Section 92-10-002 - DefinitionsAs used in this Chapter:
002.01AQuESTT (Accountability for a Quality Education System Today and Tomorrow) means a system designed to measure the performance of public schools and public school districts and establish performance classifications through a framework that describes quality and accountability. The framework addresses two broad categories of quality education systems:1.) Student Success and Access to include the following tenets: Positive Partnerships, Relationships and Student Success; Transitions; and Educational Opportunities and Access; and2.) Teaching and Learning, to include the following tenets: College and Career Ready; Assessment; and Educator Effectiveness.002.02AQuESTT Tenet means a statement used in this Chapter to describe conditions which contribute to quality education systems for public schools and public school districts. AQuESTT tenets are not requirements of this Chapter.002.03Board means the State Board of Education.002.04Commissioner means the State Commissioner of Education.002.05Core Curriculum means a curriculum which includes language arts, social studies, science, mathematics, career and technical education, world language, visual and performing arts, and personal health and physical fitness and which, in public schools, incorporates multicultural education in all areas.002.06Course means a particular subject, subject area, or defined sequence of learning experiences scheduled during the school day with a certificated teacher assigned and with one or more students enrolled and in attendance.002.07Department means the State Department of Education, which is comprised of the Board and the Commissioner.002.08Elementary Grades means those grades designated by the school system as elementary, but not to include any above grade eight.002.09Governing Body means the school board of a public school district, a board elected or appointed to provide direction to a nonpublic school or a nonpublic school system, or an individual or corporate owner.002.10High School Grades means grades 9 through 12 in a school system organized with a four-year high school and grades 10 through 12 in a school system organized with a three-year high school. School systems organized with a three-year high school may include the ninth grade in determining compliance with this Chapter.002.11Integrated Course or Curriculum means a course or curriculum that is organized by concepts, themes, or ideas and includes content from two or more subjects or fields.002.12Instructional Unit means 15 clock hours (900 minutes) of classroom instruction in a course offered in the secondary school. As an example, a course which meets for 50 minutes a day for 180 days generates 10 instructional units. Instructional units are computed to the nearest one-tenth.002.13Learning Community means a political subdivision which shares the territory of member public school districts and is governed by a learning community coordinating council established pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. § 79-2102.002.14Middle Grades means grade(s) designated by the school system as middle and may include any grades from four through nine. The middle grades typically include at least grades seven and eight. Common middle grade configurations are grades six through eight or grades seven through nine.002.15National Assessment Instrument means a nationally norm-referenced test developed and scored by a national testing service.002.16Performance Level Classifications means categories of public schools and public school districts established by the Board based upon public school and public school district performance as indicated by graduation rates, by student growth and student improvement on state assessment instruments as provided in Neb. Rev. Stat. § 79-760.03 and by status and participation in statewide assessment. Additional indicators of public school and public school district performance based on AQuESTT tenets will be specified by the Commissioner and adopted by the Board in future revisions of this Chapter.002.17Priority School means a public school selected from the lowest performance level classification and designated as being one of three schools in greatest need of assistance to improve student achievement as provided in this Chapter.002.18Public School District means the territory under the jurisdiction of a single school board as authorized in Chapter 79 of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska.002.19Quality Indicators means statements used in this Chapter to describe conditions which contribute to high performance learning. These statements express the intent of the regulations which follow. Quality Indicators are not requirements of this Chapter.002.20School means an individual attendance center within a school system which provides either elementary, middle, secondary and/or high school education.002.21School System means a public school district or a nonpublic school or group of nonpublic schools under a governing body organized to provide education in elementary, middle, secondary, and/or high school grades as provided in this Chapter.002.22Secondary Grades means those grades designated by the school system as secondary, but not to include any below grade seven.002.23State Assessment Instrument means a test aligned with state standards that is designed to measure student progress and achievement. This definition applies to the statewide system of assessment and reporting for reading, mathematics, and science.002.24Statewide Assessment means the process of measuring student achievement and progress on state-adopted standards. This definition applies to the statewide system of assessment and reporting reading, mathematics, and science.002.25 Teach has the same meaning as in Neb. Rev. Stat. § 79-101.92 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 10, § 002
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