Alaska Administrative Code
Title 4 - Education and Early Development
Chapter 09 - State Support of Schools
Article 3 - General Provisions
4 AAC 09.990 - Definitions

Universal Citation: 4 AK Admin Code 4 AAC 09.990

Current through November 28, 2024

(a) In AS 14.17 and this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise,

(1) "alternative school" means an educational program that is not a correspondence study program and that is
(A) designed to target a specific student population to receive a specialized instructional program or curriculum; or

(B) a charter school;

(2) "community" means
(A) an incorporated city;

(B) a unified municipality; or

(C) a place that is not incorporated as a city or a unified municipality and that has a school enrollment of at least 10 full-time equivalent students;

(3) "correspondence study program" means any educational program, including a charter school program or a state supported home-schooling program, that provides
(A) for each secondary course, less than three hours per week of scheduled face-to-face interaction, in the same location, between a teacher certificated under AS 14.20.020 and each class;

(B) for elementary students, less than 15 hours per week of scheduled face-to-face interaction, in the same location, between a teacher certificated under AS 14.20.020 and each full-time equivalent elementary student.

(b) In the definition of "local contribution" in AS 14.17.990,

(1) "appropriations" means money appropriated to a district's school operating fund by the city or borough;

(2) "value of in-kind services" means the documented fair market value of insurance, utilities, energy, audits, and maintenance of facilities provided at no charge to a district by the city or borough as reported in the district's school operating fund.

Authority:AS 14.03.040

AS 14.07.060

AS 14.17.430

AS 14.17.920

AS 14.20.010

Sec. 40, ch. 83,

SLA 1998

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