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Am. S. B. No. 81 As Passed by the SenateAs Passed by the Senate
129th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2011-2012 |
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Cosponsors:
Senators Lehner, Seitz, LaRose, Jones, Beagle, Obhof, Faber, Hite, Bacon, Daniels, Manning, Niehaus, Schaffer, Wagoner, Widener
A BILL
To amend sections 3319.22 and 3319.223 and to enact
section 3319.227 of the Revised Code to qualify
Teach for America participants for a resident
educator license.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 3319.22 and 3319.223 be amended and
section 3319.227 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as
follows:
Sec. 3319.22. (A)(1) The state board of education shall
issue the following educator licenses:
(a) A resident educator license, which shall be valid for
four years, except that the state board, on a case-by-case basis,
may extend the license's duration as necessary to enable the
license holder to complete the Ohio teacher residency program
established under section 3319.223 of the Revised Code;
(b) A professional educator license, which shall be valid for
five years and shall be renewable;
(c) A senior professional educator license, which shall be
valid for five years and shall be renewable;
(d) A lead professional educator license, which shall be
valid for five years and shall be renewable.
(2) The state board may issue any additional educator
licenses of categories, types, and levels the board elects to
provide.
(3) The state board shall adopt rules establishing the
standards and requirements for obtaining each educator license
issued under this section.
(B) The rules adopted under this section shall require at
least the following standards and qualifications for the educator
licenses described in division (A)(1) of this section:
(1) An applicant for a resident educator license shall hold
at least a bachelor's degree from an accredited teacher
preparation program or be a participant in the teach for America
program and meet the qualifications required under section
3319.227 of the Revised Code.
(2) An applicant for a professional educator license shall:
(a) Hold at least a bachelor's degree from an institution of
higher education accredited by a regional accrediting
organization;
(b) Have successfully completed the Ohio teacher residency
program established under section 3319.223 of the Revised Code, if
the applicant's current or most recently issued license is a
resident educator license issued under this section or an
alternative resident educator license issued under section 3319.26
of the Revised Code.
(3) An applicant for a senior professional educator license
shall:
(a) Hold at least a master's degree from an institution of
higher education accredited by a regional accrediting
organization;
(b) Have previously held a professional educator license
issued under this section or section 3319.222 or under former
section 3319.22 of the Revised Code;
(c) Meet the criteria for the accomplished or distinguished
level of performance, as described in the standards for teachers
adopted by the state board under section 3319.61 of the Revised
Code.
(4) An applicant for a lead professional educator license
shall:
(a) Hold at least a master's degree from an institution of
higher education accredited by a regional accrediting
organization;
(b) Have previously held a professional educator license or a
senior professional educator license issued under this section or
a professional educator license issued under section 3319.222 or
former section 3319.22 of the Revised Code;
(c) Meet the criteria for the distinguished level of
performance, as described in the standards for teachers adopted by
the state board under section 3319.61 of the Revised Code;
(d) Either hold a valid certificate issued by the national
board for professional teaching standards or meet the criteria for
a master teacher or other criteria for a lead teacher adopted by
the educator standards board under division (F)(4) or (5) of
section 3319.61 of the Revised Code.
(C) The state board shall align the standards and
qualifications for obtaining a principal license with the
standards for principals adopted by the state board under section
3319.61 of the Revised Code.
(D) 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 chancellor
of the Ohio board of regents, in the manner and to the extent
permitted by state and federal law.
(E) 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, in the case
of the adoption of any rule or the amendment or rescission of any
rule that necessitates institutions' offering preparation programs
for educators and other school personnel that are approved by the
chancellor of the Ohio board of regents under section 3333.048 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 3333.048 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.
(F)(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 (F)(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 (F)(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.
(G)(1) The department of education, educational service
centers, county boards of developmental disabilities, regional
professional development centers, special education regional
resource centers, college and university departments of education,
head start programs, the eTech Ohio 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, or under the
former version of either section as it existed prior to the
effective date of this amendment October 16, 2009, 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 developmental disabilities shall be structured in
a manner comparable to the structures prescribed for school
districts in divisions (F)(2) and (3) of this section, as shall
the committees established by any other entity specified in
division (G)(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, or under the former version of either section as
it existed prior to the effective date of this amendment October
16, 2009. All other entities specified in division (G)(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
(G)(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, or under the former version of either section as it
existed prior to the effective date of this amendment October 16,
2009, 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. 3319.223. (A) Not later than January 1, 2011, the
superintendent of public instruction and the chancellor of the
Ohio board of regents jointly shall establish the Ohio teacher
residency program, which shall be a four-year, entry-level program
for classroom teachers. The teacher residency program shall
include at least the following components:
(1) Mentoring by teachers who hold a lead professional
educator license issued under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code;
(2) Counseling to ensure that program participants receive
needed professional development;
(3) Measures of appropriate progression through the program.
(B) The teacher residency program shall be aligned with the
standards for teachers adopted by the state board of education
under section 3319.61 of the Revised Code and best practices
identified by the superintendent of public instruction.
(C) Each person who holds a resident educator license issued
under section 3319.22 or 3319.227 of the Revised Code or an
alternative resident educator license issued under section 3319.26
of the Revised Code shall participate in the teacher residency
program. Successful completion of the program shall be required to
qualify any such person for a professional educator license issued
under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3319.227. (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of
the Revised Code or any rule adopted by the state board of
education to the contrary, the state board shall issue a resident
educator license under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code to each
person who is assigned to teach in this state as a participant in
the teach for America program and who meets the following
conditions:
(1) Holds a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
of higher education;
(2) Maintained a cumulative undergraduate grade point average
of at least 2.5 out of 4.0, or its equivalent;
(3) Has passed an examination prescribed by the state board
in the subject area to be taught;
(4) Has successfully completed the summer training institute
operated by teach for America.
(B) The state board shall issue a resident educator license
under this section for teaching in any grade level or subject area
for which a person may obtain a resident educator license under
section 3319.22 of the Revised Code.
(C) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code
or any rule adopted by the state board to the contrary, the state
board shall issue a resident educator license under section
3319.22 of the Revised Code to any applicant who has completed at
least two years of teaching in another state as a participant in
the teach for America program and meets all of the conditions of
divisions (A)(1) to (4) of this section. The state board shall
credit an applicant under this division as having completed two
years of the teacher residency program under section 3319.223 of
the Revised Code.
(D) In order to place teachers in this state, the Teach for
America program shall enter into an agreement with one or more
accredited four-year public or private institutions of higher
education in the state to provide optional training of Teach for
America participants for the purpose of enabling those
participants to complete an optional master's degree or an
equivalent amount of coursework. Nothing in this division shall
require any Teach for America participant to complete a master's
degree as a condition of holding a license issued under this
section.
Section 2. That existing sections 3319.22 and 3319.223 of the
Revised Code are hereby repealed.
Section 3. Section 3319.22 of the Revised Code is presented
in this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Am.
Sub. H.B. 1 and Sub. S.B. 79 of the 128th 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.
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