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AK Stat § 14.12.110 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 12. Organization and Government of School System|Article 2. School Boards.|Sec. 14.12.110. Single body as assembly and school board.

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 referendum of a majority of the qualified borough voters voting on the question at a regular or special election; and (2) the public school population within the borough is 500 pupils or less.
AK Stat § 14.12.115 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 12. Organization and Government of School System|Article 2. School Boards.|Sec. 14.12.115. Indemnification.

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 legal fees and costs arising out of any claim, demand, suit, or judgment by reason of alleged negligence, alleged violation of civil rights, or alleged wrongful act resulting in death or bodily injury to any person or accidental damage to or destruction of property, inside or outside the school premises, if the board member, agent, employee, teacher, student teacher, officer, or member of the supervisory or administrative staff, at the time of the occurrence, was acting under the direction of the school board within the course or scope of the duties of the board member, agent, employee, teacher, student teacher, officer, or member of the supervisory or administrative staff.
AK Stat § 14.12.150 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 12. Organization and Government of School System|Article 3. Regional Resource Centers.|Sec. 14.12.150. Establishment and purpose.

(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 development; student; diagnostic; school management; and school board member training. (b) A regional resource center established under (a) of this section shall be governed by a board consisting of one representative from each participating district. The representative shall be appointed by the governing board of that district. The term of office of regional resource center board members shall be two years, beginning July 1 of each calendar year. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as original appointment. (c) Regional resource center boundaries shall be established by the board on recommendation of the commissioner of education and early development in the following seven regions of the state: southcentral and the Aleutian Chain, western, northwest, Bristol Bay, interior, southeast, and Kodiak. A district may not be included in more than one regional resource center area. (d) Regional resource center boards may receive and expend both public and private funds to operate a regional resource center. (e) Employees of the regional resource centers are not in the state service and are not subject to AS 39.25 (State Personnel Act). However, all regional resource center employees shall be members of either the teachers' retirement system (AS 14.25) or the public employees' retirement system (AS 39.35).
AK Stat § 14.12.160 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 12. Organization and Government of School System|Article 3. Regional Resource Centers.|Sec. 14.12.160. Regional resource center board grant program; eligibility.

(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 shall (1) be organized under the provisions of AS 14.12.150; (2) adopt bylaws for its operation; (3) provide the department with a plan of operation including the following elements: (A) the bylaws adopted for its operation; (B) a list of participating districts, number of students, and professional staff to be served; (C) a schedule of funds available from federal, state, local, and private sources; (D) a description of the services and programs to be offered; (E) a description of the method by which these services and programs will be evaluated; (F) other information that may be required by the department by regulation; (4) comply with applicable regulations adopted by the department.
AK Stat § 14.12.170 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 12. Organization and Government of School System|Article 3. Regional Resource Centers.|Sec. 14.12.170. Districts.

For purposes of AS 14.12.150 - 14.12.180, regional educational attendance areas shall be considered districts.
AK Stat § 14.12.180 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 12. Organization and Government of School System|Article 3. Regional Resource Centers.|Sec. 14.12.180. Regulations.

The department may adopt regulations necessary to implement the provisions of AS 14.12.150 - 14.12.170.
AK Stat § 14.14.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 1. Operation of Districts.|Sec. 14.14.020. Bond required.

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 come into the officer's official custody, but not to exceed $50,000. The bond shall be conditioned on the officer's honest and faithful disbursement and accounting of all money that may come into the official custody of the officer. The bond shall be filed with the clerk of the school board. This section does not apply to an officer who has been bonded under AS 29.20.610.
AK Stat § 14.14.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 1. Operation of Districts.|Sec. 14.14.050. Annual audit.

