130th Ohio General Assembly
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Sub. H. B. No. 196As Passed by the Senate
As Passed by the Senate

124th General Assembly
Regular Session
2001-2002
Sub. H. B. No. 196


REPRESENTATIVES Husted, Clancy, Peterson, Raga, DeWine, Goodman, DePiero, G. Smith, Ogg, Jerse, White, Schaffer, Willamowski, Schmidt, Gilb, Setzer, Webster, Barrett, Williams, Key, Faber, Allen, Woodard, Calvert, Grendell, Flowers, Buehrer, Reidelbach, Lendrum, Hagan, Womer Benjamin, Schneider, Niehaus, Aslanides, Coates, Blasdel, Collier, Latta, Seitz, Widowfield

SENATORS Robert Gardner, Mumper, Amstutz, Goodman, Harris, Jacobson, Jordan, Wachtmann, White



A BILL
To amend sections 149.43, 3301.0714, 3313.533, 3313.614, 3319.22, 3319.26, 3319.31, and 3319.51 and to enact sections 3319.227 and 3319.302 of the Revised Code and to amend Sections 44.16 and 192 of Am. Sub. H.B. 94 of the 124th General Assembly and to amend Section 11 of Am. Sub. S.B. 1 of the 124th General Assembly to permit school districts that establish certain alternative schools to contract with nonprofit or for profit entities to operate those schools, to provide additional standards for alternative schools operated by nonprofit or for profit entities, to eliminate the requirement that educator licensing rules are subject to the approval of the General Assembly through a concurrent resolution, to require the State Board of Education to issue a one-year conditional teaching permit for individuals intending to seek an alternative educator license, to establish a three-year period for the issuance of one-year conditional teaching permits in the area of intervention specialist, to permit an individual holding an educator license or certificate to teach in an area or grade level different from the individual's licensed or certificated area or grade level for two years under certain conditions, to permit personally identifiable information about a student to be reported to a third party for purposes of assigning a data verification code, to allow the Department of Education to administer the High Schools That Work Program, to change the set-aside for tech prep consortia, to specify the curriculum requirement for a diploma, to change from December 31, 2001, to December 31, 2002, the date by which the Instructional Subsidy and Challenge Review Committee must submit its report to the General Assembly, to require the Governor's Commission on Successful Teachers to recommend alternative pathways for obtaining educator licenses, and to declare an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 149.43, 3301.0714, 3313.533, 3313.614, 3319.22, 3319.26, 3319.31, and 3319.51 be amended and sections 3319.227 and 3319.302 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 149.43.  (A) As used in this section:
(1) "Public record" means any record that is records kept by any public office, including, but not limited to, state, county, city, village, township, and school district units, except that "public and records pertaining to the delivery of educational services by an alternative school in Ohio kept by a nonprofit or for profit entity operating such alternative school pursuant to section 3313.533 of the Revised Code. "Public record" does not mean any of the following:
(a) Medical records;
(b) Records pertaining to probation and parole proceedings;
(c) Records pertaining to actions under section 2151.85 and division (C) of section 2919.121 of the Revised Code and to appeals of actions arising under those sections;
(d) Records pertaining to adoption proceedings, including the contents of an adoption file maintained by the department of health under section 3705.12 of the Revised Code;
(e) Information in a record contained in the putative father registry established by section 3107.062 of the Revised Code, regardless of whether the information is held by the department of job and family services or, pursuant to section 3111.69 of the Revised Code, the office of child support in the department or a child support enforcement agency;
(f) Records listed in division (A) of section 3107.42 of the Revised Code or specified in division (A) of section 3107.52 of the Revised Code;
(g) Trial preparation records;
(h) Confidential law enforcement investigatory records;
(i) Records containing information that is confidential under section 2317.023 or 4112.05 of the Revised Code;
(j) DNA records stored in the DNA database pursuant to section 109.573 of the Revised Code;
(k) Inmate records released by the department of rehabilitation and correction to the department of youth services or a court of record pursuant to division (E) of section 5120.21 of the Revised Code;
(l) Records maintained by the department of youth services pertaining to children in its custody released by the department of youth services to the department of rehabilitation and correction pursuant to section 5139.05 of the Revised Code;
(m) Intellectual property records;
(n) Donor profile records;
(o) Records maintained by the department of job and family services pursuant to section 3121.894 of the Revised Code;
(p) Peace officer residential and familial information;
(q) In the case of a county hospital operated pursuant to Chapter 339. of the Revised Code, information that constitutes a trade secret, as defined in section 1333.61 of the Revised Code;
(r) Information pertaining to the recreational activities of a person under the age of eighteen;
(s) Records provided to, statements made by review board members during meetings of, and all work products of a child fatality review board acting under sections 307.621 to 307.629 of the Revised Code, other than the report prepared pursuant to section 307.626 of the Revised Code;
(t) Records provided to and statements made by the executive director of a public children services agency or a prosecuting attorney acting pursuant to section 5153.171 of the Revised Code other than the information released under that section;
(u) Test materials, examinations, or evaluation tools used in an examination for licensure as a nursing home administrator that the board of examiners of nursing home administrators administers under section 4751.04 of the Revised Code or contracts under that section with a private or government entity to administer;
(v) Records the release of which is prohibited by state or federal law.
(2) "Confidential law enforcement investigatory record" means any record that pertains to a law enforcement matter of a criminal, quasi-criminal, civil, or administrative nature, but only to the extent that the release of the record would create a high probability of disclosure of any of the following:
(a) The identity of a suspect who has not been charged with the offense to which the record pertains, or of an information source or witness to whom confidentiality has been reasonably promised;
(b) Information provided by an information source or witness to whom confidentiality has been reasonably promised, which information would reasonably tend to disclose the source's or witness's identity;
(c) Specific confidential investigatory techniques or procedures or specific investigatory work product;
(d) Information that would endanger the life or physical safety of law enforcement personnel, a crime victim, a witness, or a confidential information source.
(3) "Medical record" means any document or combination of documents, except births, deaths, and the fact of admission to or discharge from a hospital, that pertains to the medical history, diagnosis, prognosis, or medical condition of a patient and that is generated and maintained in the process of medical treatment.
(4) "Trial preparation record" means any record that contains information that is specifically compiled in reasonable anticipation of, or in defense of, a civil or criminal action or proceeding, including the independent thought processes and personal trial preparation of an attorney.
(5) "Intellectual property record" means a record, other than a financial or administrative record, that is produced or collected by or for faculty or staff of a state institution of higher learning in the conduct of or as a result of study or research on an educational, commercial, scientific, artistic, technical, or scholarly issue, regardless of whether the study or research was sponsored by the institution alone or in conjunction with a governmental body or private concern, and that has not been publicly released, published, or patented.
(6) "Donor profile record" means all records about donors or potential donors to a public institution of higher education except the names and reported addresses of the actual donors and the date, amount, and conditions of the actual donation.
(7) "Peace officer residential and familial information" means either of the following:
(a) Any information maintained in a personnel record of a peace officer that discloses any of the following:
(i) The address of the actual personal residence of a peace officer, except for the state or political subdivision in which the peace officer resides;
(ii) Information compiled from referral to or participation in an employee assistance program;
(iii) The social security number, the residential telephone number, any bank account, debit card, charge card, or credit card number, or the emergency telephone number of, or any medical information pertaining to, a peace officer;
(iv) The name of any beneficiary of employment benefits, including, but not limited to, life insurance benefits, provided to a peace officer by the peace officer's employer;
(v) The identity and amount of any charitable or employment benefit deduction made by the peace officer's employer from the peace officer's compensation unless the amount of the deduction is required by state or federal law;
(vi) The name, the residential address, the name of the employer, the address of the employer, the social security number, the residential telephone number, any bank account, debit card, charge card, or credit card number, or the emergency telephone number of the spouse, a former spouse, or any child of a peace officer.
(b) Any record that identifies a person's occupation as a peace officer other than statements required to include the disclosure of that fact under the campaign finance law.
