Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF › Title 92 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › Chapter 18 - INTERIM-PROGRAM SCHOOLS IN COUNTY DETENTION HOMES, INSTITUTIONS, AND JUVENILE EMERGENCY SHELTERS › Section 92-18-002 - Definitions

Current through June 17, 2024
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.