Professional Report

added to the tax duplicate.

Please refer to

Appendix FF

for a list and brief descriptions of the several

types of levies that can be approved for operating purposes.

SUICIDE

AWARENESS AND

PREVENTION

TRAINING

As part of its total professional development training for staff, school

districts must include training in youth suicide awareness and prevention

for nurses, teachers, counselors, school psychologists, administrators,

and “any other personnel that the board determines appropriate.”

The curriculum can adopt or adapt curriculum provided by the

department of education or develop its own in consultation with public or

private agencies involved in youth suicide awareness and prevention

programs. The training may also be accomplished through self-review of

suitable suicide prevention materials approved by the board.

Other required training includes bullying, harassment, and intimidation

but also the prevention of child abuse, of violence, of substance abuse,

and the promotion of positive youth development. Training also must

include the prevention of dating violence.

3319.073

SUPERINTENDENT,

APPOINTMENT AND

DUTIES

Under law, the Superintendent shall be the executive officer of the

board, direct and assign teachers and other employees of the school,

and assign pupils “to the proper schools and grades.” (Collective

bargaining may limit these duties with such provisions as notice of

vacancy/seniority clauses, reduction in force provisions, class size limits,

etc.)

A board shall, at a regular or special meeting held not later than the first

day of May of the calendar year in which the term of the superintendent

expires, appoint a person possessed of the qualifications provided in this

section to act as superintendent, for a term not longer than five years

beginning the first day of August and ending on the thirty-first day of

July.”

A board may at any regular or special meeting held during the period

beginning on the first day of January of the calendar year immediately

preceding the year the contract of employment of a superintendent

expires and ending on the first day of March of the year it expires,

reemploy such superintendent for a succeeding term for not longer than

five years, beginning on the first day of August immediately following the

expiration of the superintendent's current term of employment and

ending on the thirty-first day of July of the year in which such succeeding

term expires.

3319.01

SUPERINTENDENT,

BOARD REQUIRED

TO APPOINT A

A board shall appoint a qualified applicant to act as superintendent for a

term not to exceed five years.

3319.01

SUSPENSION AND

EXPULSION,

STUDENT

Each board of education shall adopt a policy and a code regarding

suspension, expulsion and removal specifying the types of misconduct

for which a pupil may be suspended, expelled or removed; a copy must

be posted “in a central location in the school” and available on request.

The policy should include the date and manner by which the

superintendent’s expulsion order can be appealed, but the date must be

within 14 days (or more, as specified in the board’s policy) from the first

day of the expulsion.

If there are fewer days remaining in the school term than the length of

the suspension, the superintendent may apply any remaining (or even

3313.66

3313.661