To amend sections 3301.079, 3301.0710, 3301.0711, 3301.0712, 3301.0714, 3301.0715, 3302.03, 3302.04, 3307.01, 3313.28, 3313.33, 3313.53, 3313.713, 3318.031, 3319.09, 3319.11, 3319.111, 3319.22, 3319.225, 3319.227, 3319.23, 3319.26, 3319.283, 3319.29, 3319.291, 3319.31, 3319.311, 3319.36, 3319.39, 3319.51, 3333.38, and 5126.021; to enact sections 3314.034, 3319.074, 3319.075, 3319.112, 3319.25, 3319.261, 3319.27, 3319.303, 3319.56, 3319.57, 3319.60, 3319.61, 3319.62, 3319.65, 3333.161, and 3333.36; to repeal sections 3301.801, 3314.12, and 3319.28 of the Revised Code; to amend Section 12 of Sub. H.B. 364 of the 124th General Assembly and to amend Section 12 of Sub. H.B. 364 of the 124th General Assembly for the purpose of changing its number to section 3314.021 of the Revised Code; to amend Sections 11, 12, 13, and 14 of Am. Sub. H.B. 3 of the 125th General Assembly; and to amend Sections 41.03, 41.05, 41.10, 41.19, 41.33, 146, and 152 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly to implement recommendations of the Governor's Commission on Teaching Success, to revise the laws with respect to the teaching profession, academic standards, other education policies and programs, and employment by county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, and to extend to November 26, 2004, the deadline for the Ohio Autism Task Force report.

Section 1. That sections 3301.079, 3301.0710, 3301.0711, 3301.0712, 3301.0714, 3301.0715, 3302.03, 3302.04, 3307.01, 3313.28, 3313.33, 3313.53, 3313.713, 3318.031, 3319.09, 3319.11, 3319.111, 3319.22, 3319.225, 3319.227, 3319.23, 3319.26, 3319.283, 3319.29, 3319.291, 3319.31, 3319.311, 3319.36, 3319.39, 3319.51, 3333.38, and 5126.021 be amended; that Section 12 of Sub. H.B. 364 of the 124th General Assembly be amended and renumbered as section 3314.021; and that sections 3314.034, 3319.074, 3319.075, 3319.112, 3319.25, 3319.261, 3319.27, 3319.303, 3319.56, 3319.57, 3319.60, 3319.61, 3319.62, 3319.65, 3333.161, and 3333.36 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 3301.079.  (A)(1) Not later than December 31, 2001, the state board of education shall adopt statewide academic standards for each of grades kindergarten through twelve in reading, writing, and mathematics. Not later than December 31, 2002, the state board shall adopt statewide academic standards for each of grades kindergarten through twelve in science and social studies. The standards shall specify the academic content and skills that students are expected to know and be able to do at each grade level.

(2) When academic standards have been completed for any subject area required by this division, the state board shall inform all school districts of the content of those standards.

(B) Not later than eighteen months after the completion of academic standards for any subject area required by division (A) of this section, the state board shall adopt a model curriculum for instruction in that subject area for each of grades kindergarten through twelve that is sufficient to meet the needs of students in every community. The model curriculum shall be aligned with the standards to ensure that the academic content and skills specified for each grade level are taught to students. When any model curriculum has been completed, the state board shall inform all school districts of the content of that model curriculum.

All school districts may utilize the state standards and the model curriculum established by the state board, together with other relevant resources, examples, or models to ensure that students have the opportunity to attain the academic standards. Upon request, the department of education shall provide technical assistance to any district in implementing the model curriculum.

Nothing in this section requires any school district to utilize all or any part of a model curriculum developed under this division.

(C) The state board shall develop achievement tests aligned with the academic standards and model curriculum for each of the subject areas and grade levels required by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code.

When any achievement test has been completed, the state board shall inform all school districts of its completion, and the department of education shall make the achievement test available to the districts. School districts shall administer the achievement test beginning in the school year indicated in section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code.

(D)(1) Not later than July 1, 2007 2008, and except as provided in division (D)(3) of this section, the state board shall adopt a diagnostic assessment aligned with the academic standards and model curriculum for each of grades kindergarten through two in reading, writing, and mathematics and for each of grades three through eight in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies. The diagnostic assessment shall be designed to measure student comprehension of academic content and mastery of related skills for the relevant subject area and grade level. Any diagnostic assessment shall not include components to identify gifted students. Blank copies of diagnostic tests shall be public records.

(2) When each diagnostic assessment has been completed, the state board shall inform all school districts of its completion and the department of education shall make the diagnostic assessment available to the districts at no cost to the district. School districts shall administer the diagnostic assessment pursuant to section 3301.0715 of the Revised Code beginning the first school year following the development of the assessment.

(3) The state board shall not adopt a diagnostic assessment for any subject area and grade level for which the state board develops an achievement test under division (C) of this section.

(E) Whenever the state board or the department of education consults with persons for the purpose of drafting or reviewing any standards, diagnostic assessments, achievement tests, or model curriculum required under this section, the state board or the department shall first consult with parents of students in kindergarten through twelfth grade and with active Ohio classroom teachers, other school personnel, and administrators with expertise in the appropriate subject area. Whenever practicable, the state board and department shall consult with teachers recognized as outstanding in their fields.

If the department contracts with more than one outside entity for the development of the achievement tests required by this section, the department shall ensure the interchangeability of those tests.

(F) The fairness sensitivity review committee, established by rule of the state board of education, shall not allow any question on any achievement test or diagnostic assessment developed under this section or any proficiency test prescribed by former section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code, as it existed prior to September 11, 2001, to include, be written to promote, or inquire as to individual moral or social values or beliefs. The decision of the committee shall be final. This section does not create a private cause of action.

Sec. 3301.0710.  The state board of education shall adopt rules establishing a statewide program to test student achievement. The state board shall ensure that all tests administered under the testing program are aligned with the academic standards and model curricula adopted by the state board and are created with input from Ohio parents, Ohio classroom teachers, Ohio school administrators, and other Ohio school personnel pursuant to section 3301.079 of the Revised Code.

The testing program shall be designed to ensure that students who receive a high school diploma demonstrate at least high school levels of achievement in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies.

(A)(1) The state board shall prescribe all of the following:

(a) Two statewide achievement tests, one each designed to measure the level of reading and mathematics skill expected at the end of third grade;

(b) Three statewide achievement tests, one each designed to measure the level of reading, writing, and mathematics skill expected at the end of fourth grade;

(c) Four statewide achievement tests, one each designed to measure the level of reading, mathematics, science, and social studies skill expected at the end of fifth grade;

(d) Two statewide achievement tests, one each designed to measure the level of reading and mathematics skill expected at the end of sixth grade;

(e) Three statewide achievement tests, one each designed to measure the level of reading, writing, and mathematics skill expected at the end of seventh grade;

(f) Four statewide achievement tests, one each designed to measure the level of reading, mathematics, science, and social studies skill expected at the end of eighth grade.

(2) The state board shall determine and designate at least five ranges of scores on each of the achievement tests described in divisions (A)(1) and (B) of this section. Each range of scores shall be deemed to demonstrate a level of achievement so that any student attaining a score within such range has achieved one of the following:

(a) An advanced level of skill;

(b) An accelerated level of skill;

(c) A proficient level of skill;

(d) A basic level of skill;

(e) A limited level of skill.

(B) The tests prescribed under this division shall collectively be known as the Ohio graduation tests. The state board shall prescribe five statewide high school achievement tests, one each designed to measure the level of reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies skill expected at the end of tenth grade. The state board shall designate a score in at least the range designated under division (A)(2)(c) of this section on each such test that shall be deemed to be a passing score on the test as a condition toward granting high school diplomas under sections 3313.61, 3313.611, 3313.612, and 3325.08 of the Revised Code.

The state board may enter into a reciprocal agreement with the appropriate body or agency of any other state that has similar statewide achievement testing requirements for receiving high school diplomas, under which any student who has met an achievement testing requirement of one state is recognized as having met the similar achievement testing requirement of the other state for purposes of receiving a high school diploma. For purposes of this section and sections 3301.0711 and 3313.61 of the Revised Code, any student enrolled in any public high school in this state who has met an achievement testing requirement specified in a reciprocal agreement entered into under this division shall be deemed to have attained at least the applicable score designated under this division on each test required by this division that is specified in the agreement.

(C) The state board shall annually designate as follows the dates on which the tests prescribed under this section shall be administered:

(1) For the reading test prescribed under division (A)(1)(a) of this section, as follows:

(a) One date prior to the thirty-first day of December each school year;

(b) At least one date of each school year that is not earlier than Monday of the week containing the eighth day of March;

(c) One date during the summer that is not earlier than the tenth day of June nor later than the fifteenth day of July for students receiving summer remediation services under section 3313.608 of the Revised Code.

(2) For the mathematics test prescribed under division (A)(1)(a) of this section and the tests prescribed under divisions (A)(1)(b), (c), (d), (e), and (f) of this section, at least one date of each school year that is not earlier than Monday of the week containing the eighth day of March;

(3) For the tests prescribed under division (B) of this section, at least one date in each school year that is not earlier than Monday of the week containing the fifteenth day of March for all tenth grade students and at least one date prior to the thirty-first day of December and at least one date subsequent to that date but prior to the thirty-first day of March of each school year for eleventh and twelfth grade students.

(D) In prescribing test dates pursuant to division (C)(3) of this section, the state board shall, to the greatest extent practicable, provide options to school districts in the case of tests administered under that division to eleventh and twelfth grade students and in the case of tests administered to students pursuant to division (C)(2) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code. Such options shall include at least an opportunity for school districts to give such tests outside of regular school hours.

(E) In prescribing test dates pursuant to this section, the state board of education shall designate the dates in such a way as to allow a reasonable length of time between the administration of tests prescribed under this section and any administration of the National Assessment of Education Progress Test given to students in the same grade level pursuant to section 3301.27 of the Revised Code or federal law.

(F) The state board shall prescribe a practice version of each Ohio graduation test described in division (B) of this section that is of comparable length to the actual test.

(F)(G) Any committee established by the department of education for the purpose of making recommendations to the state board regarding the state board's designation of scores on the tests described by this section shall inform the state board of the probable percentage of students who would score in each of the ranges established under division (A)(2) of this section on the tests if the committee's recommendations are adopted by the state board. To the extent possible, these percentages shall be disaggregated by gender, major racial and ethnic groups, limited English proficient students, economically disadvantaged students, students with disabilities, and migrant students.

If the state board intends to make any change to the committee's recommendations, the state board shall explain the intended change to the Ohio accountability task force established by section 3302.021 of the Revised Code. The task force shall recommend whether the state board should proceed to adopt the intended change. Nothing in this division shall require the state board to designate test scores based upon the recommendations of the task force.

Sec. 3301.0711.  (A) The department of education shall:

(1) Annually furnish to, grade, and score all tests required by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to be administered by city, local, exempted village, and joint vocational school districts, except that each district shall score any test administered pursuant to division (B)(8)(10) of this section. In furnishing the practice versions of Ohio graduation tests prescribed by division (F) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code, the department shall make the tests available on its website web site for reproduction by districts. In awarding contracts for grading tests, the department shall give preference to Ohio-based entities employing Ohio residents.

(2) Adopt rules for the ethical use of tests and prescribing the manner in which the tests prescribed by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code shall be administered to students.

(B) Except as provided in divisions (C) and (J) of this section, the board of education of each city, local, and exempted village school district shall, in accordance with rules adopted under division (A) of this section:

(1) Administer the reading test prescribed under division (A)(1)(a) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code twice annually to all students in the third grade who have not attained the score designated for that test under division (A)(2)(c) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code and once each summer to students receiving summer remediation services under section 3313.608 of the Revised Code.

(2) Administer the mathematics test prescribed under division (A)(1)(a) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least once annually to all students in the third grade.

(3) Administer the tests prescribed under division (A)(1)(b) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least once annually to all students in the fourth grade.

(4) Administer the tests prescribed under division (A)(1)(c) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least once annually to all students in the fifth grade.

(5) Administer the tests prescribed under division (A)(1)(d) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least once annually to all students in the sixth grade.

(6) Administer the tests prescribed under division (A)(1)(e) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least once annually to all students in the seventh grade.

(7) Administer the tests prescribed under division (A)(1)(f) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least once annually to all students in the eighth grade.

(8) Except as provided in division (B)(9) of this section, administer any test prescribed under division (B) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code as follows:

(a) At least once annually to all tenth grade students and at least twice annually to all students in eleventh or twelfth grade who have not yet attained the score on that test designated under that division;

(b) To any person who has successfully completed the curriculum in any high school or the individualized education program developed for the person by any high school pursuant to section 3323.08 of the Revised Code but has not received a high school diploma and who requests to take such test, at any time such test is administered in the district.

(9) In lieu of the board of education of any city, local, or exempted village school district in which the student is also enrolled, the board of a joint vocational school district shall administer any test prescribed under division (B) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code at least twice annually to any student enrolled in the joint vocational school district who has not yet attained the score on that test designated under that division. A board of a joint vocational school district may also administer such a test to any student described in division (B)(8)(b) of this section.

(8)(10) If the district has been declared to be under an academic watch or in a state of academic emergency pursuant to section 3302.03 of the Revised Code or has a three-year average graduation rate of not more than seventy-five per cent, administer each test prescribed by division (F) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code in September to all ninth grade students, beginning in the school year that starts July 1, 2004 2005.

(C)(1)(a) Any student receiving special education services under Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code may be excused from taking any particular test required to be administered under this section if the individualized education program developed for the student pursuant to section 3323.08 of the Revised Code excuses the student from taking that test and instead specifies an alternate assessment method approved by the department of education as conforming to requirements of federal law for receipt of federal funds for disadvantaged pupils. To the extent possible, the individualized education program shall not excuse the student from taking a test unless no reasonable accommodation can be made to enable the student to take the test.

(b) Any alternate assessment approved by the department for a student under this division shall produce measurable results comparable to those produced by the tests which the alternate assessments are replacing in order to allow for the student's assessment results to be included in the data compiled for a school district or building under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code.

(c) Any student enrolled in a chartered nonpublic school who has been identified, based on an evaluation conducted in accordance with section 3323.03 of the Revised Code or section 504 of the "Rehabilitation Act of 1973," 87 Stat. 355, 29 U.S.C.A. 794, as amended, as a child with a disability shall be excused from taking any particular test required to be administered under this section if a plan developed for the student pursuant to rules adopted by the state board excuses the student from taking that test. In the case of any student so excused from taking a test, the chartered nonpublic school shall not prohibit the student from taking the test.

(2) A district board may, for medical reasons or other good cause, excuse a student from taking a test administered under this section on the date scheduled, but any such test shall be administered to such excused student not later than nine days following the scheduled date. The board shall annually report the number of students who have not taken one or more of the tests required by this section to the state board of education not later than the thirtieth day of June.

(3) As used in this division, "limited English proficient student" has the same meaning as in 20 U.S.C. 7801.

No school district board shall excuse any limited English proficient student from taking any particular test required to be administered under this section, but a board may permit any limited English proficient student to take the test with appropriate accommodations, as determined by the department. For each limited English proficient student, each school district shall annually assess that student's progress in learning English, in accordance with procedures approved by the department.

The governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school may excuse a limited English proficient student from taking any test administered under this section. However, no governing authority shall prohibit a limited English proficient student from taking the test.

(D)(1) In the school year next succeeding the school year in which the tests prescribed by division (A)(1) or (B) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code or former division (A)(1), (A)(2), or (B) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to September 11, 2001, are administered to any student, the board of education of any school district in which the student is enrolled in that year shall provide to the student intervention services commensurate with the student's test performance, including any intensive intervention required under section 3313.608 of the Revised Code, in any skill in which the student failed to demonstrate at least a score at the proficient level on the test.

(2) Following any administration of the tests prescribed by division (F) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to ninth grade students, each school district that has been declared to be in a state of academic emergency pursuant to section 3302.03 of the Revised Code a three-year average graduation rate of not more than seventy-five per cent shall determine for each high school in the district whether the school shall be required to provide intervention services to any students who took the tests. In determining which high schools shall provide intervention services based on the resources available, the district shall consider each school's graduation rate and scores on the practice tests. If any achievement tests in reading and math are adopted by the state board of education for administration in the eighth grade, the The district also shall consider the scores received by ninth grade students on those the reading and mathematics tests prescribed under division (A)(1)(f) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code in the eighth grade in determining which high schools shall provide intervention services.

Each high school selected to provide intervention services under this division shall provide intervention services to any student whose test results indicate that the student is failing to make satisfactory progress toward being able to attain scores at the proficient level on the Ohio Graduation Tests graduation tests. Intervention services shall be provided in any skill in which a student demonstrates unsatisfactory progress and shall be commensurate with the student's test performance. Schools shall provide the intervention services prior to the end of the school year, during the summer following the ninth grade, in the next succeeding school year, or at any combination of those times.

(E) Except as provided in section 3313.608 of the Revised Code and division (M) of this section, no school district board of education shall utilize any student's failure to attain a specified score on any test administered under this section as a factor in any decision to deny the student promotion to a higher grade level. However, a district board may choose not to promote to the next grade level any student who does not take any test administered under this section or make up such test as provided by division (C)(2) of this section.

(F) No person shall be charged a fee for taking any test administered under this section.

(G) Not later than sixty days after any administration of any test prescribed by division (A)(1) or (B) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code, the department shall send to each school district board a list of the individual test scores of all persons taking the test. For any tests administered under this section by a joint vocational school district, the department shall also send to each city, local, or exempted village school district a list of the individual test scores of any students of such city, local, or exempted village school district who are attending school in the joint vocational school district.

(H) Individual test scores on any tests administered under this section shall be released by a district board only in accordance with section 3319.321 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted under division (A) of this section. No district board or its employees shall utilize individual or aggregate test results in any manner that conflicts with rules for the ethical use of tests adopted pursuant to division (A) of this section.

(I) Except as provided in division (G) of this section, the department shall not release any individual test scores on any test administered under this section and shall adopt rules to ensure the protection of student confidentiality at all times.

(J) Notwithstanding division (D) of section 3311.52 of the Revised Code, this section does not apply to the board of education of any cooperative education school district except as provided under rules adopted pursuant to this division.

(1) In accordance with rules that the state board of education shall adopt, the board of education of any city, exempted village, or local school district with territory in a cooperative education school district established pursuant to divisions (A) to (C) of section 3311.52 of the Revised Code may enter into an agreement with the board of education of the cooperative education school district for administering any test prescribed under this section to students of the city, exempted village, or local school district who are attending school in the cooperative education school district.

(2) In accordance with rules that the state board of education shall adopt, the board of education of any city, exempted village, or local school district with territory in a cooperative education school district established pursuant to section 3311.521 of the Revised Code shall enter into an agreement with the cooperative district that provides for the administration of any test prescribed under this section to both of the following:

(a) Students who are attending school in the cooperative district and who, if the cooperative district were not established, would be entitled to attend school in the city, local, or exempted village school district pursuant to section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code;

(b) Persons described in division (B)(8)(b) of this section.

Any testing of students pursuant to such an agreement shall be in lieu of any testing of such students or persons pursuant to this section.

(K)(1) Any chartered nonpublic school may participate in the testing program by administering any of the tests prescribed by section 3301.0710 or 3301.0712 of the Revised Code if the chief administrator of the school specifies which tests the school wishes to administer. Such specification shall be made in writing to the superintendent of public instruction prior to the first day of August of any school year in which tests are administered and shall include a pledge that the nonpublic school will administer the specified tests in the same manner as public schools are required to do under this section and rules adopted by the department.

(2) The department of education shall furnish the tests prescribed by section 3301.0710 or 3301.0712 of the Revised Code to any chartered nonpublic school electing to participate under this division.

(L)(1) The superintendent of the state school for the blind and the superintendent of the state school for the deaf shall administer the tests described by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code. Each superintendent shall administer the tests in the same manner as district boards are required to do under this section and rules adopted by the department of education and in conformity with division (C)(1)(a) of this section.

(2) The department of education shall furnish the tests described by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to each superintendent.

(M) Notwithstanding division (E) of this section, a school district may use a student's failure to attain a score in at least the basic range on the mathematics test described by division (A)(1)(a) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code or on any of the tests described by division (A)(1)(b), (c), (d), (e), or (f) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code as a factor in retaining that student in the current grade level.

(N)(1) All The tests required by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code shall become public records pursuant to section 149.43 of the Revised Code on the first day of July following the school year that the test was administered, except that the reading test prescribed under division (A)(1)(a) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code shall become a public record on the sixteenth day of July following the school year that the test was administered.

(2) The department may field test proposed test questions with samples of students to determine the validity, reliability, or appropriateness of test questions for possible inclusion in a future year's test. The department also may use anchor questions on tests to ensure that different versions of the same test are of comparable difficulty.

Field test questions and anchor questions shall not be considered in computing test scores for individual students. Field test questions and anchor questions may be included as part of the administration of any test required by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code.

(3) Any field test question or anchor question administered under division (N)(2) of this section shall not be a public record. Such field test questions and anchor questions shall be redacted from any tests which are released as a public record pursuant to division (N)(1) of this section.

