criminal offendermeans any individual who is charged with or convicted of any criminal offense, including a youth offender or a juvenile offender;
Departmentmeans the Department of Education or any component thereof;
Deputy Secretarymeans the Deputy Secretary of Education;
functionincludes any duty, obligation, power, authority, responsibility, right, privilege, activity, or program;
officeincludes any office, institute, council, unit, organizational entity, or component thereof.
outlying areasincludes Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, but does not include the freely associated states of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau.
Secretarymeans the Secretary of Education;
Stateincludes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands;
State educational agencymeans the State board of education or other agency or officer primarily responsible for the State supervision of public elementary and secondary schools, or, if there is no such officer or agency, an officer or agency designated by the Governor or by State law.