§ 21-24-102 — Definitions

(a) As used in this compact, unless the context clearly
requires a different construction:
(i) "Active duty" means full-time duty status in the
active uniformed service of the United States, including members
of the national guard and reserve on active duty orders pursuant
to 10 U.S.C. chapters 1209 and 1211;
(ii) "Children of military families" means school-
aged children, enrolled in kindergarten through twelfth grade,
in the household of an active duty member;
(iii) "Compact commissioner" means the voting
representative of each compacting state appointed pursuant to
W.S. 21-24-108;
(iv) "Deployment" means the period one (1) month
prior to the service members' departure from their home station
on military orders though six (6) months after return to their
home station;
(v) "Educational records" means those official
records, files and data directly related to a student and
maintained by the school or local education agency, including
but not limited to records encompassing all the material kept in
the student's cumulative folder such as general identifying
data, records of attendance and of academic work completed,
records of achievement and results of evaluative tests, health
data, disciplinary status, test protocols and individualized
education programs;
(vi) "Extracurricular activities" means a voluntary
activity sponsored by the school or local education agency or an
organization sanctioned by the local education agency.
"Extracurricular activities" include, but are not limited to,
preparation for and involvement in public performances,
contests, athletic competitions, demonstrations, displays and
club activities;
(vii) "Interstate commission on educational
opportunity for military children" means the commission that is
created under W.S. 21-24-109, which is generally referred to as
interstate commission;
(viii) "Local education agency" means a public
authority legally constituted by the state as an administrative
agency to provide control of and direction for kindergarten
through twelfth grade public educational institutions;
(ix) "Member state" means a state that has enacted
this compact;
(x) "Military installation" means a base, camp, post,
station, yard, center, homeport facility for any ship or other
activity under the jurisdiction of the department of defense,
including any leased facility, which is located within any of
the several states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa,
the Northern Marianas Islands and any other U.S. territory. The
term does not include any facility used primarily for civil
works, rivers and harbors projects or flood control projects;
(xi) "Nonmember state" means a state that has not
enacted this compact;
(xii) "Receiving state" means the state to which a
child of a military family is sent, brought or caused to be sent
or brought;
(xiii) "Rule" means a written statement by the
interstate commission promulgated pursuant to W.S. 21-24-112
that is of general applicability, implements, interprets or
prescribes a policy or provision of the compact, or an
organizational, procedural or practice requirement of the
interstate commission, and includes the amendment, repeal or
suspension of an existing rule;
(xiv) "Sending state" means the state from which a
child of a military family is sent, brought or caused to be sent
or brought;
(xv) "State" means a state of the United States, the
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S.
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas
Islands and any other U.S. territory;
(xvi) "Student" means the child of a military family
for whom the local education agency receives public funding and
who is formally enrolled in kindergarten through twelfth grade;
(xvii) "Transition" means:
(A) The formal and physical process of
transferring from school to school; or
(B) The period of time in which a student moves
from one (1) school in the sending state to another school in
the receiving state.
(xviii) "Uniformed service" means the army, navy, air
force, marine corps, space force and coast guard including the
commissioned corps of the national oceanic and atmospheric
administration and public health services;
(xix) "Veteran" means a person who served in the
uniformed services and who was discharged or released therefrom
under conditions other than dishonorable.