PUBLIC LAW 100-297—APR. 28, 1988
102 STAT. 303
which constitutes a substantial impairment of their ability to get or retain employment commensurate with their real ability, and thus are in need of programs to help eliminate such inability and raise the level of education of such individuals with a view to making them less likely to become dependent on others. "(3) The term 'educationally disadvantaged adult' means an adult who— "(A) demonstrates basic skills equivalent to or below that of students at the fifth grade level; or "(B) has been placed in the lowest or beginning level of an adult education program when that program does not use grade level equivalencies as a measure of students' basic skills. '^^(4) The term 'community school program' is a program in which a public building, including but not limited to a public elementary or secondary school or a community or junior college, is used as a community center operated in conjunction with other groups in the community, community organizations, and local governmental agencies, to provide educational, recreational, cultural, and other related community services for the community which the center serves in accordance with the needs, interest, and concerns of that community. "(5) The term 'local educational agency' means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or direction of public elementary or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of a State, or such combination of school districts or counties as are recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public elementary or secondary schools, except that, if there is a separate board or other legally constituted local authority having administrative control and direction of adult education in public schools therein, such term means such other board or authority. "(6) The term 'Secretary' means the Secretary of Education. "(7) The term 'State' includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and except for the purposes of section 313, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands. "(8) The term 'State educational agency' means the State board of education or other agency or officer primarily responsible for the State supervision of public elementary and secondary schools, or, if there is a separate State agency or officer primarily responsible for supervision of adult education in public schools, then such agency or officer may be designated for the purpose of this title by the Governor or by State law. If no agency or officer qualifies under the preceding sentence, such term shall mean an appropriate agency or officer designated for the purposes of this title by the Governor. "(9) The term 'academic education' means the theoretical, the liberal, the speculative, and classical subject matter found to compose the curriculum of the public secondary school. "(10) The term 'institution of higher education' means any such institution as defined by section 481 of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
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