Current through November 28, 2024
(a) A district
shall provide a secondary school diploma to a person who
(1) holds a certificate of achievement issued
by the district on or after July 1, 2014 and before June 30, 2016;
(2) takes a college and career readiness
assessment; and
(3) pays applicable
fees charged by the district or the test vendor.
(b) A person may satisfy the requirement of
(a)(2) of this section by taking a college and career readiness assessment
(1) offered through a school district,
whether during or outside regular school hours; or
(2) offered outside the state's public school
system.
(c) A district
shall permit a person who has exited secondary school to take a college and
career readiness assessment, when the assessment is administered by the
district during school hours or outside school hours, if the person
(1) holds a certificate of achievement issued
on or after July 1, 2014 and before June 30, 2016 by the district or provides
evidence to the district that the person holds a certificate of achievement
issued on or after July 1, 2014 and before June 30, 2016 by another school
district in the state;
(2) meets
all test registration requirements of the district and the test vendor;
and
(3) pays applicable fees
charged by the district or the test vendor.
(d) Only the district that issued the
certificate of achievement may issue a secondary school diploma to the person
under this section.
(e) To obtain a
secondary school diploma under this section, a person must submit to the
district that issued the person a certificate of achievement
(1) a written request for a secondary school
diploma;
(2) a score report issued
by the test vendor for a college and career readiness assessment taken by the
person; and
(3) any fee that the
district assesses for the issuance of a diploma under this section.
(f) A district may assess a fee
for the issuance of a diploma only if the fee is required under a written
district policy adopted by the governing body of the district.
(g) Not later than 90 days after receiving a
request that complies with (e) of this section, a district shall issue a
secondary diploma to a person who submits a request under (e) of this
section.
(h) In this section,
(1) "certificate of achievement" means a
certificate earned by a student on or after July 1, 2014 and before June 30,
2016 who met all local graduation requirements but did not take one of the
college and career readiness assessments and is therefore ineligible for a
diploma;
(2) "college and career
readiness assessment"
(A) means the SAT or
ACT within the meaning given in
AS
14.03.075(e)(l) as that
provision read before June 30, 2016;
(B) with respect to the WorkKeys assessment,
within the meaning given in
AS
14.03.075(e)(1) as that
provision read before June 30, 2016, means the following sections of that
assessment:
(ii) reading for information; and
(iii) locating
information;
(3) "takes a college and career readiness
assessment" means receives a valid score on the assessment as reported by the
vendor of the assessment.
Authority:AS
14.03.060
AS 14.03.075
AS 14.07.020
AS 14.07.030
AS 14.07.060
AS
14.07.165
