Utah Admin. Code R277-708-2 - Definitions
(1) "At-risk of academic failure " means a
k-12 public school student who meets an LEA governing board 's approved
definition of at-risk of academic failure .
(2) "Available funds " means the total funds
appropriated for the Enhancement for At-Risk Students interventions, less
funding designated for gang prevention under Subsection
53F-2-410(1)(b)(i).
(3) "Chronic absenteeism " means the number of
students within an LEA who:
(a) were enrolled
in the LEA 60 calendar days or more; and
(b) missed 10% or more days of instruction,
whether the absence was excused or not.
(5) "Homelessness " means the number of
students within an LEA identified as homeless youth .
(6) "LEA governing board " means:
(a) a charter school governing board;
or
(b) a district's local school
board.
(7) "LEA share "
means the percentage of k-12 students from an LEA who are at risk of academic
failure compared to the total count for the state of Utah from the previous
school year.
(8) "Limited English
Proficiency " or "LEP " means the total number of English learner or "EL"
students in an LEA from the October 1 count from the previous school year who
received a score of 1-4 on the English language proficiency
assessment.
(9) "Low performance on
a statewide assessment " means the unduplicated count of k-12 students from an
LEA scoring below proficient in Reading/Language, Math, and Science on a
statewide assessment from the previous school year.
(10) "Mobility " means the number of k-12
students enrolled less than 160 days or its equivalent in one school within a
school year, as determined by the prior year's year-end average daily
membership submission.
(11)
"Poverty " means the total number of k-12 students in an LEA reported as
economically disadvantaged using federal child nutrition income eligibility
guidelines for free or reduced-priced under the federal school lunch program
from the official October 1 enrollment count from the previous school
year.
(13) "Truancy " or "truant student " means a
student absent without a valid excuse .
(14) "UTREx System " means the electronic data
collection system used by the Superintendent to collect information required by
law from LEAs about individual students at certain points throughout the school
year to support the allocation of funds and accountability reporting.
(15) "Valid excuse " means the same as that
term is defined in Section
53G-6-201.
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