Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3319 - Schools - Superintendent; Teachers; Employees

• Section 3319.01 - Superintendent Of An Educational Service Center - Appointment And Duties.
  Except in an island school district, where the superintendent of an educational service center otherwise may serve as superintendent of the district and except...
• Section 3319.011 - Superintendent Pro Tempore.
  If a board of education determines the superintendent is incapacitated in such a manner that he is unable to perform the duties of the...
• Section 3319.02 - Assistant Superintendents And Other Administrators.
  (A) (1) As used in this section, "other administrator" means any of the following: (a) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section,...
• Section 3319.03 - Business Manager.
  The board of education of each city, exempted village, and local school district may create the position of business manager. The board shall appoint...
• Section 3319.031 - Assignment Of Business Manager Functions.
  Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, if the board of education of a city, local, or exempted village school district...
• Section 3319.04 - Business Manager - Powers And Duties.
  The business manager shall have the care and custody of all property of the school district, real or personal, except moneys, supervise the construction...
• Section 3319.05 - Compensation Of Business Manager - Bond.
  The business manager shall receive such compensation as is fixed by the board of education before his election, which shall not be decreased during...
• Section 3319.06 - Internal Auditor Authorized - Contract - Evaluation.
  (A) The board of education of each city, exempted village, or local school district may create the position of internal auditor. Any person employed...
• Section 3319.07 - Employment Of Teachers.
  (A) The board of education of each city, exempted village, local, and joint vocational school district shall employ the teachers of the public schools...
• Section 3319.071 - Professional Development Program For Teachers.
  The board of education of any school district may, by resolution, establish a professional development program for teachers in accordance with which it may...
• Section 3319.072 - Lunch Period For Teachers.
  Each teacher employed by the board of education of a school district or a governing board of an educational service center shall be granted...
• Section 3319.073 - In-service Training In Child Abuse Prevention Programs, School Safety And Violence Prevention, And Training On The Board's Harassment, Intimidation, Or Bullying Policy.
  (A) The board of education of each city and exempted village school district and the governing board of each educational service center shall adopt...
• Section 3319.074 - Professional Qualifications Of Teachers.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Core subject area" means reading and English language arts, mathematics, science, foreign language, government, economics, fine arts,...
• Section 3319.075 - Use Of Professional Development Standards.
  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...
• Section 3319.076 - License Required To Teach Physical Education.
  No school district shall employ any classroom teacher initially hired on or after July 1, 2013, to provide instruction in physical education in any...
• Section 3319.08 - Contracts For Employment Or Reemployment Of Teachers.
  (A) The board of education of each city, exempted village, local, and joint vocational school district and the governing board of each educational service...
• Section 3319.081 - Contracts For Nonteaching Employees.
  Except as otherwise provided in division (G) of this section, in all school districts wherein the provisions of Chapter 124. of the Revised Code...
• Section 3319.082 - Annual Notice Of Salary To Nonteaching School Employees.
  In all school districts wherein the provisions of Chapter 124. of the Revised Code do not apply, each board of education shall cause notice...
• Section 3319.083 - Notice Of Intention Not To Re-employ.
  In all school districts wherein the provisions of Chapter 124. of the Revised Code do not apply, each board of education shall cause notice...
• Section 3319.084 - Nonteaching School Employees - Vacation Leave And Vacation Credit.
  In all school districts each full-time nonteaching school employee including full-time hourly-rate and per diem employees, after service of one year with a board...
• Section 3319.085 - Military Leave For Nonteaching Employees.
  Any nonteaching school employee who performs service in the uniformed services or service under section 5923.12 of the Revised Code and who has returned,...
• Section 3319.086 - Standard Work Week.
  In all school districts, forty hours shall be the standard work week for all non-teaching school employees. Such employees shall not be required to...
• Section 3319.087 - Paid Holidays.
  Notwithstanding section 3319.086 of the Revised Code, all regular nonteaching school employees employed on an eleven or twelve month basis, whether salaried or compensated...
• Section 3319.088 - Educational Aide Permits - Educational Paraprofessional Licenses For Educational Assistants.
  As used in this section, "educational assistant" means any nonteaching employee in a school district who directly assists a teacher as defined in section...
• Section 3319.089 - Using Work Experience Program Participants.
  The board of education of any city, local, or exempted village school district may adopt a resolution approving a contract with a county department...
• Section 3319.0810 - Contracting For Student Transportation Services.
  (A) The board of education of any school district wherein the provisions of Chapter 124. of the Revised Code do not apply may terminate...
• Section 3319.0811 - Supplemental Contracts For Courses Taught Outside Normal School Day.