(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, direct or indirect, in the fiscal affairs of the district. One certified copy of the audit shall be filed with the commissioner and one certified copy shall be posted in a public place at the principal administrative office of the district. (b) The audit shall conform in form to requirements established by the commissioner. The commissioner shall withhold all payments of state funds after November 15 to a school district that fails to file a certified copy of the audit with the department. (c) The commissioner may provide for a reaudit or an audit check in a school district if in the commissioner's judgment it is necessary to substantiate the reported expenditures. (d) The school board shall not make the audit if an audit that satisfies the requirements of this section and that is filed and posted as required by this section is made according to AS 29.35.120.
AK Stat § 14.14.065 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 1. Operation of Districts.|Sec. 14.14.065. Relationship between city school district and city.

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 administrator.
AK Stat § 14.14.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 1. Operation of Districts.|Sec. 14.14.070. Organization of school board.

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.
AK Stat § 14.14.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 1. Operation of Districts.|Sec. 14.14.080. Declaring a school board vacancy.

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 registered mail. The vacancy shall be filled as provided by AS 14.12.070.
AK Stat § 14.14.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 1. Operation of Districts.|Sec. 14.14.100. Bylaws and administrative rules.

(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 rules must be in written form and readily available to all school personnel.
AK Stat § 14.14.105 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 1. Operation of Districts.|Sec. 14.14.105. Sick leave bank.

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. However, in a case of severe illness or extreme hardship the board may permit a teacher to draw more leave. The board may establish and administer the sick leave bank independently or jointly with teachers.
AK Stat § 14.14.107 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 1. Operation of Districts.|Sec. 14.14.107. Sick leave and sick leave transfer.

(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 school district to the department, or from the department to a school district, may transfer all of the cumulative sick leave to the new employer. It is the responsibility of the employee to notify the new employer, within 90 days of commencing work, of the number of days to be transferred. (c) The department may implement this section by regulation.
AK Stat § 14.14.110 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 1. Operation of Districts.|Sec. 14.14.110. Cooperation with other districts.

(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 administrative services. However, if a cooperative arrangement requires pupils to live away from their usual homes, the school board shall provide classes within the attendance area when there are at least eight children eligible to attend elementary and secondary school in the attendance area. In this subsection, (1) “administrative services” includes supervisory, maintenance, purchasing, or other services that are required for unified administration; (2) “educational services” includes boarding and tuition arrangements, pupil or teacher exchanges, special education services, or curriculum development. (b) The department may prescribe the terms and conditions of any contract entered into under (a) of this section. (c) A contract for the operation of schools on military reservations by a city or borough school district under AS 14.12.020(a) and in (a) of this section must include, in addition to the terms and conditions prescribed by the department under (b) of this section, provisions for the following: (1) the educational program provided by the school district in the schools on the military reservation shall be comparable to the program provided by the school district in its nonmilitary reservation schools; and (2) the school district shall be fully reimbursed for the cost of operation of the schools on a military reservation. (d) The department shall annually prepare a report on the cooperative arrangements entered into under (a) of this section, and shall include in the report the estimated cost savings resulting from the cooperative arrangements. The department shall notify the legislature that the report is available.
AK Stat § 14.14.115 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 1. Operation of Districts.|Sec. 14.14.115. Cooperative arrangement grant program for school districts.

(a) To encourage cooperative arrangements between school districts to provide more efficient or economical administrative or educational services, a school district may receive a one-time cooperative arrangement grant from the department of up to $100,000. (b) [Repealed, § 12 ch 42 SLA 1997.]  (c) In this section, (1) “administrative services” and “educational services” have the meanings given in AS 14.14.110(a); (2) “district” has the meaning given in AS 14.17.990.
AK Stat § 14.14.120 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 1. Operation of Districts.|Sec. 14.14.120. Inoperative district.