(O) As used in this section, "three-year average" and "graduation rate" have the same meanings as in section 3302.01 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3301.0712. (A) Notwithstanding sections 3301.0710 and 3301.0711 of the Revised Code, the state board of education shall continue to prescribe and the department of education and each school district shall continue to administer any proficiency test in accordance with those former sections, as they existed prior to September 11, 2001, until the applicable test is no longer required to be administered as indicated on the chart below. When any achievement test has been developed and made available in accordance with section 3301.079 of the Revised Code, such achievement test shall be administered to students under sections 3301.0710 and 3301.0711 of the Revised Code beginning in the school year indicated on the chart below. School districts shall continue to provide intervention services as required under former division (D) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code, as it existed prior to September 11, 2001, to students who fail to attain a score in the proficient range on a fourth grade proficiency test.

(B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, the state board shall continue to prescribe and school districts and chartered nonpublic schools shall continue to administer ninth grade proficiency tests in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and citizenship to students who enter ninth grade prior to July 1, 2003, for as long as those students remain eligible under section 3313.614 of the Revised Code to receive their high school diplomas based on passage of those ninth grade proficiency tests.

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.

(d) The number of master teachers employed by each school district and each school building, once a definition of master teacher has been developed by the educator standards board pursuant to section 3319.61 of the Revised Code.

(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, the number of limited English proficient students in the district, 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.

(4) Any data required to be collected pursuant to federal law.

(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 a student's name, address, and social security number to the state board of education or the department of education. 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 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. 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)(d) of this section.

(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 forty-five days of the date upon which the report was made by the department.

(M) No data acquisition site or school district shall acquire, change, or update its student administration software package to manage and report data required to be reported to the department unless it converts to a student software package that is certified by the department.

(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 (C)(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. 3301.0715.  (A) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, the board of education of each city, local, and exempted village school district shall administer each applicable diagnostic assessment developed and provided to the district in accordance with section 3301.079 of the Revised Code to the following:

(1) Each student enrolled in a building subject to division (E) of section 3302.04 of the Revised Code;

(2) Any student who transfers into the district or to a different school within the district if each applicable diagnostic assessment was not administered by the district or school the student previously attended in the current school year, within thirty days after the date of transfer;. If the district or school into which the student transfers cannot determine whether the student has taken any applicable diagnostic assessment in the current school year, the district or school may administer the diagnostic assessment to the student.

(3) Each kindergarten student, within not later than six weeks after the first day of school. For the purpose of division (A)(3) of this section, the district shall administer the kindergarten readiness assessment provided by the department of education. The district may administer the readiness assessment to a student prior to the student's enrollment in kindergarten, but in no case shall the results of the readiness assessment be used to prohibit the student from enrolling in kindergarten.

(4) Each student enrolled in first or second grade.

(B) Each district board shall administer each diagnostic assessment as the board deems appropriate. However, the board shall administer any diagnostic assessment at least once annually to all students in the appropriate grade level. A district board may administer any diagnostic assessment in the fall and spring of a school year to measure the amount of academic growth attributable to the instruction received by students during that school year.

(C) Each district board shall utilize and score any diagnostic assessment administered under division (A) of this section in accordance with rules established by the department. Except as required by division (B)(1)(o) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code, neither the state board of education nor the department shall require school districts to report the results of diagnostic assessments for any students to the department or to make any such results available in any form to the public. After the administration of any diagnostic assessment, each district shall provide a student's completed diagnostic assessment, the results of such assessment, and any other accompanying documents used during the administration of the assessment to the parent of that student upon the parent's request.

(D) Each district board shall provide intervention services to students whose diagnostic assessments show that they are failing to make satisfactory progress toward attaining the academic standards for their grade level.

(E) Any district that made adequate yearly progress, as defined in section 3302.01 of the Revised Code, in the immediately preceding school year may assess student progress in grades one through eight using a diagnostic assessment other than the diagnostic assessment required by division (A) of this section.

(F) A district board may administer any diagnostic assessment provided to the district in accordance with section 3301.079 of the Revised Code to any student enrolled in a building that is not subject to division (A)(1) of this section. Any district electing to administer diagnostic assessments to students under this division shall provide intervention services to any such student whose diagnostic assessment shows unsatisfactory progress toward attaining the academic standards for the student's grade level.

Sec. 3302.03.  (A) Annually the department of education shall report for each school district and each school building in a district all of the following:

(1) The extent to which the school district or building meets each of the applicable performance indicators created by the state board of education under section 3302.02 of the Revised Code and the number of applicable performance indicators that have been achieved;

(2) The performance index score of the school district or building;

(3) Whether the school district or building has made adequate yearly progress;

(4) Whether the school district or building is excellent, effective, needs continuous improvement, is under an academic watch, or is in a state of academic emergency.

(B)(1) A school district or building shall be declared excellent if it fulfills one of the following requirements:

(a) It makes adequate yearly progress and either meets at least ninety-four per cent of the applicable state performance indicators or has a performance index score established by the department.

(b) It has failed to make adequate yearly progress for not more than two consecutive years and either meets at least ninety-four per cent of the applicable state performance indicators or has a performance index score established by the department.

(2) A school district or building shall be declared effective if it fulfills one of the following requirements:

(a) It makes adequate yearly progress and either meets at least seventy-five per cent but less than ninety-four per cent of the applicable state performance indicators or has a performance index score established by the department.

(b) It does not make adequate yearly progress and either meets at least seventy-five per cent of the applicable state performance indicators or has a performance index score established by the department, except that if it does not make adequate yearly progress for three consecutive years, it shall be declared in need of continuous improvement.

(3) A school district or building shall be declared to be in need of continuous improvement if it fulfills one of the following requirements:

(a) It makes adequate yearly progress, meets less than seventy-five per cent of the applicable state performance indicators, and has a performance index score established by the department.

(b) It does not make adequate yearly progress and either meets at least fifty per cent but less than seventy-five per cent of the applicable state performance indicators or has a performance index score established by the department.

(4) A school district or building shall be declared to be under an academic watch if it does not make adequate yearly progress and either meets at least thirty-one per cent but less than fifty per cent of the applicable state performance indicators or has a performance index score established by the department.

(5) A school district or building shall be declared to be in a state of academic emergency if it does not make adequate yearly progress, does not meet at least thirty-one per cent of the applicable state performance indicators, and has a performance index score established by the department.

(C)(1) The department shall issue annual report cards for each school district, each building within each district, and for the state as a whole reflecting performance on the indicators created by the state board under section 3302.02 of the Revised Code, the performance index score, and adequate yearly progress.

(2) The department shall include on the report card for each district information pertaining to any change from the previous year made by the school district or school buildings within the district on any performance indicator.

(3) When reporting data on student performance, the department shall disaggregate that data according to the following categories:

(a) Performance of students by age group;

(b) Performance of students by race and ethnic group;

(c) Performance of students by gender;

(d) Performance of students grouped by those who have been enrolled in a district or school for three or more years;

(e) Performance of students grouped by those who have been enrolled in a district or school for more than one year and less than three years;

(f) Performance of students grouped by those who have been enrolled in a district or school for one year or less;

(g) Performance of students grouped by those who are economically disadvantaged;

(h) Performance of students grouped by those who are enrolled in a conversion community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code;

(i) Performance of students grouped by those who are classified as limited English proficient;

(j) Performance of students grouped by those who have disabilities;

(k) Performance of students grouped by those who are classified as migrants;

(l) Performance of students grouped by those who are identified as gifted pursuant to Chapter 3324. of the Revised Code.

The department may disaggregate data on student performance according to other categories that the department determines are appropriate. To the extent possible, the department shall disaggregate data on student performance according to any combinations of two or more of the categories listed in divisions (C)(3)(a) to (l) of this section that it deems relevant.

In reporting data pursuant to division (C)(3) of this section, the department shall not include in the report cards any data statistical in nature that is statistically unreliable or that could result in the identification of individual students. For this purpose, the department shall not report student performance data for any group identified in division (C)(3) of this section that contains less than ten students.

(4) The department may include with the report cards any additional education and fiscal performance data it deems valuable.

(5) The department shall include on each report card a list of additional information collected by the department that is available regarding the district or building for which the report card is issued. When available, such additional information shall include student mobility data disaggregated by race and socioeconomic status, college enrollment data, and the reports prepared under section 3302.031 of the Revised Code.

The department shall maintain a site on the world wide web. The report card shall include the address of the site and shall specify that such additional information is available to the public at that site. The department shall also provide a copy of each item on the list to the superintendent of each school district. The district superintendent shall provide a copy of any item on the list to anyone who requests it.

(6) For any district that sponsors a conversion community school under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, the department shall combine data regarding the academic performance of students enrolled in the community school with comparable data from the schools of the district for the purpose of calculating the performance of the district as a whole on the report card issued for the district.

(7) The department shall include on each report card the percentage of teachers in the district or building who are highly qualified, as defined by the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001," 115 Stat. 1425, 20 U.S.C. 7801, and a comparison of that percentage with the percentages of such teachers in similar districts and buildings.

(8) The department shall include on the report card the number of master teachers employed by each district and each building once the data is available from the education management information system established under section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code.

(D)(1) In calculating reading, writing, mathematics, social studies, or science proficiency or achievement test passage rates used to determine school district or building performance under this section, the department shall include all students taking a test with accommodation or to whom an alternate assessment is administered pursuant to division (C)(1) or (3) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code.

(2) In calculating performance index scores, rates of achievement on the performance indicators established by the state board under section 3302.02 of the Revised Code, and adequate yearly progress for school districts and buildings under this section, the department shall do both of the following:

(a) Include for each district or building only those students who are included in the ADM certified for the first full school week of October and are continuously enrolled in the district or building through the time of the spring administration of any test prescribed by section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code that is administered to the student's grade level;

(b) Include cumulative totals from both the fall and spring administrations of the third grade reading achievement test.

Sec. 3302.04.  (A) The department of education shall establish a system of intensive, ongoing support for the improvement of school districts and school buildings. The system shall give priority to districts and buildings that have been declared to be under an academic watch or in a state of academic emergency under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code and shall include services provided to districts and buildings through regional service providers, such as educational service centers, regional professional development centers, and special education regional resource centers.

(B) When a school district has been notified by the department pursuant to division (A) of section 3302.03 of the Revised Code that the district or a building within the district has failed to make adequate yearly progress for two consecutive school years, the district shall develop a three-year continuous improvement plan for the district or building containing each of the following:

(1) An analysis of the reasons for the failure of the district or building to meet any of the applicable performance indicators established under section 3302.02 of the Revised Code that it did not meet and an analysis of the reasons for its failure to make adequate yearly progress;

(2) Specific strategies that the district or building will use to address the problems in academic achievement identified in division (B)(1) of this section;

(3) Identification of the resources that the district will allocate toward improving the academic achievement of the district or building;

(4) A description of any progress that the district or building made in the preceding year toward improving its academic achievement;

(5) An analysis of how the district is utilizing the professional development standards adopted by the state board pursuant to section 3319.61 of the Revised Code;

(6) Strategies that the district or building will use to improve the cultural competency, as defined pursuant to section 3319.61 of the Revised Code, of teachers and other educators.

No three-year continuous improvement plan shall be developed or adopted pursuant to this division unless at least one public hearing is held within the affected school district or building concerning the final draft of the plan. Notice of the hearing shall be given two weeks prior to the hearing by publication in one newspaper of general circulation within the territory of the affected school district or building. Copies of the plan shall be made available to the public.

(C) When a school district or building has been notified by the department pursuant to division (A) of section 3302.03 of the Revised Code that the district or building is under an academic watch or in a state of academic emergency, the district or building shall be subject to any rules establishing intervention in academic watch or emergency school districts or buildings.

(D)(1) Within one hundred twenty days after any school district or building is declared to be in a state of academic emergency under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code, the department may initiate a site evaluation of the building or school district.

(2) If any school district that is declared to be in a state of academic emergency or in a state of academic watch under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code or encompasses a building that is declared to be in a state of academic emergency or in a state of academic watch fails to demonstrate to the department satisfactory improvement of the district or applicable buildings or fails to submit to the department any information required under rules established by the state board of education, prior to approving a three-year continuous improvement plan under rules established by the state board of education, the department shall conduct a site evaluation of the school district or applicable buildings to determine whether the school district is in compliance with minimum standards established by law or rule.

(3) Site evaluations conducted under divisions (D)(1) and (2) of this section shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

(a) Determining whether teachers are assigned to subject areas for which they are licensed or certified;

(b) Determining pupil-teacher ratios;

(c) Examination of compliance with minimum instruction time requirements for each school day and for each school year;

(d) Determining whether materials and equipment necessary to implement the curriculum approved by the school district board are available;

(e) Examination of whether the teacher and principal evaluation system reflects the evaluation system guidelines adopted by the state board of education under section 3319.112 of the Revised Code;

(f) Examination of the adequacy of efforts to improve the cultural competency, as defined pursuant to section 3319.61 of the Revised Code, of teachers and other educators.

(E) This division applies only to school districts that operate a school building that fails to make adequate yearly progress for two or more consecutive school years.

(1) For any school building that fails to make adequate yearly progress for two consecutive school years, the district shall do all of the following:

(a) Provide written notification of the academic issues that resulted in the building's failure to make adequate yearly progress to the parent or guardian of each student enrolled in the building. The notification shall also describe the actions being taken by the district or building to improve the academic performance of the building and any progress achieved toward that goal in the immediately preceding school year.

(b) If the building receives funds under Title 1, Part A of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965," 20 U.S.C. 6311 to 6339, from the district, in accordance with section 3313.97 of the Revised Code, offer all students enrolled in the building the opportunity to enroll in an alternative building within the district that is not in school improvement status as defined by the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001," 115 Stat. 1425, 20 U.S.C. 6316. Notwithstanding Chapter 3327. of the Revised Code, the district shall spend an amount equal to twenty per cent of the funds it receives under Title I, Part A of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965," 20 U.S.C. 6311 to 6339, to provide transportation for students who enroll in alternative buildings under this division, unless the district can satisfy all demand for transportation with a lesser amount. If an amount equal to twenty per cent of the funds the district receives under Title I, Part A of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965," 20 U.S.C. 6311 to 6339, is insufficient to satisfy all demand for transportation, the district shall grant priority over all other students to the lowest achieving students among the subgroup described in division (F)(3) of section 3302.01 of the Revised Code in providing transportation. Any district that does not receive funds under Title I, Part A of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965," 20 U.S.C. 6311 to 6339, shall not be required to provide transportation to any student who enrolls in an alternative building under this division.

(2) For any school building that fails to make adequate yearly progress for three consecutive school years, the district shall do both of the following:

(a) If the building receives funds under Title 1, Part A of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965," 20 U.S.C. 6311 to 6339, from the district, in accordance with section 3313.97 of the Revised Code, provide all students enrolled in the building the opportunity to enroll in an alternative building within the district that is not in school improvement status as defined by the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001," 115 Stat. 1425, 20 U.S.C. 6316. Notwithstanding Chapter 3327. of the Revised Code, the district shall provide transportation for students who enroll in alternative buildings under this division to the extent required under division (E)(2) of this section.

(b) If the building receives funds under Title 1, Part A of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965," 20 U.S.C. 6311 to 6339, from the district, offer supplemental educational services to students who are enrolled in the building and who are in the subgroup described in division (F)(3) of section 3302.01 of the Revised Code.

The district shall spend a combined total of an amount equal to twenty per cent of the funds it receives under Title I, Part A of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965," 20 U.S.C. 6311 to 6339, to provide transportation for students who enroll in alternative buildings under division (E)(1)(b) or (E)(2)(a) of this section and to pay the costs of the supplemental educational services provided to students under division (E)(2)(b) of this section, unless the district can satisfy all demand for transportation and pay the costs of supplemental educational services for those students who request them with a lesser amount. In allocating the funds the district receives under Title I, Part A of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965," 20 U.S.C. 6311 to 6339, between the requirements of divisions (E)(1)(b) and (E)(2)(a) and (b) of this section, the district shall spend at least an amount equal to five per cent of such the funds it receives under Title I, Part A of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965," 20 U.S.C. 6311 to 6339, to provide transportation for students who enroll in alternative buildings under division (E)(1)(b) or (E)(2)(a) of this section, unless the district can satisfy all demand for transportation with a lesser amount, and at least an amount equal to five per cent of such the funds it receives under Title I, Part A of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965," 20 U.S.C. 6311 to 6339, to pay the costs of the supplemental educational services provided to students under division (E)(2)(b) of this section, unless the district can pay the costs of such services for all students requesting them with a lesser amount. If an amount equal to twenty per cent of the funds the district receives under Title I, Part A of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965," 20 U.S.C. 6311 to 6339, is insufficient to satisfy all demand for transportation under divisions (E)(1)(b) and (E)(2)(a) of this section and to pay the costs of all of the supplemental educational services provided to students under division (E)(2)(b) of this section, the district shall grant priority over all other students in providing transportation and in paying the costs of supplemental educational services to the lowest achieving students among the subgroup described in division (F)(3) of section 3302.01 of the Revised Code.

Any district that does not receive funds under Title I, Part A of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965," 20 U.S.C. 6311 to 6339, shall not be required to provide transportation to any student who enrolls in an alternative building under division (E)(2)(a) of this section or to pay the costs of supplemental educational services provided to any student under division (E)(2)(b) of this section.

No student who enrolls in an alternative building under division (E)(2)(a) of this section shall be eligible for supplemental educational services under division (E)(2)(b) of this section.

(3) For any school building that fails to make adequate yearly progress for four consecutive school years, the district shall continue to comply with division (E)(2) of this section and shall implement at least one of the following options with respect to the building:

(a) Institute a new curriculum that is consistent with the statewide academic standards adopted pursuant to division (A) of section 3301.079 of the Revised Code;

(b) Decrease the degree of authority the building has to manage its internal operations;

(c) Appoint an outside expert to make recommendations for improving the academic performance of the building. The district may request the department to establish a state intervention team for this purpose pursuant to division (G) of this section.

(d) Extend the length of the school day or year;

(e) Replace the building principal or other key personnel;

(f) Reorganize the administrative structure of the building.

(4) For any school building that fails to make adequate yearly progress for five consecutive school years, the district shall continue to comply with division (E)(2) of this section and shall develop a plan during the next succeeding school year to improve the academic performance of the building, which shall include at least one of the following options:

(a) Reopen the school as a community school under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code;

(b) Replace personnel;

(c) Contract with a nonprofit or for-profit entity to operate the building;

(d) Turn operation of the building over to the department;

(e) Other significant restructuring of the building's governance.

(5) For any school building that fails to make adequate yearly progress for six consecutive school years, the district shall continue to comply with division (E)(2) of this section and shall implement the plan developed pursuant to division (E)(4) of this section.

(6) A district shall continue to comply with division (E)(1)(b) or (E)(2) of this section, whichever was most recently applicable, with respect to any building formerly subject to one of those divisions until the building makes adequate yearly progress for two consecutive school years.

(F) This division applies only to school districts that fail to make adequate yearly progress for two or more consecutive school years.

(1) If a school district fails to make adequate yearly progress for two consecutive school years, the district shall provide a written description of the continuous improvement plan developed by the district pursuant to division (B) of this section to the parent or guardian of each student enrolled in the district.

(2) If a school district fails to make adequate yearly progress for three consecutive school years, the district shall continue to implement the continuous improvement plan developed by the district pursuant to division (B) of this section.

(3) If a school district fails to make adequate yearly progress for four consecutive school years, the department shall take at least one of the following corrective actions with respect to the district:

(a) Withhold a portion of the funds the district is entitled to receive under Title I, Part A of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965," 20 U.S.C. 6311 to 6339;

(b) Direct the district to replace key district personnel;

(c) Institute a new curriculum that is consistent with the statewide academic standards adopted pursuant to division (A) of section 3301.079 of the Revised Code;

(d) Establish alternative forms of governance for individual school buildings within the district;

(e) Appoint a trustee to manage the district in place of the district superintendent and board of education.

The department shall conduct individual audits of a sampling of districts subject to this division to determine compliance with the corrective actions taken by the department.

(4) If a school district fails to make adequate yearly progress for five consecutive school years, the department shall continue to monitor implementation of the corrective action taken under division (F)(3) of this section with respect to the district.

(5) If a school district fails to make adequate yearly progress for six consecutive school years, the department shall take at least one of the corrective actions identified in division (F)(3) of this section with respect to the district, provided that the corrective action the department takes is different from the corrective action previously taken under division (F)(3) of this section with respect to the district.

(G) The department may establish a state intervention team to evaluate all aspects of a school district or building, including management, curriculum, instructional methods, resource allocation, and scheduling. Any such intervention team shall be appointed by the department and shall include teachers and administrators recognized as outstanding in their fields. The intervention team shall make recommendations regarding methods for improving the performance of the district or building.

The department shall not approve a district's request for an intervention team under division (E)(3) of this section if the department cannot adequately fund the work of the team, unless the district agrees to pay for the expenses of the team.

(H) The department shall conduct individual audits of a sampling of community schools established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code to determine compliance with this section.

