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Current as of January 01, 2022 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
In AS 14.30.180--14.30.350,
(1) “appropriate education” means personalized instruction with sufficient support services to permit a child to benefit educationally from the instruction;
(2) “child with a disability” means a child with one or more of the following:
(A) intellectual disability;
(B) learning disabilities;
(C) emotional disturbance;
(D) deafness;
(E) deaf-blindness;
(F) hearing impairment;
(G) orthopedic impairment;
(H) other health impairment;
(I) speech or language impairment;
(J) visual impairment;
(K) multiple disabilities;
(L) early childhood development delay;
(M) autism;
(N) traumatic brain injury;
(O) developmental disability;
(3) “due process hearing” means a hearing conducted under AS 14.30.193;
(4) “educational records” means those files, documents, records, and other material that contain information directly related to a student and are maintained by a school district or a person acting for a school district; the term “educational records” does not include the personnel records of the school district, maintained in the normal course of business, that relate exclusively to a person's capacity as an employee, or other records as designated by the department in regulation;
(5) “informed consent” means that
(A) a child's parent has been fully informed, in the parent's native language or other mode of communication, of all information relevant to the activity for which consent is sought;
(B) the parent understands and agrees in writing to the carrying out of the activity for which the parent's consent is sought;
(C) the consent describes that activity and lists any records that will be released and to whom; and
(D) the parent understands that the granting of consent is voluntary on the part of the parent and may be revoked at any time;
(6) “parent” means a
(A) child's natural or adoptive parent;
(B) child's guardian, but not the state if the child is in the legal custody of the state;
(C) person who is acting in the place of a child's natural or adoptive parent, such as a grandparent or stepparent with whom the child lives, or a person who is legally responsible for the child's welfare; and
(D) child's surrogate parent who has been appointed under AS 14.30.325;
(7) “related services” means services described in 34 C.F.R. 300.34;
(8) “school district” means a borough school district, a city school district, a regional educational attendance area, a state boarding school, and the state centralized correspondence study program;
(9) “special education” means an educational program described in 34 C.F.R. 300.39.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Alaska Statutes Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums § 14.30.350. Definitions - last updated January 01, 2022 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ak/title-14-education-libraries-and-museums/ak-st-sect-14-30-350/
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