D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 5, r. 5-A2599
When used in this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed:
Direct Instruction - instruction provided by a home or hospital instructor either in-person or via real-time videotelephony.
Health condition - a physical or mental illness, injury, or impairment that prevents a student from participating in the day-to-day activities typically expected during school attendance.
Home or hospital instruction - academic instruction and support provided to a student participating in a home and hospital instruction program, which includes but is not limited to direct instruction.
Home and hospital instruction program - a program that provides instruction and support to students who cannot or for whom it is anticipated that they cannot attend in-school instruction, on a continuous, partial, or intermittent basis, from their school of enrollment for ten (10) or more consecutive or cumulative school days during a school year due to a health condition.
IDEA - the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, approved April 13, 1970 (84 Stat. 175; 20 U.S.C. §§ 1400et seq.), as amended, and its implementing regulations.
IEP - an individualized education program.
Individualized education program - a written plan that specifies special education programs and services to be provided to meet the unique educational needs of a child with a disability, as required under section 614(d) of IDEA (20 U.S.C. § 1414(d)).
In-school - instruction that takes place when the student is either physically present in the educational institution in which the student is enrolled or assigned by the student's LEA to attend, or when the student is receiving instruction remotely, excluding remote learning as part of a home or hospital instruction program pursuant to this chapter or in accordance with the IDEA.
LEA - local education agency, which as used herein includes the District of Columbia Public Schools and any individual or group of public charter schools operating under a single charter in the District of Columbia.
Parent - a parent, guardian, or other person who has custody or control of a student enrolled in a school or in an LEA, who is eighteen (18) years or older and for whom educational rights have transferred, or an emancipated minor.
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 5, r. 5-A2599