted 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Creates new rules relating to integrated pest management standard and pesticide use in schools.
Integrated Pest Management Standard: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/901/5/11/901$5-11-14_PH_FF_N_RU_20090731_0959.pdf
Pesticide Use in Schools: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/901/5/11/901$5-11-15_PH_FF_N_RU_20090731_0959.pdf
Title: OAC 901:5-11-14, -15
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Creates new section 3313.719. Directs school districts, community schools, STEM schools and chartered nonpublic schools to adopt written policies to protect students with peanut or other food allergies. Requires that policies be developed in consultation with parents, school nurses and other school employees, school volunteers, students and community members.
Page 1200 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3313.719
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Health |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Effective July 1, 2011, permits only district employees who are licensed health professionals, or who have completed a drug administration training program conducted by a licensed health professional and considered appropriate by the board, to administer prescription drugs to students.
Pages 1198-1200 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3313.713
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Partially from DOE summary of H.B. 1:
Extends to public middle and high schools a requirement that under existing law applies to public elementary schools, which requires a school nurse, teacher, counselor, school psychologist or administrator to complete four hours of in-service training in the prevention of child abuse, violence and substance abuse, and in the promotion of positive youth development. Establishes a deadline of two years after the effective date of this amendment for the specified middle and high school employees to take the required four hours of in-service training. Allows districts and schools to adapt or adopt the curriculum developed by state department of education for the in-service training, as an alternative to the existing law requirement that each district or school develop its own curriculum. Directs districts and schools to incorporate training in school safety and violence prevention into their in-service training in the prevention of child abuse, violence and substance abuse, and the promotion of positive youth development.
Pages 1354-1355 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.073
Source: www.ode.state.oh.us |
Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Directs the state board to establish by rule the requirements for earning a school nurse license and a school nurse wellness coordinator license. Requires, at a minimum, that all school nurse license applicants be licensed as registered nurses. Specifies that if the state board requires exams for school nurse licenses or school nurse wellness coordinator licenses, the department of education must provide the exam results to the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents, to the extent permissible by law. Pages 1375-1376 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.221
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes the school health services advisory council. Establishes membership. Provides the duties of the council are to make recommendations on:
(1) The content of the course of instruction required to obtain a school nurse license and school nurse wellness coordinator license under section 3319.221
(2) Best practices for the use of school nurses and school nurse wellness coordinators in providing health/wellness programs for students and employees of school districts, community schools and STEM schools
Directs the council to issue its initial recommendations by March 31, 2010. Permits the council to issue subsequent recommendations as it considers necessary. Requires copies of all recommendations to be provided to the state board of education, the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents, the board of nursing, and the health care coverage and quality council.
Pages 1401-1403 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.70 and 3319.71
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Repeals 3302.032, which directed the state board, by June 30, 2012, to select one or more methods of measuring high school graduates' preparedness for higher education and the workforce. Required district and building performance on each college-/work-ready measure to be included on district and building accountability report cards.
Page 2725 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 105.01/3302.032
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Specifies that the following provisions apply to any district with a three-year average graduation rate at or below 80%. Requires each such district's local board to implement actions prescribed by the governor's closing the achievement gap initiative in each high school, and in each elementary or middle school in which less than 50% of students have earned a proficient score on the 4th or 7th grade English language arts or math achievement assessments. Requires each such local board to work with the department and the governor's closing the achievement gap initiative in developing its annual spending plan before submitting the plan.
Requires each such local board to staff a linkage coordinator for closing the achievement gap and increasing the graduation rate. Defines "linkage coordinator" as an individual who is the primary mentor, coach and motivator for students identified as at risk of not graduating (as defined by the governor's closing the achievement gap initiative), and who coordinates those students' participation in academic programs, social service programs, out-of-school cultural and work-related experiences, and mentoring programs, based on students' needs. Provides the linkage coordinator must coordinate remedial disciplinary plans and work with school staff to gather student academic information and engage parents of targeted students. Requires that the linkage coordinator serve as the liaison between the school and the governor's closing the achievement gap initiative and participate in all professional development activities as directed by the initiative. Requires the linkage coordinator to establish and coordinate the work of academic promotion teams to address identified students' academic and social needs. Provides that such teams' membership may vary by school, and may include the linkage coordinator, parents, teachers, principals, school nurses, school counselors, probation officers, or other school personnel or community members.
Directs the governor's closing the achievement gap initiative to work with each organizational unit of every district with a three-year average graduation rate at or below 80% to assess progress in implementing activities, and assist linkage coordinators, administrators and other school staff in ensuring compliance with the district's spending plan required under Section 3306.30. Specifies that items related to implementing actions in schools are subject to the state superintendent and the governor's closing the achievement gap initiative, and defines state superintendent actions if the superintendent or initiative disapprove items in the plan. Directs the department to work with the governor's closing the achievement gap initiative in reconciling the spending plan of a district with a three-year average graduation rate at or below 80% with the district's actual spending.
Pages 1107-1109 and 2841 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.31 and 265.70.80
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that any early college high school operated by a big eight school district in partnership with a private university may operate as a new start-up community school (charter school) beginning in the 2007-08 school year if all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The governing authority and school sponsor enter into a contract in accordance with Section 3314.03 and both parties sign the contract by July 2007.
(2) The school's governing authority enters into a contract with the private university under which the university will be the school's operator.
(3) The school provides the same educational program the school provided while part of the big eight school district.
Pages 2833-2834 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.50.90
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Service Coordination Workgroup, consisting of a representative of 10 state offices/agencies, including the departments of education; health; job and family services; mental health; developmental disabilities; and youth services, and to be chaired by the representative of the governor's office. Directs the workgroup to develop procedures for coodinating services provided to individuals under age 21 and their families. In developing the procedures, requires the workgroup to focus on maximizing resources, reducing unnecessary costs, removing barriers to effective and efficient service coordination, eliminating duplicative services, prioritizing high risk populations, and any other matters the workgroup considers relevant to service coordination. Directs the workgroup to submit a report to the governor by July 31, 2009 with recommendations for implementing the procedures. Provides the workgroup shall cease to exist June 30, 2011. Pages 3090-3091 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 751.20
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Leadership |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
**No funds allocated in the current budget for this center, according to the DOE's H.B. 1 summary document http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635**
Authorizes the state superintendent to create the center for creativity and innovation in the department of education. Provides that, if created, the center must help schools in districts, educational service centers, community schools and STEM schools with any of the following:
(1) Designing and implementing strategies and systems that enable schools to become professional learning communities, including:
(a) Mentoring and coaching teachers and support staff
(b) Enabling school principals to focus on supporting instruction and engaging teachers and support staff as part of the instructional leadership team so that teachers and staff may share the responsibility for making and implementing school decisions
(c) Adopting new models for restructuring the learning day or year, such as including teacher planning and collaboration time as part of the school day
(d) Creating smaller schools or smaller units within larger schools to facilitate teacher collaboration to improve and advance the professional practice of teaching and to enhance instruction that yields enhanced student achievement.
(2) Using strategies in collaboration with the teach Ohio program to promote, recruit and enhance the teaching profession, including:
(a) Designing and implementing "grow your own" recruitment and retention strategies to support individuals in becoming licensed teachers, to retain highly qualified teachers, to assist experienced teachers in obtaining licensure in subject areas for which there is need, to assist teachers in earning senior professional educator and lead professional educator licenses, and to assist teachers to grow and develop in the profession
(b) Enhanced conditions for new teachers
(c) Incentives to attract qualified math, science or special education teachers
(d) Developing and implementing a partnership with teacher preparation programs at colleges and universities to help attract teachers qualified to teach in shortage areas
(e) Implementing a program to increase the cultural competency of both new and veteran teachers.
(3) Identifying state policies that impede the adoption of innovative practices and making recommendations to the superintendent of public instruction for the repeal, revision, or waiver of those provisions
(4) Identifying promising programs and practices based on high quality education research and developing models for their early adoption, including research and practices in arts education and creativity
(5) Other duties as assigned by the superintendent of public instruction.
If created, directs the center to promote collaboration between districts and community schools to enhance the academic programs of both and to broaden the application of successful and innovative academic practices developed by community schools. In doing so, directs the center to (1) Study and serve as a clearinghouse of best practices and innovative programming developed and utilized by community schools that could be adopted by school districts; and (2) Identify circumstances in which students could benefit from collaboration between the complementary programs of school districts and community schools.
Pages 1044-1045 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.82
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Leadership--District Superintendent |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
3319.611: Establishes the subcommittee on standards for superintendents of the education standards board (ESB). Establishes subcommittee membership. Provides that the subcommittee must assist the ESB in developing the standards for superintendents and with any additional matters the ESB directs the subcommittee to examine.
3319.612: Establishes the subcommittee on standards for school treasurers and business managers of the ESB. Provides that the subcommittee must assist the educator standards board in developing the standards for school treasurers and business managers and with any additional matters the ESB directs the subcommittee to examine.
3319.63: Requires a local boards employing an individual chosen to participate on either of these ESB subcommittees to grant the individual paid professional leave for the purpose of attending meetings and conducting official subcommittee business.
Pages 1400-1401 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.611, 3319.612, and 3319.63
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Repeals provision in 3319.22 that directed the state board to adopt the standards and requirements for temporary, associate, provisional and professional teacher licenses. Establishes a 4-year "resident educator" license to allow an educator to complete the Ohio teacher residency program (applicants must hold at least a bachelor's degree from an accredited teacher education program). Also establishes "professional educator license" (applicants must have successfully completed the Ohio teacher residency program), "senior professional educator license" (applicants must hold at least a master's degree, have previously held a professional educator license and meet the criteria for the accomplished or distinguished level of performance, as described in the standards for teachers adopted by the state board under section 3319.61) and "lead professional educator license" (applicants must hold at least a master's degree, have previously held a professional educator license or a senior professional educator license, meet the criteria for the distinguished level of performance and either hold National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification or meet the criteria for a master teacher or other criteria for a lead teacher adopted by the educator standards board under division (F)(4) or (5) of section 3319.61). Provides that all non-resident-educator licenses are to be valid for five years and renewable. Repeals provision that no license can be required for teaching children age two or younger. Allows state board to adopt any additional educator licenses, and directs the state board to adopt rules establishing the standards and requirements for obtaining each resident educator, professional educator, senior professional educator and lead professional educator license.
Directs the state board to align the standards and qualifications for obtaining a principal license with the standards for principals adopted by the state board under section 3319.61.
Repeals 3319.23, which directed the state board to (1) establish standards and courses of study for the preparation of teachers, (2) provide for the inspection of teacher preparation programs, (3) approve teacher preparation programs, and (4) license the graduates of approved courses and institutions. (New Section 3333.048 directs the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents and the state superintendent to establish metrics for and approve teacher preparation programs.)
Pages 1375 and 2725 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.22 and 3319.23
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Middle School |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Section 3301.079(A)(2). Requires the state board to adopt K-12 standards for instruction in financial literacy and entrepreneurship, which must meet the same requirements as standards in the core areas of English, math, science and social studies (i.e., the standards must specify: (1) The content and skills at each grade level that will allow students to be prepared for postsecondary instruction and the workplace for success in the 21st century; (2) The development of skill sets as they relate to creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, and communication and collaboration; (3) The development of skill sets that promote information, media and technological literacy; and (4) The development of skill sets that promote personal management, productivity and accountability, and leadership and responsibility
(5) Interdisciplinary, project-based, real-world learning opportunities.)
Creates new Section 3301.0721. Directs the superintendent of public instruction to develop a model curriculum for instruction in college and career readiness and financial literacy. Provides the curriculum must focus on grades 7-12 but may include other grades. Directs the department, once the curriculum is developed, to notify all school districts, community schools and STEM schools. Authorizes all such schools to use the model curriculum.
Creates new Section 3313.6015. Directs every district board to adopt a resolution describing how the district will address college and career readiness and financial literacy in its curriculum for grades 7 or 8 and for any other grades in which the board determines that those subjects should be addressed. Directs the board to submit a copy of the resolution to the department of education.
Section 3313.603: Requires academic content standards for financial literacy and entrepreneurship to be integrated into one or more social studies classes required for high school graduation or into another course. Requires a high school that permits a student below grade 9 to take a high school-level course to award high school credit for successful completion of the course.
Pages 986 (Section 3301.079), 1016-1017 (Section 3301.0721), 1160-1167 (Section 3313.603) and 1173 (Section 3313.6015) of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.0721, 3301.079(A)(2) and 3313.601, 3313.603
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Creates new section 3301.122. Directs the state superintendent, by December 2009, to develop a ten-year strategic plan aligned with the strategic plan for higher education developed by the chancellor of the board of regents, and to submit the plan to the legislature and governor. Permits the superintendent to consult with the chancellor in developing the plan. Provides the plan must include recommendations for:
(A) A framework for collaborative, professional, innovative and thinking twenty-first century learning environments
(B) Ways to prepare and support Ohio's educators for successful instructional careers
(C) Enhancement of the current financial and resource management accountability systems
(D) Implementation of an effective school funding system.
Page 1018 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.122
Source: |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Partially from DOE analysis of H.B. 1: Requires the department of education to share aggregate student value-added data and calculations, analyses, and reports using aggregate student value-added data with the chancellor of the board of regents.
Pages 1047-1050 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3302.021
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Sections 3301.41, 3301.42, and 3301.43: Repeals 3301.41, which established the partnership for continued learning (state's P-16/P-20 council). Repeals 3301.42, which established the duties of the partnership. Repeals 3301.43, which charged the partnership with recommending a college-/work-ready assessment, especially in English and math.
Section 3326.02 through 3326.51: Existing language established a STEM subcommittee within the partnership for continued learning. New provision establishes a STEM committee (independent of the partnership for continued learning), with the same members and duties as prior subcommittee. Pages 1020-1021, 1417-1426, and 2725 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.41, 3301.42, 3301.43, 3326.02, 3326.03, 3326.04, 3326.05, 3326.06, 3326.07, 33326.08, 3326.20, 3326.51
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-3 |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
3317.03: Requires each student enrolled in kindergarten to be counted as a full-time equivalent student regardless of whether or not the student is enrolled in full-day kindergarten class.
3321.01: Repeals references permitting a district that is not eligible to receive poverty-based assistance for all-day kindergarten to charge fees or tuition for students enrolled in all-day kindergarten.
3321.05: Defines "all day kindergarten" as a kindergarten class that is in session five days a week for at least the same number of clock hours each day as for students in grades 1-6. Provides that, beginning in FY 2011, districts must provide all-day kindergarten to each kindergarten student. Allows local boards to apply to the state superintendent for a waiver from the all-day kindergarten for all students requirement. Permits the state superintendent, in determining whether to grant the waiver, to consider space concerns or alternative delivery approaches the district may use. Requires districts to accommodate kindergarten students whose parents wish to enroll them in half-day kindergarten. Permits a district to use space in a child day-care center licensed by the department of job and family services to provide all-day kindergarten to district students.
265.70.70: Authorizes any district or community school that in FY 2009 charged fees or tuition for students in all-day kindergarten, as it existed prior to the effective date of this section, to charge fees or tuition to all-day kindergarten students in FY 2010 and FY 2011, at the same per student rate charged in FY 2009. Bars districts and community schools from charging fees or tuition for all-day kindergarten after FY 2011.
Pages 1310-1324, 1403-1407 and 2841 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3317.03, 3321.01, 3321.05 and 265.70.70
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-3 |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes the "Help Me Grow" advisory council, to serve as the state interagency coordinating council, as described in 20 U.S.C. 1441. Establishes duties of the council. Authorizes the council to advise and assist the departments of health and education on the provision of appropriate services for children age five and younger, and to advise appropriate agencies on the integration of services for infants and toddlers with disabilities, and at-risk infants and toddlers and their families, regardless of whether at-risk infants and toddlers are eligible for early intervention services. Directs the council to promote family-centered programs and services that acknowledge and support the social, emotional, cognitive, intellectual and physical development of children, and the vital role of families in ensuring the well-being and success of children.
Section 289.20: Establishes criteria that home-visiting programs must meet to be eligible for Help Me Grow funding.
Pages 1526-1528 and 2858-2859 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3701.611 and 289.20
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-3 |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Directs the governor to appoint to the early childhood cabinet a representative of a board of health of a city or general health district or an authority having the duties of a board of health
Pages 2801-2802 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.10.23
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-3 |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Partially from DOE summary of H.B. 1:
Continues the GRF-funded early childhood education program at school districts, joint vocational school districts or educational service centers for children at least three years old as of the district entry date for kindergarten (except that children with an IEP where the early childhood education program is the least restrictive environment may be enrolled on their third birthday), not eligible for kindergarten, and whose families earn not more than 200% of the federal poverty guidelines. Requires providers to develop a sliding fee scale based on family income, for families that earn more than 200% of the federal poverty guidelines.
To receive state funding, an early childhood education program must:
(1) Meet teacher qualification requirements applicable to early childhood education programs
(2) Align its curriculum to the department of education's early learning content standards
(3) Comply with any child or program assessment requirements prescribed by the department
(4) Require teachers, except those working toward an associate's or bachelor's degree in a related field, to attend at least 20 hours of professional development every two years
(5) Document and report child progress
(6) Meet and report compliance with the department's early learning program guidelines.
Authorizes the department to examine a provider's financial and program records. Provides that if the program's financial practices are not in keeping with standard accounting principles or do not meet specified financial standards, or if the program fails to substantially meet the early learning program guidelines or exhibits below average performance as measured against the guidelines, the early childhood education program must propose and implement a department-approved corrective action plan, which must include a schedule for monitoring by the department. Defines activities that may be categorized under "monitoring". Authorizes the department to withhold funding pending corrective action. Provides that if an early childhood education program fails to satisfactorily complete a corrective action plan, the department may deny expansion funding to the program or withdraw all or part of the program's funding and establish a new eligible provider through a department-determined selection process.
Page 2798-2801 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Legislative analysis of H.B. 1 (starting page 219): http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses128/h0001-i-128.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.10.20
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-3 |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
From Legislative Service Commission summary of H.B. 1:
Re-establishes the Early Learning Initiative (ELI) to provide early learning services on full-day or partial-day basis to eligible children. Provides the program is to be jointly administered by the department of education and the department of job and family services. Establishes responsibilities of each entity in administering the program.
Pages 2894-2898 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Legislative Service Commission summary of H.B. 1 (pages 221-225 of 492): http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses128/h0001-i-128.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 309.40.60
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-3 |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Directs the governor and the state superintendent to create the Center for Early Childhood Development in the department of education, comprised of staff from the DOE, department of job and family services, department of health, and any other state agency as the governor and state superintendent determine necessary. Directs the governor and the state superintendent to hire a center director to report to the governor and state superintendent. Provides that the center must research and make recommendations about the coordination of early childhood programs and services, beginning with prenatal care and continuing until kindergarten entry, and the eventual transfer of authority for these programs and services from other state agencies to the department of education.
Directs the Center for Early Childhood Development to promote family-centered programs and services that acknowledge and support the social, emotional, cognitive, intellectual and physical development of children and the vital role of families in ensuring children's well-being and success. Requires the center director by December 31, 2009 to submit to the superintendent and governor an implementation plan that includes research and recommendations on:
(1) The identification of programs, services and funding sources to be transferred from other state agencies to the department of education
(2) A new administrative structure in the department of education to implement early childhood programs and services
(3) Statutory changes necessary to implement the new administrative structure in the department of education
(4) A timeline for the transition from the current administrative structure in other state agencies to the new administrative structure in the department of education.
Authorizes the director of budget and management to seek Controlling Board approval for specified finance-related activities to support the preparation of an implementation plan to create a new administrative structure for early childhood programs and services in the department of education.
Pages 2838-2839 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.70.10
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-3 |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Defines "independent child care provider" as either a licensed provider who does not meet the definition of "employee" under the National Labor Relations Act, or a certified or licensed provider or in-home aide who is not a county or state employee. Authorizes independent child care providers to:
(1) Form, join, assist or participate in any representative organization of their choosing
(2) Engage in additional concerted activities for purposes of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection
(3) Be represented by a representative organization
(4) Bargain collectively with the state to determine wages, hours, terms, other conditions of employment within the state's control, the amendment of existing collective bargaining provisions, and enter into a collective bargaining agreement
(5) Present grievances and have them adjusted without the intervention of the representative organization, within the parameters of the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.
Provides that a representative organization shall become the exclusive collective bargaining representative of all independent child care providers by either filing a request with the state to be recognized as an exclusive representative, or by being certified by an impartial election monitor as described in the governor's executive order 2008-02S for independent child care providers. Specifies the supporting evidence that must be included in a representative organization's request for recognition as the exclusive collective bargaining representative for independent child care providers in the state. Bars the state from recognizing another representative organization as the exclusive representative if a lawful written agreement, contract or memorandum of understanding between the state and another representative organization has been recognized by the state. Requires all matters pertaining to wages, hours, terms and other conditions of employment within the state's control and the continuation or amendment of any existing collective bargaining agreement to be subject to collective bargaining between the state and the exclusive representative. Provides that all of the aforementioned provisions must remain in effect until the end of the current governor's term in office as governor. Pages 3081-3084 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 741.01, 741.02, 741.03, 741.04, 741.05, 741.06 and 741.07
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
From DOE summary of H.B. 1: Requires school districts, community schools, STEM schools and chartered nonpublic schools to inform, prior to opening day each school year, each enrolled student and the student's parent of the parental notification procedures in the school's protocol for responding to threats and emergency events, which are established under existing law.
