Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 49 > Chapter 3 > Part 1 - Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement

• ADM: means the sum of the total number of days a student is enrolled divided by the number of days school is in session during this period. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Base funding amount: means the uniform dollar amount that each student generates towards the student's funding allocation in a given year. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Baseline funding amount: means :
  (A) The basic education program allocations an LEA received in the 2022-2023 school year. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Career and technical program: means a coordinated, non-duplicative sequence of academic and technical content that:
  (A) Incorporates challenging state academic standards. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of education. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Concentrated poverty: means that a student is a member in a school that is eligible for Title I schoolwide designation. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Department: means the department of education. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Direct allocation: means an allocation in addition to the base funding amount for a student expressed as a flat dollar amount. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Economically disadvantaged: means , as defined in Tennessee's Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan established pursuant to the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (20 U. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Fiscal capacity: means the percentage of the local share that a county must contribute. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Fiscal capacity calculation: means the formula evaluated by the comptroller of the treasury and approved by the state board that determines fiscal capacity as the average of the fiscal capacity estimates generated by the formula established by the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee and the formula established by the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• LEA: means a county, city, or special school district, unified school district, school district of a metropolitan form of government, or another school system established by law. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Local contribution: means the dollar amount of local funds that a local government must pay toward the local share. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Membership: means a student is enrolled and assigned to a class. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Postsecondary readiness assessment: means the assessment required pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Small district: means an LEA with a membership of one thousand (1,000) or fewer students. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Sparse district: means a county LEA located in a county with fewer than twenty-five (25) students per square mile. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• State board: means the state board of education. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• TCAP: means the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• TISA: means the student-based funding formula established pursuant to this part that consists of student-generated funding allocations pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Unique learning need: means a learning need for which an LEA must provide the student individualized services, interventions, accommodations, or modifications to meet the student's need pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Unique learning needs: include , but are not limited to, disabilities, characteristics of dyslexia, giftedness, or limited English proficiency. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• Weighted allocation: means an allocation in addition to the base funding amount for a student that is expressed as a percentage of the base funding amount. See Tennessee Code 49-3-104
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105