Resolutions Table of Contents 2010

GOVERNANCE
1.1 Pledge of Allegiance
1.2 Opposing Mandated School Consolidation
1.3 Opposition To Mandated Borough Formation
1.4 Maintaining Local Control in Charter School Formation
1.5 School Vouchers
1.6 Centralized Treasury: Distribution of Allocated Funds for Schools and Interest Earned
1.7 School Improvement & Student Achievement
1.8 Accountability for Home-Schooled Students
1.9 Compulsory Attendance Law
1.10 National Standards and Testing
1.11 Accountability for Student Attendance

FUNDING
2.1 Sustained, Reliable and Adequate Educational Funding for Alaska’s Students Through a Nonvolatile Funding Source
2.2 Urging The Legislature to Increase the 20 Percent Block Grant for Special Needs
2.2(a) Fully Implement Increases to the District Cost Factor and Intensive Needs Sections of the Foundation Formula
2.3 Urging Consideration of Issues Identified by the Legislative Education Funding Task Force
2.4 Financial Support of Statewide Strategies for Academic Achievement
2.5 AASB Advocacy on Individuals With Disabilities In Education Act (IDEA)
2.6 Funding Standards-Based Early Learning Programs in Alaska
2.7 Funding for Intensive Needs Pre-School and Other Intensive Needs Students Enrolling Post-Count Date
2.8 Following the Capital Improvement Project Priority List for Non-Bonded Projects
2.9 Local Contribution in the School Funding Formula
2.10 Education Endowment
2.11 Instructional Technology
2.12 School Construction Debt Retirement for Bonded Indebtedness
2.13 Revenue Sharing
2.14 Pupil Transportation
2.15 Funding for School District-Operated Regional Boarding Home Programs
2.16 Funding for Transient Students in Schools
2.17 Insurance Costs
2.18 Statutory Grounds For Reduction in Force
2.19 Increased Formula Funding
2.21 Modification of Minimum Instructional Expenditure Requirement
2.22 Energy Cost Relief
2.23 Reliable & Efficient Service by the Alaska Marine Highway System
2.24 Forward Funding for Schools
2.25 Reconstitution and Active Management of the Public School Land Trust and Permanent Fund
2.26 Supporting Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Instruction
2.27 Urging revisions to the Step-Down Hold Harmless Clause for Reductions in ADM
2.28 Supporting a Reduction in the ADM Threshold for K-6 and 7-12 Schools
2.29 Urging the State to take an Inventory of Excess Facility Space in Districts
2.30 Requesting the State to Audit all School Buildings and Create a Facility Replacement List
2.31 Recognizing the one-time nature of the federal economic stimulus funding for education
2.32 Urging State Travel Assistance for State-Level Competitions
2.33 Requesting AASB to Create a Central Purchasing Agency
2.34 Funding Vocational Education Outside the Foundation Formula
NEW 2.35 Supporting State Funding for School Meals

CHILD ADVOCACY
3.1 Declaring Children the Top Priority of Alaska
3.2 Promoting Development Assets in Alaska’s Children
3.3 Fetal Alcohol and Drug Exposed Students
3.4 Preventing Access to Pornography on the Internet
3.5 Violence in Electronic Media and Entertainment
3.6 Inhalant, Alcohol, Tobacco, Methamphetamine & Other Drug Abuse
3.7 Interagency Cooperation Among Service Providers Serving Children
3.8 Suicide Prevention
3.9 Safe Schools/Safe Communities
3.10 Support of State Funding for Teen Health Centers in Alaska
3.11 HIV/AIDS Education
3.12 Education of Youth for Healthy Sexual Decision-Making
3.13 In Support of the Alaska Children’s Trust
3.14 Increased Support for Alaska Head Start Programs
3.15 Supporting the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act
3.16 Revise Parental Permission Requirements for Questionnaires
3.17 Student Wellness
3.18 Promoting Early Childhood Brain Development
3.19 School Activity Schedules in Relation to Major Religious Holidays
3.20 Interventions and Sanctions that Reduce Loss of Credit
3.21 Accountability for Funding for Student Learning & Student Needs

PERSONNEL
4.1 Support for Staff Development
4.2 National Certification of Teacher
4.3 Tiered Licensure
4.4 Mentoring
4.5 Special Education and Related Services Training
4.6 Addressing the Teacher, Specialist and Administrator Shortage
4.7 Repeal the Social Security Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision
4.8 Relating to Secure Retirement Benefits
4.9 Addressing Health Care Costs and Medical Insurance
4.10 Supporting Use of Licensed Professionals to Facilitate Services by Electronic Means
4.11 School Performance Incentive Program
4.12 Opposing Mandated Alaska Reading Course
4.13 Urging the State of Alaska to Continue the Retire-Rehire Program
4.14 Alternative Pathways to Certify Highly Qualified Teachers

EDUCATION PROGRAMS
5.1 School-To-Work Programs
5.2 Curriculum Expansion Via Technology
5.3 Native Language Program Development
5.4 Community School Programs
5.5 Increasing Student Contact Time
5.6 Modification of the Alaska Certificate of Achievement
5.7 Encouraging School Districts to Emphasize Civics Education
5.8 Requesting the State to Provide Standards-based Assessments in the Yup’ik Language
5.9 Supporting Regional Vocational Training Centers
5.10 Urging flexibility in testing requirements to support indigenous language programs
5.11 Supporting universal access to education for Alaska’s 3- and 4-year-old learners
5.12 Encouraging districts to adopt Standards for Parent/Family Involvement Programs
5.13 Supporting continuation of the Alaska Native Education Act
5.14 WorkKeys Assessments
5.15 Relating To Postsecondary Classes for Secondary Students
New 5.16 Exit Exam