Professional Report

ETHICS REQUIREMENTS AND SUPERINTENDENTS

Superintendents are required to file by April 15 of each year an Ethics Report with the Ohio Ethics Commission. Please see Appendix A for the most recent version of Ohio’s ethics laws and Appendix B for the most recent Financial Disclosure Fact Sheet. The fact sheet provides guidance and instructions for completing the required Ethics Report. 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. A board of education may trade an item of personal property as either a part or an “entire consideration” on the purchase price of an item of similar personal property. A superintendent can recommend to a board of education that a student be permanently excluded from attending any of Ohio’s public schools if the student is convicted of, or judged a delinquent child for, committing any of certain acts when the student was 16 years of age or older. However, only the superintendent of public instruction can actually issue the permanent exclusion order. Commission of, or complicity in, any of the following acts on property owned or controlled by, or at an activity held under the auspices of the board of education of a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district can begin the process of permanent exclusion:  Possession or conveyance of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordinance in a school safety zone;  Carrying a concealed weapon;  Trafficking or aggravated trafficking in drugs;  Possession of a controlled substance (other than what would be a “minor drug possession offense”;  Murder or aggravated murder; If a student has been permanently excluded by the state superintendent of public instruction, the district superintendent can recommend to the board of education that the student be returned to school if it is felt that the student has been sufficiently rehabilitated. The process works much the same way as the original exclusion did in the sense that the board adopts a resolution with its superintendent’s recommendation for removal of the exclusion from school. If the board adopts the resolution, the resolution is forwarded to the superintendent of public instruction, who renders a decision after investigation. Executive sessions of the Board are permitted for any of the following reasons: 1) the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion, or compensation of public employees or officials  Voluntary or involuntary manslaughter;  Felonious or aggravated assault; and  Rape or gross sexual imposition. 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.

EVALUATION, SCHOOL COUNSELOR

3319.113 3319.61

EXCHANGE OF PROPERTY

3313.41

EXCLUSION FROM SCHOOL, STUDENT

3313.662

EXECUTIVE SESSIONS

121.22