  If the board of education of a school district offers to students of compulsory school age courses for high school credit that are taught...
• Section 3319.09 - Teacher Definitions.
  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...
• Section 3319.10 - Employment And Status Of Substitute Teachers.
  Teachers may be employed as substitute teachers for terms not to exceed one year for assignment as services are needed to take the place...
• Section 3319.101 - Conditional Employment Of Substitute Teachers Pending Receipt Of Teacher's Certificate.
  (A) Except as provided under division (B) of this section, if any person applies to the board of education of a school district to...
• Section 3319.11 - Continuing Service Status - Limited Contract - Notice Of Intent Not To Re-employ.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Evaluation procedures" means the procedures required by the policy adopted pursuant to division (A) of section 3319.111...
• Section 3319.111 - Applicability Of Section; Evaluating Teachers On Limited Contracts.
  Notwithstanding section 3319.09 of the Revised Code, this section applies to any person who is employed under a teacher license issued under this chapter,...
• Section 3319.112 - Standards-based State Framework For The Evaluation Of Teachers.
  (A) Not later than December 31, 2011, the state board of education shall develop a standards-based state framework for the evaluation of teachers. The...
• Section 3319.113 - Standards-based State Framework For Evaluation Of School Counselors.
  (A) Not later than May 31, 2016, the state board of education shall develop a standards-based state framework for the evaluation of school counselors....
• Section 3319.12 - Annual Notice Of Salary To Be Paid Teacher - Transfer To Other Positions.
  Each board of education shall cause notice to be given annually not later than the first day of July to each teacher who holds...
• Section 3319.13 - Leave Of Absence - Request - Employment Of Replacement.
  Upon the written request of a teacher or a regular nonteaching school employee, a board of education may grant a leave of absence for...
• Section 3319.114 - Alternative Framework For Teacher Evaluation.
  (A) Beginning with the 2014-2015 school year, a district or school may choose to use the alternative framework prescribed by divisions (B) and (C)...
• Section 3319.131 - Leaves Of Absence For Professional Growth.
  A public school teacher who has completed five years of service may, with the permission of the board of education and the superintendent of...
• Section 3319.14 - Military Leave Of Absence.
  Any teacher who has left, or leaves, a teaching position, by resignation or otherwise, and within forty school days thereafter entered, or enters, the...
• Section 3319.141 - Sick Leave.
  Each person who is employed by any board of education in this state, except for substitutes, adult education instructors who are scheduled to work...
• Section 3319.142 - Personal Leave For Nonteaching Employees.
  Each board of education shall adopt rules entitling regular nonteaching employees, during each school year, to a minimum of three days of personal leave...
• Section 3319.143 - Policy Of Assault Leave.
  Notwithstanding section 3319.141 of the Revised Code, the board of education of a city, exempted village, local or joint vocational school district may adopt...
• Section 3319.15 - Termination Of Contract By Teacher.
  No teacher shall terminate the teacher's contract after the tenth day of July of any school year or during the school year, prior to...
• Section 3319.151 - Assisting Student In Cheating On Assessments.
  (A) No person shall reveal to any student any specific question that the person knows is part of an assessment to be administered under...
• Section 3319.16 - Termination Of Contract By Board Of Education.
  The contract of any teacher employed by the board of education of any city, exempted village, local, county, or joint vocational school district may...
• Section 3319.161 - Appointing Referees For Contract Termination Cases.
  For the purpose of providing referees for the hearings required by section 3319.16 of the Revised Code, the superintendent of public instruction shall compile...
• Section 3319.17 - Reduction In Number Of Teachers - Restoration.
  (A) As used in this section, "interdistrict contract" means any contract or agreement entered into by an educational service center governing board and another...
• Section 3319.171 - Administrative Personnel Suspension Policy.
  (A) Notwithstanding section 3319.17 of the Revised Code, the board of education of a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district or...
• Section 3319.172 - Reasonable Reductions In Nonteaching Employees.
  The board of education of each school district wherein the provisions of Chapter 124. of the Revised Code do not apply and the governing...
• Section 3319.18 - Status Of Teachers Under Transfer Or Consolidation.
  If an entire school district or that part of a school district which comprises the territory in which a school is situated is transferred...
• Section 3319.181 - Civil Service Status Of Nonteaching Employees In Transferred Or New District.
  If an entire school district or that part of a school district which comprises the territory in which a school is situated is transferred...
• Section 3319.19 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.128, SB 316, §105.01, eff. 9/24/2012. Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153, §101.01, eff. 6/30/2011. Effective Date:
• Section 3319.20 - Notification Of Nonlicensed Employee's Guilty Plea Or Conviction Of Certain Offenses.
