Alaska Administrative Code
Title 4 - Education and Early Development
Chapter 27 - Transportation of Pupils
4 AAC 27.990 - Definitions

(1) "activity bus" means a bus owned, leased, or contracted by a district and regularly used to transport pupils on field trips, athletic trips, and extracurricular and other non-instructional activities;

(2) "attendance center" means the neighborhood school within a district to which a pupil is to be transported for educational purposes;

(3) "bus route" or "route"

(4) "commissioner" means the commissioner of education and early development or the commissioner's designee;

(5) "duplicate mileage" means any portion of a route that travels both directions on the same street or roadway;

(6) "eligible expenditure"

(7) "IEP" means an individualized education program as set out in AS 14.30.278 and 4 AAC 52.140;

(8) "optional equipment" means any equipment not required in the most current edition of the minimum standards for Alaska school buses adopted by reference under 4 AAC 27.110;

(9) "pupil" means a person eligible under the laws of this state for free public education and who is attending school;

(10) "school bus" means a type of bus specially designed and manufactured for the transporting of pupils to and from school and school events;

(11) "school district" or "district" includes borough and city school districts and regional educational attendance areas;

(12) "spare buses" means those buses used by a district for to- and from-school transportation services in the event of a mechanical failure in the primary bus fleet;

(13) "to- and from-school transportation services" means transporting a pupil from the pupil's pick up point to and from school on regular scheduled school days.