Mississippi Code Title 37. Education § 37-68-5

(a) “Grant program” means the Equity in Distance Learning Grant Program established in this chapter.

(b) “Department” means the Mississippi Department of Education.

(c) “School” means public school districts, agricultural high schools, the Mississippi School for the Deaf and Blind, the Mississippi School of the Arts and the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science and public charter schools.

(d) “COVID-19” means the Coronavirus Disease 2019.

(e) “State of Emergency” means the State of Emergency declared by Executive Order of the Governor of the State of Mississippi on March 14, 2020, and any amendments thereto or subsequent orders or amendments thereto.

(f) “Express Product List” or “EPL” means the compilation of vendors and products adopted by the department for use by schools for the purchase of devices, software, online tools, and other equipment and technology necessary to support distance learning.

(g) “Learning management system” means a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, automation and delivery of educational courses, training programs, or learning and development programs.

(h) “Eligible expenses” means a cost incurred by a school, pursuant to this chapter, to facilitate or enhance distance learning capabilities under its distance learning plan, including: