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2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 11. Construction, Rehabilitation, and Improvement of Schools and Education-Related Facilities › Article 3. General Provisions. › Sec. 14.11.135. Definitions.

In this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise,
(1) “approved school construction project” means the plan for a new school or an addition to or major rehabilitation of an existing school to the extent that the plan has been approved by the commissioner under AS 14.07.020(a)(11);
(2) “capital improvement project” or “project” means school construction or major maintenance;
(3) “costs of school construction” means the cost of acquiring, constructing, enlarging, repairing, remodeling, equipping, or furnishing of public elementary and secondary schools that are owned or operated by the state, a municipality, or a district and includes the sum total of all costs of financing and carrying out the project; these include the costs of all necessary studies, surveys, plans and specifications, architectural, engineering, or other special services, acquisition of real property, site preparation and development, purchase, construction, reconstruction, and improvement of real property and the acquisition of machinery and equipment that may be necessary in connection with the project; an allocable portion of the administrative and operating expenses of the grantee; the cost of financing the project, including interest on bonds issued to finance the project; and the cost of other items, including indemnity and surety bonds and premiums on insurance, legal fees, fees and expenses of trustees, depositaries, financial advisors, and paying agents for the bonds issued as the issuer considers necessary;
(4) “district” means the districts described in AS 14.12.010;
(5) “grant” means a grant under this chapter for school construction or for major maintenance;
(6) “major maintenance” means a project described in AS 14.11.013(a)(1)(C), (D), or (E);
(7) “school construction” means a project described in AS 14.11.013(a)(1)(A), (B), (F), or (G).
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 12. Organization and Government of School System › Article 1. Districts. › Sec. 14.12.010. Districts of state public school system.

The districts of the state public school system are as follows:
(1) each home rule and first class city in the unorganized borough is a city school district;
(2) each organized borough is a borough school district;
(3) the area outside organized boroughs and outside home rule and first class cities is divided into regional educational attendance areas.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 12. Organization and Government of School System › Article 1. Districts. › Sec. 14.12.020. Support, management, and control in general; military reservation schools.

(a) Each regional educational attendance area shall be operated on an areawide basis under the management and control of a regional school board. The regional school board manages and controls schools on military reservations within its regional educational attendance area until the military mission is terminated or so long as management and control by the regional educational attendance area is approved by the department. However, operation of the military reservation schools by a city or borough school district may be required by the department under AS 14.14.110. If the military mission of a military reservation terminates or continued management and control by the regional educational attendance area is disapproved by the department, operation, management, and control of schools on the military reservation transfers to the city or borough school district in which the military reservation is located.
(b) Each borough or city school district shall be operated on a district-wide basis under the management and control of a school board.
(c) The legislature shall provide the state money necessary to maintain and operate the regional educational attendance areas. The borough assembly for a borough school district, and the city council for a city school district, shall provide the money that must be raised from local sources to maintain and operate the district.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 12. Organization and Government of School System › Article 1. Districts. › Sec. 14.12.025. New school districts.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a new school district may not be formed if the total number of pupils for the proposed school district is less than 250 unless the commissioner of education and early development determines that formation of a new school district with less than 250 pupils would be in the best interest of the state and the proposed school district.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 12. Organization and Government of School System › Article 2. School Boards. › Sec. 14.12.030. School boards.