(I) The state board shall adopt rules for implementing this section.

Sec. 3307.01.  As used in this chapter:

(A) "Employer" means the board of education, school district, governing authority of any community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, college, university, institution, or other agency within the state by which a teacher is employed and paid.

(B) "Teacher" means all of the following:

(1) Any person paid from public funds and employed in the public schools of the state under any type of contract described in section 3319.08 of the Revised Code in a position for which the person is required to have a license issued pursuant to sections 3319.22 to 3319.31 of the Revised Code;

(2) Any person employed as a teacher by a community school pursuant to Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code;

(3) Any person holding an internship certificate issued under section 3319.28 of the Revised Code and employed in a public school in this state;

(4) Any person having a license issued pursuant to sections 3319.22 to 3319.31 of the Revised Code and employed in a public school in this state in an educational position, as determined by the state board of education, under programs provided for by federal acts or regulations and financed in whole or in part from federal funds, but for which no licensure requirements for the position can be made under the provisions of such federal acts or regulations;

(5)(4) Any other teacher or faculty member employed in any school, college, university, institution, or other agency wholly controlled and managed, and supported in whole or in part, by the state or any political subdivision thereof, including Central state university, Cleveland state university, the university of Toledo, and the medical college of Ohio at Toledo;

(6)(5) The educational employees of the department of education, as determined by the state superintendent of public instruction.

In all cases of doubt, the state teachers retirement board shall determine whether any person is a teacher, and its decision shall be final.

"Teacher" does not include any academic or administrative employee of a public institution of higher education, as defined in section 3305.01 of the Revised Code, who participates in an alternative retirement plan established under Chapter 3305. of the Revised Code.

(C) "Member" means any person included in the membership of the state teachers retirement system, which shall consist of all teachers and contributors as defined in divisions (B) and (D) of this section and all disability benefit recipients, as defined in section 3307.50 of the Revised Code. However, for purposes of this chapter, the following persons shall not be considered members:

(1) A student, intern, or resident who is not a member while employed part-time by a school, college, or university at which the student, intern, or resident is regularly attending classes;

(2) A person denied membership pursuant to section 3307.24 of the Revised Code;

(3) An other system retirant, as defined in section 3307.35 of the Revised Code, or a superannuate;

(4) An individual employed in a program established pursuant to the "Job Training Partnership Act," 96 Stat. 1322 (1982), 29 U.S.C.A. 1501.

(D) "Contributor" means any person who has an account in the teachers' savings fund or defined contribution fund.

(E) "Beneficiary" means any person eligible to receive, or in receipt of, a retirement allowance or other benefit provided by this chapter.

(F) "Year" means the year beginning the first day of July and ending with the thirtieth day of June next following, except that for the purpose of determining final average salary under the plan described in sections 3307.50 to 3307.79 of the Revised Code, "year" may mean the contract year.

(G) "Local district pension system" means any school teachers pension fund created in any school district of the state in accordance with the laws of the state prior to September 1, 1920.

(H) "Employer contribution" means the amount paid by an employer, as determined by the employer rate, including the normal and deficiency rates, contributions, and funds wherever used in this chapter.

(I) "Five years of service credit" means employment covered under this chapter and employment covered under a former retirement plan operated, recognized, or endorsed by a college, institute, university, or political subdivision of this state prior to coverage under this chapter.

(J) "Actuary" means the actuarial consultant to the state teachers retirement board, who shall be either of the following:

(1) A member of the American academy of actuaries;

(2) A firm, partnership, or corporation of which at least one person is a member of the American academy of actuaries.

(K) "Fiduciary" means a person who does any of the following:

(1) Exercises any discretionary authority or control with respect to the management of the system, or with respect to the management or disposition of its assets;

(2) Renders investment advice for a fee, direct or indirect, with respect to money or property of the system;

(3) Has any discretionary authority or responsibility in the administration of the system.

(L)(1) Except as provided in this division, "compensation" means all salary, wages, and other earnings paid to a teacher by reason of the teacher's employment, including compensation paid pursuant to a supplemental contract. The salary, wages, and other earnings shall be determined prior to determination of the amount required to be contributed to the teachers' savings fund or defined contribution fund under section 3307.26 of the Revised Code and without regard to whether any of the salary, wages, or other earnings are treated as deferred income for federal income tax purposes.

(2) Compensation does not include any of the following:

(a) Payments for accrued but unused sick leave or personal leave, including payments made under a plan established pursuant to section 124.39 of the Revised Code or any other plan established by the employer;

(b) Payments made for accrued but unused vacation leave, including payments made pursuant to section 124.13 of the Revised Code or a plan established by the employer;

(c) Payments made for vacation pay covering concurrent periods for which other salary, compensation, or benefits under this chapter are paid;

(d) Amounts paid by the employer to provide life insurance, sickness, accident, endowment, health, medical, hospital, dental, or surgical coverage, or other insurance for the teacher or the teacher's family, or amounts paid by the employer to the teacher in lieu of providing the insurance;

(e) Incidental benefits, including lodging, food, laundry, parking, or services furnished by the employer, use of the employer's property or equipment, and reimbursement for job-related expenses authorized by the employer, including moving and travel expenses and expenses related to professional development;

(f) Payments made by the employer in exchange for a member's waiver of a right to receive any payment, amount, or benefit described in division (L)(2) of this section;

(g) Payments by the employer for services not actually rendered;

(h) Any amount paid by the employer as a retroactive increase in salary, wages, or other earnings, unless the increase is one of the following:

(i) A retroactive increase paid to a member employed by a school district board of education in a position that requires a license designated for teaching and not designated for being an administrator issued under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code that is paid in accordance with uniform criteria applicable to all members employed by the board in positions requiring the licenses;

(ii) A retroactive increase paid to a member employed by a school district board of education in a position that requires a license designated for being an administrator issued under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code that is paid in accordance with uniform criteria applicable to all members employed by the board in positions requiring the licenses;

(iii) A retroactive increase paid to a member employed by a school district board of education as a superintendent that is also paid as described in division (L)(2)(h)(i) of this section;

(iv) A retroactive increase paid to a member employed by an employer other than a school district board of education in accordance with uniform criteria applicable to all members employed by the employer.

(i) Payments made to or on behalf of a teacher that are in excess of the annual compensation that may be taken into account by the retirement system under division (a)(17) of section 401 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 401(a)(17), as amended. For a teacher who first establishes membership before July 1, 1996, the annual compensation that may be taken into account by the retirement system shall be determined under division (d)(3) of section 13212 of the "Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993," Pub. L. No. 103-66, 107 Stat. 472.

(j) Payments made under division (B), (C), or (E) of section 5923.05 of the Revised Code, Section 4 of Substitute Senate Bill No. 3 of the 119th general assembly, Section 3 of Amended Substitute Senate Bill No. 164 of the 124th general assembly, or Amended Substitute House Bill No. 405 of the 124th general assembly;

(k) Anything of value received by the teacher that is based on or attributable to retirement or an agreement to retire.

(3) The retirement board shall determine by rule both of the following:

(a) Whether particular forms of earnings are included in any of the categories enumerated in this division;

(b) Whether any form of earnings not enumerated in this division is to be included in compensation.

Decisions of the board made under this division shall be final.

(M) "Superannuate" means both of the following:

(1) A former teacher receiving from the system a retirement allowance under section 3307.58 or 3307.59 of the Revised Code;

(2) A former teacher receiving a benefit from the system under a plan established under section 3307.81 of the Revised Code, except that "superannuate" does not include a former teacher who is receiving a benefit based on disability under a plan established under section 3307.81 of the Revised Code.

For purposes of sections 3307.35 and 3307.353 of the Revised Code, "superannuate" also means a former teacher receiving from the system a combined service retirement benefit paid in accordance with section 3307.57 of the Revised Code, regardless of which retirement system is paying the benefit.

Sec. 3313.28.  The treasurer of a board of education, at the expiration of the treasurer's term of office, shall deliver to the treasurer's successor all books and papers in the treasurer's hands relating to the affairs of the district, including educator licenses and internship certificates, and copies thereof, and reports of school statistics, filed by teachers.

Sec. 3313.33.  (A) Conveyances made by a board of education shall be executed by the president and treasurer thereof. No

(B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, no member of the board shall have, directly or indirectly, any pecuniary interest in any contract of the board or be employed in any manner for compensation by the board of which he the person is a member. No contract shall be binding upon any board unless it is made or authorized at a regular or special meeting of such board.

(C) A member of the board may have a pecuniary interest in a contract of the board if all of the following apply:

(1) The member's pecuniary interest in that contract is that the member is employed by a political subdivision, instrumentality, or agency of the state that is contracting with the board;

(2) The member does not participate in any discussion or debate regarding the contract or vote on the contract;

(3) The member files with the school district treasurer an affidavit stating the member's exact employment status with the political subdivision, instrumentality, or agency contracting with the board.

(D) This section does not apply where a member of the board, being a shareholder of a corporation but not being an officer or director thereof, owns not in excess of five per cent of the stock of such corporation. If a stockholder desires to avail himself self of the exception, before entering upon such contract such person shall first file with the treasurer an affidavit stating his the stockholder's exact status and connection with said corporation.

This section does not apply where a member of the board elects to be covered by a benefit plan of the school district under division (D) of section 3313.202 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3313.53. (A) As used in this section:

(1) "Licensed individual" means an individual who holds a valid educator license, certificate, or permit issued by the state board of education under section 3319.22, 3319.26, 3319.27, or 3319.302 of the Revised Code.

(2) "Nonlicensed individual" means an individual who does not hold a valid educator license, certificate, or permit issued by the state board of education under section 3319.22, 3319.26, 3319.27, or 3319.302 of the Revised Code.

(B) The board of education of any city, exempted village, or local school district may establish and maintain in connection with the public school systems:

(A)(1) Manual training, industrial arts, domestic science, and commercial departments;

(B)(2) Agricultural, industrial, vocational, and trades schools.

Such board may pay from the public school funds, as other school expenses are paid, the expenses of establishing and maintaining such departments and schools and of directing, supervising, and coaching the pupil-activity programs in music, language, arts, speech, government, athletics, and any others directly related to the curriculum.

(C) The board of education of any city, exempted village, or local school district may employ a nonlicensed individual to direct, supervise, or coach a pupil-activity program pursuant to rules adopted as long as that individual holds a valid pupil-activity program permit issued by the state board of education setting forth standards to assure the individual's good moral character and competence to direct, supervise, or coach the pupil-activity program under division (A) of section 3319.303 of the Revised Code. The state board shall also adopt rules applicable to licensed individuals, setting forth standards to assure any such individual's competence to direct, supervise, or coach a pupil-activity program and that shall not be more stringent than the standards set forth in rules applicable to nonlicensed individuals. A

(D) A nonlicensed individual who meets the standards adopted by the state board holds a valid pupil-activity program permit may be so employed under division (C) of this section only after the school district's board of education adopts a resolution stating that it has offered such position to those employees of the district who have a license issued under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code are licensed individuals and no such employee qualified to fill the position has accepted it, and has then advertised the position as available to any licensed individual with such a license who is qualified to fill it and who is not employed by the board, and no such person has applied for and accepted the position. A nonlicensed individual so employed is a nonteaching employee and is not an educational assistant as defined in section 3319.088 of the Revised Code. As used in this paragraph division and division (C) of this section, pupil-activity program does not include any class or course required or offered for credit toward a pupil's promotion to the next grade or for graduation, or any activity conducted as a part of or required for such a class or course. A nonlicensed individual employed under this section may perform only the duties of the director, supervisor, or coach of the pupil-activity program for which the nonlicensed individual is employed.

The board shall fix the compensation of the nonlicensed individual so employed, which shall be the same amount as the position was offered to the district's licensed employees, and execute a written contract with the nonlicensed individual for a term not to exceed one year. The contract shall specify the compensation, duration, and other terms of employment, and the compensation shall not be reduced unless such reduction is a part of a uniform plan affecting the entire district. No

If the state board suspends, revokes, or limits the pupil-activity program permit of a nonlicensed individual, the school district board may terminate or suspend the employment contract of that individual. Otherwise, no contract issued under this section shall be terminated or suspended except pursuant to the procedure established by division (C) of section 3319.081 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3313.713.  (A) As used in this section:

(1) "Drug prescribed by a physician" means a drug described, as defined in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code, that is to be administered pursuant to the instructions of the prescribing physician prescriber, whether or not required by law to be sold only upon a prescription.

(2) "Federal law" means the "Education For All Handicapped Children Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1975 1997," 89 111 Stat. 775 37, 20 U.S.C. 1401 1400, as amended.

(3) "Prescriber" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code.

(B) The board of education of each city, local, exempted village, and joint vocational school district, shall, not later than one hundred twenty days after the effective date of this section September 20, 1984, adopt a policy on the authority of its employees, when acting in situations other than those governed by sections 2305.23, 2305.231, and 3313.712 of the Revised Code, to administer drugs prescribed by physicians to students enrolled in the schools of the district. The policy shall provide either that:

(1) Except as otherwise required by federal law, no person employed by the board shall, in the course of such employment, administer any drug prescribed by a physician to any student enrolled in the schools of the district.

(2) Designated persons employed by the board are authorized to administer to a student a drug prescribed by a physician for the student. Except as otherwise provided by federal law, the board's policy may provide that certain drugs or types of drugs shall not be administered or that no employee, or no employee without appropriate training, shall use certain procedures, such as injection, to administer a drug to a student.

(C) No drug prescribed by a physician for a student shall be administered pursuant to federal law or a policy adopted under division (B) of this section until the following occur:

(1) The board, or a person designated by the board, receives a written request, signed by the parent, guardian, or other person having care or charge of the student, that the drug be administered to the student.

(2) The board, or a person designated by the board, receives a statement, signed by the physician who prescribed the drug prescriber, that includes all of the following information:

(a) The name and address of the student;

(b) The school and class in which the student is enrolled;

(c) The name of the drug and the dosage to be administered;

(d) The times or intervals at which each dosage of the drug is to be administered;

(e) The date the administration of the drug is to begin;

(f) The date the administration of the drug is to cease;

(g) Any severe adverse reactions that should be reported to the physician prescriber and one or more phone numbers at which the physician prescriber can be reached in an emergency;

(h) Special instructions for administration of the drug, including sterile conditions and storage.

(3) The parent, guardian, or other person having care or charge of the student agrees to submit a revised statement signed by the physician who prescribed the drug prescriber to the board or a person designated by the board if any of the information provided by the physician prescriber pursuant to division (C)(2) of this section changes.

(4) The person authorized by the board to administer the drug receives a copy of the statement required by division (C)(2) or (3) of this section.

(5) The drug is received by the person authorized to administer the drug to the student for whom the drug is prescribed in the container in which it was dispensed by the prescribing physician prescriber or a licensed pharmacist.

(6) Any other procedures required by the board are followed.

(D) If a drug prescribed by a physician is administered to a student, the board of education shall acquire and retain copies of the written requests required by division (C)(1) and the statements required by divisions (C)(2) and (3) of this section and shall ensure that by the next school day following the receipt of any such statement a copy is given to the person authorized to administer drugs to the student for whom the statement has been received. The board, or a person designated by the board, shall establish a location in each school building for the storage of drugs to be administered under this section and federal law. All such drugs shall be stored in that location in a locked storage place, except that drugs that require refrigeration may be kept in a refrigerator in a place not commonly used by students.

(E) No person who has been authorized by a board of education to administer a drug and has a copy of the most recent statement required by division (C)(2) or (3) of this section given to the person in accordance with division (D) of this section prior to administering the drug is liable in civil damages for administering or failing to administer the drug, unless such person acts in a manner that constitutes gross negligence or wanton or reckless misconduct.

(F) Whenever a A board of education is required to may designate a person or persons to perform any function or functions in connection with a drug policy adopted under this section, the board may designate such persons either by name or by position, training, qualifications, or similar distinguishing factors.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a person employed by a board of education to administer a drug to a student unless the board's policy adopted in compliance with this section establishes such a requirement. A board shall not require an employee to administer a drug to a student if the employee objects, on the basis of religious convictions, to administering the drug.

A policy adopted by a board of education pursuant to this section may be changed, modified, or revised by action of the board.

Nothing in this section affects the application of section 2305.23, 2305.231, or 3313.712 of the Revised Code to the administration of emergency care or treatment to a student.

Sec. 12 3314.021. (A) This section applies to any entity that is exempt from taxation under Section section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that satisfies the conditions specified in divisions (C)(1)(f)(ii) and (iii) of section 3314.02 of the Revised Code but does not satisfy the condition specified in division (C)(1)(f)(i) of that section.

(B) Notwithstanding division (C)(1)(f)(i) of section 3314.02 of the Revised Code, an entity described in division (A) of this section may succeed do both of the following without obtaining the department of education's approval of its sponsorship under division (B)(1) of section 3314.015 of the Revised Code:

(1) Succeed the board of trustees of a state university located in the Pilot Project Area pilot project area or that board's designee as the sponsor of a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, and may this chapter;

(2) Continue to sponsor such that school for the remainder of in conformance with the term terms of the contract between the board of trustees or its designee and the governing authority of the community school and may renew that contract as provided in division (E) of section 3314.03 of the Revised Code. Such

(C) The entity that succeeds the board of trustees or the board's designee as sponsor of a community school under division (B) of this section also may enter into new contracts to sponsor additional other community schools located in any challenged school district, without obtaining the department's approval of its sponsorship under division (B)(1) of section 3314.015 of the Revised Code, and not subject to the restriction of the paragraph following division (C)(1)(f)(iii) of section 3314.02 of the Revised Code, as long as it satisfies the contracts conform with and the entity complies with all the other requirements of Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code except for the requirement prescribed in division (C)(1)(f)(i) of section 3314.02 of the Revised Code this chapter.

Sec. 3314.034. (A) On or after July 1, 2004, no internet- or computer-based community school shall enter into a contract with a nonpublic school to use or rent any facility space at the nonpublic school for the provision of instructional services to students enrolled in the internet- or computer-based community school.

(B) If, on or after July 1, 2004, an internet- or computer-based community school has a contract with a nonpublic school as described in division (A) of this section, the department of education shall not make any payments under section 3314.08 of the Revised Code to the internet- or computer-based community school for any student who is enrolled in the internet- or computer-based community school and receives any instructional services from the internet- or computer-based community school at the nonpublic school.

Sec. 3318.031. (A) The Ohio school facilities commission shall consider student and staff safety and health when reviewing design plans for classroom facility construction projects proposed under this chapter. After consulting with appropriate education, health, and law enforcement personnel, the commission may require as a condition of project approval under either section 3318.03 or division (B)(1) of section 3318.41 of the Revised Code such changes in the design plans as the commission believes will advance or improve student and staff safety and health in the proposed classroom facility.

To carry out its duties under this section division, the commission shall review and, if necessary, amend any construction and design standards used in its project approval process, including standards for location and number of exits, standards for lead safety in classroom facilities constructed before 1978 in which services are provided to children under six years of age, and location of restrooms, with a focus on advancing student and staff safety and health.

(B) When reviewing design standards for classroom facility construction projects proposed under this chapter, the commission shall also consider the extent to which the design standards support the following:

(1) Support and facilitation of smaller classes and the trend toward smaller schools;

(2) Provision of sufficient space for training new teachers and promotion of collaboration among teaching candidates, experienced teachers, and teacher educators;

(3) Provision of adequate space for teacher planning and collaboration;

(4) Provision of adequate space for parent involvement activities;

(5) Provision of sufficient space for innovative partnerships between schools and health and social service agencies.

Sec. 3319.074.  (A) As used in this section:

(1) "Core subject area" means reading and English language arts, mathematics, science, foreign language, government, economics, fine arts, history, and geography.

(2) "Fully licensed" means having successfully completed all requirements for an educator license commensurate with years of teaching experience pursuant to section 3319.22 of the Revised Code and not having had any such requirements waived on an emergency, temporary, or provisional basis.

(3) "Highly qualified teacher" means a classroom teacher who satisfies all of the following conditions:

(a) Holds a baccalaureate degree;

(b) Is fully licensed or is participating in an alternative route to licensure in which the teacher receives professional development and mentoring, teaches for not longer than three years, and demonstrates satisfactory progress toward becoming fully licensed;

(c) If teaching in grades kindergarten through six, satisfies at least one of the following:

(i) Passage of an assessment of subject matter content and professional knowledge required for licensure;

(ii) Successful completion of a graduate degree or advanced certification in the teaching assignment;

(iii) Achievement of one hundred points on the Ohio highly qualified teacher rubric developed by the Ohio department of education;

(iv) Completion of an individual professional development program approved by the applicable local professional development committee that includes ninety hours of high quality professional development incorporating grade appropriate academic subject matter knowledge, teaching skills, and state academic content standards.

(d) If teaching in grades seven through twelve, satisfies at least one of the following:

(i) Passage of an assessment of subject matter content required for licensure;

(ii) Successful completion of either an undergraduate academic major, coursework equivalent to such major, a graduate degree, or advanced certification in each subject area in which the teacher provides instruction;

(iii) Achievement of one hundred points on the Ohio highly qualified teacher rubric developed by the department;

(iv) Completion of an individual professional development program approved by the applicable local professional development committee that includes ninety hours of high quality professional development incorporating grade appropriate academic subject matter knowledge, teaching skills, and state academic content standards.