  (A) Whenever an employee of a board of education, other than an employee who is a license holder to whom section 3319.52 of the...
• Section 3319.21 - Contract Employing Relative As Teacher Void.
  Whenever a local director or member of a board of education votes for or participates in the making of a contract with a person...
• Section 3319.22 - Standards And Requirements For Educator Licenses - Local Professional Development Committees.
  (A) (1) The state board of education shall issue the following educator licenses: (a) A resident educator license, which shall be valid for four...
• Section 3319.221 - School Nurse And School Nurse Wellness Coordinator.
  (A) The state board of education shall adopt rules establishing the standards and requirements for obtaining a school nurse license and a school nurse...
• Section 3319.222 - Effect On Certificates Issued Before Change In Law.
  (A) Notwithstanding the amendments to and repeal of statutes by the act that enacted this section, the state board of education shall accept applications...
• Section 3319.223 - Ohio Teacher Residency Program.
  (A) Not later than January 1, 2011, the superintendent of public instruction and the chancellor of higher education jointly shall establish the Ohio teacher...
• Section 3319.224 - Contracts For Speech And Language Or Audiology Services.
  Notwithstanding section 3319.30 of the Revised Code, a school district or educational service center may contract with a provider licensed under Chapter 4753. of...
• Section 3319.225 - Temporary Educator License For Superintendent Or Other Administrator.
  (A) No temporary educator license shall be issued under this section for employment as a principal after the effective date of the rules prescribed...
• Section 3319.226 - Educator Licenses For Substitute Teaching.
  The state board of education shall issue educator licenses for substitute teaching that are valid for terms of one year, five years, and any...
• Section 3319.227 - Licenses For Teach For America Program Participants; Optional Training.
  (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code or any rule adopted by the state board of education to the contrary, the state...
• Section 3319.228 - Issuance Of License To Those Licensed In Other States; List Of States With Inadequate Licensure Standards.
  (A) This section applies only to a person who meets the following conditions: (1) Holds a minimum of a baccalaureate degree; (2) Has been...
• Section 3319.229 - Requirements For The Issuance And Renewal Of Professional Career-technical Teaching Licenses.
  The rules adopted under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code shall include requirements for the issuance and renewal of professional career-technical teaching licenses, including,...
• Section 3319.23 - License Required For Teaching American History And Government Content.
  A valid educator license for teaching social studies in the applicable grade shall be considered sufficient to teach the additional American history and American...
• Section 3319.231 - Qualifications For Teaching Community Service Education.
  As used in this section, "community service" has the same meaning as in section 3313.605 of the Revised Code. The state board of education...
• Section 3319.232 - License For Teaching Students With Visual Disabilities.
  The state board of education shall adopt standards for attaining a license for teaching students with visual disabilities that require the licensee to demonstrate...
• Section 3319.233 - Educator License Requirements Beginning 7/1/2017.
  (A) Beginning July 1, 2017, all new educator licenses issued for grades pre-kindergarten through three or four through nine shall require the applicant to...
• Section 3319.234 - Study Of Relationship Of Licensure Assessment Performance To Classroom Effectiveness.
  The teacher quality partnership, a consortium of teacher preparation programs that have been approved by the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents under...
• Section 3319.235 - Integrating Educational Technology.
  (A) The standards for the preparation of teachers adopted under section 3333.048 of the Revised Code shall require any institution that provides a course...
• Section 3319.24 - Coursework In Teaching Reading And Phonics Required For Certain Initial Provisional License Applicants.
  This section does not apply to any applicant for an educator license that is designed for persons specializing in teaching children in kindergarten through...
• Section 3319.25 - Teacher Performance Assessment Entity.
  Any teacher performance assessment entity with which the department of education or the state board of education contracts or any independent agent with whom...
• Section 3319.26 - Alternative Educator Licenses.
  (A) The state board of education shall adopt rules establishing the standards and requirements for obtaining an alternative resident educator license for teaching in...
• Section 3319.261 - Alternative Resident Educator License.
  (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code or any rule adopted by the state board of education to the contrary, the state...
• Section 3319.27 - Alternative Principal License.
  (A) The state board of education shall adopt rules that establish an alternative principal license. The rules establishing an alternative principal license shall include...
• Section 3319.271 - Alternate License Upon Completion Of Bright New Leaders For Ohio Schools Program.
  (A) As used in this section, the "bright new leaders for Ohio schools program" means the program created and implemented by the nonprofit corporation...
• Section 3319.28 - Provisional Educator License For Stem School Teacher.
