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regular board election, except that no such election will be held if the
unexpired term ends on or before the first day of January immediately
following the regular board election.
The term of a board member shall not be lengthened by resignation and
subsequent selection by the board or probate court.
VALUE-ADDED
PROGRESS
DIMENSION
The department of education is required to maintain a value-added
progress dimension for school districts and buildings. Rules for this are
adopted by the state board of education and must include a scale for
describing the levels of academic progress in reading and math relative
to a standard year of academic growth in those subjects for each of
grades three through eight.
3302.021
VACATION
ACTIVITIES
Boards of education may provide vacation activities for students, subject
to the approval of parents. In such cases, superintendents “shall cause
records to be kept of such activities assigned and completed.” Districts
are also authorized to pay “any necessary expenses” associated with
these activities.
3313.57
VETERANS’ DAY
OBSERVANCE
Boards of education are mandated to require each of their schools to
devote time “on or about Veterans’ Day” each year for an observance
that explains the meaning and significance of the holiday. The
observance must be at least one hour or at least one class period.
Boards are also required to “determine the specific activities that
constitute the observance in each school in the district after consultation
with the school’s administrators.”
3313.602
WAIVER DAYS
A board of education may submit to the State Board of Education an
application proposing an innovative pilot project under which students
might be dismissed additional days from school (known as “waiver
days”) in order to allow for the training of staff.
While there is no definition of “innovative,” it is clear that the initiative
must at least be “new” for the district making the request and must
include beginning and ending dates (even if the ending dates might be in
subsequent school years).
Replaced. See
MINIMUM SCHOOL YEAR
above.
3302.07
WITHHOLDING
STUDENT RECORDS
Boards of education are permitted to adopt a schedule of fees for
materials used for instruction and a schedule of charges which may be
imposed upon students for the loss, damage, or destruction of school
apparatus (e.g. equipment, musical instruments, library material,
textbooks, or electronic textbooks) or damage to school buildings. The
payment of these fees and charges may be enforced by withholding the
student’s grades and credits.
However, no student eligible for a free (not reduced price) lunch can be
charged a fee for any materials used in a course of instruction. This
broad exemption does not apply to the loss, damage, or destruction
cited above. It also does not apply to any charges for non-instructional
purposes (e.g. “pay to participate” fees, parking permits, etc.) nor to fund
raising activities.
The permission to withhold grades and credits does not apply in the
case of abused, neglected, or dependent children. See
RECORDS OF
ABUSED, NEGLECTED, OR DEPENDENT CHILDREN
above.
3313.642
WITHDRAWAL,
NOTIFICATION TO
OFFICIALS OF
A board of education shall report, within two weeks after receiving
notification of student withdrawal, to the registrar of motor vehicles and
the juvenile judge of the county in which the school district is located,
3321.13