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ETHICS
REQUIREMENTS AND
SUPERINTENDENTS
Superintendents are required to file by April 15 of each year an Ethics
Report with the Ohio Ethics Commission. Please see for
the most recent version of Ohio’s ethics laws and for the
most recent Financial Disclosure Fact Sheet. The fact sheet provides
guidance and instructions for completing the required Ethics Report.
EVALUATION,
SCHOOL
COUNSELOR
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
EXCHANGE OF
PROPERTY
A board of education may trade an item of personal property as either a
part or an “entire consideration” on the purchase price of an item of
similar personal property.
3313.41
EXCLUSION FROM
SCHOOL, STUDENT
A superintendent can recommend to a board of education that a
student be permanently excluded from attending any of Ohio’s public
schools if the student is convicted of, or judged a delinquent child for,
committing any of certain acts when the student was 16 years of age or
older. However, only the superintendent of public instruction can
actually issue the permanent exclusion order.
Commission of, or complicity in, any of the following acts on property
owned or controlled by, or at an activity held under the auspices of the
board of education of a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational
school district can begin the process of permanent exclusion:
 Possession or conveyance of a deadly weapon or dangerous
ordinance in a school safety zone;
 Carrying a concealed weapon;
 Trafficking or aggravated trafficking in drugs;
 Possession of a controlled substance (other than what would
be a “minor drug possession offense”;
 Murder or aggravated murder;
 Voluntary or involuntary manslaughter;
 Felonious or aggravated assault; and
 Rape or gross sexual imposition.
If a student has been permanently excluded by the state superintendent
of public instruction, the district superintendent can recommend to the
board of education that the student be returned to school if it is felt that
the student has been sufficiently rehabilitated. The process works
much the same way as the original exclusion did in the sense that the
board adopts a resolution with its superintendent’s recommendation for
removal of the exclusion from school. If the board adopts the
resolution, the resolution is forwarded to the superintendent of public
instruction, who renders a decision after investigation.
3313.662
EXECUTIVE
SESSIONS
Executive sessions of the Board are permitted for any of the following
reasons: 1) the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline,
promotion, demotion, or compensation of public employees or officials
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