Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Public Instruction › Chapter PI 49 - Special Needs Scholarship Program › Section PI 49.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1)
			 "4-year-old kindergarten outreach activities" means the direct services that a
			 school provides to 4-year-old kindergarten parents and primary caregivers that
			 have an educational component that fulfills the requirements of s.
			 121.004(7)
			 (cm), Stats.
(2) "Applicant" means a child's parent who is
			 acting on behalf of the child, or, for a child with a disability who has
			 reached the age of 18 and has not been adjudicated incompetent, the
			 child.
(3m) "Classroom records"
			 means teacher-originated test scores, report cards, progress reports, and
			 attendance records.
(4) "Count
			 date" means the third Friday in September and the second Friday in January
			 except as provided under s.
			 121.05(3m),
			 Stats.
(5) "Department" means the
			 Wisconsin department of public instruction.
(5m) "Designee" means an individual who is
			 designated to assist in processing pupil applications and transfer requests by
			 the special needs scholarship program administrator on a form provided by the
			 department.
(6) "Eligible education
			 expenses" means all direct and indirect costs associated with a private
			 school's educational programming for pupils enrolled in grades kindergarten to
			 12.
(7) "Financial audit" means the
			 modified financial audit or standard financial audit, and includes the audit
			 opinion and supplemental schedule, required under s.
			 PI
			 49.09.
(8)
			 "Full scholarship pupil" means a pupil who was determined to meet the
			 application requirements of s.
			 115.7915(2),
			 Stats., and this chapter, and is eligible for a payment under s.
			 115.7915(4m)
			 (a), Stats.
(9) "Generally accepted auditing standards"
			 means the auditing standards prescribed by the accounting examining board under
			 s.
			 Accy
			 1.202.
(9m) "Local education agency" means a school
			 district or the operator of a charter school under s.
			 118.40(2r)
			 or (2x), Stats.
(9s) " Modified financial audit" means the
			 audit required under s.
			 115.7915(6)
			 (e), Stats., for a school that received less
			 than $100,000 under ss.
			 115.7915,
			 118.60,
			 and
			 119.23,
			 Stats., in any school year.
(10)
			 "Official attendance records" means a listing of all kindergarten through grade
			 12 pupils enrolled in the school by grade level.
(11) "Parent" has the meaning given in s.
			 115.76(12),
			 Stats.
(12) "Partial scholarship
			 pupil" means a pupil who was determined to meet the application requirements of
			 s.
			 115.7915(2),
			 Stats., and this chapter, and is eligible for a payment under s.
			 115.7915(4m)
			 (e), Stats.
(12m) "Primarily special needs scholarship
			 program expenses" means eligible education expenses that are at least 50
			 percent related to special needs scholarship program pupils.
(13) "Professional standards" means all of
			 the following:
(a) Standards established by
			 the accounting examining board under ch. 442, Stats.
(b) Standards issued by the comptroller
			 general of the United States for engagements in which the use of generally
			 accepted governmental auditing standards is required.
(c) Standards issued by the American
			 Institute of Certified Public Accountants.