Illinois Administrative Code › Title 23 - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL RESOURCES › Part 130 - DETERMINING SPECIAL EDUCATION PER CAPITA TUITION CHARGE › Section 130.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Accounting Rules" - 23 Ill. Adm. Code 100 (Requirements for
				Accounting, Budgeting, Financial Reporting, and Auditing).
"Average Daily Attendance" - The number of full-time equivalent
				days a pupil is in attendance in a program divided by the number of days school
				is in session.
"Average Daily Enrollment" - For an individual pupil, the
				number of days a pupil is enrolled in a program divided by the number of days a
				program is in session, multiplied by the percentage of the school day the pupil
				participates in the program. For a program, the average daily enrollment is the
				total of the average daily enrollment figures for all students enrolled in
				it.
"Building" - For purposes of Section
				130.30(i)(1),
				a building is a fixed or portable structure owned by a school district or joint
				agreement that is necessary and used for the delivery of student instruction
				and related services on a regular basis. A building does not include
				warehouses; out buildings for vehicles, equipment or storage; or any other
				structure not used for student instruction.
"Classroom" - A defined physical space in a building where
				student instruction occurs on a regular basis. For purposes of Section
				130.30(i)(1),
				the number of classrooms cannot be increased due to a movable wall or
				partition. Classrooms shall not include offices, hallways, libraries, common
				areas or multipurpose rooms.
"Contractual Services" - Amounts paid for personal services
				rendered by personnel who are not on the school district's or joint agreement's
				payroll, and other services the school district or joint agreement may
				purchase. While a product may or may not result from the transaction, the
				primary reason for the purchase is the service provided in order to obtain the
				desired results.
"Days in Session" - The number of actual pupil attendance days
				reported on the final calendar for the school year.
"District Per Capita Tuition Charge" - District expenditures
				(including allowable depreciation) associated with providing education during
				the regular school term from local taxes and common school fund monies,
				calculated by deducting revenues for various State categorical programs as
				shown on the district's annual financial statement filed in accordance with
				Section 3-15.1 of the School Code, local user fees, and federal receipts, other
				than federal impaction aid, from the operating expense; then dividing the
				result by the annual average daily attendance of the district.
"Eligible Pupils" - All children with disabilities as defined
				in Sections 14-1.02 and 14-1.03a of the School Code and in 23 Ill. Adm. Code
				226 (Special Education).
"Equipment" - Tangible personal property (including information
				technology systems) having a useful life of more than one year and a per-unit
				acquisition cost that equals or exceeds the lesser of the capitalization level
				established by a district or joint agreement for financial statement purposes,
				or $5,000.
"Individualized Education Program" or "IEP" - Has the meaning
				ascribed in 23 Ill. Adm. Code 266.85.
"Local Education Agency" - A public educational agency at the
				local level that operates schools or contracts for educational services. This
				includes school districts, school districts providing services under a joint
				agreement pursuant to Section 10-22.31a of the School Code, educational service
				regions pursuant to Section 3A-1 of the School Code, educational (intermediate)
				service centers pursuant to Section 2-3.62 of the School Code and 23 Ill. Adm.
				Code 525 (Regional Offices of Education and Intermediate Services), public
				university laboratory schools pursuant to Section 18-8.05(K) of the School
				Code, governing boards formed pursuant to Section 10-22.31 or Section 3-15.14
				of the School Code, and charter schools authorized by the State Charter School
				Commission pursuant to Section 27A-7.5 of the School Code.
"Local Educational Facilities" - Buildings, including sites and
				site improvements, operated by a local education agency.
"Program" - For purposes of the reimbursement of claims under
				Sections 14-7.02b and 14-7.03 of the School Code, a combination of special
				education instructional services, supportive services, supplies, materials,
				physical plant adjustments, and other special educational facilities designated
				by a local education agency as meeting the common educational needs of a group
				of students with disabilities.
"School Code" - 105 ILCS 5.
"Special Education" - Those instructional programs, supportive
				services, supplies, materials, physical plant adjustments and other special
				educational facilities described in Article 14 of the School Code and 23 Ill.
				Adm. Code 226 that modify, supplement, support or are in place of the standard
				educational program of the public school, and that are needed to meet the needs
				of eligible pupils.
"Special Educational Facility and Services" - See Section
				14-1.08 of the School Code.
"Special Education Per Capita Cost" - The average expenditure
				per eligible pupil incurred by a local education agency in the implementation
				and maintenance of each special education program, computed by dividing the
				allowable program expenditures by the average daily enrollment of all eligible
				participating pupils in the manner prescribed in this Part.
"Special Education Pupil Transportation" - Those transportation
				services that are in addition to the regular pupil transportation services
				provided by the local education agency, and that are required and provided in
				accordance with the provisions of 23 Ill. Adm. Code 226.
"Special School" - An educational setting that is established
				by the local education agency or State agency exclusively to meet the needs of
				students with disabilities.
"Supplies" - Amounts paid for material items of an expendable
				nature that are consumed, worn out or deteriorated in use or items that lose
				their identity through fabrication or incorporation into different or more
				complex units or substances.
"Time in Special Education" - For purposes of the reimbursement
				of claims under Sections 14-7.02b and 14-7.03 of the School Code, the
				percentage that reflects the amount of time for which a pupil receives special
				education services under his or her IEP at the time of entry into the special
				education program as compared to the total amount of time in the pupil's
				regular instructional day. The instructional school day is not "bell to bell"
				and should omit passing periods, lunch and recess unless the pupil's IEP
				requires support during those times.
"Total Number of Pupils Enrolled" - The total enrollment of the
				local education agency for the school year, as reported to the State Board of
				Education as of the last school day in September.
"Total Number of Special Education Pupils Enrolled" - The total
				number of pupils reported to the State Board of Education as being enrolled in
				special education programs on December 1 of a particular year. For special
				education joint agreements and regional programs, this is the sum of all member
				districts' enrolled special education pupils as of December
				1.