EDUCATION CODE

CHAPTER 5. DEFINITIONS


	§ 5.001.  DEFINITIONS.  In this title:                                      
		(1)  "Agency" means the Texas Education Agency.                               
		(2)  "Classroom teacher" means an educator who is 
employed by a school district and who, not less than an average of 
four hours each day, teaches in an academic instructional setting 
or a career and technology instructional setting.  The term does not 
include a teacher's aide or a full-time administrator.
		(3)  "Commissioner" means the commissioner of 
education.                    
		(4)  "Educationally disadvantaged" means eligible to 
participate in the national free or reduced-price lunch program 
established under 42 U.S.C. Section 1751 et seq.
		(5)  "Educator" means a person who is required to hold a 
certificate issued under Subchapter B, Chapter 21.
		(6)  "Open-enrollment charter school" means a school 
that has been granted a charter under Subchapter D, Chapter 12.
		(7)  "Regional education service centers" means a 
system of regional and educational services established in Chapter 
8.
		(8)  "Residential facility" means:                                            
			(A)  a facility operated by a state agency or 
political subdivision, including a child placement agency, that 
provides 24-hour custody or care of a person 22 years of age or 
younger, if the person resides in the facility for detention, 
treatment, foster care, or any noneducational purpose;  and
			(B)  any person or entity that contracts with or 
is funded, licensed, certified, or regulated by a state agency or 
political subdivision to provide custody or care for a person under 
Paragraph (A).

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, 1995.  
Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 396, § 2.03, eff. Sept. 1, 
1999.