Title 14 — Education, Libraries, and Museums
36 chapters · 1,018 sections in this title.
AS 14.17.480 Quality school funding.
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(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…
AS 14.17.490 Public school funding adjustments.
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Article 2. Preparation of Public School Funding Budget. (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 d…
AS 14.17.500 Student count estimate.
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(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 …
AS 14.17.505 Fund balance in school operating fund.
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(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…
AS 14.17.510 Determination of full and true value by Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development.
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(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…
AS 14.17.520 Minimum expenditure for instruction.
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Article 3. Procedure for Payments of State Aid.
AS 14.17.600 Student count periods.
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(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…
AS 14.17.610 Distribution of state aid.
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Article 4. General Provisions. (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,…
AS 14.17.900 Construction and implementation of chapter.
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(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 …
AS 14.17.905 Facilities constituting a school.
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(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…
AS 14.17.910 Restrictions governing receipt and expenditure of district money.
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(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…
AS 14.17.920 Regulations.
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The department shall adopt regulations necessary to implement this chapter.
AS 14.17.990 Definitions.
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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…
AS 14.18.010 Discrimination based on sex and race prohibited.
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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…
AS 14.18.020 Discrimination in employment prohibited.
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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 …
AS 14.18.030 Discrimination in counseling and guidance services prohibited.
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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.
AS 14.18.040 Discrimination in recreational and athletic activities prohibited.
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(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…
AS 14.18.050 Discrimination in course offerings prohibited.
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(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…
AS 14.18.060 Discrimination in textbooks and instructional materials prohibited.
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(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…
AS 14.18.070 Affirmative action.
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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…
AS 14.18.080 Implementation.
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(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.
AS 14.18.090 Enforcement by board of education and early development.
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(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…
AS 14.18.100 Remedies.
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(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…
AS 14.18.110 Effect of chapter.
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This chapter is supplementary to and does not supersede existing laws relating to unlawful discrimination based on sex or race.
AS 14.20.010 Teacher certificate required.
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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…
AS 14.20.015 Recognition of certificates of out-of-state teachers.
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(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…
AS 14.20.017 Grace period for issuance of regular teacher certificates to previously certificated teachers.
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(a) The department shall issue a teacher certificate as described in AS 14.20.020, subject to revocation, to a teacher who meets the requirements of this section. To be eligible for a revocable teacher certificate under this section, a person shall (1) have held a valid teacher c…
AS 14.20.020 Requirements for issuance of certificate; fingerprints.
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(a) Except as provided in (f) of this section, the department shall issue a teacher certificate to every person who meets the requirements in (b), (c), and (h) of this section. (b) A person is not eligible for a teacher certificate unless that person has received at least a bacca…
AS 14.20.022 Subject-matter expert limited teacher certificate.
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(a) Notwithstanding AS 14.20.020, a person may be issued a subject-matter expert limited teacher certificate, valid only in the subject-matter in which the person has expertise, upon compliance with the requirements of this section. A subject-matter expert teacher may only be emp…
AS 14.20.023 Limited language immersion teacher certificates.
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(a) Notwithstanding AS 14.20.020(b), the department may issue a limited language immersion teacher certificate, valid only in the area of expertise for which it is issued, to a person qualified under (b) of this section to teach any subject if the language of instruction is not E…
AS 14.20.025 Limited teacher certificates.
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Notwithstanding AS 14.20.020(b), a person may be issued a limited certificate, valid only in the area of expertise for which it is issued, to teach Alaska Native language or culture, military science, or a vocational or technical course for which the board determines by regulatio…
AS 14.20.027 Reporting of and access to social security numbers.
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Notwithstanding AS 14.20.010 — 14.20.040, the department may not issue a teacher certificate under AS 14.20.020 or a limited teacher certificate under AS 14.20.025 unless the applicant has supplied the department with the applicant's social security number. Upon request, the depa…
AS 14.20.030 Causes for revocation and suspension.
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(a) The commissioner or the Professional Teaching Practices Commission may revoke or suspend a certificate only for the following reasons: (1) incompetency, which is defined as the inability or the unintentional or intentional failure to perform the teacher's customary teaching d…
AS 14.20.035 Evaluation of training and experience.
