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.