276.3 - DEFINITIONS.
276.3 DEFINITIONS.
As used in sections 276.1 to 276.11 unless the context otherwise
requires:
1. "Board" means the local board of directors of school
districts.
2. "Community" means the area located within the boundaries
of the local school district.
3. "Community education" means a life-long education process
concerning itself with every facet that affects the well-being of all
citizens within a given community. It extends the role of the school
from one of teaching children through an elementary and secondary
program to one of providing for citizen participation in identifying
the wants, needs, and concerns of the neighborhood community and
coordinating all educational, recreational, and cultural
opportunities within the community with community education being the
catalyst for providing for citizen participation in the development
and implementation of programs toward the goal of improving the
entire community.
Community education energizes people to strive for the achievement
of determined goals and stimulates capable persons to assume
leadership responsibilities. It welcomes and works with all groups,
it draws no lines. It is the one institution in the entire community
that has the opportunity to reach all people and groups and to gain
their cooperation.
4. "Community school" means any elementary or secondary
school.
5. "Department" means the department of education.
6. "Director" means the local community school director who
assumes responsibility for making the process function effectively.
7. "District-wide advisory council" means a broadly
representative group of persons selected from the entire school
district with at least one representative from each of the local
advisory councils after they are formed. At least one member of the
council shall be a representative from the local public recreation
department or agency, if one exists.
8. "Local advisory council" means a broadly representative
group of persons living within the attendance boundaries of an
individual neighborhood school.
9. "State consultant" means the state community education
consultant. Section History: Early Form
[C79, 81, § 276.3] Section History: Recent Form
86 Acts, ch 1245, § 1466
Referred to in § 276.1