Bill Text: OH HB113 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Regarding the excusal of students from the high school physical education requirement.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-7)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-12-11 - Committee Report - S [HB113 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-HB113-Introduced.html
As Introduced
A BILL
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Bill Title: Regarding the excusal of students from the high school physical education requirement.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-7)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-12-11 - Committee Report - S [HB113 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-HB113-Introduced.html
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Representatives Antonio, Henne
Cosponsors:
Representatives Ramos, Brenner, Hood, Driehaus, Hagan, R., Letson, Stinziano, Milkovich, Boyce, Hackett, Rogers, Cera
To amend section 3313.603 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
specify that school districts and chartered | 2 |
nonpublic schools may excuse from high school | 3 |
physical education students who participate in a | 4 |
school-sponsored athletic club. | 5 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 3313.603 of the Revised Code be | 6 |
enacted to read as follows: | 7 |
Sec. 3313.603. (A) As used in this section: | 8 |
(1) "One unit" means a minimum of one hundred twenty hours of | 9 |
course instruction, except that for a laboratory course, "one | 10 |
unit" means a minimum of one hundred fifty hours of course | 11 |
instruction. | 12 |
(2) "One-half unit" means a minimum of sixty hours of course | 13 |
instruction, except that for physical education courses, "one-half | 14 |
unit" means a minimum of one hundred twenty hours of course | 15 |
instruction. | 16 |
(B) Beginning September 15, 2001, except as required in | 17 |
division (C) of this section and division (C) of section 3313.614 | 18 |
of the Revised Code, the requirements for graduation from every | 19 |
high school shall include twenty units earned in grades nine | 20 |
through twelve and shall be distributed as follows: | 21 |
(1) English language arts, four units; | 22 |
(2) Health, one-half unit; | 23 |
(3) Mathematics, three units; | 24 |
(4) Physical education, one-half unit; | 25 |
(5) Science, two units until September 15, 2003, and three | 26 |
units thereafter, which at all times shall include both of the | 27 |
following: | 28 |
(a) Biological sciences, one unit; | 29 |
(b) Physical sciences, one unit. | 30 |
(6) History and government, one unit, which shall comply with | 31 |
division (M) of this section and shall include both of the | 32 |
following: | 33 |
(a) American history, one-half unit; | 34 |
(b) American government, one-half unit. | 35 |
(7) Social studies, two units. | 36 |
(8) Elective units, seven units until September 15, 2003, and | 37 |
six units thereafter. | 38 |
Each student's electives shall include at least one unit, or | 39 |
two half units, chosen from among the areas of | 40 |
business/technology, fine arts, and/or foreign language. | 41 |
(C) Beginning with students who enter ninth grade for the | 42 |
first time on or after July 1, 2010, except as provided in | 43 |
divisions (D) to (F) of this section, the requirements for | 44 |
graduation from every public and chartered nonpublic high school | 45 |
shall include twenty units that are designed to prepare students | 46 |
for the workforce and college. The units shall be distributed as | 47 |
follows: | 48 |
(1) English language arts, four units; | 49 |
(2) Health, one-half unit, which shall include instruction in | 50 |
nutrition and the benefits of nutritious foods and physical | 51 |
activity for overall health; | 52 |
(3) Mathematics, four units, which shall include one unit of | 53 |
algebra II or the equivalent of algebra II; | 54 |
(4) Physical education, one-half unit; | 55 |
(5) Science, three units with inquiry-based laboratory | 56 |
experience that engages students in asking valid scientific | 57 |
questions and gathering and analyzing information, which shall | 58 |
include the following, or their equivalent: | 59 |
(a) Physical sciences, one unit; | 60 |
(b) Life sciences, one unit; | 61 |
(c) Advanced study in one or more of the following sciences, | 62 |
one unit: | 63 |
(i) Chemistry, physics, or other physical science; | 64 |
(ii) Advanced biology or other life science; | 65 |
(iii) Astronomy, physical geology, or other earth or space | 66 |
science. | 67 |
(6) History and government, one unit, which shall comply with | 68 |
division (M) of this section and shall include both of the | 69 |
following: | 70 |