As used in divisions (A)(7) and (B)(5) of this section, "peace officer" has the same meaning as in section 109.71 of the Revised Code and also includes the superintendent and troopers of the state highway patrol; it does not include the sheriff of a county or a supervisory employee who, in the absence of the sheriff, is authorized to stand in for, exercise the authority of, and perform the duties of the sheriff.
(8) "Information pertaining to the recreational activities of a person under the age of eighteen" means information that is kept in the ordinary course of business by a public office, that pertains to the recreational activities of a person under the age of eighteen years, and that discloses any of the following:
(a) The address or telephone number of a person under the age of eighteen or the address or telephone number of that person's parent, guardian, custodian, or emergency contact person;
(b) The social security number, birth date, or photographic image of a person under the age of eighteen;
(c) Any medical record, history, or information pertaining to a person under the age of eighteen;
(d) Any additional information sought or required about a person under the age of eighteen for the purpose of allowing that person to participate in any recreational activity conducted or sponsored by a public office or to use or obtain admission privileges to any recreational facility owned or operated by a public office.
(B)(1) Subject to division (B)(4) of this section, all public records shall be promptly prepared and made available for inspection to any person at all reasonable times during regular business hours. Subject to division (B)(4) of this section, upon request, a public office or person responsible for public records shall make copies available at cost, within a reasonable period of time. In order to facilitate broader access to public records, public offices shall maintain public records in a manner that they can be made available for inspection in accordance with this division.
(2) If any person chooses to obtain a copy of a public record in accordance with division (B)(1) of this section, the public office or person responsible for the public record shall permit that person to choose to have the public record duplicated upon paper, upon the same medium upon which the public office or person responsible for the public record keeps it, or upon any other medium upon which the public office or person responsible for the public record determines that it reasonably can be duplicated as an integral part of the normal operations of the public office or person responsible for the public record. When the person seeking the copy makes a choice under this division, the public office or person responsible for the public record shall provide a copy of it in accordance with the choice made by the person seeking the copy.
(3) Upon a request made in accordance with division (B)(1) of this section, a public office or person responsible for public records shall transmit a copy of a public record to any person by United States mail within a reasonable period of time after receiving the request for the copy. The public office or person responsible for the public record may require the person making the request to pay in advance the cost of postage and other supplies used in the mailing.
Any public office may adopt a policy and procedures that it will follow in transmitting, within a reasonable period of time after receiving a request, copies of public records by United States mail pursuant to this division. A public office that adopts a policy and procedures under this division shall comply with them in performing its duties under this division.
In any policy and procedures adopted under this division, a public office may limit the number of records requested by a person that the office will transmit by United States mail to ten per month, unless the person certifies to the office in writing that the person does not intend to use or forward the requested records, or the information contained in them, for commercial purposes. For purposes of this division, "commercial" shall be narrowly construed and does not include reporting or gathering news, reporting or gathering information to assist citizen oversight or understanding of the operation or activities of government, or nonprofit educational research.
(4) A public office or person responsible for public records is not required to permit a person who is incarcerated pursuant to a criminal conviction or a juvenile adjudication to inspect or to obtain a copy of any public record concerning a criminal investigation or prosecution or concerning what would be a criminal investigation or prosecution if the subject of the investigation or prosecution were an adult, unless the request to inspect or to obtain a copy of the record is for the purpose of acquiring information that is subject to release as a public record under this section and the judge who imposed the sentence or made the adjudication with respect to the person, or the judge's successor in office, finds that the information sought in the public record is necessary to support what appears to be a justiciable claim of the person.
(5) Upon written request made and signed by a journalist on or after December 16, 1999, a public office, or person responsible for public records, having custody of the records of the agency employing a specified peace officer shall disclose to the journalist the address of the actual personal residence of the peace officer and, if the peace officer's spouse, former spouse, or child is employed by a public office, the name and address of the employer of the peace officer's spouse, former spouse, or child. The request shall include the journalist's name and title and the name and address of the journalist's employer and shall state that disclosure of the information sought would be in the public interest.
As used in division (B)(5) of this section, "journalist" means a person engaged in, connected with, or employed by any news medium, including a newspaper, magazine, press association, news agency, or wire service, a radio or television station, or a similar medium, for the purpose of gathering, processing, transmitting, compiling, editing, or disseminating information for the general public.
(C) If a person allegedly is aggrieved by the failure of a public office to promptly prepare a public record and to make it available to the person for inspection in accordance with division (B) of this section, or if a person who has requested a copy of a public record allegedly is aggrieved by the failure of a public office or the person responsible for the public record to make a copy available to the person allegedly aggrieved in accordance with division (B) of this section, the person allegedly aggrieved may commence a mandamus action to obtain a judgment that orders the public office or the person responsible for the public record to comply with division (B) of this section and that awards reasonable attorney's fees to the person that instituted the mandamus action. The mandamus action may be commenced in the court of common pleas of the county in which division (B) of this section allegedly was not complied with, in the supreme court pursuant to its original jurisdiction under Section 2 of Article IV, Ohio Constitution, or in the court of appeals for the appellate district in which division (B) of this section allegedly was not complied with pursuant to its original jurisdiction under Section 3 of Article IV, Ohio Constitution.
(D) Chapter 1347. of the Revised Code does not limit the provisions of this section.
(E)(1) The bureau of motor vehicles may adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to reasonably limit the number of bulk commercial special extraction requests made by a person for the same records or for updated records during a calendar year. The rules may include provisions for charges to be made for bulk commercial special extraction requests for the actual cost of the bureau, plus special extraction costs, plus ten per cent. The bureau may charge for expenses for redacting information, the release of which is prohibited by law.
(2) As used in divisions (B)(3) and (E)(1) of this section:
(a) "Actual cost" means the cost of depleted supplies, records storage media costs, actual mailing and alternative delivery costs, or other transmitting costs, and any direct equipment operating and maintenance costs, including actual costs paid to private contractors for copying services.
(b) "Bulk commercial special extraction request" means a request for copies of a record for information in a format other than the format already available, or information that cannot be extracted without examination of all items in a records series, class of records, or data base by a person who intends to use or forward the copies for surveys, marketing, solicitation, or resale for commercial purposes. "Bulk commercial special extraction request" does not include a request by a person who gives assurance to the bureau that the person making the request does not intend to use or forward the requested copies for surveys, marketing, solicitation, or resale for commercial purposes.
(c) "Commercial" means profit-seeking production, buying, or selling of any good, service, or other product.
(d) "Special extraction costs" means the cost of the time spent by the lowest paid employee competent to perform the task, the actual amount paid to outside private contractors employed by the bureau, or the actual cost incurred to create computer programs to make the special extraction. "Special extraction costs" include any charges paid to a public agency for computer or records services.
(3) For purposes of divisions (E)(1) and (2) of this section, "commercial surveys, marketing, solicitation, or resale" shall be narrowly construed and does not include reporting or gathering news, reporting or gathering information to assist citizen oversight or understanding of the operation or activities of government, or nonprofit educational research.
Sec. 3301.0714.  (A) The state board of education shall adopt rules for a statewide education management information system. The rules shall require the state board to establish guidelines for the establishment and maintenance of the system in accordance with this section and the rules adopted under this section. The guidelines shall include:
(1) Standards identifying and defining the types of data in the system in accordance with divisions (B) and (C) of this section;
(2) Procedures for annually collecting and reporting the data to the state board in accordance with division (D) of this section;
(3) Procedures for annually compiling the data in accordance with division (G) of this section;
(4) Procedures for annually reporting the data to the public in accordance with division (H) of this section.
(B) The guidelines adopted under this section shall require the data maintained in the education management information system to include at least the following:
(1) Student participation and performance data, for each grade in each school district as a whole and for each grade in each school building in each school district, that includes:
(a) The numbers of students receiving each category of instructional service offered by the school district, such as regular education instruction, vocational education instruction, specialized instruction programs or enrichment instruction that is part of the educational curriculum, instruction for gifted students, instruction for handicapped students, and remedial instruction. The guidelines shall require instructional services under this division to be divided into discrete categories if an instructional service is limited to a specific subject, a specific type of student, or both, such as regular instructional services in mathematics, remedial reading instructional services, instructional services specifically for students gifted in mathematics or some other subject area, or instructional services for students with a specific type of handicap. The categories of instructional services required by the guidelines under this division shall be the same as the categories of instructional services used in determining cost units pursuant to division (C)(3) of this section.