Pages 1155-1157 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3313.536
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Renumbers to 3313.82 existing provision requiring local boards and educational service center boards to appoint a business advisory council. Creates new section 3313.821 requiring local boards, and permitting boards of community schools and STEM schools, to appoint a family and civic engagement team comprised of parents, community representatives, health and human service representatives, business representatives and any other representatives identified by the board. Directs teams to:
(1) Work with local county family and children first councils to recommend to the board qualifications and responsibilities to be included in school family and civic engagement coordinator job descriptions
(2) Develop five-year family and civic engagement plans
(3) Provide annual progress reports on the development and implementation of the plan. Directs boards to submit the plan and annual progress reports to the county family and children first council.
(4) Advise and provide recommendations to the board on matters specified by the board.
Creates new section 3313.822. Provides that local boards, instead of appointing a family and civic engagement team and a business advisory council, may appoint one committee to function as both. Permits local boards to determine the membership of such committees, provided the membership requirements set in 3313.821 are met.
Pages 1200-1202 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3313.82, 3313.821, 3313.822
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Directs the state board, by January 29, 2010, to develop a list of best practices for improving parental involvement that public and nonpublic schools may use to increase parental participation. Directs the department of education to make the list available on its Web site. Page 2843 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.80.40
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Existing legislation allows a nonresident student who is a member of the U.S. armed forces stationed in Ohio to pay in-state tuition. New provision extends in-state tuition to members of the Ohio national guard. Page 1456 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3333.42
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Amends Section 3333.122, regarding a need-based financial aid program for Ohio residents. Pages 1440-1449 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3333.122
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Postsec. |
Repeals 3333.27, which directed the chancellor to establish and administer the student choice grant program. The student choice grant program made available grants to residents who were enrolled as full-time students at nonprofit institutions of higher education in the state and who maintained an academic record that met or exceeded specified standards.
Page 2725 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Sections 3333.27
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Postsec. |
Provides that if the amounts appropriated for the need-based Ohio College Opportunity Grant Program are inadequate to provide grants to all eligible students, the chancellor must create a formula for the distribution of available funds. Specifies this formula must be complete and established before the start of the 2010-11 school year. Requires the formula to be based on division (C)(1) of Section 3333.122 (i.e., must do one of the following: (1) Give preference in the payment of grants based upon expected family contribution, beginning with the lowest expected family contribution category and proceeding upward by category to the highest expected family contribution category; (2) Proportionately reduce the amount of each grant to be awarded for the academic year under this section; or (3) Use an alternate formula for such grants that addresses the shortage of available funds and has been submitted to and approved by the controlling board), but also include an "at-risk component" and "academic performance component" in determining priority for grant recipients. Specifies that the chancellor may use the academic performance component to increase an award for credit or course completion or other factors as determined by the chancellor. Provides that an "at-risk component" may include but is not limited to a first-generation student, non-traditionally aged adult student, graduate of a low-achieving high school, or any other factors the chancellor may determine.
Directs all eligible institutions to collect at-risk and performance data for all students eligible for an Ohio College Opportunity Grant, and report that information, including a recommendation of eligble students considered most at-risk, to the chancellor. Directs the chancellor to determine which at-risk and performance components are most appropriate to use for each type of institution and develop a formula for each type of institution. Permits the chancellor to require institutions to provide matching funds for students receiving Ohio College Opportunity Grants. Requires the chancellor to report on the board of regents Web site award tables based on the formulas created for the distribution of available funds, and to notify students and institutions of any reduction in awards.
Pages 2963-2965 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 371.50.50
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
From DOE summary of H.B. 1:
Prohibits districts from charging instructional or materials fees to students eligible for free lunch.
DOE summary document: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Pages 1194-1195 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3313.642
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Authorizes the board of trustees of any state institution of higher education to adopt a policy providing for mandatory furloughs of employees, including faculty, to achieve spending reductions necessitated by institutional budget deficits. Page 2969 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 371.70.20
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Postsec. |
Requires boards of trustees of state-assisted institutions of higher education to ensure that faculty members devote a proper and judicious part of their work week to the actual instruction of students. Specifies that total class credit hours of production per quarter per full-time faculty member is expected to meet the standards set forth in the budget data submitted by the chancellor of the board of regents.
Also specifies that the authority of government vested by law in the boards of trustees of state-assisted institutions of higher education must in fact be exercised by those boards. Specifies that administrative decisions about (1) the use of available resources, (2) organizational structure, (3) disciplinary procedure, (4) the operation and staffing of all auxiliary facilities, and (5) adminstrative personnel are the exclusive prerogative of boards of trustees. Requires any delegation of authority in other areas of responsibility to be accompanied by (1) appropriate standards of guidance concerning expected objectives in the exercise of of such delegated authority and (2) periodic review of the exercise of this delegated authority, to the end that public interest, as opposed to any institutional or special interest, is served.
Page 2957 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 371.30.10(C) and (D)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Postsec. |
Directs each state-assisted institution of higher education to demonstrate at least a 3% savings through internal efficiencies in each fiscal year. Requires institutions to identify savings to the chancellor of the board of regents, who must certify the amount of each institution's savings. Page 2969 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 371.70.10
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Section 371.20.95(C): Directs the chancellor, in consultation with representatives of state community colleges, to conduct a study on the use of "success points" in allocating appropriations to community colleges in FY 2011. Requires the study to identify "success points" in the academic career of community college students and recommend a method to fund achievement of the success points beginning in FY 2011. Requires that the study be completed by April 15, 2010, and directs the chancellor to use the results of the study to recommend changes in the determination of the distribution of community college allocations beginning in FY 2011. Requires the chancellor to report any such formula changes to the Controlling Board by August 30, 2010.
Section 371.20.80(D)(1): Requires 5% of the FY 2011 appropriation for state-supported community colleges, state community colleges and technical colleges to be allocated to colleges in proportion to their share of college student success factors. Specifies that for this purpose, "student success factors" must include all measurable student outcomes that contribute to student achievement as determined by the chancellor of the board of regents, based on the recommendation of the aforementioned consultation. Pages 2947-2948 and 2956 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 371.20.95(C) and 371.20.80(D)(1)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Postsec. |
[OF NOTE: Section 371.20.80(D)(5): Of specified postsecondary appropriation items, requires 5% of the FY 2010 appropriation and 10% of the FY 2011 appropriation for university main campuses to be reserved for support of associate, baccalaureate, master's and professional-level degree attainment. Requires degree attainment funding to be allocated to universities in proportion to each campus's share of the total statewide degrees granted, weighted by the cost of the degree programs. Specifies the count of degrees and degree costs the chancellor must use in calculating the subsidy entitlements for degree attainment at university main campuses. In calculating each campus's count of degrees, requires the chancellor to use the three-year average associate, baccalaureate, master's and professional degrees awarded for the three-year period beginning in the prior year. Requires that an additional weight be added to certain associate degrees and all bachelor degrees earned by a student eligible to receive Ohio need-based financial aid.]
Section 371.20.80(D)(6): Establishes method for determining each campus's state share of instruction base formula earnings.
Section 371.20.80(D)(7): Relates to the facility-based plant operations and maintenance (POM) subsidy.
Section 371.20.80(D)(8): Guarantees each campus, in FY 2010, 99%, and in FY 2011 98%, of its previous year's combined state share of instruction, access challenge, and success challenge amounts.
Section 371.20.80(D)(9): Requires that the state share of instruction earnings be reduced for each campus by the amount (if any) the campus's debt service charged exceeds that campus's capital component earnings.
Section 371.20.80(E): Allows adjustments to be made to the state share of instructional payments distributed by the chancellor to state-assisted colleges and universities for exceptional circumstances. Provides no adjustments may be made without the chancellor's recommendation and the approval of the Controlling Board.
Section 371.20.80(G): Requires the state share of instruction payments to institutions to be made in substantially equal payments during the fiscal year, unless otherwise determined by the director of budget and management. Pages 2949-2952 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 371.20.80(D)(5), (6), (7), (8), (9), Section 371.20.80(E), (G)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Postsec. |
Section 371.20.95(B): Directs the chancellor, in consultation with representatives of state universities, to conduct a study on the effectiveness and appropriateness of funding for doctoral programs through the doctoral set-aside as allocated in H.B. 1. Provides the study may examine alternative funding methodologies to improve the alignment between university doctoral programs and the goals of the strategic plan for the University System of Ohio. Requires that the study be completed by April 15, 2010. Authorizes the chancellor to use the results of the study to recomend changes in the determination of the distribution of the doctoral set-aside beginning in FY 2011. Requires the chancellor to report any such formula changes to the Controlling Board by August 30, 2010.
Section 371.20.80(D)(2): Requires up to 12.89% of the appropriation for university main campuses in the 2010 and 2011 fiscal years to be reserved for support of doctoral programs to implement the funding recommendations made by representatives of the universities (to be referred to as the "doctoral set-aside).
Requires 90% of the FY 2010 and 80% of the FY 2011 doctoral set-aside to be allocated to universities in proportion to their share of the total number of Doctoral I equivalent FTEs as calculated on an institutional basis, using a frame of reference specified in H.B. 1. Requires 5% of the FY 2010 and 10% of the FY 2011 doctoral set-aside to be allocated to universities in proportion to each campus's share of the total statewide doctoral degrees, weighted by the cost of the doctoral discipline. Requires the chancellor, in calculating each campus's doctoral degrees, to use the three-year average of doctoral degrees awarded for the three-year period ending in the prior year. Requires 2.5% of the FY 2010 and 5% of the FY 2011 doctoral set-aside to be allocated to universities in proportion to their share of research grant activity, using National Science Foundation data. Requires grant awards from the National Health Institute to be weighted at 50%. Requires 2.5% of the FY 2010 and 5% of the FY 2011 doctoral set-aside to be allocated to universities based on other quality measures that contribute to the advancement of the chancellor's strategic plan; requires the chancellor to identify these other quality measures in consultation with universities. Pages 2955-2956 and 2948-2949 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 371.20.95(B) and 371.20.80(D)(2)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Directs the boards of trustees of state-assisted institutions of higher education to restrain increases in in-state undergraduate instructional and general fees, and bars any state-assisted institution from increasing in-state undergraduate instructional and general fees more than 3.5% from the previous year in FY 2010 and 2011. Directs the chancellor, after making specified computations for FY 2011, to make reductions totalling $20,000,000 to the amounts computed for state-assisted university branch campuses, community and state community colleges, and technical colleges, and then to make additional reductions totaling $170,000,000 to the amounts computed for all campuses, made proportionately to the allocations originally computed for the three sectors of (1) university main campuses, (2) university branch campuses, and (3) community colleges, state community colleges and technical colleges. Requires that within each sector, each campus's allocation be reduced proportionately, but allows the chancellor, in consultation with representatives of state-assisted institutions of higher education, to establish a percentage below which no campus's allocation is to fall when compared with the campus's payment in the preceding year, and proportionally reduce the allocations to all other campuses to support that percentage. Pages 2953-2955 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 371.20.90
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Postsec. |
Establishes "University System of Ohio" as the collective group of all of the state institutions of higher education (as defined in division (A)(1) of section 3345.12, community college, state community college, university branch established under Chapter 3355, or technical college).
Page 1476 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3345.011
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Success--Completion--Completion Rates (Statistics) |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Postsec. |
Section 371.20.95 (A): In FY 2010, directs the chancellor of the board of regents, in consultation with representatives of state colleges and universities, to conduct a study to identify the socioeconomic, demographic, academic, personal and other factors that identify a student as being "at-risk" of academic failure, and recommend how these factors may be used to determine funding allocations after FY 2010. Requires the study to be completed by April 15, 2010. Authorizes the chancellor to use the results of the study to recommend additional weights to be used in determining the FY 2011 State Share of Instruction allocations. Requires the chancellor to report any such formula changes to the Controlling Board by August 30, 2010.
Page 2955 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 371.20.95(A)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Private Schools |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Section 3301.0711(K): Requires private high schools to administer the Ohio graduation tests (regardless of whether they accept voucher students. Participation on grade 3-8 state assessments for non-voucher private school students is still permissive, not mandatory.)
Section 3313.976: Makes administration of state assessments and reporting of such scores a condition of eligibility for a private school to participate in the Cleveland voucher program.
Section 3313.978(G): Directs the department to annually compile the assessment scores of Cleveland voucher students. Requires scores to be aggregated by district and by private school. Requires scores to be disaggregated by age, low-income status, race/ethnicity and gender, and by students participating in the voucher program for 3+ years, 2-3 years, and 1 year or less. Requires such data to be included in information provided to students. Also requires that the parent of each voucher student receive information comparing the student's performance on the state assessments with the average performance of similar students (as regards age, grade, race/ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic status) enrolled in the public school building the student would otherwise attend.
Section 3310.15: Requires the department to annually post on its Web site the assessment scores of EdChoice voucher students (eligible students are those in buildings declared in a state of "academic emergency" or "academic watch" in at least two of the three most recent ratings prior to the school year in which the scholarship was sought). Requires scores to be aggregated at the state, district, and nonpublic school level. Also requires performance data to be disaggregated by age, low-income status, race/ethnicity and gender, and by students participating in the voucher program for 3+ years, 2-3 years, and 1 year or less. Requires the department of education to provide this data to parents of students eligible to participate in the voucher program. Requires that the parent of each voucher student receive information comparing the student's performance on the state assessments with the average performance of similar students (as regards age, grade, race/ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic status) enrolled in the public school building the student would otherwise attend.
Pages 999 (Section 3301.0711(K)), 1129-1130 (Section 3310.15), 1209 (Section 3313.976), and 1213-1214 (Section 3313.978(G) of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.0711(K), 3310.15, 3313.976(11), 3313.978(G)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Public Involvement |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the executive director of the Ohio School Facilities Commission to survey classroom facilities projects financed by the commission and compile descriptions of how spaces within those facilities are used for activities, services and programs shared between schools and other public and private entities in their communities. Requires the executive director to identify and describe such spaces included in current or completed projects, and to recommend best practices for enhancing opportunities for including shared community spaces in future projects. Requires the executive director to submit the survey and recommendations to the commission by December 31, 2009.
Page 2979 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 385.40
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Year |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Directs the state superintendent, by December 31, 2010, to submit to the general assembly a report on the superintendent's findings and recommendations on extending the school year. Page 2839 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.70.23
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School Safety--Corporal Punishment |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
From DOE summary of H.B. 1: Prohibits corporal punishment in school districts, educational service centers, community schools (charter schools) and STEM schools. Pages 1389-1391 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.41
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Directs the executive director of the Ohio school facilities commission, at the state superintendent's request, to advise the superintendent of demands upon and other issues related to existing classroom facilities that may arise due to new operating requirements specified in the rules adopted under section 3306.25 of the Revised Code establishing expenditure and reporting standards for operating funds paid under Chapter 3306 of the Revised Code. Page 1345 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3318.312
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
From DOE summary of H.B. 1:
Section 3313.86: Creates new Section 3313.86. Requires school districts, community schools, STEM schools and chartered nonpublic schools to periodically review their policies and procedures to ensure (1) the safety of persons using a school from known hazards that pose an immediate risk to health or safety, and (2) compliance with federal health and safety laws and regulations applicable to schools.
Repeals Section 3313.473, 3314.15 and sections 3701.93 through 3701.936.
Section 3313.473: Directed the principal or chief administrator of public and nonpublic school to provide access to school premises during school operational hours for boards of health to conduct school health and safety network inspections. Also directed local boards of districts and educational service centers, and the chief administrator of each nonpublic school, to develop and submit a plan for abatement of hazardous conditions at the school.
Section 3314.15: Same provision as 3313.473, but applicable to community schools.
Section 3701.93: School safety and health - definitions.
Section 3701.931: Establishes the school health and safety network, under which each board of health was required to inspect each public and nonpublic school building and associated grounds at least once each year during school hours to identify conditions dangerous to public health and safety present in or on the building or grounds.
Section 3701.932: Requires the board of health to report the findings from every school inspection to specified stakeholders.
Section 3701.933: Directs local boards to submit to the board of health a written plan for abatement of the conditions determined to be hazardous to occupants, as identified in the report under Section 3701.932.
Section 3701.934: Directs the director of health to develop information specifying dangerous conditions and dangerous products, including products recalled by the manufacturer, that may be present in school buildings and associated grounds, and to distribute this information every quarter to local boards of health.
Section 3701.935: Directs the director of health to adopt rules establishing minimum standards and procedures for school inspections.
Section 3701.936: Provides that these provisions do not diminish a local board of health's authority to issue orders or take actions under specified sections of code.
Page 1207 and 2725 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Sections 3313.473, 3313.86, 3701.93 through 3701.936
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1: Establishes the Harmon Commission to designate, upon application, individual classrooms as creative learning environments. Provides that designation as a creative learning environment must be based on a determination that the classroom supports and emphasizes innovation in instruction methods and lesson plans and operates in accordance with state board-adopted guidelines. Directs the state board to adopt guidelines for the commission use in reviewing applications for creative learning environments. Requires the department to provide staff to assist the commission in carrying out its duties. Provides that, beginning in July 2010 (FY 2011) a school with a classroom designated a creative learning envirnment may qualify for a grant or subsidy awarded by the commission, to the extent the commission determines that sufficient funds are available, instead of providing for a fixed pilot subsidy. (The amendment does not provide state funding for the commission's operation or for payments to districts and schools for innovative classrooms.) Allows districts and community schools to submit an unlimited number of applications for first-time designation of individual classrooms from January to April 14, 2010, and to submit one application annually for first-time designation of an individual classroom during each subsequent fiscal year. Provides that a classroom's first-time designation as a creative learning environment is valid for one fiscal year. Allows a district or community school to apply for renewal of a designation, which must be granted for two fiscal years if the commission finds that the classroom continues to meet the state board-adopted guidelines. Establishes provisions for subsequent renewal or repeal of a classroom's designation as a create learning environment. Requires a district or community school with a classroom designated a creative learning environment to submit periodic progress reports on the operation and performance of the classroom to the department of education. Permits the department of education to accept gifts, devises or bequests of money, lands, or other properties for the Harmon Commission.
Specifies that for one or more community school classrooms to be designated a creative learning environment, a community school must enter into a memorandum of understanding, approved by the department of education, with one or more school districts that specifies a collaborative agreement to share programming and resources to promote successful academic achievement for students and academic and fiscal efficiencies.
Pages 1114-1117 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.50, 3306.51, 3306.52, 3306.53, 3306.54, 3306.55, 3306.56, 3306.57 and 3306.58
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Section 3306.21: Provides that nothing shall be construed to limit the authority of a district, charter school or STEM school to contract with an educational service center for the provision of any services calculated and paid for under the school funding formula.
Section 3306.22: Provides that nothing shall be construed to prohibit a district from using funds from the school funding formula to establish, operate or participate in an agreement with one or more other districts for joint or cooperative establishment and operation of any educational program, as permitted by Section 3313.842.
Page 1101 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.21 and 3306.22
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Repeals Section 3319.0810, which allowed local boards to terminate student transportation staff positions for reasons of economy and efficiency if the board entered into a contract with an independent agent to provide transportation services. Page 2725 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.0810
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Service-Learning |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1: Revises the current law permitting school districts to include community service education within their educational programs by: (1) Adding permissive authority for community and STEM schools to include community service education in their educational programs, (2) Requiring the state superintendent to develop guidelines for a scoring rubric for school officials to use to evaluate community service projects, (3) Requiring the state superintendent to adopt rules for granting a student special certification, special recognition on a diploma, or special notification in the student's record upon successful completion of an approved community service project. Requires school officials to use a state superintendent-developed rubric to determine whether a community service project warrants recognition on a student's diploma.
Pages 1167-1170 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3313.605
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Special Education--Finance |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Authorizes two or more school boards in a county with a population greater than 1,200,000 to create a regional student education district (special taxing district) to fund special education and behavioral health services for students and their immediate families.
Pages 1202-1205 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3313.83
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
From DOE summary of H.B. 1:
Requires school districts that owe tuition for a regular education student housed in a residential facility to pay an amount determined by a formula approved by ODE, if the student (1) resides in a facility that is not a foster home or a facility maintained by the DYS and (2) receives educational services at the facility from a school district under contract with the facility to provide those services. Requires that the formula be designed to calculate a per diem cost for the educational services provided to the child and to reflect the actual costs incurred in providing the services.
