Alaska Statutes Sec. 14.08.111 - Duties

A regional school board shall

(1) provide, during the school term of each year, an educational program for each school age child who is enrolled in or a resident of the district;

(2) develop a philosophy of education, principles, and goals for its schools;

(3) approve the employment of the professional administrators, teachers, and noncertificated personnel necessary to operate its schools;

(4) establish the salaries to be paid its employees;

(5) designate the employees authorized to direct disbursements from the school funds of the board;

(6) submit the reports prescribed for all school districts;

(7) provide for an annual audit in accordance with AS 14.14.050 ;

(8) provide custodial services and routine maintenance of school buildings and facilities;

(9) establish procedures for the review and selection of all textbooks and instructional materials, including textbooks and curriculum materials for statewide correspondence programs, before they are introduced into the school curriculum; the review includes a review for violations of AS 14.18.060 ; nothing in this paragraph precludes a correspondence study student, or the parent or guardian of a correspondence study student, from privately obtaining or using textbooks or curriculum material not provided by the school district;

(10) provide prospective employees with information relating to the availability and cost of housing in rural areas to which they might be assigned, and, when possible, assist them in locating housing; however, nothing in this paragraph requires a regional school board to provide teacher housing, whether owned, leased, or rented or otherwise provided by the regional educational attendance area, nor does it require the board to engage in a subsidy program of any kind with respect to teacher housing;

(11) train persons required to report under AS 47.17.020 , in the recognition and reporting of child abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse of a minor; and

(12) establish procedures for providing the training under AS 14.18.060, AS 14.20.149 , 14.20.680, AS 14.30.362 , AS 14.33.100 , 14.33.127, AS 18.66.310 , and AS 47.17.022 ; the procedures established under this paragraph must include a training schedule that ensures that not less than 50 percent of the total certificated staff employed at a school receives all of the training not less than every two years and that all of the certificated staff employed at each school receives all of the training not less than every four years.

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