  (A) As used in this section, "STEM school" means a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code....
• Section 3319.281 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-29-1996
• Section 3319.282 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 3319.28.
  Effective Date: 10-29-1996
• Section 3319.283 - Veteran Not Certificated Or Licensed.
  (A) The board of education of any school district may employ an individual who is not certificated or licensed as required by Chapter 3319....
• Section 3319.284 - Extension Of Educator License For Members Of Armed Forces.
  A member of the national guard or a member of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States who is called...
• Section 3319.29 - Fees.
  Each application for any license, certificate, or permit under this chapter, or renewal or duplicate of such a license, certificate, or permit, shall be...
• Section 3319.291 - Fingerprints And Authorization To Forward To Bureau Of Criminal Identification And Investigation.
  (A) The state board of education shall require each of the following persons, at the times prescribed by division (A) of this section, to...
• Section 3319.292 - Questioning Of Applicant Regarding Criminal History.
  As used in this section, "license" has the same meaning as in section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. The state board of education and...
• Section 3319.30 - Necessity Of License - Professional Meetings.
  Except as provided in section 3319.36 of the Revised Code, no person shall receive any compensation for the performance of duties as teacher in...
• Section 3319.301 - Board To Issue Permits To Qualified Nonlicensed Individuals.
  (A) As used in this section, "STEM school" means a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code....
• Section 3319.302 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 128th General AssemblyFile No.9, HB 1, §105.01, eff. 10/16/2009.
• Section 3319.303 - Standards And Requirements For Obtaining Pupil-activity Program Permit.
  (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...
• Section 3319.304 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 128th General AssemblyFile No.9, HB 1, §105.01, eff. 10/16/2009.
• Section 3319.31 - Refusal To Issue, Suspension, Revocation Or Limitations Of License.
  (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...
• Section 3319.311 - Investigations.
  (A) (1) The state board of education, or the superintendent of public instruction on behalf of the board, may investigate any information received about...
• Section 3319.312 - Effect Of Child Support Default On Certificate Or Permit.
  On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the state board of education shall comply with sections 3123.41 to...
• Section 3319.313 - Information Concerning Improper Conduct By Licensed Employee.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Conduct unbecoming to the teaching profession" shall be as described in rules adopted by the state board...
• Section 3319.314 - Report Of Improper Conduct Investigation Kept In Personnel File.
  The board of education of each school district, the governing board of each educational service center, and the chief administrator of each chartered nonpublic...
• Section 3319.315 - Rc 3319.313 And Rc 3319.314 Prevail Over Contractual Provisions.
  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, the provisions of sections 3319.313 and 3319.314 of the Revised Code...
• Section 3319.316 - Participation In Retained Applicant Fingerprint Database.
  The department of education, on behalf of the state board of education, shall be a participating public office for purposes of the retained applicant...
• Section 3319.317 - False Report Of Employee Misconduct Prohibited.
  (A) As used in this section, "license" has the same meaning as in section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. (B) No employee of a...
• Section 3319.32 - Records To Be Kept By Superintendents And Teachers Of All Schools - Reports.
  Boards of education shall require all teachers and superintendents to keep the school records and to prepare reports in such manner as to enable...
• Section 3319.321 - Confidentiality.
  (A) No person shall release, or permit access to, the directory information concerning any students attending a public school to any person or group...
• Section 3319.322 - Copy Of Photographs For School Files.
  The principal or chief administrative officer of each public school shall request any person authorized to take photographs of students of the school, to...
• Section 3319.323 - Alterations Of Records Prohibited.
  During the course of transferring a student's record to an educational institution for a legitimate educational purpose as specified under division (C) of section...
• Section 3319.33 - Annual Report Of Statistics - Civil Proceedings Information.
  On or before the first day of August in each year, the board of education of each city, exempted village, and local school district...
• Section 3319.34 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-26-2003
• Section 3319.35 - Failure Of Superintendent Or Treasurer To Make Reports.
  If the superintendent or treasurer of any school district or educational service center fails to prepare any required report, that superintendent shall be liable...
• Section 3319.36 - Requirements For Payment Of Teacher For Services.
  (A) No treasurer of a board of education or educational service center shall draw a check for the payment of a teacher for services...
• Section 3319.37 - Appointment Of Persons To Make Reports For Treasurer Or Executive Head - Compensation.
  Upon the neglect or failure of a treasurer or executive head of the schools of any district within the educational service center to make...
• Section 3319.39 - Criminal Records Check.
  (A) (1) Except as provided in division (F)(2)(b) of section 109.57 of the Revised Code, the appointing or hiring officer of the board of...