Pages 1183-1194 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary document: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3313.64
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
From DOE summary of H.B. 1: Modifies existing procedural guidelines established for the department of education to protect the rights of a child whenever the parents of a child are not known or cannot be found, or a child is a ward of the state, specifying that the surrogate parent be assigned by the school district or other educational agency responsible for educating the child or by the court with jurisdiction over the child's custody. Pages 1407-1411 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3323.05
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Partially derived from the DOE summary of H.B. 1: Ratifies the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Establishes the state Council on Educational Opportunity for Military Children within the department of education to oversee and provide coordination for the state's participation in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Directs the governor to appoint a compact commissioner who is responsible for administering the state's participation in the compact. Directs the aforementioned state council established by the bill to appoint a military family education liaison to assist families and the state in implementing the Compact. Requires that the annual fee for participation in the Compact be divided evenly between the department of education and the department of veterans services.
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Pages 1024-1044 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.60, 3301.61, 3301.62, 3301.63 and 3301.64
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Standards |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Section 3301.079: Directs the state board of education, by June 30, 2010 and at least once every five years thereafter, to adopt statewide K-12 academic standards in English language arts, math, science and social studies, with emphasis on coherence, focus and rigor. [OF NOTE: Defines "coherence", "focus" and "rigor". Requires that the standards specify:
(1) The content and skills at each grade level that will allow students to be prepared for postsecondary instruction and the workplace for success in the 21st century
(2) The development of skill sets as they relate to creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, and communication and collaboration
(3) The development of skill sets that promote information, media and technological literacy
(4) The development of skill sets that promote personal management, productivity and accountability, and leadership and responsibility
(5) Interdisciplinary, project-based, real-world learning opportunities.]
Specifies that after completing the English language arts, math, science and social studies standards, the state board must, by March 31, 2011, adopt a model curriculum aligned with the revised standards for English language arts, math, science and social studies. [OF NOTE: Defines "vertical articulation". Requires that the model curriculum demonstrate vertical articulation and emphasize coherence, focus and rigor.] Also requires the state board, after adopting standards for English, math, science and social studies, adopt K-12 standards and model curricula in computer literacy, financial literacy and entrepreneurship, fine arts and foreign language. Requires that the standards meet the aforementioned requirements for the standards in English language arts, math, science and social studies. Repeals Section 3301.0718(A), which directed the state board to adopt standards and model curricula for instruction in computer literacy in grades 3-12 and in fine arts and foreign languages for grades K-12.
Existing provisions require the state board to inform districts when academic standards and model curricula have been completed for any subject area required by Section 3301.079. New provision additionally requires that all community schools and STEM schools be notified of revised standards and model curricula, and that nonpublic schools required to administer state assessments be notified when academic standards have been completed for any subject area required by Section 3301.079. Existing provision directs the department of education to provide technical assistance to any district in implementing the model curriculum; new provision extends the availability of such technical assistance to community schools and STEM schools.
[OF NOTE: Requires the state superintendent, not less than 45 days before the adoption of the new (1) state standards in English, math, science and social studies and (2) model curriculum in English, math, science and social studies, to present the standards or model curricula to the house and senate education committees.]
Pages 986-989 (Section 3301.079) and 1015 (Section 3301.0718(A)) of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.079, 3301.0718(A)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Creates a committee to study publicly funded child care services, including the Early Learning Initiative as re-established by H.B. 1. Requires that the study include the following:
(1) The effects of changing the definitions of full-time and part-time care on:
(a) Children, families and providers of care, including the effects on the quality of care
(b) Number of children served and the availability/accessibility of subsidized care to caregivers with full- and part-time jobs
(c) Availability of full- and part-time care in areas with a high incidence of poverty
(d) Private pay rates
(e) Closure of centeres and center programs
(f) Loss of jobs in the child care industry.
(2) The effects of changes to the Early Learning Initiative on families and children, including:
(a) Distribution and use of program slots across the state
(b) Effect of mandatory participation in the voluntary child day-care center quality-rating program as described in Section 5104.30 on program quality
(c) Outcomes in terms of school readiness and other related factors for participating children.
Directs the committee to prepare a report of its findings by June 30, 2010 and to provide a copy of the report to the governor, speaker of the house and president of the senate, at which time the committee will cease to exist. Pages 2898-2899 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 309.40.70
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
STEM |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Postsec. |
Section 3333.62: Amends selection criteria for postsecondary institutions' funding proposals for the choose Ohio first scholarship program, which supports undergraduate and/or graduate education for Ohio residents in STEM fields, medicine and STEM education (from http://regents.ohio.gov/news/press_releases/2007/RFP092607.pdf). New provision permits the chancellor to evaluate the merit of a proposal based on the extent to which the proposal will increase the number of women participating in the choose Ohio first scholarship program.
Section 3333.66: Existing law provides that choose Ohio first scholarships must be at least $1,500 or more than half of the highest in-state undergraduate instructional and general fees charged by all state universities. New provision permits the chancellor of the board of regents to authorize a postsecondary institution to award a choose Ohio first scholarship in an amount greater than one-half of the highest in-state undergraduate instructional and general fees charged by all state universities to either of the following: (a) Any undergraduate student who qualifies for a scholarship and is enrolled in a program leading to a teaching profession in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or medicine; (b) Any graduate student who qualifies for a scholarship, if any initiatives selected for awards aim to recruit Ohio residents enrolled in postsecondary institution in other states or other countries to return to Ohio and enroll as graduate students in STEM or STEM education fields or medicine or medicine education fields.
Pages 1458-1460 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3333.62, 3333.66
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Defines "extracurricular activity". Requires districts to provide students with up to four days of excused absence per school year for a student absence for the sole purpose of traveling out of state to participate in an enrichment activity approved by the local board of education or an extracurricular activity. Provides districts must require any such student to complete any classroom assignments that the student misses because of the absence. Specifies that if a student will be absent for four or more days due to an enrichment or extracurricular activity, a classroom teacher employed by the school district must accompany the
student to provide instructional assistance. Page 1406 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3321.041
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Partially from DOE summary of H.B. 1: Specifies that if a community school closes, the chief administrative officer must transmit all educational records to the student's district of residence within seven business days of the school's closing. Provides that failure to transmit educational records under such circumstances is a third-degree misdemeanor.
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Pages 1266 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3314.44
Source: www.ode.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Partly from DOE summary of H.B. 1: Directs the superintendent of public instruction, jointly with the chancellor of the board of regents, to establish metrics and courses of study for postsecondary institutions that prepare educators and other school personnel, and to provide for inspection of those institutions. Transfers responsibility for approving teacher preparation programs from the state board to the chancellor of the board of regents, and expands the requirement to include approval of preparation programs for other school personnel. Directs the chancellor and the state superintendent to jointly (1) establish metrics and educator preparation programs for the preparation of educators and other school personnel, and (2) provide for the inspection of the institutions. Requires that the metrics and educator preparation programs be aligned with the standards and qualifications for educator licenses adopted by the state board by statute and the requirements of the Ohio teacher residency program established under section 3319.223. Also requires the metrics and educator preparation programs to ensure that educators and other school personnel are adequately prepared to use the value-added progress dimension prescribed by section 3302.021.
Directs the chancellor to approve postsecondary institutions that prepare teachers and other school personnel that maintain satisfactory training procedures and records of performance, as determined by the chancellor. Specifies that if the jointly established metrics require a teacher preparation program to to meet an independent accreditation organization's standards, the chancellor must allow institutions to satisfy the standards of either the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) or the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC). Provides the jointly approved metrics and educator preparation programs may require institutions, as a condition of approval, to to make changes to the curricula of its preparation programs for educators and other school personnel. Requires institutions to allocate funds from existing appropriations to make curricular changes. Directs the chancellor to notify the state board of the metrics and educator preparation programs and approved postsecondary institutions. Directs the state board to publish the metrics, educator preparation programs, and approved institutions with the standards and qualifications for each type of educator license.
Transfers responsibility for reporting on the quality of teacher preparation institutions from the state board of education to the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents, in collaboration with the state board of education.
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Pages 1017-1018, 1020-1021, 1438-1440 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.12, 3301.42, 3333.048 and 3333.048
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Repeals former 3319.222, which related to the carry-over of certain provisions related to the state board's authority for teacher certification. New 3319.222 directs the state board to continue to accept applications for new, and renewal and upgrade of, temporary, associate, provisional and professional educator licenses, alternative educator licenses, one-year conditional teaching permits and school nurse licenses through December 31, 2010, in the same manner that these were issued before the provisions of House Bill 1 went into effect. Provides that professional teacher's certificates, temporary, associate, provisional, or professional educator licenses, alternative educator licenses and one-year conditional teaching permits are to be valid for the grades and subject areas for which they were issued, until the certificate, permit or license expires (similar provision for school nurse licenses). Pages 1376-1377 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.222
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends provisions related to the two-year provisional educator license for teaching science, technology, engineering or math in grades 6-12 in a STEM school. Adds meeting all other requirements for a professional educator license to the requirements a provisional educator license-holder in a STEM school must meet to be issued a professional educator license. Pages 1381-1383 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.28
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Existing law allows an individual with an alternative educator license to teach in grades 7-12. New provision allows individual holding "alternative resident educator license" to teach grades 4-12. Directs the state superintendent and the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents to jointly develop an intensive pedagogical training institute to provide instruction in the principles and practices of teaching for individuals seeking an alternative resident educator license. Requires that the instruction cover such topics as student development and learning, pupil assessment procedures, curriculum development, classroom management and teaching methodology. Replaces requirement that alternative licensure candidates complete "three semester hours or the equivalent of college coursework in the developmental characteristics of adolescent
youths and three semester hours or the equivalent in teaching methods" with requirement that all candidates complete the pedagogical training institute. Increases duration of alternative license from two to four years, (with exceptions made on a case-by-case basis to allow individuals to complete the Ohio teacher residency program), and provides for award of a professional educator license after completing, among other criteria, four years of teaching under the alternative license (prior provision called for award after two years of teaching). Adds to conditions that alternative license-holders must meet to maintain license; specifies that alternative license-holders participate in the Ohio teacher residency program and take an assessment of professional knowledge in the second year of teaching under the license. Eliminates time specification that satisfactory progress in taking and successfully completing at least 12 additional semester hours of college coursework in pedagogy and classroom management subjects be demonstrated in two years.
Section 105.01: Repeals 3319.261, which allowed an individual who otherwise qualified for an alternative educator license as an intervention specialist to be issued such license without passing a specified exam, under certain conditions. Repeals 3319.302, which allowed the state board to issue a one-year conditional teaching permit to teach grades 7-12 to any applicant who met specified conditions. Repeals 3319.304, which allowed the state board to issue a one-year conditional teaching permit in the area of intervention specialist to any applicant who met specified conditions.
Page 1380-1381 and 2725 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.26, 3319.261, 3319.302 and 3319.304
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds. |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends the membership of the educator standards board (ESB). Specifies that board membership must reflect the diversity of the state in terms of gender, race, ethnic background and geographic distribution. Among other changes, adds to the board an individual employed as a district treasurer or business manager, and a parent of a student currently enrolled in a school run by a school district. Requires that standards board-developed standards for what teachers and principals should know and be able to do must be aligned with the operating standards adopted under division (D)(3) of section 3301.07. Requires that the standards for teachers reflect the standards under section 3301.079 (including standards on collaborative learning environments and interdisciplinary, project-based, real-world learning and differentiated instruction) and the Ohio leadership framework. Requires such standards to ensure that teachers have sufficient knowledge to enable them to provide learning opportunities for all children to succeed. Requires recommended teacher standards to be submitted to the state board by September 2010.
Requires the ESB to develop standards for school district superintendents that reflect what superintendents are expected to know and be able to do at all stages of their careers. Requires that the standards reflect knowledge of systems theory and effective management principles and be aligned with the buckeye association of school administrators standards and the operating standards developed under division (D)(3) of section 3301.07. Similarly requires the ESB to develop standards for school district treasurers and business managers that reflect what these professionals should know and be able to do at all stages of their careers. Requires that these standards reflect knowledge of systems theory and effective management principles and be aligned with the association of school business officials international standards and the operating standards developed under division (D)(3) of section 3301.07 of the Revised Code. Requires standards to ensure that principals, superintendents, school treasurers and school business managers have sufficient knowledge to provide principled, collaborative, foresighted and data-based leadership that will provide learning opportunities for all children to succeed.
Additionally directs the ESB to investigate and make recommendations for the creation, expansion and implementation of building and district leadership academies. Provides that the state superintendent, the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents, or the education standards board itself may request that the educator standards board update, review or reconsider any standards it has developed.
Requires that standards for educator professional development developed by the ESB include standards for the inclusion of local professional development committees established under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code in the planning and design of professional development. Requires the ESB to develop criteria to allow a candidate for a lead professional educator license who is not national board-certified must meet to be considered a lead teacher under Section 3319.22(B)(4)(d). Requires the ESB to develop model teacher and principal evaluation instruments and processes, and for such models to incorporate the ESB-developed standards for teachers. Directs the ESB to develop a method of measuring the academic improvement of individual students over a one-year period and to make recommendations for incorporating the measurement as one of multiple evaluation criteria into (1) Eligibility for a professional educator license, senior professional educator license, lead professional educator license, or principal license; (2) The Ohio teacher residency program; (3) The aforementioned ESB-developed model teacher and principal evaluation instruments and processes.
Pages 1393-1400 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.60, 3319.61
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Adopted 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes the "Health Care Fund" as a separate account within the Employers' Trust Fund. Provides that fund assets may be used only for the payment of health care benefits, qualified medical expenses, dental and vision coverage, if applicable, and to reimburse the Medicare Part B premiums paid by eligible benefit recipients. Provides that assets in the Health Care Fund may not be used for retirement, disability, or survivor benefits, or for any other purpose for which the other funds of the system are used. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3307/1/11/3307$1-11-12_FF_N_RU_20090706_0852.pdf
Title: OAC 3307:1-11-12
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Adopted 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides a one-time chance for a member's spouse's enrollment in the School Employees' Retirement System's health care coverage to individuals whose coverage was involuntary terminated under another
group plan, medicare advantage plan, or medicare part D only plan. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3309/0/1/3309-1-35_FF_A_RU_20090730_1320.pdf
Title: OAC 3309-1-35
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
By December 31, 2010, directs the department of education, in consultation with the educator standards board, to develop a model peer assistance and review program, and to develop recommendations to expand the use of peer assistance and review programs throughout the state. Requires the department, in developing the model program, to review existing peer assistance and review programs in the state and consult with districts about the operation of those programs. Requires the model program to include:
(1) Releasing experienced classroom teachers from instructional duties for up to 3 years to focus full-time on mentoring and evaluating new and underperforming veteran teachers through classroom observations and follow-up meetings
(2) Professional development for new and underperforming teachers targeted at areas of instructional weakness
(3) A committee comprised of representatives of teachers and the employer to review teacher evaluations and make recommendations regarding teachers' continued employment.
Requires recommendations to include:
(1) Identification of barriers to expansion of peer assistance and review programs, including financial constraints, labor-management relationships, and barriers unique to small districts
(2) Legislative changes that would eliminate barriers to expansion of programs
(3) Incentives to increase participation in the programs.
Requires the department to provide copies of its model program and recommendations to the governor and specified legislative leaders. Also requires the department to make the model program and recommendations available to districts and to post them to the department Web site.
Pages 2840-2841 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.70.50
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Directs the state superintendent and the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents to jointly establish the Ohio teacher residency program by January 2011. Provides that the residency program is a four-year entry-level program for classroom teachers that includes mentoring by teachers who hold a lead professional educator license, counseling to ensure that program participants receive needed professional development, and measures of appropriate progression through the program. Requires that the program be aligned with the standards for teachers adopted by the state board of education under section 3319.61and with best practices identified by the state superintendent. Requires each person holding a resident educator license or alternative resident educator license to participate in the teacher residency program, and establishes successful completion of the program as a requirement to qualify for a professional educator license.
Page 1377 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.223
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Section 3333.39: Directs the chancellor of the board of regents and the state superintendent to establish and administer the teach Ohio program to encourage residents to consider teaching as a career. Requires that the program include all of the following:
(1) A statewide program administered by a nonprofit corporation that has been in existence for at least 15 years with demonstrated results in encouraging economically disadvantaged high school students to enter the teaching profession
(2) The teaching fellows program
(3) The Ohio teacher residency program
(4) Alternative licensure procedures established under section 3319.26.
(5) Any other program as identified by the chancellor and superintendent.
Section 3333.391: Defines a "qualifying school" as a hard-to-staff school or a school with a performance rating of "academic watch" or "academic emergency" at the time the recipient is hired by the district. If the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents determines that sufficient funds are available from general revenue fund appropriations made to the board of regents or to the chancellor, permits the chancellor and the state superintendent to jointly develop a plan for the Ohio teaching fellows program to promote and encourage high school seniors to enter and remain in the teaching profession. Provides the chancellor is to administer the program, which will provide undergraduate scholarships for up to four years to students who commit to teaching in a qualifying school for at least four years after graduating from a teacher training program from a postsecondary institution in the state. Directs the chancellor to develop a competitive process for awarding teaching fellows scholarships; requires that the process give additional consideration to anyone who has participated in the teach Ohio program; anyone who plans to teach special needs students; or anyone who plans to teach in science, technology, engineering or math.
Section 3333.392: Establishes provisions for repayment of the scholarship amount or termination of the scholarship under certain conditions.
Pages 1454- of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3333.39, 3333.391 and 3333.392
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
From the DOE summary of H.B. 1:
Makes regular classroom teachers who become licensed for the first time on or after January 1, 2011, eligible for a continuing contract (tenure) after seven years of holding an educator license.
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Pages 1355-1357 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.08
Source: www.ode.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
From DOE summary of H.B. 1: Eliminates "gross inefficiency or immorality" and "willful and persistent violations of reasonable regulations of the board of education" as statutory grounds for termination of a school district teacher employment contract. Retains "good and just cause" as statutory grounds for termination of a school district teacher employment contract. Specifies that the bill's changes to the grounds for termination of a teacher's contract prevail over any conflicting collective bargaining agreement entered into after the provision's effective date. Repeals current provision that limits referees who hear termination cases of licensed educators to hearing no more than two cases per school year.
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Pages 1367-1370 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3319.16 and 3319.161
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Technology |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
By January 2010, directs the eTech Ohio commission to develop and implement a plan to create an aligned educational technology system that spans preschool to postsecondary education (P-20). Directs the commission to consult with the state board of education in the development and modification of the state technology plan. Directs the eTech Ohio commission to develop and implement an interactive distance learning pilot project to provide participating high schools each school year with access to at least three interactive distance learning courses free of charge. Provides such courses must include two Advanced Placement courses and one foreign language course. Provides duties of the commission, which include, among others:
(1) Providing the funds for schools to purchase video conferencing telecommunications equipment and connectivity devices, as necessary, to allow schools to participate in the pilot project
(2) Assisting schools in arranging for the purchase and installation of telecommunications equipment and connectivity devices, as necessary, to schools to participate in the pilot project
(3) Paying, for up to one school year, the cost of upgrading internet service for schools with Internet connections slower than a speed specified in state policy
(4) Offering training in the use of the telecommunications equipment necessary to participate in the pilot project.
Directs the department of education, in consultation with the chancellor of the board of regents, to select courses to be offered by the pilot project and to develop the standards for the curriculum of each course selected. Directs the commission and department to jointly select the teachers to develop and teach the courses offered by the pilot project, and directs the commission, department and the chancellor to jointly notify schools of and promote participation in the pilot project. Not later than December 31, 2010, directs the state superintendent, chancellor and the commission to submit to the governor and the general assembly a formative evaluation of the implementation and results of and legislative recommendations for changes in the pilot project.
Section 265.30.83: Establishes parameters for the department of education and eTech Ohio Commission in administering the pilot program, including schools and districts to which the commission must give priority in awarding grants. Requires 25% of any grant award to be used for professional development, which must include at least one component of training in the classroom, plus any training the commission deems necessary to participate in the program. Provides that any student, teacher or employee of a school that does not receive a pilot program grant may participate in the interactive distance learning pilot project, as logn as such participation does not impose an additional cost to the state or diminish the quality of project outcomes for those entities awarded grants, and aligns with federal guidelines.
Pages 1496-1497 and 2819-2821 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3353.09, 3353.20, and 265.30.83
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Technology--Funding Issues |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
From DOE summary of H.B. 1:
Eliminates current law that permits the department to contract with an independent for-profit or nonprofit entity to provide information on Ohio government through the Ohio Education Computer Network (OECN) to school district libraries to assist teachers in social studies course instruction and support student research projects and, instead permits the department to approve and administer funding for educational technology technical support, maintenance, consulting, and group purchasing services for information technology centers (ITCs), school districts, ESCs, and other entities and to deliver to schools programs operated by the InfOhio Network and OECN Management Council.
Specifies that ITCs are not required to have operating reserve accounts or funds or minimum cash balances relative to their operating funding. (A rule of the State Board requires all ITCs to maintain a minimum cash balance equivalent to the higher of an average of thirty days' expenditures for the previous twelve month period or anticipated expenditures for the next sixty days.)