(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 those functions necessary to preserve the financial integrity of the district, to preserve the property and assets of the district, and to otherwise ensure against disruption of the continuity of the district business. (c) An inoperative school board shall, if practicable, pay the tuition and boarding costs necessary to enable the school age children within the district to attend school in another district. If a child in an inoperative school district is not attending school in another district, the department shall provide information on correspondence courses and other materials and charge the school board of the inoperative district an amount equal to the actual cost to the department. (d) The terms of office of a school board are not affected by a declaration that the district is inoperative. However, new board members may not be elected during the time a district is inoperative. In the event more than three terms expire during the time a district is inoperative the functions of the school board shall be assumed by the assembly or council until the district becomes operative. When the district becomes operative an expired school board term shall be filled by the assembly or council until the next regular school election when a school board member shall be elected to serve the balance of the term.
AK Stat § 14.14.130 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 1. Operation of Districts.|Sec. 14.14.130. Chief school administrator.

(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 in accordance with the policies that the school board prescribes by bylaw. (c) If the district employs a chief school administrator, the administrator shall select, appoint, and otherwise control all school district employees that serve under the chief school administrator subject to the approval of the school board. (d) This section does not prohibit two or more school districts from sharing the services of a chief school administrator.
AK Stat § 14.14.140 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 1. Operation of Districts.|Sec. 14.14.140. Restriction on employment; compensation of board members.

(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 of a chief school administrator may not be employed by the chief school administrator except upon written approval of the school board. (c) A school board member may receive compensation for time spent in the performance of duties as a school board member if the compensation is authorized by resolution adopted by the school board. The restriction in (a) of this section does not apply to this compensation.
AK Stat § 14.14.150 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 1. Operation of Districts.|Sec. 14.14.150. Association of Alaska School Boards the representative agency of board members.

The Association of Alaska School Boards is recognized as the organization and representative agency of the members of the school boards of the state.
AK Stat § 14.14.160 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 1. Operation of Districts.|Sec. 14.14.160. Cooperation and support of certain association functions.

(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 Boards. (b) School districts may expend district money to carry out the provisions of (a) of this section.
AK Stat § 14.14.250 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 2. Involvement of Young People in School Governance.|Sec. 14.14.250. Establishment of committee.

A school board may create a committee or other advisory body on the involvement of young people in school governance.
AK Stat § 14.14.260 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 2. Involvement of Young People in School Governance.|Sec. 14.14.260. Composition and chairman.

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 women and representatives of minority groups. The members shall be appointed by the board in the manner prescribed by the board without regard to political affiliation and shall serve at the pleasure of that body. One member shall be designated by the board as chairman of the committee.
AK Stat § 14.14.270 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 2. Involvement of Young People in School Governance.|Sec. 14.14.270. Compensation and per diem.

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.
AK Stat § 14.14.280 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 2. Involvement of Young People in School Governance.|Sec. 14.14.280. Functions of the committee.

(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 these procedures, shall enlist the aid of district residents who are actively interested in working with young people. Following adoption of the procedures, the committee shall accept applications from individuals and nominations for consideration, and shall interview all applicants or nominees. (b) Recommendations of the committee shall be limited to young people who (1) have a capacity, desire, interest, ability, and potential for leadership and service to the community and to the state; (2) will have attained the age of 17 but not the age of 22 before the beginning of their service. (c) Annually, the committee shall evaluate the program and shall submit a written report to the board.
AK Stat § 14.14.290 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 2. Involvement of Young People in School Governance.|Sec. 14.14.290. Interns.

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 a time prescribed by the board. Interns shall be appointed without regard to political affiliation. Salaries shall be individually established by the board on the basis of prior experience and the responsibilities of the position to which the intern is assigned.
AK Stat § 14.14.300 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 2. Involvement of Young People in School Governance.|Sec. 14.14.300. Appointment to district committees or other advisory bodies.

(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 appointed to district committees or advisory bodies with special qualifications for membership if the proposed nominee meets the required qualifications set by law, except for age. (c) An individual appointed to a district committee or advisory body under this section is entitled to the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of other members, and the appointment is subject to confirmation by the board when required by law. An additional seat on a district committee or advisory body is not created by virtue of AS 14.14.250 - 14.14.310.
AK Stat § 14.14.310 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums|Chapter 14. Local Administration of Schools|Article 2. Involvement of Young People in School Governance.|Sec. 14.14.310. Definitions.

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.