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PEANUT AND OTHER
FOOD ALLERGIES
Each board of education must establish a written policy protecting
students with peanut or other food allergies. This policy must be
developed in consultation with parents, licensed health professionals,
other school employees, volunteers, students, and community
members.
3313.719
PERFORMANCE
CATEGORIES
The state board of education determines the set of performance
indicators that as a unit is one of the performance categories for both
school and district report cards.
Report cards beginning in 2014-15 will include an indicator reflecting the
level of services to gifted students and their performance (including
value-added growth which has been disaggregated for gifted students).
Beginning with the report card for the 2013-14 school year, districts or
schools will be considered to have met the performance indicator if at
least 80% of tested students attain a score of proficient or higher on the
appropriate assessment. (The standard becomes 85% for eleventh
grade students taking the Ohio Graduation Test.)
3302.02
PERFORMANCE
INDEX SCORE
The performance index score is the average of the totals derived from
the calculations for each applicable assessment area. For high schools,
the assessment areas are English language arts and mathematics. For
grades 3 through 8, the assessment areas are English language arts,
mathematics, science, and social studies. The totals are determined by
adding the weighted proportion of untested students and of students
scoring at the advanced, accelerated, proficient, basic, and limited levels
on the assessment. By law, untested students receive a weight of zero,
but the department of education can determine progressively larger
weights for the other levels of performance.
If a student scores at a proficient or higher level on a test designed for a
higher grade level (in accordance with the district’s acceleration policy),
the student is assigned the weight for the next higher scoring level. This
additional weight is continued for each school year on a “subject-by-
subject basis” that the student’s score is included in the performance
index score and the student attains a score of proficient (or its
equivalent) on the assessment.
The subgroups (which can be subsets of the entire student population of
the state, a school district, or a school) are:
Major racial and ethnic groups
Students with disabilities
Economically disadvantaged students
Limited English Proficient students
Students identified as gifted in superior cognitive ability or specific
academic ability
Students in the lowest quintile for achievement statewide
A district can be required by the department to submit an improvement
plan if ODE determines that the district or school has not reached
satisfactory achievement and progress for a subgroup. ODE is also
permitted to require that the improvement plan includes partnering with
another entity for services provided to the subgroup.
3302.01
3317.40
PERFORMANCE
EVALUATION OF
TEACHERS
Boards of education were required to adopt an evaluation system for
teachers, in consultation with their teachers, by July 1, 2013. The
system must conform with the evaluation framework adopted by the
state board of education, pursuant to 3319.112. This Ohio Teacher
Evaluation System (OTES) does not apply to substitute teachers or to
3319.111
3319.112