Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 49 > Chapter 18 - Course Access Program

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• 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.
• Blended learning: means the combination of virtual learning with the integration of in-person teaching practices. See Tennessee Code 49-18-102
• Charter school: means a Tennessee public charter school authorized to operate under chapter 13 of this title. See Tennessee Code 49-18-102
• Course access catalog: means a listing of providers that have been approved by the state board of education and a listing of courses offered by approved providers, which are available to participating students. See Tennessee Code 49-18-102
• Course access program: means the program created by this chapter. See Tennessee Code 49-18-102
• Court: means any court of competent jurisdiction of this state. See Tennessee Code 29-5-202
• Department: means the department of education. See Tennessee Code 49-18-102
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Eligible student: means any student who is enrolled in a Tennessee public school, including a charter school, in grades seven through twelve (7-12). See Tennessee Code 49-18-102
• 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.
• Extended learning: means an out-of-classroom learning experience that provides a student with:
  (A) Enrichment opportunities outside of a classroom. See Tennessee Code 49-18-102
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• local board of education: means the board of education that manages and controls the respective local public school system. See Tennessee Code 49-1-103
• Participating student: means any eligible student enrolled in a course access program course through a host LEA. See Tennessee Code 49-18-102
• 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: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• provider: means a business, industry, educator, nonprofit entity, for-profit entity, trade association, branch of the United States armed forces, LEA, charter school, charter management organization, institution of higher education, or state agency that is approved by the state board to offer individual courses in person or online and that is included in the listing of providers in the course access catalog. See Tennessee Code 49-18-102
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• State board: means the state board of education. See Tennessee Code 49-18-102
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• 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.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105