(B) No city, exempted village, local, joint vocational, or cooperative education school district shall employ any classroom teacher hired after July 1, 2002, to provide instruction in a core subject area to any student enrolled in a school that receives funds under Title I, Part A of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965," 115 Stat. 1425, 20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq., unless such teacher is a highly qualified teacher.

(C) Each school district annually shall notify through a school wide publication the parent or guardian of each student enrolled in a school that receives funds under Title I, Part A of the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965," 115 Stat. 1425, 20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq., that the parent or guardian may request information on the professional qualifications of each classroom teacher who provides instruction to the parent's or guardian's child. The district shall provide the information on each applicable teacher to any parent or guardian who requests it. Such information shall include all of the following:

(1) Whether the teacher has satisfied all requirements for licensure adopted by the state board of education pursuant to section 3319.22 of the Revised Code for the grade levels and subject areas in which the teacher provides instruction or whether the teacher provides instruction under a waiver of any such requirements;

(2) The major subject area in which the teacher was awarded a baccalaureate degree and, if applicable, any other degrees or certification;

(3) Whether a paraprofessional provides any services to the student and, if so, the qualifications of the paraprofessional.

Sec. 3319.075. Once the state board of education adopts professional development standards pursuant to section 3319.61 of the Revised Code, the board of education of each school district shall use the standards for the following purposes:

(A) To guide the design of teacher education programs serving both teacher candidates and experienced teachers;

(B) To guide school-based professional development that is aligned with student achievement;

(C) To determine what types of professional development the school district and the schools within the district should provide;

(D) To guide how state and federal funding for professional development should be spent;

(E) To develop criteria for decision making by the local professional development committees established under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code;

(F) To guide the school district in the hiring of third-party providers of instructional services who use or meet the professional development standards;

(G) To guide all licensed school personnel in developing their own plans for professional growth.

Sec. 3319.09.  As used in sections 3319.08 to 3319.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code:

(A) "Teacher" means all persons licensed to teach and who are employed in the public schools of this state as instructors, principals, supervisors, superintendents, or in any other educational position for which the state board of education requires licensure under sections 3319.22 to 3319.31 of the Revised Code including persons holding an internship certificate issued under section 3319.28 of the Revised Code and persons having a license issued pursuant to sections 3319.22 to 3319.31 of the Revised Code and employed in an educational position, as determined by the state board of education, under programs provided for by federal acts or regulations and financed in whole or in part from federal funds, but for which no licensure requirements for the position can be made under the provisions of such federal acts or regulations.

(B) "Year" as applied to term of service means actual service of not less than one hundred twenty days within a school year; provided that any board of education may grant a leave of absence for professional advancement with full credit for service.

(C) "Continuing service status" for a teacher means employment under a continuing contract.

Sec. 3319.11.  (A) As used in this section:

(1) "Evaluation procedures" means the procedures adopted pursuant to division (B) of section 3319.111 of the Revised Code.

(2) "Limited contract" means a limited contract, as described in section 3319.08 of the Revised Code, that a school district board of education or governing board of an educational service center enters into with a teacher who is not eligible for continuing service status.

(3) "Extended limited contract" means a limited contract, as described in section 3319.08 of the Revised Code, that a board of education or governing board enters into with a teacher who is eligible for continuing service status.

(B) Teachers eligible for continuing service status in any city, exempted village, local, or joint vocational school district or educational service center shall be those teachers qualified as described in division (B)(1) or (2) of section 3319.08 of the Revised Code, who within the last five years have taught for at least three years in the district or center, and those teachers who, having attained continuing contract status elsewhere, have served two years in the district or center, but the board, upon the recommendation of the superintendent, may at the time of employment or at any time within such two-year period, declare any of the latter teachers eligible.

(1) Upon the recommendation of the superintendent that a teacher eligible for continuing service status be reemployed, a continuing contract shall be entered into between the board and the teacher unless the board by a three-fourths vote of its full membership rejects the recommendation of the superintendent. If the board rejects by a three-fourths vote of its full membership the recommendation of the superintendent that a teacher eligible for continuing service status be reemployed and the superintendent makes no recommendation to the board pursuant to division (C) of this section, the board may declare its intention not to reemploy the teacher by giving the teacher written notice on or before the thirtieth day of April of its intention not to reemploy the teacher. If evaluation procedures have not been complied with pursuant to division (A) of section 3319.111 of the Revised Code or the board does not give the teacher written notice on or before the thirtieth day of April of its intention not to reemploy the teacher, the teacher is deemed reemployed under an extended limited contract for a term not to exceed one year at the same salary plus any increment provided by the salary schedule. The teacher is presumed to have accepted employment under the extended limited contract for a term not to exceed one year unless such teacher notifies the board in writing to the contrary on or before the first day of June, and an extended limited contract for a term not to exceed one year shall be executed accordingly. Upon any subsequent reemployment of the teacher only a continuing contract may be entered into.

(2) If the superintendent recommends that a teacher eligible for continuing service status not be reemployed, the board may declare its intention not to reemploy the teacher by giving the teacher written notice on or before the thirtieth day of April of its intention not to reemploy the teacher. If evaluation procedures have not been complied with pursuant to division (A) of section 3319.111 of the Revised Code or the board does not give the teacher written notice on or before the thirtieth day of April of its intention not to reemploy the teacher, the teacher is deemed reemployed under an extended limited contract for a term not to exceed one year at the same salary plus any increment provided by the salary schedule. The teacher is presumed to have accepted employment under the extended limited contract for a term not to exceed one year unless such teacher notifies the board in writing to the contrary on or before the first day of June, and an extended limited contract for a term not to exceed one year shall be executed accordingly. Upon any subsequent reemployment of a teacher only a continuing contract may be entered into.

(3) Any teacher receiving written notice of the intention of a board not to reemploy such teacher pursuant to this division is entitled to the hearing provisions of division (G) of this section.

(C)(1) If a board rejects the recommendation of the superintendent for reemployment of a teacher pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section, the superintendent may recommend reemployment of the teacher, if continuing service status has not previously been attained elsewhere, under an extended limited contract for a term not to exceed two years, provided that written notice of the superintendent's intention to make such recommendation has been given to the teacher with reasons directed at the professional improvement of the teacher on or before the thirtieth day of April. Upon subsequent reemployment of the teacher only a continuing contract may be entered into.

(2) If a board of education takes affirmative action on a superintendent's recommendation, made pursuant to division (C)(1) of this section, of an extended limited contract for a term not to exceed two years but the board does not give the teacher written notice of its affirmative action on the superintendent's recommendation of an extended limited contract on or before the thirtieth day of April, the teacher is deemed reemployed under a continuing contract at the same salary plus any increment provided by the salary schedule. The teacher is presumed to have accepted employment under such continuing contract unless such teacher notifies the board in writing to the contrary on or before the first day of June, and a continuing contract shall be executed accordingly.

(3) A board shall not reject a superintendent's recommendation, made pursuant to division (C)(1) of this section, of an extended limited contract for a term not to exceed two years except by a three-fourths vote of its full membership. If a board rejects by a three-fourths vote of its full membership the recommendation of the superintendent of an extended limited contract for a term not to exceed two years, the board may declare its intention not to reemploy the teacher by giving the teacher written notice on or before the thirtieth day of April of its intention not to reemploy the teacher. If evaluation procedures have not been complied with pursuant to division (A) of section 3319.111 of the Revised Code or if the board does not give the teacher written notice on or before the thirtieth day of April of its intention not to reemploy him the teacher, the teacher is deemed reemployed under an extended limited contract for a term not to exceed one year at the same salary plus any increment provided by the salary schedule. The teacher is presumed to have accepted employment under the extended limited contract for a term not to exceed one year unless such teacher notifies the board in writing to the contrary on or before the first day of June, and an extended limited contract for a term not to exceed one year shall be executed accordingly. Upon any subsequent reemployment of the teacher only a continuing contract may be entered into.

Any teacher receiving written notice of the intention of a board not to reemploy such teacher pursuant to this division is entitled to the hearing provisions of division (G) of this section.

(D) A teacher eligible for continuing contract status employed under an extended limited contract pursuant to division (B) or (C) of this section, is, at the expiration of such extended limited contract, deemed reemployed under a continuing contract at the same salary plus any increment granted by the salary schedule, unless evaluation procedures have been complied with pursuant to division (A) of section 3319.111 of the Revised Code and the employing board, acting on the superintendent's recommendation that the teacher not be reemployed, gives the teacher written notice on or before the thirtieth day of April of its intention not to reemploy such teacher. A teacher who does not have evaluation procedures applied in compliance with division (A) of section 3319.111 of the Revised Code or who does not receive notice on or before the thirtieth day of April of the intention of the board not to reemploy such teacher is presumed to have accepted employment under a continuing contract unless such teacher notifies the board in writing to the contrary on or before the first day of June, and a continuing contract shall be executed accordingly.

Any teacher receiving a written notice of the intention of a board not to reemploy such teacher pursuant to this division is entitled to the hearing provisions of division (G) of this section.

(E) A limited contract may be entered into by each board with each teacher who has not been in the employ of the board for at least three years and shall be entered into, regardless of length of previous employment, with each teacher employed by the board who holds a provisional, temporary, or associate license or an internship certificate, or who holds a professional license and is not eligible to be considered for a continuing contract.

Any teacher employed under a limited contract, and not eligible to be considered for a continuing contract, is, at the expiration of such limited contract, considered reemployed under the provisions of this division at the same salary plus any increment provided by the salary schedule unless evaluation procedures have been complied with pursuant to division (A) of section 3319.111 of the Revised Code and the employing board, acting upon the superintendent's written recommendation that the teacher not be reemployed, gives such teacher written notice of its intention not to reemploy such teacher on or before the thirtieth day of April. A teacher who does not have evaluation procedures applied in compliance with division (A) of section 3319.111 of the Revised Code or who does not receive notice of the intention of the board not to reemploy such teacher on or before the thirtieth day of April is presumed to have accepted such employment unless such teacher notifies the board in writing to the contrary on or before the first day of June, and a written contract for the succeeding school year shall be executed accordingly.

Any teacher receiving a written notice of the intention of a board not to reemploy such teacher pursuant to this division is entitled to the hearing provisions of division (G) of this section.

(F) The failure of a superintendent to make a recommendation to the board under any of the conditions set forth in divisions (B) to (E) of this section, or the failure of the board to give such teacher a written notice pursuant to divisions (C) to (E) of this section shall not prejudice or prevent a teacher from being deemed reemployed under either a limited or continuing contract as the case may be under the provisions of this section. A failure of the parties to execute a written contract shall not void any automatic reemployment provisions of this section.

(G)(1) Any teacher receiving written notice of the intention of a board of education not to reemploy such teacher pursuant to division (B), (C)(3), (D), or (E) of this section may, within ten days of the date of receipt of the notice, file with the treasurer of the board a written demand for a written statement describing the circumstances that led to the board's intention not to reemploy the teacher.

(2) The treasurer of a board, on behalf of the board, shall, within ten days of the date of receipt of a written demand for a written statement pursuant to division (G)(1) of this section, provide to the teacher a written statement describing the circumstances that led to the board's intention not to reemploy the teacher.

(3) Any teacher receiving a written statement describing the circumstances that led to the board's intention not to reemploy the teacher pursuant to division (G)(2) of this section may, within five days of the date of receipt of the statement, file with the treasurer of the board a written demand for a hearing before the board pursuant to divisions (G)(4) to (6) of this section.

(4) The treasurer of a board, on behalf of the board, shall, within ten days of the date of receipt of a written demand for a hearing pursuant to division (G)(3) of this section, provide to the teacher a written notice setting forth the time, date, and place of the hearing. The board shall schedule and conclude the hearing within forty days of the date on which the treasurer of the board receives a written demand for a hearing pursuant to division (G)(3) of this section.

(5) Any hearing conducted pursuant to this division shall be conducted by a majority of the members of the board. The hearing shall be held in executive session of the board unless the board and the teacher agree to hold the hearing in public. The superintendent, assistant superintendent, the teacher, and any person designated by either party to take a record of the hearing may be present at the hearing. The board may be represented by counsel and the teacher may be represented by counsel or a designee. A record of the hearing may be taken by either party at the expense of the party taking the record.

(6) Within ten days of the conclusion of a hearing conducted pursuant to this division, the board shall issue to the teacher a written decision containing an order affirming the intention of the board not to reemploy the teacher reported in the notice given to the teacher pursuant to division (B), (C)(3), (D), or (E) of this section or an order vacating the intention not to reemploy and expunging any record of the intention, notice of the intention, and the hearing conducted pursuant to this division.

(7) A teacher may appeal an order affirming the intention of the board not to reemploy the teacher to the court of common pleas of the county in which the largest portion of the territory of the school district or service center is located, within thirty days of the date on which the teacher receives the written decision, on the grounds that the board has not complied with section 3319.11 or 3319.111 of the Revised Code.

Notwithstanding section 2506.04 of the Revised Code, the court in an appeal under this division is limited to the determination of procedural errors and to ordering the correction of procedural errors and shall have no jurisdiction to order a board to reemploy a teacher, except that the court may order a board to reemploy a teacher in compliance with the requirements of division (B), (C)(3), (D), or (E) of this section when the court determines that evaluation procedures have not been complied with pursuant to division (A) of section 3319.111 of the Revised Code or the board has not given the teacher written notice on or before the thirtieth day of April of its intention not to reemploy the teacher pursuant to division (B), (C)(3), (D), or (E) of this section. Otherwise, the determination whether to reemploy or not reemploy a teacher is solely a board's determination and not a proper subject of judicial review and, except as provided in this division, no decision of a board whether to reemploy or not reemploy a teacher shall be invalidated by the court on any basis, including that the decision was not warranted by the results of any evaluation or was not warranted by any statement given pursuant to division (G)(2) of this section.

No appeal of an order of a board may be made except as specified in this division.

(H)(1) In giving a teacher any notice required by division (B), (C), (D), or (E) of this section, the board or the superintendent shall do either of the following:

(a) Deliver the notice by personal service upon the teacher;

(b) Deliver the notice by certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the teacher at the teacher's place of employment and deliver a copy of the notice by certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the teacher at the teacher's place of residence.

(2) In giving a board any notice required by division (B), (C), (D), or (E) of this section, the teacher shall do either of the following:

(a) Deliver the notice by personal delivery to the office of the superintendent during regular business hours;

(b) Deliver the notice by certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the office of the superintendent and deliver a copy of the notice by certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the president of the board at the president's place of residence.

(3) When any notice and copy of the notice are mailed pursuant to division (H)(1)(b) or (2)(b) of this section, the notice or copy of the notice with the earlier date of receipt shall constitute the notice for the purposes of division (B), (C), (D), or (E) of this section.

(I) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any supplemental written contracts entered into pursuant to section 3319.08 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3319.111.  (A) Any board of education that has entered into any limited contract or extended limited contract with a teacher pursuant to section 3319.11 of the Revised Code, except with a teacher who holds an internship certificate granted under division (A) of section 3319.28 of the Revised Code, shall evaluate such a teacher in compliance with the requirements of this section in any school year in which the board may wish to declare its intention not to re-employ the teacher pursuant to division (B), (C)(3), (D), or (E) of section 3319.11 of the Revised Code.

This evaluation shall be conducted at least twice in the school year in which the board may wish to declare its intention not to re-employ the teacher. One evaluation shall be conducted and completed not later than the fifteenth day of January and the teacher being evaluated shall receive a written report of the results of this evaluation not later than the twenty-fifth day of January. One evaluation shall be conducted and completed between the tenth day of February and the first day of April and the teacher being evaluated shall receive a written report of the results of this evaluation not later than the tenth day of April.

Any evaluation conducted pursuant to this section shall be conducted by one or more of the following:

(1) A person who is under contract with a board of education pursuant to section 3319.01 or 3319.02 of the Revised Code and holds a license designated for being a superintendent, assistant superintendent, or principal issued under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code;

(2) A person who is under contract with a board of education pursuant to section 3319.02 of the Revised Code and holds a license designated for being a vocational director or a supervisor in any educational area issued under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code;

(3) A person designated to conduct evaluations under an agreement providing for peer review entered into by a board of education and representatives of teachers employed by that board.

(B) Any board of education evaluating a teacher pursuant to this section shall adopt evaluation procedures that shall be applied each time a teacher is evaluated pursuant to this section. These evaluation procedures shall include, but not be limited to:

(1) Criteria of expected job performance in the areas of responsibility assigned to the teacher being evaluated;

(2) Observation of the teacher being evaluated by the person conducting the evaluation on at least two occasions for not less than thirty minutes on each occasion;

(3) A written report of the results of the evaluation that includes specific recommendations regarding any improvements needed in the performance of the teacher being evaluated and regarding the means by which the teacher may obtain assistance in making such improvements.

(C) This section does not apply to teachers subject to evaluation procedures under sections 3319.01 and 3319.02 of the Revised Code or to any teacher employed as a substitute for less than one hundred twenty days during a school year pursuant to section 3319.10 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3319.112. (A) The state board of education, in consultation with the Ohio board of regents, shall establish guidelines for the evaluation of teachers and principals. The guidelines shall include the following principles:

(1) A school district should evaluate the performance of teachers on a regular basis.

(2) The evaluation system adopted by a school district should be fair, credible, and evidence-based and should use multiple measures of a teacher or principal's use of knowledge and skills and of students' academic progress.

(3) The evaluation system adopted by a school district should be aligned with the standards for teachers and principals adopted pursuant to section 3319.61 of the Revised Code.

(4) The evaluation system adopted by a school district should provide clear statements of expectation for professional performance.

(5) The evaluation of a teacher or principal should suggest professional development that will enhance future performance in areas that do not meet expected performance levels.

(6) The criteria included in a school district's evaluation system should be reviewed on a regular basis and revised as necessary to ensure effectiveness over time.

(7) The evaluation system adopted by a school district should address the extent to which a teacher or principal exhibits cultural competency as defined pursuant to section 3319.61 of the Revised Code.

(B) Once the state board has established the guidelines, the state board shall inform school districts of the contents of the guidelines. All school districts may use the guidelines in creating or modifying evaluation systems.

(C) To assist school districts that modify evaluation systems to better reflect a standards-based method, the department of education shall do both of the following:

(1) Serve as a clearinghouse of promising evaluation procedures and evaluation models that school districts may use;

(2) Provide technical assistance to school districts that request assistance in modifying evaluation systems.

Sec. 3319.22.  (A)(1) 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.

(2) If the state board requires any examinations for educator licensure, the department of education shall provide the results of such examinations received by the department to the Ohio board of regents, in the manner and to the extent permitted by state and federal law.

(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 in the case of the adoption of any rules, rule or the amendment or rescission of any rules, rule that necessitates institutions' offering teacher preparation programs that are approved by the state board of education under section 3319.23 of the Revised Code to revise the curriculum of those programs, the effective date 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 effective date of such rules, or the amendment or rescission of such rules, shall be 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 department of education shall provide technical assistance and support to committees as the committees incorporate the professional development standards adopted by the state board of education pursuant to section 3319.61 of the Revised Code into their review of coursework that is appropriate for license renewal. 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. 3319.225.  (A) No temporary educator license shall be issued under this section for employment as a principal after the effective date of the rules prescribed by division (A) of section 3319.27 of the Revised Code. No temporary educator license shall be issued under this section for employment as a superintendent or in any other administrative position except principal after the effective date of the rules prescribed by division (B) of section 3319.27 of the Revised Code.

(B) Notwithstanding sections 3319.01 and 3319.22 of the Revised Code, the board of education of any city, local, or exempted village, or joint vocational school district, or the governing board of any educational service center may request the state board of education to issue a one-year temporary educator license valid for being employed as a superintendent, or in any other administrative position, to an individual specified by the district board. The state board of education may issue the educator license if the requesting district board has determined both of the following:

(A)(1) The individual is of good moral character;

(B)(2) The individual holds at least a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution of higher education in a field related to finance or administration, or has five years of recent work experience in education, management, or administration.

A one-year temporary educator license is valid only in the district whose board requested the license. An individual holding such a license may be employed as a superintendent or in any other administrative position in such district. The state board of education may renew such license annually upon request of the employing district.

Sec. 3319.227. This section does not apply to any classroom teacher required to be a highly qualified teacher pursuant to section 3319.074 of the Revised Code.

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. 3319.23.  The state board of education shall establish standards and courses of study for the preparation of teachers, shall provide for the inspection of institutions desiring to prepare teachers, shall approve such institutions as maintain satisfactory training procedures, and shall properly license the graduates of such approved courses and institutions. If the standards adopted by the state board under this section require an institution also to satisfy the standards of an independent accreditation organization, the state board shall permit each institution to satisfy the standards of either the national council for accreditation of teacher education or the teacher education accreditation council.

