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Ohio S.B. 6, 128th General Assembly – Special Education Scholarship Pilot Program
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_SB_6
- Creates the Special Education Scholarship Pilot Program to provide scholarships for disabled children in grades K through
12 to attend alternative public or private special education programs in fiscal years 2012 through 2017.
- Requires the Department of Education to develop a document that compares rights under state and federal special education
law and rights under the pilot program, and requires school districts to distribute that document to the parents of all special
education students.
- Requires the Department of Education to conduct a "formative evaluation" of the pilot program by December 31, 2013.
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Ohio S.B. 12, 128th General Assembly – All-Day Kindergarten Funding
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_SB_12
- Provides for full formula state funding for all students enrolled in all-day kindergarten classes in schools operated by school
districts and community schools by permitting those students to be counted as one full-time equivalent (FTE) student in student
counts used for funding purposes.
- Eliminates the current poverty-based assistance payment for all-day kindergarten, which provides some all-day kindergarten
funding to school districts and community schools with relatively high concentrations of poverty.
- Eliminates a provision permitting school districts to charge families for all-day kindergarten services if the districts do
not receive poverty-based assistance for all-day kindergarten.
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Ohio H.B. 19, 128th General Assembly – Dating Violence Education in School Districts
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_HB_19
- Requires each school district board of education to adopt a policy to address incidents of dating violence at school or school
events, to provide staff training on dating violence, and to include dating violence education for grades 7 through 12 within
the district's health education curriculum.
- Requires the State Board of Education to develop a model dating violence policy and standards for dating violence education
curricula
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Ohio S.B. 24, 128th General Assembly – Nutritional Standards – School Vending Machines
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_SB_24
- Establishes nutritional standards for food sold to students through a vending machine in schools operated by school districts,
community schools, and STEM schools.
- Restricts the sale of beverages to students through a vending machine in schools operated by school districts, community schools,
and STEM schools.
- Prohibits the sale to students through a vending machine of specified beverages in a size that exceeds 12 ounces.
- Prohibits school districts, community schools, and STEM schools from permitting the sale to students through a vending machine
of any beverage that is carbonated or that contains more than 150 calories per serving.
- Specifies that the restrictions regarding food and beverage sales described in the bill do not apply to food and beverage
items sold in vending machines accessible only to school district, community school, or STEM school employees.
- Requires school districts to adopt standards governing beverage sales on school premises (in addition to food sales as under
current law) and applies the requirement for adoption of standards regulating food and beverage sales on school premises to
community schools and STEM schools.
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Ohio S.B. 55, 128th General Assembly – Comprehensive Sexual Health Education in Schools
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_SB_55
- To establish standards for comprehensive sexual health education in public schools, to create the “Office of Healthy Schools”
within the Department of Education, to require the State Board of Education to adopt health education standards closely modeled
after the National Health Education Standards (NHES).
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Ohio S.B. 59, 128th General Assembly – K-12 Health Education Standards
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_SB_59
- Directs the State Board of Education, by December 31, 2009, to adopt health education standards for grades K to 12 that are
closely modeled after the National Health Education Standards developed by the Joint Committee on National Health Standards.
- Creates the Office of Healthy Schools within the Department of Education to administer health and safety-related services
and programs.
- Transfers from the State Board of Education to the Office of Healthy Schools the responsibility for developing guidelines
for school districts to follow in adopting standards for food sold on school premises, and makes compliance with the state
guidelines mandatory (rather than optional, as in current law).
- Eliminates the requirement that school districts emphasize sexual abstinence when providing venereal disease education (renamed
"sexually transmitted infection prevention education" by the bill).
- Establishes instructional and content standards for school districts, community schools, and STEM schools that offer comprehensive
sexual health education.
- Requires each school district, community school, STEM school, and ESC that offers comprehensive sexual health education to
excuse a student from the instruction upon the request of the student's parent.
- Requires instructional materials used in a comprehensive sexual health education program to be made available for inspection
by parents.
- Requires each school district, community school, STEM school, and ESC that offers a comprehensive sexual health education
program to provide periodic training for the program's teachers.
- Names the bill the "Healthy Students Act."
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Ohio H.B. 68, 128th General Assembly – Healthy Farms & Healthy Schools
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_HB_68
- Creates the Healthy Farms and Healthy Schools Grant Program, to be administered by the Director of Agriculture, to provide
grants to public and private schools with kindergarten programs to educate kindergarten students and their families about
choosing healthy, locally grown or produced foods and to increase awareness of Ohio agriculture.
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