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- Abuse: means the occurrence of the following acts:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 4102Adult education: means education programs primarily operated for individuals beyond the compulsory school ages and administered by school administrative units. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths. Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court. Agent: means an individual appointed to serve in the capacity of a superintendent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Aggregate attendance: means the total number of days of attendance for one school year in elementary and secondary schools of each regularly enrolled pupil resident of the municipality. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15001 Aggregate student data: means data that is not personally identifiable and that is collected or reported at the group, cohort or institutional level. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 952 Allocation year: means the year that subsidy is distributed to school administrative units. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Alternative education program: means a program in which the primary purpose is to provide at-risk students with curricula and assessment in a setting designed to effectively meet the student's academic, social and relational needs. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it. Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments. Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant. Appraisal: A determination of property value. 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 Authorizer: means an entity empowered under this chapter to review applications, decide whether to approve or reject applications, enter into charter contracts with applicants, oversee and monitor public charter schools and decide whether to renew, not renew or revoke charter contracts. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 2401 bail: means the obtaining of the release of the defendant upon an undertaking that the defendant shall appear at the time and place required and that the defendant shall conform to each condition imposed in accordance with section 1026 that is designed to ensure that the defendant shall refrain from any new criminal conduct, to ensure the integrity of the judicial process and to ensure the safety of others in the community. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 1003 Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed. Base year: means the 2nd year prior to the allocation year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Biomedical waste: means waste that may contain human pathogens of sufficient virulence and in sufficient concentrations that exposure to it by a susceptible human host could result in disease or that may contain cytotoxic chemicals used in medical treatment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Board: means a bureau, board or commission listed in Title 10, section 8001 or 8001?A, other licensor that is affiliated with or is a part of the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, the Board of Overseers of the Bar or any other state agency or municipality that issues a license authorizing a person to engage in a business, occupation, profession or industry and any state agency, bureau, board, commission or municipality that issues a license or permit to hunt, fish, operate a boat, operate a snowmobile, operate an ATV or engage in any other sporting or recreational activity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2101 Board of directors: means the governing body with statutory powers and duties for a school administrative district. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Budget authority: Authority provided by law to enter into obligations that will result in outlays of Federal funds. Budget authority may be classified by the period of availability (one-year, multiyear, no-year), by the timing of congressional action (current or permanent), or by the manner of determining the amount available (definite or indefinite). Bureau: means the Bureau of General Services within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services as authorized pursuant to Title 5, section 1742. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 2101-A Bus purchase costs: includes expenditures for bus purchase payments approved by the commissioner and made during the year prior to the allocation year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Catchment area: means the geographic area from which a public charter school expects to draw the majority of its students, which may not be smaller than the combined enrollment areas of the 2 closest noncharter public schools serving students of the same grade levels as the applicant is proposing to serve, or the geographic area within a radius of 20 miles extending from the public charter school, whichever is smaller. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 2401 Charter contract: means a performance-based contract for a fixed term between a public charter school and an authorizer that describes performance expectations, defines operational responsibilities and outlines the autonomy and accountability for each party to the contract. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 2401 Child: means a son or daughter under 21 years of age or a son or daughter who is incapable of earning a living and without sufficient means. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 3501 Child support: means money paid directly to a parent, to another person or agency awarded parental rights and responsibilities with respect to a child or to the department on behalf of a child receiving public assistance and medical or dental insurance coverage provided on behalf of a child pursuant to court order. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1501 Child support table: means the schedule that has been adopted by the department under section 2011. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2001 Clerical staff: means full-time equivalent public school secretaries, as documented in the department's database. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Commercial landfill facility: means a commercial solid waste facility that is used for the burial of solid waste. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Commercial solid waste disposal facility: means a solid waste disposal facility except as follows:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-CCommissioner: means the Commissioner of Health and Human Services, a designee or an authorized representative. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 101 Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Education or the commissioner's designee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Community school district: means a state-approved unit of school administration composed of more than one municipality or school administrative district which may provide public education for any combination of kindergarten through grade 12. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant. Compliance with a support order: means that the support obligor has obtained or maintained health insurance coverage if required by a support order and is:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2101Concept approval: means the initial approval of a school construction project by the state board which indicates:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15901Construction and demolition debris: means debris resulting from construction, remodeling, repair, and demolition of structures. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Conversion public charter school: means a public charter school that existed as a noncharter public school before becoming a public charter school. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 2401 Cooperative board: means the governing body with statutory powers and duties for a career and technical education region. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Court: means any Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court or Superior Court or any active retired justice and any District Court Judge or active retired judge when assigned under Title 4, section 157?C. