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History of SST
Ohio’s House Bill 115, effective July 1, 2007, mandated that one system be
developed to support state and school district efforts in improving school
effectiveness and student achievement. The intent was to coordinate,
integrate and align school improvement support and “reduce the unnecessary
duplication of programs and services and provide for a more streamlined and
efficient delivery of educational services without reducing the availability of
the services needed by school districts and schools.”
To implement HB 115 the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) developed 16 regions
across the state with each region responsible to support the school improvement
efforts within that region. Each region was to create a State Support Team
(SST), which would be responsible to assist school districts in their region to
coordinate, integrate and align the school improvement efforts within the
following areas:
- The academic performance of all students;
- Compliance with Federal and state requirements for improving
results of students with disabilities and students at risk of being identified
as disabled;
- Early learning and school readiness;
- Literacy; and
- Deployment of other state educational initiatives.
Summit County ESC was named fiscal agent of Region 8, which consists of Summit,
Portage and Medina counties. The members of the State Support Team include the
former Regional School Improvement Facilitators (RSIT) and the former MEO-SERRC
staff. Supplemental support for SST is also provided by each ESC.