Bill Text: OH HB157 | 2011-2012 | 129th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: To authorize educational service centers to provide teacher professional development on dyslexia, to make changes regarding the relationship between educational service centers and their client school districts, to make changes to the operation of public college-preparatory boarding schools and the College-Preparatory Boarding School Facilities Program, and to declare an emergency.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2011-12-21 - Effective Date [HB157 Detail]

Download: Ohio-2011-HB157-Introduced.html

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As Introduced

129th General Assembly Regular Session 2011-2012

H. B. No. 157

Representatives Schuring, Letson 

Cosponsors: Representatives Derickson, Hall, Combs, Stebelton, Yuko, Hollington, Fende 

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A BILL

To enact section 3319.80 of the Revised Code to

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authorize educational service centers to provide

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teacher professional development on dyslexia.

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BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section 1.  That section 3319.80 of the Revised Code be	4
enacted to read as follows:	5

Sec. 3319.80. (A) The governing board of any educational	6
service center may engage the services of a dyslexia specialist to	7
provide training for teachers of grades kindergarten to four on	8
the indicators of dyslexia and the types of instruction that	9
children with dyslexia need to learn, read, write, and spell. If a	10
service center provides this training, it shall make the training	11
available to local school districts within the service center's	12
territory and to other school districts, community schools, and	13
STEM schools that have contracted for the training from the	14
service center under section 3313.843, 3313.844, 3313.845, or	15
3326.45 of the Revised Code.	16

If a governing board of any educational service center does	17
not provide the training, a group of local school districts within	18
the service center's territory may engage the services of a	19
dyslexia specialist to provide training for teachers	20
independently.	21

A school district or school may require the training	22
authorized under this section for its teachers as part of the	23
district's or school's regular in-service training programs.	24

(B) As used in this section:

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(1) "Dyslexia" means a specific learning disorder that is	26
neurological in origin and that is characterized by difficulties	27
with accurate or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and	28
decoding abilities, which difficulties typically result from a	29
deficit in the phonological component of language.	30

(2) "Dyslexia specialist" means a person who is trained and	31
certified in a multisensory structured language program that meets	32
the level II specialist criteria set by the international dyslexia	33
association's knowledge and practice standards, or any subsequent	34
standards adopted by the association.	35