DOE summary document: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Pages 984-986 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.075 and 3301.076
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Adopted 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Rescinds and adopts new rules relating to school building and district improvement planning, parent notification and intervention. Requires districts and schools identified for improvement to be categorized as low support, medium support or high support based upon the aggregate percentage of students that do
not meet adequate yearly progress in reading and math. Establishes differentiated required actions for districts and buildings that have been identified as low, medium or high support. Establishes notification requirements for parents of students in low, medium and high support schools and districts. Adds that, in the case of a school or district that has failed to comply with specified accountability provisions, the department may withhold up to 10% of the school or district's Title I funds, and up to 5% of the school or district's annual foundation payment. Specifies funds may be withheld through the end of the current fiscal year or six months, whichever is longer, and may continue to be withheld each year until the school or district demonstrates compliance. Provides the the state superintendent of public instruction may require that districts and buildings provide documentation related to the implementation of the requirements of sections 3302.04 and 3302.041 of the Revised Code, including parent notifications and communications. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/56/3301-56-01_PH_FF_N_RU_20090615_1020.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-13-01, -02, -37-01 thru -12, -56-01
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Adopted 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Clarifies circumstances under which a student may be excused from taking a state test required at the student's grade level. Clarifies that a student in grades 3-8 who was retained in the same grade level from one school year to the next school year, must take all of the Ohio achievement tests for the grade level in which the student currently is enrolled, regardless of any score previously received by a student on any such test during a prior school year. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/13/3301-13-02_PH_FF_A_RU_20090615_1020.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-13-02
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
P-3 |
Adopted 06/2009 |
P-12 |
-01: Adds or amends definitions related to early learning programs, including of "alignment," "curriculum," "early learning program guidelines," "group size". http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/37/3301-37-01_PH_FF_A_RU_20090615_1020.pdf
-02: Identifies violations that constitute "serious risk" violations of a license due to the great risk of harm to children. Provides that any serious risk violation may result in prohibition of the issuance of a license, revocation or non-renewal of a license to operate a preschool program. Requires any entity with serious risk violations to provide documentation of correction to the department within 30 days of the entity's receipt of notification of the violation. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/37/3301-37-02_PH_FF_A_RU_20090615_1020.pdf
-03: Amends napping provisions. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/37/3301-37-03_PH_FF_A_RU_20090615_1020.pdf
-04: Adds provisions requiring 3 references for all staff members, including the director to be kept on file, and for all staff and volunteers to annually sign a non-guilty/non-conviction statement. Identifies each program director's obligations as regards numerous areas, including health and safety, student records, and supervision and evaluation of staff. Adds to and amends types of credential an individual may have to be eligible to serve as a director of a preschool program or preschool special education program. Amends head teacher and substitute teacher requirements. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/37/3301-37-04_PH_FF_A_RU_20090615_1020.pdf
-05: Makes adjustments to criteria that preschool facilities must meet. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/37/3301-37-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20090615_1020.pdf
-06: Makes minor adjustments to equipment and supplies requirements. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/37/3301-37-06_PH_FF_A_RU_20090615_1020.pdf
-07: Makes minor adjustments to preschool program policies and procedures. Requires programs funded through the department of education to conduct health and developmental screening. Amends provisions related to a staff member being required to complete a child abuse identification training. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/37/3301-37-07_PH_FF_A_RU_20090615_1020.pdf
-08: Adds provision that a preschool child with a disability shall not be excluded from the program for lack of a medical statement until the team responsible for the individualized education plan (IEP) reconvenes. Specifies that the the medical statement must be provided by a physician, physician's assistant, clinical nurse specialist or certified nurse. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/37/3301-37-08_PH_FF_A_RU_20090615_1020.pdf
-10: Specifies that behavior management/discipline policies and procedures must ensure the safety, physical and emotional well-being of all individuals on the premises. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/37/3301-37-10_PH_FF_A_RU_20090615_1020.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-37-01 through -12
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Adopted 06/2009 |
Postsec. |
Revises rules relating to student residency for state subsidy and tuition surcharge purposes. Includes in the definition of residents (for purposes of determining tuition payment classification) veterans, their spouses and dependents who meet specified criteria. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3333/0/1/3333-1-10_PH_FF_A_RU_20090622_0900.pdf
Title: OAC 3333-1-10
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Adopted 06/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Amends rules regarding career colleges and schools. Replaces all references to the state board of "proprietary school registration" to state board of "career colleges and schools."
Highlights:
3332-1-04.5: Authorizes the state board of career colleges and schools to suspend, revoke or refuse to issue or renew a certificate of registration or program
authorization or to impose a penalty for failure to maintain or conform to any additional required state program approval, certification or licensing requirements beyond those enumerated in the rule. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3332/0/1/3332-1-04$5_PH_FF_A_RU_20090603_0959.pdf
3332-1-12.1: Bars a school from claiming accreditation from an accrediting agency through any of its advertising or promotional material, or during the solicitation process if the accrediting agency is not currently recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3332/0/1/3332-1-12$1_PH_FF_A_RU_20090603_0959.pdf
3332-1-14: Provides career colleges and schools may be required to administer student surveys on behalf of the board in order to determine student satisfaction. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3332/0/1/3332-1-14_PH_FF_A_RU_20090603_0959.pdf
3332-1-18: Eliminates provision in complaints rule that the board will make every attempt to preserve the anonymity of the complainant if so requested. Authorizes the executive director, on behalf of the board, to enter into consent agreements or corrective action plans with registered schools in order to ensure that any potential violations have been eliminated and to ensure that any potential violations will not occur in the future. Provides that all consent agreements and corrective action plans entered into by the board are considered public records. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3332/0/1/3332-1-18_PH_FF_A_RU_20090603_0959.pdf
Title: OAC 3332-1-01, -02, -04.5, -11, -12.1, -14, -18 thru -22, -22.1
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Adopted 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes criteria for career-based intervention (CBI) programs, which provides grade 7-12 students who are disadvantaged (either academically, economically or both) with classroom instruction, academic intervention and instruction, and work-based learning experiences. Requires all programs to be approved by the department of education. Requires all districts receiving weighted funding for CBI programs to report data on student transitions to next grade level, attendance, behavior, graduation/dropout, transition rates to a high school career-technical education workforce development program, and pass rates on required state assessments.
3301-61-05: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/61/3301-61-05_PH_FF_N_RU_20090513_1242.pdf
3301-61-18: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/61/3301-61-18_PH_WDP_N_RU_20090304_0820.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-61-05 and -18
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends criteria for secondary workforce development (career/technical education) programs. Requires all workforce development programs to be approved by the state department of education. Specifies that technical and academic course offerings in state-approved programs/pathways must:
(1) Address state technical content standards, including all competencies identified by business and industry as essential; and/or accrediting association and/or licensing agency standards where applicable.
(2) Reinforce state-level academic content standards in English, math, science and social studies.
(3) Provide multiple measures to assess student attainment of academic and technical content standards, including state board-approved technical assessments and, where applicable, assessments for state-recognized national credentialing/certifications and accrediting association and/or licensing agency examinations.
(4) Meet state and federal requirements related to meeting performance expectations for special populations, including preparation for careers in industry sectors requiring technical expertise.
(5) Identify postsecondary and employment options.
Directs workforce development advisory committees reflecting career fields and authorized by local boards of education to engage business/industry and postsecondary representatives and use input from professional associations, labor, government and the community. Requires advisory committees to identify new and emerging careers; advise current programs on curriculum, assessment, work-based learning, facilities and equipment; and engage educators to improve and expand programs. Specifies that facilities and equipment must support instruction of the technical and academic content standards and reflect current and emerging technology in the career field. Requires all districts receiving weighted funding to annually report performance data that includes student academic attainment in math and English language arts, technical skill attainment, placement, graduation rates, postsecondary credit, and, if available, industry certificate or license. Requires data to be reviewed as part of the program renewal processes.
--Criteria for secondary workforce development programs (3301-61-03): http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/61/3301-61-03_PH_FF_A_RU_20090513_1242.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-61-03
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Curriculum--Family Living Education |
Adopted 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Sets criteria for family and consumer sciences programs in grades 7-12. Requires all such programs to be approved by the department of education. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/61/3301-61-04_PH_FF_N_RU_20090513_1242.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-61-04
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Adopted 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends rules related to K-12 career development programs. Adds that middle school career exploration activities must enable students to develop a
personalized learning plan using either the Ohio career information system, a career planning system provider or a paper version that outlines high school coursework related to potential career goals. Adds that at the high school level, career planning must incldue a revision of the personalized learning plan. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/68/3301-68-01_PH_FF_A_RU_20090513_1242.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-68-01
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to the applicability of rules, delegation, definitions, and confidentiality of investigative records. Relates to the notice of opportunity for hearing; failure to request, filing, notice of date, time and place of hearings. Relates to the authority and duties of hearing officers, continuance of a hearing, subpoenas, and witnesses. Relates to reports and recommendations, factors for the state board to consider, suspension and revocation. Relates to consent agreements, application after disciplinary action, automatic revocation or denial, and action after appeal of conviction. Authorizes the state superintendent to automatically revoke or deny a teacher's license for any of the grounds enumerated in code section 3319.31, or to issue a written order reinstating licensure.
Title: OAC 3301-73-01 thru -06, -08 thru -10, -13, -16, -20 thru -26
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--District |
Adopted 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends rules regarding operation of the education management information system. Requires the state superintendent to make available reports that summarize district and statewide expenditures by function area, total expenditure data, per pupil expenditure data, and the functional expenditures as a percentage of all expenditures. Provides that at the state superintendent's discretion, reports may be distributed that summarize expenditure data by any other useful categorization to provide meaningful measures of district operational efficiencies. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/19/3301-19-03_PH_FF_A_RU_20090415_0808.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-19-03
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Adopted 04/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Repeals and replaces rules governing the approval of teacher preparation programs at 2-year colleges, including requirements related to organization, curriculum and instruction, faculty, student services, facilities, financial support and evaluation. Also repeals and replaces rules on the approval of teacher preparation programs at 2- and 4-year institutions and evaluation of teacher preparation programs at 2-year colleges.
--Requirements two-year institutions (3301-21-05): http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/21/3301-21-05_PH_FF_N_RU_20090415_0808.pdf
--Approval of teacher preparation programs at 2- or 4-year institutions (3301-21-06): http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/21/3301-21-06_PH_FF_N_RU_20090415_0808.pdf
--Evaluation of 2-year colleges' teacher preparation programs (3301-21-07): http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/21/3301-21-07_PH_FF_N_RU_20090415_0808.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-21-05, -06, -07
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Adopted 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the governing board of any educational service center or the administrative authority of any chartered nonpublic school to submit an application for exemption from state policies in order to implement a proposed innovative education pilot program. Adds that an application requesting exemptions in order to provide professional development for educators may be granted for research-based high quality professional development activities as defined by standards for professional development adopted by the state board of education. Clarifies language on timeline and procedures for approval of applications. Adds that applications to continue approved programs are not considered complete until an annual evaluation report is completed and submitted to the department. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/46/3301-46-01_PH_FF_A_RU_20090313_1156.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-46-01
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
Adopted 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the governing board of any educational service center, or the administrative authority of any chartered nonpublic school to submit an application to the state board for an exemption from specific statutes and/or rules in order to implement a proposed innovative education pilot program (previous rule allowed only school districts to submit a waiver application). Adds provision that an application requesting exemptions in order to provide professional development for educators may be granted for research-based high quality professional development activities as defined by state-board adopted professional development standards, which are available on the department's website, www.ode.state.oh.us. Requires the department to approve or disapprove each application within 45 days of receipt.
Provides a district identified as deficient or implementing a corrective action plan is eligible for a waiver. Provides an application to continue a program permitted by an exemption is not complete until an annual evaluation report is completed and submitted to the department. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/46/3301-46-01_PH_FF_A_RU_20090313_1156.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-46-01
Source: www.lexis.com |
Special Education |
Adopted 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Rescinds and re-establishes rules regarding the Autism Scholarship Program. Relates to application and eligibility; responsibilities of a school district of residence; and application and participation of providers.
3301-103-01 Definitions: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/103/3301-103-01_PH_FF_N_RU_20090313_1154.pdf
3301-103-02 Autism scholarship program established: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/103/3301-103-02_PH_FF_N_RU_20090313_1154.pdf
3301-103-03 Application and eligibility to receive a scholarship: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/103/3301-103-03_PH_FF_N_RU_20090313_1154.pdf
3301-103-04 Responsibilities of a school district of residence: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/103/3301-103-04_PH_FF_N_RU_20090313_1154.pdf
3301-103-05 Program participation: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/103/3301-103-05_PH_FF_N_RU_20090313_1154.pdf
3301-103-06 Application and participation of providers: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/103/3301-103-06_PH_FF_N_RU_20090313_1154.pdf
3301-103-07 Payment under the Autism Scholarship Program: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/103/3301-103-07_PH_FF_N_RU_20090313_1154.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-103-01 thru -08
Source: www.lexis.com |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Adopted 02/2009 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the Co-op/internship program. Defines "Cooperative education program" as a partnership between students, institutions of higher education and employers that formally integrates students' academic study with work experience in cooperating employer organizations and that meets specified criteria. Defines an "internship" as a partnership between students, institutions of higher education and employers that formally integrates students' academic study with work or community service experience and meets specified criteria.
Provides that the purpose of the program is to promote and encourage cooperative education programs and internship programs at Ohio institutions of higher education, so as to encourage Ohio students to stay in the state and to attract back to Ohio students who left to attend out-of-state institutions of higher education, to participate in high quality academic programs that use cooperative education programs or significant internship programs. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3333/0/1/3333-1-63_PH_FF_N_RU_20090205_1342.pdf
Title: OAC 3333-1-63
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 01/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Authorizes the board of regents to enter into an agreement with private entities to provide free career information for students via the board of regents Web site. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=127_HB_525
Title: H.B. 525
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
STEM |
Adopted 10/2008 |
Postsec. |
The Ohio innovation partnership, consisting of the choose Ohio first scholarship and the Ohio Research scholars program, aims to strengthen the state and its citizens to compete in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), as well as medical fields and STEM education. The choose Ohio first scholarship program will support undergraduate and graduate education by Ohio students in STEM fields and medicine.
http://codes.ohio.gov/oac/3333-1-61
Title: OAC 3333-1-61, -61.1 thru -61.5
Source: http://codes.ohio.gov/oac/ |
STEM |
Adopted 10/2008 |
Postsec. |
Proposes new rules regarding the Ohio Research Scholars Program. Provides general guidelines for proposals; objectives to be reflected in proposals; the review process; awards and agreements; and funding of the program. The Ohio innovation partnership, consisting of the choose Ohio first scholarship and the Ohio research scholars program, aims to strengthen the state and its citizens to compete in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), as well as medical fields and STEM education. The Ohio research scholars program will support an increase in highly-qualified research talent in critical STEM and medical areas with a focus on long-term regional economic development.
http://codes.ohio.gov/oac/3333-1-62
Title: OAC 3333-1-62, -62.1 thru -62.5
Source: http://codes.ohio.gov/oac/ |
STEM |
Adopted 09/2008 |
P-12 |
Creates forty hour temporary teaching permit for qualified nonlicensed individuals. Amends qualifications for temporary teaching permit for nonlicensed individuals. Adds rule creating two-year provisional educator license for STEM schools.
Twelve- or forty-hour temporary teaching permit for qualified nonlicensed individuals: http://codes.ohio.gov/oac/3301-23-41
Provisional educator license for STEM schools: http://codes.ohio.gov/oac/3301-24-15
Title: OAC 3301-23-41, -24-15
Source: codes.ohio.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 08/2008 |
P-12 |
Permits chartered nonpublic schools to purchase goods and services through group purchasing contracts negotiated and arranged by the Department of Administrative Services. Permits an educational service center (ESC) to authorize the conversion of a building under its control into a conversion community school. Permits the governing authorities of two or more community schools to enter pooling agreements to jointly purchase goods and services, including health insurance for employees or liability insurance for the schools, or to provide student transportation.
Title: H.B. 496 (Am. Sub. H.B. 562)
Source: Ohio Legislative Service Commission |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Adopted 08/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Amends rules regarding student residency for state subsidy and tuition surcharge purposes. "Resident" shall mean any person who maintains a twelve-month place or places of residence in Ohio, who is qualified as a resident to vote in Ohio and receive state public assistance and who may be subjected to tax liability, provided such person has not, within the time prescribed by this rule, declared himself or herself to be or allowed himself or herself to remain a resident of any other state or nation for any of these or other purposes.
http://codes.ohio.gov/oac/3333-1-10
Title: OAC 3333-1-10
Source: http://codes.ohio.gov/ |
P-3 Finance |
Emergency amendment 06/2008 |
P-12 |
All sections: Provides the early learning initiative (ELI) will no longer exist as of August 23, 2009, and that these rules are in effect only until August 22, 2009.
5101:2-23-05: Bars county departments of job and family services (CDJFS) from accepting new ELI applications on or after July 23, 2009.
http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/5101/2/23/5101$2-23-05_PH_EM_AE_RU_20090723_1302.pdf
Title: OAC 5101:2-23-05, -07, -09
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board or state superintendent to automatically revoke or deny an educator license, without an administrative hearing, for anyone convicted of, if found guilty of or has plead guilt to certain offenses. Requires prosecutors to notify the state board if a licensee or non-licensed employee is eleigible for intervention in lieu of convication or has agreed to a pre-trial diversion program. Requires school authorities to report in similar fashion. Provides if a person who is employed by a community school is arrested, summoned or indicted for certain offenses, the employee must be suspended from all duties that require the care, custody or control of a child during the criminal action. against the person; relates to background checks.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=127_HB_428
Title: H.B. 428
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires public and nonpublic schools to mark the records of students identified as missing children and to notify law enforcement of requests for those records; provides the law enforcement agency involved shall integrate into the national crime information center computer when a child is no longer missing.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=127_HB_181
Title: H.B. 181
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Passed 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Approves the Department of Education's proposed changes (change in minimum subgroup size to 30 and to implement a growth model) to the state academic accountability system for public schools.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/res.cfm?ID=127_SCR_18
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/ResolutionText127/127_SCR_18_AS_N.html
Title: S.C.R. 18
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Leadership |
Adopted 02/2008 |
P-12 |
Rescinded old rules and adopted new rules regarding requirements for performance- based licensure for administrators. A beginning principal must be able to demonstrate success in each of the five areas described in this rule: 1) continuous improvement; 2) instruction; 3) School operations, resources, and learning environment; collaboration; parents and community engagement.
http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/24/3301-24-09_PH_FF_N_RU_20080212_1409.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-24-09
Source: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 02/2008 |
P-12 |
· Revises retirement eligibility requirements and benefit calculations for School Employees Retirement System (SERS) members whose membership commences on or after the act's effective date.
· Increases the age at which a new SERS member is eligible to retire under a retirement incentive plan.
· Requires the SERS Board, at least once every ten years, to direct its actuary to evaluate retirement eligibility requirements.
http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses127/08-sb148-127.pdf
Title: S.B. 148
Source: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 12/2007 |
P-12 |
Increases the penalty for inducing panic to a felony of the second degree when a school or an institution of higher education is involved; permits school districts to make up calamity days caused other than by a bomb threat in excess of the total number of days specified in their contingency plans and otherwise allowed by adding extra hours to the remaining days in the school year.
Title: H.B. 142
Source: Lexis-Nexis |
Assessment |
Signed into law 11/2007 |
P-12 |
One section of this bill revises the scheduling of the spring administration of the elementary achievement tests from no earlier than the week containing May 1, as under current law, to no earlier than the week containing April 24. Provides for the elementary achievement tests to be administered over a two-week period, instead of five consecutive days. Clarifies that the elementary achievement tests must be submitted to the scoring company after all of the tests have been administered for the designated testing period.
Analysis and background: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses127/h0190-rs-127.pdf
Title: H.B. 190 - Multiple Components
Source: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 11/2007 |
P-12 |
• Requires school districts, educational service centers, community schools, STEM schools, and chartered nonpublic schools to request criminal records checks for all job applicants and employees, not merely those whose duties entail the care of children.
• Requires private contractors hired by those employers to request criminal records checks for job applicants and employees who will work in schools.
• Requires subsequent criminal records checks every five years for all school employees who are not subject to periodic post-employment records checks under other laws.
• Requires that the initial and periodic criminal records checks of school employees, including State Board of Education licensees, include checks of FBI records as well as state records.
• Permits the State Board of Education to revoke an expired educator license for misconduct.
• Requires the Educator Standards Board to make recommendations for a code of conduct for educators.
• Directs the Department of Education, by December 31, 2007, to recommend penalties for failure to report to the Department or the State Board of Education information about educators who have committed an act unbecoming to the teaching profession or that makes them a threat to students' safety.