The standards and courses of study for the preparation of teachers together with the standards, rules, and regulations set for each kind of license and for the renewal and conversion thereof shall be adopted and published by the board in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code and no change therein. Notwithstanding division (D) of section 119.03 and division (A)(1) of section 119.04 of the Revised Code, any standards, courses of study, rules, and regulations, or any amendment or rescission of such standards, courses of study, rules, and regulations, adopted by the board under this section that necessitate institutions offering teacher preparation programs approved by the board to revise the curriculum of those programs shall not be effective for at least one year from the first day of January next succeeding the publication of the said change.

Sec. 3319.25. Any teacher performance assessment entity with which the department of education or the state board of education contracts or any independent agent with whom such entity, the department, or the state board contracts to provide services as a teacher performance assessor, trainer of assessors, or assessment coordinator is not liable for damages in a civil action concerning the actions of such entity or agent made in the conduct of a teacher performance assessment unless those actions were conducted with malicious purpose, in bad faith, or in a wanton or reckless manner.

As used in this section, "teacher performance assessment" means an assessment prescribed by the state board of education to measure the classroom performance of a teacher who is a candidate for a professional educator license based on observations conducted by a trained assessor while the teacher is engaged in actual classroom instruction.

Sec. 3319.26. (A) 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

(B)(1) The rules shall require applicants for the license to hold satisfy the following conditions prior to issuance of the license:

(a) Hold a minimum of a baccalaureate degree, to have successfully completed;

(b) Successfully complete three semester hours or the equivalent of college coursework in the developmental characteristics of adolescent youths and three semester hours or the equivalent in teaching methods, and to have passed;

(c) Pass an examination in the subject area for which application is being made. An

(2) An alternative educator license shall be valid for two years and shall not be renewable.

(3) 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.

(C) 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)(1) Two years of teaching under the alternative license;

(B)(2) The twelve semester hours, or the equivalent, of the additional college coursework described in division (B)(3) of this section;

(C)(3) 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. 3319.261. An individual who otherwise qualifies for an alternative educator license for employment as an intervention specialist as authorized under section 3319.26 of the Revised Code shall be issued such license without successful completion of the examination specified in division (B)(1)(c) of section 3319.26 of the Revised Code. The individual to whom the alternative educator license is issued under this section shall be required to successfully complete that examination prior to issuance of a provisional educator license as provided in division (C) of section 3319.26 of the Revised Code only after completing the coursework prescribed in division (B)(3) of that section.

Sec. 3319.27. (A) The state board of education shall adopt rules that establish an alternative principal license. The rules establishing an alternative principal license shall include a requirement that an applicant have obtained classroom teaching experience. Beginning on the effective date of the rules, the state board shall cease to issue temporary educator licenses pursuant to section 3319.225 of the Revised Code for employment as a principal. Any person who on the effective date of the rules holds a valid temporary educator license issued under that section and is employed as a principal shall be allowed to continue employment as a principal until the expiration of the license. Employment of any such person as a principal by a school district after the expiration of the temporary educator license shall be contingent upon the state board issuing the person an alternative principal license in accordance with the rules adopted under this division.

(B) The state board shall adopt rules that establish an alternative administrator license, which shall be valid for employment as a superintendent or in any other administrative position except principal. Beginning on the effective date of the rules, the state board shall cease to issue temporary educator licenses pursuant to section 3319.225 of the Revised Code for employment as a superintendent or in any other administrative position except principal. Any person who on the effective date of the rules holds a valid temporary educator license issued under that section and is employed as a superintendent or in any other administrative position except principal shall be allowed to continue employment in that position until the expiration of the license. Employment of any such person as a superintendent or in any other administrative position except principal by a school district after the expiration of the temporary educator license shall be contingent upon the state board issuing the person an alternative administrator license in accordance with the rules adopted under this division.

Sec. 3319.283.  (A) The board of education of any school district may employ an individual who is not certificated or licensed as required by Chapter 3319. of the Revised Code, but who meets the following qualifications, as a teacher in the schools of the district:

(1) The individual is a veteran of the armed forces of the United States and was honorably discharged within three years of the effective date of this amendment June 30, 1997;

(2) While in the armed forces the individual had meaningful teaching or other instructional experience;

(3) The individual holds at least a baccalaureate degree.

(B) An individual employed under this section shall be deemed to hold a teaching certificate or educator license for the purposes of state and federal law and rules and regulations and school district policies, rules, and regulations. Such individuals However, an individual employed under this section is not a highly qualified teacher for purposes of the school district's compliance with section 3319.074 of the Revised Code. Each individual employed under this section shall meet the requirement to successfully complete fifteen hours, or the equivalent, of coursework every five years that is approved by the local professional development committee as is required of other teachers licensed in accordance with Chapter 3319. of the Revised Code.

(C) The superintendent of public instruction may revoke the right of an individual employed under division (A) of this section to teach if, after an investigation and an adjudication conducted pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the superintendent finds that the person is not competent to teach the subject the person has been employed to teach or did not fulfill the requirements of division (A) of this section. No individual whose right to teach has been revoked under this division shall teach in a public school, and no board of education may engage such an individual to teach in the schools of its district.

Notwithstanding division (B) of this section, a board of education is not required to comply with the provisions of sections 3319.11 and 3319.16 of the Revised Code with regard to termination of employment if the superintendent, after an investigation and an adjudication, has revoked the individual's right to teach.

Sec. 3319.29.  Each application for any license or certificate pursuant to section sections 3319.22 to 3319.28 3319.27 of the Revised Code or for any permit pursuant to section 3319.301 or 3319.303 of the Revised Code, or renewal or duplicate of such a license, certificate, or permit, shall be accompanied by the payment of a fee in the amount established under division (A) of section 3319.51 of the Revised Code. Any fees received under this section shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the state board of education licensure fund established under division (B) of section 3319.51 of the Revised Code.

Any person applying for or holding a license, certificate, or permit pursuant to this section and sections 3319.22 to 3319.28 3319.27 or section 3319.301 or 3319.303 of the Revised Code is subject to sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code and sections 3319.31 and 3319.311 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 3319.291.  (A) Except for a certificate of the type described in division (B) of section 3319.281 of the Revised Code, when When any person initially applies for any certificate, license, or permit described in division (B) of section 3301.071 or, in section 3301.074, 3319.088, or 3319.29, or in division (A) of section 3319.303 of the Revised Code, the state board of education shall require the person to submit with the application two complete sets of fingerprints and written permission that authorizes the superintendent of public instruction to forward the fingerprints to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation pursuant to division (F) of section 109.57 of the Revised Code and that authorizes that bureau to forward the fingerprints to the federal bureau of investigation for purposes of obtaining any criminal records that the federal bureau maintains on the person.

(B) The state board of education or the superintendent of public instruction may request the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to do either or both of the following:

(1) Investigate and determine whether the bureau has any information, gathered pursuant to division (A) of section 109.57 of the Revised Code, pertaining to any person submitting fingerprints and written permission under this section;

(2) Obtain any criminal records that the federal bureau of investigation has on the person.

Sec. 3319.303. (A) The state board of education shall adopt rules establishing standards and requirements for obtaining a pupil-activity program permit for any individual who does not hold a valid educator license, certificate, or permit issued by the state board under section 3319.22, 3319.26, 3319.27, or 3319.302 of the Revised Code. The permit issued under this section shall be valid for coaching, supervising, or directing a pupil-activity program under section 3313.53 of the Revised Code. Subject to the provisions of section 3319.31 of the Revised Code, a permit issued under this section shall be valid for three years and shall be renewable.

(B) The state board shall adopt rules applicable to individuals who hold valid educator licenses, certificates, or permits issued by the state board under section 3319.22, 3319.26, 3319.27, or 3319.302 of the Revised Code setting forth standards to assure any such individual's competence to direct, supervise, or coach a pupil-activity program. The rules adopted under this division shall not be more stringent than the standards set forth in rules applicable to individuals who do not hold such licenses, certificates, or permits adopted under division (A) of this section.

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, 3319.29, or 3319.302, or in division (A) of section 3319.303 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 (B) 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. 3319.311.  (A) The state board of education, or the superintendent of public instruction on behalf of the board, may investigate any information received about a person that reasonably appears to be a basis for action under section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. The board shall contract with the office of the Ohio attorney general to conduct any investigation of that nature. The board shall pay for the costs of the contract only from moneys in the state board of education licensure fund established under division (B) of section 3319.51 of the Revised Code. All information obtained during an investigation is confidential and is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. If an investigation is conducted under this division regarding information received about a person and no action is taken against the person under this section or section 3319.31 of the Revised Code within two years of the completion of the investigation, all records of the investigation shall be expunged.

(B) The superintendent of public instruction shall review the results of each investigation of a person conducted under division (A) of this section and shall determine, on behalf of the state board, whether the results warrant initiating action under section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. The superintendent shall advise the board of such determination at a meeting of the board. Within fourteen days of the next meeting of the board, any member of the board may ask that the question of initiating action under section 3319.31 of the Revised Code be placed on the board's agenda for that next meeting. Prior to initiating that action against any person, the person's name and any other personally identifiable information shall remain confidential.

(C) The board shall take no action against a person under section 3319.31 of the Revised Code without providing the person with written notice of the charges and with an opportunity for a hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. For

(D) For purposes of the an investigation under division (A) of this section or a hearing under division (C) of this section, the board, or the superintendent on behalf of the board, may administer oaths, order the taking of depositions, issue subpoenas, and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, accounts, papers, records, documents, and testimony. The issuance of subpoenas under this division may be by certified mail or personal delivery to the person.

(D)(E) The superintendent, on behalf of the board, may enter into a consent agreement with a person against whom action is being taken under section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. The board may adopt rules governing the superintendent's action under this division.

(E)(F) The board automatically may suspend any license without a prior hearing if the license holder is convicted of or pleads guilty to one or more of the following offenses or a violation of an ordinance of a municipal corporation or a law of another state that is substantially comparable to one of the following offenses: aggravated murder; murder; aggravated arson; aggravated robbery; aggravated burglary; voluntary manslaughter; felonious assault; kidnapping; rape; sexual battery; gross sexual imposition; or unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. A suspension under this division is effective on the date of the conviction or guilty plea.

For a suspension under this division, the board, in accordance with section 119.07 of the Revised Code, shall issue a written order of suspension to the license holder by certified mail or in person and shall afford the person a hearing upon request. If the person does not request a hearing within the time limits established by that section, the board shall enter a final order revoking the person's license. An order of suspension under this division is not subject to suspension by a court during the pendency of an appeal filed under section 119.12 of the Revised Code.

An order of suspension under this division shall remain in effect, unless reversed on appeal, until the final order of the board, issued pursuant to this section and Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, becomes effective. The board shall issue a final order within sixty days of the date of an order of suspension under this division or a hearing on an order of suspension, whichever is later. If the board fails to issue a final order by that deadline, the order of suspension is dissolved. No dissolution of an order of suspension under this division shall invalidate a subsequent final order of the board.

(F)(G) No surrender of a license shall be effective until the board takes action to accept the surrender unless the surrender is pursuant to a consent agreement entered into under division (D)(E) of this section.

Sec. 3319.36.  (A) No treasurer of a board of education or educational service center shall draw a check for the payment of a teacher for services until the teacher files with the treasurer both of the following:

(1) Such reports as are required by the state board of education, the school district board of education, or the superintendent of schools;

(2) Except for a teacher who is engaged pursuant to section 3319.301 of the Revised Code, a written statement from the city, exempted village, or local school district superintendent or the educational service center superintendent that the teacher has filed with the treasurer a legal educator license or internship certificate, or true copy of it, to teach the subjects or grades taught, with the dates of its validity. The state board of education shall prescribe the record and administration for such filing of educator licenses and internship certificates in educational service centers.

(B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, the treasurer may pay either of the following:

(1) Any teacher for services rendered during the first two months of the teacher's initial employment with the school district or educational service center, provided such teacher is the holder of a bachelor's degree or higher and has filed with the state board of education an application for the issuance of a provisional or professional educator license.

(2) Any substitute teacher for services rendered while conditionally employed under section 3319.101 of the Revised Code.

(C) Upon notice to the treasurer given by the state board of education or any superintendent having jurisdiction that reports required of a teacher have not been made, the treasurer shall withhold the salary of the teacher until the required reports are completed and furnished.

Sec. 3319.39.  (A)(1) Except as provided in division (F)(2)(b) of section 109.57 of the Revised Code and division (I) of this section, the appointing or hiring officer of the board of education of a school district, the governing board of an educational service center, or of a chartered nonpublic school shall request the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to conduct a criminal records check with respect to any applicant who has applied to the school district, educational service center, or school for employment in any position as a person responsible for the care, custody, or control of a child. If the applicant does not present proof that the applicant has been a resident of this state for the five-year period immediately prior to the date upon which the criminal records check is requested or does not provide evidence that within that five-year period the superintendent has requested information about the applicant from the federal bureau of investigation in a criminal records check, the appointing or hiring officer shall request that the superintendent obtain information from the federal bureau of investigation as a part of the criminal records check for the applicant. If the applicant presents proof that the applicant has been a resident of this state for that five-year period, the appointing or hiring officer may request that the superintendent include information from the federal bureau of investigation in the criminal records check.

(2) A person required by division (A)(1) of this section to request a criminal records check shall provide to each applicant a copy of the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code, provide to each applicant a standard impression sheet to obtain fingerprint impressions prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code, obtain the completed form and impression sheet from each applicant, and forward the completed form and impression sheet to the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation at the time the person requests a criminal records check pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section.

(3) An applicant who receives pursuant to division (A)(2) of this section a copy of the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code and a copy of an impression sheet prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of that section and who is requested to complete the form and provide a set of fingerprint impressions shall complete the form or provide all the information necessary to complete the form and shall provide the impression sheet with the impressions of the applicant's fingerprints. If an applicant, upon request, fails to provide the information necessary to complete the form or fails to provide impressions of the applicant's fingerprints, the board of education of a school district, governing board of an educational service center, or governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school shall not employ that applicant for any position for which a criminal records check is required pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section.

(B)(1) Except as provided in rules adopted by the department of education in accordance with division (E) of this section and as provided in division (B)(3) of this section, no board of education of a school district, no governing board of an educational service center, and no governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school shall employ a person as a person responsible for the care, custody, or control of a child if the person previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the following:

(a) A violation of section 2903.01, 2903.02, 2903.03, 2903.04, 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13, 2903.16, 2903.21, 2903.34, 2905.01, 2905.02, 2905.05, 2907.02, 2907.03, 2907.04, 2907.05, 2907.06, 2907.07, 2907.08, 2907.09, 2907.21, 2907.22, 2907.23, 2907.25, 2907.31, 2907.32, 2907.321, 2907.322, 2907.323, 2911.01, 2911.02, 2911.11, 2911.12, 2919.12, 2919.22, 2919.24, 2919.25, 2923.12, 2923.13, 2923.161, 2925.02, 2925.03, 2925.04, 2925.05, 2925.06, or 3716.11 of the Revised Code, a violation of section 2905.04 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to July 1, 1996, a violation of section 2919.23 of the Revised Code that would have been a violation of section 2905.04 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to July 1, 1996, had the violation been committed prior to that date,, a violation of section 2925.11 of the Revised Code that is not a minor drug possession offense, or felonious sexual penetration in violation of former section 2907.12 of the Revised Code;

(b) A violation of an existing or former law of this state, another state, or the United States that is substantially equivalent to any of the offenses or violations described in division (B)(1)(a) of this section.

(2) A board, governing board of an educational service center, or a governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school may employ an applicant conditionally until the criminal records check required by this section is completed and the board or governing authority receives the results of the criminal records check. If the results of the criminal records check indicate that, pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section, the applicant does not qualify for employment, the board or governing authority shall release the applicant from employment.

(3) No board and no governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school shall employ a teacher who previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the offenses listed in section 3319.31 of the Revised Code.

(C)(1) Each board and each governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school shall pay to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation the fee prescribed pursuant to division (C)(3) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code for each criminal records check conducted in accordance with that section upon the request pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section of the appointing or hiring officer of the board or governing authority.

(2) A board and the governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school may charge an applicant a fee for the costs it incurs in obtaining a criminal records check under this section. A fee charged under this division shall not exceed the amount of fees the board or governing authority pays under division (C)(1) of this section. If a fee is charged under this division, the board or governing authority shall notify the applicant at the time of the applicant's initial application for employment of the amount of the fee and that, unless the fee is paid, the board or governing authority will not consider the applicant for employment.

(D) The report of any criminal records check conducted by the bureau of criminal identification and investigation in accordance with section 109.572 of the Revised Code and pursuant to a request under division (A)(1) of this section is not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall not be made available to any person other than the applicant who is the subject of the criminal records check or the applicant's representative, the board or governing authority requesting the criminal records check or its representative, and any court, hearing officer, or other necessary individual involved in a case dealing with the denial of employment to the applicant.

(E) The department of education shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement this section, including rules specifying circumstances under which the board or governing authority may hire a person who has been convicted of an offense listed in division (B)(1) or (3) of this section but who meets standards in regard to rehabilitation set by the department.

(F) Any person required by division (A)(1) of this section to request a criminal records check shall inform each person, at the time of the person's initial application for employment, of the requirement to provide a set of fingerprint impressions and that a criminal records check is required to be conducted and satisfactorily completed in accordance with section 109.572 of the Revised Code if the person comes under final consideration for appointment or employment as a precondition to employment for the school district, educational service center, or school for that position.

(G) As used in this section:

(1) "Applicant" means a person who is under final consideration for appointment or employment in a position with a board of education, governing board of an educational service center, or a chartered nonpublic school as a person responsible for the care, custody, or control of a child, except that "applicant" does not include a person already employed by a board or chartered nonpublic school in a position of care, custody, or control of a child who is under consideration for a different position with such board or school.

(2) "Teacher" means a person holding an educator license, internship certificate, or permit issued under section 3319.22, 3319.28, or 3319.301 of the Revised Code and teachers in a chartered nonpublic school.

(3) "Criminal records check" has the same meaning as in section 109.572 of the Revised Code.

(4) "Minor drug possession offense" has the same meaning as in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code.

(H) If the board of education of a local school district adopts a resolution requesting the assistance of the educational service center in which the local district has territory in conducting criminal records checks of substitute teachers under this section, the appointing or hiring officer of such educational service center shall serve for purposes of this section as the appointing or hiring officer of the local board in the case of hiring substitute teachers for employment in the local district.

(I) The requirements of this section shall not apply to a person holding a certificate of the type described in section 3319.281 of the Revised Code who applies to a school district or school for employment in an adult instruction position under which that person is not responsible for the care, custody, or control of a child.

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, under sections 3301.074, 3319.088, 3319.29, and 3319.302, and under division (A) of section 3319.303 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, 3319.303, 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, 3319.29, and 3319.302, and division (A) of section 3319.303 of the Revised Code and any appropriations to the fund by the general assembly.

Sec. 3319.56. The department of education shall identify promising practices in Ohio and throughout the country for engaging teachers certified by the national board for professional teaching standards and other master teachers, as defined by the educator standards board pursuant to section 3319.61 of the Revised Code, in ways that add value beyond their own classrooms. Practices identified by the department as promising may include placing national board certified and master teachers in key roles in peer review programs; having such teachers serve as coaches, mentors, and trainers for other teachers; or having such teachers develop curricula or instructional integration strategies.

Once the department has identified promising practices, the department shall inform all school districts of the practices by posting such information on the department's world wide web site.

Sec. 3319.57.  (A) A grant program is hereby established under which the department of education shall award grants to assist certain schools in a city, exempted village, local, or joint vocational school district in implementing one of the following innovations:

(1) The use of instructional specialists to mentor and support classroom teachers;

(2) The use of building managers to supervise the administrative functions of school operation so that a school principal can focus on supporting instruction, providing instructional leadership, and engaging teachers as part of the instructional leadership team;

(3) The reconfiguration of school leadership structure in a manner that allows teachers to serve in leadership roles so that teachers may share the responsibility for making and implementing school decisions;

(4) The adoption of new models for restructuring the school day or school year, such as including teacher planning and collaboration time as part of the school day;

(5) The creation of smaller schools or smaller units within larger schools for the purpose of facilitating teacher collaboration to improve and advance the professional practice of teaching;

(6) The implementation of "grow your own" recruitment strategies that are designed to assist individuals who show a commitment to education become licensed teachers, to assist experienced teachers obtain licensure in subject areas for which there is need, and to assist teachers in becoming principals;

(7) The provision of better conditions for new teachers, such as reduced teaching load and reduced class size;

(8) The provision of incentives to attract qualified mathematics, science, or special education teachers;

(9) The development and implementation of a partnership with teacher preparation programs at colleges and universities to help attract teachers qualified to teach in shortage areas;

(10) The implementation of a program to increase the cultural competency of both new and veteran teachers;

(11) The implementation of a program to increase the subject matter competency of veteran teachers.

(B) To qualify for a grant to implement one of the innovations described in division (A) of this section, a school must meet both of the following criteria:

(1) Be hard to staff, as defined by the department.

(2) Use existing school district funds for the implementation of the innovation in an amount equal to the grant amount multiplied by (1 - the district's state share percentage for the fiscal year in which the grant is awarded).

