'Students with limited or interrupted formal education;' DOE to develop statewide definition.

Department of Education; common statewidedefinition; "students with limited or interrupted formal education." Requires the Department of Education to develop and adopt a commonstatewide definition for the term "students with limited or interruptedformal education" and to require school boards to report on the numberof students who fall under such definition as part of the requireddata collection and reporting on average daily membership for thepurposes of documenting any changes in such numbers over time andallowing for comparisons of such numbers across local school divisions.The bill provides that in developing and adopting such common statewidedefinition, the Department of Education shall consider and may adopt existing definitions of "students with limited or interrupted formal education."