115 STAT. 1962 PUBLIC LAW 107-110-^AN. 8, 2002 "(D) EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCIES. —The term includes educational service agencies and consortia of those agencies. "(E) STATE EDUCATIONAL AGENCY. —The term includes the State educational agency in a State in which the State educational agency is the sole educational agency for all public schools. "(27) MENTORING.— The term 'mentoring', except when used to refer to teacher mentoring, means a process by which a responsible adult, postsecondary student, or secondary school student works with a child to provide a positive role model for the child, to establish a supportive relationship with the child, and to provide the child with academic assistance and exposure to new experiences and examples of opportunity that enhance the ability of the child to become a responsible adult. "(28) NATIVE AMERICAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE. — The terms 'Native American' and 'Native American language' have the same meaning given those terms in section 103 of the Native American Languages Act of 1990. "(29) OTHER STAFF.— The term 'other staff means pupil services personnel, librarians, career guidance and counseling personnel, education aides, and other instructional and administrative personnel. "(30) OUTLYING AREA.— The term 'outlying area' means the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and f6r the purpose of section 1121(b) and any other discretionary grant program under this Act, includes the freely associated • states of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau until an agreement for the extension of United States education assistance under the Compact of Free Association for each of the freely associated states becomes effective after the date of enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. "(31) PARENT.— The term 'parent' includes a legal guardian or other person standing in loco parentis (such as a grandparent or stepparent with whom the child lives, or a person who is legally responsible for the child's welfare). "(32) PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT.—The term 'parental involvement' means the participation of parents in regular, two-way, and meaningful communication involving student academic learning and other school activities, including ensuring— "(A) that parents play an integral role in assisting their child's learning; "(B) that parents are encouraged to be actively involved in their child's education at school; "(C) that parents are full partners in their child's education and are included, as appropriate, in decisionmaking and on advisory committees to assist in the education of their child; "(D) the carrying out of other activities, such as those described in section 1118. "(33) POVERTY LINE.— The term 'poverty line' means the poverty line (as defined by the Office of Management and Budget and revised annually in accordance with section 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant Act) applicable to a family of the size involved.
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