(a) American history, one-half unit; | 71 |
(b) American government, one-half unit. | 72 |
(7) Social studies, two units. | 73 |
Each school shall integrate the study of economics and | 74 |
financial literacy, as expressed in the social studies academic | 75 |
content standards adopted by the state board of education under | 76 |
division (A)(1) of section 3301.079 of the Revised Code and the | 77 |
academic content standards for financial literacy and | 78 |
entrepreneurship adopted under division (A)(2) of that section, | 79 |
into one or more existing social studies credits required under | 80 |
division (C)(7) of this section, or into the content of another | 81 |
class, so that every high school student receives instruction in | 82 |
those concepts. In developing the curriculum required by this | 83 |
paragraph, schools shall use available public-private partnerships | 84 |
and resources and materials that exist in business, industry, and | 85 |
through the centers for economics education at institutions of | 86 |
higher education in the state. | 87 |
(8) Five units consisting of one or any combination of | 88 |
foreign language, fine arts, business, career-technical education, | 89 |
family and consumer sciences, technology, agricultural education, | 90 |
a junior reserve officer training corps (JROTC) program approved | 91 |
by the congress of the United States under title 10 of the United | 92 |
States Code, or English language arts, mathematics, science, or | 93 |
social studies courses not otherwise required under division (C) | 94 |
of this section. | 95 |
Ohioans must be prepared to apply increased knowledge and | 96 |
skills in the workplace and to adapt their knowledge and skills | 97 |
quickly to meet the rapidly changing conditions of the | 98 |
twenty-first century. National studies indicate that all high | 99 |
school graduates need the same academic foundation, regardless of | 100 |
the opportunities they pursue after graduation. The goal of Ohio's | 101 |
system of elementary and secondary education is to prepare all | 102 |
students for and seamlessly connect all students to success in | 103 |
life beyond high school graduation, regardless of whether the next | 104 |
step is entering the workforce, beginning an apprenticeship, | 105 |
engaging in post-secondary training, serving in the military, or | 106 |
pursuing a college degree. | 107 |
The Ohio core curriculum is the standard expectation for all | 108 |
students entering ninth grade for the first time at a public or | 109 |
chartered nonpublic high school on or after July 1, 2010. A | 110 |
student may satisfy this expectation through a variety of methods, | 111 |
including, but not limited to, integrated, applied, | 112 |
career-technical, and traditional coursework. | 113 |
Whereas teacher quality is essential for student success in | 114 |
completing the Ohio core curriculum, the general assembly shall | 115 |
appropriate funds for strategic initiatives designed to strengthen | 116 |
schools' capacities to hire and retain highly qualified teachers | 117 |
in the subject areas required by the curriculum. Such initiatives | 118 |
are expected to require an investment of $120,000,000 over five | 119 |
years. | 120 |
Stronger coordination between high schools and institutions | 121 |
of higher education is necessary to prepare students for more | 122 |
challenging academic endeavors and to lessen the need for academic | 123 |
remediation in college, thereby reducing the costs of higher | 124 |
education for Ohio's students, families, and the state. The state | 125 |
board and the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents shall | 126 |
develop policies to ensure that only in rare instances will | 127 |
students who complete the Ohio core curriculum require academic | 128 |
remediation after high school. | 129 |
School districts, community schools, and chartered nonpublic | 130 |
schools shall integrate technology into learning experiences | 131 |
across the curriculum in order to maximize efficiency, enhance | 132 |
learning, and prepare students for success in the | 133 |
technology-driven twenty-first century. Districts and schools | 134 |
shall use distance and web-based course delivery as a method of | 135 |
providing or augmenting all instruction required under this | 136 |
division, including laboratory experience in science. Districts | 137 |
and schools shall utilize technology access and electronic | 138 |
learning opportunities provided by the eTech Ohio commission, the | 139 |
Ohio learning network, education technology centers, public | 140 |
television stations, and other public and private providers. | 141 |
(D) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, a | 142 |
