Professional Report

added to the tax duplicate.

Please refer to Appendix FF for a list and brief descriptions of the several types of levies that can be approved for operating purposes.

SUICIDE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION TRAINING

3319.073

As part of its total professional development training for staff, school districts must include training in youth suicide awareness and prevention for nurses, teachers, counselors, school psychologists, administrators, and “any other personnel that the board determines appropriate.” The curriculum can adopt or adapt curriculum provided by the department of education or develop its own in consultation with public or private agencies involved in youth suicide awareness and prevention programs. The training may also be accomplished through self-review of suitable suicide prevention materials approved by the board. Other required training includes bullying, harassment, and intimidation but also the prevention of child abuse, of violence, of substance abuse, and the promotion of positive youth development. Training also must include the prevention of dating violence. Under law, the Superintendent shall be the executive officer of the board, direct and assign teachers and other employees of the school, and assign pupils “to the proper schools and grades.” (Collective bargaining may limit these duties with such provisions as notice of vacancy/seniority clauses, reduction in force provisions, class size limits, etc.) A board shall, at a regular or special meeting held not later than the first day of May of the calendar year in which the term of the superintendent expires, appoint a person possessed of the qualifications provided in this section to act as superintendent, for a term not longer than five years beginning the first day of August and ending on the thirty-first day of July.” A board may at any regular or special meeting held during the period beginning on the first day of January of the calendar year immediately preceding the year the contract of employment of a superintendent expires and ending on the first day of March of the year it expires, reemploy such superintendent for a succeeding term for not longer than five years, beginning on the first day of August immediately following the expiration of the superintendent's current term of employment and ending on the thirty-first day of July of the year in which such succeeding term expires.

SUPERINTENDENT, APPOINTMENT AND DUTIES

3319.01

SUPERINTENDENT, BOARD REQUIRED TO APPOINT A SUSPENSION AND EXPULSION, STUDENT

3319.01

A board shall appoint a qualified applicant to act as superintendent for a term not to exceed five years.

3313.66

Each board of education shall adopt a policy and a code regarding suspension, expulsion and removal specifying the types of misconduct for which a pupil may be suspended, expelled or removed; a copy must be posted “in a central location in the school” and available on request. The policy should include the date and manner by which the superintendent’s expulsion order can be appealed, but the date must be within 14 days (or more, as specified in the board’s policy) from the first day of the expulsion.

3313.661

If there are fewer days remaining in the school term than the length of the suspension, the superintendent may apply any remaining (or even