Professional Report

regular board election, except that no such election will be held if the unexpired term ends on or before the first day of January immediately following the regular board election.

The term of a board member shall not be lengthened by resignation and subsequent selection by the board or probate court.

VALUE-ADDED PROGRESS DIMENSION

3302.021

The department of education is required to maintain a value-added progress dimension for school districts and buildings. Rules for this are adopted by the state board of education and must include a scale for describing the levels of academic progress in reading and math relative to a standard year of academic growth in those subjects for each of grades three through eight. Boards of education may provide vacation activities for students, subject to the approval of parents. In such cases, superintendents “shall cause records to be kept of such activities assigned and completed.” Districts are also authorized to pay “any necessary expenses” associated with these activities. Boards of education are mandated to require each of their schools to devote time “on or about Veterans’ Day” each year for an observance that explains the meaning and significance of the holiday. The observance must be at least one hour or at least one class period. Boards are also required to “determine the specific activities that constitute the observance in each school in the district after consultation with the school’s administrators.” A board of education may submit to the State Board of Education an application proposing an innovative pilot project under which students might be dismissed additional days from school (known as “waiver days”) in order to allow for the training of staff. While there is no definition of “innovative,” it is clear that the initiative must at least be “new” for the district making the request and must include beginning and ending dates (even if the ending dates might be in subsequent school years). Boards of education are permitted to adopt a schedule of fees for materials used for instruction and a schedule of charges which may be imposed upon students for the loss, damage, or destruction of school apparatus (e.g. equipment, musical instruments, library material, textbooks, or electronic textbooks) or damage to school buildings. The payment of these fees and charges may be enforced by withholding the student’s grades and credits. However, no student eligible for a free (not reduced price) lunch can be charged a fee for any materials used in a course of instruction. This broad exemption does not apply to the loss, damage, or destruction cited above. It also does not apply to any charges for non-instructional purposes (e.g. “pay to participate” fees, parking permits, etc.) nor to fund raising activities. The permission to withhold grades and credits does not apply in the case of abused, neglected, or dependent children. See RECORDS OF ABUSED, NEGLECTED, OR DEPENDENT CHILDREN above. A board of education shall report, within two weeks after receiving notification of student withdrawal, to the registrar of motor vehicles and the juvenile judge of the county in which the school district is located, Replaced. See MINIMUM SCHOOL YEAR above.

VACATION ACTIVITIES

3313.57

VETERANS’ DAY OBSERVANCE

3313.602

WAIVER DAYS

3302.07

WITHHOLDING STUDENT RECORDS

3313.642

WITHDRAWAL, NOTIFICATION TO OFFICIALS OF

3321.13