Professional Report

auditor, who will then “calculate and certify” the proposed tax rate. The final resolution for the board of elections must be filed no fewer than 90 days before the election where the issue will be considered. Board must hold a public hearing if it wishes to change its levy within the ten-mill limitation (i.e., the inside millage if the change will result in a tax increase.) Two public notices of the hearing must be published with the second notice not less than 10 nor more than 30 days before the hearing. The authority of school districts to levy property taxes for community schools to include any school district that contains a community school sponsored by an "exemplary" sponsor.

5705.21

5705.212

This authority applies to incremental levies, as well as incremental levies.

PROPERTY TAXES

Appendix I provides the most recent Ohio Department of Taxation report on taxable values, taxes levied, average tax rates for current expenses, and average property values per pupil for each of Ohio’s school districts. Mentoring must be provided by any licensed teacher (and not just one holding a lead professional educator license) during only the first two years of the four-year program.

TEACHER RESIDENCY PROGRAM, OHIO

3319.223

A required counseling component of the program must be provided if the district determines that counseling is necessary.

However, one of the required measures of progression through the program must be the performance-based assessment required by the State Board for resident educators in the third year of the program. However, a career-technical education instructor teaching under an alternative resident educator license may not be required to complete the conditions of the first two years of the Ohio Teacher Residency Program and may apply for a professional educator license after successful completion of the requirements of the last two years of that Program.

TEACHERS, BOARD OBLIGATION TO EMPLOY

3319.07

The board of education shall employ teachers. However, “in all school districts and in service centers no teacher shall be employed unless such person is nominated by the superintendent of such district or center.”

A board may re-employ a teacher whom the Superintendent refuses to recommend, but it requires a three-fourths vote of the full membership.

3319.08 3319.12

The board shall enter into written contracts for the employment of all teachers and is prohibited from decreasing salaries during the term of the contract, unless it is part of a uniform plan affecting the entire district.

TEACHERS, CONSISTENTLY HIGH-PERFORMING

3319.22

The State Board of Education is required to adopt rules to define a “high- performing” teacher.

In addition, these rules must exempt consistently high-performing teachers from the requirement to complete any additional coursework for the renewal of an educator license and from any requirements prescribed by the district's or school's professional development committee in regard to such coursework.