For the purposes of this chapter
(1) State means any of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
(2) State educational agency means, as the State legislature may determine,
(A) the chief State
school officer (such as the State superintendent of public instruction, commissioner of education, or similar officer), or
(B) a board of education controlling the State department of education.
(3) School means
(B) any public or licensed
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nonprofit private residential child care institution (including, but not limited to, orphanages and homes for the mentally retarded, but excluding Job Corps Centers funded by the Department of Labor). For purposes of clauses (A) and (B) of this paragraph, the term
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nonprofit, when applied to any such private
school or institution, means any such
school or institution which is exempt from tax under section
501 (c)(3) of title
26.
(4) Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture.
(5) School year means the annual period from July 1 through June 30.
(6) Except as used in section
1786 of this title, the terms child and children as used in this chapter, shall be deemed to include persons regardless of age who are determined by the State educational agency, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary, to have 1 or more disabilities and who are attending any nonresidential public or
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nonprofit private
school of high
school grade or under for the purpose of participating in a
school program established for individuals with disabilities.
(7) Disability.—
The term disability has the meaning given the term in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 for purposes of title II of that Act (29 U.S.C 760 et seq.).