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cost of AP or IB exams, which the student can be required to pay.
GIFTS A board of education may accept by resolution bequests, gifts, and
endowments provided the conditions do not remove any portion of the
public schools from the board’s control. This restriction appears to
apply most specifically to the district’s General Fund since a board is
permitted to have special trust funds (for example, for scholarships) and
accept gifts into those special trust funds for a specific purpose.
3313.36
GRADED COURSE OF
STUDY
Boards of exempted village, city districts, and governing boards of
ESCs shall prescribe a graded course of study. Required subjects are
described in this statute.
Any school district shall permit the parent of a child to “promptly”
examine (with regard to that parent’s child) any of the following: any
survey or questionnaire (prior to its administration); any instructional
materials being used by the district for that child; any completed and
graded test or survey or questionnaire completed by the child; and
copies of the statewide academic standards and model curricula.
Copies of the academic standards and model curricula “shall be
available at all times during school hours in each district school
building.”
3313.60
GRADUATION RATE The graduation rate is the ratio of students receiving a diploma to the
number of students who entered ninth grade four years earlier.
Students who transfer into the district are added to the calculation, while
those who leave the district for reasons other than dropping out are
subtracted from the calculation.
A former dropout who returns to the district is entered into the
calculation as if the student had entered ninth grade four years before
the graduation year of the class that the student joins.
The four-year graduation rate is the number of students graduating in
four years or less with a regular high school diploma divided by the
adjusted cohort for the graduating class (number of students who
entered ninth grade four years earlier, as adjusted by admissions and
withdrawals).
The five-year graduation rate is the number of students who graduated
in five years divided by the number of students in the adjusted cohort for
the four-year graduation rate.
3301.0711
3302.01
GRADUATION
REQUIREMENTS
Formerly known as Ohio’s “core curriculum,” the “curriculum
requirements for graduation (the term replacing “core curriculum”) are
the courses which students must complete in order to be eligible for a
diploma (in addition to passing required assessments).
contains separate fact sheets covering such items as specific subjects
as graduation requirements, diploma criteria, and graduation
requirements for the class of 2014 and beyond.
With regard to the required courses identified in students
who enter ninth grade for the first time on or after Juiy1, 2015 and who
are pursuing a career-technical instructional path may take a career-
based mathematics course in lieu of Algebra II.
For students entering ninth grade on or after July 1, 2017, at least one-
half credit in the study of world history and civilizations will also be
required for graduation.
Each high school is also required to incorporate the academic content
3313.603