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 15 Sec. 1003 Court: means a District Court and, with regard to section 4113, the tribal court of the Passamaquoddy Tribe or the Penobscot Nation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 4102 Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime. Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services and its agents and authorized representatives. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 101 Department: means the Department of Education. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another. Dependent child: means any minor child who is not emancipated. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2101 Design and funding approval: means approval by the state board indicating that a school construction project's drawings and specifications have been developed to 100% completion, the project has gained the recommendations of the department and the school administrative unit is authorized to seek bids for the work. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15901 Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of hazardous, biomedical or solid waste, waste oil, refuse-derived fuel, sludge or septage into or on land, air or water and the incineration of solid waste, refuse-derived fuel, sludge or septage so that the hazardous, biomedical or solid waste, waste oil, refuse-derived fuel, sludge or septage or a constituent of the hazardous, biomedical or solid waste, waste oil, refuse-derived fuel, sludge or septage may enter the environment or be emitted into the air, or discharged into waters, including ground waters. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C District board of trustees: means a body with statutory powers and duties for a community school district. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 District school committee: means the governing body with statutory powers and duties for a community school district. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Economic abuse: means causing or attempting to cause an individual to be financially dependent by maintaining control over the individual's financial resources, including, but not limited to, unauthorized or coerced use of credit or property, withholding access to money or credit cards, forbidding attendance at school or employment, stealing from or defrauding an individual of money or assets, exploiting the individual's resources for personal gain of the defendant or withholding physical resources such as food, clothing, necessary medications or shelter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 4102 Economically disadvantaged students: means students who are included in the department's count of students who are eligible for free or reduced-price meals or free milk or both. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Education service provider: means an education management organization, charter management organization, school design provider or any other partner entity with whom a public charter school intends to contract for a limited scope of education services and resources, including education design, implementation or management. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 2401 Education technician: means a full-time equivalent public teacher aide or education technician I, associate teacher or education technician II or assistant teacher or education technician III but not a special education technician I, II or III, as documented in the department's database. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Elementary free or reduced-price meals percentage: means the percentage, as determined by the commissioner, that reflects either:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672Elementary grades: means public preschool programs to grade 8. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Elementary school: means that portion of a school that provides instruction in any combination of kindergarten through grade 8. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Elementary school level: means the grades from public preschool programs to grade 5. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Eligible student: means a student who has reached 18 years of age or who is attending a postsecondary educational institution. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 952 English learner: means a student who has a primary or home language other than English, as determined by a language use survey developed by the department; who is not yet proficient in English, as determined by a state-approved English language proficiency assessment; and who satisfies the definition of an English learner under the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, 20 United States Code, Chapter 70. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 EPS per-pupil rate: means the rate calculated under section 15676 or 15676?A, as applicable. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met. Essential programs and services: means those educational resources that are identified in this chapter that enable all students to meet the standards in the 8 content standard subject areas and goals of the system of learning results established in chapter 222. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 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. Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office. 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. Generation: means the act or process of producing hazardous, biomedical or solid waste, waste oil, sludge or septage. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Gifted and talented costs: means the cost of programs for gifted and talented students that have been approved by the commissioner. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Governing board: means the independent board of a public charter school that is party to the charter contract with the authorizer and whose members have been elected or selected pursuant to the school's application. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 2401 Gross income: means gross income of a party as follows. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2001 Guidance staff: means full-time equivalent public guidance counselors, directors of guidance or school social workers, as documented in the department's database. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Handle: means to store, transfer, collect, separate, salvage, process, recycle, reduce, recover, incinerate, dispose of or treat. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Health staff: means full-time equivalent public school nurses, as documented in the department's database. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 High school level: means grade 9 to grade 12. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Host community: means any town, township or city that is the geographic site of a solid waste disposal facility or any immediately contiguous town, township or city if such town, township or city can demonstrate to the department that it incurs a direct financial impact related to any necessary development or maintenance of infrastructure or to any necessary provision of services as a result of the location or operation of that solid waste disposal facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Incineration facility: means a facility where municipal solid waste or refuse-derived fuel is disposed of through combustion, including combustion for the generation of heat, steam or electricity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Inert fill: means clean soil material, rocks, bricks, and cured concrete, which are not mixed with other waste, and which are not derived from an ore mining activity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Institutional resident: means a person between 5 years of age and 20 years of age who is attending a public school of the school administrative unit and who is committed or otherwise legally admitted to and residing at a state-operated institution. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor. Kindergarten: means a one-year or 2-year childhood education program, for children at least 5 years of age, immediately prior to grade one. