Title 14, Education, Libraries, and Museums

(a) The assembly or council of a municipality that is a school district or a regional school board may, by resolution or majority vote of the body, assume the responsibilities relating to the planning, design, and construction of a school or an education-related facility located …

(a) In addition to other appropriations and funding sources, the department may provide grant funding from the fund established under AS 14.11.030 to a school district that is a regional educational attendance area or a small municipal school district. (b) The amount of money ava…

(a) The regional educational attendance area and small municipal school district school fund is created as an account in the general fund to be used, in addition to other funding sources, to fund projects approved under AS 14.11.025 for the costs of school construction and major …

Every February, the department shall provide to the governor and the legislature an annual report on the effectiveness of the school construction and major maintenance grants, state aid for school construction and major maintenance in regional educational attendance areas, and st…

(a) During each fiscal year, the state shall allocate to a municipality that is a school district the following sums: (1) payments made by the municipality during the fiscal year two years earlier for the retirement of principal and interest on outstanding bonds, notes, or other …

(a) A request for an allocation of funds under AS 14.11.100 must be submitted to the department by the school district not later than October 15 of the fiscal year before the fiscal year for which the request is made. (b) The department shall evaluate projects for which retiremen…

(a) The department shall establish a charter school facilities construction, lease, and major maintenance grant program that supplements grant aid otherwise available under this chapter and that is based on a per pupil funding formula. (b) The department shall apply for available…

During each fiscal year, the state shall allocate to a school district and regional educational attendance area that is approved for a charter school facilities construction, lease, or major maintenance grant under AS 14.11.121 an amount that is not less than $1 for each pupil en…

This chapter may not be construed to prevent a municipality that is a school district or a regional educational attendance area from using other revenue to include additional or expanded facilities as part of approved school construction projects.

The department shall adopt regulations to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

In this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, (1) “approved school construction project” means the plan for a new school or an addition to or major rehabilitation of an existing school to the extent that the plan has been approved by the commissioner under AS 14.07.020(…

The districts of the state public school system are as follows: (1) each home rule and first class city in the unorganized borough is a city school district; (2) each organized borough is a borough school district; (3) the area outside organized boroughs and outside home rule and…

(a) Each regional educational attendance area shall be operated on an areawide basis under the management and control of a regional school board. The regional school board manages and controls schools on military reservations within its regional educational attendance area until …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a new school district may not be formed if the total number of pupils for the proposed school district is less than 250 unless the commissioner of education and early development determines that formation of a new school district with l…

(a) Each borough and city school district with an average daily membership of 5,000 or less has a school board of five members, except that the governing body of the borough or city may by ordinance, concurred in by a majority of the district school board, provide for a school bo…

A borough school district board may establish advisory school boards, and by regulation shall prescribe their manner of selection, organization, powers, and duties.

The transition from a five-member to a seven-member school board shall be made at the regular election following, or being held within 90 days preceding, the completion of the second regular school term during which the district maintains an average daily membership exceeding 5,0…

(a) The term of office of a member of a borough or city school board is three years and until a successor takes office. However, the members of a newly created five-member school board hold office for initial terms as follows: two for a term of three years, two for a term of two …

If a vacancy occurs on the school board, the remaining members shall within 30 days fill the vacancy. The person selected shall serve until the next regular election when a successor shall be elected to serve the balance of the term.

To be eligible to be a member of a school board, a person must have the same qualifications as are necessary to be a municipal voter in the school district and may not have been convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude unless the person has been unconditionally discharged …

School board members, before taking office, shall take and sign the following oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Alaska and that I will honestly, faithfull…

AS 14.12.010 — 14.12.100 apply to home rule and general law municipalities.

Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter or other law, a single body may serve as both the assembly and school board in the manner provided for third class boroughs under AS 29.20.300(b), if (1) an ordinance for that purpose is approved by the assembly and ratified by a ref…

A school board shall insure or indemnify and protect the board, any member of the board, or any agent, employee, teacher, student teacher, officer, or member of the supervisory or administrative staff of the school district against financial loss and expense, including reasonable…

(a) The districts of the state public school system may join together to establish regional resource centers to provide services, including the following: accounting, payroll, and other fiscal; media; instructional support; bilingual-bicultural educational; in-service and staff d…

(a) The department may make grants to regional resource center boards that qualify for the grants under the criteria set out in (b) of this section and regulations adopted by the department. (b) To qualify for a grant under (a) of this section, a regional resource center board sh…

For purposes of AS 14.12.150 — 14.12.180, regional educational attendance areas shall be considered districts.

The department may adopt regulations necessary to implement the provisions of AS 14.12.150 — 14.12.170.

Before the officer responsible for custody, investment, or management of school district money enters upon the duties of office, the district, or the municipality if the treasury is centralized, shall obtain a bond with sufficient sureties in an amount equal to the money that may…

(a) The school board in each school district shall, before October 1 of each year, provide for an audit of all school accounts for the school year ending the preceding June 30. To make the audit the school board shall contract with a public accountant who has no personal interest…

(a) The borough assembly may by ordinance require that all school money be deposited in a centralized treasury with all other borough money. The borough administrator shall have the custody of, invest, and manage all money in the centralized treasury. However, the borough assembl…

The relationships between the school board of a city school district and the city council and executive or administrator are governed in the same manner as provided in AS 14.14.060 for the school board of a borough school district and the borough assembly and executive or adminis…

Within seven days after the certification of the results of each regular school election, the school board shall meet and elect one of its members as president, one as clerk, and, if necessary, one as treasurer.

When a member of a school board has notice of and is absent from three consecutive regular school board meetings and is not excused by the president of the school board, the other members of the school board may declare the position vacant and shall notify the ex-member by regist…

In addition to other duties, a school board shall (1) determine and disburse the total amount to be made available for compensation of all school employees and administrative officers; (2) provide for, during the school term of each year, an educational program for each school ag…

(a) The school board policies relating to management and control of the district shall be expressed in written bylaws formally adopted at regular school board meetings. (b) Administrative rules that do not embody school district policy need not be adopted as bylaws; however, the …

A school board may establish a sick leave bank to enable a teacher, because of unusual circumstances, to draw not more than twice the number of days of sick leave the teacher has accumulated before the first day of school in any school year, or 24 days, whichever is greater. Howe…

(a) Every school district shall allow its certificated employees one and one-third days of sick leave a month with unlimited accumulation of sick leave days. (b) A certificated school district employee who changes employment from one school district to another district, or from a…

(a) When necessary to provide more efficient or more economical educational services, a district may cooperate or the department may require a district to cooperate with other districts, state-operated schools, or the Bureau of Indian Affairs in providing educational or administr…

(a) To encourage cooperative arrangements between school districts and between school districts and private businesses, nonprofit organizations, or government agencies to provide more efficient or economical administrative or educational services, a school district may receive a …

(a) When there are fewer than eight children eligible to attend elementary and secondary school in a district, the school board may declare the district inoperative for that school year. (b) During the school year in which a district is inoperative, the school board shall perform…

(a) A school board may select and employ a qualified person as the chief school administrator for the district. In this subsection, “employ” includes employment by contract. (b) If the district employs a chief school administrator, the administrator shall administer the district …

(a) While serving on the school board, a member may not be employed by that local school board. Members of the immediate family of a school board member may not be employed by the school board except upon written approval of the commissioner. (b) Members of the immediate family o…

The Association of Alaska School Boards is recognized as the organization and representative agency of the members of the school boards of the state.

(a) The department and local districts may cooperate with the Association of Alaska School Boards in its inservice training program for school board members and in encouraging and fostering cooperation among the school boards affiliated with the Association of Alaska School Board…

A school board may create a committee or other advisory body on the involvement of young people in school governance.