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In evaluating an applicant for a position in a district or regional educational attendance area, a district or regional educational attendance area shall give preference to those applicants who demonstrate training or experience that establishes that the applicant is likely to be…
AS 14.20.040 Applicability of the Administrative Procedure Act.
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AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) applies to all proceedings under AS 14.20.030, and revocations and suspensions are final and reviewable in accordance with AS 44.62.560 — 44.62.570.
AS 14.20.090 Revocation of certificates. [Repealed, § 59 ch 98 SLA 1966.]
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Article 2. Employment and Tenure.
AS 14.20.095 Right to comment and criticize not to be restricted.
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A bylaw or regulation of the commissioner, a school board, or local school administrator may not restrict or modify the right of a teacher to engage in comment and criticism outside school hours, regarding school personnel, members of the governing body of any school or school di…
AS 14.20.097 Duty-free time.
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Each governing body shall allow its teachers in school facilities with four or more teachers a daily duty-free mealtime of at least 30 minutes reasonably scheduled during the middle of the teacher's workday.
AS 14.20.100 Unlawful to require statement of religious or political affiliation.
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A school board, or a member of a school board, may not require or compel a person applying for the position of teacher in the public schools of the state to state a religious or political affiliation.
AS 14.20.110 Penalty for violation of AS 14.20.100.
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A person violating AS 14.20.100 is punishable by a fine of not more than $100.
AS 14.20.120 Statement of qualifications.
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A statement of the qualifications of each teacher and superintendent employed by the state or a school district shall be filed with the commissioner. The statement must contain the credits earned in college, normal school, or university, and the number of years of teaching experi…
AS 14.20.130 Employment contracts.
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An employer may, after January 1, issue contracts for the following school year to employees regularly qualified in accordance with the regulations of the department. The contract for a superintendent may be for more than one school year but may not exceed three consecutive schoo…
AS 14.20.135 Employment of retired teachers because of shortages. [Repealed by, § 12 ch 57 SLA 2001 as amended by § 10 ch 50 SLA 2005, effective July 1, 2009.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 14.20.136 Reemployment of member of teachers' retirement system.
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(a) Subject to (b) — (d) of this section, a school district may reemploy a member who is retired under a retirement plan established in AS 14.25.009 — 14.25.220, or a member who is retired under a retirement plan established in AS 14.25.310 — 14.25.590. In this subsection, “schoo…
AS 14.20.140 Notification of lay off or nonretention.
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(a) If a teacher who has acquired tenure rights is to be laid off under AS 14.20.177 or is not to be retained for the following school year, the employer shall notify the teacher of the layoff or nonretention by writing, delivered before May 15, or by registered mail postmarked b…
AS 14.20.145 Automatic reemployment.
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If notification of nonretention or layoff is not given according to AS 14.20.140, a teacher is entitled to be reemployed in the same district for the following school year on the contract terms the teacher and the employer may agree upon, or, if no terms are agreed upon, the prov…
AS 14.20.147 Transfer or absorption of attendance area and teachers.
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(a) When an attendance area is transferred from a currently operating district to, or absorbed into, a new or existing school district, the teachers for the attendance area also shall be transferred unless otherwise mutually agreed by the teacher or teachers and the chief school …
AS 14.20.148 Intradistrict teacher reassignments.
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When a teacher is involuntarily transferred or reassigned to a position for which the teacher is qualified, within the district, the teacher's moving expenses shall be paid unless the one-way driving distance is 20 miles or less from the teacher's present place of residence, or u…
AS 14.20.149 Employee evaluation.
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(a) A school board shall adopt a certificated employee evaluation system for evaluation and improvement of the performance of the district's teachers and administrators. The evaluation system applies to all the district's certificated employees except the district's superintenden…
AS 14.20.150 Acquisition and reacquisition of tenure rights.
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(a) Except as provided in (c) or (d) of this section, a teacher acquires tenure rights in a district when the teacher (1) possesses a valid teaching certificate that authorizes the teacher to be employed as a certificated teacher or as an administrator under regulations adopted b…