Professional Report

PEANUT AND OTHER FOOD ALLERGIES

3313.719

Each board of education must establish a written policy protecting students with peanut or other food allergies. This policy must be developed in consultation with parents, licensed health professionals, other school employees, volunteers, students, and community members. The state board of education determines the set of performance indicators that as a unit is one of the performance categories for both school and district report cards. Report cards beginning in 2014-15 will include an indicator reflecting the level of services to gifted students and their performance (including value-added growth which has been disaggregated for gifted students). Beginning with the report card for the 2013-14 school year, districts or schools will be considered to have met the performance indicator if at least 80% of tested students attain a score of proficient or higher on the appropriate assessment. (The standard becomes 85% for eleventh grade students taking the Ohio Graduation Test.) The performance index score is the average of the totals derived from the calculations for each applicable assessment area. For high schools, the assessment areas are English language arts and mathematics. For grades 3 through 8, the assessment areas are English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. The totals are determined by adding the weighted proportion of untested students and of students scoring at the advanced, accelerated, proficient, basic, and limited levels on the assessment. By law, untested students receive a weight of zero, but the department of education can determine progressively larger weights for the other levels of performance. If a student scores at a proficient or higher level on a test designed for a higher grade level (in accordance with the district’s acceleration policy), the student is assigned the weight for the next higher scoring level. This additional weight is continued for each school year on a “subject-by- subject basis” that the student’s score is included in the performance index score and the student attains a score of proficient (or its equivalent) on the assessment. The subgroups (which can be subsets of the entire student population of the state, a school district, or a school) are:  Major racial and ethnic groups  Students with disabilities  Economically disadvantaged students  Limited English Proficient students  Students identified as gifted in superior cognitive ability or specific academic ability  Students in the lowest quintile for achievement statewide A district can be required by the department to submit an improvement plan if ODE determines that the district or school has not reached satisfactory achievement and progress for a subgroup. ODE is also permitted to require that the improvement plan includes partnering with another entity for services provided to the subgroup. Boards of education were required to adopt an evaluation system for teachers, in consultation with their teachers, by July 1, 2013. The system must conform with the evaluation framework adopted by the state board of education, pursuant to 3319.112. This Ohio Teacher Evaluation System (OTES) does not apply to substitute teachers or to

PERFORMANCE CATEGORIES

3302.02

PERFORMANCE INDEX SCORE

3302.01

3317.40

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF TEACHERS

3319.111 3319.112