Summary and analysis: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses127/h0190-rs-127.pdf
Title: H.B. 190 - Multiple Components
Source: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 11/2007 |
P-12 |
Permits school districts that are not eligible for state payments for all-day kindergarten to charge tuition on a sliding scale for all-day kindergarten classes. Requires the Department of Education to issue an annual report on tuition charged by school districts for all-day kindergarten. Requires the Department of Education, by April 30, 2008, to issue a report on fees charged by school districts for (1) classes or programs that are offered during the regular school day or after school and for which students earn credit or are assigned grades, (2) instructional materials, and (3) summer school.
Analysis and summary: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses127/h0190-rs-127.pdf
Title: H.B. 190 -- Multiple Components
Source: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 |
Permits establishment of a start-up community school after June 30, 2007 only if the school's governing authority contracts with an operator that manages other schools in the U.S. that perform at a level higher than academic watch. Permits an early college high schools to become a start-up community school under certain conditions. Limits sponsors. Requires community schools to conduct criminal records checks of their governing authority members. Sets other provisions.
Title: H.B. 119 -- Community Schools Provisions (Charter Schools)
Source: Digest of Enactments 2007 |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 |
Prescribes the per pupil base cost formula amount; increases by 3% each year the hourly rate that is used to calculate the based funding supplement for academic intervention; eliminates the cost-of-doing-business factor from the formula. Addresses state share, parity aid, poverty-based assistance, special education funding, transportation funding, and transitional aid.
Title: H.B. 119 -- School Funding
Source: Digest of Enactments 2007 |
Health |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board to adopt standards for physical education in grades K-12 developed by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education or to adopt its own physical education standards in those grades. Requires the department of education to hire a full-time physical education coordinator. Requires districts and other schools to report the number of minutes and classes er week of PE provided to students in grades K-8.
Title: H.B. 119 - Physical Education Standards
Source: Digest of Enactments 2007 |
STEM |
Issued 10/2007 |
Postsec. |
(Executive Order 2007-33) Suspends normal rulemaking procedures and makes the rules governing the administration of the Research Scholars Program effective as of October 30, 2007. The Research Scholars Program is the program through which the chancellor may make awards to the State's colleges, universities, or non-profit entities for programs and initiatives that increase the quality and capacity of cutting edge research in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathmatics and Medicine.
http://governor.ohio.gov/Portals/0/Executive%20Order%202007-34S.pdf
Title: Executive Order No. 34S
Source: http://governor.ohio.gov |
STEM |
Signed into law 10/2007 |
P-12 |
Establishes the STEM Subcommittee of the Partnership for Continued Learning; sets governance; authorizes the subcommittee to accept proposals and approve grants to up to five STEM schools that will serve any of grades 6-12 to open for instruction in FY 2009.requires STEM teachers to be highly qualified but allows a BA or five years of work experience in the subject being taught to teach in a STEM school for up to 40 hours per week. Requires state board to issue a two-year provisionsal and a professional educator license for teaching science, technology, engineering or math in grades 6-12 in a STEM school.
Title: H.B. 119 - STEM Provisions
Source: Digest of Enactments 2007 |
P-3 |
Issued 07/2007 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Help Me Grow Advisory Council which will advise and assist the Ohio Department of Health in the implementation of the Help Me Grow Program, which will provide early intervention services for children with development disabilities or delays.
http://governor.ohio.gov/Portals/0/Executive%20Order%202007-19S.PDF
Title: E.O. 19; (NEW BILL)
Source: http://governor.ohio.gov |
P-3 |
Issued 07/2007 |
P-12 |
Orders the immediate adoption of rules implementing the Early Learning Initiative Program which provides children, who are often at risk of school failure, with experiences that will prepare them for educational success beginning in kindergarten and beyond.
http://governor.ohio.gov/Portals/0/Executive%20Order%202007-14S.pdf
Title: E.O. 18; (NEW BILL)
Source: http://governor.ohio.gov |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Issued 06/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes the Governor's Workforce Policy Advisory Board to advise the Governor with respect to business, workforce, training, education and other issues that influence the development, implementation and continuous improvement of a demand-driven workforce development system.
http://governor.ohio.gov/Portals/0/Executive%20Order%202007-14S.pdf
Title: Executive Order No. 14
Source: http://governor.ohio.gov |
Assessment--Value Added |
Adopted 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Regarding the implementation of the value-added progress dimension. Relates to levels of academic progress in reading and mathematics relative to a standard year of academic growth; confidentiality of student test scores and individual student reports; and incorporation of the value-added progress dimension into the accountability system.
http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/58/3301-58-03_PH_FF_N_RU_20070516_0829.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-58-01 thru -03
Source: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Became law without governor's signature 05/2007 |
Postsec. |
Transfers the appointment of the Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents to the Governor with the advice and consent of the senate; makes the Board of Regents an advisory board to the Chancellor; transfers the Board's duties and powers to the Chancellor. Amends the terms and appointment authority of members of the Board.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=127_HB_2
Title: H.B. 2
Source: |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Adopted 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Amends rules regarding teacher education programs. Incorporates references to new standards for what teachers should know and be able to do andestablishes student teaching requirements. Rescinds rules regarding performance-based licensure. Approval of teacher education institutions is to be based on evidence of coursework and experiences designed to include the following [revisions]: (1) Ohio standards for the teaching profession adopted by the state board of education (available on the educator standards board's website at http://esb.ode.state.oh.us/communications/standards.aspx). (3) Academic content standards (available on the Ohio department of education's website at
http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEPrimary.aspx?Page=2&TopicRelationID=305) and curriculum models adopted by the state board of education . . . (available on the Ohio department of education's website at http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEPrimary.aspx?
page= 2&TopicRelationID=308); (4) Minimum standards for elementary and secondary schools prescribed by the state board of education . . . (5) The value-added progress dimension implemented by the Ohio department of education for elementary and secondary schools (available on the Ohio department of education's website at http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEDetail.aspx?Page=3&TopicRelationID=1&Content=17029) and methods of interpreting
such data; and (6) A minimum of twelve weeks of full-time student teaching and a minimum of one-hundred clock hours of field experiences prior to student teaching.
http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/24/3301-24-03_PH_FF_A_RU_20070313_1446.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-24-02, -03
Source: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Adopted 02/2007 |
P-12 |
Revises criteria for awarding the diploma with honors for both the college preparatory and career-technical curriculum options, effective with the Class of 2011. Reduces criteria eligible students must meet to 7 out of 8 for both curriculum options (through Class of 2010, students must meet 8 out of 9 criteria for the college preparatory option or 9 out of 10 for the career-technical option. Changes references to curriculum options from "vocational" to "career-technical" and from "college preparatory" to "more rigorous high school academic curriculum". Increases the units to be completed by students in both curriculum options as follows:
More rigorous high school academic curriculum option:
--4 units of math (previously 3 units); 4th unit math must be a higher-level course
--4 units of science (previously 3), including 1 unit each of physics and chemistry (neither course previously required)
--4 units of social studies (previously 3)
Also eliminates the criterion that students complete 1 unit business technology and 2 additional units in core courses.
Career-technical curriculum option:
--4 units of math (previously 3); including Algebra II and another higher-level course (previously just algebra and geometry specifically required)
--4 units of science (previously 3), including 1 unit each of physics and chemistry (neither course previously required)
--4 units of social studies (previously 3)
--4 units in student's career-technical education program (previously 3). Specifies that career-technical education program must lead to an industry-recognized credential or apprenticeship, or be part of an articulated career pathway that can lead to postsecondary credit, unless the student's program design does not provide for any of these outcomes, in which case the student must meet the proficiency benchmark for the applicable Ohio career-technical competency assessment.
Eliminates reference to "career passport". Eliminates criterion of 2 units foreign language or business/technology and criterion of 2 additional units in fine arts or core courses.
Specifies that minimum ACT/SAT scores for honors diploma eligibility do not include the writing portion of either test.
http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/16/3301-16-02_PH_FF_N_RU_20070516_0832.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-13-07, -16-01, -02
Source: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Adopted 01/2007 |
P-12 |
Amends requirements for the standards teacher preparation institutions must follow. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/24/3301-24-03_PH_RV_A_RU_20070103_1509.pdf
Title: 3301-24-03
Source: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Accountability |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Any district that leases a building to a community school [charter] located in the district or that enters into an agreement with a community school located in the district whereby the district and the school endorse each other's programs may elect to have data regarding the academic performance of students enrolled in the community school combined with comparable data from the schools of the district for the purpose of calculating the performance of the district as a whole on the district report card. Any district that so elects must annually file a copy of the lease or agreement with the department.
Allows a board of education to renew the contract of any nonlicensed individual, currently employed by the board for one or more years, without first offering the position held by that individual to employees of the district who are licensed individuals or advertising the position as available to any qualified licensed individuals who are not currently employed by the board.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_276
Title: H.B. 276 -- Misc. Sections
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires that information about professional misconduct or child abuse or neglect committed by a person licensed by the State Board of Education be submitted to the Superintendent of Public Instruction; requires a criminal records check prior to renewing an educator license (except allows exemptions for those who have had a background check within the past year); relates to persons applying to operate a family day-care home; provides a penalty for inaccurate school attendance data reporting; provides for handicapped preschool children; relates to student data verification codes. Requires each board of education of each school district, the governing board of each educational service center, and the chief administrator of each chartered nonpublic school, county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities to promptly submit to the superintendent of public instruction the information prescribed in division (C) of this section when any of the following conditions apply to an employee who holds a license issued by the state board of education:
(1) The board knows that the employee has pleaded guilty to, has been found guilty by a jury or court of, or has been convicted of an offense described in Code;
(2) The board has initiated termination or nonrenewal proceedings against, has terminated, or has not renewed the contract of the employee because the board has reasonably determined that the employee has committed an act unbecoming to the teaching profession or an offense described in Code;
(3) The employee has resigned under threat of termination or nonrenewal;
(4) The employee has resigned because of or in the course of an investigation by the board regarding whether the employee has committed an act unbecoming to the teaching profession or an offense described in Code.
(C) If a report is required under this section, the board shall submit to the superintendent of public instruction the name and social security number of the employee about whom information is required and a factual statement regarding any of the conditions prescribed in divisions (B)(1) to (4) of this section that apply to the employee.
(D) A determination made by the board as described in division (B)(2) of this section or a termination, nonrenewal, resignation, or other separation described in divisions (B)(2) to (4) of this section does not create a presumption of the commission or lack of the commission by the employee of an act unbecoming to the teaching profession or an offense described in Code.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_79
Title: H.B. 79-- Secs. 5153.175, 5126.253
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Increases high school graduation requirements for students entering grade 9 during the 2010-2011 school year (Class of 2014). Increases math units from 3 to 4; requires one unit of Algebra II or its equivalent. Existing 3-unit requirement in science calls for one unit biological sciences and one unit physical sciences. New requirements specify that 3 units science must all be lab sciences that include 1 unit physical sciences, 1 unit biology and 1 unit in one or more of the following: (1) chemistry, physics or other physical science; (2) advanced biology or other life science; or (3) astronomy, physical geology, or other earth or space science.
Division (K) of this section addtionally requires students entering grade 9 for the first time during the 2010-2011 school year (Class of 2014) to complete two semesters of fine arts, which requirement may be completed in any grade 7-12. Students who receive a waiver from the Ohio core graduation requirements, either through a parental agreement or through enrollment in an approved dropout prevention and recovery program, are not required but encouraged to enroll in a fine arts course as an elective.
Division (L) allows local boards to adopt policies excusing any student who has participated in interscholastic athletics, marching band or cheerleading for at least two full seasons during high school from the high school physical education requirement. A student who receives an excusal must complete a half unit of credit in another course of study.
Directs schools to integrate economics and financial literacy into one or more of the existing social studies credit requirements (American history and American government). In developing this integrated curriculum, schools must use available public-private partnerships and resources and materials that exist in business, industry, and through the centers for economics education at institutions of higher education in the state.
Replaces existing 6 units of electives with 5-unit elective requirement. Directs that these be fulfilled by one or any combination of foreign language, fine arts, business, career-technical education, family and consumer sciences, technology, agricultural education, or English language arts, mathematics, science, or social studies courses not otherwise required in the core curriculum.
Clarifies that a student may meet the Ohio core curriculum graduation requirements through a variety of methods, including integrated, applied, career-technical and traditional coursework.
Includes legislative intent: "Ohioans must be prepared to apply increased knowledge and skills in the workplace and to adapt their knowledge and skills quickly to meet the rapidly changing conditions of the twenty-first century. National studies indicate that all high school graduates need the same academic foundation, regardless of the opportunities they pursue after graduation. The goal of Ohio's system of elementary and secondary education is to prepare all students for and seamlessly connect all students to success in life beyond high school graduation, regardless of whether the next step is entering the workforce, beginning an apprenticeship, engaging in post-secondary training, serving in the military, or pursuing a college degree."
See section 3313.603: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_0311
Title: S.B. 311-- Sec. 3313.603(A), (B), (C) Part 1, (K) adn (L)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Sec. 3314.025 amends provisions relating to governing authorities for community schools. From fiscal notes: Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly, as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 530 of the 126th General Assembly, required certain community schools to administer reading and mathematics assessments to the schools' students in the fall and the spring. ODE was to evaluate the performance of the community school based on the results of these assessments and to impose sanctions on certain poorly performing community schools including eventually closing the schools if poor performance continued for three consecutive years. The bill repeals these requirements and instead requires that community school performance be based on the local report card performance ratings. In general, community schools that are declared to be in academic emergency for three or four consecutive school years (depending on the grade levels served by the school and some other factors) are to be closed under the bill. Under the bill, community schools will not incur the cost of administering the reading and mathematics assessments required under current law.
The bill prohibits a person serving on the governing authority of more than two start-up community schools at the same time. The bill also permits a community school to compensate members of its governing authority up to $125 for each meeting the member attends, but not more than $125 in one month. The bill provides for an appeal process for community school operators whose contracts are terminated or not renewed by the school's governing authority. This may result in costs to the school if it must defend its decision to terminate or not renew the contract.
Finally, the bill requires that school districts offer for sale to community schools located within the district real property that the district has not used for one full school year unless the district adopts a resolution outlining a plan for using the property within the next three school years. Property sold under this provision must be offered for sale back to the school district if the community school decides to dispose of the property or if the community school is permanently closed. This provision restricts the ability of school districts to retain real property that is not being used.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_79
Title: H.B. 79 -- Sec. 3314.025
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Sec. 3314.22 allows the requirement that each child enrolled in an internet- or computer-based community school is entitled to a computer supplied by the school to be waived -- if the parent parent of any child enrolled in the school waives this entitlement. Sec. 3314.014 expands definition of "operator" to include an individual or organization that manages the daily operations of a community school pursuant to a contract between the operator and the school's governing authority; a nonprofit organization that provides programmatic oversight and support to a community school under a contract with the school's governing authority and that retains the right to terminate its affiliation with the school if the school fails to meet the organization's quality standards.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_276
Title: H.B. 276 -- Sec. 3314.22, .014
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires local boards to appoint a treasurer, who serves as the chief fiscal officer of the school district. The treasurer is to be appointed for a term not longer than five years beginning the first day of August and ending the thirty-first day of July. The board is required to execute a written contract of employment with the treasurer. At the expiration of a treasurer's current term of employment, the treasurer is deemed re-employed for a term of one year at the same salary plus any increments that the board may authorize, unless the board, on or before the first day of March of the year in which the contract of employment expires, either re-employs the treasurer for a succeeding term as provided in division (C) of this section or gives to the treasurer written notice of its intention not to re-employ the treasurer. Prohibits a treasurer from being transferred to any other position during the term of the treasurer's employment or re-employment except by mutual agreement by the treasurer and the board. If a vacancy occurs in the office of treasurer, the board is to appoint a treasurer for a term not to exceed five years from the preceding first day of August. A treasurer appointed under this section may not be a member of the board or otherwise regularly employed by the board. No board of education, other than the board of an island school district, shall elect appoint a person treasurer who does not hold a valid license issued under section 3301.074 of the Revised Code, unless the person is an otherwise qualified treasurer. If the treasurer fails to maintain that license, the treasurer is automatically disqualified from further service, unless the treasurer is an otherwise qualified treasurer. Makes other clarifications. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_671
Title: H.B. 671
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Sec. 3315.20. A school district may have a deficit in any special fund of the district only if both of the following conditions are satisfied:
(A) The district has a request for payment pending with the state sufficient to cover the amount of the deficit and there is a reasonable likelihood that the payment will be made.
(B) The unspent and unencumbered balance in the district's general fund is greater than the aggregate of deficit amounts in all of the district's special funds.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_276
Title: H.B. 276 -- Sec. 3315.20
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Health |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Permits students of school districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic schools to carry epinephrine medication approved by the students' physicians and parents; grants immunity to school districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic schools and their employees for good faith actions in connection with this permission.
Title: S.B. 164
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Sec. 3319.073 requires each person employed by any school district or service center to work in an elementary school as a nurse, teacher, counselor, school psychologist, or administrator shall complete at least four hours of in-service training in the prevention of child abuse, violence, and substance abuse and the promotion of positive youth development 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 on the effective date of this amendment shall complete at least four hours of the in-service training required by this section within two years of the effective date of this amendment and every five years thereafter.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_276
Title: H.B. 276-- Sec. 3319.073
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
If the board of education offers to students of compulsory school age courses for high school credit that are taught at times outside the district's normal school day, the board shall enter into supplemental contracts 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.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_311
Title: S.B. 311 -- Section 3319.0811
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--Advanced Placement |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
This section requires that not later than April 15, 2008, the articulation and transfer advisory council of the Ohio board of regents recommend to the board standards for awarding course credit toward degree requirements at state institutions of higher education based on scores attained on advanced placement examinations. The recommended standards are to include a score on each advanced placement examination that the council considers to be a passing score for which course credit may be awarded. Upon adoption of the standards by the board of regents, each state institution of higher education must comply with the standards in awarding course credit to any student enrolled in the institution who has attained a passing score on an advanced placement examination.
Sec. 3333.34 requires the Ohio board of regents, in collaboration with the state board of education, to publish an annual report describing dual enrollment programs that are offered by school districts, community schools and chartered nonpublic high schools. The report is to be submitted to the governor, the speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives, the president and minority leader of the senate, the chairpersons and ranking minority members of the standing committees of the house of representatives and the senate that consider education legislation, the superintendent of public instruction, and the president of the state board of education. The board of regents also is to post the report on its web site.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_311
Title: S.B. 311 -- Sec. 3333.163
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--College Readiness |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires that the partnership for continued learning, in conjunction with the Ohio board of regents and the state board, recommend a means of assessing high school students' college and work readiness, especially in English and mathematics. The partnership is to recommend one or more assessments that can achieve the following goals:
(A) Measure students' skills against identified college and work-ready expectations in English and mathematics and serve as an indicator of students' readiness to successfully complete introductory level coursework at an institution of higher education and to avoid remedial coursework;
(B) Promote consistency in high school academic course content, quality, and expectations;
(C) Provide individual students with information to assist in planning the remaining high school learning experience;
(D) Serve as one indicator for college admission or placement;
(E) Assist institutions of higher education in aligning remedial coursework with the college and work-ready expectations measured by the assessments.
In evaluating the range of assessment tools, the partnership is to consult with the state board of education and the board of regents to consider the suitability for this purpose of existing state and commercial assessments, including the Ohio graduation tests. The partnership's recommendations are to describe how its recommended assessments fit within the existing system of state achievement tests. Recommendations are due not later than July 30, 2007. Sec. 3301.46 requires the state department and board of regents to propose a standard method and form for documenting on high school transcripts high school credits earned that are compatible with the standards for credit transfer and arcitulation adopted by the board of regents.
