Alaska homeschool checklist for this year
Answer two questions and get the year's deadlines with their dates, the notice, testing and records, each linked to the law. Print it or tick it off here.
- Alaska law
- This year's checklist
- Withdrawing from school
- ESA money
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.
Deadlines, forms and amounts checked on against the sources linked on this page.
Alaska homeschool checklist, school year
Things to do, with their deadlines
Nothing dated for your answers. We 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).
All year
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.
Source: Alaska Statutes 14.03.300 to 14.03.330 Correspondence programs and allotments (legislature)
Good habits (not in the law)
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Keep a copy of everything you send, and of any acknowledgement you get back, with the date.
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Start simple records on day one: the days you teach, the books you read and a few samples of work in each subject. They help if you move, return to school or apply to college.
Where this comes from
- Alaska Statutes 14.30.010 When attendance compulsory (legislature) (the law)
- Alaska Statutes 14.03.095 Part-time school attendance (legislature) (the law)
- Alaska Statutes 14.03.300 to 14.03.330 Correspondence programs and allotments (legislature) (the law)
- Alaska Department of Education and Early Development: Correspondence Schools (state agency)
- Alaska Department of Education: correspondence program regulations (PDF) (state agency)
- Alaska Department of Education: letter on correspondence allotments with the Department of Law's opinion, July 25, 2022 (PDF) (state agency)
- Alaska State Board of Education: Attorney General's litigation report, February 2025 (PDF) (state agency)
- Alaska Department of Law: Supreme Court reverses correspondence ruling (June 28, 2024) (state agency)
Checked on October 29, 2026. This is general information, not legal advice. Laws and forms change; confirm a date with your school district or the state agency before you rely on it. For legal advice, ask a lawyer licensed in Alaska; homeschool legal-help organizations and your state's homeschool groups can also point you to help. Something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.