Pennsylvania Code › Title 22 - EDUCATION › Part XXI - Interstate Compacts › Chapter 721 - INTERSTATE COMPACT ON EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR MILITARY CHILDREN › Article II - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires
				  a different construction:
A. "Active
				duty" means: full-time duty status in the active uniformed service of the
				United States, including members of the National Guard and Reserve on active
				duty orders pursuant to 10
				U.S.C. Section 12301 et seq. and 12401 et
				seq.
B. "Children of military
				families" means: a school-aged child(ren), enrolled in Kindergarten through
				Twelfth (12th) grade, normally residing in the household of an active duty
				member.
C. "Compact commissioner"
				means: the voting representative of each compacting state appointed pursuant to
				Article VIII of this compact.
D.
				"Deployment" means: the period one (1) month prior to the service members'
				departure from their home station on military orders through six (6) months
				after return to their home station.
E. "Education(al) records" means: those
				official records, files, and data directly related to a student and maintained
				by the school or local education agency, including, but not limited to, records
				encompassing all the material kept in the student's cumulative folder such as
				general identifying data, records of attendance and of academic work completed,
				records of achievement and results of evaluative tests, health data,
				disciplinary status, test protocols, and individualized education
				programs.
F. "Extracurricular
				activities" means: a voluntary activity sponsored by the school or local
				education agency or an organization sanctioned by the local education agency.
				Extracurricular activities include, but are not limited to, preparation for and
				involvement in public performances, contests, athletic competitions,
				demonstrations, displays, and club activities.
G. "Interstate Commission on Educational
				Opportunity for Military Children" means: the commission that is created under
				Article IX of this compact, which is generally referred to as Interstate
				Commission.
H. "Local education
				agency" means: a public authority legally constituted by the state as an
				administrative agency to provide control of and direction for Kindergarten
				through Twelfth (12th) grade public educational institutions.
I. "Member state" means: a state that has
				enacted this compact.
J. "Military
				installation" means: a base, camp, post, station, yard, center, homeport
				facility for any ship, or other activity under the jurisdiction of the
				Department of Defense, including any leased facility, which is located within
				any of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto
				Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas
				Islands and any other U.S. Territory. Such term does not include any facility
				used primarily for civil works, rivers and harbors projects, or flood control
				projects.
K. "Non-member state"
				means: a state that has not enacted this compact.
L. "Receiving state" means: the state to
				which a child of a military family is sent, brought, or caused to be sent or
				brought.
M. "Rule" means: a written
				statement by the Interstate Commission promulgated pursuant to Article XII of
				this compact that is of general applicability, implements, interprets or
				prescribes a policy or provision of the compact, or an organizational,
				procedural, or practice requirement of the Interstate Commission, and has the
				force and effect of statutory law in a member state, and includes the
				amendment, repeal, or suspension of an existing rule.
N. "Sending state" means: the state from
				which a child of a military family is sent, brought, or caused to be sent or
				brought.
O. "State" means: a state
				of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto
				Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas
				Islands and any other U.S. Territory.
P. "Student" means: the child of a military
				family for whom the local education agency receives public funding and who is
				formally enrolled in Kindergarten through Twelfth (12th) grade.
Q. "Transition" means: 1) the formal and
				physical process of transferring from school to school or 2) the period of time
				in which a student moves from one school in the sending state to another school
				in the receiving state.
R.
				"Uniformed service(s)" means: the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast
				Guard as well as the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
				Administration, and Public Health Services.
S. "Veteran" means: a person who served in
				the uniformed services and who was discharged or released therefrom under
				conditions other than dishonorable.