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Alaska homeschool law

Notice, days or hours, subjects, testing and records, in plain words, with the source for each.

This is general information, not legal advice; check your state's own page. Laws change, and Alaska's own statute and education department are the final word. The links below go straight to them.

Checked on against the sources linked on this page.

What to file in Alaska

File
Nothing on this route. We found no notice, registration or approval rule for a parent educating a child at home. §
To
No one required. §
By
No date. §
Keep
We found no record-keeping rule for a child educated at home by a parent or guardian. §
Test
We found no testing or evaluation rule for a child educated at home by a parent or guardian. §

Open your attendance recordNo letter needed.Start the Tap Clock, if you want to

Checked (quoted from the record below). § = source: Alaska Statutes 14.30.010 When attendance compulsory (legislature); Alaska Statutes 14.03.300 to 14.03.330 Correspondence programs and allotments (legislature). Information, not legal advice.

Quick answers

Notice
No noticeWe found no notice, registration or approval rule for a parent educating a child at home. The attendance law simply says it does not apply to a child "being educated in the child's home by a parent or legal guardian." Enrolling in a district or statewide correspondence program is a different route with its own enrollment (see routes). Checked October 27, 2026. Source: Alaska Statutes 14.30.010 When attendance compulsory (legislature)
Days or hours
No number givenThe law sets no number of days or hours for a child educated at home by a parent or legal guardian. Checked October 27, 2026. Source: Alaska Statutes 14.30.010 When attendance compulsory (legislature)
Subjects
The law does not name required subjects for a child educated at home by a parent or guardian. (A correspondence program, a different route, must give each student an individual learning plan with a course of study for the grade level consistent with state and district standards.) Checked October 27, 2026. Source: Alaska Statutes 14.03.300 to 14.03.330 Correspondence programs and allotments (legislature)
Testing or evaluation
No testing requiredWe found no testing or evaluation rule for a child educated at home by a parent or guardian. Students in a district or state correspondence program are different: their learning plan must include the statewide assessments public schools give. Checked October 27, 2026. Source: Alaska Statutes 14.03.300 to 14.03.330 Correspondence programs and allotments (legislature)
Records
We found no record-keeping rule for a child educated at home by a parent or guardian. A district or state correspondence program keeps its own records, including a record of expenditures and allotments. Checked October 27, 2026. Source: Alaska Statutes 14.03.300 to 14.03.330 Correspondence programs and allotments (legislature)
Who must attend school
Every child between seven and 16 years of age must attend school (AS 14.30.010). A child whose parent or legal guardian educates them in the child's home is not covered by that attendance rule. Source: Alaska Statutes 14.30.010 When attendance compulsory (legislature)
Education savings accounts and vouchers
A program exists, and taking the money changes your homeschool statusAlaska's state-funded option is a student allotment inside a district or statewide correspondence study program. A parent of a student enrolled in the program may receive an annual allotment to buy approved nonsectarian services and materials, but the student then follows an individual learning plan with a certificated teacher, including statewide assessments. This is a public school program, not the home-education exemption. Amounts vary by program. Correspondence study programs and student allotments. What taking the money changes, in full. Source: Alaska Statutes 14.03.300 to 14.03.330 Correspondence programs and allotments (legislature), Alaska Department of Education and Early Development: Correspondence Schools, Alaska Department of Education: correspondence program regulations (PDF), Alaska Department of Education: letter on correspondence allotments with the Department of Law's opinion, July 25, 2022 (PDF), Alaska State Board of Education: Attorney General's litigation report, February 2025 (PDF), Alaska Department of Law: Supreme Court reverses correspondence ruling (June 28, 2024)

What to do first

  1. Read Alaska's own pages, linked under each row below, so you know what applies to your situation.
  2. Notice: Alaska does not ask for one on the homeschool route described here. Keep your own record of the date you began.
  3. Plan the year around the days or hours and the subjects below.
  4. Start your records on day one: a simple attendance log, a list of books read and a work sample or two for each subject.

Other legal routes in Alaska

  • Private or religious school, or certificated tutor. A child is also exempt if given an academic education comparable to the public schools by attending a private school with certificated teachers, by tutoring from certificated personnel, or by a religious or private school program operated in compliance with AS 14.45.100 to 14.45.200.
  • Correspondence study program. A child enrolled in a full-time correspondence study program approved by the Department of Education and Early Development is exempt from the attendance rule. The Department describes correspondence programs as district-supported schooling at home, which is different from homeschooling without a district.

Records to keep

We found no record-keeping rule for a child educated at home by a parent or guardian. A district or state correspondence program keeps its own records, including a record of expenditures and allotments. Whatever the law asks, many families also keep a simple attendance log, a list of books read and a few work samples for each subject; they cost nothing and help if you move or return to school.

Good to know

  • Public school classes: a school district governing body must, on request, let a child who is being home schooled enroll as a part-time student, with exceptions in the statute. Part-time enrollment does not count as attendance, and the rule does not cover interscholastic or extracurricular activities (AS 14.03.095).
  • If a parent enrolls a six-year-old in first grade at a public school, the child is then subject to the attendance rule, but the parent may withdraw the child within 60 days if first grade is not serving the child, and the rule does not apply until age seven (AS 14.30.010(c)).

Where this comes from

Checked on October 27, 2026. This is general information, not legal advice; check your state's own page, and confirm with your school district or the department before you rely on a date. Something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.