Section 4 AAC 33.690 - Definitions(a) In AS 14.03.127 and 4 AAC 33.600 - 4 AAC 33.690, unless the context requires otherwise, (1) "department" means the Department of Education and Early Development;(2) "district" means a borough or city school district, a regional educational attendance area, and a state boarding school;(3) "fiscal year" means the state fiscal year, beginning on July 1 of one calendar year and ending on June 30 of the following calendar year.(b) In 4 AAC 33.600 - 4 AAC 33.690, unless the context requires otherwise,(1) "applicant's share" has the meaning given in AS 14.03.127(c);(2) "circuit or connection" means a mode of access to the Internet, whether a direct connection or via a circuit through a wide-area network (WAN); in this paragraph, "wide area network" means a voice, data, or video network that provides connections from within a school to other locations beyond the school;(3) "federal universal services program" has the meaning given in AS 14.03.127(c);(4) "initial negotiated capacity" means the cost of Internet services for the eligible circuits or connections for a school that a district reports on Federal Communications Commission Form 471 (Description of Services Ordered and Certification Form) filed with the Universal Service Administrative Company under the federal universal services program and submits in support of the application for state funding under AS 14.03.127, as of (A) November 1, 2014, for a school that has continuously received funding under AS 14.03.127 for up to 10 Mbps of Internet service through state fiscal year 2020;(B) March 1, 2020, for a school that receives funding under AS 14.03.127 for up to 25 Mbps of Internet service starting in state fiscal year 2021;(C) March 1 of the year of the application for the first year the district applies on behalf of a new school under both the federal universal services program and AS 14.03.127; or(D) for a school that has reopened, March 1 of the most recent year in which the district applied on behalf of the reopened school under both the federal universal services program and AS 14.03.127;(5) "Mbps" means megabit per second of Internet download speed.(6) "school" means a facility at which a school district provides instruction to students in elementary or secondary grades and includes the geographically contiguous grounds where the instructional buildings of a single eligible school are located; a facility at which a school district provides instruction for both elementary and secondary grades is a single school.Eff. 11/13/2014, Register 212, January 2015; am 6/23/2020, Register 235Authority:AS 14.03.126
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