§ 14-30-350

In AS 14.30.180 - 14.30.350, (1) 'appropriate education' means personalized instruction with sufficient support services to permit a child to benefit educationally from the instruction; (2) 'child with a disability' means a child with one or more of the following: (A) intellectual disability; (B) learning disabilities; (C) emotional disturbance; (D) deafness; (E) deaf-blindness; (F) hearing impairment; (G) orthopedic impairment; (H) other health impairment; (I) speech or language impairment; (J) visual impairment; (K) multiple disabilities; (L) early childhood development delay; (M) autism; (N) traumatic brain injury; (O) developmental disability; (3) 'due process hearing' means a hearing conducted under AS 14.30.193; (4) 'educational records' means those files, documents, records, and other material that contain information directly related to a student and are maintained by a school district or a person acting for a school district; the term 'educational records' does not include the personnel records of the school district, maintained in the normal course of business, that relate exclusively to a person's capacity as an employee, or other records as designated by the department

personnel records of the school district, maintained in the normal course of business, that relate exclusively to a person's capacity as an employee, or other records as designated by the department in regulation; (5) 'informed consent' means that (A) a child's parent has been fully informed, in the parent's native language or other mode of communication, of all information relevant to the activity for which consent is sought; (B) the parent understands and agrees in writing to the carrying out of the activity for which the parent's consent is sought; (C) the consent describes that activity and lists any records that will be released and to whom; and (D) the parent understands that the granting of consent is voluntary on the part of the parent and may be revoked at any time; (6) 'parent' means a (A) child's natural or adoptive parent; (B) child's guardian, but not the state if the child is in the legal custody of the state; (C) person who is acting in the place of a child's natural or adoptive parent, such as a grandparent or stepparent with whom the child lives, or a person who is legally responsible for the child's welfare; and (D) child's surrogate parent who has been

atural or adoptive parent, such as a grandparent or stepparent with whom the child lives, or a person who is legally responsible for the child's welfare; and (D) child's surrogate parent who has been appointed under AS 14.30.325; (7) 'related services' means services described in 34 C.F.R. 300.34; (8) 'school district' means a borough school district, a city school district, a regional educational attendance area, a state boarding school, and the state centralized correspondence study program; (9) 'special education' means an educational program described in 34 C.F.R. 300.39.