92 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 18, § 002

Current through September 17, 2024
Section 92-18-002 - Definitions

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.

92 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 18, § 002