2005 West Virginia Code - §18-1-1. — Definitions.

§18-1-1. Definitions.
The following words used in this chapter and in any proceedings pursuant thereto shall, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning, be construed as follows:
(a) "School" means the pupils and teacher or teachers assembled in one or more buildings, organized as a unit;
(b) "District" means county school district;
(c) "State board" means the West Virginia board of education;
(d) "County board" or "board" means the county board of education;
(e) "State superintendent" means the state superintendent of free schools;
(f) "County superintendent" or "superintendent" means the county superintendent of schools;
(g) "Teacher" means teacher, supervisor, principal, superintendent or public school librarian; registered professional nurse, licensed by the West Virginia board of examiners for registered professional nurses and employed by a county board of education, who has a baccalaureate degree; or any other person regularly employed for instructional purposes in a public school in this state;
(h) "Service personnel" means all nonteaching school employees not included in the above definition of "teacher";
(i) "Social worker" means a nonteaching school employee who, at a minimum, possesses an undergraduate degree in social work from an accredited institution of higher learning and who provides various professional social work services, activities or methods as defined by the state board for the benefit of students;
(j) "Regular full-time employee" means any person employed by a county board of education who has a regular position or job throughout his or her employment term, without regard to hours or method of pay;
(k) "Career clusters" means broad groupings of related occupations;
(l) "Work-based learning" means a structured activity that correlates with and is mutually supportive of the school-based learning of the student and includes specific objectives to be learned by the student as a result of the activity;
(m) "School-age juvenile" means any individual who is entitled to attend or who, if not placed in a residential facility, would be entitled to attend public schools in accordance with: (1) Section five, article two of this chapter; (2) sections fifteen and eighteen, article five of this chapter; or (3) section one, article twenty of this chapter;
(n) "Student with a disability" means an exceptional child, other than gifted, pursuant to section one, article twenty of this chapter;
(o) "Low-density county" means a county whose ratio of student population to square miles is less than or equal to the state average ratio as computed by the state department of education;
(p) "High-density county" means a county whose ratio of student population to square miles is greater than the state average ratio as computed by the state department of education; and
(q) "Casual deficit" means a deficit of not more than three percent of the approved levy estimate or a deficit that is nonrecurring from year to year.