Title 14, Education, Libraries, and Museums

(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…

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.

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…

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…

(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…

A state boarding school is a public school of the state.

(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 …

The employees of a state boarding school are state employees.

AS 23.40.070 — 23.40.260 (Public Employment Relations Act) apply to the employees of a state boarding school.

(a) AS 14.17.440 applies to the calculation of public school funding payable for operation of a state boarding school. (b) In the transmittals required by AS 37.07.060 — 37.07.062, the governor shall request amounts for the expenses of construction, rehabilitation, and improvemen…

Before establishing a residential school, a school district shall apply to the department for approval to establish and operate a statewide or district-wide residential school. The department shall accept applications during an open application period conducted annually. A period…

(a) A district that operates a statewide or district-wide residential school for students in grades nine through 12 that has been approved by the department under regulations adopted by the board is eligible to receive a boarding stipend as reimbursement for the costs incurred by…

(a) The public education fund is established. The fund consists of appropriations for (1) distribution to school districts, to the state boarding school, and for centralized correspondence study under this chapter; and (2) transportation of pupils under AS 14.09.010. (b) Money ap…

(a) The state aid for which a school district is eligible in a fiscal year is equal to the amount for which a district qualifies under AS 14.17.410. (b) If the amount appropriated to the public education fund for purposes of this chapter is insufficient to meet the amounts author…

(a) As a component of public school funding, a district is eligible for special needs and secondary school vocational and technical instruction funding and may be eligible for intensive services funding as follows: (1) special needs funding is available to a district to assist th…

Except as provided in AS 14.17.400(b), funding for the state centralized correspondence study program or a district correspondence program, including a district that offers a statewide correspondence study program, includes an allocation from the public education fund in an amoun…

(a) Except as provided in AS 14.17.400(b), funding for state boarding schools established under AS 14.16.010 includes an allocation from the public education fund in an amount calculated by (1) determining the ADM of state boarding schools by applying the school size factor to th…

(a) For purposes of calculating a school's ADM to determine state aid, the ADM of each school in a district shall be computed by applying the following formula: If the student count in a school isThe adjusted student count is At leastBut less thanBaseMultiplierThe number of stude…

(a) For purposes of calculating a district's adjusted ADM under AS 14.17.410(b)(1), the district cost factor for a school district is (1) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, the factor set out under column (A) of this subsection, (2) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010…

The base student allocation is $6,660.

(a) As a component of public school funding, a district is eligible to receive a quality school funding grant not to exceed the district's adjusted ADM multiplied by $16. The department shall by regulation establish a grant process to implement this section. (b) For purposes of t…

(a) Except as provided in (b) — (e) of this section, if, in fiscal year 1999, a city or borough school district or a regional educational attendance area would receive less public school funding under AS 14.17.410 than the district or area would have received as state aid, the di…

(a) A district shall prepare and submit to the department by November 5 of each fiscal year, in the manner and on forms prescribed by the department, an estimate of its ADM and other student count data, including per school student count data, for the succeeding fiscal year upon …

(a) A district may not accumulate in a fiscal year an unreserved portion of its year-end fund balance in its school operating fund, as defined by department regulations, that is greater than 10 percent of its expenditures for that fiscal year. (b) The department shall review each…

(a) To determine the amount of required local contribution under AS 14.17.410(b)(2) and to aid the department and the legislature in planning, the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, in consultation with the assessor for each district in a city or borough…

(a) Within two weeks after the end of the 20-school-day period ending the fourth Friday in October, each district shall transmit a report to the department that, under regulations adopted by the department, reports its ADM for that count period and other student count information…

(a) The department shall determine the state aid for each school district in a fiscal year on the basis of the district's student count data reported under AS 14.17.600. On or before the 15th day of each of the first nine months of each fiscal year, one-twelfth of each district's…

(a) This chapter does not create a debt of the state. Each district shall establish, maintain, and operate under a balanced budget. The state is not responsible for the debts of a school district. (b) Money to carry out the provisions of this chapter may be appropriated annually …

(a) For purposes of this chapter, the determination of the number of schools in a district is subject to the following: (1) a community with an ADM of at least 10, but not more than 100, shall be counted as one school; (2) a community with an ADM of at least 101, but not more tha…

(a) Each district shall maintain complete financial records of the receipt and disbursement of state aid, money acquired from local effort, and other money received or held by the district. The records must be in the form required by the department and are subject to audit by the…

The department shall adopt regulations necessary to implement this chapter.

In this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, (1) “ADM or average daily membership” means the aggregate number of full-time equivalent students enrolled in a school district during the student count period for which a determination is being made, divided by the actual n…

Recognizing the benefit to the state and nation of equal educational opportunities for all students, and equal employment opportunity for public education employees, discrimination on the basis of sex against an employee or a student in public education in Alaska and discriminati…

The board, the Board of Regents, and each school board in the state shall (1) allow no difference in conditions of employment, including hiring practices, credential requirements, leaves of absence, hours of employment, pay, employee benefits, and assignment of instructional and …

Guidance and counseling services in public education are available to students equally and shall stress access to career and vocational opportunities to students without regard to sex.

(a) Equal opportunity for both sexes in athletics and in recreation shall be provided in a manner that is commensurate with the general interests of the members of each sex. Separate school-sponsored teams may be provided for each sex. A school that sponsors separate teams in a p…

(a) Except as provided in (b) this section, all public education classes are available to all students without regard to sex, and curriculum requirements may not be differentiated on the basis of sex. (b) Separation of the sexes is permitted during sex education programs and duri…

(a) School boards shall have textbooks and instructional materials reviewed for evidence of sex bias in accordance with AS 14.08.111(9) and AS 14.14.090(7). School boards shall use educationally sound, unbiased texts and other instructional materials as they become available. Not…

The board shall establish procedures for affirmative action programs covering both equal employment and equal educational opportunity to be implemented by all school districts and regional educational attendance areas determined by the board not to be in compliance with this chap…

(a) The board shall adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) to implement this chapter. (b) The Board of Regents shall adopt rules under AS 14.40.170(b)(1) to implement this chapter.

(a) The board shall enforce compliance by school districts and regional educational attendance areas with the provisions of this chapter and the regulations and procedures adopted under it by appropriate order made in accordance with AS 44.62. After a hearing conducted by the off…

(a) A person aggrieved by a violation of this chapter or of a regulation or procedure adopted under this chapter as to primary or secondary education may file a complaint with the board and has an independent right of action in superior court for civil damages and for such equita…

This chapter is supplementary to and does not supersede existing laws relating to unlawful discrimination based on sex or race.

A person may not be employed as a teacher in the public schools of the state unless that person possesses a valid teacher certificate except that a person who has made application to the department for a teacher certificate or renewal of a teacher certificate that has not been ac…

(a) The department shall issue a preliminary teacher certificate to an out-of-state teacher who meets the requirements of this section. To be eligible for a preliminary teacher certificate, a person shall (1) have received at least a baccalaureate degree from an institution of hi…