definitions

definitions Sec. 303. As used in this title— (a) The term “adult” means any individual who has attained the age of eighteen. (b) The term “adult education” means services or instruction below the college level (as determined by the Commissioner), for adults who— (1) do not have a certificate of graduation from a school providing secondary education and who have not achieved an equivalent level of education, and 80 Stat. 1217 (2) are not currently enrolled in schools. (c) The term “adult basic education” means education for adults whose inability to speak, read, or write the English language constitutes a substantial impairment of their ability to get or retain employment commensurate with their real ability, which is designed to help eliminate such inability and raise the level of education of such individuals with a view to making them less likely to become dependent on others, to improving their ability to benefit from occupational training and otherwise increasing their opportunities for more productive and profitable employment, and to making them better able to meet their adult responsibilities. (d) The term “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Education. (e) The term “local educational agency” means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or direction of public elementary or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of a State, or such combination of school districts or counties as are recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public elementary or secondary schools; except that if there is a separate board or other legally constituted local authority having administrative control and direction of adult education in public schools therein, such term means such other board or authority. (f) The term “State” includes the District of Columbia, and (except for the purposes of section 305(a)) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Virgin Islands. (g) The term “State educational agency” means the State board of education or other agency or officer primarily responsible for the State supervision of public elementary and secondary schools, or if there is a separate State agency or officer primarily responsible for supervision of adult education in public schools then such agency or officer may be designated for the purposes of this title by the Governor or by State law. If no agency or officer qualifies under the preceding sentence, such term shall mean an appropriate agency or officer designated for the purposes of this title by the Governor.