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Based on Alaska Superior Court Judge Zeman’s decision to place a stay (temporary pause) until June 30, 2024, on the recent ruling that Alaska’s correspondence school allotment statutes are unconstitutional, the Ê®·ÖÁùºÏ²Ê will resume the correspondence allotment program for the remainder of the current fiscal year ending June 30, 2024. 

Ê®·ÖÁùºÏ²Ê is ready to start issuing payments for past and current reimbursement requests and vendor payments next week. 

We acknowledge the ongoing concerns that families have had about the temporary pause placed on reimbursements for purchases made using correspondence school allotments. We are here to support you to get your reimbursement for this school year.  

The Anchorage School Board is also advocating the State Board of Education and Early Development to meet as soon as possible to enact regulations that provide for constitutional correspondence study programs for the 2024-25 school year and beyond. 

We thank you for your patience as we work through this process with the courts.

The Ê®·ÖÁùºÏ²Ê (Ê®·ÖÁùºÏ²Ê) is committed to making sure there is no disruption to students’ educational needs. Currently, the Alaska Superior Court’s ruling that Alaska’s correspondence school program statutes are unconstitutional, prevents Ê®·ÖÁùºÏ²Ê from processing any pending or yet-to-be submitted reimbursement requests. The court’s ruling invalidated the reimbursement statute in its entirety. 

A stay request has been made to the court by both the plaintiffs and the State of Alaska (SoA) who are parties in this case.  Ê®·ÖÁùºÏ²Ê submitted an amicus brief because we would urgently like this issue addressed by the court on behalf of our correspondence families so reimbursements can be processed for this school year. In the absence of a stay order, Ê®·ÖÁùºÏ²Ê is unable to process reimbursements. We anticipate a decision by the court on the stay request the week of April 29th. 

In addition, on April 23rd, the Anchorage School Board passed a resolution urging the State of Alaska Board of Education and Early Development to quickly implement regulations that provide for constitutional correspondence study programs starting with the 2024-2025 school year. 

We will keep you updated with any new developments.