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Current through June, 2024
Rule No.3410
				Definitions
For all State Board of Education rules relating to
				  Alternative Structures, the term:
3410.1 "Act 46" means 2015 Acts and Resolves
				No. 46. "Act 153" means 2010 Acts and Resolves No. 153, as amended. "Act 156"
				means 2012 Acts and Resolves No 156, as amended. "Act 49" means 2017 Acts and
				Resolves No. 49 (H.513).
3410.2
				"Alternative Structure" is defined by Act 46, Sec. 5(c) as a supervisory union
				"composed of multiple member districts, each with its separate school board."
				Act 46, Sec. 10(a)(a)(2) contemplates that an Alternative Structure could be
				different from a Preferred Structure in some other way, "such as. a unified
				union school district with [an] average daily membership" of less than 900
				(which would probably be a member district of a larger supervisory union due to
				its small size).
3410.3 "ADM" has
				the same meaning as set forth for "average daily membership" in
				16 VSA §
											4001(1).
3410.4 "Goals" means the five statewide
				education goals identified in Sec. 2 of Act 46 that are the foundation of the
				legislation's governance provisions: "to encourage and support local decisions
				and actions that:
(1) provide substantial
				equity in the quality and variety of educational opportunities
				statewide;
(2) lead students to
				achieve or exceed the State's Education Quality Standards, adopted as rules by
				the State Board of Education at the direction of the General
				Assembly;
(3) maximize operational
				efficiencies through increased flexibility to manage, share, and transfer
				resources, with a goal of increasing the district-level ratio of students to
				full-time equivalent staff;
(4)
				promote transparency and accountability; and
(5) are delivered at a cost that parents,
				voters, and taxpayers value."
3410.5 "Preferred Structure" as defined in
				Act 46, Sec. 5(b) means a school district that is responsible for the education
				of its resident students in prekindergarten through grade 12, is its own
				supervisory district ( i.e., a single-district supervisory union) ( "SD"), has
				an ADM of at least 900 students, and is organized and operates according to one
				of the four most common structures as follows:
"
				(A) a district that operates a school or schools for
				all resident students in prekindergarten or kindergarten through grade
				12;
(B) a district that operates a
				school or schools for all resident students in prekindergarten or kindergarten
				through grade 8 and pays tuition for all resident students in grade 9 through
				grade 12;
(C) a district that
				operates a school or schools for all resident students in prekindergarten or
				kindergarten through grade 6 and pays tuition for all resident students in
				grade 7 through grade 12; or
(D) a
				district that operates no schools and pays tuition for all resident students in
				prekindergarten through grade 12."
3410.6 "Region" is not defined by current
				supervisory union boundaries, but nevertheless should be identified based on a
				common-sense view of districts in and outside the current supervisory union.
				Act 46, Sec. 9(a)(2) (Remaining Districts must "meet with the boards of one or
				more other districts. to discuss ways to promote improvement throughout the
				region. The districts do not need to be contiguous and do not need to be within
				the same supervisory union.")
3410.7 "Remaining District(s)" means a school
				district (or group of districts) that is subject to Act 46, Sec. 9 because it
				will not be in a Preferred Structure ( i.e., operating as its own SD with an
				ADM of at least 900) by July 1, 2019.
3410.8 "Statewide Plan" means the, statewide
				education governance plan that Act 46 requires the Secretary of Education to
				develop and issue as a proposal and the State Board of Education to issue in
				final, mandatory form pursuant to Secs. 8-10, and all incorporated
				sections.
3410.9 "Unified Union
				School District" or "UUSD" has the same meaning as in
				16 V.S.A. §
											722: a union school district that "provides
				for the education of resident prekindergarten-grade 12 students" by operating a
				school or schools for all grades, operating some grades and paying tuition for
				others, or paying tuition for all grades.