Title 14, Education, Libraries, and Museums

(a) A full-time student who is eligible under (b) of this section who is enrolled in grades nine through 12 in an alternative education program that is located in the state and that does not offer interscholastic activities is eligible to participate in any interscholastic activi…

Health education programs conducted under AS 14.30.360 shall be evaluated by the department in the same manner as other curriculum programs are evaluated, except that the evaluation shall also include changes in the health status of the pupils as determined by physical and dental…

The board shall encourage each school board to initiate and conduct a program of environmental education for kindergarten through grade 12. The program should include, but is not limited to, education regarding the need to balance resource development with environmental safeguard…

City or borough district school boards and regional educational attendance area boards shall provide a bilingual-bicultural education program for each school in a city or borough school district or regional educational attendance area that is attended by at least eight pupils of …

(a) [Repealed, § 12 ch 42 SLA 1997.] (b) The department shall adopt regulations for the determination of entitlement and the distribution of bilingual-bicultural funds to city and borough school districts and regional educational attendance areas.

(a) A school board shall establish a local Native language curriculum advisory board for each school in the district in which a majority of the students are Alaska Natives, and any school district with Alaska Native students may establish a local Native language curriculum adviso…

An adventure-based education program is a program designed to bring adventure-based education to high school students and appropriate juvenile offenders. A program shall include provisions for the following phases: (1) Phase I: Basic Skills Learning (A) physical conditioning: run…

There is established, as a public organization, the special education service agency.

The agency shall be governed by the Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education (AS 44.29.600).

Employees of the agency are not in the state service and are not subject to AS 39.25 (State Personnel Act). However, employees of the agency shall be members of either the Teachers' Retirement System (AS 14.25) or the Public Employees' Retirement System (AS 39.35).

(a) The agency may (1) receive and expend public and private funds to carry out the purposes of the agency; (2) contract with the department and other public or private agencies for the provision of special education or related services; (3) do whatever is necessary to carry out …

The services of the agency shall be available to school districts that serve children whose special education needs occur infrequently, who require specialized services not normally available in the school district, and who cannot be easily served by local school district personn…

Each fiscal year, the department shall allocate to the agency not less than $26.89 times the number of students in the state in average daily membership in the preceding fiscal year as determined under AS 14.17.600. Money to carry out the provisions of this section may be appropr…

In AS 14.30.600 — 14.30.660, unless the context otherwise requires, “agency” means the special education service agency.

Upon notification by the Department of Public Safety of a child's disappearance, a school or school district in which the child is currently or was previously enrolled shall flag the school record of that child in a manner that, when a copy or information regarding the record is …

Within 14 days after enrolling a child as a transfer student from this or another state in an elementary or secondary school, the school or school district shall request directly from the child's previous school a certified copy of the child's record. An elementary or secondary s…

In AS 14.30.700 — 14.30.720, (1) “child” means a person under 18 years of age; (2) “school district” means a municipal school district or a regional educational attendance area.

(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, on or before January 15 and July 15 of each year, a school district shall provide to the director of the Alaska Military Youth Academy, operated by the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs for the purpose of educating and tra…

(a) To implement the district reading intervention services established under AS 14.30.765, the department shall (1) adopt a statewide screening tool to administer to students in grades kindergarten through three to identify students with reading deficiencies, including students …

(a) Each school district shall offer intensive reading intervention services to students in grades kindergarten through three who exhibit a reading deficiency to assist students in achieving reading proficiency at or above grade level by the end of grade three. The district shall…

(a) The department shall establish a reading program to provide direct support for and intervention in intensive reading intervention services annually in the lowest-performing 25 percent of schools serving students in grades kindergarten through three as determined under AS 14.0…

(a) Subject to appropriation, a school district is eligible to receive a reading proficiency incentive grant of not less than $450 for each student in kindergarten through grade six who, at the end of the school year, (1) performs at grade-level reading proficiency; or (2) demons…

The department shall, by regulation, define “dyslexia” for the purposes of AS 14.30.760 — 14.30.780. The department shall consider the meaning of “dyslexia” given by the International Dyslexia Association when adopting the definition by regulation.

In AS 14.30.760 — 14.30.780, (1) “district” has the meaning given in AS 14.17.990; (2) “evidence-based reading intervention” means an intervention based on reliable, trustworthy, and valid evidence that has a demonstrated record of success in adequately increasing a student's rea…

(a) The department shall, in cooperation with school districts, establish a virtual education consortium for the purpose of making virtual education and professional development resources available to students and teachers in the state. The department shall establish standards fo…

The school board of a borough or city school district or regional educational attendance area, or a private or denominational school may require that school safety patrols be established to assist pupils to cross streets and highways adjacent to schools in safety.

