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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. |
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| | 17.__Librarian.__"Librarian" means a full-time public | librarian or media specialist, as documented in the department's | database. |
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| | 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. |
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| | 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. |
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| | 20.__Middle school level.__"Middle school level" means grade 6 | to grade 8. |
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| | 21.__Municipality. "Municipality" means a city, town or | organized plantation. |
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| | 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: |
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| A.__Salary and benefit costs for school level teaching | staff; |
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| B.__Salary and benefit costs for other identified school | level staff; |
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| C.__Designated costs for substitute teachers; and |
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| D.__Identified nonstaffing costs. |
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| | 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. |
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| | 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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