Tennessee Code Title 49. Education § 49-13-104

(1) “Academic focus” means a distinctive, thematic program such as math, science, arts, general academics, or an instructional program such as Montessori or Paideia;

(2) “Academic plan” means a platform that supports the academic focus of the charter school and will include instructional goals and methods for the school, which, at a minimum, shall include teaching and classroom instruction methods, materials and curriculum that will be used to provide students with knowledge, proficiency and skills needed to reach the goals of the school;

(3) “At-risk student” means a student who, at the time of enrollment in an opportunity public charter school, is a member of a family with a household income that does not exceed four hundred percent (400%) of the federal poverty level, and meets at least one (1) of the following criteria:

(4) “Authorizer” means a local board of education or the Tennessee public charter school commission that makes decisions regarding the approval, renewal, and revocation of a public charter school application or agreement;

(5) “Charter agreement” means a fixed-term renewable agreement between a public charter school and the authorizer that outlines the rights, responsibilities, and performance expectations of each party;

(6) “Charter management organization” or “CMO” means a nonprofit entity that manages or operates two (2) or more public charter schools;

(7) “Commission” means the Tennessee public charter school commission;

(8) “Conversion public charter school” means a charter school established by the conversion of an existing non-charter public school into a charter school;

(9) “Foreign” means a country or jurisdiction outside of any state or territory of the United States;

(10) “Governing body” means the organized group of persons who will operate a public charter school or schools by deciding matters, including, but not limited to, budgeting, curriculum and other operating procedures for the public charter school and by overseeing management and administration of a public charter school;

(11) “Licensed teacher” means a person over the age of eighteen (18) who meets the qualifications of chapter 5, part 1 of this title and holds a valid Tennessee educator license in compliance with the rules and regulations of the state board of education;

(12) “Local education agency” or “LEA” has the same definition as used in § 49-3-104;

(13) “Opportunity public charter school” means a public charter school serving any of the grades six through twelve (6-12) for which at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the students enrolled in the public charter school, at the time of enrollment, are at-risk students and that provides:

(14) “Public charter school” means a public school in this state that is established and operating under the terms of a charter agreement and in accordance with this chapter;

(15) “Replication” means the creation of one (1) or more charter schools pursuant to the process authorized in § 49-13-137 that utilize the same academic focus of an existing charter school operated by a sponsor or governing body;

(16) “Sponsor” means a proposed governing body filing an application for the establishment of a public charter school that is not a:

(17) “Underutilized property”:

(18) “Vacant property”: