Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(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.
