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of the voters of the school district to approve the tax is necessary prior to
the district’s joining.
A board of education may vote to withdraw from a joint recreation
district. Upon the withdrawal of a political subdivision from the joint
recreation district. The taxpayers continue to pay any tax until the tax
expires or is renewed. The county auditor then orders a distribution of
any funds on hand or in the process of collection on the basis of the
valuation of the withdrawing subdivision and the remaining territory of
the joint recreation district.
755.181
CORPORAL
PUNISHMENT
No person employed as a teacher, principal, administrator, non-licensed
school employee, or bus driver in a public school may inflict or cause to
be inflicted corporal punishment as a means of discipline upon a pupil
attending such school.
However, such employees may, within the scope of their employment,
use and apply such amount of force and restraint as is reasonable and
necessary to quell a disturbance, obtain possession of dangerous
objects, to provide for the employee’s own self defense, or to protect
persons or property.
See also
RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL AND SECLUSION
.
3319.41
CORPORATE
POWERS OF THE
BOARD
The board of education is a body politic and corporate and, as such,
can: be sued and can sue; can enter into contracts and can be
contracted with; can acquire, hold, possess and dispose of real and
personal property; and take and hold in trust for the use and benefit of
the school district, any grant or devise of land, and any donation or
bequest of money or other personal property.
3313.17
COUNSELOR
EVALUATION
Following the adoption of standards for school counselors by the
Educator Standards Board, the state board of education is required to
adopt a state framework for the evaluation of school counselors that will
distinguish among accomplished, skilled, developing, and ineffective
ratings.
All school counselors (except those defined as “high performing”) are to
receive annual evaluation in accordance with a local board’s adopted
counselor evaluation policy which conforms to the framework adopted
by the State Board of Education.
Each district’s policy is to implement the policy in the 2016-2017 school
year and to use the evaluation results beginning in 2017-2018.
3319.113
3319.61
COUNTY SCHOOL
FINANCING
DISTRICT
The governing board of an educational service center may create a
county school financing district for one or more of the following
purposes:
1. to levy taxes for special education purposes
2. to levy taxes for certain specified educational programs or
services and for permanent improvements to support those
programs or services, and
3. to levy taxes for permanent improvements of member
districts.
A county school financing district does not employ personnel but
functions more like a “funds distributor” of tax money collected for the
approved purposes.
Districts joining such a financing district must ultimately submit the
3311.50