§ 806a. Definitions — Article II
As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires a different construction:
A. “Active duty” means: full-time duty status in the active uniformed service of the
United States, including members of the National Guard and Reserve on active duty
orders pursuant to 10 U.S.C. Chapter 1209 and 1211.
B. “Children of military families” means: a school-aged child or children, enrolled in
Kindergarten through Twelfth (12th) grade, in the household of an active duty member.
C. “Compact commissioner” means: the voting representative of each compacting state appointed
pursuant to Article VIII of this compact.
D. “Deployment” means: the period one (1) month prior to the service members’ departure
from their home station on military orders though six (6) months after return to their
home station.
E. “Education(al) records” means: those official records, files, and data directly related
to a student and maintained by the school or local education agency, including but
not limited to records encompassing all the material kept in the student’s cumulative
folder such as general identifying data, records of attendance and of academic work
completed, records of achievement and results of evaluative tests, health data, disciplinary
status, test protocols, and individualized education programs.
F. “Extracurricular activities” means: a voluntary activity sponsored by the school or
local education agency or an organization sanctioned by the local education agency.
Extracurricular activities include, but are not limited to, preparation for and involvement
in public performances, contests, athletic competitions, demonstrations, displays,
and club activities.
G. “Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunity for Military Children” means: the
commission that is created under Article IX of this compact, which is generally referred
to as Interstate Commission.
H. “Local education agency” means: a public authority legally constituted by the state
as an administrative agency to provide control of and direction for Kindergarten through
Twelfth (12th) grade public educational institutions.
I. “Member state” means: a state that has enacted this compact.
J. “Military installation” means: a base, camp, post, station, yard, center, homeport
facility for any ship, or other activity under the jurisdiction of the Department
of Defense, including any leased facility, which is located within any of the several
States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin
Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas Islands, and any other U.S. Territory.
Such term does not include any facility used primarily for civil works, rivers and
harbors projects, or flood control projects.
K. “Nonmember state” means: a state that has not enacted this compact.
L. “Receiving state” means: the state to which a child of a military family is sent,
brought, or caused to be sent or brought.
M. “Rule” means: a written statement by the Interstate Commission promulgated pursuant
to Article XII of this compact that is of general applicability, implements, interprets,
or prescribes a policy or provision of the compact, or an organizational, procedural,
or practice requirement of the Interstate Commission, and has the force and effect
of a rule promulgated under the Vermont Administrative Procedure Act as found in 3
V.S.A. chapter 25, and includes the amendment, repeal, or suspension of an existing
rule.
N. “Sending state” means: the state from which a child of a military family is sent,
brought, or caused to be sent or brought.
O. “State” means: a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas
Islands, and any other U.S. Territory.
P. “Student” means: the child of a military family for whom the local education agency
receives public funding and who is formally enrolled in Kindergarten through Twelfth
(12th) grade.
Q. “Transition” means: 1) the formal and physical process of transferring from school
to school or 2) the period of time in which a student moves from one school in the
sending state to another school in the receiving state.
R. “Uniformed service” means: the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard as
well as the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
and Public Health Services.
S. “Veteran” means: a person who served in the uniformed services and who was discharged
or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable. (Added 2011, No. 43, § 1.)