Alaska Statutes
Alaska Stat. § 14.08.031 (2026)
Regional educational attendance areas
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Sec. 14.08.031. Regional educational attendance areas.
(a) The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development in consultation with the Department of Education and Early Development and local communities shall divide the unorganized borough into educational service areas using the boundaries or sub-boundaries of the regional corporations established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, unless by referendum a community votes to merge with another community contiguous to it but within the boundaries or sub-boundaries of another regional corporation.
(b) An educational service area established in the unorganized borough under (a) of this section constitutes a regional educational attendance area. As far as practicable, each regional educational attendance area shall contain an integrated socio-economic, linguistically and culturally homogeneous area. In the formation of the regional educational attendance areas, consideration shall be given to the transportation and communication network to facilitate the administration of education and communication between communities that comprise the area. Whenever possible, municipalities, other governmental or regional corporate entities, drainage basins, and other identifiable geographic features shall be used in describing the boundaries of the regional school attendance areas.
(c) Military reservation schools shall be included in a regional educational attendance area. However, operation of military reservation schools by a city or borough school district may be required by the department under AS 14.12.020(a) and AS 14.14.110. Where the operation of the military reservation schools in a regional educational attendance area by a city or borough school district is required by the department, the military reservation is not considered part of the regional educational attendance area for the purposes of regional school board membership or elections.
(d) [Repealed, § 42 ch 12 SLA 2006.]
(e) Notwithstanding (a) of this section, Rampart School is part of the Yukon-Koyukuk School District regional educational attendance area for all purposes.
(a) The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development in consultation with the Department of Education and Early Development and local communities shall divide the unorganized borough into educational service areas using the boundaries or sub-boundaries of the regional corporations established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, unless by referendum a community votes to merge with another community contiguous to it but within the boundaries or sub-boundaries of another regional corporation.
(b) An educational service area established in the unorganized borough under (a) of this section constitutes a regional educational attendance area. As far as practicable, each regional educational attendance area shall contain an integrated socio-economic, linguistically and culturally homogeneous area. In the formation of the regional educational attendance areas, consideration shall be given to the transportation and communication network to facilitate the administration of education and communication between communities that comprise the area. Whenever possible, municipalities, other governmental or regional corporate entities, drainage basins, and other identifiable geographic features shall be used in describing the boundaries of the regional school attendance areas.
(c) Military reservation schools shall be included in a regional educational attendance area. However, operation of military reservation schools by a city or borough school district may be required by the department under AS 14.12.020(a) and AS 14.14.110. Where the operation of the military reservation schools in a regional educational attendance area by a city or borough school district is required by the department, the military reservation is not considered part of the regional educational attendance area for the purposes of regional school board membership or elections.
(d) [Repealed, § 42 ch 12 SLA 2006.]
(e) Notwithstanding (a) of this section, Rampart School is part of the Yukon-Koyukuk School District regional educational attendance area for all purposes.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases, 1979–1997 · leading case: Matanuska-Susitna Borough Sch. Dist. v. State, 931 P.2d 391 (Alaska 1997).
Matanuska-Susitna Borough Sch. Dist. v. State, 931 P.2d 391 (Alaska 1997). “Here, as with State spending decisions, any available remedy must be pursued through majoritarian processes rather than through the courts. NOTES [1] Areas of the state that lie outside the boundaries of organized boroughs constitute a single, unorganized borough.”
Zerbetz v. Alaska Energy Ctr., 708 P.2d 1270 (Alaska 1985). “Postsecondary Education; (15) commissioners and employees of the Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission; (16) the ombudsman and his staff; (17) the members, executive secretary and legal counsel of the Alaska Municipal Bond Bank Authority; (18) certified teachers and…”
Meiners v. Bering Strait Sch. Dist., 687 P.2d 287 (Alaska 1984). “STATUTORY BACKGROUND The Bering Strait School District is a Regional Educational Attendance Area (REAA) in Western Alaska established pursuant to AS 14.08.031 et seq. and governed by a regional school board of eleven elected members.”
Nw. Arctic Reg'l Educ. Attendance Area v. Alaska Pub. Serv. Employees, Local 71, 591 P.2d 1292 (Alaska 1979). “AS 14.08.031(a). As far as practicable, each REAA was to contain “an integrated socio-economic, linguistically and culturally homogeneous area.”
— Alaska Stat. § 14.08.031(a) — 1 case
Nw. Arctic Reg'l Educ. Attendance Area v. Alaska Pub. Serv. Employees, Local 71, 591 P.2d 1292 (Alaska 1979). “AS 14.08.031(a). As far as practicable, each REAA was to contain “an integrated socio-economic, linguistically and culturally homogeneous area.”
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