Section effective until July 1, 2022.

1. (1) furnish continuing advice and technical assistance in implementing the recommendations of the State Board of Education;
2. (2) declare a state of emergency in the school and replace the school's principal; or
3. (3) declare a state of emergency in the school and assume management of the school.

If the recommendations approved by the state board, the district's plan, or the school's revised plan are not satisfactorily implemented by the school rated school/district at-risk and its school district according to the time line developed by the State Board of Education or if student academic performance has not met expected progress, the principal, district superintendent, and members of the board of trustees must appear before the State Board of Education to outline the reasons why a state of emergency should not be declared in the school. The state superintendent, after consulting with the external review committee and with the approval of the State Board of Education, shall be granted the authority to take any of the following actions:

HISTORY: 1998 Act No. 400, Section 2; 2008 Act No. 282, Section 1, eff June 5, 2008.

Editor's Note

2021 Act No. 44, Sections 2, 3, provide as follows:

"SECTION 2. Article 15, Chapter 18, Title 59 of the 1976 Code is repealed.

"SECTION 3. This act takes effect on July 1, 2022, upon approval by the Governor."

Effect of Amendment

The 2008 amendment in the first sentence substituted "school/district at-risk" for "unsatisfactory".