(a) If a school board, or a private or denominational school determines that a safety patrol should be established for a school, the principal of the school shall appoint pupils in the school to serve as members of the patrol. (b) A pupil may not be appointed a patrol member unle…

(a) Patrol members shall (1) encourage pupils to refrain from crossing streets and highways at other than regular crossings; (2) direct pupils not to cross streets and highways when the presence of traffic renders crossing unsafe; (3) when directed, assist pupils to safely board …

The commissioner shall, after consulting with the commissioner of public safety, adopt standards to guide patrol members in the conduct of their duties, and shall specify appropriate insignia to be worn by patrol members while on duty.

The state troopers or the police department of a political subdivision of the state may, upon request by the department, a school board, or a private or denominational school, assist in the training and control of safety patrols.

The state or a political subdivision of it, a school board or any individual member of it, a private or denominational school, principal, teacher, patrol member, or parent or guardian of a patrol member is immune from liability that might otherwise be incurred as a result of an i…

(a) Each district shall develop a model school crisis response plan for use by each school in the district. Each school in a district shall develop a school specific crisis response plan. Each school shall form a crisis response team consisting of the principal, one certified and…

The purpose of AS 14.33.110 — 14.33.140 is to (1) implement and maintain community-based standards of school behavior that are developed by students, parents, teachers, school administrators, and the community; (2) facilitate the creation of a standard of school behavior and safe…

(a) Each governing body shall adopt a written school disciplinary and safety program. The program required under this subsection must be made available to students, parents, legal guardians, and the public and include written (1) standards for student behavior and safety that ref…

(a) A public school disciplinary and safety program must (1) prohibit restraint or seclusion of a student except as provided in (b) of this section; (2) be annually reviewed with school personnel; (3) include a written report of each incident that is maintained in the student's r…

(a) The department shall approve crisis intervention training programs for schools, which shall include training in (1) evidence-based techniques that have been shown to be effective in the prevention of restraint and seclusion of students; (2) evidence-based techniques shown to …

(a) A teacher, a teacher's assistant, a principal, or another person responsible for students may not be terminated or otherwise subjected to formal disciplinary action for lawful enforcement of an approved school disciplinary and safety program, including behavior standards, ado…

A teacher, a teacher's assistant, a principal, or another person responsible for students is not liable for civil damage resulting from an act or omission (1) arising out of enforcement of an approved school disciplinary and safety program adopted under AS 14.33.120; and (2) aris…

(a) By July 1, 2007, each school district shall adopt a policy that prohibits the harassment, intimidation, or bullying of any student. Each school district shall share this policy with parents or guardians, students, volunteers, and school employees. (b) The policy must be adopt…

Beginning with the 2007 — 2008 school year, each school district shall report to the department by November 30 all incidents resulting in suspension or expulsion for harassment, intimidation, or bullying on school premises or on transportation systems used by schools in the schoo…

(a) A school employee, student, or volunteer may not engage in reprisal, retaliation, or false accusation against a victim, witness, or person with reliable information about an act of harassment, intimidation, or bullying. (b) A school employee, student, or volunteer who has wit…

A school employee, student, or volunteer who reports an incident of harassment, intimidation, or bullying to a school official and who makes this report in good faith is immune from a cause of action for damages arising from a failure to remedy the reported incident or for making…

In AS 14.33.200 — 14.33.250, (1) “district” has the meaning given in AS 14.17.990; (2) “harassment, intimidation, or bullying” means an intentional written, oral, or physical act, when the act is undertaken with the intent of threatening, intimidating, harassing, or frightening t…

(a) Each school district shall adopt a policy that regulates the possession and use of nonschool-issued wireless telecommunications devices during regular school hours, including lunch and passing periods. Each school district shall share this policy with parents or guardians, st…

The Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children as contained in this section is enacted into law and entered into on behalf of the state with all other states and jurisdictions legally joining in it in a form substantially as follows: INTERSTATE COMPACT ON…

Under the compact established under AS 14.34.010, the commissioner may designate an officer as the compact administrator. The compact administrator shall cooperate with all departments, agencies, and officers of and in the government of this state and its subdivisions in facilita…