Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 53G > Chapter 11 > Part 5 - School District and Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind Employee Requirements

• Administrator: means an individual who supervises educators and holds an appropriate license. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Career educator: means a licensed employee who has a reasonable expectation of continued employment under the policies of a local school board. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• Career employee: means an employee of a school district who has obtained a reasonable expectation of continued employment based upon Section 53G-11-503 and an agreement with the employee or the employee's association, district practice, or policy. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• Chronically absent: means a student who:
       (4)(a) was enrolled in an LEA for at least 60 calendar days; and
       (4)(b) missed 10% or more days of instruction, whether the absence was excused or not. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• district: means :
       (14)(a) a public school district; or
       (14)(b) the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• Educator: means an individual employed by a school district who is required to hold a professional license issued by the state board, except:
       (7)(a) a superintendent; or
       (7)(b) an individual who works less than three hours per day or is hired for less than half of a school year. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• Employee: means a career or provisional employee of a school district, except as provided in Subsection (7)(b). See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Person: means :
       (24)(a) an individual;
       (24)(b) an association;
       (24)(c) an institution;
       (24)(d) a corporation;
       (24)(e) a company;
       (24)(f) a trust;
       (24)(g) a limited liability company;
       (24)(h) a partnership;
       (24)(i) a political subdivision;
       (24)(j) a government office, department, division, bureau, or other body of government; and
       (24)(k) any other organization or entity. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Provisional educator: means an educator employed by a school district who has not achieved status as a career educator within the school district. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• Provisional employee: means an individual, other than a career employee or a temporary employee, who is employed by a school district. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• School board: means a local school board or, for the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, the state board. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Summative evaluation: means an evaluation that:
       (15)(a) a supervisor conducts;
       (15)(b) summarizes an educator's performance during an evaluation cycle; and
       (15)(c) a supervisor or school district may use to make decisions related to an educator's employment. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• Temporary employee: means an individual who is employed on a temporary basis as defined by policies adopted by the school board. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• term of employment: means the period of time during which an employee is engaged by the school district under a contract of employment, whether oral or written. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• termination: means :
       (6)(a) termination of the status of employment of an employee;
       (6)(b) failure to renew or continue the employment contract of a career employee beyond the then-current school year;
       (6)(c) reduction in salary of an employee not generally applied to all employees of the same category employed by the school district during the employee's contract term; or
       (6)(d) change of assignment of an employee with an accompanying reduction in pay, unless the assignment change and salary reduction are agreed to in writing. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Unsatisfactory performance: means a deficiency in performing work tasks that may be:
            (17)(a)(i) due to insufficient or undeveloped skills or a lack of knowledge or aptitude; and
            (17)(a)(ii) remediated through training, study, mentoring, or practice. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• Writing: includes :
       (48)(a) printing;
       (48)(b) handwriting; and
       (48)(c) information stored in an electronic or other medium if the information is retrievable in a perceivable format. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5