Section 3302.032 requires the state board to select one or more methods of measuring high school graduates' preparedness for higher education and the workforce. Measures may include, but need not be limited to, measures such as performance on assessments, percentage of students who earn credit toward a degree while in high school, or the percentage of students who take remedial coursework upon enrollment in an institution of higher education. School district and school report cards must report on each applicable measure but measures do not contribute to district or school rating.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_311
Title: S.B. 311-- Sec. 3301.43
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/ |
High School--College Readiness |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Directs the state board of education, the Ohio board of regents, and the partnership for continued learning (state P-16 council) to develop policies to ensure that only in rare instances will students who complete the Ohio core curriculum (high school graduation requirements effective with the Class of 2014) require remediation after high school. See section 3313.603: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_0311
Title: S.B. 311--Sec. 3313.603(C)(7) Part 3
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--College Readiness |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Directs the state board of education, the Ohio board of regents, and the partnership for continued learning (state P-16 council) to develop policies to ensure that only in rare instances will students who complete the Ohio core curriculum (high school graduation requirements effective with the Class of 2014) require remediation after high school. See section 3313.603: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_0311
Title: S.B. 311--Sec. 3313.603(C)(7) Part 3
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
This section requires the partnership for continued learning to make recommendations for increasing opportunities for students to earn higher education credit on their high school campuses; for expanding school counseling career and educational programs, access programs and other strategies that interfere with students' planning for postsecondary education; and for legislative changes that allow state universities to waive the requirement (particularly for students entering high school from out of state or from the military) that a student complete the Ohio core curriculum to be admitted as an undergraduate. Sec. 3345.062 requires that if the partnership does not complete and submit recommendations for legislative changes by the deadline, each state university must offer via the Internet or interactive distance learning at least two college level courses, one each in science and mathematics, by which high school students may earn both high school and college credit. During such course, the university may include a single presentation, of not more than two minutes in length, that describes its other programs and courses. The university may assess a fee for the course required under this section of not more than one-tenth of the amount per credit hour normally assessed by the university for an undergraduate course at its main campus.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_311
Title: S.B. 311-- Sec. 3301.42 +
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Defines "dual enrollment program" as a program that enables a student to earn credit toward a degree from an institution of higher education while enrolled in high school or that enables a student to complete coursework while enrolled in high school that may earn credit toward a degree from an institution of higher education upon the student's attainment of a specified score on an examination covering the coursework. Dual enrollment programs may include any of the following:
(1) The post-secondary enrollment options program established under Chapter 3365. of the Revised Code;
(2) Advanced placement courses;
(3) Any similar program established pursuant to an agreement between a school district or chartered nonpublic high school and an institution of higher education.
Each city, local, exempted village, and joint vocational school district and each chartered nonpublic high school must provide students enrolled in grades nine through twelve with the opportunity to participate in a dual enrollment program. For this purpose, each school district and chartered nonpublic high school is required to offer at least one dual enrollment program. The provision may be met by participation in the post-secondary enrollment options program established under Chapter 3365. Each district and chartered nonpublic high school must provide information about the dual enrollment programs offered by the district or school to al students enrolled in grades eight through eleven. Boards are required to adopt procedures for notifying parents of high school students that one consequence of not completion that curriculum is ineligibility to enroll in most state universities in Ohio without further coursework.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_311
Title: S.B. 311 -- Sec. 3313.6013
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Beginning with the 2014-2015 academic year, each state university listed in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, except for Central state university, Shawnee state university, and Youngstown state university, is to permit a resident of this state who entered ninth grade for the first time on or after July 1, 2010, to begin undergraduate coursework at the university only if the person has successfully completed the Ohio core curriculum for high school graduation. Provides for several exceptions. Beginning with undergraduate students who commence undergraduate studies in the 2014-2015 academic year (for the same institutions), no institution is to receive state operating subsidies for any academic remedial or developmental courses for undergraduate students, included courses prescribed in the Ohio core curriculum for high school graduation, offered at its main campus.
In the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 academic years, a state university may receive state operating subsidies for academic remedial or developmental courses for not more than three per cent of the total undergraduate credit hours provided by the university at its main campus.
In the 2016-2017 academic year, a state university may receive state operating subsidies for academic remedial or developmental courses for not more than fifteen per cent of the first-year students who have graduated from high school within the previous twelve months and who are enrolled in the university at its main campus, as calculated on a full-time-equivalent basis.
In the 2017-2018 academic year, a state university may receive state operating subsidies for academic remedial or developmental courses for not more than ten per cent of the first-year students who have graduated from high school within the previous twelve months and who are enrolled in the university at its main campus, as calculated on a full-time-equivalent basis.
In the 2018-2019 academic year, a state university may receive state operating subsidies for academic remedial or developmental courses for not more than five per cent of the first-year students who have graduated from high school within the previous twelve months and who are enrolled in the university at its main campus, as calculated on a full-time-equivalent basis. Courses may continue to be offered after the 2018-2019 academic year, but no state subsidies will be permitted.
The Ohio board of regents is required to:
(1) Withhold state operating subsidies for academic remedial or developmental courses provided by a state university as required in order to conform to divisions (B) and (C) of this section;
(2) Adopt uniform statewide standards for academic remedial and developmental courses offered by all state institutions of higher education;
(3) Encourage and assist in the design and establishment of academic remedial and developmental courses by institutions of higher education;
(4) Define "academic year;"
(5) Encourage and assist in the development of articulation and transfer agreements between state universities and other institutions of higher education.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_311
Title: S.B. 311 -- Sec. 3345.06
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
One provision prohibits an honors diploma being granted to a student who is subject to the Ohio core curriculum but elections a lesser curriculum option.http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_311
Title: S.B. 311 - Sec. 3313.61
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs the state board of education, in consultation with the Ohio board of regents and the partnership for continued learning, to adopt a statewide plan implementing methods for students to earn units of high school credit based on a demonstration of subject area competency, instead of or in combination with completing hours of classroom instruction. The plan must be adopted by April 2009, and must begin to be phased in during the 2009-2010 school year. The plan must include a standard method for recording demonstrated proficiency on high school transcripts. Authorizes the state board to adopt existing methods for earning high school credit based on a demonstration of subject area competency as necessary prior to the 2009-2010 school year.
See division (J) of section 3313.603: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_0311
Title: S.B. 311-- Sec. 3313.603 (J)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides that a student who enters grade 9 in the 2010-2011 through 2013-2014 school years may graduate from high school even though the student has not completed the Ohio core curriculum defined in section 3313.603(C) (the Ohio core curriculum will be the statewide high school graduation curriculum effective with the Class of 2014), provided all the following conditions are satisfied:
(1) After the student has attended high school for two years, the student and the student's parent sign a written statement asserting the parent's consent to the student's graduating without completing the Ohio core curriculum and acknowledging that one consequence of not completing the Ohio core curriculum is ineligibility to enroll in most state universities in Ohio without further coursework.
(2) The student and parent fulfill any procedural requirements the school stipulates to ensure the student's and parent's informed consent and to facilitate orderly filing of statements as described above.
(3) The student and the student's parent and a representative of the student's high school jointly develop an individual career plan for the student that specifies the student matriculating to a two-year degree program, acquiring a business and industry credential, or entering an apprenticeship.
(4) The student's high school provides counseling and support for the student related to the individual career plan during the remainder of the student's high school experience.
(5) The student successfully completes, at a minimum, the curriculum required for high school graduation immediately prior to the Class of 2014.
Directs the partnership for continued learning (state P-16 council), in collaboration with the department of education and the Ohio board of regents, to analyze student performance data to determine if there are mitigating factors that warrant extending the above exception to high school classes beyond those entering ninth grade before the 2014-2015 school year, and to submit its findings and any recommendations by August 2014, to specified members of the legislature, the state board of education, and the superintendent of public instruction.
See section 3313.603: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_0311
Title: S.B. 311-- 3313.603(D)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides that a student in a dropout prevention and recovery program may graduate from high school by completing a competency-based instructional program administered by the dropout prevention and recovery program instead of the Ohio core curriculum. The program must have applied for and received a waiver from the department of education; a waiver will be granted if the program meets all of the following criteria:
(1) The program serves only students between the ages of 16-21.
(2) The program enrolls students who, at the time of their initial enrollment, either, or both, are at least one grade level behind their cohort age groups or experience crises that significantly interfere with their academic progress such that they are prevented from continuing their traditional programs.
(3) The program requires students to attain at least the applicable score designated for each portion of the Ohio graduation test.
(4) The program develops an individual career plan for the student that specifies the student's matriculating to a two-year degree program, acquiring a business and industry credential, or entering an apprenticeship.
(5) The program provides counseling and support for the student related to the individual career plan during the remainder of the student's high school experience.
(6) The program requires the student and the student's parent to sign and file a written statement asserting the parent's consent to the student's graduating without completing the Ohio core curriculum and acknowledging that one consequence of not completing the Ohio core curriculum is ineligibility to enroll in most state universities in Ohio without further coursework.
(7) Prior to receiving the waiver, the program has submitted to the department an instructional plan that demonstrates how the state academic content standards will be taught and assessed.
If the department does not act either to grant the waiver or to reject the program application for the waiver within sixty days, the waiver must be considered granted.
See section 3313.603, division (F): http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_0311
Title: S.B. 311-- Sec. 3313.603(F)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires local boards to adopt procedures for notifying each high school student's parent of the requirements of the Ohio core curriculum (high school graduation requirements effective with the Class of 2011) and that a consequence of not completing the curriculum is ineligibility to enroll in most state universities in Ohio without further coursework.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_311
Title: S.B. 311
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Sets a number of 14,000 scholarships and amends priorities for distribution, particularly for when the applications exceed the number of available scholarships. Amendments focus on eligibility of students in low-performing schools. See full text for details (attached). From fiscal notes: Am. Sub. H.B. 66 of the 126th General Assembly established the new Educational Choice Scholarship Pilot Program and authorized the award of up to 14,000 scholarships in FY 2007, which can be used to attend participating nonpublic schools. The bill establishes 14,000 as the maximum number of scholarships for future years as well as FY 2007. Under current law, first time scholarships are generally available to students who attend or who would otherwise be entitled to attend a school that has been in academic emergency or academic watch for three or more consecutive years. The bill modifies this eligibility criteria so that first time scholarships are generally available to students who attend or who would otherwise be entitled to attend a school that has been in academic emergency or academic watch for two of the last three years, thus expanding the number of eligible students. The bill makes other more minor changes in the eligibility criteria, which may also expand the number of students eligible for and choosing to receive scholarships. According to ODE, approximately 3,100 students were awarded scholarships for FY 2007.
The amount awarded for each scholarship is the lesser of the actual tuition charges of the school or the maximum scholarship award. H.B. 66 set the maximum scholarship award at $4,250 for grades K-8 and at $5,000 for grades 9-12 in FY 2007. In subsequent years, these amounts are to increase by the same percentage as the increase in the base cost formula amount for school districts. Scholarship students are counted in the resident district's average daily membership (ADM) in order to calculate base cost funding, so that the districts generally will be credited with $5,403 per student in FY 2007. Kindergarten students are counted in ADM as one-half student, reflecting the traditional half-day kindergarten program. As a result, a kindergarten student generates about $2,702 in state base cost funding in FY 2007. An amount equal to $5,200 will be deducted from the resident district's state aid for each scholarship student in grades first through twelfth and $2,700 for each scholarship student in kindergarten. Therefore, a district generally will be credited with more state aid than is deducted for each scholarship student. The bill requires that ODE adjust the ADM of the district if a scholarship is awarded to a student that, for whatever reason, was not included in the district's original ADM. This provision ensures that the district is credited with the appropriate amount of state aid. To the extent that the bill increases the number of scholarships awarded, school districts and community schools will experience decreases in state aid. Although school districts and community schools with scholarship students have fewer students to educate, they may not be able to decrease their expenditures to match their state aid loss ($5,200 for students in grades 1-12 and $2,700 for students in kindergarten), especially in the short run.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_79
Title: H.B. 79 -- Section Sec. 3310.02,
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs public, charter and chartered nonpublic schools to integrate technology whereever practicable across the curriculum. Provides that districts and schools may use distance and web-based course delivery as a method of providing or augmenting all instruction required in the Ohio core curriculum (high school graduation requirements for Class of 2014), including lab experience in science. Directs districts and schools, whenever practicable, to utilize technology access and electronic learning opportunities provided by the eTech Ohio commission, the Ohio learning network, education technology centers, public television stations, and other public and private providers.
See Sec. 3313.603(C)(7) final paragraph: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_0311
Title: S.B. 311--Sec. 3313.603(C)(7) Part 4
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Changes school year from not less than 182 days to 455 hours (for half-day kindergarten; 910 hours for full-day kindergarten); 910 hours for pupils in grades one through six; and 1001 hours for pupils in grades seven through twelve. Ten hours in K-6 and 11 hours per year in grades 7-12 may be for parent-teacher conferences. Ten hours in K-6 and 11 hours per year in grades 7-12 may be for professional meeting of teachers. Morning and afternoon recess periods of not more than 15 minutes duration per period are allowed in grades K-6.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_311
Title: S.B. 311 -- Sec. 3313.48
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board of education to develop a model policy to prohibit harassment, intimidation, or bullying in order to assist school districts in developing their own policies under section 3313.666 of the Revised Code. The board is required to issue the model policy within six months after the effective date of this section. Sec. 3313.666 defines "harassment, intimidation, or bullying" as any intentional written, verbal, or physical act that a student has exhibited toward another particular student more than once and the behavior both:
(1) Causes mental or physical harm to the other student;
(2) Is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive that it creates an intimidating, threatening, or abusive educational environment for the other student.
(B) The board of education of each city, local, exempted village, and joint vocational school district shall establish a policy prohibiting harassment, intimidation, or bullying. The policy shall be developed in consultation with parents, school employees, school volunteers, students, and community members. The policy shall include the following:
(1) A statement prohibiting harassment, intimidation, or bullying of any student on school property or at school-sponsored events;
(2) A definition of harassment, intimidation, or bullying that shall include the definition in division (A) of this section;
(3) A procedure for reporting prohibited incidents;
(4) A requirement that school personnel report prohibited incidents of which they are aware to the school principal or other administrator designated by the principal;
(5) A requirement that parents or guardians of any student involved in a prohibited incident be notified and, to the extent permitted by section 3319.321 of the Revised Code and the "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 571, 20 U.S.C. 1232q, as amended, have access to any written reports pertaining to the prohibited incident;
(6) A procedure for documenting any prohibited incident that is reported;
(7) A procedure for responding to and investigating any reported incident;
(8) A strategy for protecting a victim from additional harassment, intimidation, or bullying, and from retaliation following a report;
(9) A disciplinary procedure for any student guilty of harassment, intimidation, or bullying, which shall not infringe on any student's rights under the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States;
(10) A requirement that the district administration semiannually provide the president of the district board a written summary of all reported incidents and post the summary on its web site, if the district has a web site, to the extent permitted by section 3319.321 of the Revised Code and the "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 571, 20 U.S.C. 1232q, as amended.
(C) Each board's policy shall appear in any student handbooks, and in any of the publications that set forth the comprehensive rules, procedures, and standards of conduct for schools and students in the district. Information regarding the policy shall be incorporated into employee training materials.
(D) A school district employee, student, or volunteer shall be individually immune from liability in a civil action for damages arising from reporting an incident in accordance with a policy adopted pursuant to this section if that person reports an incident of harassment, intimidation, or bullying promptly in good faith and in compliance with the procedures as specified in the policy.
(E) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, nothing in this section prohibits a victim from seeking redress under any other provision of the Revised Code or common law that may apply.
(F) This section does not create a new cause of action or a substantive legal right for any person.
Sec. 3313.667. (A) Any school district may form bullying prevention task forces, programs, and other initiatives involving volunteers, parents, law enforcement, and community members.
(B) To the extent that state or federal funds are appropriated for these purposes, each school district shall:
(1) Provide training, workshops, or courses on the district's harassment, intimidation, or bullying policy adopted pursuant to section 3313.666 of the Revised Code to school employees and volunteers who have direct contact with students. Time spent by school employees in the training, workshops, or courses shall apply towards any state- or district-mandated continuing education requirements.
(2) Develop a process for educating students about the policy.
(C) This section does not create a new cause of action or a substantive legal right for any person.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_276
Title: H.B. 276 -- Sections on Harassment
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
From fiscal notes: Sub. H.B. 422 of the 126th General Assembly required that the Attorney General post a copy of the blueprint for each school building on the Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway. The bill, instead, requires that the Attorney General post a floor plan for each school building. According to the Office of the Attorney General, additional equipment would most likely be needed to accommodate the large size of building blueprints in order to transform the blueprints into electronic documents suitable for posting on the Gateway. The Office estimates the potential one-time cost of this equipment to be in the range of approximately $100,000 to $300,000. The changes made by the bill will eliminate this potential cost.
http://www.lbo.state.oh.us/fiscal/fiscalnotes/126ga/HB0079CC.htm
Title: H.B. 79 -- Floor Plan Section
Source: http://www.lbo.state.oh.us |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Sec. 3301.0716 allows the state department of education to have access to personally identifiable student information under certain circumstances, including to respond to an appeal from a school district or school for verification of the accuracy of the student's score on a test; to determine whether the student satisfies the alternative conditions for a high school diploma; or if a testing contractor has notified the department that the student's written response to a question on such a test included threats or descriptions of harm to another person or the student's self and the information is necessary to enable the department to identify the student for purposes of notifying the school district or school in which the student is enrolled of the potential for harm. Allows the independent contractor engaged by the department of education 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 to upon request of the director of health, assign a data verification code to a child who is receiving services under division (A)(2) of section 3701.61 of the Revised Code. The contractor is to provide that code to the director, who will submit it to the public school in which the child will be enrolled for special education and related services.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_276
Title: H.B. 276 -- Section 3301.0716
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs the department to make its individual academic career plan available through its Ohio career information system web site for districts and schools to use as a tool for communicating with and providing guidance to students and families in selecting high school courses.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_0311
Title: S.B. 311-- Sec. 3313.603(H)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
This section requires the state board of education, in collaboration with the Ohio board of regents, to issue an annual report on the quality of institutions approved for the preparation of teachers. The state board is to prepare the report in collaboration with the board of regents and the teacher quality partnership and must use data collected by the partnership and other educational agencies as the basis for the information contained in the report. The report must include at least the following information:
(A) Identification of best practices in the preparation of teachers drawn from research conducted by the teacher quality partnership and other regional and national educational research efforts;
(B) A plan for implementing best practices in approved teacher preparation institutions;
(C) The number of graduates of approved teacher preparation institutions who graduated with a subject area specialty and teach grades seven through twelve. The number shall be disaggregated according to the subject areas of mathematics, science, foreign language, special education and related services, and any other subject area determined by the state board.
(D) A plan to be implemented by the teacher preparation programs approved by the state board under section 3319.23 of the Revised Code for increasing the number of classroom teachers in science, mathematics, and foreign language toward meeting the identified needs for teachers in those subject areas throughout the state but especially in hard-to-staff schools.
The state board is required to submit the report to the governor, the speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives, the president and minority leader of the senate, the chairpersons and ranking minority members of the standing committees of the house of representatives and the senate that consider education legislation, and the chancellor of the board of regents. Sec. 3319.234 requires that the teacher quality partnership, a consortium of teacher preparation programs that have been approved by the state board of education, study the relationship of teacher performance on educator licensure assessments, as adopted by the state board under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code, to teacher effectiveness in the classroom. Not later than September 1, 2008, the partnership is to begin submitting annual data reports along with any other data on teacher effectiveness the partnership determines appropriate to the governor, the president and minority leader of the senate, the speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives, the chairpersons and ranking minority members of the standing committees of the senate and the house of representatives that consider education legislation, the superintendent of public instruction, the state board of education, the Ohio board of regents, and the partnership for continued learning.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_311
Title: S.B. 311 -- Sec. 3319.233
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/ |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 12/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs the general assembly to appropriate funds for strategic initiatives to strengthen schools' capacity to hire and retain highly qualified teachers in the subject areas required by the curriculum. Provides that such initiatives are expected to require an investment of $120,000,000 over five years.
See section 3313.603: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_0311
Title: S.B. 311--Sec. 3313.603(C)(7) Part 2
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Rejected by Voters. 11/2006 |
Postsec. |
(STATE ISSUE 3; Initiative Petition) Proposes a Constitutional amendment to permit up to 31,500 slot machines at seven horse racing tracks and at two Cleveland non-track locations; permits expanded gaming in Cuyahoga County if approved by the county's voters; uses revenues to fund college scholarships, local government, and gambling addiction programs.
Title: V. 3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Adopted 10/2006 |
P-12 |
Amends rules regarding distance education programs; student enrollmentpolicies and practices; tuition and fees; issuance of agent permits;disciplinary action involving agents; completion and placement; school closures;and off-campus learning centers. OHIO 12901
Title: OAC 3332-1-06, -09, -10, -17, -17.1, -24, -25 -26
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Issued 07/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Creates the workforce education and training advisory council, defines duties and membership.
http://governor.ohio.gov/releases/2006-17T%20Workforce%20Educ%20final.pdf
Title: Executive Order 2006-17T
Source: http://governor.ohio.gov/ |
High School |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Appropriates funds for support of the Ohio Core Program. Funds will be used to:
(1) Support the participation of teachers licensed in Ohio and mid-career professionals not currently employed by a school district or licensed to teach at the primary or secondary education levels in a twelve-month intensive training program that leads to teacher licensure in a laboratory-based science, advanced mathematics, or foreign language field at the secondary education level and employment with an Ohio school district;
(2) Support alternative teacher licensure programs developed by educational service centers, in partnership with institutions of higher education. Participants shall be teachers licensed in Ohio and mid-career professionals not currently employed by a school district or licensed to teach at the primary or secondary education levels. Programs shall be consistent with the State Board of Education's alternative licensure requirements;
(3) Obtain contracted instruction with institutions of higher education in mathematics, science, or foreign language for high school students that results in dual high school and college credit. Costs shall be based upon reasonable expenses that institutions of higher education could incur for faculty, supplies, and other associated costs.