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Kindergarten: means kindergarten or a prekindergarten early education program for students who are at least 4 years of age on October 15th of the school year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Land clearing debris: means solid wastes resulting from the clearing of land and consisting solely of brush, stumps, soil material and rocks. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C lands: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Law enforcement agency: means a state, county, tribal, municipal or University of Maine System law enforcement agency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 4102 Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. Librarian: means a full-time equivalent public librarian or media specialist, as documented in the department's database. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 License: means a license, certification, registration, permit, approval or other similar document evidencing admission to or granting authority to engage in a profession, occupation, business or industry, and a license or permit to hunt, fish, operate a boat, operate a snowmobile, operate an ATV or engage in any other sporting or recreational activity, but does not mean a registration, permit, approval or similar document evidencing the granting of authority to engage in the business of banking pursuant to Title 9?B. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2101 Licensee: means an individual holding a license, certification, registration, permit, approval or other similar document evidencing admission to or granting authority to engage in a profession, occupation, business or industry except an individual holding a registration, permit, approval or similar document evidencing the granting of authority to engage in the business of banking pursuant to Title 9?B. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2101 Maintenance of plant: means those activities concerned with keeping the grounds, buildings and equipment at their original condition of completeness or efficiency either through repairs or by replacement of property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15901 Major capital cost: means school construction projects and may include the cost for equipment approved under a school construction project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15901 Major capital costs: means costs relating to school construction projects, as defined in section 15901. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Majority: when used in reference to age shall mean the age of 18 and over. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Media assistant: means a full-time equivalent public librarian aide or library technician I, librarian assistant or library technician II or librarian associate or library technician III, as documented in the department's database. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Medical support: means an amount ordered to be paid toward the cost of health insurance provided by a public entity or by another parent through employment or otherwise or for other medical costs not covered by insurance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1501 Membership: means active participation in the program of a school from the date of enrollment to the time the student withdraws or is absent from the school for 10 consecutive days for reasons other than illness. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15001 Middle school level: means grade 6 to grade 8. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Minor capital costs: means costs relating to plant maintenance, minor remodeling, site development or the purchase of land not in conjunction with a construction project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 minor child: means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 101 Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan. Municipal officers: means the mayor and municipal officers or councilors of a city, the members of the select board or councilors of a town and the assessors of a plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Municipal school unit: means a state-approved unit of school administration composed of a single municipality. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Municipality: includes cities, towns and plantations, except that "municipality" does not include plantations in Title 10, chapter 110, subchapter IV; or Title 30?A, Part 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Municipality: means a city, town or organized plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 mutual order of protection or restraint: means an order that is granted to the defendant under this chapter or the inclusion of language in an order granted to a plaintiff in an action under this chapter that restricts or limits the plaintiff's conduct with regard to the defendant absent the filing of a separate complaint by the defendant, service of the summons and complaint on the plaintiff and a finding by the court that the plaintiff committed the abuse alleged in the complaint. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 4110 Noncharter public school: means a public school other than a school formed pursuant to this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 2401 Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period. Obligor: means any person owing a duty of support. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 101 Operator: means any entity other than the department, school administrative unit or school to the extent that the entity:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 952Order: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 4102Other subsidizable costs: means those costs identified in section 15681?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program. Parent: means the legal parent or the legal guardian when no legal parent exists. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 101 Parent: means a parent, guardian or legal guardian. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Parent: includes either a biological parent or an adoptive parent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 3501 Permanent space lease-purchase project: means the lease-purchase of permanent administrative space or permanent small nonadministrative or instructional space whose costs are wholly or partially eligible as debt service costs for subsidy purposes under section 15672, subsection 2?A, paragraph B, subparagraph (1) or subparagraph (3). See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15901 Person: means an individual, trust, estate, partnership, association, company, corporation, political subdivision of the State, instrumentality of the State or other entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 101 Personal property: All property that is not real property. Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit. Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer. Predicted per-pupil transportation costs: means the greater of:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672Principal: means the person who supervises the operation and management of a school and school property as determined necessary by the superintendent under policies established by the school board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Private school: means an academy, seminary, institute or other private corporation or body formed for educational purposes covering kindergarten through grade 12 or any portion thereof. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law. Probate: Proving a will Property fiscal capacity: means the average of the certified state valuations for the 3 most recent years prior to the most recently certified state valuation or the certified state valuation for the most recent prior year, whichever is lower. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Public charter school: means a public school formed pursuant to this chapter that:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 2401Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide. Public preschool program: means a program offered by a public elementary school pursuant to chapter 203 that provides instruction to children who are 4 years of age, including but not limited to a Head Start program that is approved as a component of the public preschool program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Public school: means a school that is governed by a school board of a school administrative unit and funded primarily with public funds. