| A | B |
|---|
| Dangerous Weapon | Device, instrument, material or substance that can cause death or serious injury |
| Day; Business | Monday-Friday except designated holidays |
| Day; School | Includes partial days when students are in attendance |
| Destruction | Removal of personal identifiers from information |
| Direct Services | Instruction, therapy, interventions given to student |
| Disciplinary Removal | Includes ISS, OSS, explusion, interim alternative |
| District | County school or local education agency |
| Drug Offenses | Use, possession, sale or solicitation of controlled substances |
| Early Childhood Education | For learners age 3-10 across all areas of study |
| Early Identification and Assessment | Implementation of a formal plan for identifying a disability as early as possible |
| Economically Disadvantaged | Student family income qualifies for reduced or free lunch |
| Educational Service Agency | Authorized by State law to develop, manage and provide services |
| Eligible Exceptional Students | Autistic, gifted, low vision, need special education |
| Eligible Students with Exceptionalities | Gifted or students with disabilities |
| Elibible Students with Disabilities | Does not include gifted students |
| Executive Skills | Functions which enable a person to plan and engage in organized purposeful behavior |
| Explusion | Removing a child from regular school for remainder of school year or longer |
| Extended School Year Services | Provided to students with disabilities beyond normal school year at no cost |
| Formative Assessment | On-going classroom based assessment which provides feedback |
| Free Appropriate Public Education | FAPE Includes preschool to secondary schooling |
| Functional Behavioral Assessment | FBA - Sequential multi-step process that addresses behavior |
| General Curriculum | Includes 21st Century Content Standards |
| General Education | Program designed to meet needs of all students from Pre-K to adult education |
| General Intellectual Functioning | Acquired learning and learning potential as measured by administered intelligence tests or procedures |
