Professional Report

of the voters of the school district to approve the tax is necessary prior to the district’s joining.

755.181

A board of education may vote to withdraw from a joint recreation district. Upon the withdrawal of a political subdivision from the joint recreation district. The taxpayers continue to pay any tax until the tax expires or is renewed. The county auditor then orders a distribution of any funds on hand or in the process of collection on the basis of the valuation of the withdrawing subdivision and the remaining territory of the joint recreation district. No person employed as a teacher, principal, administrator, non-licensed school employee, or bus driver in a public school may inflict or cause to be inflicted corporal punishment as a means of discipline upon a pupil attending such school. However, such employees may, within the scope of their employment, use and apply such amount of force and restraint as is reasonable and necessary to quell a disturbance, obtain possession of dangerous objects, to provide for the employee’s own self defense, or to protect persons or property. The board of education is a body politic and corporate and, as such, can: be sued and can sue; can enter into contracts and can be contracted with; can acquire, hold, possess and dispose of real and personal property; and take and hold in trust for the use and benefit of the school district, any grant or devise of land, and any donation or bequest of money or other personal property. Following the adoption of standards for school counselors by the Educator Standards Board, the state board of education is required to adopt a state framework for the evaluation of school counselors that will distinguish among accomplished, skilled, developing, and ineffective ratings. All school counselors (except those defined as “high performing”) are to receive annual evaluation in accordance with a local board’s adopted counselor evaluation policy which conforms to the framework adopted by the State Board of Education. See also RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL AND SECLUSION . The governing board of an educational service center may create a county school financing district for one or more of the following purposes: 1. to levy taxes for special education purposes 2. to levy taxes for certain specified educational programs or services and for permanent improvements to support those programs or services, and 3. to levy taxes for permanent improvements of member districts. A county school financing district does not employ personnel but functions more like a “funds distributor” of tax money collected for the approved purposes. Each district’s policy is to implement the policy in the 2016-2017 school year and to use the evaluation results beginning in 2017-2018.

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

3319.41

3313.17

CORPORATE POWERS OF THE BOARD

COUNSELOR EVALUATION

3319.113 3319.61

COUNTY SCHOOL FINANCING DISTRICT

3311.50

Districts joining such a financing district must ultimately submit the