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Publicly supported secondary school: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1Pupil: means elementary or secondary school student. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15001 Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business. Real estate: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Reasonable cost: means the cost of private health insurance to the parent responsible for providing medical support that does not exceed amounts adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services in a rule implementing a cost-reasonableness standard. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1501 Recycle: means to recover, separate, collect and reprocess waste materials for sale or reuse other than use as a fuel for the generation of heat, steam or electricity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Recycling: means the collection, separation, recovery and sale or reuse of materials that would otherwise be disposed of or processed as waste or the mechanized separation and treatment of waste, other than through combustion, and the creation and recovery of reusable materials other than as a fuel for the generation of electricity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Recycling facility: means a facility engaged exclusively in the recycling of materials. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Regional association: means 2 or more municipalities that have formed a relationship to manage the solid waste generated within the participating municipalities and for which those municipalities are responsible. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Regional school unit: means the state-approved unit of school administration as established pursuant to chapter 103?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant. Residue: means waste remaining after the handling, processing, incineration or recycling of solid waste including, without limitation, front end waste and ash from incineration facilities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Responsible parent: means the parent of a dependent child. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2101 School administrative district: means a state-approved unit of school administration, composed of one or more municipalities which must provide public education to all public school students in the district. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 School administrative staff: means full-time equivalent public school principals and assistant principals, as documented in the department's database. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 School administrative unit: means the state-approved unit of school administration and includes a municipal school unit, school administrative district, community school district, regional school unit or any other municipal or quasi-municipal corporation responsible for operating or constructing public schools, except that it does not include a career and technical education region. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 School administrative unit: means a school administrative unit as defined by section 1, subsection 26, paragraphs A to G. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 School administrative unit: means a school administrative unit as defined by section 1, subsection 26 and a career and technical education region as defined by section 8301-A, subsection 6, except that in section 15907, the reference to "unit" or "school administrative unit" means a unit within a career and technical education region. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15901 School board: means the governing body with statutory powers and duties for a school administrative unit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 School board: means a school board as defined in section 1, subsection 28 and the cooperative board of a career and technical education region. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15901 School committee: means the governing body with statutory powers and duties for a municipal school unit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 School construction project: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15901School level: means elementary level, middle school level and high school level. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 School level teaching staff: means full-time equivalent public classroom teachers, itinerant classroom teachers and special teachers of reading or literacy specialists excluding special education teachers and career and technical education teachers, as documented in the department's database. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 School union: means a union composed of school administrative units joined for the purpose of providing joint administrative services, including a joint superintendent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Secondary grades: means grade 9 to grade 12. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Secondary school: means that portion of a school that provides instruction in any combination of grades 9 through 12. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Site: means the same or geographically contiguous property which may be divided by a public or private right-of-way, as long as the entrance and exit between the properties is at a crossroads intersection and access is by crossing as opposed to going along the right-of-way. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Sludge: means nonhazardous solid, semisolid or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or wet process air pollution control facility or any other waste having similar characteristics and effect. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Small scale school construction project: means a project that will not be eligible for state subsidy and is limited to:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15901Social media: means an electronic medium or service through which users create, share and view user-generated content, including, but not limited to, videos, still photographs, blogs, video blogs, podcasts, instant and text messages, e-mail, online service accounts and Internet website profiles and locations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 4102 Solid waste: means useless, unwanted or discarded solid material with insufficient liquid content to be free-flowing, including, but not limited to, rubbish, garbage, refuse-derived fuel, scrap materials, junk, refuse, inert fill material and landscape refuse, but does not include hazardous waste, biomedical waste, septage or agricultural wastes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Solid waste disposal facility: means a solid waste facility for the incineration or landfilling of solid waste or refuse-derived fuel. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Solid waste facility: means a waste facility used for the handling of solid waste, except that the following facilities are not included:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-CSolid waste landfill: means a waste disposal facility for the disposal of solid waste on or in land. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Solid waste processing facility: includes but is not limited to a facility that employs shredding, baling, mechanical and magnetic separation or composting or other stabilization technique to reduce or otherwise change the nature of solid waste. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C special education tuition and board: means :
(1) Tuition and board for pupils placed directly by the State in accordance with rules adopted or amended by the commissioner; and