For purposes of division (B)(2) of this section, "state share percentage" shall be as calculated under section 3317.022 of the Revised Code, in the case of a city, local, or exempted village school district, or as calculated under section 3317.16 of the Revised Code, in the case of a joint vocational school district.

(C) The amount and number of grants awarded under this section shall be determined by the department based on any appropriations made by the general assembly for grants under this section.

(D) The state board of education shall adopt rules for the administration of this grant program.

Sec. 3319.60.  There is hereby established the educator standards board. The board shall develop and recommend to the state board of education standards for entering and continuing in the teaching and principalship professions and standards for educator professional development.

(A) The board shall consist of the following members appointed by the state board of education within sixty days of the effective date of this section:

(1) Eight persons employed as teachers in a school district. Two persons appointed under this division shall be employed as teachers in a secondary school, two persons shall be employed as teachers in a middle school, two persons shall be employed as teachers in an elementary school, one person shall be employed as a teacher in a pre-kindergarten classroom, and one person shall be a teacher who serves on a local professional development committee pursuant to section 3319.22 of the Revised Code. At least one person appointed under this division shall hold a teaching certificate or license issued by the national board for professional teaching standards. The Ohio education association shall submit a list of twelve nominees for these appointments and the state board shall appoint six members to the educator standards board from that list. The Ohio federation of teachers shall submit a list of four nominees for these appointments and the state board shall appoint two members to the educator standards board from that list. If there is an insufficient number of nominees from both lists to satisfy the membership requirements of this division, the state board shall request additional nominees who satisfy those requirements.

(2) One person employed as a teacher in a chartered, nonpublic school. Stakeholder groups selected by the state board shall submit a list of two nominees for this appointment.

(3) Four persons employed as school administrators in a school district. Of the four persons appointed under this division, one person shall be employed as a secondary school principal, one person shall be employed as a middle school principal, one person shall be employed as an elementary school principal, and one person shall be employed as a school district superintendent. The buckeye association of school administrators shall submit a list of two nominees for the school district superintendent, the Ohio association of elementary school administrators shall submit a list of two nominees for the elementary school principal, and the Ohio association of secondary school administrators shall submit a list of two nominees for the middle school principal and a list of two nominees for the secondary school principal.

(4) One person who is a member of a school district board of education. The Ohio school boards association shall submit a list of two nominees for this appointment.

(5) Three persons employed by institutions of higher education that offer teacher preparation programs approved under section 3319.23 of the Revised Code. One person appointed under this division shall be employed by an institution of higher education that has a certificate of authorization under Chapter 1713. of the Revised Code; one person shall be employed by a state university, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, or a university branch; and one person shall be employed by a state community college, community college, or technical college. Of the two persons appointed under this division from an institution of higher education that has a certificate of authorization under Chapter 1713. of the Revised Code and from a state university or university branch, one shall be employed in a college of education and one shall be employed in a college of arts and sciences. The chancellor of the Ohio board of regents shall submit a list of two nominees for each of these appointments.

(6) The superintendent of public instruction or a designee of the superintendent, the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents or a designee of the chancellor, and the chairpersons of the education committees of the senate and house of representatives shall serve as nonvoting, ex officio members.

(B) Initial terms of office for nine members shall be for two years and three years for eight members, beginning on the day all members are appointed to the board. At the first meeting of the board, members shall draw lots to determine the length of the term each member shall serve. Thereafter terms of office shall be for two years. Each member shall hold office from the date of the member's appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. At the first meeting, appointed members shall select a chairperson and a vice-chairperson. Vacancies on the board shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of such term. Any member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office, or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. The terms of office of members are renewable.

(C) Members shall receive no compensation for their services.

(D) The board shall establish guidelines for its operation. These guidelines shall permit the creation of standing subcommittees when necessary. The board shall determine the membership of any subcommittee it creates. The board may select persons who are not members of the board to participate in the deliberations of any subcommittee as representatives of stakeholder groups, but no such person shall vote on any issue before the subcommittee.

Sec. 3319.61. (A) The educator standards board, in consultation with the Ohio board of regents, shall do all of the following:

(1) Develop state standards for teachers and principals that reflect what teachers and principals are expected to know and be able to do at all stages of their careers. These standards shall be aligned with the statewide academic content standards for students adopted pursuant to section 3301.079 of the Revised Code, be primarily based on educator performance instead of years of experience or certain courses completed, and rely on evidence-based factors.

(a) The standards for teachers shall reflect the following additional criteria:

(i) Alignment with the interstate new teacher assessment and support consortium standards;

(ii) Differentiation among novice, experienced, and advanced teachers;

(iii) Reliance on competencies that can be measured;

(iv) Reliance on content knowledge, teaching skills, discipline-specific teaching methods, and requirements for professional development;

(v) Alignment with a career-long system of professional development and evaluation that ensures teachers receive the support and training needed to achieve the teaching standards as well as reliable feedback about how well they meet the standards.

(b) The standards for principals shall be aligned with the interstate school leaders licensing consortium standards.

(2) Develop standards for the renewal of educator licenses under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code;

(3) Develop standards for educator professional development.

(B) The educator standards board shall incorporate indicators of cultural competency into the standards developed under division (A) of this section. For this purpose, the educator standards board shall develop a definition of cultural competency based upon content and experiences that enable educators to know, understand, and appreciate the students, families, and communities that they serve and skills for addressing cultural diversity in ways that respond equitably and appropriately to the cultural needs of individual students.

(C) In developing the standards under division (A) of this section, the educator standards board shall consider the impact of the standards on closing the achievement gap between students of different subgroups.

(D) In developing the standards under division (A) of this section, the educator standards board shall ensure that teachers and principals have sufficient knowledge to provide appropriate instruction for students identified as gifted pursuant to Chapter 3324. of the Revised Code and to assist in the identification of such students.

(E) The standards for educator professional development developed under division (A)(3) of this section shall include standards that address the crucial link between academic achievement and mental health issues.

(F) The educator standards board shall also perform the following functions:

(1) Collaborate with colleges and universities that offer teacher preparation programs approved pursuant to section 3319.23 of the Revised Code to align teacher and principal preparation courses with the standards developed under division (A) of this section and with student academic content standards adopted under section 3301.079 of the Revised Code. The educator standards board shall study the model developed by the college of food, agricultural, and environmental sciences and the college of education of the Ohio state university for aligning teacher preparation programs in agricultural education with recognized standards for this purpose.

(2) Monitor compliance with the teacher and principal standards developed under division (A) of this section and make recommendations to the state board of education for appropriate corrective action if such standards are not met;

(3) Research, develop, and recommend policies on the professions of teaching and school administration;

(4) Recommend policies to close the achievement gap between students of different subgroups;

(5) Define a "master teacher" in a manner that can be used uniformly by all school districts. It is the intent of the general assembly that when defining "master teacher," the educator standards board shall adopt multiple, equal-weighted criteria to use in determining whether a person is a master teacher. Such criteria may include, but shall not be limited to, attainment of a master's degree in an appropriate subject area, completion of other educational levels or professional development courses, certification by the national board for professional teaching standards, or demonstration of a leadership role in the teacher's school building. The board shall determine the number of criteria that a teacher shall satisfy to be recognized as a master teacher, which shall not be the total number of criteria adopted by the board.

(G) The educator standards board shall submit recommendations of standards developed under division (A) of this section to the state board of education within one year after the educator standards board first convenes. The state board of education shall review those recommendations at the state board's regular meeting that next succeeds the date that the recommendations are submitted to the state board. At that meeting, the state board of education shall vote to either adopt standards based on those recommendations or request that the educator standards board reconsider its recommendations. The state board of education shall articulate reasons for requesting reconsideration of the recommendations but shall not direct the content of the recommendations. The educator standards board shall reconsider its recommendations if the state board of education so requests, may revise the recommendations, and shall resubmit the recommendations, whether revised or not, to the state board not later than two weeks prior to the state board's regular meeting that next succeeds the meeting at which the state board requested reconsideration of the initial recommendations. The state board of education shall review the recommendations as resubmitted by the educator standards board at the state board's regular meeting that next succeeds the meeting at which the state board requested reconsideration of the initial recommendations and may adopt the standards as resubmitted or, if the resubmitted standards have not addressed the state board's concerns, the state board may modify the standards prior to adopting them. The final responsibility to determine whether to adopt standards as described in division (A) of this section and the content of those standards, if adopted, belongs solely to the state board of education.

Sec. 3319.62. The department of education shall establish the state office of educator standards within the center for the teaching profession to provide administrative services to the educator standards board. The department may employ a director for the office and such other staff as are necessary for the operation of the office. When appropriate, current employees of the department shall conduct the operation of the office.

Sec. 3319.65. The state board of education shall establish a credential review board. The credential review board shall carry out any functions assigned to it by the state board with respect to assessing individuals pursuing alternative routes to educator licensure and out of state educators seeking licensure in Ohio. The credential review board may also carry out any other duties the state board considers appropriate.

Sec. 3333.161. (A) As used in this section:

(1) "Articulation agreement" means an agreement between two or more state institutions of higher education to facilitate the transfer of students and credits between such institutions.

(2) "State institution of higher education" and "state university" have the same meanings as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code.

(3) "Two year college" includes a community college, state community college, technical college, and university branch.

(B) Not later than April 15, 2005, the Ohio board of regents shall adopt rules establishing a statewide system for articulation agreements among state institutions of higher education for transfer students pursuing teacher education programs. The rules shall require an articulation agreement between institutions to include all of the following:

(1) The development of a transfer module for teacher education that includes introductory level courses that are evaluated as appropriate by faculty employed by the state institutions of higher education that are parties to the articulation agreement;

(2) A foundation of general studies courses that have been identified as part of the transfer module for teacher education and have been evaluated as appropriate for the preparation of teachers and consistent with the academic content standards adopted under section 3301.079 of the Revised Code;

(3) A clear identification of university faculty who are partnered with two year college faculty;

(4) The publication of the articulation agreement that is available to all students, faculty, and staff.

Sec. 3333.36. The chancellor of the Ohio board of regents may allocate up to seventy thousand dollars in each fiscal year to make payments to the Columbus program in intergovernmental issues, an Ohio internship program at Kent state university, for scholarships of up to two thousand dollars for each student enrolled in the program. The chancellor may utilize any funds appropriated to the board of regents that the chancellor determines to be available for purposes of this section.

Sec. 3333.38.  (A) As used in this section:

(1) "Institution of higher education" includes all of the following:

(a) A state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code;

(b) A nonprofit institution issued a certificate of authorization by the Ohio board of regents under Chapter 1713. of the Revised Code;

(c) A private institution exempt from regulation under Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code, as prescribed in section 3333.046 of the Revised Code;

(d) An institution of higher education with a certificate of registration from the state board of career colleges and schools under Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code.

(2) "Student financial assistance supported by state funds" includes assistance granted under sections 3315.33, 3333.12, 3333.21, 3333.26, 3333.27, 3333.28, 3333.29, 3333.372, 5910.03, 5910.032, and 5919.34 of the Revised Code and any other post-secondary student financial assistance supported by state funds.

(B) An individual who is convicted of, pleads guilty to, or is adjudicated a delinquent child for one of the following violations shall be ineligible to receive any student financial assistance supported by state funds at an institution of higher education for two calendar years from the time the individual applies for assistance of that nature:

(1) A violation of section 2917.02 or 2917.03 of the Revised Code;

(2) A violation of section 2917.04 of the Revised Code that is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree and occurs within the proximate area where four or more others are acting in a course of conduct in violation of section 2917.11 of the Revised Code;

(3) A violation of section 2917.13 of the Revised Code that is a misdemeanor of the fourth or first degree and occurs within the proximate area where four or more others are acting in a course of conduct in violation of section 2917.11 of the Revised Code.

(C) If an individual is convicted of, pleads guilty to, or is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing a violation of section 2907.02 2917.02 or 2907.03 2917.03 of the Revised Code, and if the individual is enrolled in a state-supported institution of higher education, the institution in which the individual is enrolled shall immediately dismiss the individual. No state-supported institution of higher education shall admit an individual of that nature for one academic year after the individual applies for admission to a state-supported institution of higher education. This division does not limit or affect the ability of a state-supported institution of higher education to suspend or otherwise discipline its students.

Sec. 5126.021.  As used in this section, "immediate family" means parents, brothers, sisters, spouses, sons, daughters, mothers-in-law, fathers-in-law, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, sons-in-law, and daughters-in-law.

(A) The following individuals shall not serve as members of county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities:

(1) Elected public officials, except for township trustees, township clerks, and those excluded from the definition of public official or employee in division (B) of section 102.01 of the Revised Code;

(2) Members of the immediate family of another board member;

(3) Board employees and members of the immediate family of board employees;

(4) Former board employees within one calendar year of the termination of employment with the board on which the former employee would serve.

(B) A person may not serve as a member of a county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities when either the person or a member of the person's immediate family is a board member of a contract agency of that county board unless there is no conflict of interest. In no circumstance shall a member of a county board vote on any matter before the board concerning a contract agency of which the member or a member of the member's immediate family is also a board member or an employee. All questions relating to the existence of a conflict of interest shall be submitted to the local prosecuting attorney and the Ohio ethics commission for resolution.

(C) No employee of an agency contracting with a county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities or member of the immediate family of such an employee shall serve as a board member or an employee of the county board except that a county board may, pursuant to a resolution adopted by the board, employ a member of the immediate family of an employee of an agency contracting with the board.

(D) No person shall serve as a member or employee of a county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities if a member of the person's immediate family serves as a county commissioner of the county served by the board unless the person was a member or employee prior to October 31, 1980.

(E) A county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities shall not contract with an agency whose board includes a county commissioner of the county served by the county board or an employee of the same county board.

(F) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, including applicable provisions of sections 102.03, 102.04, 2921.42, and 2921.43 of the Revised Code, an employee of a county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities also may be a member of the governing board of an agency or a political subdivision, including the board of education of a school district. The county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities may contract with the governing board of an agency or political subdivision whose member is also an employee of the county board, provided that in no circumstances shall such employee of the county board vote on any matter before the governing board of the agency or political subdivision concerning a county board contract or participate in any discussion or debate regarding that contract.

Section 2. That existing sections 3301.079, 3301.0710, 3301.0711, 3301.0712, 3301.0714, 3301.0715, 3302.03, 3302.04, 3307.01, 3313.28, 3313.33, 3313.53, 3313.713, 3318.031, 3319.09, 3319.11, 3319.111, 3319.22, 3319.225, 3319.227, 3319.23, 3319.26, 3319.283, 3319.29, 3319.291, 3319.31, 3319.311, 3319.36, 3319.39, 3319.51, 3333.38, and 5126.021, and existing Section 12 of Sub. H.B. 364 of the 124th General Assembly, and sections 3301.801, 3314.12, and 3319.28 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.

Section 3. The Legislative Office of Education Oversight shall conduct a study of minimum starting salaries for teachers with bachelor degrees. The Office shall, in consultation with Ohio's education stakeholders, identify a select number of states that are demographically and economically similar to Ohio, including states that because of geographic proximity compete with Ohio for new teachers. For the state of Ohio and each of the selected states, the Office shall determine the minimum compensation levels for beginning teachers, calculate the average compensation for beginning teachers, and project, based on recent history and current economic conditions, the average compensation for beginning teachers in the 2007-2008 academic year. The Office shall also compare the selected states to Ohio.

The Office shall submit the final results of this study to the Governor and members of the General Assembly not later than September 30, 2004.

Section 4. As used in this section, "career ladder program" means a performance-based multilevel system of teaching positions or compensation levels within a school district or district building.

The Educator Standards Board established by this act and the Department of Education jointly shall develop a proposal for a career ladder program. The Educator Standards Board and the Department also shall determine the estimated cost of implementing the proposal and how the Department would reallocate its resources to cover the costs of implementation. Within eighteen months after the Educator Standards Board convenes for its initial meeting, the Board and the Department shall make a report to the General Assembly describing their proposal for a career ladder program, including estimated costs for implementation and the manner in which the Department would pay for those costs.

Section 5. The Department of Education and the Ohio Board of Regents shall develop a proposal for a pilot program between a school district and a college or university that is approved to offer teacher preparation programs pursuant to section 3319.23 of the Revised Code. The pilot program shall encourage the college or university's faculty to spend more time in the school district's buildings and classrooms and engage in other clinical experiences. In addition, participation in the pilot program shall require a college or university to provide incentives for faculty to share what they have learned from the pilot program with their colleagues through publications and other learning experiences.

The Department of Education shall study, using an appropriate research method, the effectiveness of the pilot program, if implemented, and shall report its findings to the General Assembly within one year after the program is implemented.

Section 6. The Educator Standards Board established by this act shall work with the Ohio Teacher Education and Licensure Advisory Commission to transition the duties formerly performed by the Commission to the Educator Standards Board.

Section 7. Within ninety days of the effective date of this section, the Ohio Department of Education shall develop a definition of a "hard to staff" school. In defining this term, the Department shall examine whether a school:

(A) Has difficulty recruiting and retaining high quality school personnel, as determined by the Department;

(B) Has a high number of teachers who are teaching out-of-field, as determined by the Department;

(C) Has high student poverty, as determined by the Department;

(D) Has a high number of students who do not attain at least a proficient score on the tests prescribed in section 3301.0710 or 3301.0712 of the Revised Code;

(E) Has a significant achievement gap among various groups of students.

In addition, the Department shall consider definitions and models used by other states.

The Department shall identify schools that meet the definition developed under this section and shall publish the list of those schools on the Department's web site.

Section 8. At such time as sufficient funding is available, the Department of Education shall develop a pilot project in not fewer than two school districts selected by the Department, each of which contain a "hard to staff" school as that term is defined by the Department. One of the selected districts shall be an urban school district and one shall be a rural school district.

The Department shall study, using an appropriate research method, the effectiveness of the pilot project and shall report its findings to the General Assembly within one year after the pilot project is implemented.

The selected districts shall use any funds allocated under the pilot project for one or more of the following purposes:

(A) The use of instructional specialists to mentor and support classroom teachers;

(B) The use of building managers to supervise the administrative functions of school operation so that a school principal can focus on supporting instruction, providing instructional leadership, and engaging teachers as part of the instructional leadership team;

(C) The reconfiguration of school leadership structure in a manner that allows teachers to serve in leadership roles so that teachers may share the responsibility for making and implementing school decisions;

(D) The adoption of new models for restructuring the school day or school year, such as including teacher planning and collaboration time as part of the school day;

(E) The creation of smaller schools or smaller units within larger schools for the purpose of facilitating teacher collaboration to improve and advance the professional practice of teaching;

(F) The implementation of "grow your own" recruitment strategies that are designed to assist individuals who show a commitment to education become licensed teachers, to assist experienced teachers obtain licensure in subject areas for which there is need, and to assist teachers in becoming principals;

(G) The provision of better conditions for new teachers, such as reduced teaching load and reduced class size;

(H) The provision of incentives to attract qualified mathematics, science, or special education teachers;

(I) The development and implementation of a partnership with teacher preparation programs at colleges and universities to help attract teachers qualified to teach in shortage areas;

(J) The implementation of a program to increase the cultural competency of both new and veteran teachers;

(K) The implementation of a program to increase the subject matter competency of veteran teachers.

Section 9. Section 3314.034 of the Revised Code, as enacted by this act, shall not affect any investigation by the Department of Education into the alleged improper enrollment of students by an Internet- or computer-based community school that is pending on the effective date of this section. If the Department concludes after any such investigation that no improper enrollment of students has occurred, the Department shall make any necessary payments to the Internet- or computer-based community school so that the Internet- or computer-based community school receives the full amount calculated for it for the 2003-2004 school year under section 3314.08 of the Revised Code. If the Department concludes that an improper enrollment of students has occurred, all provisions of law regarding the recovery of funds owed to the state shall apply.

Section 10. Upon the effective date of this section, the State Board of Education shall forthwith begin procedures for the adoption of a rule that complies with section 3319.303 of the Revised Code, as enacted by this act, so that the rule is effective at the earliest possible date provided for by law.

Section 11. Representatives from the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences and the College of Education of The Ohio State University shall make a presentation to the Educator Standards Board established by this act. The presentation shall familiarize the Educator Standards Board with the model developed by the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences and the College of Education for aligning teacher preparation programs in agricultural education with recognized standards and instruct the Board about how to apply that model to aligning teacher preparation programs in Ohio with standards developed by the Board pursuant to section 3319.61 of the Revised Code, as enacted by this act.

Section 12. That Sections 11, 12, 13, and 14 of Am. Sub. H.B. 3 of the 125th General Assembly be amended to read as follows:

Sec. 11. The Legislative Office of Education Oversight shall conduct a study that evaluates the correlation between students' race and class and academic achievement, particularly. To the extent possible, the Office shall use existing data on district wealth to make a variety of comparisons, including comparing the academic achievement of low-income, African-American and Hispanic students with that of middle-class, white students. In conducting the study, the Office shall use at least five years of data collected and maintained by the Ohio Department of Education. The study shall focus on the academic achievement of students in the fourth, sixth, and ninth grades. The Office shall submit the final results of the study to the General Assembly not later than September 30, 2004.

