Title 14 — Education, Libraries, and Museums
36 chapters · 1,018 sections in this title.
AS 14.30.278 Individualized education program; transition services.
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(a) A school district shall develop an individualized education program for special education and related services for each eligible child with a disability. The plan must be completed not later than 30 days after the determination of the child's eligibility. Each individualized …
AS 14.30.280 Psychologist qualifications. [Repealed, § 19 ch 147 SLA 1984.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 14.30.285 Transfers of children with disabilities.
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(a) The department shall institute a statewide program for the education of children with disabilities to ensure that whenever possible children are educated in the state at locations in or near their resident school district. (b) An identified child with a disability may be sent…
AS 14.30.290 Purposes of appropriations. [Repealed, § 5 ch 70 SLA 1963.]
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AS 14.30.295 Special education outside state. [Repealed, § 4 ch 79 SLA 1974.]
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AS 14.30.300 Nonresident apportionment. [Repealed, § 5 ch 70 SLA 1963.]
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AS 14.30.305 State support of programs for children hospitalized or confined to their homes.
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A child who is hospitalized or confined to home and who receives at least 10 hours of special education and related services per week may be counted as a pupil in average daily membership when computing state support under the public school funding program.
AS 14.30.310 Hospitalized and homebound children. [Repealed, § 5 ch 70 SLA 1963.]
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AS 14.30.315 State support of programs for gifted children. [Repealed, § 39 ch 83 SLA 1998; § 41 ch 67 SLA 2001.]
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AS 14.30.320 Reimbursement for hospitalized or homebound children. [Repealed, § 5 ch 70 SLA 1963.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 14.30.325 Surrogate parents.
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(a) The department shall by regulation provide for the appointment of surrogate parents to represent a child with a disability in matters relating to the provision of an appropriate public education. (b) A surrogate parent is not liable for civil damages as a result of an act or …
AS 14.30.330 Application for enrollment. [Repealed, § 19 ch 147 SLA 1984.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 14.30.335 Eligibility for federal funds.
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Notwithstanding any other provision of AS 14.30.180 — 14.30.350, the department may do all things necessary to qualify for federal funds that are available to the state for the education of children with disabilities.
AS 14.30.340 Provision of special education in a private school, home, or hospital setting.
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(a) If a parent of a child with a disability enrolls the child in a private school, including a religious school, at the parent's expense or teaches the child at home, the school district in which the child resides shall make special education and related services available in co…
AS 14.30.345 Regulations. [Repealed, § 59 ch 98 SLA 1966.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 14.30.347 Transportation of children with disabilities.
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When transportation is required to be provided as a related service, a child with a disability shall be transported with children who are not children with disabilities if the district provides transportation to children in the district, except when the nature of the physical or …
AS 14.30.350 Definitions.
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Article 6. Education for Gifted Children. In AS 14.30.180 — 14.30.350, (1) “appropriate education” means personalized instruction with sufficient support services to permit a child to benefit educationally from the instruction; (2) “child with a disability” means a child with one…
AS 14.30.352 Programs for gifted children.
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Article 7 Sexual Abuse and Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention (a) Every school district shall establish educational services for gifted children that provide for student identification, student eligibility, student learning plans, and parental and student participation, incl…
AS 14.30.355 Sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention.
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(a) The governing body of each school district shall adopt and implement a policy, establish a training program for employees and students, and provide parent notices relating to sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention for students enrolled in grades kindergarten…
AS 14.30.356 Teen dating violence and abuse awareness and prevention program; training and notices.
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Article 8. Health, Safety, and Physical Education. (a) The department, in consultation with school districts, shall develop and approve a program relating to teen dating violence and abuse awareness and prevention for grades seven through 12. The program must (1) include training…
AS 14.30.360 Health education curriculum; physical activity guidelines.
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(a) Each district in the state public school system shall be encouraged to initiate and conduct a program in health education for kindergarten through grade 12. The program should include instruction in physical health and personal safety including alcohol and drug abuse educatio…
AS 14.30.361 Sex education, human reproductive education, and human sexuality education.
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(a) A person may only teach a class or program in sex education, human reproduction education, or human sexuality education if the person (1) possesses a valid teacher certificate issued under AS 14.20 and is employed under a contract with the school; or (2) is supervised by a pe…
AS 14.30.362 Suicide awareness and prevention training.
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(a) A school district and the department shall provide youth suicide awareness and prevention training approved by the commissioner to each teacher, administrator, counselor, and specialist who is employed by the district or department to provide services to students in a public …
AS 14.30.365 Interscholastic activities; eligibility.
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(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…
AS 14.30.370 Evaluation.
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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…
AS 14.30.375 School gardens, greenhouses, and farms. [Repealed, § 5 ch 11 SLA 2010.]
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Article 9. Environmental Education.
AS 14.30.380 Environmental education.
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Article 10. Bilingual-Bicultural Education. 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 resou…
AS 14.30.400 Bilingual-bicultural education.
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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 …
AS 14.30.410 Bilingual-bicultural education funds.
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(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.
AS 14.30.420 Native language education.
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Article 11. Adventure-Based Education. (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 …
AS 14.30.500 Adventure-based education program.
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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…
AS 14.30.510 Alaska student leadership development fund. [Repealed, § 12 ch 42 SLA 1997.]
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Article 12. Special Education Service Agency.
AS 14.30.600 Agency established.
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There is established, as a public organization, the special education service agency.
AS 14.30.610 Governing board.
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The agency shall be governed by the Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education (AS 44.29.600).
AS 14.30.620 Employees.
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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).
AS 14.30.630 Powers and duties.
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(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 …
AS 14.30.640 Eligibility for service.
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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…
AS 14.30.650 Funding.
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Each fiscal year, the department shall allocate to the agency not less than $23.13 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…
AS 14.30.660 Definition.
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Article 13. Records of Certain Missing or Transferred Children. In AS 14.30.600 — 14.30.660, unless the context otherwise requires, “agency” means the special education service agency.
AS 14.30.700 Records of missing children.
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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 …
AS 14.30.710 Required records upon transfer.
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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…
AS 14.30.720 Definitions.
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Article 14. Alaska Military Youth Academy. 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.
AS 14.30.740 Funding for Alaska Challenge Youth Academy program. [Repealed, § 3 ch 72 SLA 2013.]
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AS 14.30.745 Provision of student information to academy.
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(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…
AS 14.30.750 Alaska school counseling program grant fund. [Repealed, § 12 ch 42 SLA 1997.]
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Article 15. Reading Intervention.
AS 14.30.760 Statewide screening and support.
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(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 …
AS 14.30.765 Reading intervention services and strategies; progression.
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(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…
AS 14.30.770 Department reading program.
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(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…
AS 14.30.775 Regulation.
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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.
AS 14.30.780 Definitions.
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Article 16. Virtual Education. 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 adequa…