(2) Special education tuition and other tuition for institutional residents of state-operated institutions attending programs in school administrative units or private schools in accordance with rules adopted or amended by the commissioner. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672Special school district: means a school district created by private and special law for the purpose of constructing or adding to school buildings, but which does not have the authority or responsibility for operating public schools. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Special waste: means any solid waste generated by sources other than domestic and typical commercial establishments that exists in such an unusual quantity or in such a chemical or physical state, or any combination thereof, that may disrupt or impair effective waste management or threaten the public health, human safety or the environment and requires special handling, transportation and disposal procedures. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Start-up public charter school: means a public charter school that did not exist as a noncharter public school prior to becoming a public charter school. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 2401 state: means any state, territory or possession of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 101 State agency client: means a child with a disability who is 3 years of age or older and under 22 years of age who requires an individualized education program in order to access a free, appropriate public education and who is:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1State board: means the State Board of Education. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 State share percentage: means the percentage of the state contribution determined under section 15688, subsection 3?A, paragraph D divided by the total cost determined in section 15688, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 State subsidy: means the total of the state contribution determined under section 15688, subsection 3?A, paragraph D and any applicable adjustment under section 15689. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 State valuation: means the value certified to the Secretary of State as provided in Title 36, section 305, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 State-assigned student identifier: means the unique student identifier assigned by the State to each student, which may not be and may not include the student's social security number in whole or in part. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 952 State-operated institution: means any residential facility or institution that is operated by the Department of Health and Human Services or a school operated by the Department of Education. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Statute: A law passed by a legislature. Storage: means the containment of hazardous wastes, either on a temporary basis or for a period of years, in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of the hazardous wastes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Student data: means information that is collected and maintained at the individual student level in this State, including, but not limited to:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 952Student personally identifiable information: means student data that, alone or in combination, is linked to a specific student and would allow a reasonable person who does not have knowledge of the relevant circumstances to identify the student. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 952 Subsidizable costs: includes the costs described in paragraphs A to C and used to calculate the total allocation amount:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672Subsidizable pupils: means all school level pupils who reside in a school administrative unit and who are educated at public expense at a public school or at a private school approved for tuition purposes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system. Superintendent: means the person in a school administrative unit or school union appointed and having the authority and responsibility under this Title and other applicable statutes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Superintendent: means a superintendent as defined by section 1, subsection 39, and the director of a career and technical education region, if that person had been appointed to serve as administrative officer of the region, or the superintendent who has been appointed to serve as ex officio administrative officer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15901 Support order: means a judgment, decree or order, whether temporary, final or subject to modification, issued by a court or an administrative agency of competent jurisdiction for the support and maintenance of a child, including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state, or a child and the parent with whom the child is living, that provides for monetary support, health care, arrearages or reimbursement and may include related costs and fees, interest and penalties, income withholding, attorney's fees and other relief. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2101 Targeted advertising: includes advertising to a student at an online location based upon a single search query without collection and retention of a student's online activities over time. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 952 Testify: Answer questions in court. Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries. total allocation: means the foundation allocation for a year, the debt service allocation for that year, the sum of all adjustments for that year and the total of the additional local appropriations for the prior year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15752 Total allocation: means the total of the operating allocation as described in section 15683 and the debt service allocation as described in section 15683?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Total cost of the components of essential programs and services: means the total of the following components:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672Town: includes cities and plantations, unless otherwise expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition. Transportation operating costs: means all costs incurred in the transportation of pupils in kindergarten to grade 12, including lease costs for bus garage and maintenance facilities and lease-purchase costs that the school administrative unit may apply to the purchase of bus garage and maintenance facilities, when the leases and lease-purchase agreements have been approved by the commissioner, but excluding the costs of bus purchases and excluding all costs not associated with transporting students from home to school and back home each day. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Treatment: means any process, including but not limited to incineration, designed to change the character or composition of any hazardous waste, waste oil or biomedical waste so as to render the waste less hazardous or infectious. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust. Union committee: means the governing body with statutory powers and duties for a school union. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1 Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge. Virtual public charter school: means a public charter school that offers education services predominantly through an online program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 2401 Waste facility: means any land area, structure, location, equipment or combination of them, including dumps, used for handling hazardous, biomedical or solid waste, waste oil, sludge or septage. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Waste generated within the State: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-CWaste management: means purposeful, systematic and unified control of the handling and transportation of hazardous, biomedical or solid waste, waste oil, sludge or septage. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Wood wastes: means brush, stumps, lumber, bark, woodchips, shavings, slabs, edgings, slash and sawdust, which are not mixed with other waste. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1303-C Year: means a fiscal year starting July 1st and ending June 30th of the succeeding year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672 Year of funding: means the fiscal year during which state subsidies are disbursed to school administrative units, except as specified in section 15005, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672