Sec. 12. The Legislative Office of Education Oversight shall conduct a study of the intervention services required to be provided by school districts under sections 3301.0711, 3313.608, and 3313.6012 of the Revised Code. If any diagnostic assessment is administered by school districts in accordance with section 3301.0715 of the Revised Code in the school year beginning July 1, 2003, the Office also shall include the intervention services required by that section in the study. In conducting the study, the Office shall examine each of the following issues:

(A) The types of intervention services that districts are currently providing to students;

(B) The manner in which the Department of Education informs districts of their obligation to provide intervention services and assists the districts in developing appropriate intervention strategies;

(C) The manner in which the Department tracks compliance by school districts with requirements to provide intervention services;

(D) The cost to districts of providing intervention services;

(E) Whether there are any intervention services that districts are not providing due to insufficient funding.

The Office shall issue a written report of its findings to the General Assembly not later than December March 31, 2004 2005.

Sec. 13. The Legislative Office of Education Oversight shall conduct a study of the performance of students in the Class of 2007 on the Ohio Graduation Tests prescribed by division (B) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to determine how well students meet the statewide academic standards developed pursuant to section 3301.079 of the Revised Code. The study shall include all students who enter the ninth grade in the school year beginning July 1, 2003; the Office shall not exclude from any analysis students who leave school prior to graduation. In conducting the study, the Office shall determine the number of such students who attain a score at the proficient level on all five of the Ohio Graduation Tests by June 30, 2007. To the extent possible, the Office also shall determine the number of such students who satisfy the alternative conditions described in section 3313.615 of the Revised Code for meeting the testing requirement to be eligible for a diploma. The Office shall issue annual written reports in June 2006 and June 2007 to the General Assembly, and shall issue a final, comprehensive written report of its findings to the General Assembly not later than December 31, 2007 June 30, 2008.

Sec. 14. The Legislative Office of Education Oversight shall conduct a study that reviews the progress of school districts and the Department of Education in hiring highly qualified teachers in the core subject areas of English, reading, language arts, mathematics, science, foreign language, civics and government, economics, arts, history, and geography, as required by Title I of the "No Child Left Behind Act," Pub. L. No. 107-110. The study shall evaluate, over a five-year period, all of the following:

(A) The progress of individual school districts in complying with the highly qualified teacher requirement;

(B) Whether the definition of "highly qualified teacher" adopted by the State Board of Education complies with the "No Child Left Behind Act";

(C) The efforts of the Department of Education in assisting school districts to comply with the "No Child Left Behind Act's" requirement, and in monitoring the progress of school districts in ensuring highly qualified teachers are employed in core subject areas.

The Office shall submit three interim reports of its findings to the General Assembly. The first interim report, due September 30, 2005, shall evaluate compliance with the highly qualified teacher requirement in the 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 school years, the. The second interim report, due September 30, 2006, shall evaluate compliance with the requirement in the 2004-2005 school year, and the. The third interim report, due September 30, 2007, shall evaluate compliance with the requirement in the 2005-2006 school year. A final report shall be submitted to the General Assembly, not later than September 30, 2008, that evaluates compliance in the 2006-2007 school year and the prior four school years.

Section 13. That existing Sections 11, 12, 13, and 14 of Am. Sub. H.B. 3 of the 125th General Assembly are hereby repealed.

Section 14. That Sections 41.03, 41.05, 41.10, 41.19, 41.33, 146, and 152 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly be amended to read as follows:

Sec. 41.03. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The foregoing appropriation item 200-410, Professional Development, shall be used to fund professional development programs in Ohio. The Ohio Department of Education shall, where possible, incorporate cultural competency as a component of professional development and actively promote the development of cultural competency in the operation of its professional development programs. As used in this section, "cultural competency" has the meaning specified by the Educator Standards Board under section 3319.61 of the Revised Code.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-410, Professional Development, $5,200,000 in fiscal year 2004 shall be used by the Department of Education to support a statewide comprehensive system of regional professional development centers that support local educators' ability to foster academic achievement in the students they serve. Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-410, Professional Development, $5,200,000 in fiscal year 2005 shall be used by the regional education delivery system. Before releasing these funds in fiscal year 2005, the Department of Education shall submit a spending plan to the Controlling Board. The release of the funds is contingent on Controlling Board approval of the spending plan. Both the regional professional development centers in fiscal year 2004 and the regional education delivery system in fiscal year 2005 shall include training that assists educators, school leadership, and technical assistance providers in understanding and implementing standards-based education, data analysis, and development of assessment systems for quality instruction.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-410, Professional Development, $7,079,625 in fiscal year 2004 and $7,329,625 in fiscal year 2005 shall be used by the Department of Education to provide grants to pay $2,000 of the application fee in order to assist teachers from public and chartered nonpublic schools applying for the first time to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards for professional teaching certificates or licenses that the board offers. This set aside shall also be used to recognize and reward teachers who become certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards pursuant to section 3319.55 of the Revised Code. Up to $300,000 in each fiscal year of this set aside may be used by the Department to pay for costs associated with activities to support candidates through the application and certification process.

These moneys shall be used to pay up to the first 500 applications in fiscal year 2004 and the first 400 applications in fiscal year 2005 received by the Department.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-410, Professional Development, up to $10,442,358 in each fiscal year shall be allocated for entry year programs. These funds shall be used to support mentoring services and performance assessments of beginning teachers in school districts and chartered nonpublic schools.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-410, Professional Development, up to $188,090 in each fiscal year shall be used to provide technical assistance and grants for districts to develop local knowledge/skills-based compensation systems. Each district receiving grants shall issue an annual report to the Department of Education detailing the use of the funds and the impact of the system developed by the district.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-410, Professional Development, up to $670,000 in each fiscal year shall be used for training and professional development of school administrators, school treasurers, and school business officials.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-410, Professional Development, $144,000 in each fiscal year shall be used by the Department of Education to develop a supply and demand report that describes the availability of quality educators and critical educator shortage areas in Ohio.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-410, Professional Development, $1,056,000 in each fiscal year shall be used for educator recruitment programs targeting special need areas, including recruiting highly qualified minority candidates into teaching, recruiting prospective mathematics and science teachers, and targeting other areas of special need.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-410, Professional Development, $60,000 in fiscal year 2004 and $70,000 in fiscal year 2005 shall be used to support the Ohio University Leadership Program.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-410, Professional Development, $4,650,000 in each fiscal year 2004 shall be allocated by the Department of Education on a per pupil basis, to school districts in academic emergency at any time in 2003, and $4,650,000 in fiscal year 2005 shall be allocated by the Department of Education, on a per pupil basis, to school districts with a three-year average graduation rate of not more than seventy-five per cent. As used in this section, "three-year average" and "graduation rate" have the meanings specified in section 3302.01 of the Revised Code. These funds shall be used by the districts to provide an equivalent of five days of ongoing embedded professional development for classroom teachers who provide instruction in the subject areas of reading, writing, mathematics, science, or social studies to students enrolled in the ninth or tenth grade. This professional development shall focus on developing subject competency, developing cultural competency, developing skills for analyzing test data, and developing data-based intervention strategies to prepare students below grade level to pass the Ohio Graduation Test. Districts shall submit a research-based, professional development plan for five days of embedded professional development to the Department of Education prior to receiving funds. The plan shall detail how ninth and tenth grade teachers will learn and implement classroom strategies for students to reach state standards in mathematics, reading, writing, social studies, and science.

Sec. 41.05. SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-431, School Improvement Initiatives, $10,505,625 in each fiscal year shall be used to provide technical assistance to school districts that are declared to be in a state of academic watch or academic emergency under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code to provide support to districts in the development and implementation of their continuous improvement plans as required in section 3302.04 of the Revised Code and to provide technical assistance and support in accordance with Title I of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001," 115 Stat. 1425, 20 U.S.C. 6317.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-431, School Improvement Initiatives, up to $350,000 in each fiscal year shall be used to reduce the dropout rate by addressing the academic and social problems of inner-city students through Project GRAD.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-431, School Improvement Initiatives, $50,000 in each fiscal year shall be used to support LEAF.

READING/WRITING/MATH IMPROVEMENT

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-433, Reading/Writing/Math Improvement, up to $12,675,000 in each fiscal year shall be used for professional development in literacy for classroom teachers, administrators, and literacy specialists, and to provide intensive summer training for mathematics teachers.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-433, Reading/Writing/Math Improvement, $250,000 in each fiscal year shall be used to continue the Waterford Early Reading Program.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-433, Reading/Writing/Math Improvement, up to $1,000,000 in each fiscal year shall be used by the Department of Education to fund the Reading Recovery Training Network, to cover the cost of release time for the teacher trainers, and to provide grants to districts to implement other reading improvement programs on a pilot basis. Funds from this appropriation item also may be used to conduct evaluations of the impact and effectiveness of Reading Recovery and other reading improvement programs.

The remainder of appropriation item 200-433, Reading/Writing/Math Improvement, shall be used to support standards-based classroom reading and writing instruction and reading intervention and the design/development of standards-based literacy curriculum materials; to support literacy professional development partnerships between the Department of Education, higher education institutions, the literacy specialists project, the Ohio principals' literacy network, regional literacy teams, literacy networks, and school districts.

STUDENT ASSESSMENT

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-437, Student Assessment, $500,000 in fiscal year 2004 and $100,000 in fiscal year 2005 shall be used by the Department of Education to train school district personnel to score the practice version of the Ohio Graduation Test to be taken by students enrolled in the ninth grade in school districts that are in academic watch or academic emergency or that have a three-year average graduation rate of not more than seventy-five per cent pursuant to sections 3301.0710 and 3301.0711 of the Revised Code. As used in this section, "three-year average" and "graduation rate" have the same meanings as in section 3302.01 of the Revised Code.

The remainder of appropriation item 200-437, Student Assessment, shall be used to develop, field test, print, distribute, score, report results, and support other associated costs for the tests required under sections 3301.0710 and 3301.0711 of the Revised Code and for similar purposes as required by section 3301.27 of the Revised Code.

ACCOUNTABILITY/REPORT CARDS

The foregoing appropriation item 200-439, Accountability/Report Cards, shall be used for the development of an accountability system that includes the preparation and distribution of school report cards pursuant to section 3302.03 of the Revised Code.

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-441, American Sign Language, up to $136,943 in each fiscal year shall be used to implement pilot projects for the integration of American Sign Language deaf language into the kindergarten through twelfth-grade curriculum.

The remainder of the appropriation shall be used by the Department of Education to provide supervision and consultation to school districts in dealing with parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing, in integrating American Sign Language as a foreign language, and in obtaining interpreters and improving their skills.

CHILD CARE LICENSING

The foregoing appropriation item 200-442, Child Care Licensing, shall be used by the Department of Education to license and to inspect preschool and school-age child care programs in accordance with sections 3301.52 to 3301.59 of the Revised Code.

OHIOREADS ADMIN/VOLUNTEER SUPPORT

The foregoing appropriation item 200-445, OhioReads Admin/Volunteer Support, may be allocated by the OhioReads Office in the Department of Education at the direction of the OhioReads Council for volunteer coordinators in public school buildings, to educational service centers for costs associated with volunteer coordination, for background checks for volunteers, to evaluate the OhioReads Program, and for operating expenses associated with administering the program.

Sec. 41.10.  ADULT LITERACY EDUCATION

The foregoing appropriation item 200-509, Adult Literacy Education, shall be used to support adult basic and literacy education instructional programs and the State Literacy Resource Center Program.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-509, Adult Literacy Education, up to $519,188 in each fiscal year shall be used for the support and operation of the State Literacy Resource Center.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-509, Adult Literacy Education, $146,250 in each fiscal year shall be used to support initiatives for English as a second language programs in combination with citizenship. Funding shall be provided to organizations that received such funds during fiscal year 2003 from appropriation item 200-570, School Improvement Incentive Grants.

The remainder of the appropriation shall be used to continue to satisfy the state match and maintenance of effort requirements for the support and operation of the Department of Education-administered instructional grant program for adult basic and literacy education in accordance with the department's state plan for adult basic and literacy education as approved by the State Board of Education and the Secretary of the United States Department of Education.

AUXILIARY SERVICES

The foregoing appropriation item 200-511, Auxiliary Services, shall be used by the Department of Education for the purpose of implementing section 3317.06 of the Revised Code. Of the appropriation, up to $1,462,500 in each fiscal year may be used for payment of the Post-Secondary Enrollment Options Program for nonpublic students pursuant to section 3365.10 of the Revised Code.

STUDENT INTERVENTION SERVICES

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-513, Student Intervention Services, $3,700,000 in fiscal year 2004 and $5,900,000 in fiscal year 2005 shall be allocated by the Department of Education, on a per pupil basis, to school districts in academic emergency at any time in 2003, and $5,900,000 in fiscal year 2005 shall be allocated by the Department of Education, on a per pupil basis, to school districts with a three-year average graduation rate of not more than seventy-five per cent. As used in this section, "three-year average" and "graduation rate" have the meanings specified in section 3302.01 of the Revised Code. Districts shall use these funds for salaries, materials, and training to provide after-school, in-school, Saturday school, summer school, or other related intervention programs to students as specified in division (D)(2) of section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code. In fiscal year 2004 these programs shall be provided to students enrolled in the ninth grade. In fiscal year 2005, these programs shall be provided to students enrolled in the ninth and tenth grades. At the end of each fiscal year, the school districts receiving these funds shall report to the Department of Education the number of students who were offered intervention, the number of students who participated, and the number of students who completed the intervention program, and shall provide an evaluation of the impact of the intervention on students.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-513, Student Intervention Services, $150,000 in each fiscal year shall be used for Read Baby Read.

The remainder of appropriation item 200-513, Student Intervention Services, shall be used to assist districts providing the intervention services specified in section 3313.608 of the Revised Code. The Department of Education shall establish guidelines for the use and distribution of these moneys. School districts receiving funds from this appropriation shall report to the Department of Education on how funds were used.

POSTSECONDARY ADULT CAREER-TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-514, Postsecondary Adult Career-Technical Education, $40,000 in each fiscal year shall be used for the statewide coordination of the activities of the Ohio Young Farmers.

The remainder of appropriation item 200-514, Postsecondary Adult Career-Technical Education, shall be used by the State Board of Education to provide postsecondary adult career-technical education under sections 3313.52 and 3313.53 of the Revised Code.

DISADVANTAGED PUPIL IMPACT AID

The Department of Education shall pay Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid (DPIA) in fiscal years 2004 and 2005 in accordance with section 3317.029 of the Revised Code to each school district that did not receive any DPIA allocation in fiscal year 2003 because its DPIA index in that fiscal year was less than 0.35 and it did not qualify for a DPIA guarantee payment. However, the Department shall calculate each such district's DPIA index and DPIA student count in each fiscal year based solely on Ohio Works First data certified for the district by the Department of Job and Family Services. Each district receiving payment under this paragraph shall comply with all expenditure guidelines and restrictions of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code.

Notwithstanding the distribution formula outlined in section 3317.029 of the Revised Code, each school district that received a DPIA allocation in fiscal year 2003 shall receive an additional two per cent in Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid (DPIA) DPIA funding in fiscal year 2004 over what was received in fiscal year 2003 unless the district receives received DPIA funding from the DPIA guarantee provision pursuant to division (B) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code in fiscal year 2003. For such a district, its DPIA funding in fiscal year 2004 shall equal the amount of DPIA funding the district received in fiscal year 2003.

Notwithstanding the distribution formula outlined in section 3317.029 of the Revised Code, each school district that received a DPIA allocation in fiscal year 2003 shall receive an additional two per cent in DPIA funding in fiscal year 2005 over what was received in fiscal year 2004 unless the district receives received DPIA funding from the DPIA guarantee provision pursuant to division (B) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code in fiscal year 2003. For such a district, its DPIA funding in fiscal year 2005 shall equal the amount of DPIA funding the district received in fiscal year 2004.

School districts whose DPIA allocations are calculated under the preceding two paragraphs must continue to comply with all expenditure guidelines and restrictions outlined in divisions (F), (G), (I), and (K) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code by assuming a two per cent increase in funds for each program outlined in divisions (C), (D), and (E) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code and by assuming a DPIA index equivalent to the index calculated in fiscal year 2003.

The Department of Education shall pay all-day, everyday kindergarten funding to all school districts in each fiscal year that qualified for and provided the service in fiscal year 2003 pursuant to section 3317.029 of the Revised Code. School districts and community schools that did not have a DPIA allocation in fiscal year 2003 shall not receive an allocation in fiscal year 2004 or fiscal year 2005.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-520, Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid, up to $3,800,000 in each fiscal year shall be used for school breakfast programs. Of this amount, up to $1,000,000 shall be used in each fiscal year by the Department of Education for the purpose of increasing participation in child nutrition programs, particularly school breakfast and summer meals. The Department shall collaborate with the Children's Hunger Alliance in the outreach effort. The remainder of the appropriation shall be used to partially reimburse school buildings within school districts that are required to have a school breakfast program pursuant to section 3313.813 of the Revised Code, at a rate decided by the Department.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-520, Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid, $4,500,000 in fiscal year 2004 and $6,000,000 in fiscal year 2005 shall be used to operate the school choice program in the Cleveland Municipal School District pursuant to sections 3313.974 to 3313.979 of the Revised Code.

Of the portion of the funds distributed to the Cleveland Municipal School District under this section, up to $11,901,887 in each fiscal year shall be used to operate the school choice program in the Cleveland Municipal School District pursuant to sections 3313.974 to 3313.979 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 41.19. HEAD START PLUS/HEAD START

There is hereby established the Title IV-A Head Start Program to be administered by the Department of Education in accordance with an interagency agreement entered into with the Department of Job and Family Services under division (A)(2) of section 5101.801 of the Revised Code. The program shall provide benefits and services to TANF eligible individuals pursuant to the requirements of section 5101.801 of the Revised Code. Upon approval by the Department of Job and Family Services, the Department of Education shall adopt policies and procedures establishing program requirements for eligibility, services, fiscal accountability, and other criteria necessary to comply with the provisions of Title IV-A of the "Social Security Act," 49 Stat. 620 (1935), 42 U.S.C. 301, as amended.

The foregoing appropriation item 200-663, Head Start Plus/Head Start, shall be used to reimburse Title IV-A Head Start Plus and Title IV-A Head Start programs for services to children. The Department of Education shall administer the Title IV-A Head Start Plus and Title IV-A Head Start programs in accordance with an interagency agreement between the Departments of Education and Job and Family Services. Title IV-A Head Start Plus and Title IV-A Head Start providers shall meet all requirements as outlined in section 3301.311 of the Revised Code. The Department of Education shall adopt policies and procedures to establish a procedure for approving Title IV-A Head Start Plus and Title IV-A Head Start agencies.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-663, Head Start Plus/Head Start, up to $57,170,000 in fiscal year 2004 shall be used to support the Title IV-A Head Start program. Up to two percent of this amount may be used by the Department of Education to provide associated program support and technical assistance.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-663, Head Start Plus/Head Start, up to $83,457,126 $86,600,000 in fiscal year 2005 shall be used to support the Title IV-A Head Start Plus initiative. Title IV-A Head Start Plus shall provide up to 10,000 slots of full-day, full-year programming for children at least three years of age and not kindergarten age eligible. The program shall meet the child care needs of low-income families who meet eligibility requirements established in rules and administrative orders adopted by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and provide early education and comprehensive services as provided through the Head Start program before the enactment of this act.

Of the foregoing appropriation item 200-663, Head Start Plus/Head Start, up to $22,763,177 $19,584,000 in fiscal year 2005 shall be used to support the Title IV-A Head Start program. This funding shall be used to support up to 4,000 slots of traditional half-day center-based, home-based, combination, or locally-designed option, Title IV-A Head Start services.

Of the foregoing appropriation line item 200-663, Head Start Plus/Head Start, up to $1,963,697 $2,000,000 in fiscal year 2005 may be used by the Department of Education to provide associated program support and technical assistance.

For purposes of this section, "eligible child" means a child who is at least three years of age, has not entered kindergarten, and is not of compulsory school age whose family earns not more than 100 per cent percent of the federal poverty level, except as otherwise provided in the following paragraph.

The Department of Education, in consultation with Title IV-A Head Start agencies and, beginning in July 1, 2004, Title IV-A Head Start Plus agencies, shall establish criteria under which these agencies may apply to the Department for a waiver to include as "eligible children" those children from families earning up to the level of eligibility established for child care subsidy by the Department of Job and Family Services who otherwise qualify as "eligible children" under the preceding paragraph.

In fiscal year 2004, in order to serve children whose families receive child care subsidy and whose incomes do not exceed the income eligibility requirement for child care subsidy, Title IV-A Head Start agencies may enroll children whose families receive this child care subsidy from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, if they partner with child care centers or family day-care homes, where appropriate. This provision is to meet the child care needs of low-income families who are working, in training or education programs, or participating in Ohio Works First approved activities.

