Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 210 - State Department of Education › Chapter 10 - School Administration and Instructional Services › Subchapter 9 - Lifelong Learning › Section 210:10-9-1 - General provisions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a)
Purpose.
The rules of this subchapter have been adopted for the
				purpose of establishing standards, guidelines, allocation of funds, development
				of projects and applications, and the implementation of Adult Education and
				Literacy, Workplace Literacy, English Literacy, and Integrated English
				Literacy/Civics. These projects provide educational programs to educationally
				disadvantaged adults and community needs.
(b)
Definitions.
The following
				words and terms, when used in this Subchapter, shall have the following meaning
				unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1)
"Act"
means the Adult
				Education and Family Literacy Act, Title II of the Workforce Investment Act of
				1998 ( P.L.
				105-330 ).
(2)
"Adult"
means an individual
				who has attained 16 years of age or who is beyond the age of compulsory school
				attendance under State law who is not enrolled in secondary school; who lacks
				sufficient mastery of basic educational skills to enable him/her to function
				effectively in society or who does not have a secondary school diploma or its
				recognized equivalent and who has not achieved an equivalent level of
				education; and whose lack of mastery of basic skills results in an inability to
				speak, read, or write the English language.
(3)
"Adult education"
means
				services or instruction below the college level for educationally disadvantaged
				adults.
(4)
"Adult education
				program"
means a local education agency, postsecondary institution,
				community-based organization, corrections education agency or faith-based
				organization responsible for locally administering the Adult Education and
				Family Literacy Act grant.
(5)
"Community-based organization" (CBO)
means a private nonprofit
				organization which is representative of a community or significant segments of
				a community and which provides education, vocational education or
				rehabilitation, job training, or internship services and programs and includes
				neighborhood groups and organizations, community action agencies, community
				development corporations, union related organizations, employer-related
				organizations, tribal governments, and organizations serving Native Alaskans
				and Indians. The term 'private industry council' means the private industry
				council established under section 102 of the Job Training Partnership
				Act.
(6)
"Cooperative"
means that the board of education of two or more school districts may enter
				into cooperative agreements and maintain joint programs including but not
				limited to, courses of instruction for handicapped children, courses of
				instruction in music and other subjects, practical instruction for trades and
				vocations, practical instruction in driver training courses, and health
				programs including visual care by persons legally licensed for such purpose,
				without favoritism as to either profession.
(7)
"Disadvantaged Adult"
means
				an adult who demonstrates basic skills equivalent to or below that of students
				at the fifth grade level.
(8)
"General Educational Development" (GED)
means a high school
				equivalency credential.
(9)
"Local educational agency" (LEA)
means a public board of education
				or other public authority legally constituted within elementary or secondary
				schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political
				subdivision of a state, or such combination of school districts or counties as
				are recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public elementary
				or secondary schools, except that, if there is a separate board of other
				legally constituted local authority having administrative control and direction
				of adult education in public schools therein, such term means such other board
				or authority.
(10)
"State
				educational agency" (SEA)
means the Oklahoma State Department of
				Education.