Part 1 General Provisions 53F-5-101 – 53F-5-102
Part 2 Miscellaneous Grant Programs 53F-5-201 – 53F-5-221
Part 4 Partnerships for Student Success Grant Program 53F-5-401 – 53F-5-406
Part 5 Personalized, Competency-based Learning Grants Program 53F-5-501 – 53F-5-507
Part 6 American Indian and Alaskan Native Education State Plan Program 53F-5-601 – 53F-5-604

Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 53F > Chapter 5 - State Funding -- Initiative Grant Programs

  • Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • American Indian and Alaskan Native concentrated school: means a school where at least 29% of the school's students are American Indian or Alaskan Native. See Utah Code 53F-5-601
  • 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
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Blended learning: means a formal education program in which a student learns:
    (a) at least in part, through online learning with some element of student control over time, place, path, and pace;
    (b) at least in part, in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home; and
    (c) in a program in which the modalities along each student's learning path within a course or subject are connected to provide an integrated learning experience. See Utah Code 53F-5-501
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • eligible junior high school: means a district school or charter school that has at least 50% of the school's students with a family income at or below 185% of the federal poverty level. See Utah Code 53F-5-401
  • Eligible partnership: means a partnership that:
    (a) includes at least:
    (i) a local education agency that has designated an eligible school feeder pattern;
    (ii) a local nonprofit organization;
    (iii) a private business;
    (iv) a municipality or county in which the eligible school feeder pattern is located;
    (v) an institution of higher education within the state;
    (vi) a state or local government agency that provides services to students attending schools within the eligible school feeder pattern;
    (vii) a local philanthropic organization; and
    (viii) a local health care organization; and
    (b) has designated a local education agency or local nonprofit organization to act as lead applicant for a grant described in this part. See Utah Code 53F-5-401
  • Eligible school feeder pattern: means the succession of schools that a student enrolls in as the student progresses from kindergarten through grade 12 that includes, as designated by a local education agency:
    (a) a high school;
    (b) an eligible junior high school that:
    (i) is a district school within the geographic boundary of the high school described in Subsection (3)(a); or
    (ii) is a charter school that sends at least 50% of the charter school's students to the high school described in Subsection (3)(a); and
    (c) an eligible elementary school that:
    (i) is a district school within the geographic boundary of the high school described in Subsection (3)(a); or
    (ii) is a charter school that sends at least 50% of the charter school's students to the junior high school described in Subsection (3)(b). See Utah Code 53F-5-401
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Grant program: means the Personalized, Competency-Based Learning Grants Program created in this part. See Utah Code 53F-5-501
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Institution of higher education: means an institution listed in Section 53B-1-102. See Utah Code 53F-5-501
  • Local education agency: means a school district or charter school. See Utah Code 53F-5-401
  • Native American Legislative Liaison Committee: means the committee created in Section 36-22-1. See Utah Code 53F-5-601
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Personal property: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Review committee: means the committee established under Section 53F-5-502. See Utah Code 53F-5-501
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • State plan: means the state plan adopted under Laws of Utah 2015, Chapter 53, Section 7. See Utah Code 53F-5-601
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • STEM: means science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. See Utah Code 53F-5-501
  • United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5