(b) The numbers of students receiving support or extracurricular services for each of the support services or extracurricular programs offered by the school district, such as counseling services, health services, and extracurricular sports and fine arts programs. The categories of services required by the guidelines under this division shall be the same as the categories of services used in determining cost units pursuant to division (C)(4)(a) of this section.
(c) Average student grades in each subject in grades nine through twelve;
(d) Academic achievement levels as assessed by the testing of student achievement under sections 3301.0710 and 3301.0711 of the Revised Code;
(e) The number of students designated as having a handicapping condition pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code;
(f) The numbers of students reported to the state board pursuant to division (C)(2) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code;
(g) Attendance rates and the average daily attendance for the year. For purposes of this division, a student shall be counted as present for any field trip that is approved by the school administration.
(h) Expulsion rates;
(i) Suspension rates;
(j) The percentage of students receiving corporal punishment;
(k) Dropout rates;
(l) Rates of retention in grade;
(m) For pupils in grades nine through twelve, the average number of carnegie units, as calculated in accordance with state board of education rules;
(n) Graduation rates, to be calculated in a manner specified by the department of education that reflects the rate at which students who were in the ninth grade three years prior to the current year complete school and that is consistent with nationally accepted reporting requirements;
(o) Results of diagnostic assessments administered to kindergarten students as required under section 3301.0715 of the Revised Code to permit a comparison of the academic readiness of kindergarten students. However, no district shall be required to report to the department the results of any diagnostic assessment administered to a kindergarten student if the parent of that student requests the district not to report those results.
(2) Personnel and classroom enrollment data for each school district, including:
(a) The total numbers of licensed employees and nonlicensed employees and the numbers of full-time equivalent licensed employees and nonlicensed employees providing each category of instructional service, instructional support service, and administrative support service used pursuant to division (C)(3) of this section. The guidelines adopted under this section shall require these categories of data to be maintained for the school district as a whole and, wherever applicable, for each grade in the school district as a whole, for each school building as a whole, and for each grade in each school building.
(b) The total number of employees and the number of full-time equivalent employees providing each category of service used pursuant to divisions (C)(4)(a) and (b) of this section, and the total numbers of licensed employees and nonlicensed employees and the numbers of full-time equivalent licensed employees and nonlicensed employees providing each category used pursuant to division (C)(4)(c) of this section. The guidelines adopted under this section shall require these categories of data to be maintained for the school district as a whole and, wherever applicable, for each grade in the school district as a whole, for each school building as a whole, and for each grade in each school building.
(c) The total number of regular classroom teachers teaching classes of regular education and the average number of pupils enrolled in each such class, in each of grades kindergarten through five in the district as a whole and in each school building in the school district.
(3)(a) Student demographic data for each school district, including information regarding the gender ratio of the school district's pupils, the racial make-up of the school district's pupils, and an appropriate measure of the number of the school district's pupils who reside in economically disadvantaged households. The demographic data shall be collected in a manner to allow correlation with data collected under division (B)(1) of this section. Categories for data collected pursuant to division (B)(3) of this section shall conform, where appropriate, to standard practices of agencies of the federal government.
(b) With respect to each student entering kindergarten, whether the student previously participated in a public preschool program, a private preschool program, or a head start program, and the number of years the student participated in each of these programs.
(C) The education management information system shall include cost accounting data for each district as a whole and for each school building in each school district. The guidelines adopted under this section shall require the cost data for each school district to be maintained in a system of mutually exclusive cost units and shall require all of the costs of each school district to be divided among the cost units. The guidelines shall require the system of mutually exclusive cost units to include at least the following:
(1) Administrative costs for the school district as a whole. The guidelines shall require the cost units under this division (C)(1) to be designed so that each of them may be compiled and reported in terms of average expenditure per pupil in formula ADM in the school district, as determined pursuant to section 3317.03 of the Revised Code.
(2) Administrative costs for each school building in the school district. The guidelines shall require the cost units under this division (C)(2) to be designed so that each of them may be compiled and reported in terms of average expenditure per full-time equivalent pupil receiving instructional or support services in each building.
(3) Instructional services costs for each category of instructional service provided directly to students and required by guidelines adopted pursuant to division (B)(1)(a) of this section. The guidelines shall require the cost units under division (C)(3) of this section to be designed so that each of them may be compiled and reported in terms of average expenditure per pupil receiving the service in the school district as a whole and average expenditure per pupil receiving the service in each building in the school district and in terms of a total cost for each category of service and, as a breakdown of the total cost, a cost for each of the following components:
(a) The cost of each instructional services category required by guidelines adopted under division (B)(1)(a) of this section that is provided directly to students by a classroom teacher;
(b) The cost of the instructional support services, such as services provided by a speech-language pathologist, classroom aide, multimedia aide, or librarian, provided directly to students in conjunction with each instructional services category;
(c) The cost of the administrative support services related to each instructional services category, such as the cost of personnel that develop the curriculum for the instructional services category and the cost of personnel supervising or coordinating the delivery of the instructional services category.
(4) Support or extracurricular services costs for each category of service directly provided to students and required by guidelines adopted pursuant to division (B)(1)(b) of this section. The guidelines shall require the cost units under division (C)(4) of this section to be designed so that each of them may be compiled and reported in terms of average expenditure per pupil receiving the service in the school district as a whole and average expenditure per pupil receiving the service in each building in the school district and in terms of a total cost for each category of service and, as a breakdown of the total cost, a cost for each of the following components:
(a) The cost of each support or extracurricular services category required by guidelines adopted under division (B)(1)(b) of this section that is provided directly to students by a licensed employee, such as services provided by a guidance counselor or any services provided by a licensed employee under a supplemental contract;
(b) The cost of each such services category provided directly to students by a nonlicensed employee, such as janitorial services, cafeteria services, or services of a sports trainer;
(c) The cost of the administrative services related to each services category in division (C)(4)(a) or (b) of this section, such as the cost of any licensed or nonlicensed employees that develop, supervise, coordinate, or otherwise are involved in administering or aiding the delivery of each services category.
(D)(1) The guidelines adopted under this section shall require school districts to collect information about individual students, staff members, or both in connection with any data required by division (B) or (C) of this section or other reporting requirements established in the Revised Code. The guidelines may also require school districts to report information about individual staff members in connection with any data required by division (B) or (C) of this section or other reporting requirements established in the Revised Code. The guidelines shall not authorize school districts to request social security numbers of individual students. The guidelines shall prohibit the reporting under this section of any personally identifiable information about any student, including a student's name or address, to the state board of education or the department of education or. The guidelines shall also prohibit the reporting under this section of any personally identifiable information about any student, except for the purpose of assigning the data verification code required by division (D)(2) of this section, to any other person unless such person is employed by the school district or the data acquisition site operated under section 3301.075 of the Revised Code and is authorized by the district or acquisition site to have access to such information. The guidelines may require school districts to provide the social security numbers of individual staff members.
(2) The guidelines shall provide for each school district or community school to assign a data verification code that is unique on a statewide basis over time to each student whose initial Ohio enrollment is in that district or school and to report all required individual student data for that student utilizing such code. The guidelines shall also provide for assigning data verification codes to all students enrolled in districts or community schools on the effective date of the guidelines established under this section.
Individual student data shall be reported to the department through the data acquisition sites utilizing the code but at no time shall anyone other than an employee of the school district or community school in which the student is enrolled the state board or the department have access to information that would enable any data verification code to be matched to personally identifiable student data.
Each school district shall ensure that the data verification code is included in the student's records reported to any subsequent school district or community school in which the student enrolls and shall remove all references to the code in any records retained in the district or school that pertain to any student no longer enrolled. Any such subsequent district or school shall utilize the same identifier in its reporting of data under this section.
