4 AAC 06.115 - Interscholastic activities
(a) The purpose of this section is to provide
a procedure that enables school districts to promote and govern interscholastic
activities effectively, economically, and fairly, while keeping those
activities in their proper perspective educationally.
(b) A school or school district may join and,
to the extent authorized by its budget, may pay dues to the Alaska School
Activities Association, Inc., or any other voluntary, nonprofit association
whose purpose is to administer and promote interscholastic activities in Alaska
so long as the association
(1) makes
applications and membership available to all public and private schools, and
school districts in the state;
(2)
is governed by a board that is elected from the association membership and that
fairly represents all regions of the state, that participate in the
organization and whose membership may also include appointed representatives of
other education organizations;
(3)
adopts a constitution and bylaws setting out its philosophy, purpose, rules,
and procedures, including a fair procedure for challenging interpretation or
application of a rule;
(4) operates
in compliance with state and federal law; and
(5) administers interscholastic activities in
a manner that
(A) encourages high standards of
citizenship and complements the academic programs of schools;
(B) is consistent with and advances the
state's education policy set out at
AS
14.03.015; and
(C) recognizes that the organization and
governance of interscholastic activities is a public purpose that is best met
through the cooperation and association of interested schools and school
districts.
(D) ensures fairness,
safety, and equal opportunity for female students in high school athletics by
providing, in consideration of responses to a school survey under
4
AAC 06.520, that if a separate high school athletics
team is established for female students, participation shall be limited to
females who were assigned female at birth; in this subparagraph, "athletics"
means competitive or contact sports, as determined by the
association.
(c) The state board considers a decision of
an association described in (b) of this section, made when applying association
bylaws to a particular person or school, to be an adjudicatory, administrative
decision. Under existing case law, when a board performs an administrative
function and makes an adjudicatory decision that affects an individual, the
final decision is appealable to the superior court under Part VI of the Rules
of Appellate Procedure.
(d) In this
section, "district" has the meaning given in
AS
14.17.990.
Notes
Authority:AS 14.03.015
AS 14.07.020
AS 14.07.060
AS 14.18.040
AS 14.18.050
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