student who enters ninth grade on or after July 1, 2010, and | 143 |
before July 1, 2014, may qualify for graduation from a public or | 144 |
chartered nonpublic high school even though the student has not | 145 |
completed the Ohio core curriculum prescribed in division (C) of | 146 |
this section if all of the following conditions are satisfied: | 147 |
(1) After the student has attended high school for two years, | 148 |
as determined by the school, the student and the student's parent, | 149 |
guardian, or custodian sign and file with the school a written | 150 |
statement asserting the parent's, guardian's, or custodian's | 151 |
consent to the student's graduating without completing the Ohio | 152 |
core curriculum and acknowledging that one consequence of not | 153 |
completing the Ohio core curriculum is ineligibility to enroll in | 154 |
most state universities in Ohio without further coursework. | 155 |
(2) The student and parent, guardian, or custodian fulfill | 156 |
any procedural requirements the school stipulates to ensure the | 157 |
student's and parent's, guardian's, or custodian's informed | 158 |
consent and to facilitate orderly filing of statements under | 159 |
division (D)(1) of this section. | 160 |
(3) The student and the student's parent, guardian, or | 161 |
custodian and a representative of the student's high school | 162 |
jointly develop an individual career plan for the student that | 163 |
specifies the student matriculating to a two-year degree program, | 164 |
acquiring a business and industry credential, or entering an | 165 |
apprenticeship. | 166 |
(4) The student's high school provides counseling and support | 167 |
for the student related to the plan developed under division | 168 |
(D)(3) of this section during the remainder of the student's high | 169 |
school experience. | 170 |
(5) The student successfully completes, at a minimum, the | 171 |
curriculum prescribed in division (B) of this section. | 172 |
The department of education, in collaboration with the | 173 |
chancellor, shall analyze student performance data to determine if | 174 |
there are mitigating factors that warrant extending the exception | 175 |
permitted by division (D) of this section to high school classes | 176 |
beyond those entering ninth grade before July 1, 2014. The | 177 |
department shall submit its findings and any recommendations not | 178 |
later than August 1, 2014, to the speaker and minority leader of | 179 |
the house of representatives, the president and minority leader of | 180 |
the senate, the chairpersons and ranking minority members of the | 181 |
standing committees of the house of representatives and the senate | 182 |
that consider education legislation, the state board of education, | 183 |
and the superintendent of public instruction. | 184 |
(E) Each school district and chartered nonpublic school | 185 |
retains the authority to require an even more rigorous minimum | 186 |
curriculum for high school graduation than specified in division | 187 |
(B) or (C) of this section. A school district board of education, | 188 |
through the adoption of a resolution, or the governing authority | 189 |
of a chartered nonpublic school may stipulate any of the | 190 |
following: | 191 |
(1) A minimum high school curriculum that requires more than | 192 |
twenty units of academic credit to graduate; | 193 |
(2) An exception to the district's or school's minimum high | 194 |
school curriculum that is comparable to the exception provided in | 195 |
division (D) of this section but with additional requirements, | 196 |
which may include a requirement that the student successfully | 197 |
complete more than the minimum curriculum prescribed in division | 198 |
(B) of this section; | 199 |
(3) That no exception comparable to that provided in division | 200 |
(D) of this section is available. | 201 |
(F) A student enrolled in a dropout prevention and recovery | 202 |
program, which program has received a waiver from the department, | 203 |
may qualify for graduation from high school by successfully | 204 |
completing a competency-based instructional program administered | 205 |
by the dropout prevention and recovery program in lieu of | 206 |
completing the Ohio core curriculum prescribed in division (C) of | 207 |
this section. The department shall grant a waiver to a dropout | 208 |
prevention and recovery program, within sixty days after the | 209 |
program applies for the waiver, if the program meets all of the | 210 |
following conditions: | 211 |
(1) The program serves only students not younger than sixteen | 212 |
years of age and not older than twenty-one years of age. | 213 |
(2) The program enrolls students who, at the time of their | 214 |