(E) The guidelines adopted under this section may require school districts to collect and report data, information, or reports other than that described in divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section for the purpose of complying with other reporting requirements established in the Revised Code. The other data, information, or reports may be maintained in the education management information system but are not required to be compiled as part of the profile formats required under division (G) of this section or the annual statewide report required under division (H) of this section.
(F) Beginning with the school year that begins July 1, 1991, the board of education of each school district shall annually collect and report to the state board, in accordance with the guidelines established by the board, the data required pursuant to this section. A school district may collect and report these data notwithstanding section 2151.358 or 3319.321 of the Revised Code.
(G) The state board shall, in accordance with the procedures it adopts, annually compile the data reported by each school district pursuant to division (D) of this section. The state board shall design formats for profiling each school district as a whole and each school building within each district and shall compile the data in accordance with these formats. These profile formats shall:
(1) Include all of the data gathered under this section in a manner that facilitates comparison among school districts and among school buildings within each school district;
(2) Present the data on academic achievement levels as assessed by the testing of student achievement maintained pursuant to division (B)(1)(e) of this section so that the academic achievement levels of students who are excused from taking any such test pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code are distinguished from the academic achievement levels of students who are not so excused.
(H)(1) The state board shall, in accordance with the procedures it adopts, annually prepare a statewide report for all school districts and the general public that includes the profile of each of the school districts developed pursuant to division (G) of this section. Copies of the report shall be sent to each school district.
(2) The state board shall, in accordance with the procedures it adopts, annually prepare an individual report for each school district and the general public that includes the profiles of each of the school buildings in that school district developed pursuant to division (G) of this section. Copies of the report shall be sent to the superintendent of the district and to each member of the district board of education.
(3) Copies of the reports received from the state board under divisions (H)(1) and (2) of this section shall be made available to the general public at each school district's offices. Each district board of education shall make copies of each report available to any person upon request and payment of a reasonable fee for the cost of reproducing the report. The board shall annually publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the school district, at least twice during the two weeks prior to the week in which the reports will first be available, a notice containing the address where the reports are available and the date on which the reports will be available.
(I) Any data that is collected or maintained pursuant to this section and that identifies an individual pupil is not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
(J) As used in this section:
(1) "School district" means any city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district.
(2) "Cost" means any expenditure for operating expenses made by a school district excluding any expenditures for debt retirement except for payments made to any commercial lending institution for any loan approved pursuant to section 3313.483 of the Revised Code.
(K) Any person who removes data from the information system established under this section for the purpose of releasing it to any person not entitled under law to have access to such information is subject to section 2913.42 of the Revised Code prohibiting tampering with data.
(L) Any time the department of education determines that a school district has taken any of the actions described under division (L)(1), (2), or (3) of this section, it shall make a report of the actions of the district, send a copy of the report to the superintendent of such school district, and maintain a copy of the report in its files:
(1) The school district fails to meet any deadline established pursuant to this section for the reporting of any data to the education management information system;
(2) The school district fails to meet any deadline established pursuant to this section for the correction of any data reported to the education management information system;
(3) The school district reports data to the education management information system in a condition, as determined by the department, that indicates that the district did not make a good faith effort in reporting the data to the system.
Any report made under this division shall include recommendations for corrective action by the school district.
Upon making a report for the first time in a fiscal year, the department shall withhold ten per cent of the total amount due during that fiscal year under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code to the school district to which the report applies. Upon making a second report in a fiscal year, the department shall withhold an additional twenty per cent of such total amount due during that fiscal year to the school district to which the report applies. The department shall not release such funds unless it determines that the district has taken corrective action. However, no such release of funds shall occur if the district fails to take corrective action within ninety days of the date upon which the report was made by the department.
(M) The department of education, after consultation with the Ohio education computer network, may provide at no cost to school districts uniform computer software for use in reporting data to the education management information system, provided that no school district shall be required to utilize such software to report data to the education management information system if such district is so reporting data in an accurate, complete, and timely manner in a format compatible with that required by the education management information system.
(N) The state board of education, in accordance with sections 3319.31 and 3319.311 of the Revised Code, may suspend or revoke a license as defined under division (A) of section 3319.31 of the Revised Code that has been issued to any school district employee found to have willfully reported erroneous, inaccurate, or incomplete data to the education management information system.
(O) No person shall release or maintain any information about any student in violation of this section. Whoever violates this division is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(P) The department shall disaggregate the data collected under division (B)(1)(o) of this section according to the race and socioeconomic status of the students assessed. No data collected under that division shall be included on the report cards required by section 3302.03 of the Revised Code.
(Q) If the department cannot compile any of the information required by division (D)(5) of section 3302.03 of the Revised Code based upon the data collected under this section, the department shall develop a plan and a reasonable timeline for the collection of any data necessary to comply with that division.
Sec. 3313.533.  (A) The board of education of a city, exempted village, or local school district may adopt a resolution to establish and maintain an alternative school in accordance with this section. The resolution shall specify, but not necessarily be limited to, all of the following:
(1) The purpose of the school, which purpose shall be to serve students who are on suspension, who are having truancy problems, who are experiencing academic failure, who have a history of class disruption, or who are exhibiting other academic or behavioral problems specified in the resolution;
(2) The grades served by the school, which may include any of grades kindergarten through twelve;
(3) A requirement that the school be operated in accordance with this section. The board of education adopting the resolution under division (A) of this section shall be the governing board of the alternative school. The board shall develop and implement a plan for the school in accordance with the resolution establishing the school and in accordance with this section. Each plan shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, all of the following:
(a) Specification of the reasons for which students will be accepted for assignment to the school and any criteria for admission that are to be used by the board to approve or disapprove the assignment of students to the school;
(b) Specification of the criteria and procedures that will be used for returning students who have been assigned to the school back to the regular education program of the district;
(c) An evaluation plan for assessing the effectiveness of the school and its educational program and reporting the results of the evaluation to the public.
(B) Notwithstanding any provision of Title XXXIII of the Revised Code to the contrary, the alternative school plan may include any of the following:
(1) A requirement that on each school day students must attend school or participate in other programs specified in the plan or by the chief administrative officer of the school for a period equal to the minimum school day set by the state board of education under section 3313.48 of the Revised Code plus any additional time required in the plan or by the chief administrative officer;
(2) Restrictions on student participation in extracurricular or interscholastic activities;
(3) A requirement that students wear uniforms prescribed by the district board of education.
(C) In accordance with the alternative school plan, the district board of education may employ teachers and nonteaching employees necessary to carry out its duties and fulfill its responsibilities or may contract with a nonprofit or for profit entity to operate the alternative school, including the provision of personnel, supplies, equipment, or facilities.
(D) An alternative school may be established in all or part of a school building.
(E) If a district board of education elects under this section, or is required by section 3313.534 of the Revised Code, to establish an alternative school, the district board may join with the board of education of one or more other districts to form a joint alternative school by forming a cooperative education school district under section 3311.52 or 3311.521 of the Revised Code, or a joint educational program under section 3313.842 of the Revised Code. The authority to employ personnel or to contract with a nonprofit or for profit entity under division (C) of this section applies to any alternative school program established under this division.
(F) Any individual employed as a teacher at an alternative school operated by a nonprofit or for profit entity under this section shall be licensed and shall be subject to background checks, as described in section 3319.39 of the Revised Code, in the same manner as an individual employed by a school district.
(G) Division (G) of this section applies only to any alternative school that is operated by a nonprofit or for profit entity under contract with the school district.
(1) In addition to the specifications authorized under division (B) of this section, any plan adopted under that division for an alternative school to which division (G) of this section also applies shall include the following:
(a) A description of the educational program provided at the alternative school, which shall include:
(i) Provisions for the school to be configured in clusters or small learning communities;
(ii) Provisions for the incorporation of education technology into the curriculum;
(iii) Provisions for accelerated learning programs in reading and mathematics.