The Department of Education shall conduct a head count of the number of children served by Head Start agencies under this program in December 2003 and in December 2004. Any funding appropriated to this program in fiscal year 2005, which the Department of Education projects is not necessary to provide services to children enrolled as of the head count taken in December 2004 shall be returned to the Department of Job and Family Services for use as child care assistance.

The Department of Education shall provide an annual report to the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President of the Senate, the State Board of Education, Title IV-A Head Start Plus and Title IV-A Head Start providers, and other interested parties regarding the Title IV-A Head Start Plus and Title IV-A Head Start program and performance indicators as outlined by the Department of Education.

AUXILIARY SERVICES REIMBURSEMENT

Notwithstanding section 3317.064 of the Revised Code, if the unobligated cash balance is sufficient, the Treasurer of State shall transfer $1,500,000 in fiscal year 2004 within thirty days after the effective date of this section June 26, 2003, and $1,500,000 in fiscal year 2005 by August 1, 2004, from the Auxiliary Services Personnel Unemployment Compensation Fund to the Department of Education's Auxiliary Services Reimbursement Fund (Fund 598).

Sec. 41.33. (A) As used in this section:

(1) "Entitled to attend school" means entitled to attend school in a school district under section 3313.64 and 3313.65 of the Revised Code.

(2) "Formula ADM" and "category six special education ADM" have the same meanings as in section 3317.02 of the Revised Code.

(3) "Individualized education program" has the same meaning as in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code.

(4) "Parent" has the same meaning as in section 3313.64 of the Revised Code.

(5) "Qualified special education child" is a child for whom all of the following conditions apply:

(a) The school district in which the child is entitled to attend school has identified the child as autistic;

(b) The school district in which the child is entitled to attend school has developed an individualized education program under Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code for the child;

(c) The child either:

(i) Was enrolled in the school district in which the child is entitled to attend school in any grade from preschool through twelve in the school year prior to the year in which a scholarship under this section is first sought for the child;

(ii) Is eligible to enter school in any grade preschool through twelve in the school district in which the child is entitled to attend school in the school year in which a scholarship under this section is first sought for the child.

(6) "Registered private provider" means a nonpublic school or other nonpublic entity that has been approved by the Department of Education to participate in the program established under this section.

(B) There is hereby established the Pilot Project Special Education Scholarship Program. Under the program, in fiscal years 2004 and 2005, the Department of Education shall pay a scholarship to the parent of each qualified special education child upon application of that parent pursuant to procedures and deadlines established by rule of the State Board of Education. Each scholarship shall be used only to pay tuition for the child on whose behalf the scholarship is awarded to attend a special education program that implements the child's individualized education program and that is operated by a school district other than the school district in which the child is entitled to attend school or, by another public entity, to either of which under law the parent is required to pay tuition on behalf of the child, or by a registered private provider. Each scholarship shall be in an amount not to exceed the lesser of the tuition charged for the child by the special education program or fifteen thousand dollars. The purpose of the scholarship is to permit the parent of a qualified special education child the choice to send the child to a special education program, instead of, or in addition to, the one operated by or for the school district in which the child is entitled to attend school, to receive the services prescribed in the child's individualized education program once the individualized education program is finalized. A scholarship under this section shall not be awarded to the parent of a child while the child's individualized education program is being developed by the school district in which the child is entitled to attend school, or while any administrative or judicial mediation or proceedings with respect to the content of the child's individualized education program are pending. A scholarship under this section shall not be awarded to the parent of a child who attends a public special education program under a contract, compact, or other bilateral agreement between the school district in which the child is entitled to attend school and another school district or other public provider or to the parent of a child who attends a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code. A child attending a special education program with a scholarship under this section shall continue to be entitled to transportation to and from that program in the manner prescribed by law.

(C)(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Revised Code, a child for whom a scholarship is awarded under this section shall be counted in the formula ADM and the category six special education ADM of the district in which the child is entitled to attend school and not in the formula ADM and the category six special education ADM of any other school district.

(2) In each fiscal year, the Department shall deduct from the amounts paid to each school district under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code, and, if necessary, sections 321.24 and 323.156 of the Revised Code, the aggregate amount of scholarships awarded under this section for qualified special education children included in the formula ADM and category six special education ADM of that school district as provided in division (C)(1) of this section. The scholarships deducted shall be considered as an approved special education and related services expense for the purpose of the school district's compliance with division (C)(5) of section 3317.022 of the Revised Code.

(3) From time to time, the Department shall make a payment to the parent of each qualified special education child for whom a scholarship has been awarded under this section. The scholarship amount shall be proportionately reduced in the case of any such child who is not enrolled in the special education program for which a scholarship was awarded under this section for the entire school year. The Department shall make no payments to the parent of a child while any administrative or judicial mediation or proceedings with respect to the content of the child's individualized education program are pending.

(D) A scholarship shall not be paid to a parent for payment of tuition owed to a nonpublic entity unless that entity is a registered private provider. The Department shall approve entities that meet the standards established by rule of the State Board for the program established under this section.

(E) The State Board shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code prescribing procedures necessary to implement this section, including, but not limited to, procedures and deadlines for parents to apply for scholarships, standards for registered private providers, and procedures for approval of entities as registered private providers. The Board shall adopt the rules so that the program established under this section is operational by January 1, 2004.

(F) The Legislative Office of Education Oversight shall conduct a formative evaluation of the program established under this section and shall report its findings to the General Assembly not later than March 1, 2005. In conducting the evaluation, the Office shall to the extent possible gather comments from parents who have been awarded scholarships under the program, school district officials, representatives of registered private providers, educators, and representatives of educational organizations for inclusion in the report required under this section.

Sec. 146.  (A) In September of 2003 (1) Within thirty days after the effective date of this amendment, each school district that has been declared to be under an academic watch or in a state of academic emergency pursuant to section 3302.03 of the Revised Code at any time in 2003 or that has a three-year average graduation rate of not more than seventy-five per cent shall administer a half-length practice version of each the reading and mathematics Ohio Graduation Test Tests prescribed by division (B) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to all ninth grade students enrolled in the district. Each The district also shall assess all ninth grade students in each subject area of writing, science, and social studies to determine the students' preparedness for the Ohio Graduation Tests in those subject areas. The manner in which these assessments are conducted may be determined by the district, school, or individual teachers.

(2) In September of 2004, each school district that has been declared to be under an academic watch or in a state of academic emergency pursuant to section 3302.03 of the Revised Code or that has a three-year average graduation rate of not more than seventy-five per cent shall administer a half-length practice version of each Ohio Graduation Test to all ninth grade students enrolled in the district, except that if the Department of Education has made a full-length practice version of any Ohio Graduation Test available to the district, the district shall administer the full-length practice version of the test instead.

(3) Each district shall determine the dates, times, and method of administering the tests and assessments required by division (A) of this section to students and shall score the tests and assessments.

(B) Each In the 2003-2004 school year, each district declared to be in a state of academic emergency pursuant to section 3302.03 of the Revised Code at any time in 2003 and, in the 2004-2005 school year, each district that has a three-year average graduation rate of not more than seventy-five per cent shall determine for each high school in the district whether the school shall be required to provide intervention services in accordance with this division to any students who took the tests or assessments required by division (A) of this section. In determining which high schools shall provide intervention services based upon available funding, the district shall consider each school's graduation rate and scores on the practice tests or assessments.

Each high school selected to provide intervention services under this division shall provide intervention services to students whose practice test or assessment results indicate that they are failing to make satisfactory progress toward being able to attain scores at the proficient level on the Ohio Graduation Tests. Intervention services shall be provided in any skill in which a student demonstrates unsatisfactory progress and shall be commensurate with the student's test or assessment performance. Schools shall provide the intervention services prior to the end of the school year, during the summer following the ninth grade, in the next succeeding school year, or at any combination of those times.

(C) As used in this section, "three-year average" and "graduation rate" have the same meanings as in section 3302.01 of the Revised Code.

Sec. 152. (A) There is hereby created the Ohio Autism Task Force consisting of the following members:

(1) All of the following persons to be appointed by the Governor:

(a) A person diagnosed with autism;

(b) Four persons who are parents of children diagnosed with autism;

(c) A special education administrator of an Ohio school district;

(d) A representative of the Ohio Association of County Boards of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities;

(e) A representative of the Ohio Developmental Disabilities Council;

(f) A representative of the Autism Society of Ohio;

(g) A developmental pediatrician who is a member of the Ohio Association of Pediatricians;

(h) Two representatives from private schools in Ohio that provide special education services to children diagnosed with autism;

(i) Two representatives from Ohio hospitals that provide services to children diagnosed with autism.

(2) Two members of the House of Representatives, one from the majority party and one from the minority party, appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives;

(3) Two members of the Senate, one from the majority party and one from the minority party, appointed by the President of the Senate;

(4) The Director of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities or the Director's designee;

(5) The Director of Job and Family Services or the Director's designee;

(6) The Superintendent of Public Instruction or the Superintendent's designee;

(7) The Director of Health or the Director's designee.

(B) All appointments and designations to the Task Force shall be made not later than thirty days after the effective date of this section. Any vacancy that occurs on the Task Force shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. The members of the Task Force shall serve without compensation.

(C) The initial meeting of the Task Force shall be held not later than sixty days after the effective date of this section. At its initial meeting, the Task Force shall elect from its membership a chairperson and other officers it considers necessary. Thereafter, the Task Force shall meet on the call of the chairperson.

(D) The Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities shall provide meeting facilities and other support as necessary for the Task Force.

(E) The Task Force shall study and make recommendations regarding both of the following:

(1)The (1) The growing incidence of autism in Ohio;

(2)Ways (2) Ways to improve the delivery in this state of autism services.

(F) Not later than one year after the effective date of this section November 26, 2004, the Task Force shall submit a written report of its recommendations to the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President of the Senate.

(G) On submission of its report, the Task Force shall cease to exist.

Section 15. That existing Sections 41.03, 41.05, 41.10, 41.19, 41.33, 146, and 152 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly are hereby repealed.

Section 16. (A) As used in this section:

(1) "All-day kindergarten" and "kindergarten through third grade ADM" have the same meanings as in section 3317.029 of the Revised Code.

(2) "DPIA reduction factor," "entitled to attend school," and "SF-3 payment" have the same meanings as in section 3314.08 of the Revised Code.

(3) "Guarantee payment" means the total amount of disadvantaged pupil impact aid paid, under section 3317.029 of the Revised Code and Section 41.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly, as amended, to a school district that is guaranteed to receive such aid equal to the amount the district received in fiscal year 1998 pursuant to division (B) of section 3317.023 of the Revised Code as it existed at that time.

(4) "OWF student count" means the five-year average of the total number of children ages five to seventeen residing in a school district whose families receive assistance under the Ohio Works First program, based on data most recently certified by the Department of Job and Family Services.

(B) Notwithstanding divisions (C)(4), (C)(5), (D)(5), and (D)(6) of section 3314.08 and section 3314.13 of the Revised Code, in fiscal years 2004 and 2005 the Department of Education shall pay disadvantaged pupil impact aid to community schools in accordance with this section. This section stipulates the General Assembly's intent for paying DPIA to community schools in recognition of the 2% DPIA increase granted to school districts in each of those years by Section 41.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly, as amended.

(C)(1) In each of fiscal years 2004 and 2005, the Department shall pay each community school a per pupil amount for each student enrolled in the community school who meets both of the following criteria:

(a) The student is entitled to attend school in a school district that received a DPIA guarantee payment under division (B) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code in fiscal year 2003;

(b) The student's family receives assistance under the Ohio Works First program.

(2) Subject to division (E) of this section, the per pupil payment in each fiscal year under division (C)(1) of this section shall equal the quotient of the DPIA guarantee payment to the school district where the student is entitled to attend school divided by that district's OWF student count, adjusted by any DPIA reduction factor of the community school.

(D)(1) In each of fiscal years 2004 and 2005, the Department shall pay each community school a per pupil amount for each student enrolled in the community school who meets both of the following criteria:

(a) The student is entitled to attend school in a school district that either received a DPIA safety and remediation payment under division (C) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code in fiscal year 2003 or, if it did not, receives a safety and remediation payment under that division in the current fiscal year pursuant to the first paragraph under the heading "DISADVANTAGED PUPIL IMPACT AID" of Section 41.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly, as amended;

(b) The student's family receives assistance under the Ohio Works First program.

(2) Except as provided in division (D)(4) of this section, and subject to division (E) of this section, the per pupil payment in fiscal year 2004 under division (D)(1) of this section shall equal the following quotient, adjusted by any DPIA reduction factor of the community school:

(a) The fiscal year 2003 DPIA safety and remediation payment under division (C) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code to the school district where the student is entitled to attend school, times 102%; divided by

(b) That district's OWF student count.

(3) Except as provided in division (D)(4) of this section, and subject to division (E) of this section, the per pupil payment in fiscal year 2005 under division (D)(1) of this section shall equal the following quotient, adjusted by any DPIA reduction factor of the community school:

(a) The product calculated under division (D)(2)(a) of this section for the school district where the student is entitled to attend school, times 102%; divided by

(b) That district's OWF student count.

(4) Subject to division (E) of this section, for each community school student who is entitled to attend school in a school district that receives a DPIA safety and remediation payment under division (C) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code pursuant to the first paragraph under the heading "DISADVANTAGED PUPIL IMPACT AID" of Section 41.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly, as amended, the per pupil payment in each fiscal year under division (D)(1) of this section shall equal the quotient of the safety and remediation payment to the school district for the current fiscal year divided by that district's OWF student count, adjusted by any DPIA reduction factor of the community school.

(E) Payments under divisions (C) and (D) of this section shall be calculated based on Ohio Works First data certified to the Department of Education by the Department of Job and Family Services and community schools in the spring of the fiscal year. However, for each community school that operated in the prior fiscal year, the Department of Education shall make estimated payments based on data certified for the prior fiscal year until data is certified in the spring, and shall recalculate the payments for the entire fiscal year after the data is certified in the spring. For each community school commencing its first year of operation, the Department shall not make payments under those divisions in the community school's first fiscal year until the spring of the fiscal year, after the community school and the Department of Job and Family Services have certified the Ohio Works First data.

(F)(1) In each of fiscal years 2004 and 2005, the Department of Education shall pay each community school a per pupil amount for each student enrolled in the community school who meets all of the following criteria:

(a) The student is entitled to attend school in a school district that either received a DPIA class-size reduction payment under division (E) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code in fiscal year 2003 or, if it did not, receives a class-size reduction payment under that division in the current fiscal year pursuant to the first paragraph under the heading "DISADVANTAGED PUPIL IMPACT AID" of Section 41.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly, as amended;

(b) The student is enrolled in the community school in kindergarten or first, second, or third grade;

(c) The student is not receiving special education and related services under an individualized education program, as defined in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code.

(2) Except as provided in divisions (F)(4) and (5) of this section, the per pupil payment in fiscal year 2004 under division (F)(1) of this section shall equal the following quotient, adjusted by any DPIA reduction factor of the community school:

(a) The fiscal year 2003 DPIA class-size reduction payment under division (E) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code to the school district where the student is entitled to attend school, times 102%; divided by

(b) That district's fiscal year 2004 kindergarten through third grade ADM.

(3) Except as provided in divisions (F)(4) and (5) of this section, the per pupil payment in fiscal year 2005 under division (F)(1) of this section shall equal the following quotient, adjusted by any DPIA reduction factor of the community school:

(a) The product calculated under division (F)(2)(a) of this section for the school district where the student is entitled to attend school, times 102%; divided by

(b) That district's fiscal year 2005 kindergarten through third grade ADM.

(4) Except as provided in division (F)(5) of this section, for each community school student who is entitled to attend school in a school district that receives a DPIA class-size reduction payment under division (E) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code pursuant to the first paragraph under the heading "DISADVANTAGED PUPIL IMPACT AID" of Section 41.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly, as amended, the per pupil payment in each fiscal year under division (F)(1) of this section shall equal the quotient of the class-size reduction payment to the school district for the current fiscal year divided by that district's kindergarten through third grade ADM for the current fiscal year, adjusted by any DPIA reduction factor of the community school.

(5) The Department shall pay only 50% of the per pupil payment prescribed in divisions (F)(2), (3), and (4) of this section for each qualifying community school student who is enrolled in a kindergarten class that is not all-day kindergarten.

(G)(1) In each of fiscal years 2004 and 2005, the Department shall pay each community school a per pupil amount for each student enrolled in the community school who meets both of the following criteria:

(a) The student is entitled to attend school in a school district that was eligible in fiscal year 2003 to receive an all-day kindergarten payment under division (D) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code or Section 44.12 of Am. Sub. H.B. 94 of the 124th General Assembly if it offered all-day kindergarten, regardless of whether the district actually received a payment under either section for all-day kindergarten;

(b) The student is enrolled in the community school in all-day kindergarten.

(2) Except as provided in division (G)(4) of this section, the per pupil payment in fiscal year 2004 under division (G)(1) of this section shall equal the following quotient:

(a) The fiscal year 2003 DPIA all-day kindergarten payment to the school district where the student is entitled to attend school, times 102%; divided by

(b) The number of students entitled to attend school in that district who are enrolled in all-day kindergarten in the school district or in a community school in fiscal year 2004.

(3) Except as provided in division (G)(4) of this section, the per pupil payment in fiscal year 2005 under division (G)(1) of this section shall equal the following quotient:

(a) The product calculated under division (G)(2)(a) of this section for the school district where the student is entitled to attend school, times 102%; divided by

(b) The number of students entitled to attend school in that district who are enrolled in all-day kindergarten in the school district or in a community school in fiscal year 2005.

(4) For each community school student enrolled in all-day kindergarten who is entitled to attend school in a district that was eligible in fiscal year 2003 to receive an all-day kindergarten payment under division (D) of section 3317.029 of the Revised Code or Section 44.12 of Am. Sub. H.B. 94 of the 124th General Assembly if it offered all-day kindergarten, but did not actually receive a payment under either section for all-day kindergarten, the per pupil amount under division (G)(1) shall be:

(a) In fiscal year 2004, one-half of the formula amount prescribed by section 3317.012 of the Revised Code for fiscal year 2003, times 102%;

(b) In fiscal year 2005, the product calculated under division (G)(4)(a) of this section, times 102%.

(H) The Department shall deduct each per pupil payment to a community school under divisions (C) to (F) of this section from the SF-3 payment to the school district in which the student is entitled to attend school. With respect to all-day kindergarten payments under division (G) of this section:

(1) If the student for whom payment is made is entitled to attend school in a district that received an all-day kindergarten payment in fiscal year 2003, the Department shall deduct the payment from the SF-3 payment to the school district.

(2) If the student for whom payment is made is entitled to attend school in a district that was eligible to receive an all-day kindergarten payment in fiscal year 2003 if it offered all-day kindergarten, but did not receive an all-day kindergarten payment that year, the Department shall pay the community school from the amount appropriated to the Department in appropriation item 200-520, Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid.

(I) For purposes of determining the number of students for which divisions (C) and (D) of this section apply in either fiscal year, community schools and the Department of Job and Family Services shall comply with division (K) of section 3314.08 of the Revised Code.

(J) The Department of Education shall adjust payments under this section to reflect any enrollment of students in community schools for less than the equivalent of a full school year, as required by division (L) of section 3314.08 and division (D) of section 3314.13 of the Revised Code. The Department shall apply division (N) of section 3314.08 of the Revised Code to payments under this section.

Section 17. Sections 41.03, 41.05, 41.10, 41.19, 41.33, and 146 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly, as amended in this act, and Section 16 of this act, and the items of law of which those sections as amended or enacted in this act are composed, are not subject to the referendum. Therefore, under Ohio Constitution, Article II, Section 1d and section 1.471 of the Revised Code, Sections 41.03, 41.05, 41.10, 41.19, 41.33, and 146 of Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly, as amended in this act, and Section 16 of this act, and the items of law of which those sections as amended or enacted in this act are composed, go into immediate effect when this act becomes law.

Section 18.  Section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code is presented in this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Am. Sub. H.B. 3 and Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly. The General Assembly, applying the principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation, finds that the composite is the resulting version of the section in effect prior to the effective date of the section as presented in this act.

Section 19.  Section 3301.0711 of the Revised Code is presented in this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Am. Sub. H.B. 3 and Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly. The General Assembly, applying the principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation, finds that the composite is the resulting version of the section in effect prior to the effective date of the section as presented in this act.

Section 20.  Section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code is presented in this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Am. Sub. H.B. 3 and Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of the 125th General Assembly. The General Assembly, applying the principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation, finds that the composite is the resulting version of the section in effect prior to the effective date of the section as presented in this act.

Section 21. Section 3318.031 of the Revised Code is presented in this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Sub. H.B. 248 and H.B. 675 of the 124th General Assembly. The General Assembly, applying the principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation, finds that the composite is the resulting version of the section in effect prior to the effective date of the section as presented in this act.

Section 22.  Section 3319.39 of the Revised Code is presented in this act as a composite of the section as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 445, Am. Sub. S.B. 269, and Am. Sub. S.B. 230 of the 121st General Assembly. The General Assembly, applying the principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation, finds that the composite is the resulting version of the section in effect prior to the effective date of the section as presented in this act.