(a) Each borough and city school district with an average daily membership of 5,000 or less has a school board of five members, except that the governing body of the borough or city may by ordinance, concurred in by a majority of the district school board, provide for a school board of seven members.
(b) Each borough and city school district with an average daily membership exceeding 5,000 has a school board of seven, nine, or eleven members, as established by ordinance.
(c) The provisions of (a) and (b) of this section do not apply if the assembly serves as the school board of the borough school district.
(d) The provisions of (a) and (b) of this section do not apply to a regional educational attendance area that converts to a city or borough school district. The number of school board members may be changed by the qualified voters in a district by placing the question on the ballot at a regular school board election in the manner prescribed by law.
(e) Each city or borough school district that is operating schools on a military reservation under AS 14.12.020(a) has one nonvoting delegate from the military reservation or reservations to the school district board to advise and assist the board in matters relating to the military reservation schools operated by the school district and to act as liaison between the board and the military community. The nonvoting delegate shall be appointed by the school district board, shall serve at the pleasure of the school district board, and must be an inhabitant of the area served by the military reservation schools operated by the school district by contract. If an elected community school committee is established on a military reservation, the only inhabitants of that military reservation who are eligible for appointment as the nonvoting delegate are those inhabitants who are members of the elected school committee.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 12. Organization and Government of School System › Article 2. School Boards. › Sec. 14.12.040. Transition from five to seven member board.

The transition from a five-member to a seven-member school board shall be made at the regular election following, or being held within 90 days preceding, the completion of the second regular school term during which the district maintains an average daily membership exceeding 5,000 or at the regular election following the effective date of an ordinance increasing board membership as provided in AS 14.12.030(a). Once the district has a seven-member school board, the number of members may not be changed.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 12. Organization and Government of School System › Article 2. School Boards. › Sec. 14.12.050. School board terms.

(a) The term of office of a member of a borough or city school board is three years and until a successor takes office. However, the members of a newly created five-member school board hold office for initial terms as follows: two for a term of three years, two for a term of two years, and one for a term of one year, the terms being assigned to the members by lot. The members of a newly created seven-member school board hold office for initial terms as follows: three for a term of three years, two for a term of two years, and two for a term of one year, the terms being assigned to the members by lot.
(b) When a transition is made from a five-member school board to a seven-member school board, the length of the terms of office for the two new members to be elected shall be determined by lot so that when the terms of office for the two new members are assigned, the terms of office for the entire seven-member board shall be as follows: three members have a three-year term, two members have a two-year term, and two members have a one-year term. A seven-member school board, the terms of office of whose members at the time of transition from a five-member board did not result in terms expiring in the manner provided in this section, may, by resolution adopted by a majority of the members of the board, adjust the terms of office to conform to the schedule for expiration of terms of office provided in this section.
(c) Nothing in this section prevents school board members from succeeding themselves.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 12. Organization and Government of School System › Article 2. School Boards. › Sec. 14.12.090. Oath.

School board members, before taking office, shall take and sign the following oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Alaska and that I will honestly, faithfully, and impartially discharge my duties as a school board member to the best of my ability.”
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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).
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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) [See delayed amendment note.] 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 16. Special Schools › Article 1. State Boarding Schools. › Sec. 14.16.010. Establishment of state boarding schools.

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 approved by the board.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 16. Special Schools › Article 1. State Boarding Schools. › Sec. 14.16.020. Operation of state boarding schools.

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 administrators;
(4) designate the employees authorized to direct disbursements from the money appropriated for the operation of state boarding schools and for the construction of facilities;
(5) provide custodial services and routine maintenance of physical facilities;
(6) establish procedures for the development and implementation of curriculum and the selection and use of textbooks and instructional materials; the procedures must require a review of textbooks and instructional materials at least once every 10 years;
(7) prescribe health evaluation and placement screening programs for newly admitted students;
(8) establish procedures for staff evaluation; and
(9) establish procedures for providing the training under AS 14.18.060, AS 14.20.149, 14.20.680, AS 14.30.355, 14.30.356, 14.30.362, AS 14.33.100, AS 18.66.310, and AS 47.17.022; the procedures established under this paragraph must include a training schedule that ensures that not less than 50 percent of the total certificated staff employed by the district receive all of the training not less than every two years and that all of the certificated staff employed by the district receive all of the training not less than every four years.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 16. Special Schools › Article 1. State Boarding Schools. › Sec. 14.16.030. Admission to school.

(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 warrant attendance in a domiciliary environment.
(b) The board shall prescribe admission standards and procedures by regulation. Admission standards may not discriminate in favor of or against any resident based on race, sex, creed, national origin, or the location or type of residence within the state.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 16. Special Schools › Article 1. State Boarding Schools. › Sec. 14.16.050. Applicability of education laws.

(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 holidays);
(B) AS 14.03.083 - 14.03.140 (miscellaneous provisions applicable to school district operations);
(C) regulations adopted by the board under authority of AS 14.07.020(a) that are applicable to school districts and their schools, unless the board specifically exempts state boarding schools from compliance with a regulation;
(D) AS 14.12.150 (authorizing school districts to establish and participate in the services of a regional resource center);
(E) AS 14.14.050 (imposing the requirement of an annual audit);
(F) AS 14.14.110 (authorizing cooperation with other school districts);
(G) AS 14.14.140(b) (establishing a prohibition on employment of a relative of the chief school administrator);
(H) AS 14.18 (prohibiting discrimination based on sex in public education);
(2) requirements relating to the public school funding program and the receipt and expenditure of that funding:
(A) AS 14.17.500 (relating to student count estimates);
(B) AS 14.17.505 (relating to school operating fund balances);
(C) AS 14.17.500 - 14.17.910 (setting out the procedure for payment of public school funding and imposing general requirements and limits on money paid);
(3) requirements relating to teacher employment and retirement:
(A) AS 14.14.105 and 14.14.107 (relating to sick leave);
(B) AS 14.20.095 - 14.20.215 (relating to the employment and tenure of teachers);
(C) AS 14.20.220 (relating to the salaries of teachers employed);
(D) AS 14.20.280 - 14.20.350 (relating to sabbatical leave provisions for teachers);
(E) AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260 (authorizing collective bargaining by certificated employees), except with regard to teachers who are administrators and except that the board may delegate some or all of its responsibilities under those statutes;
(F) AS 14.25 (provisions regarding the teachers' retirement system);
(4) requirements relating to students and educational programs:
(A) AS 14.30.180 - 14.30.350 (relating to educational services for children with disabilities);
(B) AS 14.30.360 - 14.30.370 (establishing health education program standards);
(C) AS 14.30.400 - 14.30.410 (relating to bilingual and bicultural education).
(b) A person employed as a teacher at Mt. Edgecumbe High School on May 28, 1988, acquires tenure rights in accordance with AS 14.20.150 and 14.20.155 as though the person had been employed by a school district.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 16. Special Schools › Article 1. State Boarding Schools. › Sec. 14.16.080. Financial provisions applicable to 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 improvement of the facilities of a state boarding school.
(c) Unless specified otherwise in any appropriation bill, AS 37.25.010 does not apply to an appropriation made for the purposes of (a) of this section.
(d) AS 37.25.020 applies to money appropriated for the purposes of (b) of this section.
(e) For purposes of application for and receipt of federal aid to education, a state boarding school constitutes a local educational agency.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 16. Special Schools › Article 2. School Districts Operating Residential Schools. › Sec. 14.16.100. Application for residential school.

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 of open application in itself does not indicate that the department will approve the establishment of a new residential school.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 16. Special Schools › Article 2. School Districts Operating Residential Schools. › Sec. 14.16.200. State funding for districts operating residential schools.

(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 the district in operating that school. To be eligible for reimbursement for costs, a statewide or district-wide residential school operated by a district must provide a suitable student dormitory, food service, and daily access to a public school offering the appropriate grade level for a variable-length or 180-day school term as provided under AS 14.03.030 for the full school year.
(b) Costs that may be claimed by a district for reimbursement under (a) of this section are
(1) one round trip on the least expensive means of transportation between the student's community of residence and the school during the school year if the district expends money for the trip; and
(2) a per-pupil monthly stipend to cover room and board expenses as determined by the department on a regional basis and not to exceed the following amounts:
(A) for the Southeast Region (Region I), $1,230;
(B) for the Southcentral Region (Region II), $1,200;
(C) for the Interior Region (Region III), $1,452;
(D) for the Southwest Region (Region IV), $1,509;
(E) for the Northern Remote Region (Region V), $1,776.
(c) [Repealed, § 4 ch 48 SLA 2013.]
(d) A district may cooperate with an Alaska Native organization, as defined in 20 U.S.C. 7546(2), or a nonprofit organization for the provision of room and board services to students enrolled in a statewide or district-wide residential school operated by a district under terms and conditions required for licensing in the state and as specified by the department in regulation.
(e) In this section, “district” has the meaning given in AS 14.17.990.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 17. Financing of Public Schools › Article 1. State Aid to Public Schools. › Sec. 14.17.300. Public education fund.

(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 appropriated to the fund may be expended without further appropriation. Money appropriated to the fund does not lapse. The money in the fund may be expended only in aid of public schools and for centralized correspondence study programs under this chapter and for transportation of pupils under AS 14.09.010. Interest earned on money held in the fund before expenditure may be appropriated to the fund by the legislature.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 17. Financing of Public Schools › Article 1. State Aid to Public Schools. › Sec. 14.17.400. State aid for districts.

(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 authorized under (a) of this section for a fiscal year, the department shall reduce pro rata each district's basic need by the necessary percentage as determined by the department. If the basic need of each district is reduced under this subsection, the department shall also reduce state funding for centralized correspondence study and the state boarding school by the same percentage.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 17. Financing of Public Schools › Article 1. State Aid to Public Schools. › Sec. 14.17.420. Funding for special needs, secondary school vocational and technical instruction, and intensive services.

(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 the district in providing special education, gifted and talented education, vocational education, and bilingual education services to its students; a special needs funding factor of 1.20 shall be applied as set out in AS 14.17.410(b)(1);
(2) in addition to the special needs funding for which a district is eligible under (1) of this subsection, a district is eligible for intensive services funding for each special education student who needs and receives intensive services and is enrolled on the last day of the count period; for each such student, intensive services funding is equal to the intensive student count multiplied by 13;
(3) in addition to the special needs and intensive services funding available under (1) and (2) of this subsection, secondary school vocational and technical instruction funding is available to assist districts in providing vocational and technical instruction to students who are enrolled in a secondary school; a secondary school vocational and technical instruction funding factor of 1.015 shall be applied as set out in AS 14.17.410(b)(1); in this paragraph, “vocational and technical instruction” excludes costs associated with
(A) administrative expenses; and
(B) instruction in general literacy, mathematics, and job readiness skills.
(b) If a district offers special education, gifted and talented education, vocational education, or bilingual education services, in order to receive funding under (a)(1) of this section, the district must file with the department a plan that indicates the services that will be provided to students who receive these services.
(c) In this section, “intensive services” has the meaning given by the department by regulation adopted under AS 14.30.180 - 14.30.350.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 17. Financing of Public Schools › Article 1. State Aid to Public Schools. › Sec. 14.17.430. State funding for correspondence study.

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 amount calculated by multiplying the ADM of the correspondence program by 90 percent.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums › Chapter 17. Financing of Public Schools › Article 1. State Aid to Public Schools. › Sec. 14.17.440. State funding for state boarding schools.

(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 the student count as described in AS 14.17.450;
(2) multiplying the number obtained under (1) of this subsection by the special needs factor in AS 14.17.420(a)(1) and the secondary school vocational and technical instruction funding factor set out in AS 14.17.420(a)(3) and multiplying that product by the base student allocation; and
(3) multiplying the product determined under (2) of this subsection by the district cost factor that is applicable to calculation of the state aid for the adjacent school district under AS 14.17.460.
(b) State boarding schools are also eligible for intensive services funding under AS 14.17.420(a)(2).