(4) Implement and support the Ohio Students Choosing On-line Resources for Educational Success Initiative that increases the educational options available for students in mathematics, advanced laboratory-based science, and foreign language. The eTech Ohio Commission shall work collaboratively with the Department of Education and the Board of Regents on this initiative.
(5) Support up to 10 regional summer academies that focus on foreign language, science, mathematics, engineering, and technology and prepare 11th and 12th grades to pursue college-level foreign language, mathematics, science, technology and engineering, with a focus on secondary teaching in these disciplines. Successful completion of these academics shall result in dual high school and college credits. Costs shall be based upon reasonable expenses, as determined by the Board of Regents, that institutions of higher education could incur for faculty, supplies, and other associated costs.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText126/126_HB_115_PS_N.html
Title: H.B. 115
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Religion |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires school districts and community schools that receive donated copies of mottoes of the United State of America or the state of Ohio to display the mottoes in school buildings.
U.S. motto: "In God We Trust" Ohio motto: "With God, All Things Are Possible"
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_184
Title: H.B. 184
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Abolishes the current Block Parent Program administered by the state board of education and replaces it with the McGruff House Program, administered by the Division of Criminal Justice Services. Creates the offense of "unauthorized use of a McGruff House symbol," to replace the offense of "unauthorized use of block parent symbol." Requires the destruction of all current Block Parent symbols not later than July 10, 2007.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_374_
Title: H.B. 374
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/ |
School Safety--Disaster/Emergency Preparedness |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires community schools and chartered nonpublic schools to adopt school safety plans in the same manner as school districts; exempts school safety plans and school building blueprints from public records law; requires all public and nonpublic schools to conduct at least one school safety drill annually; increases the fine for failure to conduct any required drill to one thousand dollars. Requires each school safety plan to be updated every three years or whenever a major modification to the school building necessitates changes in the plan's procedures. Requires that a copy of the building blueprint of each public and chartered nonpublic school (along with the school safety plan, as under current law) be filed with each law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over the school. Requires that school safety plans and building blueprints also be filed with the Attorney General for posting on the Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway (OLEG) database and, upon request, with the local fire department.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_422_
Title: H.B. 422
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Student Achievement |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes the educational regional service system. The system will support state and regional education initiatives and efforts to improve school effectiveness and student achievement. Services – including special education and related services – will be provided under the system to school districts, community schools and chartered nonpublic schools.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_115_
Title: H.B. 115
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_115_ |
Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes the education management information system advisory board. Directs the board to make recommendations to the department of education for improving the operation of the education management information system. Topics that may be addressed by the recommendations include the definitions used for the data maintained in the system, reporting deadlines, rules and guidelines for the operation of the system adopted by the state board of education and any other issues raised by education personnel who work with the system.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_115_
Title: H.B. 115
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/ |
P-3 |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes new duties for the Ohio Family and Children First Cabinet Council and county family and children first councils. Creates the Ohio Family and Children First Cabinet Council Advisory Board.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_289
Title: H.B. 289
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/ |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Adopted 04/2006 |
P-12 |
A one-year supplemental teaching license, renewable two times, shall be issued at the request of the superintendent of a city, educational service center, local, exempted
village, non public, or joint vocational school district to an individual who is deemed to be of good moral character and who evidences completion of specified requirments.
http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/24/3301-24-14_PH_FF_N_RU_20060412_1016.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-24-14
Source: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/ |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Adopted 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides rules for temporary licenses. Deletes a number of provisions that allowed temporary licenses to be issued in certain areas of teaching. Retains others. OHIO 12584
http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/23/3301-23-44_PH_FF_A_RU_20060314_1326.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-23-44
Source: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Adopted 02/2006 |
P-12 |
The purpose of these rules is to prescribe procedures for the administration and implementation of the educational choice scholarship pilot program established by the general assembly in section 3310.16 of the Revised Code. The program shall pay scholarships for up to the number of eligible students prescribed by the general assembly to attend chartered nonpublic schools. The program is established as one of several educational options available for students in academic emergency school buildings.
http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/11/3301-11-02_PH_FF_N_RU_20060214_1441.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-35-01 thru -07, -09 thru -14
Source: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Leadership |
Adopted 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to temporary licenses, alternativesuperintendent licenses, alternative administrative specialist licenses, and relinquishment of a license or teaching field. OHIO 12529
Title: OAC 3301-24-05, -12, -13
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Data-Driven Improvement |
Adopted 01/2006 |
P-12 |
Adds to operations services the requirement that (f) Financial management strategies that align expenditure of resources with the school district strategic plan and, if applicable, its continuous improvement plan. Other new language requries that allocation and expenditure of school district resources be aligned with the school district's strategic plan and reflect best practices in financial management.
http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/35/3301-35-06_PH_FF_A_RU_20060214_1445.pdf
Title: Educational Programs and Support 3301-35-06
Source: http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Adopted 01/2006 |
P-12 |
Rescinds rules relating to endorsement and validation of certificates for teaching, and requirements for certificate renewal.
Title: OAC 3301-23-20 thru -22
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 01/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Board's standards for teacher preparation programs to require that the curricula of those programs be aligned with the State Board's minimum standards for primary and secondary schools, as well as the state academic content standards and the value-added
progress dimension (R.C. 3319.23(B)(1)). Gives teacher preparation programs until July 1, 2006, to make the necessary changes in their curricula (except for alignment with the value-added progress dimension) (R.C. 3319.23(B)(1)).Extends from March 27, 2006, to September 27, 2006, the deadline by which the Department of Education and the Educator Standards Board must submit to the General Assembly a proposal for a career ladder program for teachers (Sections 3 and 4). Earmarks $247,000 from existing appropriations in each of fiscal years 2006 and 2007 for the Department of Education to contract with the Center for Learning Excellence at The Ohio State University to provide technical support and evaluations of the alternative education grant program (Sections 5, 6, and 7).
http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/confsyn126/h0107-126.pdf
Title: H.B. 107
Source: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
to governor 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board to adopt standards that require the curricula of teacher preparation programs to be aligned with the state academic content standards, the state board's minimum standards for schools, and the value-added progress dimension developed by the Department of Education and to extend the deadline for the Department and the Educator Standards Board to propose a career ladder program for teachers.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_107_PS
Title: H.B. 107
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes the "Partnership for Continued Learning" to promote systemic approaches to education. The Partnership must (1) support regional efforts to foster collaboration among providers of preschool through postsecondary education, (2) identify the workforce needs of private sector employers in the state, and (3) make recommendations to facilitate collaboration among education providers and to maintain a high-quality workforce. The recommendations must address at least the following issues:
(1) Expansion of access to preschool and other education for children under five years of age;
(2) Increasing opportunities for high school students to earn college credit;
(3) Expansion of access to workforce development programs administered by school districts, institutions of higher education, and other providers of career-technical education;
(4) Alignment of statewide academic content standards for grades 9 through 12, the Ohio Graduation Tests, and the curriculum requirements for a high school diploma with the expectations of prospective employers and postsecondary institutions regarding the knowledge and skills high school graduates should attain;[1]
(5) Improvement of science and mathematics skills among students and employees to meet the needs of a knowledge-intensive economy;
(6) Reduction of remediation needs for postsecondary students;
(7) Expansion of access to postsecondary education, including strategies for overcoming financial, cultural, and organizational barriers;
(8) Alignment of teacher preparation programs approved by the State Board of Education with the instructional needs and expectations of school districts;[2]
(9) Strategies for the retention of Ohio graduates in the state workforce and for the attraction of talented graduates from outside the state;
(10) Strategies for promoting adult continuing education to maintain a strong workforce and economy;
(11) Appropriate means of measuring the impact of statewide efforts to promote collaboration among education providers and to develop a high-quality workforce and strategies for collecting and sharing data relevant to this evaluation; and
(12) Strategies for developing and improving opportunities and for removing barriers to achievement for children who are identified as gifted.
http://lsc.state.oh.us/analyses/analysis126.nsf/e77dc78db8ad9b2b85256598004e3f1a/
Title: S.B. 6
Source: http://lsc.state.oh.us/analyses |
Health |
Signed into law 02/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires students to be immunized against chicken pox subject to certain exceptions.
Title: H.B. 463
Source: StateNet |
High School--Exit Exams |
Signed into law 02/2005 |
P-12 |
Designates the fourth week of September as Parent's Week; revises provisions governing child support collection. Qualifies teachers employed by chartered nonpublic schools for annual stipends for holding valid certificates issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Allows students who otherwise must pass the ninth grade proficiency tests for a high school diploma to substitute passage of the Ohio Graduation Test in a particular subject for passage of the ninth grade test in the same subject to satisfy that testing requirement.
http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses125/04-hb493-revised-125.pdf
http://lsc.state.oh.us/analyses/analysis125.nsf/6407a071d8587c3c85256da200703bb6/
Title: H.B. 493
Source: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us |
No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Signed into law 02/2005 |
P-12 |
Specifies that adequate yearly progress for school districts and buildings must be calculated in accordance with the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Requires the state department to submit to each member of the Senate and House Education Committees: (1) a written description of changes in federal NCLB rules and policies each time such changes are made and (2) if the Department proposes to change Ohio's NCLB policies and procedures, a written outline of existing Ohio policy and description of the changes the Department proposes to make. Beginning July 1, 2005, prohibits the Ohio Department of Education from making changes in Ohio's NCLB policies and procedures based on changes in federal policies or rules unless the General Assembly adopts a concurrent resolution approving those changes. Under former Ohio law, school districts were subject to sanctions when they failed to make AYP for two or more consecutive school years. On August 5, 2004, however, the U.S. Department of Education approved a change requested by the Ohio Department of Education regarding how Ohio applies sanctions to school districts for poor academic performance. Specifically, the approved policy recognizes three grade spans (grades 3-5, 6-8, and 10-12) for which AYP must be determined at the district level. A district fails to make AYP when it misses AYP in reading or math for any grade span. However, if the district misses AYP in the same subject area for all three grade spans for two consecutive school years, the district must be "identified for improvement" by the Ohio Department of Education. Identification for improvement, rather than missing AYP, triggers the imposition of sanctions on the district. To conform with this approved policy change, the act subjects a school district to sanctions based on the number of years the district has been identified for improvement instead of the number of years it has failed to make AYP. It also requires the sanctions to start the first year after the district has been identified for improvement. Therefore, under the act, sanctions are directed at the districts with the most serious academic problems. The act does not change the nature of the sanctions.
http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses125/04-hb493-revised-125.pdf
http://lsc.state.oh.us/analyses/analysis125.nsf/6407a071d8587c3c85256da200703bb6/
Title: H.B. 493
Source: http://lsc.state.oh.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Adopted 12/2004 |
P-12 |
Rescinds rules regarding requirements to offer programs of internship, preparation of teachers, high school internship certificates, and provisional high school certificates subsequent to an approved internship program. Amends rules relating to teacher education programs, licensure, professional or associate license renewals, and educational aide permits. OHIO REG 11708 (SN)
Title: OAC 3301-21-10, -11, -23-30 thru -32, -24-01, -03 thru -05, -07, -08, -25-01 thru -05, -07, -08
Source: StateNet |
Accountability--Accreditation |
Rule Adoption 10/2004 |
P-12 |
Amends rules regarding accreditation of education programs, applications, fees, suspensions, and revocations. OHIO REG 11562 (SN)
Title: OAC 4715-12-04
Source: StateNet |
Attendance |
Rule Adoption 10/2004 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to the establishment of an education program for parents of truant students. OHIO REG 11546 (SN)
Title: OAC 3301-47-01
Source: StateNet |
Reading/Literacy |
Rule Adoption 09/2004 |
P-12 |
Rescinds rules regarding rules for giving public notice of hearings, notice of meetings, definitions, and establishing terms and conditions for participation in the OhioReads Reading Grant program. OHIO REG 11451 (SN)
Title: OAC 3301:1-1-01 thru -04
Source: StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires that upon a child's discharge or release from the custody of the Department of Youth Services certain records pertaining to the child be released to the superintendent of the school district in which the child is entitled to attend school; specifies that a school district's policy on the assignment of students to alternative school may provide for the assignment of any child released from the custody of the Department of Youth Services to such school.
Title: H.B. 106
Source: StateNet |
Accountability--Rewards |
Rule Adoption 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Rescinds rules pertaining to process and indicators used to identify excellent schools and districts, corrective action plans, state monitors, and academic watch and academic emergency districts. Amends rules regarding provisions for granting exemptions from state statutory provisions and rules. Proposes new rules regarding school building and district improvement planning, parent notification, and consequences procedures. OHIO REG 11285 (SN)
Title: OAC 3301-15-01 thru -05, -56-01
Source: StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Increases penalties for certain drug offenses if the offense is committed in the vicinity of a school or in the vicinity of a juvenile; expands the offense of endangering children to prohibit allowing children to be within the vicinity of certain drug offenses.
Title: S.B. 58
Source: StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec. |
Establishes a requirement that institutions of higher education require students living in on- campus housing to be vaccinated for meningitis or obtain a waiver of the Vaccination Requirement.
Title: H.B. 142
Source: StateNet |
Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 |
· Creates an Educator Standards Board to develop and submit to the State Board of Education recommendations for statewide educator standards and carry out other functions recommended by the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success.
· Directs the Department of Education to establish a state office within the Department to support the Educator Standards Board.
· Requires school districts to use professional development standards developed by the Educator Standards Board.
· Directs the State Board of Education and the Joint Council of the State Board of Education and the Ohio Board of Regents to create guidelines for the evaluation of principals and teachers.
· Eliminates the authority of the State Board of Education to issue internship certificates.
· Eliminates the authority of the State Board of Education to issue temporary educator licenses for employment as a superintendent or another administrative position.
· Requires the State Board of Education to create an alternative principal license and an alternative administrator license.
· Restricts the required delayed effective date for any educator licensing rule adopted, amended, or rescinded by the State Board of Education only to cases where the proposed rule, amendment, or rescission will necessitate curriculum changes in college and university teacher preparation programs.
· Clarifies that an Alternative Educator License must be issued to a qualified applicant upon the request of specified school officials.
· Prescribes the timing of subject area testing for applicants for the Provisional Educator License who are employed as intervention specialists under the Alternative Educator License.
· Provides a qualified immunity for teacher performance assessors, trainers, and coordinators and for teacher performance assessment entities in civil actions concerning performance assessments of candidates for the Professional Educator License.
· Expands the rulemaking authority of the State Board of Education with respect to allowing schools to hire teachers considered to be rehabilitated from past offenses.
· Authorizes the State Board or the Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue subpoenas, take depositions, and compel production of evidence in pre-hearing investigations of educator license applicants or holders.
· Requires the State Board to adopt rules establishing standards and requirements for issuing permits to individuals who are not licensed educators but who wish to be employed by school districts to direct, supervise, or coach pupil activity programs.
· Establishes a Credential Review Board, appointed by the State Board of Education, to perform duties with respect to assessing alternative pathway educators and out-of-state educators.
· Requires the Ohio School Facilities Commission, when reviewing design plans, to consider whether the plans reflect designs recommended by the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success.
· Obligates the Board of Regents to develop regional articulation agreements for teacher education programs among state institutions of higher education by December 31, 2004.
· Directs the Legislative Office of Education Oversight (LOEO) to study minimum teacher salaries in Ohio and selected other states and report findings by September 30, 2004.
· Requires the Department of Education to develop proposals for several pilot programs recommended by the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success.
· Charges the Department of Education with defining a "hard to staff" school within 90 days of the bill's effective date.
· Implements other recommendations of the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success.
· Establishes a grant program for school districts that choose to implement specific changes within a school.
· Requires the Department of Education, when sufficient funding is available, to develop a pilot project in at least two school districts that contain "hard to staff" schools.
· Clarifies the due dates and methodology of several studies conducted by LOEO.
· Repeals the requirement that LOEO issue an annual composite report on community schools.
· Repeals the requirement that the Ohio SchoolNet Commission maintain a clearinghouse of information for classroom teachers.
· Generally limits school districts to spending a combined total of an amount equal to 20% of their Title I funds to pay for transportation for students transferring under public school choice and for supplemental educational services.
· Requires school districts with a three-year average graduation rate of 75% or less (in addition to academic watch and academic emergency districts as under current law) to administer practice versions of the Ohio Graduation Tests (OGT) to ninth grade students.
· Clarifies other requirements related to the administration of practice versions of the OGT.
· Requires the eighth grade social studies achievement test to be phased in beginning in the 2006-2007 school year (one year earlier than under current law).
· Extends the deadline for the summer administration of the third grade reading achievement test.
· Extends the deadline for adoption of diagnostic assessments by the State Board of Education to July 1, 2008.
· Requires school districts to administer diagnostic assessments to intradistrict transfer students only if such students have not taken the assessments at another district school in the current school year.
· Makes technical corrections to the recently enacted law denying state financial aid to college students convicted of riot-related offenses. Link to analysis: http://lsc.state.oh.us/analyses/analysis125.nsf/c68a7e88e02f43a985256dad004e48aa/28756df2eb75b85985256dc70047070f?OpenDocument
Title: S.B. 2
Source: http://lsc.state.oh.us |
High School |
Signed into law 12/2003 |
P-12 |
Grants high school diplomas to veterans of the Korean Conflict and to expand eligibility for diplomas to certain non-resident veterans who attended Ohio high schools; clarifies the educational qualifications for county sheriffs.
Title: H.B. 75
Source: StateNet |
Finance |
Did Not Pass 11/2003 |
Postsec. |
Constitutional Amendment that authorizes state and local governments to issue bonds and provide other financial assistance to support "science and technology based research and development purposes," including biomedical and other research, new product development and commercialization, capital formation, operating costs, and support for public and private institutions of higher education, research organizations, institutions or facilities, and private sector business and industry, as may be provided for by state or local law, but excluding purposes already provided for in Section 15 of Article VIII of the Ohio Constitution. http://serform.sos.state.oh.us/sos/results/2003/issue/lang.htm and http://election.sos.state.oh.us/Results/CountyBreakdownOracle.aspx
Title: State Issue 1
Source: Ohio State Web site |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 |
Creates the Ohio Accountability Task Force to study the state's accountability system (to make recommendations, periodically review fees for data analysis and reporting, periodically report to the department and state board, to examine the implementation of the value-added progress dimension and the reporting of performance data. Defines "graduation rate" as the ratio of students receiving a diploma to the number of students who entered ninth grade four years earlier. Students who transfer into the district are added to that calculation. Students who transfer out of the district for reasons other than dropout are subtracted from the calculation. Directs the Legislative Office of Education Oversight to conduct a study of each of the following: the academic achievement gap, (2) the provision of intervention services, (3) the Ohio Graduation Test performance of the Class of 2007, and (4) the progress of meeting the federal requirement of having only "highly qualified" teachers in core subject areas. Eliminates the requirement that certain state board rules be approved by the General Assembly prior to taking effect.
Title: H.B. 3--Section 3302.01
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 |
This section defines "performance index score;" defines subgroups as major racial and ethic groups, students with disabilities, economically disadvantaged, and limited English proficient students. Defines "other academic indicators" as attendance rate for elementary and middle schools and the graduation rate for high schools. Defines "Annual measurable objective"and requires 95% of the student population and each subgroup to be tested, except for any subgroup that contains less than 40 students. In calculating AYP, subgroups of 30 or more are counted, except students with disabilities is not used in the calculation unless it contains 45 or more students.
Title: H.B. 3--3302.01
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires, by July 1, 2005 and not later than July 1, 2007, the implementation of a value-added progress dimension for districts and buildings, and the integration of that dimension into the report cards and performance ratings. Requires the state board to adopt rules. Requires assessment data to be disaggregated by age group, race/ethnicity, gender, performance of those who have been enrolled in a district or school for 3 or more years, performance of those enrolled in a district or school for one year or less, economically disadvantaged, those enrolled in a conversion community school (charter school), limited proficient, disabilities and migrant. Reports must include information pertaining to any change from the previous year on any performance indicator and a list of additional iformation collected by the department that is available for the district or building for which the report card is issued. When available, this must include mobility data disaggregated by race and socioeconomic status, college enrollment data, and data from other required reports. The minimum number for reporting subgroup information is 10. Annual reports must include the performance index score of the district or building, whether it has made adequate yearly progress, and whether it is excellent, effective, needs continuous improvement, is under academic watch, or is in a state of academic emergency. In calculating the rates of achievement on the performance indicators and the performance index scores for each a school performance report, the department must exclude all students with disabilities. Requires the inclusion of the percentage of "highly qualified" teachers on the report cards. Reports may include additional education and fiscal data.
Title: H.B. 3--Sec. 3302-021
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 |
Spells out what constitutes school or district status of "excellent," "effective," "in need of continuous improvement," "academic watch" and "academic emergency." Sets out requirements for processes and consequences of failing to meet adequate yearly progress that include provisions for each additional year that AYP is not met. After five consecutive years, for example, these include reopening the school as a community school (charter); replacing personnel; contracting with a nonprofit or for-profit entity to operate the building; turning operation over to the department; otherwise restructuring the buiding's governance.
