Title 14 — Education, Libraries, and Museums
36 chapters · 1,018 sections in this title.
AS 14.11.132 Regulations.
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The department shall adopt regulations to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
AS 14.11.135 Definitions.
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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(…
AS 14.12.010 Districts of state public school system.
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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…
AS 14.12.020 Support, management, and control in general; military reservation schools.
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(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 …
AS 14.12.025 New school districts.
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Article 2. School Boards. 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 …
AS 14.12.030 School boards.
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(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…
AS 14.12.035 Advisory school boards in borough school districts.
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A borough school district board may establish advisory school boards, and by regulation shall prescribe their manner of selection, organization, powers, and duties.
AS 14.12.040 Transition from five to seven member board.
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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…
AS 14.12.050 School board terms.
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(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 …
AS 14.12.070 Vacancies.
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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.
AS 14.12.080 Qualification of members.
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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.
AS 14.12.090 Oath.
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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 14.12.100 Application.
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AS 14.12.010 — 14.12.100 apply to home rule and general law municipalities.
AS 14.12.110 Single body as assembly and school board.
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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…
AS 14.12.115 Indemnification.
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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…
AS 14.12.120 Limited liability. [Repealed, § 4 ch 148 SLA 1978.]
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Article 3. Regional Resource Centers.
AS 14.12.150 Establishment and purpose.
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(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…
AS 14.12.160 Regional resource center board grant program; eligibility.
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(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…
AS 14.12.170 Districts.
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For purposes of AS 14.12.150 — 14.12.180, regional educational attendance areas shall be considered districts.
AS 14.12.180 Regulations.
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The department may adopt regulations necessary to implement the provisions of AS 14.12.150 — 14.12.170.
AS 14.14.020 Bond required.
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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…
AS 14.14.050 Annual audit.
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(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…
AS 14.14.060 Relationship between borough school district and borough; finances and buildings.
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(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…
AS 14.14.065 Relationship between city school district and city.
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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…
AS 14.14.070 Organization of school board.
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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.
AS 14.14.080 Declaring a school board vacancy.
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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…
AS 14.14.090 Duties of school boards.
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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…
AS 14.14.100 Bylaws and administrative rules.
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(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 …
AS 14.14.105 Sick leave bank.
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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…
AS 14.14.107 Sick leave and sick leave transfer.
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(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…
AS 14.14.110 Cooperation with other districts.
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(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…
AS 14.14.115 Cooperative arrangement grant program for school districts.
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(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 …
AS 14.14.120 Inoperative district.
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(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…
AS 14.14.130 Chief school administrator.
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(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 …
AS 14.14.140 Restriction on employment; compensation of board members.
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(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…
AS 14.14.150 Association of Alaska School Boards the representative agency of board members.
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The Association of Alaska School Boards is recognized as the organization and representative agency of the members of the school boards of the state.
AS 14.14.160 Cooperation and support of certain association functions.
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(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…
AS 14.14.170 Secs. 14.14.170 — 14.14.200. Community school committees; qualifications of members and voters; terms of office and vacancies; duties. [Repealed, § 6 ch 24 SLA 1979.]
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Article 2. Involvement of Young People in School Governance.
AS 14.14.250 Establishment of committee.
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A school board may create a committee or other advisory body on the involvement of young people in school governance.
AS 14.14.260 Composition and chairman.
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The committee may consist of not more than nine members, drawn from the fields of public affairs, education, the sciences, the professions, other fields of private endeavor, from the state or local service, and three additional members from the 17-22 age group, and shall include …
AS 14.14.270 Compensation and per diem.
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Members of the committee or other advisory body serve without compensation but are entitled to per diem and travel expenses as may be authorized by the board.
AS 14.14.280 Functions of the committee.
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(a) The committee shall establish procedures to enable it to recommend annually to the board a group of promising young men and women from whom the board may select interns and youth voting members of district committees or other advisory bodies. The committee, in establishing th…
AS 14.14.290 Interns.
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An intern may be appointed to serve on the staff of the board or the district administrator for a period of time prescribed by the board, with a maximum of one year. An intern may be assigned responsibilities in any office, department, or agency of the district. Service begins at…
AS 14.14.300 Appointment to district committees or other advisory bodies.
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(a) Notwithstanding AS 39.05.100 or a provision of law relating to age, the board may appoint any 17-21 year old district resident to a district committee or advisory body if recommended by the youth involvement committee. (b) A young person recommended by the committee may be ap…
AS 14.14.310 Definitions.
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In AS 14.14.250 — 14.14.310, (1) “board” means the governing body of a borough or city school district or regional educational attendance area; (2) “district” means a borough, city, or regional educational attendance area.
AS 14.16.010 Establishment of state boarding schools.
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The department may establish and operate boarding schools, to be managed in accordance with this chapter. A state boarding school must offer a secondary education curriculum to students enrolled in it, and must provide domiciliary services for students needing such services, if a…
AS 14.16.020 Operation of state boarding schools.
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In the management of state boarding schools, the board shall (1) adopt a philosophy of education for state boarding schools; (2) approve the employment of personnel necessary to operate state boarding schools; (3) establish the salaries and benefits to be paid teachers, excluding…
AS 14.16.030 Admission to school.
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(a) A state boarding school may admit students who are qualified in accordance with applicable admission standards. Preference for enrollment must be given to students currently enrolled at a boarding school and to students whose educational, emotional, or family requirements war…
AS 14.16.040 Status of state boarding school.
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A state boarding school is a public school of the state.
AS 14.16.050 Applicability of education laws.
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(a) The following provisions apply with respect to the operation and management of a state boarding school as if it were a school district: (1) requirements relating to school district operations: (A) AS 14.03.030 — 14.03.050 (defining the school term, day in session, and school …