Some of the things in print from other sources.

This is something that has come from the Ohio Revised Code in recent months, which has a direct affiliation with everything I have written.

ORC Section 3314.35
Ohio's Value-Added System and Community School Closures due toPoor Academic Performance
Background:
Expected gains has been replaced by the value-added system.
Language and Impact: Valued-added performance measures and state designations (ratings) will be used to determine which community schools will be required to permanently close and applies to any community school that meets ONE of the following sets of criteria after July 1, 2008.
A school will permanently close at the end of the school year during which the school first becomes subject to 3314.35 as a result of meeting ONE of the following sets of criteria:
SET ONE

• The school meets ALL of the following conditions:
» Offers any grade level between 4 and 8 but not higher than 9.
» The school has been rated in Academic Emergency for 3 consecutive sdhool years.
» For 2 of the 3 consecutive school years that the school was rated in Academic Emergency, the school made less than one standard year of academic growth in either reading or
,
math under the state of Ohio's Value-added system.
OR

SET TWO
• The school meets ALL of the following conditions:
;, Offers any grade level between 10 and 12.
;, The school has been rated in Academic Emergency for 3 consecutive school years.
;, For 2 of the 3 consecutive school years that the school was rated in Academic Emergency, the school made less than two standard years of academic growth in either reading or math under the state of Ohio's Value-added system.
Or
• The school does not offer any of grades 4 through 12 and has been rated in Academic Emergency for four consecutive school years.
The sponsor and governing authority will be required to comply with the community school closing procedures. Additionally, the governing authority will not be allowed to enter into a contract with any other sponsor.
Caveat:
The Ohio Department of Education is tasked with determining the feasibility of using the valued-added performance measure in assessing the academic performance of schools meeting the second set of criteria, i.e. offering any grade level between 10 and 12. If ODE determines that it is not feasible to use the value-added performance measure in this manner, such a school will be required to permanently close only if it has been rated in Academic Emergency for four consecutive school years. Drop-out/prevention and recovery program waiver from valueadded/ school closure
ORC Section 3314.36
This new section defines community schools which serve a majority of students who are enrolled in a dropout prevention and recovery program and may be granted a "waiver" from permanent closure conditions described in Section 3314.35
Background: New legislative requirements describe conditions under which poor-performing community schools are closed. New Section 3314.36 clarifies conditions specific to drop-out recovery schools. Language and Impact: Section 3314.35 defines conditions under which community schools shall be permanently closed and cites schools which qualify for a waiver by the department under Section 3314.36
as the exception to these conditions. Section 3314.36 specifies the conditions under which such a waiver may be granted:
D Firstl the majority of students in the school must be enrolled in a dropout prevention and recovery program.
D SecondlYI the program must serve students not younger than sixteen years of age and not older than twenty-one years of age.
D The program must also enroll students who are (either or
both): at least one grade level behind their cohort age groups or; experience crises that significantly interfere with their academic progress such that they are prevented from continuing their traditional programs.
o The school's educational program requires students to attain
at least the applicable score designated for each of the tests prescribed under division (B) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code.
D The program develops an individual career plan for the
student that specifies the student's 90a1s to either enter a two-year degree programl acquire a business and industry credential or to enter an apprenticeship.
D The program provides counseling and support for the student related to the plan developed above during the remainder of the student's high school experience.
D Prior to receiving the waiverl the program must submit an instructional plan that demonstrates how the academic content standards will be taught and assessed.
If the school meets all of the above conditionsl the department must grant the waiver within sixty days after the school applies for the waiver. If the department does not aC( to either grant or deny the waiver within sixty daysl the waiver shall be considered granted. The department shall not grant a waiver to any community school that did not qualify for such a waiver when it initially began operationsl unless the state board of education approves the waiver.