Alaska Statutes.
Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums
Chapter 9. Transportation of Pupils
Section 10. Transportation of Students.
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AS 14.09.010. Transportation of Students.

   (a) A school district that provides student transportation services for the transportation of students who reside a distance from established schools is eligible to receive funding for operating or subcontracting the operation of the transportation system for students to and from the schools within the student's transportation service area. Subject to appropriation, the amount of funding provided by the state for operating the student transportation system is the amount of a school district's ADM, less the ADM for the district's correspondence programs during the current fiscal year, multiplied by the per student amount for the school district as follows:

DISTRICT PER STUDENT AMOUNT

			(1) for the school					(2) for the school

    			    year beginning					    years beginning on or after

    			    July 1, 2011 					    July 1, 2012

Alaska Gateway 			$2,081 							$2,148

Aleutians East		  	   311 							   321

Anchorage			   435 							   449

Annette Island		     	   182 						     	   188

Bering Strait 		            48 						            50

Bristol Bay			 2,672							 2,758

Chatham 			   280 							   289

Copper River  		 	 1,586							 1,637

Cordova				   335 							   346

Craig				   423 							   437

Delta/Greely		 	 1,656						         1,709

Denali			         1,808					    		 1,866

Dillingham			 1,218							 1,257

Fairbanks			   817						      	   843

Galena				   255							   263

Haines				   626							   646

Hoonah				   298						           308

Iditarod			   211							   218

Juneau				   604							   623

Kake				   271 							   280

Kashunamiut			     5							     5

Kenai Peninsula		   	   766							   944

Ketchikan			   727							   750

Klawock				   584							   603

Kodiak Island		   	   799						   	   825

Kuspuk				   654							   675

Lake and Peninsula	  	   384							   396

Lower Kuskokwim			   277							   286

Lower Yukon			     1							     1

Matanuska-Susitna	   	   910							   939

Nenana				   587							   606

Nome				   621							   641

North Slope			 1,120							 1,156

Northwest Arctic		    25							    26

Pelican				    72							    74

Petersburg			   374							   386

Saint Mary's			   193							   199

Sitka				   428							   442

Skagway				    36							    37

Southeast Island		 1,155							 1,192

Southwest Region		   598							   617

Tanana				   478							   493

Unalaska			   648							   669

Valdez				   735							   759

Wrangell			   701							   723

Yakutat				   744							   768

Yukon Flats			   264							   272

Yukon/Koyukuk			   299							   309

Yupiit				     2							     2

   (b) The department shall adopt regulations that provide for oversight of and support to school districts in achieving a safe and cost-effective student transportation system. The regulations must include a requirement for contract terms of not less than three years, if feasible, standardized conditions and bid periods, and standards that ensure cost efficiencies and exclusions.
   (c) [Repealed, § 11 ch 9 SLA 2008.]
   (d) A school district that provides transportation services under this section shall provide transportation services to students attending a charter school operated by the district under a policy adopted by the district. The policy must
        (1) be developed with input solicited from individuals involved with the charter school, including staff, students, and parents;
        (2) at a minimum, provide transportation services for students enrolled in the charter school on a space available basis along the regular routes that the students attending schools in an attendance area in the district are transported; and
        (3) be approved by the department.
   (e) If a school district fails to adopt a policy under (d) of this section, the school district shall allocate the amount received for each student under (a) of this section to each charter school operated by the district based on the number of students enrolled in the charter school.
   (f) Nothing in (d) of this section requires a school district to establish dedicated transportation routes for the exclusive use of students enrolled in a charter school or authorizes a charter school to opt out of a policy adopted by a school district for the purpose of acquiring transportation funding.
   (g) In this section,
        (1) “ADM” has the meaning given in AS 14.17.990;
        (2) “district's ADM” means the sum of the ADMs in the district.

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