Utah Admin. Code R277-100-2 - Definitions
(1) "Accreditation" means the formal process
for internal and external review and approval under the standards of an
accrediting entity adopted by the Board.
(2) "Agency" means:
(a) an entity governed by the
Board;
(b) an LEA; or
(c) a grant
sub-recipient.
(3)
"Board" means the 15 elected members of the State Board of Education.
(4) "Charter school" means a school
established as a charter school by a charter school authorizer under Title 53G,
Chapter 5, Charter Schools, and Board rule.
(5) "Comprehensive dropout intervention and
prevention program" means a program that:
(a)
addresses needs of students who are not succeeding in a traditional school
environment;
(b) provides targeted
instruction that increases student credit-earning rates toward graduation;
and
(c) partners with community
entities to provide a continuum of services with the focus of preparing
students for life after high school.
(6)
(a)
"Cumulative file" or "cumulative folder" means a physical or digital record
maintained by an LEA for each student containing, at a minimum, the following
information:
(i) evidence of the student's
legal name and date of birth;
(ii)
student demographic data, including race, ethnicity, and gender;
(iii) name and contact information for the
student's parents;
(iv) a record of
the student's courses, teachers, and grades or progress;
(v) a record of the student's performance on
statewide assessments;
(vi)
documentation concerning a student's eligibility for IDEA or 504
services;
(vii) a record of
suspensions and expulsions, in accordance with Subsection
53G-8-208(4)(a);
(viii) known allergies;
(ix) a record of vision and health screening
results; and
(x) a record of
required student immunizations; and
(xi) pertinent legal documents, including
protective orders, custody orders, and parenting or education
plans.
(b) "Cumulative
file" may include additional student information in accordance with an LEA's
policies.
(7) "District
school" means a public school under the control of a local school board elected
under Title 20A, Chapter 14, Nomination and Election of State and Local School
Boards.
(8) "Dual enrollment
student" means a student who:
(a) is enrolled
simultaneously in:
(i) a private school or
home school; and
(ii) a public
school; and
(b) is
counted by an LEA in membership for purposes of generating state or federal
funding for only those courses or subjects for which the LEA provides
instruction.
(9)
"Educator" means an individual licensed under Section
53E-6-201 and who meets the
requirements of Board rule.
(10)
"ESSA" or the "Every Student Succeeds Act" means the congressional act, which
reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which is found
at 20 U.S.C.
6301, et seq.
(11)
(a)
"Evaluate" or "review" means to observe and assess a program or set of
requirements with an objective of making recommendations, if appropriate, for
necessary changes or improvement.
(b) An "evaluation" or "review" may include
providing training and technical assistance on program-related matters and
performing on-site reviews of program operations.
(12)
(a)
"External audit" means an appraisal activity established under the direction of
an individual or entity outside of the subject agency to examine and evaluate
the adequacy and effectiveness of:
(i) agency
control systems;
(ii)
compliance;
(iii) performance;
and
(iv) financial
position.
(b) An external
audit is conducted in accordance with current professional and industry
technical standards, as applicable, for external audits.
(13)
(a)
"Home school student" means a student who:
(a)
attends a home school pursuant to Section
53G-6-204; and
(b) is not counted by an LEA in membership
for purposes of generating state or federal
funding.
(14)
"Individualized education program" or "IEP" means a written statement for a
student with a disability that is developed, reviewed, and revised in
accordance with Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
(IDEA), 20 U.S.C. Section
1400 (2004), and rule.
(15) "Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act" or "IDEA,"20 U.S.C.
Section 1400 et seq. (2004), is a four part
(A-D) piece of federal legislation that ensures a student with a disability is
provided with a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) that is tailored to
the student's individual needs.
(16)
(a)
"Internal audit" means an independent appraisal activity established within an
agency as a control system to examine and objectively evaluate the adequacy and
effectiveness of other internal control systems within the agency or the public
education system.
(b) An "internal
audit" is conducted in accordance with the current:
(i) International Standards for the
Professional Practice of Internal Auditing; or
(ii) Government Auditing Standards, issued by
the Comptroller General of the United States.
(17)
(a)
"LEA" or "local education agency" means a school district or charter
school.
(b) For purposes of certain
rules, "LEA" or "local education agency" may include the Utah Schools for the
Deaf and the Blind (USDB) if indicated in the specific
rule.
(18)
(a) "LEA governing board" or "local board"
means:
(i) for a school district, a local
school board; and
(ii) for a
charter school, a charter school governing board.
(b) For purposes of certain rules, "LEA
governing board" or "local board" may include the State Board of Education as
the governing board for the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind if
indicated in the specific rule.
(19)
(a)
"Monitor" means to formally supervise, inspect, or examine the compliance,
performance, or finances of a program or set of requirements.
