Resource Center
Blogs: OSBA staff contribute to blogs that provide up-to-date information to help members in their roles, including Achievement Matters, which covers timely student achievement topics; Facts in a Flash: OSBA’s weekly legislative update; and Legal Ledger, where you can review the latest legal topics affecting school districts.
Stand Up for Public Schools
Public schools are a critical component of an informed, democratic society and the American way of life. They provide the educational foundation that each and every child needs to go on to college and careers — and succeed in life.
Facts in a Flash - March 31, 2017
Biennial budget update
The House Finance Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education has finished hearings on the education provisions of the biennial budget legislation, House Bill (HB) 49. The General Assembly is set to begin its two-week spring recess April 10. We anticipate the House will have its changes incorporated into a substitute version of HB 49 when members return.
House Education and Career Readiness Committee
Nominate your student programs and artwork for the Student Achievement Fair
OSBA is seeking outstanding student programs and artwork for the Student Achievement Fair at the OSBA Capital Conference.
Unanimous U.S. Supreme Court establishes educational benefit standard for FAPE
Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court answered a question that it had deferred 35 years ago in its seminal opinion on education for children with disabilities—Board of Edn. of Hendrick Hudson Central School Dist. v. Rowley.
Run for your local school board
OSBA has numerous resources to help you run for your local school boards.
Learn what a school board member does and the responsibilities of serving on a school board
View free webinars on becoming a school board candidate, campaign first steps and campaign contributions, expenditures and reporting requirements.
Ohio Sunshine Laws
Ohio’s Open Meetings Act was enacted in 1975 as Ohio Revised Code Section (RC) 121.22. It, together with the Public Records Act (RC 149.43), is commonly referred to as “the Sunshine law.”
The Open Meetings Act’s basic purpose is to require public bodies, including boards of education to:
Ohio Supreme Court issues decision in Renewal Levy case
On Wednesday, the Ohio Supreme Court issued a decision in State ex rel. Delaware Joint Vocational School Dist. Bd. of Edn. v. Testa, Slip Opinion No. 2017-Ohio-796. The case, discussed in a Jan. 27 Legal Ledger post, involves a Renewal Levy passed in November 2015 by the Delaware Area Career Center (DACC).
Departments of Education and Justice withdraw transgender guidance documents
On February 22, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice withdrew their previous joint guidance that provided information for schools on the departments’ interpretation of the rights of and protections for transgender students under Title IX.