Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 581 - OREGON DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › Division 24 - STANDARDS FOR EDUCATION SERVICE DISTRICTS › Section 581-024-0205 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
The following definitions apply to OAR 581-024-0191 through
				581-024-0310 unless otherwise indicated by context.
(1) "ADM": means the "ADM" means the average
			 daily membership as defined in ORS
			 327.006.
(2) "Annual Report": a comprehensive document
			 Submitted to the Department as required by OAR 581-024-0208 and
			 581-024-0226.
(3) "Board": State
			 Board of Education.
(4) "Component"
			 or "component school district": a school district whose administrative office
			 is within the boundaries of the district.
(5) "Core services": major categories of
			 services that districts must provide that include services for children with
			 special needs, technology support, school improvement, and administrative and
			 support. Other services may be provided if approved in a Local Service
			 Plan.
(6) "Core service goals:" The
			 goals of a district in providing core services are to: improve student
			 learning; enhance the quality of instruction; provide professional development
			 to component school district employees; provide students equitable access to
			 resources; and maximize operational and fiscal efficiencies for component
			 school districts.
(7) "Department":
			 Oregon Department of Education.
(8)
			 "District": an education service district.
(9) "District Board": an education service
			 district board.
(10) "ESD": an
			 education service district as defined in ORS
			 334.003.
(11) "Entrepreneurial Services": services and
			 facilities provided by an ESD to noncomponent school districts, other public
			 entities, non profit or private entities pursuant to conditions cited in ORS
			 334.185. The ESD provides the
			 services or facilities with a motivation to provide services or facilities that
			 are expected to result in benefits to the ESD and its component school
			 districts. The benefits may be monetary, increased provision of service
			 delivery to component school districts, intellectual property, or some other
			 benefit. The term "entrepreneurial" does not apply to services an ESD is
			 providing to the State of Oregon, or services provided on a cost-recovery
			 basis.
(12) "Local service Plan":
			 the plan developed and adopted by the district pursuant to ORS
			 334.175 and OAR
			 581-024-0285.
(13) "Noncomponent":
			 a school district whose administrative office is outside the boundaries of the
			 education service district.
(14)
			 "Nonstandard district": a district that has not met the provisions of division
			 024 of chapter 581 of Oregon Administrative Rules, Chapter 334 of Oregon
			 Revised Statutes, or other applicable rules and statutes to which districts are
			 required to comply.
(15)
			 "Performance measures": procedures designed and administered by a district to
			 determine component school districts' satisfaction with the quality of ESD
			 services they receive. The performance measures are to be published by the
			 District in the Local Service Plan.
(16) "Public Entity": a unit of local, state,
			 or federal government.
(17)
			 "Private entity": not a unit of local, state, or federal government and
			 includes, but is not limited to, not-for-profit or business
			 organizations.
(18) "School
			 Improvement Fund": means the fund established in ORS
			 327.294.
(19) "Sexual orientation": means an
			 individual's actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality or
			 gender identity, regardless of whether the individual's gender identity,
			 appearance, expression or behavior differs from that traditionally associated
			 with the individual's sex at birth.
(20) "Standard District": a district having
			 met the provisions of division 024 of chapter 581 of Oregon Administrative
			 Rules, Chapter 334 of Oregon Revised Statutes, and other applicable rules and
			 statutes to which ESDs are required to comply.
(21) "Superintendent": State Superintendent
			 of Public Instruction.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 334
Stats. Implemented: ORS
				  334.125