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["FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION\nDOE INFORMATION DATABASE REQUIREMENTS\n2021-22 AUTOMATED STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM\nAPPENDIX U: TRANSPORTATION MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY"]
["MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY signifies one of the student transportation membership categories listed below.  "]
["Students may be counted only one time.  Students who ride on more than one bus or mode of transportation during the school day can only be counted once.  Students who are transported in the morning or afternoon and who are transported from center to center may only be counted once."]
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[" Category ","Note","CHANGE","DATE OF CHANGE"]
["F","Teenage Parents and Infants, Unweighted\nStudents enrolled in the Teenage Parent Program and their eligible children, pursuant to Section 1003.54, Florida Statutes regardless of distance.\n"]
["G","Hazardous Walking – Elementary, Unweighted\nKindergarten through sixth grade students enrolled in elementary school who meet the criteria for hazardous walking pursuant to Section 1006.23, Florida Statutes.  Sixth grade students attending middle or junior high school may not be counted.\n"]
["L","Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - Prekindergarten through Grade 12, Weighted: Students reported under Category L must meet one of the criteria listed below.\n\nIndividuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - K-12, Weighted\nKindergarten through twelfth grade students who are classified as disabled.  Each student’s Individual Educational Plan (IEP) documentation must contain information which specifies that he or she meets one of the following criteria for specialized transportation services:\n1. Medical equipment required. Medical equipment is defined as wheelchair, crutches, walker, cane, tracheotomy equipment, positioning or unique seating devices.\n2. Medical condition that requires a special transportation environment as per physician’s prescription (for instance, tinted windows, dust-controlled atmosphere, temperature control).\n3. Aide or monitor required due to disability and specific need of student.\n4. Shortened day required due to disability and specific need of student.\n5. School assigned is located in an out-of-district school system.\n\nIndividuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) – Prekindergarten, Weighted\nPrekindergarten students who are disabled pursuant to Rule 6A-6.03026, Florida Administrative Code (FAC), regardless of distance, and who meet one of the criteria listed above.\n\nCenter To Center  or Non-center Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Weighted\nPrekindergarten and Kindergarten through twelfth grade students with disabilities who are transported from center to center during the day and who are not counted from home to school in Membership Categories F, G, or M. Included are students with disabilities who are transported from one destination to another in the state (center to non-center), provided one destination is a school center and the student’s Individual Education Plan documentation identifies the need for the instructional programs or service, and specifies that transportation is to be provided by the school district.  In order to be claimed in this category, a student must meet one or more of the criteria listed above.  ","Transportation Membership Categories A, C, and I were consolidated to form new Category L.\n\nTitle change.\n","2013-06-01"]
["M","All Other FEFP Transportation Funding-Eligible Students, Unweighted: Students reported under Category M must meet one of the criteria listed below.\n\nIndividuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - K-12, Unweighted \nKindergarten through twelfth grade students who are classified as disabled, who live less than two miles from school, and who do not meet the criteria listed in Category L above. Note that Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD), Speech Impaired (SI), and Language Impaired (LI) students who live less than two miles from school and who are required by the student’s Individual Education Plan documentation to receive transportation services are reported here.  Note:  If a student is SLD, SI, or LI and transportation is not required by the IEP documentation, and the student lives less than two miles from school, the student is not eligible for state transportation funding and is reported in Membership Category N, “Non-FEFP Fundable Prekindergarten through Grade 12 Students”.\n\nIndividuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) – Prekindergarten, Unweighted\nPrekindergarten students with disabilities pursuant to Rule 6A-6.03026, FAC, regardless of distance, and who do not meet one of the criteria listed in Membership Category L above.\n\nAll Other Students Living Two Miles or More, Unweighted\nKindergarten through twelfth grade transported students living two miles or more from school if not reported in Membership Categories L and F.\n\nCenter to Center or Non-center Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Unweighted\nPrekindergarten and Kindergarten through twelfth grade students with disabilities who are transported from one school center to another, or from one school center to a non-center, if specified in the IEP as described in Membership Category L above, but who do not meet one of the criteria listed in Membership Category L. These students must not have been counted from home to school in Membership Categories L, F, or G.\n\nCenter to Center Vocational and Dual Enrollment Students, Unweighted\nPrekindergarten and Kindergarten through twelfth grade vocational and dual enrollment students who are transported from center to center during the day and who are not counted from home to school in Membership Categories L, F, or G.  ","Transportation Membership Categories B, E, H, J, and K were consolidated to form new Category M.\n\nTitle change.\n","2013-06-01"]
["N","Non-FEFP Fundable Prekindergarten through Grade 12 Students\nNon-FEFP fundable PK-12 students living less than two miles, all non-eligible PK students and all non-eligible students living two miles or more from school, such as those funded through other sources.\n\nTransported students living less than two miles from home to school and who are not eligible for funding in the FEFP transportation categorical program.  This record may only be entered with Vehicle Category B, school buses.  Report all transported students whose homes are less than two miles from school and who do not qualify under one of the other membership categories.  Also report all transported Prekindergarten students who are not eligible to be reported in any other Membership Category and all transported students who live two miles or more from school but are funded through other sources.\n","Title change.","2013-06-01"]
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["Notes: A student may only be counted once.  The definition of school center is provided in Section 1011.68, Florida Statutes."]
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["Last Updated 7/1/2021"]