Updates on Bills and Resolutions
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 25
"Supporting consistent regulation of district and statewide correspondence
programs; and encouraging the Department of Education and Early Development
to remove student allotment restrictions on all correspondence students.
"
BILL ID: HCR 25
00 HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 25
01 Supporting consistent regulation of district and statewide correspondence
programs;
02 and encouraging the Department of Education and Early Development to
remove
03 student allotment restrictions on all correspondence students.
04 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:
05 WHEREAS the Department of Education and Early Development monitors
and
06 regulates correspondence programs operated by a school district for
students residing in a
07 district less than those programs available statewide; and
08 WHEREAS student allotments of public education money are currently
restricted for
09 statewide correspondence programs in a way that they are not restricted
for district only
10 correspondence programs; and
11 WHEREAS more than 8,000 students are affected by the disparity in regulation
of
12 correspondence programs;
13 BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature disapproves of the
disparity in
14 the regulation of correspondence programs in the state; and be it
15 FURTHER RESOLVED that the policy of the state is to regulate and monitor
all
01 correspondence programs in the same fashion despite current differences
in local school
02 district policies and procedures and in the residency of the students
attending the program;
03 and be it
04 FURTHER RESOLVED that the legislature desires that the student allotment
of
05 public education money be unrestricted except as provided in the Constitution
of the State of
06 Alaska and in the Alaska Statutes.
07 COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Frank H. Murkowski,
08 Governor of Alaska; and the Honorable Roger Sampson, Commissioner,
Department of
09 Education and Early Development.