initial enrollment, either, or both, are at least one grade level | 215 |
behind their cohort age groups or experience crises that | 216 |
significantly interfere with their academic progress such that | 217 |
they are prevented from continuing their traditional programs. | 218 |
(3) The program requires students to attain at least the | 219 |
applicable score designated for each of the assessments prescribed | 220 |
under division (B)(1) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code or, | 221 |
to the extent prescribed by rule of the state board under division | 222 |
(D)(6) of section 3301.0712 of the Revised Code, division (B)(2) | 223 |
of that section. | 224 |
(4) The program develops an individual career plan for the | 225 |
student that specifies the student's matriculating to a two-year | 226 |
degree program, acquiring a business and industry credential, or | 227 |
entering an apprenticeship. | 228 |
(5) The program provides counseling and support for the | 229 |
student related to the plan developed under division (F)(4) of | 230 |
this section during the remainder of the student's high school | 231 |
experience. | 232 |
(6) The program requires the student and the student's | 233 |
parent, guardian, or custodian to sign and file, in accordance | 234 |
with procedural requirements stipulated by the program, a written | 235 |
statement asserting the parent's, guardian's, or custodian's | 236 |
consent to the student's graduating without completing the Ohio | 237 |
core curriculum and acknowledging that one consequence of not | 238 |
completing the Ohio core curriculum is ineligibility to enroll in | 239 |
most state universities in Ohio without further coursework. | 240 |
(7) Prior to receiving the waiver, the program has submitted | 241 |
to the department an instructional plan that demonstrates how the | 242 |
academic content standards adopted by the state board under | 243 |
section 3301.079 of the Revised Code will be taught and assessed. | 244 |
If the department does not act either to grant the waiver or | 245 |
to reject the program application for the waiver within sixty days | 246 |
as required under this section, the waiver shall be considered to | 247 |
be granted. | 248 |
(G) Every high school may permit students below the ninth | 249 |
grade to take advanced work. If a high school so permits, it shall | 250 |
award high school credit for successful completion of the advanced | 251 |
work and shall count such advanced work toward the graduation | 252 |
requirements of division (B) or (C) of this section if the | 253 |
advanced work was both: | 254 |
(1) Taught by a person who possesses a license or certificate | 255 |
issued under section 3301.071, 3319.22, or 3319.222 of the Revised | 256 |
Code that is valid for teaching high school; | 257 |
(2) Designated by the board of education of the city, local, | 258 |
or exempted village school district, the board of the cooperative | 259 |
education school district, or the governing authority of the | 260 |
chartered nonpublic school as meeting the high school curriculum | 261 |
requirements. | 262 |
Each high school shall record on the student's high school | 263 |
transcript all high school credit awarded under division (G) of | 264 |
this section. In addition, if the student completed a seventh- or | 265 |
eighth-grade fine arts course described in division (K) of this | 266 |
section and the course qualified for high school credit under that | 267 |
division, the high school shall record that course on the | 268 |
student's high school transcript. | 269 |
(H) The department shall make its individual academic career | 270 |
plan available through its Ohio career information system web site | 271 |
for districts and schools to use as a tool for communicating with | 272 |
and providing guidance to students and families in selecting high | 273 |
school courses. | 274 |
(I) Units earned in English language arts, mathematics, | 275 |
science, and social studies that are delivered through integrated | 276 |
academic and career-technical instruction are eligible to meet the | 277 |
graduation requirements of division (B) or (C) of this section. | 278 |
(J) The state board, in consultation with the chancellor, | 279 |
shall adopt a statewide plan implementing methods for students to | 280 |
earn units of high school credit based on a demonstration of | 281 |
subject area competency, instead of or in combination with | 282 |
completing hours of classroom instruction. The state board shall | 283 |
adopt the plan not later than March 31, 2009, and commence phasing | 284 |
in the plan during the 2009-2010 school year. The plan shall | 285 |
include a standard method for recording demonstrated proficiency | 286 |
