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Enrolled HB 332: Defining an elementary school to include certain pre-elementary programs and relating to counting pre-elementary students in a school's average daily membership.

00Enrolled HB 332 01 Defining an elementary school to include certain pre-elementary programs and relating to 02 counting pre-elementary students in a school's average daily membership. 03 _______________ 04 * Section 1. AS 14.03.060(a) is amended to read: 05 (a) Except as provided in (e) of this section, an [AN] elementary school 06 consists of grades kindergarten through grade eight or any appropriate combination of 07 grades within this range. 08 * Sec. 2. AS 14.03.060 is amended by adding a new subsection to read: 09 (e) In addition to the grades enumerated in (a) of this section, an elementary 10 school consists of a pre-elementary program supervised by the department under 11 AS 14.07.020(a)(8), operated by the department as a head start program under 12 AS 14.38.010, or located in a public school for federal funding purposes. Except for a 13 child with a disability who is receiving special education or related services under 14 AS 14.30.180 - 14.30.350, pre-elementary students may not be counted in a school's

01 average daily membership under AS 14.17.