New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 8 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT › Chapter II - Regulations of the Commissioner › Subchapter I - Scholarships and Grants › Part 151 - Apportionment for Prekindergarten Programs › Subpart 151-2 - Experimental Prekindergarten Programs › Section 151-2.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
As used in this Subpart:
(a) Developmentally appropriate means early
					 childhood activities that demonstrate awareness of and sensitivity to the
					 stages of each child's intellectual, physical, cultural, emotional, and social
					 development.
(b) Economically
					 disadvantaged child means a child whose family is eligible for some form of
					 assistance such as Aid to Families of Dependent Children, free or reduced price
					 school lunch, food stamps, Medicaid, unemployment compensation, or disability
					 compensation.
(c) Learning center
					 means a designated area in the prekindergarten classroom designed for specific
					 kinds of activities.
(d) Local
					 early childhood community coordination committee means a group of individuals
					 including parents, representatives from other agencies which serve the families
					 of young children, policymakers, and personnel from local colleges and
					 universities.
(e) Parent means a
					 parent, a legal guardian or another person in parental relation to a
					 prekindergarten child.
(f) Parent
					 advisory committee means a group of parents, representative of the population
					 served that meets at least four times a year with the prekindergarten staff to
					 discuss concerns and issues pertaining to the education of prekindergarten
					 children enrolled in the program and to make recommendations for improving the
					 quality of life for these families.
(g) Prekindergarten children means children
					 who will be four years of age on or before December 1st of the current school
					 year, or who will otherwise be first eligible to enter public school
					 kindergarten commencing with the following school year, or who attend a program
					 for which an application to serve any three or four year olds has been
					 approved. Applications for funding to serve any three or four year olds may be
					 submitted by districts which will be reviewed for approval based upon the
					 demonstrated ability of the district to serve interested and eligible four year
					 olds.
(h) Prekindergarten program
					 means an early childhood program which provides activities for prekindergarten
					 children for not less than 12 hours per week and not less than two and a half
					 hours per day that meets the developmental needs of the children.
(i) School district shall mean either a
					 school district or a Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) acting
					 on behalf of more than one school district.
(j) School year means the period commencing
					 on the 1st day of July in each year and ending on the 30th day of June next
					 following.
(k) Base year means the
					 school year prior to the school year for which a grant is paid pursuant to this
					 Subpart.
(l) Educationally deprived
					 child means a prekindergarten child whose educational attainment on a screening
					 device approved by the department is below the level appropriate to such
					 child's age.
The amended version of this section by
						New
						York State Register July 28, 2021/Volume XLIII, Issue 30, eff.
						7/28/2021 is not yet
						available.