Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF
Title 92 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Chapter 18 - INTERIM-PROGRAM SCHOOLS IN COUNTY DETENTION HOMES, INSTITUTIONS, AND JUVENILE EMERGENCY SHELTERS
Section 92-18-002 - Definitions
Current through March 20, 2024
As used in this Chapter:
002.01 Academic Advancement Plan
Academic Advancement Plan means an individualized student plan of expected academic achievement in regular education that permits students to earn credit or to make academic advancement toward grade level promotion or graduation, and that is created for each student by the Interim-program school in consultation with the approved or accredited school to which the student in temporary residence shall return or transfer.
002.02 Board
Board means the State Board of Education.
002.03 Commissioner
Commissioner means the State Commissioner of Education.
002.04 Compulsory Attendance
Except as provided in 79-202 R.R.S., every person residing in a school district within the State of Nebraska who has legal or actual charge or control of any child not less than seven years of age and not more than sixteen years of age shall cause such child to attend regularly the public, private, denominational, or parochial day schools which meet the requirements for legal operation prescribed in Chapter 79 each day that such schools are open and in session, except when excused by school authorities, unless such child has graduated from high school.
002.05 County Detention Home
County Detention Home means a detention home in connection with the juvenile courts of this state established and maintained by the county boards of the counties of Nebraska pursuant to 43-2,110 R.R.S. that provides regular or special education services with a special education rate approved by the Department.
002.06 Course
Course means a particular subject, subject area, or defined sequence of learning experiences scheduled during a school day with a certificated teacher assigned and with one or more students enrolled and in attendance
002.07 Credit
Credit means a statement of the academic worth of a successfully completed course as a measure of student achievement or accomplishment of state and/or district content standards leading to promotion from one grade to the next or to graduation.
002.08 Department
Department means the State Department of Education, which is comprised of the Board and the Commissioner.
002.09 Elementary Grades
Elementary Grades means those grades designated by the school as elementary but not to include any above grade eight.
002.10 Enroll
Enroll shall mean admitting, allowing to attend and providing services of the school to a person.
002.11 Governing Body
Governing Body means a board or individual elected or appointed to provide direction to an Interim-program school. In the case of a sole proprietorship, the governing body shall mean the owner.
002.12 High School Grades
High School Grades means grades 9 through 12 in a school with a four-year high school and grades 10 through 12 in a school with a three- year high school.
002.13 Institution
Institution shall mean any public or private facility, not owned or operated by a public school district, that provides a residential program and regular or special education services with a special education rate approved by the Department.
002.14 Integrated Course or Curriculum
Integrated Course or Curriculum means a course or curriculum that is organized by concepts, themes, or ideas and includes content from two or more subjects or fields.
002.15 Interim-program School
Interim-program School means those schools located in or operated by county detention homes (as defined in Subsection 002.05), institutions (as defined in Subsection 002.13), or juvenile emergency shelters (as defined in Subsection 002.16).
002.16 Juvenile Emergency Shelter
Juvenile Emergency Shelter means a facility which provides temporary twenty-four-hour physical care and supervision in crisis situations and at times when an appropriate foster care resource is not available to persons eighteen years of age and younger for which a municipal corporation has contracted pursuant to 13-317 R.R.S. and which shelter also provides regular or special education services with a special education rate approved by the Department.
002.17 Minimum Curriculum
Minimum Curriculum means a curriculum that includes language arts, social science, science, and mathematics. Interim-program schools may also provide, in addition, vocational education, computer education, foreign language, visual and performing arts, and personal health and physical fitness.
002.18 School
School means an individual attendance area or center that provides either elementary or secondary education.
002.19 School Day
School Day means those days, Monday through Friday, within the full twelve month calendar year that are designated in the Interim-program school annual calendar as devoted to the instructional program of the interim-program school.
002.20 School Liaison
School Liaison means a person having a Bachelors Degree who is assigned to carry out the duties described in Subsections 004.02F1 and 004.02F2.
002.21 Secondary Grades
Secondary Grades means those grades designated by the school as secondary, but not to include any below grade seven.
002.22 Student or pupil
Student or pupil means all persons (including children, emancipated minors, and adults) between the ages of five and twenty-one who have not completed high school or earned a General Equivalency Diploma (GED).
002.23 Teach
Teach as defined in Section 79-101 R.R.S. means and includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities: The organization and management of the classroom or the physical area in which the learning experiences of pupils take place; the assessment and diagnosis of the individual educational needs of the pupils; the planning, selection, organizing, prescribing, and directing of the learning experiences of pupils; the planning of teaching strategies and the selection of available materials and equipment to be used; and the evaluation and reporting of student progress.
