Sec. 29.251. DEFINITIONS

In this subchapter:

(1) "Adult education" means services and instruction provided below the college level for adults by public local education agencies, public nonprofit agencies, or community-based organizations.

(2) "Adult" means any individual who is over the age of compulsory school attendance prescribed by Section 25.085.

(3) "Community-based organization" has the meaning assigned by 20 U.S.C. Section 1201a, including any future amendments.

(4) "Community education" means the process by which the citizens in a school district, using the resources and facilities of the district, organize to support each other and to solve their mutual educational problems and meet their mutual lifelong needs. Community education may include:

(A) educational programs, including programs for occupational and technological skills training, retraining of displaced workers, cultural awareness, parenting skills education and parental involvement in school programs, and multilevel adult education and personal growth;

(B) community involvement programs, including programs for community economic development, school volunteers, partnerships between schools and businesses, coordination with community agencies, school-age child care, family and workplace literacy, and community use of facilities; and

(C) programs for youth enrolled in schools, including programs for dropout prevention and recovery programs, drug-free school programs, school-age parenting programs, and academic enhancement.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.