§ 3302. Definitions. As used in this compact, unless the context\nclearly requires a different meaning:\n 1. "Active duty" means full-time duty status in the active uniformed\nservice of the United States, including members of the National Guard\nand Reserve on active duty orders pursuant to 10 U.S.C. sections 1209\nand 1211.\n 2. "Children of military families" means a school-aged child or\nchildren, enrolled in kindergarten through twelfth grade, in the\nhousehold of an active duty member.\n 3. "Compact commissioner" means the voting representative of each\ncompacting state appointed pursuant to section thirty-three hundred nine\nof this article.\n 4. "Deployment" means the period one month prior to the service\nmembers' departure from their home station on military orders through\nsix months after return to their home station.\n 5. "Education records" or "educational records" means those official\nrecords, files, and data directly related to a student and maintained by\nthe school or local educational agency, including but not limited to\nrecords encompassing all the material kept in the student's cumulative\nfolder such as general identifying data, records of attendance and of\nacademic work completed, records of achievement and results of\nevaluative tests, health data, disciplinary status, test protocols, and\nindividualized education programs.\n 6. "Extracurricular activities" means a voluntary activity sponsored\nby the school or local educational agency or an organization sanctioned\nby the local educational agency. Extracurricular activities include, but\nare not limited to, preparation for and involvement in public\nperformances, contests, athletic competitions, demonstrations, displays,\nand club activities.\n 7. "Interstate commission on educational opportunity for military\nchildren" means the commission that is created under section\nthirty-three hundred nine of this article, which is generally referred\nto in this article as the "interstate commission".\n 8. "Local educational agency" means a public authority legally\nconstituted by the state as an administrative agency to provide control\nof and direction for kindergarten through twelfth grade public\neducational institutions. In New York state, a local educational agency\nmeans a public school district located within New York state.\n 9. "Member state" means a state that has enacted this compact.\n 10. "Military installation" means a base, camp, post, station, yard,\ncenter, homeport facility for any ship, or other activity under the\njurisdiction of the department of defense, including any leased\nfacility, which is located within any of the several states, the\nDistrict of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States\nVirgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas Islands and\nany other United States territory. Such term does not include any\nfacility used primarily for civil works, rivers and harbors projects, or\nflood control projects.\n 11. "Non-member state" means a state that has not enacted this\ncompact.\n 12. "Receiving state" means the state to which a child of a military\nfamily is sent, brought, or caused to be sent or brought.\n 13. "Rule" means a written statement by the interstate commission\npromulgated pursuant to section thirty-three hundred twelve of this\narticle that is of general applicability, implements, interprets or\nprescribes a policy or provision of the compact, or an organizational,\nprocedural, or practice requirement of the interstate commission.\n 14. "Sending state" means the state from which a child of a military\nfamily is sent, brought, or caused to be sent or brought.\n 15. "State" means a state of the United States, the District of\nColumbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin\nIslands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas Islands and any\nother United States territory.\n 16. "Student" means the child of a military family for whom the local\nedu
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