(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board shall establish standards and a procedure for the review, ranking, and approval of mathematics and English and language arts curricula for school districts to use in each grade level as provided in this section. The board may include curricula delivered through virtual education in the standards and procedure established under this subsection. Standards established for the review, ranking, and approval of language arts curricula for early education programs and grades kindergarten through three must be based on phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, reading fluency, oral language skills, and reading comprehension.
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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 14.07.180 v3

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • board: means the state Board of Education and Early Development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
  • department: means the Department of Education and Early Development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(b) The department, in consultation with school districts, shall review mathematics and English and language arts curricula used in schools in the state and in other states and countries and may include in the review curricula delivered through virtual education. Not later than July 1, 2019, the department shall identify the best mathematics and English and language arts curricula and the best teaching practices for each of the curricula. The department may identify the best mathematics and English and language arts curricula delivered through virtual education.
(c) The department shall submit the curricula and teaching practices that the department identifies as the best under (b) of this section to the board for approval, including evidence supporting the department’s selection, if the department concludes that the curricula and best practices

(1) are appropriate;
(2) are in compliance with the nondiscrimination standards established under Alaska Stat. § 14.18.060 (b);
(3) are aligned with state education standards; and
(4) result in improved academic achievement for students.
(d) The board may approve curricula submitted under (c) of this section if the curricula are consistent with the standards established by the board under (a) of this section. The department shall place the curricula approved by the board into two categories as follows:

(1) incentivized curricula for the best curricula for each subject, based on evidence provided to the department; the department may place not more than two curricula in this category for each subject;
(2) designated effective curricula for the curricula for each subject that are not incentivized curricula but that the department finds appropriate and effective based on factual and other evidence provided to the department.
(e) [Repealed by 2018 amendment.]
(f) [Repealed by 2018 amendment.]
(g)[Repealed by 2018 amendment.]
(h) [Repealed by 2018 amendment.]
(i) The department shall publish on the department’s Internet website and make available to the public

(1) all curricula used by school districts in the state for all subjects, whether or not the curricula are approved; and
(2) the curricula approved under (d) of this section.
(j) [Repealed by 2018 amendment.]
(k) Each school district shall submit to the department the relevant information needed for the department to carry out its duties under this section.
(l) [Repealed by 2018 amendment.]
(m) [Repealed by 2018 amendment.]
(n) Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, the department may distribute incentive payments to school districts that use curricula reviewed and approved by the board under Alaska Stat. § 14.07.165 (c). The department may provide incentive payments, subject to appropriation, to school districts based on the readiness and capacity of the school district as determined by the department.
(o) In this section,

(1) [Repealed by 2018 and 2019 amendments.]
(2) “school district” has the meaning given in Alaska Stat. § 14.30.350;
(3) [Repealed by 2018 and 2019 amendments.]
(4) [Repealed by 2018 and 2019 amendments.]
(5) “virtual education” means instruction delivered through telecommunications or other digital or electronic methods.
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