Updated Operating Standards for the Education of Children with Disabilities now available

The updated Ohio Operating Standards for the Education of Children with Disabilities is now available in printed PDF format. 

*Note: OAC 3301-51-09 is currently in the rule revision process. Please refer to the current rule in effect until further notice.

The Department wants to ensure that educational agencies, parents, and others have access to the revised sections of the Operating Standards for the Education of Children with disabilities.  The 2023 Operating Standards Summary of Changes highlights the changes that were made in the last revision of the Operating Standards.  Below you will find the sections of the OAC and links to the Ohio Administrative Code.

  • Applicability of requirements and definitions (3301-51-01)
  • Free Appropriate Public Education (3301-51-02)
  • Child Find (3301-51-03)
  • Confidentiality (3301-51-04)
  • Procedural Safeguards (3301-51-05)
  • Evaluations (3301-51-06)
  • Individualized Education Program (IEP) (3301-51-07)
  • Parentally placed nonpublic school children (3301-51-08)
  • Delivery of services (3301-51-09)
  • Transportation (3301-51-10)
  • Providing instructional material to children with visual impairments and others with print disabilities that are listed for sale by publishers with the superintendent of public instruction (3301-51-21)