(b) A monitoring program may include:
(i) review of financial and performance
reports required of the subject program;
(ii) follow-up to ensure the subject program
takes timely and appropriate actions to correct identified
deficiencies;
(iii) supervising
remedial action recommended by audit or monitoring findings or required by
Board rule; and
(iv) any function
performed in an evaluation or review.
(20)
(a)
"Multidisciplinary team" means a group of individuals from multiple disciplines
who meet to:
(i) pursue the common goal of
evaluating and triaging the academic, social, emotional, physical, and
behavioral needs of a student or group of students; and
(ii) create individualized strategies and
interventions to address identified needs.
(b) An LEA's multidisciplinary school team as
described in Subsection (20)(a) may include:
(i) administrative personnel;
(ii) a local law enforcement officer or
school resource officer;
(iii) a
mental health professional;
(iv) a
general education or special education teacher; and
(v) other community members as determined by
the LEA.
(21)
"Parent" means a parent or guardian who has established residency of a child
under Section
53G-6-302,
53G-6-303, or
53G-6-402, or another applicable
Utah guardianship provision.
(22)
"Plan for College and Career Readiness" or "SEOP" means a student education
occupation plan for college and career readiness that is a developmentally
organized intervention process that includes:
(a) a written plan, updated annually, for a
secondary student's (grades 7-12) education and occupational
preparation;
(b) all Board, local
board and local charter board graduation requirements;
(c) evidence of parent or guardian, student,
and school representative involvement annually;
(d) attainment of approved workplace skill
competencies, including job placement when appropriate; and
(e) identification of post secondary goals
and approved sequence of courses.
(23) "Preschool" means a school in which all
the students enrolled are pre-kindergarten.
(24)
(a)
"Private school student" means a student who:
(a) attends a private school; and
(b) is not counted by an LEA in membership
for purposes of generating state or federal
funding.
(25)
"Program" means an instructional environment that does not meet the criteria to
be classified as a school, as described in Subsection (27).
(26) "Public school student" means a student
who:
(a) attends an LEA governed public
school; and
(b) is counted by an
LEA in membership for purposes of generating state or federal
funding.
(27) "School"
means an instructional environment that:
(a)
is governed by an LEA board;
(b)
has an assigned administrator;
(c)
has enrolled students that generate average daily membership hours during the
school year;
(d) has assigned
instructional staff;
(e) provides
instruction in the Utah core standards;
(f) has one or more grade groups in the range
from kindergarten through grade 12; and
(g) is not a program for students enrolled in
another public school.
(28) "Social emotional learning" or "SEL"
means the process through which students acquire and effectively apply the
knowledge, attitude, and skills necessary to:
(a) understand and manage emotions;
(b) set and achieve positive goals;
(c) feel and show empathy for
others;
(d) establish and maintain
positive relationships;
(e) make
responsible decisions; and
(f)
self-advocate.
(29)
"Split enrollment student" means a student who is:
(a) regularly enrolled at two schools within
two LEAs at the same time;
(b)
eligible for graduation and other services at both schools; and
(c) subject to the split enrollment
requirements in Rule R277-419, counted by each LEA in membership for purposes
of generating state or federal funding for only those courses or subjects for
which each LEA provides instruction.
(30) "State Charter School Board" or "SCSB"
means the State Charter School Board created in Section
53G-5-201.
(31) "Student Threat assessment" means a
prevention strategy that involves:
(a)
identifying student threats including to commit a violent act,
(b) determining the seriousness of the
threat, and
(c) developing
intervention plans that protect potential victims and address the underlying
problem or conflict that stimulated the threatening
behavior.
(32)
"Superintendent" means the State Superintendent of Public Instruction or the
Superintendent's designee.
(33)
"Suspension" means:
(a) an in-school
suspension that is a temporary removal of a student from the student's regular
classroom for disciplinary reasons for at least half a school day but remains
under the direct supervision of school personnel; or
(b) an out-of-school suspension that is the
removal of a student from school grounds for disciplinary reasons unless the
student removed is:
(i) served solely under a
Section 504 plan, where an out-of-school suspension is the excluding of the
student from school for disciplinary purposes for one day or longer;
or
(ii) a student with disabilities
under IDEA, where an out-of-school suspension is the temporary removal of the
student from the student's regular school for disciplinary reasons to another
setting.
(34)
"Threat" means an expression of intent to harm someone that is direct,
indirect, or implied and may be spoken, written, or expressed in some other
way.
(35) "USDB" means the Utah
Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.
(36) "USIMS" or "Utah Schools Information
Management System" means a software system maintained by the Superintendent for
collecting, processing, providing oversight, and reporting on education data
for the state as required by Section
53E-3-518.
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