Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 168 - Irrigation and Water Utilization Projects

• Adjournment sine die: The end of a legislative session "without day." These adjournments are used to indicate the final adjournment of an annual or the two-year session of legislature.
• Board: means the board of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Complex: means the high school and those elementary, middle, and intermediate schools that feed into the high school as designated by the department. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• District: means the state public education system as a whole, except as used by the department for federal compliance and reporting requirements. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• enrollment: means a student has met all of the department's requirements for entrance and is formally placed on a school's roll. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Exceptional children: includes :

  (1) Persons under twenty-two years of age who deviate from the so-called normal person in physical, mental, social, or emotional characteristics or abilities to such an extent that specialized training, techniques, and equipment are required to enable these persons to attain the maximum of their abilities or capacities; provided that "exceptional children" shall not include "gifted and talented children";

  (2) Persons under twenty-two years of age who by reason of physical defects cannot attend the regular public school classes with normal children; and

  (3) Persons under twenty-two years of age who are certified by a licensed physician eligible for membership in the state medical society as being emotionally maladjusted or intellectually incapable of profiting from ordinary instructional methods. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101

• License: means the recognition granted by the Hawaii teacher standards board to an individual to practice the profession of teaching. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Public schools: means all academic and noncollege type schools established and maintained by the department and charter schools governed by chapter 302D. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Superintendent: means the superintendent of education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Teacher: means a person whose duties in the public educational system are primarily teaching or instruction of students or related activities centered primarily on students and who is in close and continuous contact with students, and shall include but not be limited to classroom teachers, school librarians, counselors, registrars, and special education teachers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 302A-101
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.