206-8 Wyo. Code R. §§ 8-2 - Definitions

(a) "Acquired" means gained possession. Examples of acquire include, but are not limited to, lease agreement, purchase, or gift.

(b) "Actual site acreage" means the site acreage amount that appears on the actual land's title or deed. If the acreage amount does not appear on land's title or deed, actual site acreage is the amount reported by the School Facilities Division of the State Construction Department.

(c) "Case manager" means an individual working under a personal-services contract with a school district or Board of Cooperative Educational Services to provide general supervision of special education programs and services provided to children with disabilities.

(d) "Co-located school" means two (2) or more schools, each with its own unique identifier, that exist within the same school facility.

(e) "Combined school" means two (2) or more existing schools in a district that are joined together to form a single school as a result of one or more schools closing within a district.

(f) "Data correction" means corrections necessary to ensure funding model operation and current school year district payments are using the correct data supplied by school districts, other state agencies, and outside consultants to properly compute school foundation program payments to school districts as required by law.

(g) "Days of operation" means the term of operation for a school including pupil-teacher contact days and days used exclusively for registration, professional development, report card distribution, teacher/parent conferences, in-service programs, and similar activities.

(h) "Department" means the Wyoming Department of Education.

(i) "English language learner (ELL) student" means any student reported as primarily enrolled by a district on the October snapshot who has been identified as an ELL or former ELL in Year 1 or Year 2 monitor status in compliance with required identification criteria presented in a format specified by the Department.

(j) "Facility" means a standalone or combination of buildings owned or leased by the district that support the delivery of educational programs necessary to meet state accreditation standards and federal laws.

(k) "Format change" means any change to the funding model that results in a different appearance or layout and maintains the integrity and functionality of the funding model.

(l) "Foundation program report" means the accumulation and aggregation of student attendance and membership statistics, school district financial data, reimbursement claims, estimates, and other representations including, but not limited to, the following reports: the WISE Annual District Report, the WISE Attendance & Membership Report, the Foundation Program Funding Worksheet, the Annual Special Education Expenditure Report, the Annual Student Transportation Expenditure Report, the Vocational Education Student FTE Worksheet, Vocational Education Teacher FTE Worksheet, and the Annual District Budget.

(m) "Foundation program review" means the examination, analysis, testing, and verification of a school district's foundation program report and system of student accounting by the Department or its representative (whether on-site at the school district or in the form of a desk review at the offices of the Department) to confirm, verify, validate, and, if necessary, correct the student attendance and membership statistics, school district financial data, reimbursement claims, estimates, and other representations appearing in the district's foundation program report.

(n) "Free and reduced lunch (FRL) student" means any student reported as primarily enrolled by a district on the October snapshot who meets the eligibility requirements for the free and reduced priced lunch program established by 42 U.S.C. § 1751 et seq. regardless of the school's participation in the free and reduced priced lunch program.

(o) "Funding model" means the enumeration of components defined in "Attachment A" as referenced in W.S. 21-13-101(a)(xvii) and (c), including any technical and data corrections implemented in accordance with W.S. 21-2-202(e).

(p) "Membership" means the inclusion of an enrolled student in a school's student accounting records, whether the student is attending or absent on that day.

(q) "Mobile student" means any student reported as primarily enrolled in any grade six (6) through twelve (12) by a district on the annual Department spring accountability snapshot date where the student's school entry date falls after the October snapshot of the same school year.

(r) "National Board Certification" means advanced teaching credentials awarded through the National Board Certified Teacher program by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

(s) "New school" means a school that is assigned a unique identification number from the Department for reporting purposes and is funded as a first-year school in the funding model.

(t) "Part-time student" means a student that is enrolled in fewer daily hours or periods than normally scheduled in the school they are enrolled.

(u) "Reconfigured school" means a school in which grades served has been changed from the previous school year.

(v) "Replacement school" means a school in which a new building has been constructed and is used in place of a previously existing school with the same grade configuration.

(w) "School day" means the starting time of a pupil-teacher contact day to the ending time of a pupil-teacher contact day as established by school district board of trustee policy.

(x) "School Facilities Division (SFD)" means the School Facilities Division of the State Construction Department.

(y) "Site" means a parcel of land that has been acquired by a district, and is identified by the SFD by a site identification number.

(z) "State Board" means the Wyoming State Board of Education.

(aa) "Student accounting" means the process of enrolling students, taking attendance, appropriately withdrawing students and removing them from student accounting records, and maintaining accurate and verifiable computer-based records within the student information system for the purpose of uniform and timely reporting of student attendance and membership statistics at each school district's school.

(bb) "Technical correction" means a correction necessary to ensure funding model operation and current school year district payments are in accordance with law and the funding model is properly computing school foundation program payments to school districts as required by law.

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206-8 Wyo. Code R. §§ 8-2

Amended, Eff. 5/2/2018. Amended, Eff. 12/21/2018.