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16.__Kindergarten to grade 2 student.__"Kindergarten to grade 2
student" means a student in any grade from prekindergarten to grade
2 who is at least 5 years old on October 15th of the school year.

 
17.__Librarian.__"Librarian" means a full-time public
librarian or media specialist, as documented in the department's
database.

 
18.__Limited English proficiency student.__"Limited English
proficiency student" means a student who was not born in the
United States or whose native language is a language other than
English and who satisfies the definition of a limited English
proficient student under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of
2001, 20 United States Code, Chapter 70.

 
19.__Media assistant.__"Media assistant" means a full-time
public librarian aide or library technician I, librarian
assistant or library technician II or librarian associate or
library technician III, as documented in the department's
database.

 
20.__Middle school level.__"Middle school level" means grade 6
to grade 8.

 
21.__Municipality. "Municipality" means a city, town or
organized plantation.

 
22.__Per-pupil guarantee. "Per-pupil guarantee" means the
total amount of funds that is made available for each
subsidizable pupil representing the following cost components:

 
A.__Salary and benefit costs for school level teaching
staff;

 
B.__Salary and benefit costs for other identified school
level staff;

 
C.__Designated costs for substitute teachers; and

 
D.__Identified nonstaffing costs.

 
23.__Property fiscal capacity.__"Property fiscal capacity"
means the lesser of the average of the state valuation amounts
for the 3 most recent years prior to the year of funding and the
state valuation amount for the most recent year.

 
24.__Property weight. "Property weight" means a value between
zero and one that is used to adjust a municipality's ratio of
local per-pupil property fiscal capacity to the


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