Homeschool Requirements in Alaska
Alaska asks nothing of you each year. No yearly notice. No registration, no testing, nothing to send in. What your children are taught, and why, stays between you and the One you answer to. One step is still yours, and it is the one families miss: a child who is enrolled in a public school right now has to be withdrawn, and reading this page does not do it. Do that first. Everything below is what Alaska actually requires, with the code named at the foot so you can read it for yourself.
What you send in, and when it is due
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.)
Days and 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 the law names
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.”
What 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.
Testing and 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.
The diploma and the transcript
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 the law names religion
Two routes here, and they are not equally light. Teaching your own child at home under AS 14.30.010(b)(12) asks for nothing at all. Operating under the private and religious school provisions at AS 14.45.100-.130 asks for an annual school-operation report to DEED, permanent student records, and standardized tests in grades 4, 6 and 8. A church affiliation does not by itself put you in the second group. Know which route you are on before you file anything.
What enrolling under a church school or an umbrella actually moves, and what it leaves exactly where it was, differs from one place to the next. Five of them, with the section cited for each.
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 quietly out of date. Before a filing deadline, read the code above yourself. If we have fallen behind we would much rather hear it from you than have you find out at a district office.
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