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SERVICE PLAN, ESC
Governing boards of educational service centers are no longer required
to develop a plan of service for school districts which they serve.
Section 3301.0719 was repealed by the General Assembly in 2004.
ESC’s also are no longer required to maintain “membership records” of
pupils attending local school districts.
3317.031
SICK LEAVE
APPROVAL
School employees, upon approval of the responsible administrative
officer of the district, may use sick leave for absence due to personal
illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could
be communicated to others, and for absence due to illness, injury, or
death in the employee’s immediate family.
The sick leave law does not apply for substitutes, adult education
instructors scheduled to work less than 120 days per school year, or
staff members employed on an as needed, seasonal, or intermittent
basis.
Sick leave generally is credited at the rate of one and one-quarter days
per month. While the statutory requirement is a minimum of 120 days,
boards may approve more days with or without limits.
While almost all collective bargaining agreements with nonteaching
personnel and board policies affecting them specify the one and one-
quarter days of sick leave for each month worked, the actual entitlement
for these staff members is 4.6 hours for each 80 hours of service.
The statute also permits an advance of not less than five days of sick
leave for “each newly hired regular nonteaching employee and each
regular nonteaching employee of any board of education who has
exhausted” accumulated sick leave. However, most board policies and
negotiated agreements extend this “advance” to licensed employees as
well.
3319.141
124.38
SITE-BASED
MANAGEMENT
COUNCILS
REPEALED
School districts with an enrollment over 5,000 students must designate
at least one school building to be operated by a site-based management
council. Districts may apply rules adopted by the state board of
education or file with the department of education an “alternative
structure” for the operation of the site-based council. The provision does
not apply to districts to which one of the following applies:
1)For the 2013-14 school year, the district received a grade of “A” or
“B” for the performance index score and for the value-added
progress dimension; or
2)For the 2014-2015 school year and thereafter, the district receives
an overall grade of “A” or “B” on the district’s report card.
3313.473
SOCIAL WORKERS
Boards of education of city, exempted village, and local school districts
may employ persons for “social and recreational work” upon nomination
by the Superintendent.
3313.58
SOCIAL STUDIES
REQUIREMENTS
School Districts are required to include in the requirements for promotion
from the eighth grade to the ninth grade a one year course of study in
American history. However, a board may waive this requirement for
accelerated students who, in accordance with procedures adopted by
the board, are able to demonstrate mastery of essential concepts and
skills on the adopted eighth grade American history course of study.
Graduation requirements must include one-half unit each of American
history and of American government.
For students entering ninth grade on or after July 1, 2017, at least one-
3313.60
3313.603