on high school transcripts. Each school district and community | 287 |
school shall comply with the state board's plan adopted under this | 288 |
division and award units of high school credit in accordance with | 289 |
the plan. The state board may adopt existing methods for earning | 290 |
high school credit based on a demonstration of subject area | 291 |
competency as necessary prior to the 2009-2010 school year. | 292 |
(K) This division does not apply to students who qualify for | 293 |
graduation from high school under division (D) or (F) of this | 294 |
section, or to students pursuing a career-technical instructional | 295 |
track as determined by the school district board of education or | 296 |
the chartered nonpublic school's governing authority. | 297 |
Nevertheless, the general assembly encourages such students to | 298 |
consider enrolling in a fine arts course as an elective. | 299 |
Beginning with students who enter ninth grade for the first | 300 |
time on or after July 1, 2010, each student enrolled in a public | 301 |
or chartered nonpublic high school shall complete two semesters or | 302 |
the equivalent of fine arts to graduate from high school. The | 303 |
coursework may be completed in any of grades seven to twelve. Each | 304 |
student who completes a fine arts course in grade seven or eight | 305 |
may elect to count that course toward the five units of electives | 306 |
required for graduation under division (C)(8) of this section, if | 307 |
the course satisfied the requirements of division (G) of this | 308 |
section. In that case, the high school shall award the student | 309 |
high school credit for the course and count the course toward the | 310 |
five units required under division (C)(8) of this section. If the | 311 |
course in grade seven or eight did not satisfy the requirements of | 312 |
division (G) of this section, the high school shall not award the | 313 |
student high school credit for the course but shall count the | 314 |
course toward the two semesters or the equivalent of fine arts | 315 |
required by this division. | 316 |
(L) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this section, | 317 |
the board of education of each school district and the governing | 318 |
authority of each chartered nonpublic school may adopt a policy to | 319 |
excuse from the high school physical education requirement each | 320 |
student who, during high school, has participated in | 321 |
interscholastic athletics, marching band, a school-sponsored | 322 |
athletic club, or cheerleading for at least two full seasons or in | 323 |
the junior reserve officer training corps for at least two full | 324 |
school years. If the board or authority adopts such a policy, the | 325 |
board or authority shall not require the student to complete any | 326 |
physical education course as a condition to graduate. However, the | 327 |
student shall be required to complete one-half unit, consisting of | 328 |
at least sixty hours of instruction, in another course of study. | 329 |
In the case of a student who has participated in the junior | 330 |
reserve officer training corps for at least two full school years, | 331 |
credit received for that participation may be used to satisfy the | 332 |
requirement to complete one-half unit in another course of study. | 333 |
(M) It is important that high school students learn and | 334 |
understand United States history and the governments of both the | 335 |
United States and the state of Ohio. Therefore, beginning with | 336 |
students who enter ninth grade for the first time on or after July | 337 |
1, 2012, the study of American history and American government | 338 |
required by divisions (B)(6) and (C)(6) of this section shall | 339 |
include the study of all of the following documents: | 340 |
(1) The Declaration of Independence; | 341 |
(2) The Northwest Ordinance; | 342 |
(3) The Constitution of the United States with emphasis on | 343 |
the Bill of Rights; | 344 |
(4) The Ohio Constitution. | 345 |
The study of each of the documents prescribed in divisions | 346 |
(M)(1) to (4) of this section shall include study of that document | 347 |
in its original context. | 348 |
The study of American history and government required by | 349 |
divisions (B)(6) and (C)(6) of this section shall include the | 350 |
historical evidence of the role of documents such as the | 351 |
Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers to firmly | 352 |
establish the historical background leading to the establishment | 353 |
of the provisions of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. | 354 |
Section 2. That existing section 3313.603 of the Revised | 355 |
Code is hereby repealed. | 356 |