(b) A method to determine the reading and mathematics level of each student assigned to the alternative school and a method to continuously monitor each student's progress in those areas. The methods employed under this division shall be aligned with the curriculum adopted by the school district board of education under section 3313.60 of the Revised Code.
(c) A plan for social services to be provided at the alternative school, such as, but not limited to, counseling services, psychological support services, and enrichment programs;
(d) A plan for a student's transition from the alternative school back to a school operated by the school district;
(e) A requirement that the alternative school maintain financial records in a manner that is compatible with the form prescribed for school districts by the auditor of state to enable the district to comply with any rules adopted by the auditor of state.
(2) Notwithstanding division (A)(2) of this section, any alternative school to which division (G) of this section applies shall include only grades six through twelve.
(3) Notwithstanding anything in division (A)(3)(a) of this section to the contrary, the characteristics of students who may be assigned to an alternative school to which division (G) of this section applies shall include only disruptive and low-performing students.
(H) When any district board of education determines to contract with a nonprofit or for profit entity to operate an alternative school under this section, the board shall use the procedure set forth in this division.
(1) The board shall publish notice of a request for proposals in a newspaper of general circulation in the district once each week for a period of at least two consecutive weeks prior to the date specified by the board for receiving proposals. Notices of requests for proposals shall contain a general description of the subject of the proposed contract and the location where the request for proposals may be obtained. The request for proposals shall include all of the following information:
(a) Instructions and information to respondents concerning the submission of proposals, including the name and address of the office where proposals are to be submitted;
(b) Instructions regarding communications, including at least the names, titles, and telephone numbers of persons to whom questions concerning a proposal may be directed;
(c) A description of the performance criteria that will be used to evaluate whether a respondent to which a contract is awarded is meeting the district's educational standards or the method by which such performance criteria will be determined;
(d) Factors and criteria to be considered in evaluating proposals, the relative importance of each factor or criterion, and a description of the evaluation procedures to be followed;
(e) Any terms or conditions of the proposed contract, including any requirement for a bond and the amount of such bond;
(f) Documents that may be incorporated by reference into the request for proposals, provided that the request for proposals specifies where such documents may be obtained and that such documents are readily available to all interested parties.
(2) After the date specified for receiving proposals, the board shall evaluate the submitted proposals and may hold discussions with any respondent to ensure a complete understanding of the proposal and the qualifications of such respondent to execute the proposed contract. Such qualifications shall include, but are not limited to, all of the following:
(a) Demonstrated competence in performance of the required services as indicated by effective implementation of educational programs in reading and mathematics and at least three years of experience successfully serving a student population similar to the student population assigned to the alternative school;
(b) Demonstrated performance in the areas of cost containment, the provision of educational services of a high quality, and any other areas determined by the board;
(c) Whether the respondent has the resources to undertake the operation of the alternative school and to provide qualified personnel to staff the school;
(d) Financial responsibility.
(3) The board shall select for further review at least three proposals from respondents the board considers qualified to operate the alternative school in the best interests of the students and the district. If fewer than three proposals are submitted, the board shall select each proposal submitted. The board may cancel a request for proposals or reject all proposals at any time prior to the execution of a contract.
The board may hold discussions with any of the three selected respondents to clarify or revise the provisions of a proposal or the proposed contract to ensure complete understanding between the board and the respondent of the terms under which a contract will be entered. Respondents shall be accorded fair and equal treatment with respect to any opportunity for discussion regarding clarifications or revisions. The board may terminate or discontinue any further discussion with a respondent upon written notice.
(4) Upon further review of the three proposals selected by the board, the board shall award a contract to the respondent the board considers to have the most merit, taking into consideration the scope, complexity, and nature of the services to be performed by the respondent under the contract.
(5) Except as provided in division (H)(6) of this section, the request for proposals, submitted proposals, and related documents shall become public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code after the award of the contract.
(6) Any respondent may request in writing that the board not disclose confidential or proprietary information or trade secrets contained in the proposal submitted by the respondent to the board. Any such request shall be accompanied by an offer of indemnification from the respondent to the board. The board shall determine whether to agree to the request and shall inform the respondent in writing of its decision. If the board agrees to nondisclosure of specified information in a proposal, such information shall not become a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. If the respondent withdraws its proposal at any time prior to the execution of a contract, the proposal shall not be a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
(I) Upon a recommendation from the department and in accordance with section 3301.16 of the Revised Code, the state board of education may revoke the charter of any alternative school operated by a school district that violates this section.
Sec. 3313.614.  (A) As used in this section, a person "fulfills the curriculum requirement for a diploma" at the time one of the following conditions is satisfied:
(1) The person successfully completes the high school curriculum of a school district, a community school, a chartered nonpublic school, or a correctional institution.
(2) The person successfully completes the individualized education program developed for the person under section 3323.08 of the Revised Code.
(3) A board of education issues its determination under section 3313.611 of the Revised Code that the person qualifies as having successfully completed the curriculum required by the district.
(B) This division specifies the testing requirements that must be fulfilled as a condition toward granting high school diplomas under sections 3313.61, 3313.611, 3313.612, and 3325.08 of the Revised Code.
(1) A person who fulfills the curriculum requirement for a diploma before September 15, 2000, is not required to pass any proficiency test or achievement test in science as a condition to receiving a diploma.
(2) Except as provided in division (B)(3) of this section, a person who fulfills the curriculum requirement for a diploma prior to September 15, 2006, is not required to pass the Ohio graduation test in any subject as a condition to receiving a diploma once the person has passed the ninth grade proficiency test in the same subject, so long as the person passed the ninth grade proficiency test prior to September 15, 2008. For this purpose, the ninth grade proficiency test in citizenship substitutes for the Ohio graduation test in social studies. If a person fulfills the curriculum requirement for a diploma prior to September 15, 2006, but does not pass a ninth grade proficiency test in a particular subject before September 15, 2008, and passage of a test in that subject is a condition for the person to receive a diploma, the person must pass the Ohio graduation test in that subject to receive a diploma.
(3) A person who begins tenth grade after July 1, 2004, in a school district, community school, or chartered nonpublic school is not eligible to receive a diploma based on passage of ninth grade proficiency tests. Each such person must pass Ohio graduation tests to meet the testing requirements applicable to that person as a condition to receiving a diploma.
(C) This division specifies the curriculum requirement that shall be completed as a condition toward granting high school diplomas under sections 3313.61, 3313.611, 3313.612, and 3325.08 of the Revised Code.
(1) A person who is under twenty-two years of age when the person fulfills the curriculum requirement for a diploma shall complete the curriculum required by the school district or school issuing the diploma for the first year that the person originally enrolled in high school.
(2) Once a person fulfills the curriculum requirement for a diploma, the person is never required, as a condition of receiving a diploma, to meet any different curriculum requirements that take effect pending the person's passage of proficiency or achievement tests, including changes mandated by section 3313.603 of the Revised Code, the state board, a school district board of education, or a governing authority of a community school or chartered nonpublic school.
Sec. 3319.22.  (A) The state board of education shall adopt rules establishing the standards and requirements for obtaining temporary, associate, provisional, and professional educator licenses of any categories, types, and levels the board elects to provide. However, no educator license shall be required for teaching children two years old or younger.
(B) Any rules the state board of education adopts, amends, or rescinds for educator licenses under this section, division (D) of section 3301.07 of the Revised Code, or any other law shall be adopted, amended, or rescinded under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code except as follows:
(1) Notwithstanding division (D) of section 119.03 and division (A)(1) of section 119.04 of the Revised Code, the effective date of any rules, or amendment or rescission of any rules, shall not be as prescribed in division (D) of section 119.03 and division (A)(1) of section 119.04 of the Revised Code. Instead, the rules or amendment or rescission of the rules shall take effect only after the rules or amendment or rescission of the rules are filed with the chairpersons of the committees of the house of representatives and of the senate that are primarily responsible for consideration of education legislation and only after approval by the general assembly through adoption of a concurrent resolution by a majority of the members of both the house of representatives and the senate. The effective date of the rules shall be the later of the date on which the concurrent resolution is adopted by the second house or the date prescribed by section 3319.23 of the Revised Code.
