Professional Report

cost of AP or IB exams, which the student can be required to pay.

GIFTS

3313.36

A board of education may accept by resolution bequests, gifts, and endowments provided the conditions do not remove any portion of the public schools from the board’s control. This restriction appears to apply most specifically to the district’s General Fund since a board is permitted to have special trust funds (for example, for scholarships) and accept gifts into those special trust funds for a specific purpose. Boards of exempted village, city districts, and governing boards of ESCs shall prescribe a graded course of study. Required subjects are described in this statute. Any school district shall permit the parent of a child to “promptly” examine (with regard to that parent’s child) any of the following: any survey or questionnaire (prior to its administration); any instructional materials being used by the district for that child; any completed and graded test or survey or questionnaire completed by the child; and copies of the statewide academic standards and model curricula. Copies of the academic standards and model curricula “shall be available at all times during school hours in each district school building.” The graduation rate is the ratio of students receiving a diploma to the number of students who entered ninth grade four years earlier. Students who transfer into the district are added to the calculation, while those who leave the district for reasons other than dropping out are subtracted from the calculation. A former dropout who returns to the district is entered into the calculation as if the student had entered ninth grade four years before the graduation year of the class that the student joins. The four-year graduation rate is the number of students graduating in four years or less with a regular high school diploma divided by the adjusted cohort for the graduating class (number of students who entered ninth grade four years earlier, as adjusted by admissions and withdrawals). The five-year graduation rate is the number of students who graduated in five years divided by the number of students in the adjusted cohort for the four-year graduation rate. Formerly known as Ohio’s “core curriculum,” the “curriculum requirements for graduation (the term replacing “core curriculum”) are the courses which students must complete in order to be eligible for a diploma (in addition to passing required assessments). Appendix T contains separate fact sheets covering such items as specific subjects as graduation requirements, diploma criteria, and graduation requirements for the class of 2014 and beyond. With regard to the required courses identified in Appendix T, students who enter ninth grade for the first time on or after Juiy1, 2015 and who are pursuing a career-technical instructional path may take a career- based mathematics course in lieu of Algebra II. For students entering ninth grade on or after July 1, 2017, at least one- half credit in the study of world history and civilizations will also be required for graduation.

GRADED COURSE OF STUDY

3313.60

GRADUATION RATE

3301.0711

3302.01

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS

3313.603

Each high school is also required to incorporate the academic content