Alaska State Data:
Last updated: 2021
The charter school facilities construction, lease, and major maintenance grant program provides that this grant aid be based on a per-pupil funding formula, subject to legislative appropriation and available funding. Grant allocations cannot be less than $1 per-pupil per year. The state is not currently funding this program.
Alaska law requires school districts to direct a proportionate share to charter schools of state aid under the state’s School Construction Grant Fund program for the construction, rehabilitation, and improvement of schools and education-related facilities and Major Maintenance Grant Fund program that is based on a per-pupil funding formula. The state is not currently funding these programs.
Alaska law requires a school district to offer to a charter school the right of first refusal for a lease of space in an existing school district facility or in a facility within the school district that is not currently being used as a public school, if the chief school administrator determines the facility meets requirements for health and safety applicable to public buildings or other public schools in the district. If the school district requires lease payments by a charter school, the school district must negotiate a lease agreement with the charter school for an amount that does not exceed the true operational costs calculated on a square foot basis.
Alaska law provides that charter schools are eligible through their local municipalities to access tax-exempt financing through the Alaska Municipal Bond Bank Authority.
The law allows a municipality to classify and exempt or partially exempt from taxation all or a portion of privately owned real property rented or leased for use as a charter school.
– Alaska Municipal Bond Bank Authority [treasury.dor.alaska.gov/ambba/]
Public Charters on Tribal Lands or Serving a Significant Proportion of Native Students:
Source: National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (2018)