(2) Notwithstanding the authority to adopt, amend, or rescind emergency rules in division (F) of section 119.03 of the Revised Code, this authority shall not apply to the state board of education with regard to rules for educator licenses.
(C)(1) The rules adopted under this section establishing standards requiring additional coursework for the renewal of any educator license shall require a school district and a chartered nonpublic school to establish local professional development committees. In a nonpublic school, the chief administrative officer shall establish the committees in any manner acceptable to such officer. The committees established under this division shall determine whether coursework that a district or chartered nonpublic school teacher proposes to complete meets the requirement of the rules. The rules shall establish a procedure by which a teacher may appeal the decision of a local professional development committee.
(2) In any school district in which there is no exclusive representative established under Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, the professional development committees shall be established as described in division (C)(2) of this section.
Not later than the effective date of the rules adopted under this section, the board of education of each school district shall establish the structure for one or more local professional development committees to be operated by such school district. The committee structure so established by a district board shall remain in effect unless within thirty days prior to an anniversary of the date upon which the current committee structure was established, the board provides notice to all affected district employees that the committee structure is to be modified. Professional development committees may have a district-level or building-level scope of operations, and may be established with regard to particular grade or age levels for which an educator license is designated.
Each professional development committee shall consist of at least three classroom teachers employed by the district, one principal employed by the district, and one other employee of the district appointed by the district superintendent. For committees with a building-level scope, the teacher and principal members shall be assigned to that building, and the teacher members shall be elected by majority vote of the classroom teachers assigned to that building. For committees with a district-level scope, the teacher members shall be elected by majority vote of the classroom teachers of the district, and the principal member shall be elected by a majority vote of the principals of the district, unless there are two or fewer principals employed by the district, in which case the one or two principals employed shall serve on the committee. If a committee has a particular grade or age level scope, the teacher members shall be licensed to teach such grade or age levels, and shall be elected by majority vote of the classroom teachers holding such a license and the principal shall be elected by all principals serving in buildings where any such teachers serve. The district superintendent shall appoint a replacement to fill any vacancy that occurs on a professional development committee, except in the case of vacancies among the elected classroom teacher members, which shall be filled by vote of the remaining members of the committee so selected.
Terms of office on professional development committees shall be prescribed by the district board establishing the committees. The conduct of elections for members of professional development committees shall be prescribed by the district board establishing the committees. A professional development committee may include additional members, except that the majority of members on each such committee shall be classroom teachers employed by the district. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration date of the term for which a predecessor was appointed shall hold office as a member for the remainder of that term.
The initial meeting of any professional development committee, upon election and appointment of all committee members, shall be called by a member designated by the district superintendent. At this initial meeting, the committee shall select a chairperson and such other officers the committee deems necessary, and shall adopt rules for the conduct of its meetings. Thereafter, the committee shall meet at the call of the chairperson or upon the filing of a petition with the district superintendent signed by a majority of the committee members calling for the committee to meet.
(3) In the case of a school district in which an exclusive representative has been established pursuant to Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, professional development committees shall be established in accordance with any collective bargaining agreement in effect in the district that includes provisions for such committees.
If the collective bargaining agreement does not specify a different method for the selection of teacher members of the committees, the exclusive representative of the district's teachers shall select the teacher members.
If the collective bargaining agreement does not specify a different structure for the committees, the board of education of the school district shall establish the structure, including the number of committees and the number of teacher and administrative members on each committee; the specific administrative members to be part of each committee; whether the scope of the committees will be district levels, building levels, or by type of grade or age levels for which educator licenses are designated; the lengths of terms for members; the manner of filling vacancies on the committees; and the frequency and time and place of meetings. However, in all cases, except as provided in division (C)(4) of this section, there shall be a majority of teacher members of any professional development committee, there shall be at least five total members of any professional development committee, and the exclusive representative shall designate replacement members in the case of vacancies among teacher members, unless the collective bargaining agreement specifies a different method of selecting such replacements.
(4) Whenever an administrator's coursework plan is being discussed or voted upon, the local professional development committee shall, at the request of one of its administrative members, cause a majority of the committee to consist of administrative members by reducing the number of teacher members voting on the plan.
(D)(1) The department of education, educational service centers, county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, regional professional development centers, special education regional resource centers, college and university departments of education, head start programs, the Ohio SchoolNet commission, and the Ohio education computer network may establish local professional development committees to determine whether the coursework proposed by their employees who are licensed or certificated under this section or section 3319.222 of the Revised Code meet the requirements of the rules adopted under this section. They may establish local professional development committees on their own or in collaboration with a school district or other agency having authority to establish them.
Local professional development committees established by county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities shall be structured in a manner comparable to the structures prescribed for school districts in divisions (C)(2) and (3) of this section, as shall the committees established by any other entity specified in division (D)(1) of this section that provides educational services by employing or contracting for services of classroom teachers licensed or certificated under this section or section 3319.222 of the Revised Code. All other entities specified in division (D)(1) of this section shall structure their committees in accordance with guidelines which shall be issued by the state board.
(2) Any public agency that is not specified in division (D)(1) of this section but provides educational services and employs or contracts for services of classroom teachers licensed or certificated under this section or section 3319.222 of the Revised Code may establish a local professional development committee, subject to the approval of the department of education. The committee shall be structured in accordance with guidelines issued by the state board.
Sec. 3319.227. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this chapter or in any educator licensing rule adopted by the state board of education under authority granted under this chapter, any individual who holds an educator license issued under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code or a teacher's certificate issued under former section 3319.22 of the Revised Code that has continuing effect under section 3319.222 of the Revised Code may be employed to teach for up to two school years in a grade level or in a subject or teaching area for which the individual's license or certificate is not valid, as long as the individual agrees that during that time the individual will enroll in, attend, and complete coursework required by rule of the state board for licensure to teach in that grade level or in that subject or teaching area. The necessary coursework may be completed through classes developed and offered by regional professional development providers, such as special education regional resource centers, regional professional development centers, educational service centers, local education agencies, professional organizations, and institutions of higher education, provided the coursework is taken for credit in collaboration with a college or university that has a teacher education program approved by the state board. No person shall teach in a grade level or subject or teaching area under this section beyond two years until the person has completed all coursework and tests prescribed by the state board for licensure in that grade level or subject or teaching area.
Sec. 3319.26.  The state board of education shall adopt rules establishing the standards and requirements for obtaining an alternative educator license for teaching in grades seven to twelve, or the equivalent, in a designated subject area. However, an alternative educator license in the area of intervention specialist, as defined by rule of the state board, shall be valid for teaching in grades kindergarten to twelve. The rules shall require applicants for the license to hold a minimum of a baccalaureate degree, to have successfully completed 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, and to have passed an examination in the subject area for which application is being made. An alternative educator license shall be valid for two years and shall not be renewable.
The rules shall require the holder of an alternative educator license, as a condition of continuing to hold the license, to show satisfactory progress in taking and successfully completing within two years at least twelve additional semester hours, or the equivalent, of college coursework in the principles and practices of teaching in such topics as student development and learning, pupil assessment procedures, curriculum development, classroom management, and teaching methodology.
The rules shall provide for the granting of a provisional educator license to a holder of an alternative educator license upon successfully completing all of the following:
(A) Two years of teaching under the alternative license;
(B) The twelve semester hours, or the equivalent, of the additional college coursework described in this section;
(C) The assessment of subject matter content and professional knowledge that is required of other applicants for a provisional educator license. The standards for successfully completing this assessment and the manner of conducting the assessment shall be the same as for any other applicant for a provisional educator license.
Sec. 3319.302. It is the intent of the general assembly that the state board of education shall administer this section without adopting any rules for its implementation.
