Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(1) "Arts
organization" means a professional artistic organization that provides an
educational service related to dance, music, drama, art, visual art, or media
art in the state.
(2) "City" has
the same meaning as that term is defined in Subsection
10-1-104(1).
(3) "Community" means the group of persons
that have an interest or involvement in the education of a person in
kindergarten through grade 12, including:
(a)
a student, parent, teacher, and administrator; and
(b) an association or council that represents
a person described in Subsection (2)(a).
(4) "Core standard" means a standard:
(a) established by the Board in Rule R277-700
as required by Section
53E-3-501;
and
(b) that defines the knowledge
and skills a student should have in kindergarten through grade 12 to enable a
student to be prepared for college or workforce training.
(5) "Cost effectiveness" means:
(a) maximization of the educational potential
of the resources available through the organization; and
(b) not using money received through a
program for the necessary maintenance and operational costs of the
organization.
(6)
(a) "Educational service" means an in-depth
instructional workshop, demonstration, presentation, performance, residency,
tour, exhibit, teacher professional development, side-by-side mentoring, or
hands-on activity that:
(i) relates to an
arts or science core standard;
(ii)
except as provided in Subsection (6)(b), takes place in a public school,
charter school, professional venue, or a facility;
(b) "Educational service" may include a
distance experience that is provided from a remote location if done in addition
to the requirements of Subsection (6)(a) .
(7) "Educational soundness" means an
educational service that:
(a) is designed for
the community and grade level being served, including a suggested preparatory
activity and a follow-up activity that are relevant to a core
standard;
(b) features literal
interaction of a student or teacher with an artist or scientist;
(c) focuses on a specific core standard;
and
(d) shows continuous
improvement guided by analysis of an evaluative tool.
(8) "Fiscal agent" means a city that:
(a) is designated by an organization as
described in Subsection
R277-444-4(5);
and
(b) acts on behalf of an
organization to perform financial or compliance duties.
(9) "Hands-on activity" means an activity
that includes active involvement of a student with an artist or scientist,
ideally with material provided by the organization.
(10) "Informal Science Education Enhancement
program" or "iSEE program" means a program described in Section
R277-444-7
for which a science organization may apply to receive money appropriated by the
state.
(11) "Organization" means:
(a) a nonprofit corporation organized under:
(i) Title 16, Chapter 6a, Utah Revised
Nonprofit Corporation Act; or
(ii)
Section 501(c)(3), Internal Revenue Code; and
(b)
(i) an
arts organization; or
(ii) a science
organization.
(12) "Procedural efficiency" means the
organization delivers the educational service at the lowest cost
possible.
(13) "Professional
excellence" means the organization:
(a) has
been juried or reviewed, based on criteria for artistic or scientific
excellence, by a panel of recognized and qualified critics in the appropriate
discipline;
(b) has received a
recognition of excellence through an award, a prize, a grant, a commission, or
an invitation to participate in a recognized series of presentations in a
well-known venue;
(c) includes a
recognized and qualified professional in the appropriate discipline who has
created an artistic or scientific project or composition specifically for the
organization to present; or
(d) any
combination of criteria described in Subsections (13)(a) through (c).
(14) "Professional outreach
programs in the schools program" or "POPS program" means a program described in
Section
R277-444-7
for which an arts organization may apply to receive money appropriated by the
state.
(15)
(a) "Program" means the system through which
the Board grants money appropriated by the state to an organization to enable
the organization to provide its expertise and resources through an educational
service in the teaching of a core standard.
(b) "Program" includes:
(i) the Provisional program;
(ii) the POPS program;
(iii) the iSEE program;
(iv) the Integrated Student ; and
(v) the Subsidy program.
(16) "Science organization" means
a professional science organization that provides a science-related educational
service in the state.
