Homeschool Requirements in Alaska

Alaska asks for nothing each year. No annual notice, no registration, no assessment. The step people miss is a separate one: if your child is enrolled in a public school right now, withdrawing them is its own act, and nothing on this page does it for you. Do that first. Everything below is what Alaska actually requires, cited at the foot so you can read it yourself.

What you file, and by when

None, for the standard independent-homeschool option. Under AS 14.30.010(b)(12) a child educated at home by a parent or legal guardian is exempt from compulsory attendance with no registration, notice, or approval required from the district or the state. (Other pathways carry their own paperwork: enrolling in a state/district correspondence program requires enrollment plus an annual Individual Learning Plan; the private/religious-school route under AS 14.45.100-.130 requires an annual school-operation report to DEED; the tutor route under AS 14.30.010(b)(1) requires a certificated tutor and school-board approval.)

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Days or hours

None. Alaska sets no minimum days or hours for independent homeschoolers. Correspondence-program students follow the calendar/attendance terms of the program they enroll in.

Subjects you must cover

None for independent homeschoolers, no mandated subjects or curriculum, and no parent qualification or teacher certification requirement. Correspondence programs typically require that a majority of the student’s coursework be core academic subjects and that the ILP align with state standards. Private schools under AS 14.45 must provide education “comparable to that offered by the public schools in the area.”

Records you keep

None required by the state for independent homeschoolers, no attendance logs, portfolios, or reports. Correspondence programs impose their own recordkeeping and ILP requirements. Private/religious schools operating under AS 14.45 must keep permanent student records (immunizations, physical exams, standardized test results, academic achievement, courses taken). Parents should nevertheless keep their own transcript/credit records for high-school purposes since no third party is doing so.

Nothing goes to a district, so the only account of the four years is the one you write. Writing the counselor letter when the counselor is you.

Testing or evaluation

None for independent homeschoolers. Correspondence-program students are generally required to take state/standardized assessments per program and DEED rules (commonly grades 3-10). Students enrolled in a private/religious school under AS 14.45 must be given standardized achievement tests in English, reading, spelling, and mathematics in grades 4, 6, and 8.

Diplomas and transcripts

Independent homeschoolers receive a parent-issued diploma and parent-prepared transcript; Alaska does not accredit or validate them and issues no state homeschool diploma. Students enrolled in a state or district correspondence program (e.g., IDEA, Raven, Interior Distance Education) typically graduate with a district-issued, publicly accredited diploma and transcript, this is the main reason many Alaska high-schoolers use correspondence rather than independent homeschooling. Correspondence students also receive an annual allotment (roughly $2,000-$4,500 depending on district/grade) that can be spent on approved curriculum, materials, and courses; this functions as Alaska’s de facto ESA. Recent and unsettled: in Dept. of Education & Early Development v. Alexander the Alaska Supreme Court (June 2024) reversed a superior-court ruling that had struck down the allotment statutes, holding them not facially unconstitutional but expressly declining to decide whether allotments may fund private-school tuition; the case was remanded and as of late 2025 litigation over private-school/tuition uses was still active (motion to dismiss denied Oct. 2025). Treat allotment spending on private-school tuition or courses as legally unresolved; core curriculum/materials spending is not in dispute.

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Where this comes from

Statute: Alaska Stat. 14.30.010(b)(12) (parent-taught home education exemption); AS 14.30.010(b)(1) (approved tutor); AS 14.30.010(b)(11) and AS 14.03.300-.320 (correspondence study and student allotments); AS 14.45.100-.130 (private/religious schools); AS 14.20.020 (tutor certification)

Source: https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#14.30.010

Last reviewed: July 2026. The day is not recorded.

Homeschool law changes, and a page like this goes stale without saying so. Before a filing deadline, read the statute above for yourself. If we are behind, we would rather hear it from you than have you find out at the district office.

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