4 AAC 06.075 - High school graduation requirements
(a) Each chief
school administrator shall develop and submit to the district board for
approval a plan consisting of district high school graduation requirements. The
plan must require that, before graduation, a student must have earned at least
21 units of credit.
(b) Specific
subject area units-of-credit requirements must be set out in each district plan
and must require that, before graduation, a student must have completed at
least the following:
(1) language arts - four
units of credit;
(2) social studies
- three units of credit;
(3)
mathematics - two units of credit for students graduating from high school on
or before June 30 2017, and three units of credit for students graduating from
high school on or after July 1, 2017;
(4) science - two units of credit;
and
(5) health/physical education -
one unit of credit.
(c)
Transfer students who have earned 13 units of credit while in attendance
outside the district may, at the discretion of the district, be excused from
the district subject area units-of-credit requirements.
(d) Beginning January 1, 2009, the three
units of credit in social studies required under (b)(2) of this section must
include one-half unit of credit in Alaska history or demonstration that the
student meets the Alaska history performance standards. The provisions of this
subsection do not apply to a student who
(1)
transfers into an Alaska public school after the student's second year of high
school; or
(2) has already
successfully completed a high school state history course from another
state.
(e) If a district
awards units of credit for world language courses, it shall also award units of
credit for postsecondary world language courses or world language courses
offered by tribes or tribal entities.
(f) In this section, "unit of credit" means
the credit that a student is awarded for achieving a passing grade in a course
of study by meeting the content standards for a course of study as prescribed
by a local school board.
(g) In
this section, "world languages" means non-English languages including Alaska
Native, American Indian, and American Sign Language.
Notes
Authority:AS 14.07.020
AS 14.07.060
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