Professional Report

the student may be retained in third grade.

Annually, each school district shall report on its implementation of and

compliance with the third grade reading guarantee. Based on the

information to be reported by the superintendent of public instruction, it

would appear that districts will be required to report:

(1) the number and percentage of students in grades K-4 reading

below grade level based on the diagnostic and the achievement

assessments and aggregated by district and by building;

(2) types of intervention services provided; and

(3) an evaluation of the provided services (if available).

If the district offers “intensive interventions in reading” through a summer

reading camp, it must comply with the nutrition requirements in ORC

3313.813.

Summer remediation services funded in whole or in part by the state

must also meet the following criteria:

(1)Methods must be based on reliable educational research;

(2)Assessments must be conducted before and after student

participation in order to monitor results; and

(3)Parents of participating students must be involved in

programming decisions;

For the Ohio Department of Education’s FAQ on the third grade reading

guarantee, please see

Appendix GG.

RECORDS AND

REPORTS

Boards of education shall require all teachers and superintendents to

keep school records and prepare reports required by law. Minimum

information that must be kept for each school appears to consist of a

transcript (“the names of all pupils enrolled therein, the studies pursued,

the character of the work done and the standing of each pupil...” The

law specifically provides that boards can withhold the pay of teachers

and superintendents who fail to file the reports required of them.

However, school personnel are prohibited from releasing any information

in violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

3319.32

RECORDS,

EXCEPTIONS TO

CONFIDENTIALITY

OF STUDENT

A principal making a report of certain student acts or violations (please

see

REPORTING OF CERTAIN STUDENT ACTS OR VIOLATIONS

BY PRINCIPAL TO SUPERINTENDENT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT

below) is not required to obtain either student or parent permission in

making this report. This exception applies regardless of whether the

pupil was 16 years of age or older.

3319.321

RECORDS,

NONPUBLIC

SCHOOLS

A governing authority wishing to close a nonpublic school must notify:

the department of education; any accrediting association that most

recently accredited the school for chartering purposes; and the school

district which administered the auxiliary services funding for the

nonpublic school.

Any records of the school are to be deposited with either the accrediting

association or the school district which most recently administered the

auxiliary services funding. The district may receive a “one-time

reimbursement” for costs incurred in the storage of the records.

3301.162

RECORDS OF

ABUSED,

No board of education can withhold the records of any student for whom

a complaint has been filed at any time with a juvenile court alleging that

3313.642