Professional Report

(2) Must, at a minimum, hold a credential that is equivalent to being licensed as a Registered Nurse or a Licensed Practical Nurse.

HEALTH SCREENING

3313.673

It is required, prior to the first-time enrollment in kindergarten or first grade, that every student must be screened for hearing, vision, speech communications, health or medical problems, and for developmental disabilities. If warranted by screening results, districts must conduct further assessments. Parents are to be provided information on the required screening program. The district may: provide any of the required screenings itself; contract with a private provider or governmental entity for the screenings; or request that the parent obtain the screenings from a provider selected by the parent. (Any parent requested to obtain such screenings may sign a written statement that the parent does not wish to have the screening performed.) If the district requests that the parent obtain any screening, the district provide a list of providers and information about screening services within the community for parents who are unable to afford them. 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. The board may dismiss school on certain days: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, President’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Also included in this section of law are added any day declared by the President or Governor to be a day of “fast, thanksgiving, or mourning” or the days designated for staff development. It should be noted that these days are all permissive rather than mandatory. This is not the same as any requirement for holiday pay for staff (especially non-licensed staff) as this is a separate issue altogether. Students receiving home instruction must be permitted to participate in an extracurricular activity at the school of the student's resident school district to which the student would otherwise be assigned. The superintendent of a school district is authorized, but not required, to allow a student receiving home instruction who is not entitled to attend school in that district to participate in a school's extracurricular activities, if the activity is not offered by the student’s resident district. A school district, interscholastic conference, or organization that regulates interscholastic conferences or events is prohibited from imposing eligibility requirements on homeschooled students that conflict with the provisions above. Board of education also may adopt policy that requires pupils to be vaccinated and immunized to prevent the spread of communicable disease. However, such policy cannot be “inconsistent” with Ohio’s immunization requirements found in ORC 3313.671. Districts shall The State Board of Education is required to adopt rules to define a “high-performing” teacher.

“HIGH-PERFORMING” TEACHERS, CONSISTENTLY

3319.22

HOLIDAYS, SCHOOL

3313.63

HOME SCHOOLED STUDENTS IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

3313.5312

IMMUNIZATIONS

3313.67