Utah Admin. Code R277-477-2 - Definitions
(1) "Approving entity" means a school
district board or a budget officer whom the school governing board appoints
consistent with Section
53G-7-1206.
(2) "Board plan approval meeting" means the
meeting when the LEA governing board approves a school plan for the upcoming
school year.
(3)
(a) "Charter trust land council" means a
council comprised of a two person majority of parents or grandparents of
students attending the charter school, elected by parents of students attending
the charter school, convened to act in lieu of the school community council for
the charter school.
(b) "Charter
trust land council" includes a charter school governing board if:
(i) the charter governing board meets the
two-parent majority requirement; and
(ii) the charter school governing board
chooses to serve as the charter trust land council.
(4) "Council" means a school
community council or a charter trust land council.
(5) "Council plan approval meeting" means the
meeting where a charter trust land council or school community council approves
the school plan for the upcoming school year.
(6) "Fall enrollment report" means the
audited census of students registered in Utah public schools as reported in the
audited October 1 Fall Enrollment Report of the previous year.
(7) "Funds" means School LAND Trust program
funding as defined in Section
53F-2-404.
(8) "Most critical academic need" means an
academic need, consistent with the core standards in Rule R277-700, identified
by a council through the annual review of schoolwide assessment data and other
relevant indicators.
(9) "Newly
opened charter school" means a charter school in its first two years of
operation.
(10) "Newly opened
satellite school" means a satellite school in its first two years of
operation.
(11) "Parent," for a
charter school, includes a grandparent of a student currently enrolled at the
school.
(12)
(a) "Principal" means an administrator
licensed as a principal in the state and employed in that capacity at a
school.
(b) "Principal" includes
the director of a charter school.
(13) "Satellite charter school" has the same
meaning as that term is defined in Section
R277-550-2.
(14) "Student" means a child in public school
grades kindergarten through 12 counted on the fall enrollment report of an
LEA.
(15) "Teacher and Student
Success Plan" or "TSSP" means the plan required of each school under Section
53G-7-1305.
(16) "Trust Distribution Account" means the
restricted account within the Uniform School Fund created under Subsection
53F-9-201(2).
(17) "UPEFS" means the Utah Public Education
Finance System.
(18) "Website"
means the School LAND Trust website.
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