00                             HOUSE BILL NO. 248                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to correspondence study program student assessment participation;                                      
02 and providing for an effective date."                                                                                   
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1. AS 14.03 is amended by adding a new section to article 3 to read:                                     
05 Sec. 14.03.320. Correspondence study program student assessment                                                       
06 participation. (a) A district correspondence program must maintain a correspondence                                   
07 program student assessment participation rate that meets or exceeds the district student                                
08       assessment participation rate.                                                                                    
09            (b)  The commissioner shall withhold payments of state aid from a district                                   
10       correspondence program that fails to meet the requirements under (a) of this section                              
11       until the district correspondence program complies with (a) of this section.                                      
12            (c)  In this section,                                                                                        
13                 (1)  "correspondence program student assessment participation rate"                                     
14       means a quotient, expressed as a percentage, obtained by dividing the number of                                   
01 students enrolled in a correspondence program who took a statewide student                                              
02 assessment required by the department under AS 14.03.123(f) administered by the                                         
03 correspondence program by the number of students enrolled in a grade in which the                                       
04 correspondence program administers the assessment on the first day that the                                             
05       correspondence program begins administering the assessment;                                                       
06 (2)  "district correspondence program" includes a district that offers a                                                
07       statewide correspondence study program;                                                                           
08 (3)  "district student assessment participation rate" means a quotient,                                                 
09 expressed as a percentage, obtained by dividing the number of students enrolled in a                                    
10 district who took a statewide student assessment required by the department under                                       
11 AS 14.03.123(f) administered by the district by the number of students enrolled in a                                    
12 grade in which the district administers the assessment on the first day that the district                               
13       begins administering the assessment.                                                                              
14    * Sec. 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2027.