Unless the provisions of division (B) or (C) of section 3319.31 of the Revised Code apply to an applicant, the state board of education shall issue a one-year conditional teaching permit for teaching in grades seven to twelve to any applicant who meets the following conditions:
(A) Holds a bachelor's degree;
(B) Has successfully completed a basic skills test as prescribed by the state board;
(C) Has completed either as part of the applicant's degree program or separate from it the equivalent of at least fifteen semester hours of coursework in the teaching area or subject area in which licensure under this section is sought;
(D) Has completed the equivalent of a total of six semester hours of additional coursework within the past five years with a grade point average of at least 2.5 out of 4.0, or its equivalent, in the areas of the teaching or subject area described in division (C) of this section, characteristics of student learning, diversity of learners, planning for instruction, instruction strategies, learning environments, communication, assessment, or student support and that coursework has been approved by the school district, community school, chartered nonpublic school, or nonprofit or for-profit entity operating an alternative school under section 3313.533 of the Revised Code that will employ the applicant. The coursework may have been completed through classes developed and offered by regional professional development providers, such as special education regional resource centers, regional professional development centers, educational service centers, local educational agencies, professional organizations, and institutions of higher education, provided the coursework is taken for credit in collaboration with a college or university that has a teacher education program approved by the state board.
(E) The applicant has entered into a written agreement with the school district; community school; chartered nonpublic school; or nonprofit or for profit entity operating an alternative school under section 3313.533 of the Revised Code that will employ the applicant and the department of education under which the district, school, or entity will provide for the applicant a structured mentoring program in the areas listed in division (D) of this section that is aligned with the performance expectations prescribed by state board rule for entry-year teachers.
(F) The applicant agrees to complete while employed under the one-year teaching permit the equivalent of an additional three semester hours of coursework in the teaching area or subject area in which the individual is teaching and for which the individual will seek an alternative educator license pursuant to division (G) of this section. The individual's mentor prescribed in division (E) of this section shall assist the individual in selecting coursework to satisfy the requirement prescribed in this division. The coursework may be completed through classes offered by regional professional development providers, such as special education regional resource centers, regional professional development centers, educational service centers, local educational agencies, professional organizations, and institutions of higher education, if the coursework is taken for credit in collaboration with a college or university that has a teacher education program approved by the state board.
(G) The applicant agrees to seek at the conclusion of the year in which the individual is employed under the one-year teaching permit issued under this section an alternative educator license issued under section 3319.26 of the Revised Code in the teaching area or subject area in which the individual has been teaching and plans to continue to teach. The applicant shall not be reemployed by the school district; community school; chartered nonpublic school; or nonprofit or for profit entity operating an alternative school under section 3313.533 of the Revised Code or be employed by another such district, school, or entity unless that alternative educator license is issued to the applicant prior to the beginning of the next school year.
(H) The applicant pays the fee established under section 3319.51 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3319.31.  (A) As used in this section and sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 and 3319.311 of the Revised Code, "license" means a certificate, license, or permit described in division (B) of section 3301.071 or in section 3301.074, 3319.088, or 3319.29, or 3319.302 of the Revised Code.
(B) For any of the following reasons, the state board of education, in accordance with Chapter 119. and section 3319.311 of the Revised Code, may refuse to issue a license to an applicant, may limit a license it issues to an applicant, or may suspend, revoke, or limit a license that has been issued to any person:
(1) Engaging in an immoral act, incompetence, negligence, or conduct that is unbecoming to the applicant's or person's position;
(2) A plea of guilty to, a finding of guilt by a jury or court of, or a conviction of any of the following:
(a) A felony;
(b) A violation of section 2907.04 or 2907.06 or division (A) or (C) of section 2907.07 of the Revised Code;
(c) An offense of violence;
(d) A theft offense, as defined in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code;
(e) A drug abuse offense, as defined in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code, that is not a minor misdemeanor;
(f) A violation of an ordinance of a municipal corporation that is substantively comparable to an offense listed in divisions (B)(2)(a) to (e) of this section.
(C) The state board may take action under division (B) of this section on the basis of substantially comparable conduct occurring in a jurisdiction outside this state or occurring before a person applies for or receives any license.
(D) The state board may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to carry out this section and section 3319.311 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3319.51.  (A) The state board of education shall annually establish the amount of the fees required to be paid under division (B) of section 3301.071 and sections 3301.074, 3319.088, and 3319.29, and 3319.302 of the Revised Code. The amount of these fees shall be such that they, along with any appropriation made to the fund established under division (B) of this section, will be sufficient to cover the annual estimated cost of administering the sections of law listed under division (B) of this section.
(B) There is hereby established in the state treasury the state board of education licensure fund, which shall be used by the state board of education solely to pay the cost of administering sections 3301.071, 3301.074, 3319.088, 3319.22, 3319.28, 3319.29, 3319.291, 3319.301, 3319.302, and 3319.31 of the Revised Code. The fund shall consist of the amounts paid into the fund pursuant to division (B) of section 3301.071 and sections 3301.074, 3319.088, and 3319.29, and 3319.302 of the Revised Code and any appropriations to the fund by the general assembly.
Section 2. That existing sections 149.43, 3301.0714, 3313.533, 3313.614, 3319.22, 3319.26, 3319.31, and 3319.51 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
Section 3. That Sections 44.16 and 192 of Am. Sub. H.B. 94 of the 124th General Assembly be amended to read as follows:
" Sec. 44.16.  CAREER-TECHNICAL EDUCATION ENHANCEMENTS
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-545, Career-Technical Education Enhancements, up to $2,616,001 in each fiscal year shall be used to fund career-technical education units at institutions. Up to $4,200,000 in fiscal year 2002 and up to $4,182,775 in fiscal year 2003 shall be used to fund the Jobs for Ohio Graduates (JOG) program.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-545, Career-Technical Education Enhancements, up to $4,182,573 $4,157,573 in fiscal year 2002 and up to $4,432,573 $4,407,573 in fiscal year 2003 shall be used by the Department of Education to fund competitive grants to tech prep consortia that expand the number of students enrolled in tech prep programs. These grant funds shall be used to directly support expanded tech prep programs, including equipment, provided to students enrolled in school districts, including joint vocational school districts, and affiliated higher education institutions.
If federal funds for career-technical education cannot be used for local school district leadership without being matched by state funds, then an amount as determined by the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be made available from state funds appropriated for career-technical education. If any state funds are used for this purpose, federal funds in an equal amount shall be distributed for career-technical education in accordance with authorization of the state plan for vocational education for Ohio as approved by the Secretary of the United States Department of Education.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-545, Career-Technical Education Enhancements, $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2002 and $3,250,000 in fiscal year 2003 shall be used to provide an amount to each eligible school district for the replacement or updating of equipment essential for the instruction of students in job skills taught as part of a career-technical program or programs approved for such instruction by the State Board of Education. School districts replacing or updating career-technical education equipment may purchase or lease such equipment. The Department of Education shall review and approve all equipment requests and may allot appropriated funds to eligible school districts on the basis of the number of full-time equivalent workforce development teachers in all eligible districts making application for funds.
The State Board of Education may adopt standards of need for equipment allocation. Pursuant to the adoption of any such standards of need by the State Board of Education, appropriated funds may be allotted to eligible districts according to such standards. Equipment funds allotted under either process shall be provided to a school district on a 30, 40, or 50 per cent of cost on the basis of a district career-technical priority index rating developed by the Department of Education for all districts each year. The career-technical priority index shall give preference to districts with a large percentage of disadvantaged students and shall include other socio-economic factors as determined by the State Board of Education.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-545, Career-Technical Education Enhancements, up to $3,650,000 in each fiscal year shall be awarded by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to an Ohio nonprofit corporation used by the Department of Education to support existing High Schools That Work (HSTW) sites, develop new sites, fund technical assistance, and support regional centers and middle school programs. The purpose of HSTW is to combine challenging academic courses and modern vocational and technical studies to raise the academic achievement of students. It provides intensive technical assistance, focused staff development, targeted assessment services, and ongoing communications and networking opportunities. Any grant awarded under this program by the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall require a matching contribution of at least $1,000,000 from the Ohio nonprofit corporation.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-545, Career-Technical Education Enhancements, $3,750,000 in fiscal year 2002 and $4,000,000 in fiscal year 2003 shall be used for K-12 career development.
Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-545, Career-Technical Educational Enhancements, $300,000 in each fiscal year shall be used by the Department of Education to establish the Voc-Ag 5th Quarter Pilot Project. The project shall enable students in agricultural programs to enroll in a fifth quarter of instruction. The fifth quarter concept is based on the long-standing and successful agricultural education model of delivering work-based learning through supervised agricultural experience. The Department of Education shall establish rules governing eligibility criteria and the reporting process for the project that must include the following: (1) a school is required to hire a certified teacher for the fifth quarter, (2) a school must have a curriculum for the fifth quarter that is approved by the Department of Education, (3) students must earn credit for the agricultural experience, (4) the program must be approved by the school district's superintendent, and (5) the program must be in existence on the effective date of this section. The Department of Education shall fund as many programs as possible given the $250,000 set aside. The Department of Education shall report students' performance results under the project to the General Assembly not later than December 31, 2002.
Sec. 192.  There is hereby created the Instructional Subsidy and Challenge Review Committee. The Committee shall contain eleven members: the Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents or the chancellor's designee; two representatives of two-year colleges and two representatives of the state universities identified in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, all four of whom shall be appointed jointly by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives; three members of the Senate appointed by the President of the Senate, two of whom shall be members of the majority party and one of whom shall be a member of the minority party; and three members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House, two of whom shall be members of the majority party and one of whom shall be a member of the minority party. The Committee shall perform a comprehensive review of the allocation formula for the State Share of Instruction appropriation item as well as all of the "Challenge" appropriation items contained in the Board of Regents' budget and shall issue a report containing its recommendations to the General Assembly not later than December 31, 2001 2002. Upon issuance of its report, the Committee shall cease to exist."
Section 4. That existing Sections 44.16 and 192 of Am. Sub. H.B. 94 of the 124th General Assembly are hereby repealed.
Section 5. That Section 11 of Am. Sub. S.B. 1 of the 124th General Assembly be amended to read as follows:
" Sec. 11. (A) There is hereby established the Governor's Commission on Successful Teachers. The Commission shall recommend policies for the preparation, recruiting, hiring, and retention of teachers and shall recommend pilot programs to address the shortage of teachers, such as paid internships in mathematics and science and salary bonuses in hard-to-staff school districts or subject areas. The Commission shall issue a written report with its recommendations to the General Assembly not later than December 31, 2002. Upon issuance of its report the Commission shall cease to exist.
The Commission shall consist of the following members:
(1) Nine classroom teachers appointed by the Governor, at least three of whom are certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, at least two of whom are high school teachers, at least two of whom teach in grades six through eight, at least two of whom teach in grades kindergarten through six, and at least one of whom teaches special education;
(2) Three school administrators, appointed by the Governor;
(3) One person representing higher education, appointed by the Governor;
(4) The Superintendent of Public Instruction or the Superintendent's designee;
(5) The President of the State Board of Education or the President's designee;
(6) The chairperson of the House of Representatives standing committee primarily responsible for education legislation or the chairperson's designee;
(7) The chairperson of the Senate standing committee primarily responsible for education legislation or the chairperson's designee;
(8) Any additional members the Governor wishes to include.
(B) In conducting its work the Commission shall study and include recommendations regarding the following issues:
(1) How to develop college and university teacher preparation programs that ensure that teachers are qualified to teach the courses in grades kindergarten through twelve that are required by law;
(2) How to develop and operate incentive programs to encourage teachers to work in underserved school districts, such as large urban districts or districts in rural Appalachia, and underserved subject areas, such as mathematics, science, special education, and English as a second language;
(3) How to best implement professional development activities for all teachers, particularly how to design such activities so that teachers understand how to administer and interpret diagnostic assessments and achievement tests that will be developed by the State Board of Education under sections 3301.079 and 3301.0710 of the Revised Code, as enacted and amended, respectively, by this act, and so that teachers understand how to develop effective intervention tools for students in need of assistance;
(4) How best to implement professional development programs in terms of the amount of time allotted for such programs including, but not limited to, the number of days each school district should devote to the programs or to what extent the programs should be configured as half-day in-service programs, two-hour programs, or full-day seminars;
(5) How to provide the most effective regional delivery of professional development services;
(6) How to create building-level mentoring or advisory programs under which an experienced teacher would assist others in the building to increase their effectiveness;
(7) How to increase Ohio's participation in certification activities conducted by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards;
(8) How to structure alternative pathways to obtaining each type of educator license issued by the State Board of Education to encourage individuals interested in teaching to enter the profession."
Section 6. That existing Section 11 of Am. Sub. S.B. 1 of the 124th General Assembly is hereby repealed.
Section 7.  No one-year conditional teaching permit in the area of intervention specialist shall be issued under this section later than three years after the effective date of this act.
Unless the provisions of division (B) or (C) of section 3319.31 of the Revised Code apply to an applicant, the State Board of Education shall issue a one-year conditional teaching permit in the area of intervention specialist, as defined by rule of the state board, to any applicant who meets the following conditions:
(A) Holds a bachelor's degree;
(B) Has successfully completed a basic skills test as prescribed by the State Board;
(C) Has completed either as part of the applicant's degree program or separate from it the equivalent of at least fifteen semester hours of coursework in the principles and practices of teaching exceptional children, including such topics as child and adolescent development, diagnosis and assessment of children with disabilities, curriculum design and instruction, applied behavioral analysis, and how to best teach students from culturally diverse backgrounds with different learning styles;
(D) The applicant has entered into a written agreement with the Department of Education and the school district, community school, or nonprofit or for profit entity operating an alternative school under section 3313.533 of the Revised Code that will employ the applicant under which the district, school, or entity will provide for the applicant a structured mentoring program in the teaching of exceptional children that is aligned with the performance expectations prescribed by State Board rule for entry-year teachers.
(E) The applicant agrees to complete while employed under the one-year teaching permit the equivalent of an additional three semester hours of coursework in the content and methods of teaching reading. The coursework may be completed through classes offered by regional professional development providers, such as special education regional resource centers, regional professional development centers, educational service centers, local educational agencies, professional organizations, and institutions of higher education, if the coursework is taken for credit in collaboration with a college or university that has a teacher education program approved by the State Board.
(F) The applicant agrees to seek at the conclusion of the year in which the individual is employed under the one-year teaching permit issued under this section an alternative educator license issued under section 3319.26 of the Revised Code in the area of intervention specialist. The applicant shall not be reemployed by the school district, community school, or nonprofit or for profit entity operating an alternative school under section 3313.533 of the Revised Code or be employed by another such district, school, or entity unless that alternative educator license is issued to the applicant prior to the beginning of the next school year.
(G) The applicant pays the fee established under section 3319.51 of the Revised Code applicable to one-year conditional teaching permits issued under section 3319.302 of the Revised Code. Such fee shall be deposited in the State Board of Education Licensure Fund in accordance with division (B) of section 3319.51 of the Revised Code.
Section 8. Neither the amendment of rules 3301-23-44, 3301-24-02, 3301-24-05, 3301-24-08, and 3301-24-09, the enactment of new rule 3301-24-04, nor the rescission of existing rule 3301-24-04 of the Administrative Code, as proposed by the State Board of Education on July 9, 2001, or thereafter revised by the Board, are subject to the requirement of former division (B)(1) of section 3319.22 of the Revised Code that they be approved by the General Assembly through the passage of a concurrent resolution before they may take effect, notwithstanding that the proposed amendments, enactment, and rescission were filed in proposed form prior to the effective date of this act. The amendments, enactment, and rescission may take effect in accordance with section 3319.22 of the Revised Code, as amended by this act, and section 3319.23 of the Revised Code after they are filed in final form under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
Section 9. This act is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety. The reason for such necessity is that giving immediate effect to the provisions of this act will permit school district boards to take advantage of those provisions that could increase the number of available persons to fill faculty vacancies in time for the start of the next school year and, thus, to help correct the current teacher shortage problem facing many district boards. Therefore, this act shall go into immediate effect.
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