What Alaska actually asks of a family teaching their own children. Written plainly, and honest where the answer is that nobody asks for anything.
United StatesNo filing required
Who is in charge
None for the independent home-school exemption; a district or state correspondence program if the family enrols in one
Who actually reviews your child
No one. There is no routine reviewer.
What you must file
Nothing. There is no registration, no notice and no annual return to submit in Alaska. That freedom is real, and it carries a quiet catch: because nobody ever required a record, there is no file to reach for the day someone finally asks what your child has learned.
The part the paperwork does not cover
Filing on time is the easy half. The harder half is the year in between: showing what your child actually learned, in words the reviewer recognises, without turning your home into a school.
That is what this app is for. You say what your child did, in a sentence. It maps that to the real curriculum for Alaska and builds the record you can hand over the day someone asks. See how it works.
Not yet confirmed at the government's own source. The requirements above agree across the sources we could reach, but we have not read them on the authority's own page. Treat them as a guide and confirm before you file. That the AS 14.30.010(b)(12) exemption carries NO notification requirement could not be confirmed on any Alaska government page on 2026-08-18. DEED's schooling-options page confirms only that homeschooling means schooling without district affiliation. education.alaska.gov returns 404 for every homeschool path tried, akleg.gov serves the statutes through a frameset that yields no text, and law.justia.com returns 403. The claim rests on FindLaw and an advocacy group. A family is told nothing must be filed on the strength of two non-government sources, treat as unconfirmed until the statute itself is read. The law itself: AS 14.30.010(b)(12); AS 14.30.010(b)(10)(B). We hold no direct link to the authority's page for this jurisdiction.