• Section 3319.391 - Applicants And New Hires Subject To Criminal Records Check Provisions.
  This section applies to any person hired by a school district, educational service center, or chartered nonpublic school in any position that does not...
• Section 3319.392 - Criminal Records Check Of Private Contract Employee.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Designated official" means the superintendent, or the superintendent's designee, in the case of a school district or...
• Section 3319.40 - Suspension Of Employee Pending Criminal Action.
  (A) As used in this section, "license" has the same meaning as in section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. (B) If a person who...
• Section 3319.41 - Corporal Punishment Policy.
  (A) No person employed or engaged as a teacher, principal, administrator, nonlicensed school employee, or bus driver in a public school may inflict or...
• Section 3319.42 - Interstate Agreement On Qualification Of Educational Personnel.
  The interstate agreement on qualification of educational personnel is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all states legally joining therein in form...
• Section 3319.43 - Designated State Official Shall Be Superintendent Of Public Instruction.
  The "designated state official" defined pursuant to Article II of section 3319.42 of the Revised Code shall be the superintendent of public instruction. He...
• Section 3319.44 - Copies Of Contracts To Be Kept On File.
  True copies of all contracts made on behalf of this state pursuant to sections 3319.42 and 3319.43 of the Revised Code shall be kept...
• Section 3319.45 - Principal To Report Certain Act Or Violations By Pupil To Superintendent And Law Enforcement Officer.
  If a principal of a public school in a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district, acting in his official or professional...
• Section 3319.46 - Policy And Rules Regarding Positive Behavior Intervention Supports And The Use Of Physical Restraint Or Seclusion On Students.
  The state board of education shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish a policy and standards for the implementation...
• Section 3319.51 - Fees - State Board Of Education Licensure Fund.
  (A) (1) The state board of education shall annually establish the amount of the fees required to be paid for any license, certificate, or...
• Section 3319.52 - Notification Of Guilty Plea Or Conviction Of License Holder.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Intervention in lieu of conviction" means intervention in lieu of conviction under section 2951.041 of the Revised...
• Section 3319.55 - Grant Program For Teachers.
  (A) A grant program is hereby established to recognize and reward teachers in public and chartered nonpublic schools who hold valid teaching certificates or...
• Section 3319.56 - Identifying Promising Practices.
  The department of education shall identify promising practices in Ohio and throughout the country for engaging teachers certified by the national board for professional...
• Section 3319.57 - Grant Program For Innovations.
  (A) A grant program is hereby established under which the department of education shall award grants to assist certain schools in a city, exempted...
• Section 3319.58 - Retesting Teachers In Low Performance Schools.
  (A) As used in this section, "core subject area" has the same meaning as in section 3319.074 of the Revised Code. (B) Each year,...
• Section 3319.60 - Educator Standards Board.
  There is hereby established the educator standards board. The board shall develop and recommend to the state board of education standards for entering and...
• Section 3319.61 - Duties Of Board.
  (A) The educator standards board, in consultation with the chancellor of higher education, shall do all of the following: (1) Develop state standards for...
• Section 3319.611 - Subcommittee On Standards For Superintendents Of The Education Standards Board.
  The subcommittee on standards for superintendents of the education standards board is hereby established. The subcommittee shall consist of the following members: (A) The...
• Section 3319.612 - Subcommittee On Standards For School Treasurers And Business Managers Of The Educator Standards Board.
  The subcommittee on standards for school treasurers and business managers of the educator standards board is hereby established. The subcommittee shall consist of the...
• Section 3319.62 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153, §105.01, eff. 6/30/2011.
• Section 3319.63 - Granting Professional Leave For Educator Standards Board Service.
  The board of education of a school district that employs any person who is appointed to serve as a member of the educator standards...
• Section 3319.65 - Credential Review Board.
  The state board of education shall establish a credential review board. The credential review board shall carry out any functions assigned to it by...
• Section 3319.67 - Teacher Of The Year Recognition Program.
  (A) The state board of education may establish an annual teacher of the year recognition program for outstanding teachers. (B) Notwithstanding division (A) of...
• Section 3319.70 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.39, SB 171, §2, eff. 6/30/2011.
• Section 3319.71 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.39, SB 171, §2, eff. 6/30/2011.
• Section 3319.80 - Engagement Of Dyslexia Specialist To Train Teachers.
  (A) The governing board of any educational service center may engage the services of a dyslexia specialist to provide training for teachers of grades...
• Section 3319.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates division (A) of section 3319.151 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (B) Whoever violates division (H)(1) of...

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