In AS 14.09 and this chapter, unless the context requires
otherwise,
(1) "activity bus" means a
bus owned, leased, or contracted by a district and regularly used to transport
pupils on field trips, athletic trips, and extracurricular and other
non-instructional activities;
(2)
"attendance center" means the neighborhood school within a district to which a
pupil is to be transported for educational purposes;
(3) "bus route" or "route"
(A) means the shortest distance necessary to
transport a given group of pupils from a pickup point nearest their homes to
their attendance center and back;
(B) does not include the distance from where
a transportation vehicle is garaged to the start of its route;
(4) "commissioner" means the
commissioner of education and early development or the commissioner's
designee;
(5) "duplicate mileage"
means any portion of a route that travels both directions on the same street or
roadway;
(6) "eligible expenditure"
(A) means only a cost associated with
operating the basic to- and from-school transportation services;
(B) includes direct administrative and staff
salaries and benefits, contracted services, supplies, and equipment;
(7) "IEP" means an individualized
education program as set out in
AS
14.30.278 and
4
AAC 52.140;
(8) "optional equipment" means any equipment
not required in the most current edition of the minimum standards for Alaska
school buses adopted by reference under
4
AAC 27.110;
(9) "pupil" means a person eligible under the
laws of this state for free public education and who is attending
school;
(10) "school bus" means a
type of bus specially designed and manufactured for the transporting of pupils
to and from school and school events;
(11) "school district" or "district" includes
borough and city school districts and regional educational attendance
areas;
(12) "spare buses" means
those buses used by a district for to- and from-school transportation services
in the event of a mechanical failure in the primary bus fleet;
(13) "to- and from-school transportation
services" means transporting a pupil from the pupil's pick up point to and from
school on regular scheduled school days.
