00                             HOUSE BILL NO. 343                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to earning secondary school course credit through assessment; and                                      
02 relating to a child's right to attend a public school."                                                                 
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1. AS 14.03.073(a) is amended to read:                                                                   
05 (a)  A school district shall provide an [THE] opportunity at least three times a                                
06 year, or upon the request of the student's parent or guardian, for a student                                    
07 [STUDENTS] enrolled in grades nine through 12 in the district to challenge one or                                       
08 more courses provided by the district by demonstrating mastery in mathematics,                                          
09 language arts, science, social studies, and world languages at the level of the course                                  
10       challenged. A school district shall give full credit for a course to a student who                                
11       successfully challenges that course as provided under this section.                                             
12    * Sec. 2. AS 14.03.073(d) is amended to read:                                                                      
13            (d)  In this section,                                                                                        
14                 (1)  "guardian" has the meaning given in AS 13.06.050;                                              
01                 (2)  "school district" has the meaning given in AS 14.30.350.                                       
02    * Sec. 3. AS 14.03.073 is amended by adding new subsections to read:                                               
03            (e)  A school district shall provide a student an opportunity to challenge                                   
04       courses under (a) of this section within three weeks after the date the student begins                            
05       attending school in the district if                                                                               
06                 (1)  a parent or guardian of the student serves as an active duty member                                
07       of the armed forces of the United States or a member of the National Guard;                                       
08                 (2)  the parent or guardian is transferred under an official military order                             
09       to a military installation in the state from outside of the state; and                                            
10                 (3)  the transfer results in the student's enrollment in the school district.                           
11 (f)  Not later than the end of the first business day after a student eligible to                                       
12 challenge courses under (e) of this section enrolls in a school, the school district shall                              
13 inform the department of the student's enrollment and provide notice to the student's                                   
14 parent or guardian of the student's opportunity to challenge courses under (e) of this                                  
15 section. Not later than three business days after receiving notice from the school                                      
16 district, the department shall provide notice to the student's parent or guardian of the                                
17 student's opportunity to challenge courses under (e) of this section. The notices                                       
18       required under this subsection may be in physical or electronic form.                                             
19    * Sec. 4. AS 14.03.080(e) is amended to read:                                                                      
20 (e)  A child under school age shall be admitted to school in the district of                                            
21 which the child is a resident if, immediately before the child became a resident of the                             
22       district, the child was legally enrolled in                                                                       
23                 (1)  the public schools of another district or state; or                                        
24 (2)  a Department of Defense Education Activity or other publicly                                                   
25       funded kindergarten program in a military installation.                                                       
26    * Sec. 5. AS 14.60.010 is amended by adding a new paragraph to read:                                               
27 (11)  "military installation" means a base, camp, post, station, yard,                                                  
28 center, homeport facility for a ship, armory, or other installation under the jurisdiction                              
29       of the United States Department of Defense or the United States Coast Guard.                                      
30    * Sec. 6. AS 14.03.080(g)(2) is repealed.