Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 29 > Chapter 2 > Part VI > Subpart J - Prohibition Against Academic Penalties

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Participating school: means a nonpublic school that meets program requirements and seeks to enroll scholarship recipients or a public school that meets program requirements and seeks to enroll scholarship recipients subject to any court-ordered desegregation plan in effect for the school system in which the public school is located. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4013
• Program: means the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4013
• Scholarship: means the funds awarded to a parent or other legal guardian on behalf of an eligible student to attend a participating public or nonpublic school. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4013
• Service in the uniformed services: means the performance of duty on a voluntary or involuntary basis in a uniformed service under competent authority and includes active duty, active duty for training, initial active duty for training, inactive duty training, full-time national guard duty, and a period for which a person is absent from a position of employment for the purpose of an examination to determine the fitness of the person to perform any such duty. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:403
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Uniformed services: means the armed forces of the United States as defined by 10 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:403