Professional Report

Superintendent.

RECRUITMENT OF AND SEARCHES FOR CANDIDATES FOR

3319.07

The board of education of any school district (apparently regardless of size) may contract with the governing board of the ESC (from which it otherwise receives services) to conduct searches and recruit candidates for teacher positions.

TEACHING POSITIONS

RECRUITERS, MILITARY

3319.321

Boards must adopt a policy providing access to Armed Forces recruiters in accordance with similar access given non-military recruiters. In addition, recruiters are to be given the names and addresses of all students in grades ten through twelve unless the parent submits a written request not to release such information. Boards may reduce the number of teachers by suspending contracts because of decreased enrollment, return to duty of teachers from leave of absence, suspension of schools, territorial changes, or financial reasons. No collective bargaining agreement approved after September 29, 2005 can remove “financial reasons” as one of the criteria for a staff reduction. No collective bargaining agreement approved after September 29, 2011 can give preference to seniority in staff reductions or recall from a suspended contract (except when making a decision among teachers with comparable evaluations). In non-Civil Service districts, a board may reduce nonteaching staff because of decreased enrollment, return to duty of staff on leave, suspension of schools, territorial changes, or financial reasons. No collective bargaining agreement approved after September 29, 2005 can remove “financial reasons” as one of the criteria for a staff reduction. If the Board has adopted a policy on the suspension of administrative contracts, it may suspend contracts in accordance with that policy. Ohio law specifically recognizes “financial conditions” of the district as one of the authorized reasons for the contract suspensions. The policy (which must address such issues as reasons for suspension, order of suspension, and restoration rights) must be developed from input from the superintendent and all administrators. ORC 3319.18 addresses the implementation of a reduction in force made necessary by a transfer or consolidation of school territory. If years of service as a teacher are to be included in the determination of the contracts to suspend (assuming that no collective bargaining agreement limits this), the years of service both in the previous district (and in any district which had previously been transferred or consolidated into that previous district merging with another) shall be considered if it is part of the administrator suspension policy. If a bus driver’s background check indicates a potentially disqualifying event, the driver may be eligible for employment if he or she meets the rehabilitation standards prescribed for non-licensed staff members under rule 3301-20-03 of the Ohio Administrative Code. The law specifies that a rehired retiree will receive a single life annuity as the retirement benefit from this “second employment.” The law specifies options that the retiree may have, as well as timelines for the payment of the benefit. The penalty for returning to work within 60 days of retirement is the forfeiture of the retirement benefit which would have ORC 3319.18 addresses the implementation of a reduction in force made necessary by a transfer or consolidation of school territory.

REDUCE STAFF

3319.17

3319.18

REDUCE STAFF – NONTEACHING

3319.172

REDUCTION IN FORCE, ADMINISTRATOR

3319.171

3319.18

REHABILITATION, BUS DRIVERS AND OTHER NON- LICENSED PERSONNEL

3327.10 OAC 3301-20-03

REHIRED RETIREE

3307.352 3309.344