Alaska Education Code For Homeschooling
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14 Education Statues.
Compulsory attendance - Between 7 and
16 before August 15 following the beginning of the school year.
SB 134 passed unanimously both Houses of the Alaska Legislature
in April, 1997 and became law on September 2, 1997. SB 134 adds
an exemption to the Compulsory Education Law in statute allowing
children to be homeschooled by a parent or guardian. No strings
attached. The text of the bill (now law) follows:
BASIS Text for CSSB 134(HES)
SB 134 SO134B
1. "An Act relating to home schooling for elementary
and secondary students."
2. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:
3. *Section 1. AS 14.30.010(b) is amended by adding a new paragraph
to read:
4. (12) is being educated in the child's home by a parent or
legal guardian.
SB134 does not eliminate the possibility for families to participate
in state or district sponsored correspondence programs or becoming
private schools. It simply codifies current practice for many
homeschoolers throughout the state - who were not within the
law previously. Also, it allows homeschoolers who were previously
involved with government programs or registered as private schools
to simplify their structure - if they desire to do so.
From Alaska
State Education Laws, Home Education Magazine
Chapter 14.30. PUPILS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR PUPILS
Article 01. COMPULSORY EDUCATION
Sec. 14.30.010. When attendance compulsory.
(a) Every child between seven and 16 years of age shall attend
school at the public school in the district in which the child
resides during each school term. Every parent, guardian or other
person having the responsibility for or control of a child between
seven and 16 years of age shall maintain the child in attendance
at a public school in the district in which the child resides
during the entire school term, except as provided in (b) of this
section.
(b) This section does not apply if a child
(1) is provided an academic education comparable to that offered
by the public schools in the area, either by
(A) attendance at a private school in which the teachers are
certificated according to AS 14.20.020 ;
(B) tutoring by personnel certificated according to AS 14.20.020
; or
(C) attendance at an educational program operated in compliance
with AS 14.45.100 - 14.45.200 by a religious or other private
school;
(2) attends a school operated by the federal government;
(3) has a physical or mental condition that a competent medical
authority determines will make attendance impractical;
(4) is in the custody of a court or law enforcement authorities;
(5) is temporarily ill or injured;
(6) has been suspended or expelled under AS 14.03.160 or suspended
or denied admittance under AS 14.30.045 ;
(7) resides more than two miles from either a public school
or a route on which transportation is provided by the school
authorities, except that this paragraph does not apply if the
child resides within two miles of a federal or private school
that the child is eligible and able to attend;
(8) is excused by action of the school board of the district
at a regular meeting or by the district superintendent subject
to approval by the school board of the district at the next regular
meeting;
(9) has completed the 12th grade;
(10) is enrolled in
(A) a state boarding school established under AS 14.16; or
(B) a full-time program of correspondence study approved by the
department; in those school districts providing an approved correspondence
study program, a student may be enrolled either in the district
correspondence program or in the centralized correspondence study
program;
(11) is equally well-served by an educational experience approved
by the school board as serving the child's educational interests
despite an absence from school, and the request for excuse is
made in writing by the child's parents or guardian and approved
by the principal or administrator of the school that the child
attends;
(12) is being educated in the child's home by a parent
or legal guardian.
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