Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 206 - Education, Dept. of › Sub-Agency 0002 - General Agency, Board or Commission Rules › Chapter 8 - School Finance › Section 8-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) "Acquired"
				means gained possession. Examples of acquire include, but are not limited to,
				lease agreement, purchase, or gift.
(b) "Actual site acreage" means the site
				acreage amount that appears on the actual land's title or deed. If the acreage
				amount does not appear on land's title or deed, actual site acreage is the
				amount reported by the School Facilities Division of the State Construction
				Department.
(c) "Case manager"
				means an individual working under a personal-services contract with a school
				district or Board of Cooperative Educational Services to provide general
				supervision of special education programs and services provided to children
				with disabilities.
(d) "Co-located
				school" means two (2) or more schools, each with its own unique identifier,
				that exist within the same school facility.
(e) "Combined school" means two (2) or more
				existing schools in a district that are joined together to form a single school
				as a result of one or more schools closing within a district.
(f) "Data correction" means corrections
				necessary to ensure funding model operation and current school year district
				payments are using the correct data supplied by school districts, other state
				agencies, and outside consultants to properly compute school foundation program
				payments to school districts as required by law.
(g) "Days of operation" means the term of
				operation for a school including pupil-teacher contact days and days used
				exclusively for registration, professional development, report card
				distribution, teacher/parent conferences, in-service programs, and similar
				activities.
(h) "Department" means
				the Wyoming Department of Education.
(i) "English language learner (ELL) student"
				means any student reported as primarily enrolled by a district on the October
				snapshot who has been identified as an ELL or former ELL in Year 1 or Year 2
				monitor status in compliance with required identification criteria presented in
				a format specified by the Department.
(j) "Facility" means a standalone or
				combination of buildings owned or leased by the district that support the
				delivery of educational programs necessary to meet state accreditation
				standards and federal laws.
(k)
				"Format change" means any change to the funding model that results in a
				different appearance or layout and maintains the integrity and functionality of
				the funding model.
(l) "Foundation
				program report" means the accumulation and aggregation of student attendance
				and membership statistics, school district financial data, reimbursement
				claims, estimates, and other representations including, but not limited to, the
				following reports: the WISE Annual District Report, the WISE Attendance &
				Membership Report, the Foundation Program Funding Worksheet, the Annual Special
				Education Expenditure Report, the Annual Student Transportation Expenditure
				Report, the Vocational Education Student FTE Worksheet, Vocational Education
				Teacher FTE Worksheet, and the Annual District Budget.
(m) "Foundation program review" means the
				examination, analysis, testing, and verification of a school district's
				foundation program report and system of student accounting by the Department or
				its representative (whether on-site at the school district or in the form of a
				desk review at the offices of the Department) to confirm, verify, validate,
				and, if necessary, correct the student attendance and membership statistics,
				school district financial data, reimbursement claims, estimates, and other
				representations appearing in the district's foundation program
				report.
(n) "Free and reduced lunch
				(FRL) student" means any student reported as primarily enrolled by a district
				on the October snapshot who meets the eligibility requirements for the free and
				reduced priced lunch program established by
				42 U.S.C. §
										1751 et seq. regardless of the school's
				participation in the free and reduced priced lunch program.
(o) "Funding model" means the enumeration of
				components defined in "Attachment A" as referenced in
				W.S. 21-13-101(a)(xvii) and
				(c), including any technical and data
				corrections implemented in accordance with
				W.S.
				21-2-202(e).
(p) "Membership" means the inclusion of an
				enrolled student in a school's student accounting records, whether the student
				is attending or absent on that day.
(q) "Mobile student" means any student
				reported as primarily enrolled in any grade six (6) through twelve (12) by a
				district on the annual Department spring accountability snapshot date where the
				student's school entry date falls after the October snapshot of the same school
				year.
(r) "National Board
				Certification" means advanced teaching credentials awarded through the National
				Board Certified Teacher program by the National Board for Professional Teaching
				Standards.
(s) "New school" means a
				school that is assigned a unique identification number from the Department for
				reporting purposes and is funded as a first-year school in the funding
				model.
(t) "Part-time student"
				means a student that is enrolled in fewer daily hours or periods than normally
				scheduled in the school they are enrolled.
(u) "Reconfigured school" means a school in
				which grades served has been changed from the previous school year.
(v) "Replacement school" means a school in
				which a new building has been constructed and is used in place of a previously
				existing school with the same grade configuration.
(w) "School day" means the starting time of a
				pupil-teacher contact day to the ending time of a pupil-teacher contact day as
				established by school district board of trustee policy.
(x) "School Facilities Division (SFD)" means
				the School Facilities Division of the State Construction Department.
(y) "Site" means a parcel of land that has
				been acquired by a district, and is identified by the SFD by a site
				identification number.
(z) "State
				Board" means the Wyoming State Board of Education.
(aa) "Student accounting" means the process
				of enrolling students, taking attendance, appropriately withdrawing students
				and removing them from student accounting records, and maintaining accurate and
				verifiable computer-based records within the student information system for the
				purpose of uniform and timely reporting of student attendance and membership
				statistics at each school district's school.
(bb) "Technical correction" means a
				correction necessary to ensure funding model operation and current school year
				district payments are in accordance with law and the funding model is properly
				computing school foundation program payments to school districts as required by
				law.