Title: H.B. 3--Section 3302.03
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 |
Directs the department to establish a system of "intensive, ongoing support" for the improveoment of school districts and buildings. Eliminates the requirement that the department provide the Ohio SchoolNet Commission with an annotated bibliography of successful intervention practices.
Title: H.B. 3 - School Support
Source: Digest of Enactments 2003 |
Assessment |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board to develop tests to revise the system of statewide achievement testing to include annual achievement tests in reading and math in grades three through eight. Requires the state board to designate five ranges of scores on the tests (advanced, accelerated, proficient, basic and limited). States that any committee established by the department for making recommendations regarding the state board's designation of scores on the tests must inform the board of the probable percentage of students who would score in each of the ranges. To the extent possible, these percentages must be disaggregated by the subgroups designated under No Child Left Behind. Also deletes language that allowed English language learners to be temporarily exempted from testing and coforms the definition of ELL to federal law. Section 0714 concerns the administration of diagnostic assessments. Requires districts to annually assess the progress of LEP students in learning English. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=125_HB_3
Title: H.B. 3--Section 3301.0710
Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Attendance |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires the department of education, by January 1, 2004, to provide to the General Assembly a feasible standard for measuring school district attendance rates.
Title: H.B. 3 - Omnibus Bill -- Attendance Rates
Source: Digest of Enactments 2003 |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board, by September 30, 2003, to recommend to the General Assembly standards governing the operation of Internet- or computer-based community schools. Permits any existing start-up community schools that has been established in an Urban 21 district that is not a challenged district -- to continue to operate. Permits an educational service center (ESC) to sponsor a community school in any challenged school district.
Title: H.B. 3
Source: Digest of Enactments 2003 |
Demographics--Enrollments |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 |
If parents relocate, but the student was enrolled at the end of the first full week of October, the student may continue to attend schools in the district. Parents must provide written notification to the superintendent of each of the two districts, and the district must have a policy to support.. The following year, the student must attend the district in which the family resides.
Title: H.B. 3--313.64 (H)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
No Child Left Behind--Finance |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires the superintendent of public instruction to submit a report to the general assesmbly within 90 days after the act's effective data describing the projected cost of compliance with the No Child Left Behind Act and the financial consequences for noncompliance with that act.
Title: H.B. 3
Source: Digest of Enactments 2003 |
No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 |
This section requires the district to spend a combined total of of the funds it receives under Title I, Part A, to provide transportation for students who enroll in alternative buildings and to pay the costs of the supplemental educational services provided to students, unless the district can satisfy all demand for transportation and pay the costs of supplemental services for those students who request them with a lesser amount. In allocating the funds, the district must spend at least 5% of such funds to provide transportation, unless it can satisfy all demand with a lesser amount, and at least 5% of such funds to pay the costs of supplemental services, unless it can pay the costs of such services for all students requesting them with a lesser amount. If 20% is insufficient to satisfy all demand for transportation and supplemental services, the district must give priority to the lowest achieving students among the subgroup of economically disadvantaged students. Districts that do not receive federal Title I funds are not required to provide these services.
Title: H.B. 3--Sec. 3302.04
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
If assets of the Ohio tuition trust authority are found to be insufficient to ensure actuarial soundness, the authority must adjust the price of subsequent purchases of tuition credits to the extent necessary to help restore the actuarial soundness of the fund. It these actions are not likely to restore soundness and external economic factors continue to negatively impact the soundness of the program, the authority may suspend sales, either permanently or temporarily, of tuition credits. During any suspension, the authority must continue to service existing college savings program accounts.
Title: H.B. 3--Sec. 3334.12
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 |
This section specififes that the following options available to districts under the third grad reading guarantee for students who receive a limited score on the third grade reading achievement test apply to special education students: (1) promotion to 4th grade if the principal and reading teacher agree that other evaluations of the stuent's work indicate that the student is academically prepared for 4th grade;. (2) promotion to 4th grade with "intensive intervention" in that grade, or (3) retention in 3rd grade.
Title: H.B. 3 -- Third Grade Reading Guarantee
Source: Digest of Enactments 2003 |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 |
This section requires the department to use a system designed for collecting necessary data, calculating the value-added progress dimension, analyzing data, and generating reports, which system has been used previously by a non-profit organization led by the Ohio business community for at least one year in the operation of a pilot program in cooperation with districts to collect and report student achievement data via electronic means and to provide information to the districts regarding the academic performance of individual students, grade levels, school buildings, and the districts as a whole. Prohibits the department from paying more than two dollars per student for data analysis and reporting to implement the value-added progress dimension in the same manner and with the same services as under the pilot program described above. However, nothing in this section precludes the department or any district from entering into a contract for the provision of more services at a higher fee per student.
Title: H.B. 3--Sec. 3302.021
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Student Supports--Remediation |
Signed into law 08/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires intervention services be provided to students who fail to demonstrate at least a score at the proficient level on a required state assessment.
Title: H.B. 3--Section 3301.0711(D)
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules relating to community schools. Provides for approval of sponsors, sponsorship agreement, reporting requirements for all sponsors, payments, adjustments and deductions for community schools, and revocation of sponsorship authority. OHIO REG 10596 (SN)
Title: OAC 3301-102-01 thru -07
Source: StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Funding Formula:
Eliminates the requirement that the General Assembly recalculate the base funding amount every six years.
Eliminates school districts ability to calculate their student enrollment on a three year rolling basis.
Requires the Department to develop a new method for determining school district attendance rates.
Decreases the annual inflation factor in the funding formula from 2.8% to 2.2%.
Vouchers:
Increases the amount of the Pilot Scholarship Program (Cleveland Vouchers) from $2,500 to $3,000.
Allows for 9th and 10th graders to qualify for the Cleveland Vouchers and increases the amount of private tuition that parents can be required to pay in addition to the funds provided by the voucher.
Charters:
Requires the state to pay charter schools, instead of school districts, for each enrolled student. In addition states are to subtract funding for each student who leaves a district school to attend a charter school.
Title: H.B. 95
Source: Digest of Enactments 2003 |
Reading/Literacy |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules pertaining to OhioReads classroom reading grant program. Specifies rule for giving public notice of hearings, notice of meetings. Provides definition of terms. OHIO REG 10572 (SN)
Title: OAC 3301:1-1-01, 02, 03, 04, 05
Source: StateNet |
No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Rule Adoption 05/2003 |
P-12 |
New definition states that a highly qualified teacher is one who holds at least a bachelor's degree and has full state certification through a Board-approved certificate or license, such as a professional teaching license for Pre K-3 or 4-9 at the elementary level, or for K-12 or 7-12 at the middle and secondary level. Also has conditions for teachers who are new and not new to their particular fields and for teachers who have an alternative educator license. Teachers who are not considered to be highly qualified include those who hold conditional permits or temporary licenses, and those teaching outside their field. Passed a resolution of intent to adopt model curricula for math and English Language Arts for the purpose of meeting the requirements of 3301.07.09. Also passed resolution to establish "basic" and "below basic" levels of skill for the 4th -grade proficiency test in mathematics, writing, scence and citizenship and for the 6th-grade proficiency tests in reading, mathematics, writing, science and citizenship for the purpose of implementing the performance index that is a component of Ohio's statewide school building and school district accountability system. OHIO REG 10455 (SN) http://www.ode.state.oh.us/board/meetings/april03/minutes.asp and http://onlinedocs.andersonpublishing.com/oh/lpExt.dll/OAC/4b31/4d32/4d49?fn=document-frame.htm&f=templates&2.0
Title: OAC 3301-24-05
Source: StateNet |
Adult Basic Education |
Rule Adoption 04/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Establishes rules regarding criteria for enrolling eligible adults in public secondary education programs. Addresses definitions, adult high school diploma programs, program elements, basis for awarding adult high school credits, and criteria for issuing adult diplomas. Addresses administering ninth-grade proficiency tests to eligible adults, criteria and procedures for exemption of job ready general assistance recipients from educational/skills training programs. Regards allocation of funds, approval of request for funds, revisions of vocational plans, provisions for nonpublic school students, and full- time equivalent students for vocational education. OHIO REG 10456 (SN)
Title: OAC 3301-42-01; -43-01 thru -06; -45-01; -61-04 thru -15 (non-seq); -67-01
Source: StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Removes the prohibition on establishing a conversion community school as an Internet-or computer-based community school; permits school districts and nonpublic schools to count any hours or partial hours after March 1, 2003, that schools are in session beyond the number of hours required by minimum standards,in order to make up "calamity days" missed due to hazardous weather conditions in excess of the sum of the number of days permitted.
Title: S.B. 12
Source: StateNet |
Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
Adopted 02/2003 |
P-12 |
State board unanimously approved a school funding resolution expressing the board's commitment to work with the Governor and the Ohio General Assembly to explore ways to better fund Ohio's public schools. The Board requested in the resolution that the Governor consider having State Board representation on his Blue Ribbon Task Force on Financing Student Success.
Source: http://webapp1.ode.state.oh.us/cncs/view.asp?id=421593399211167151 |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 01/2003 |
P-12 |
Provides procedures for the expansion of sponsorship of community schools to certain school districts; creates a Community School Revolving Loan Fund and Community School Security Fund; requires a study of E-schools; related to Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid payments.
Title: H.B. 364
Source: StateNet |
No Child Left Behind |
Adopted 01/2003 |
P-12 |
Board adopted the design for a statewide school building and school district accountability system, which is officially entitled "Ohio's Proposal for a Unitary Accountability System." The measure puts the board on track to fulfill the requirements of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001," which requires states to have "a single statewide State accountability system that will be effective in ensuring that all local educational agencies, public elementary schools, and public secondary schools make adequate yearly progress…" A copy of the accountability plan as adopted by the state board is available on the Ohio Department of Education's web page at the following address: www.ode.state.oh.us/Accountability/default.asp
Title: Resolution
Source: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/board/meetings/january03/minutes.asp |
Technology |
Adopted 11/2002 |
P-12 |
Ohio SchoolNet Commission was created as an independent agency pursuant to Ohio Revised Code Section 3301.80 to administer programs to provide financial and other assistance to school districts and other educational institutions for the acquisition and utilization of educational technology; and the state board no longer has the authority to administer the SchoolNet Program. Establishes terms and conditions for participation in the Schoolnet Plus Program. Outlines responsibilities of the Department of Education. OHIO REG 10168 (SN)
Title: 3301-28-01, -02, -03, -04
Source: StateNet |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Transfers jurisdiction over high school drivers' education courses to the Department of Public Safety; requires school districts offering drivers' education to meet the standards for private entities by a certain date; requires certain driver education courses to include 30 minutes of instruction relating to anatomical gifts and anatomical gift procedures; prohibits reporting of certain student personally identifying information.
Title: H.B. 407
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Increases the maximum compensation for members of school district boards of education and educational service center governing boards; permits compensation to members for attendance at training programs.
Title: S.B. 187
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires public and nonpublic school to have an employee trained in the performance of the Heimlich maneuver present during periods of food service to students.
Title: H.B. 384
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Prohibits, in specified circumstances, the discharge of a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school building or of the school boundaries of any school premises.
Title: H.B. 442
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Civic Education |
Eligible for GOVERNOR'S desk. 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Urges citizens and civic and community leaders of Ohio to vigorously maintain and encourage positive leadership and youth character qualities; designates Ohio as a State of Character, and requests the Congress of the United States to take action upon legislation promoting character education and program development.
Title: H.C.R. 28
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Permits the board of education of a school district to provide for a period of silence each school day for reflection or meditation upon a moral, philosophical, or patriotic theme; prohibits boards of education, schools, or employees of the school district from requiring a pupil to participate in such a period of silence; prohibits the board of education of a school district from adopting policies pertaining to religion or religious expression.
Title: H.B. 394
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12 |
Abolishes the requirement that the State Board of Education be dissolved and recreated following the creation of new State Board of Education districts; specifies that members of the Board as of the time new districts are created shall represent their assigned districts for the term for which they were originally elected; provides terms for appointed members of the SchoolNet Commission. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText124/124_SB_192_PH_Y.html
Title: S.B. 192
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 11/2001 |
P-12 |
Repeals all former district performance indicators, and requires the state board to establish at least 17 new indicators annually through 2006, and every six years thereafter. Requires the state board to notify school districts of new indicators at least two years before they are included in the district's performance rating. Adds the new category of "excellent" to the district performance ratings and permits excellent districts, in addition to effective districts, to be free of certain mandates. Requires district performance ratings to be issued annually rather than triennially as under prior law. Requires the department fo issue report cards for individual buildings in addition to districts. Requires the disaggregation of data on the report cards according to age, race, ethnicity, gender, mobility, vocational education status, and economic status.
Title: S.B. 1
Source: |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 11/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board to establish a standard unit of improvement for buildings and requires districts that are not excellent or effective to develop district-wide continuous improvement plans and to develop continuous improvement plans for buildings within the district that are not excellent or effective. Requires an academic emergency district to implement at least one of the following options: (1) replace the building's principal, (2) redesign the building to address the factors impeding student achievement, (3) institute a new schoolwide curriculum or educational model, (4) contract with a college or university education department, an educational service center, or the state department to operate the building, (5) grant priority under the district's open enrollment policy to students who want to transfer from the building, (6) close the building, or (7) develop an alternative comprehensive plan approved by the department. Requires the department to identify research on the effective use of instructional time and on successful intervention strategies for students from different ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds and to disseminate such studies through the Ohio SchoolNet Commission.
Title: S.B. 1
Source: 2001 Digest of Enactments |
Assessment |
Signed into law 11/2001 |
P-12 |
Eliminates the requirement that school districts implement competency-based education programs. Directs the State Board of Education to develop statewide academic standards for each of grades K-12 in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies; diagnostic assessments aligned with the academic standards for grades kindergarten through two in reading, writing, and math and for grades three through eight in all five subject areas covered by the standards. Requires the State Board to design a model curriculum aligned with the academic standards which school districts may (but are not required to) use for instruction. Requires school districts to administer the diagnostic assessments at least once annually to all students in the appropriate grade levels; to provide intervention services to students whose scores on the diagnostic assessments show that they are unlikely to meet the academic standards. Permits "high-performing" school districts to use assessments other than the diagnostic assessments. Phases in the development of 15 achievement tests (total) in 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, and 10th grades to replace 20 proficiency tests currently administered in 4th, 6th, 9th, and 12th grades. Requires the state board to align the new tests with the academic standards and model curricula.
Title: S.B. 1
Source: 2001 Digest of Enactments |
Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
Signed into law 11/2001 |
P-12 |
Delays the requirement for students to pass all five tests to receive a high school diploma from the class of 2001 to the class of 2007. Provides an alternative graduation requirement for students who pass all of the Ohio Graduation Tests (OGT) except for one and who meet the following criteria: (1) miss the passing score on the failed test by ten points or less, (2) have a 97% attendance rate in high school, (3) have not been expelled during high school, (4) have a grade point average of at least 2.5 in the subject area of the fajiled test, (5) have completed the curriculum requirements in the subject area of the failed test, (6) have taken advantage of intervention programs offered by the district in the subject area of the failed test OR have received comparable services from another source, and (7) hold letters recommending graduation from teachers in the subject area of the failed test and from the high school principal. Mandates that the state board appoint a committee to make recommendations for incorporation of end-of-program assessments into career-technical education programs.
Title: S.B. 1
Source: 2001 Digest of Enactments |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 11/2001 |
P-12 |
Permits school districts that establish certain alternative schools to contract with nonprofit or for profit entities to operate those schools; provides that teachers employed by those entities may be licensed in the same manner as employees of nontax supported schools; establishes criteria for the issuance of a conditional certification of alternative educators; relates to personally identifiable information of students.
Title: H.B. 196
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 11/2001 |
Postsec. |
Exempts from regulation by the State Board of Proprietary School Registration any accredited institution operated by a for-profit corporation that grants baccalaureate and master's degrees approved by the Board of Regents.
Title: S.B. 116
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 11/2001 |
P-12 |
Replaces the fourth grade reading guarantee with a third grade reading guarantee beginning July 1, 2003. Provides districts with three options for students who score below basic on the third grade reading achievement test in the third or fourth grade: (1) promotion to the next grade if the principal and reading teacher agree that other evaluations of the student's work indicate that the student is academically prepared for the next grade, (2) promotion to the next grade with "intensive intervention" in that grade, or (3) retention in the current grade. Requires the intervention services provided to students reading below grade level in first, second, or third grade to include instruction in phonics.
Title: S.B. 1
Source: 2001 Digest of Enactments |
Student Supports--Remediation |
Signed into law 11/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires districts and community schools (charters) to provide intervention services to students who fail to attain a proficient score on any fourth grade proficiency test, and creates an intervention requirement for students who score below the proficient level on any 9th grade proficiency test or below the "basic" level on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th or 8th grade achievement tests. Permits schools and districts to use a below basic score on 4th, 5th. 7th or 8th grade achievement tests "as a factor in any decision to deny promotion" to the next grade level.
Title: S.B. 1
Source: 2001 Digest of Enactments |
Private Schools |
Signed into law 12/2000 |
P-12 |
Expands the use of computer hardware and instructional materials purchased by school districts for use by students enrolled in nonpublic schools within the districts; permits all nonpublic auxiliary services to be delivered through contracts with educational service centers; declares an emergency.
Title: H.B. 768
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 12/2000 |
P-12 |
Permits a school district board to adopt a resolution authorizing expulsion for up to one year to any student making a bomb threat to a school or a school activity.
Title: H.B. 620
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 12/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires that prisoners in the custody of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction participate in educational programs; requires that children who are committed to the Department of Youth Services work toward earning a high school diploma; limits designated types of prisoner employment to prisoners who have earned a high school diploma or certificate of high school equivalence.
Title: S.B. 115
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 11/2000 |
P-12 |
Permits school district boards beginning with the 2000-2001 school year to adopt the first day of August, instead of the thirtieth day of September, as the date by which a child must be five years of age to be admitted to kindergarten and six years of age to be admitted to first grade.
Title: H.B. 383
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 07/2000 |
P-12 |
Re-enacts as a separate act the sections of law adding eight members appointed by the Governor (with advice and consent of Senate) to the State Board of Education, creating a 19-member board. No person may hold office for more than two consecutive 4-year terms. Each elected member (11) must be a resident of the district the member represents. Because of a potential constitutional challenge of this law in its previous form (was one part of an act covering multiple issues) and a push for an all-elected state board, bill came before the legislature for passage as a single-issue law.
Title: H.B. 711
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum--Drivers Education |
Signed by governor 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Eliminates the $50 limit on fees that school districts may charge students for drivers' education.
Title: 1999 H.B. 160
Source: Ohio Legislative Service Commission |
Curriculum--Drivers Education |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Amends section 4508.01 and enacts section 4508.09 of the Revised Code; permits a joint vocational school district to be licensed as a commercial driver training school and to offer instruction and training to students other than regular full-time students in the operation of trucks, commercial cars, and commercial tractors, trailers, and semi-trailers.
Title: S.B. 237
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Sets aside school facilities assistance moneys for school districts with exceptional needs; permits any school district to participate in the School Building Assistance Expedited Local Partnership Program; makes other changes to the Classroom Facilities Assistance Program.
Title: S.B. 272
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a Board of Education to acquire real property needed for school purposes by exchanging real property that the board owns for the property or by using real property that the board owns as consideration in the purchase of the property.
Title: S.B. 269
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
Postsec. |
Grants in-state tuition rates and subsidies at certain public institutions of higher education to residents of contiguous states who are employed in Ohio and whose employers contract to pay their tuition and fees.
Title: S.B. 53
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
Postsec. |
Permits the Board of Trustees of a State college or university to establish rules that describe circumstances in which an employee of that institution may solicit or may be given a financial interest in any firm, corporation, or other association to which the board has assigned, licensed, transferred, or sold the institution's interest in discoveries, inventions, intellectual property, or patents resulting from research; prescribes coordination with the Ethics Commission.
Title: S.B. 286
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
Postsec. |
Clarifies the authority of the boards of trustees of, or officers designated by the boards of trustees of, state-supported colleges or universities over decision making related to employees of these institutions; eliminates the requirement for a technical college district to select a depository for its funds in accordance with the Uniform Depository Act.
Title: S.B. 210
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
Signed by governor 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Schools may furnish computer software, CD-ROMs, computer courseware, and online services to students in lieu of textbooks, though these must be free of charge to students. Such "electronic textbooks" offered to students must likewise be made available to teachers, and must be chosen and maintained in the same manner as textbooks, with exception that electronic textbooks may be updated more often than once every four years.
Title: 1999 H.B. 32
Source: Ohio Legislative Service Commission |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Makes certain changes concerning the termination, suspension, and evaluation of certain administrative personnel of school districts and educational service centers.
Title: S.B. 77
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Authorizes the Ohio Tuition Trust Authority to establish a variable college savings program.
Title: S.B. 161
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |