Alaska Administrative Code
Title 4 - Education and Early Development
Chapter 06 - Government of Schools
Article 1 - General Administration
4 AAC 06.115 - Interscholastic activities

Universal Citation: 4 AK Admin Code 4 AAC 06.115

Current through November 28, 2024

(a) The purpose of this section is to provide a procedure that enables school districts to promote and govern interscholastic activities effectively, economically, and fairly, while keeping those activities in their proper perspective educationally.

(b) A school or school district may join and, to the extent authorized by its budget, may pay dues to the Alaska School Activities Association, Inc., or any other voluntary, nonprofit association whose purpose is to administer and promote interscholastic activities in Alaska so long as the association

(1) makes applications and membership available to all public and private schools, and school districts in the state;

(2) is governed by a board that is elected from the association membership and that fairly represents all regions of the state, that participate in the organization and whose membership may also include appointed representatives of other education organizations;

(3) adopts a constitution and bylaws setting out its philosophy, purpose, rules, and procedures, including a fair procedure for challenging interpretation or application of a rule;

(4) operates in compliance with state and federal law; and

(5) administers interscholastic activities in a manner that

(A) encourages high standards of citizenship and complements the academic programs of schools;

(B) is consistent with and advances the state's education policy set out at AS 14.03.015; and

(C) recognizes that the organization and governance of interscholastic activities is a public purpose that is best met through the cooperation and association of interested schools and school districts.

(D) ensures fairness, safety, and equal opportunity for female students in high school athletics by providing, in consideration of responses to a school survey under 4 AAC 06.520, that if a separate high school athletics team is established for female students, participation shall be limited to females who were assigned female at birth; in this subparagraph, "athletics" means competitive or contact sports, as determined by the association.

(c) The state board considers a decision of an association described in (b) of this section, made when applying association bylaws to a particular person or school, to be an adjudicatory, administrative decision. Under existing case law, when a board performs an administrative function and makes an adjudicatory decision that affects an individual, the final decision is appealable to the superior court under Part VI of the Rules of Appellate Procedure.

(d) In this section, "district" has the meaning given in AS 14.17.990.

Authority:AS 14.03.015

AS 14.07.020

AS 14.07.060

AS 14.18.040

AS 14.18.050

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