Professional Report

auditor, who will then “calculate and certify” the proposed tax rate. The

final resolution for the board of elections must be filed no fewer than 90

days before the election where the issue will be considered.

Board must hold a public hearing if it wishes to change its levy within the

ten-mill limitation (i.e., the inside millage if the change will result in a tax

increase.) Two public notices of the hearing must be published with the

second notice not less than 10 nor more than 30 days before the

hearing.

The authority of school districts to levy property taxes for community

schools to include any school district that contains a community

school sponsored by an "exemplary" sponsor.

This authority applies to incremental levies, as well as incremental

levies.

5705.21

5705.212

PROPERTY TAXES

Appendix I p

rovides the most recent Ohio Department of Taxation report

on taxable values, taxes levied, average tax rates for current expenses,

and average property values per pupil for each of Ohio’s school districts.

TEACHER

RESIDENCY

PROGRAM, OHIO

Mentoring must be provided by any licensed teacher (and not just

one holding a lead professional educator license) during only the

first two years of the four-year program.

A required counseling component of the program must be provided if

the district determines that counseling is necessary.

However, one of the required measures of progression through the

program must be the performance-based assessment required by

the State Board for resident educators in the third year of the

program.

However, a career-technical education instructor teaching under an

alternative resident educator license may not be required to

complete the conditions of the first two years of the Ohio Teacher

Residency Program and may apply for a professional educator

license after successful completion of the requirements of the last

two years of that Program.

3319.223

TEACHERS, BOARD

OBLIGATION TO

EMPLOY

The board of education shall employ teachers. However, “in all school

districts and in service centers no teacher shall be employed unless

such person is nominated by the superintendent of such district or

center.”

A board may re-employ a teacher whom the Superintendent refuses to

recommend, but it requires a three-fourths vote of the full membership.

The board shall enter into written contracts for the employment of all

teachers and is prohibited from decreasing salaries during the term of

the contract, unless it is part of a uniform plan affecting the entire district.

3319.07

3319.08

3319.12

TEACHERS,

CONSISTENTLY

HIGH-PERFORMING

The State Board of Education is required to adopt rules to define a “high-

performing” teacher.

In addition, these rules must exempt consistently high-performing

teachers from the requirement to complete any additional

coursework for the renewal of an educator license and from any

requirements prescribed by the district's or school's professional

development committee in regard to such coursework.

3319.22