Students and Learning

To require the health curriculum of each school district to include instruction on the positive effects of organ and tissue donation.

To require instruction in cursive handwriting.

To establish the STEM Public-Private Partnership Pilot Program to provide high school students the opportunity to receive education in a targeted industry while simultaneously earning high school and college credit and to make an appropriation.

To revise the requirements regarding the administration of the state achievement assessments, to require the Department of Education to request a waiver from federal testing requirements, and to declare an emergency. En. 3301.0727.

Regarding coverage for prescription contraceptive drugs and devices, the provision of certain hospital and pregnancy prevention services for victims of sexual assault, and comprehensive sexual health and sexually transmitted infection education in schools.

To require instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator as a requirement for high school graduation.

With regard to the administration of state primary and secondary education assessments. Am. 3301.079, 3301.0710, 3301.0711, 3301.0712, 3301.0715, 3302.02, 3302.03, 3302.13, 3313.608, and 3319.111 and to enact sections 3301.132 and 3313.903.

To permit schools and camps to procure and use a metered dose inhaler or dry powdered inhaler used to alleviate asthmatic symptoms in accordance with prescribed policies and to exempt them from licensing requirements related to the possession of these inhalers.

To prohibit individual student scores from certain elementary and secondary achievement assessments administered for the 2014-2015 school year from being used to determine promotion or retention or to grant course credit, to make changes regarding the administration of high school end-of-course examinations, and to declare an emergency.

To require the State Board of Education to adopt rules regarding the sale of beverages and food during the regular school day in connection with a school-sponsored fundraiser. Am. 3313.814
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