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This federal law, enacted in 1993, grants eligible employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave for family and medical reasons
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
In Oregon, school districts must provide transportation to students living more than this distance from their assigned school.
What is 1.5 miles?
An educator who is in their first three years of employment with a school district. During this period, the teacher is essentially working under a trial status to demonstrate their effectiveness and fit within the district
What is a probationary teacher?
Public, semi-public, and non-public.
What are forums?
Federal law passed in the 1970s requiring that special education students be educated in the "least restrictive environment."
What is the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA)?
The type of leave provided under OFLA that allows time off to care for an ill or injured child who does not have a serious health condition.
What is What is "sick child leave"?
Oregon Revised Statutes mandate that school bus drivers undergo this process annually to ensure they meet safety and performance standards
What is a physical examination and certification?
A licensed school administrator employed by a school district under a written contract, usually a superintendent or other high-level administrator.
What is a Contract Administrator?
In this landmark 1969 Supreme Court case, students wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam War, and the Court ruled they didn’t lose their free speech rights at the schoolhouse gate
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
Current iteration of Federal law that protects students with disabilities.
What is IDEA?
Under OFLA, employees are eligible for family leave after working this many hours in the previous year.
What is 180 hours?
Under Oregon law, schools can install video cameras on buses for safety and monitoring purposes, but they must comply with this federal law protecting student privacy.
What is FERPA?
The standard length for a teacher contract in Oregon
What is two years?
Supreme Court case limiting Tinker in cases in which student speech is vulgar and/or disruptive.
What is Bethel School District v. Fraser?
It describes the child, sets measurable educational and functional goals, and establishes the level of services that the district must provide to attain those goals
What is an IEP?
OFLA and FMLA cover leave for this family member’s serious health condition, but PLO expands coverage to include leave for situations related to this additional life event.
What is domestic violence, harassment, sexual assault, or stalking?
Under Oregon's McKinney-Vento policy, school districts must provide transportation to this specific group of students, even if they live outside the district boundaries
What are homeless students?
The panel that handles disputed dismissals of teachers and administrators.
What is FDAB?
The Supreme Court upheld the suspension of a student in Bethel School District v. Fraser (1986) for giving a speech at a school assembly containing this kind of language
What is lewd, vulgar, or offensive language?
This law protects students with disabilities from discrimination in any school receiving federal funds
What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
As of July 2024, OFLA no longer covers
What is family leave, serious health conditions (now covered by PLO), and concurrent leave with PLO?
The minimum hearing level for a bus driver to become certified in Oregon
What is perceives a forced whispered voice in the better ear not less than five feet without the use of a hearing aid?
What every district Oregon except PPS and Salem-Keizer must do before moving forward with a termination
What is contact PACE?
In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in Morse v. Frederick that schools could restrict student speech promoting this activity, even at off-campus events.
What is illegal drug use?
This law ensures students with disabilities have equal access to extracurricular activities and prohibits barriers in school buildings.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?