Professional Report

copper plate or by a photographic, photostatic, or mechanical device but specifically does not authorize a rubber stamp signature.

3313.61

The board president’s signature must appear on high school diplomas.

OFFICERS - ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT

3313.14

The board president to be elected at the meeting held to organize during the first fifteen days of January (or during January in the case of an educational service center); the term is for one year only.

OFFICERS - VICE- PRESIDENT

Attorney General Opinion 68-113

In the case of a vacancy in the office of president, the vice-president shall serve until the next organization meeting.

In case of a vacancy in the office of the vice-president, the remaining members of the board shall fill the vacancy by majority vote of the members present and voting. Each board of education shall adopt a policy stating whether the school district: 1) will not accept inter-district open enrollment students; 2) will accept inter-district open enrollment students from adjacent districts only; or 3) will accept inter-district open enrollment students from any Ohio school district. It is legal but not required for a school district accepting open enrollment students to provide transportation to open enrollment students within the boundaries of the educating district. The district will use bus stops determined through the board’s transportation policy. The district may also reimburse parents of open enrollment students for the cost of transporting the student from home to the designated bus stop if the family income is below the federal poverty level. Career-technology center districts may not count open enrollment students in formula ADM if the student’s “native” district is not part of the vocational education planning district served by the CTC. Prior to the first full week of October of each year, superintendents are required to notify the “native” districts of all open enrollment students of the number of their students who are attending under an approved open enrollment policy. A city, local, or exempted village school district may enroll under its interdistrict open enrollment policy an adjacent or other district student who is a preschool child with a disability. ODE will pay to a district that enrolls under its open enrollment policy an adjacent or other district student who is a preschool child with a disability, and to deduct from the state education aid of the student's resident district, $4,000 for that student plus the weighted funding based on the student’s category of disability. If a preschool child with a disability who is a resident of one district receives special education from another district (not through open enrollment but under an agreement between the districts), the district providing the education may require the child's district of residence to pay the tuition of the district providing the education as calculated in accordance with existing law (rather than half of that amount). A board of education must adopt an open enrollment policy permitting parental selection of school buildings within the district. The policy may include a provision whereby the student does not need to apply annually for admission.

OPEN ENROLLMENT - INTERDISTRICT

3313.97 3313.98 3313.981 3313.983

3317.0213

3323.13

OPEN ENROLLMENT – INTRADISTRICT

3313.97

OPENING PRAYER

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the practice of opening