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definitions Sec. 720. Except as otherwise specified, the following definitions shall apply to the terms used in this title: (1) The term “Assistant Secretary” means the Assistant Secretary’ of Health, Education, and Welfare for Education. (2) The term “current expenditure per pupil” for a local educational agency means (1) the expenditures for free public education, including expenditures for administration, instruction, attendance and health services, pupil transportation services, operation and maintenance of plant, fixed charges, and net expenditures to cover deficits for food services and student body activities, but not including expenditures for community services, capital outlay and debt service, or any expenditure made from funds granted under such Federal program of assistance as the Secretary may prescribe, divided by (2) the number of children in average daily attendance to whom such agency provided free public education during the year for which the computation is made. (3) The term “elementary school” means a day or residential school which provides elementary education, as determined under State law. (4) The term “equipment” includes machinery, utilities and built-in equipment and any necessary enclosures or structures to house them, and includes all other items necessary for the provision of educational services, such as instructional equipment and necessary furniture, printed, published, and audiovisual instructional materials, and other related material. 86 Stat. 370 (5) The term “institution of higher education” means an educational institution in any State which— (A) admits as regular students only individuals having a certificate of graduation from a high school, or the recognized equivalent of such a certificate; (B) is legally authorized within such State to provide a program of education beyond high school; (C) provides an educational program for which it awards a bachelor’s degree; or provides not less than a two-year program which is acceptable for full credit toward such a degree, or offers a two-year program in engineering, mathematics, or the physical or biological sciences which is designed to prepare the student to work as a technician and at a semiprofessional level in engineering, scientific, or other technological fields which require the understanding and application of basic engineering, scientific, or mathematical principles or knowledge; (D) is a public or other nonprofit institution; and (E) is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association listed by the Commissioner for the purposes of this paragraph. (6) For the purpose of section 706(a)(2) and section 709(a)(1), the term “integrated school” means a school with an enrollment in which a substantial proportion of the children is from educationally advantaged backgrounds, in which the proportion of minority group children is at least 50 per centum of the proportion of minority group children enrolled in all schools of the local educational agencies within the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, and which has a faculty and administrative staff with substantial representation of minority group persons. (7) For the purpose of section 706(a)(3), the term “integrated school” means a school with (i) an enrollment in which a substantial proportion of the children is from educationally advantaged backgrounds, and in which the Assistant Secretary determines that the number of nonminority group children constitutes that proportion of the enrollment which will achieve stability, in no event more than 65 per centum thereof, and (ii) a facility which is representative of the minority group and nonminority group population of the larger community in which it is located, or, whenever the Assistant Secretary determines that the local educational agency concerned is attempting to increase the proportions of minority group teachers, supervisors, and administrators in its employ, a faculty which is representative of the minority group and nonminority group faculty employed by the local educational agency. (8) 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 a federally recognized Indian reservation, 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, or a combination of local educational agencies; and includes any other public institution or agency having administrative control and direction of a public elementary or secondary school and where responsibility for the control and direction of the activities in such schools which arc to be assisted under this title is vested in an agency subordinate to such a board or other authority, the Assistant Secretary may consider such subordinate agency as a local educational agency for purpose of this title. 86 Stat. 371 (9) (A) The term “minority group” refers to (i) persons who are Negro, American Indian, Spanish-surnamed American, Portuguese, Oriental, Alaskan natives, and Hawaiian natives and (ii) (except for the purposes of section 705), as determined by the Assistant Secretary, persons who are from environments in which a dominant language is other than English and who, as a result of language barriers and cultural differences, do not have an equal educational opportunity, and (B) the term “Spanish-surnamed American” includes persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or Spanish origin or ancestry. (10) The terms “minority group isolated school” and “minority group isolation” in reference to a school mean a school and condition, respectively, in which minority group children constitute more than 50 per cent um of the enrollment of a school. (11) The term, “nonprofit” as applied to a school, agency, organization, or institution means a school, agency, organization, or institution owned and operated by one or more nonprofit corporations or associations no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. (12) The term “secondary school” means a day or residential school which provides secondary education, as determined under State law, except that it does not include any education provided beyond grade 12. (13) The term “Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area” means the area in and around a city of fifty thousand inhabitants or more as defined by the Office of Management and Budget. (14) The term “State” means one of the fifty States or the District of Columbia, and for purposes of section 708(a), Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands shall be deemed to be States, (15) 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 no such officer or agency, an officer or agency designated by the Governor or by State law for this purpose.