EARLY EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Plain English Breakdown

The official metadata lists a 'Last action' date in May 2026 with a canceled hearing, which conflicts with the stated effective date of July 1, 2025. The summary relies on the text's explicit effective date while noting this discrepancy as an uncertainty.

SB93: Changes to Early Education Program Student Counts

This bill changes how students in approved district-wide early education programs are counted for funding purposes and sets an effective date of July 1, 2025.

What This Bill Does

• Changes the rule so a student in an approved district-wide early education program counts as one full-time equivalent student instead of half.
• Repeals specific sections of state law related to these programs and other education rules.

Who It Names or Affects

• School districts that provide district-wide early education programs approved by the department.
• Students enrolled in those approved programs.

Terms To Know

Full-time equivalent student

A unit used to count students for funding or staffing purposes, where one full-time student equals one whole unit.

District-wide early education program

An educational program provided by a school district and approved by the state department under specific laws.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill text does not explain why the student count changed from one-half to a full unit.
• The exact content of the repealed law sections is listed only as code numbers, so their previous rules are not described in this summary.

Official Summary Text

EARLY EDUCATION PROGRAMS
An Act relating to district-wide early education programs; and providing for an effective date.

Current Bill Text

SB0093A -1- SB 93
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SENATE BILL NO. 93

IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA

THIRTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE - FIRST SESSION

BY SENATORS TOBIN, Gray-Jackson

Introduced: 2/12/25
Referred: Education, Finance

A BILL

FOR AN ACT ENTITLED

"An Act relating to district-wide early education programs; and providing for an 1
effective date." 2
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 3
* Section 1. AS 14.17.500(d) is amended to read: 4
(d) Except as provided in (e) [(e) - (g)] of this secti on, a student in a district-5
wide early education program pr ovided by a school district and approved by the 6
department under AS 14.07.020(a)(8) is counted as [ONE-HALF OF] a full-time 7
equivalent student. 8
* Sec. 2. Section 47, ch. 40, SLA 2022, is amended to read: 9
Sec. 47. AS 14.03.120(h), 14.03.410, 14.03.420; AS 14.17.500(e) , 10
[14.17.500(f),] 14.17.500(g); AS 14.20.020( l); AS 14.30.760, 14.30.765, 14.30.770, 11
14.30.775, 14.30.780, and 14.30.800 are repealed. 12
* Sec. 3. AS 14.17.500(f) is repealed. 13
* Sec. 4. This Act takes effect July 1, 2025. 14