{"data":{"id":"us-ak/as-14.30.350","jurisdiction":"us-ak","citation":"AS 14.30.350","heading":"Definitions.","body":"In AS 14.30.180 — 14.30.350,\n(1) “appropriate education” means personalized instruction with sufficient support services to permit a child to benefit educationally from the instruction;\n(2) “child with a disability” means a child with one or more of the following:\n(A) intellectual disability;\n(B) learning disabilities;\n(C) emotional disturbance;\n(D) deafness;\n(E) deaf-blindness;\n(F) hearing impairment;\n(G) orthopedic impairment;\n(H) other health impairment;\n(I) speech or language impairment;\n(J) visual impairment;\n(K) multiple disabilities;\n(L) early childhood development delay;\n(M) autism;\n(N) traumatic brain injury;\n(O) developmental disability;\n(3) “due process hearing” means a hearing conducted under AS 14.30.193;\n(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;\n(5) “informed consent” means that\n(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;\n(B) the parent understands and agrees in writing to the carrying out of the activity for which the parent's consent is sought;\n(C) the consent describes that activity and lists any records that will be released and to whom; and\n(D) the parent understands that the granting of consent is voluntary on the part of the parent and may be revoked at any time;\n(6) “parent” means a\n(A) child's natural or adoptive parent;\n(B) child's guardian, but not the state if the child is in the legal custody of the state;\n(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\n(D) child's surrogate parent who has been appointed under AS 14.30.325;\n(7) “related services” means services described in 34 C.F.R. 300.34;\n(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;\n(9) “special education” means an educational program described in 34 C.F.R. 300.39.","path":["Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums.","Chapter 30. Pupils and Educational Programs for Pupils.","Article 5. Education for Children With Disabilities."],"source_url":"https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#14.30.350","current_through":"Alaska Statutes 2025 (34th Legislature, 2025-2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:17:00Z","sha256":"ba8511d1198a37accfc4feb70f34cd6a4bf3c1f0ab43e53e2d2c7e0d00f7a3d4","source_id":"us-ak","stale":false,"prev":"us-ak/as-14.30.347","next":"us-ak/as-14.30.352"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}