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Released October 31, 2026, in the SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025) cycle. Figures are as of the release.
National Deaf Education Data Index, Alaska state file version 2.0, SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025), released October 31, 2026, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23323587, https://www.ndedi.org/states/ak/v2.0/
National Deaf Education Data Index, Alaska state file version 2.0, SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025), released October 31, 2026, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23323587, https://www.ndedi.org/states/ak/v2.0/
Alaska does not run a separate state school for deaf students. Its school for the deaf is a program inside the Anchorage School District, the Alaska State School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, which teaches in both American Sign Language and spoken and written English and served about 29 students, ages 3 to 21, in early 2025. Anchorage also runs a smaller listening-and-spoken-language program for young children. Four other districts show a deaf program or deaf staff on their websites: Fairbanks, Kenai, Lower Kuskokwim and Mat-Su.
Most of Alaska's 54 districts, especially small rural ones, publish nothing about deaf education, which does not prove there is no service, only that the public cannot find one. A statewide agency, SESA, offers outreach for deaf and hard of hearing students, and the Department of Health screens newborns for hearing loss. About 148 students statewide were counted with a hearing impairment on the date used here, and almost none are taught in a separate or residential school. In 2026 Alaska passed a deaf-education rights law, HB 39, with no money attached, and separately funded the SESA outreach agency.
In the same period the Anchorage district that runs the state deaf school cut that program's budget by about 8 percent during deep deficits. Alaska requires school interpreters to be certified or training toward it, but its state staffing file does not even list teachers of the deaf, though districts clearly employ them.
A summary of this version for any reader, written with the file. The figures and sources behind each sentence are in the sections below.
| Code | Units | Percent of frame | Percent of readable subset |
|---|---|---|---|
| PROGRAM | 5 | 9.3% | 9.3% |
| MENTION | 11 | 20.4% | 20.4% |
| NONE FOUND | 37 | 68.5% | 68.5% |
| NOT VERIFIABLE | 0 | 0.0% | Outside the readable subset |
| NOT AUDITED | 0 | 0.0% | Outside the readable subset |
| OUT OF FRAME | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 1 | 1.9% | 1.9% |
| Category | Count | Share of 54 |
|---|---|---|
| PROGRAM | 5 | 9% |
| MENTION | 11 | 20% |
| NONE FOUND | 37 | 69% |
| NOT OPERATING | 1 | 2% |
Shares are of the frame count, 54 units.As of October 31, 2026.
| Category | PROGRAM | MENTION | NONE FOUND | NOT OPERATING | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| regular district | 5 | 11 | 36 | 1 | 53 |
| state-operated school | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
As of October 31, 2026.
As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.
One row per unit in frame. The table opens on each unit's coverage code and flags; Detailed adds the evidence note, the source, how the page was read, the pass at which the code was set, and every other column. Search, filter by code or agency type, and page through every row.
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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 units, ordered by Agency code, descending.
Sort order is not a ranking. The default order is by agency name; code order follows FRM-004 section 2.
| Agency name, select to sort | Agency code, sorted descending; select to sort ascending | Agency type, select to sort | Coverage code, select to sort | Weak evidence | Statewide provider named | Delivery mechanism named | Evidence note | Source | Retrieval method | Pass at which the code was set | Enrollment, select to sort | Website | ASL course | Capture files the code rests on | Website as the state directory lists it | Host read | Directory route | How the site read was found | Evidence form | Program operator | Program operator code | Deep review | Attempt dates | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valdez City School District | AK-48 | regular district | MENTION | No | none named | IDEA Child Find eligibility list names deafness and hearing impairment. | valdezcityschools.org | rendered browser (Chrome extension); keyword-screen probe v2 | closure-2026-10-11 | valdezcityschools.org | unknown | 2 files, held in the repository
| https://www.valdezcityschools.org | https://www.valdezcityschools.org | rendered-browser closure (probe v2): home render, sitemap scan, special-education path candidates | DHH named on the site but not an own DHH program (see evidence_note) | October 11, 2026 | |||||||
| Northwest Arctic Borough School District | AK-37 | regular district | MENTION | No | none named | IDEA Child Find eligibility list names deafness and hearing impairment. | nwarctic.org | rendered browser (Chrome extension); keyword-screen probe v2 | closure-2026-10-11 | nwarctic.org | unknown | 2 files, held in the repository
| https://www.nwarctic.org | https://www.nwarctic.org | rendered-browser closure (probe v2): home render, sitemap scan, special-education path candidates | DHH named on the site but not an own DHH program (see evidence_note) | October 11, 2026 | |||||||
| Nome Public Schools | AK-35 | regular district | MENTION | No | Special Education Service Agency (SESA) | none named | SESA and Stone Soup linked as family resources. | nomeschools.org | rendered browser (Chrome extension); keyword-screen probe v2 | closure-2026-10-11 | nomeschools.org | unknown | 4 files, held in the repository
| https://www.nomeschools.org | https://www.nomeschools.org | rendered-browser closure (probe v2): home render, sitemap scan, special-education path candidates | DHH named on the site but not an own DHH program (see evidence_note) | October 11, 2026 | ||||||
| Kodiak Island Borough School District | AK-28 | regular district | MENTION | No | none named | Section 504 example list names hearing impairments. | kibsd.org | rendered browser (Chrome extension); keyword-screen probe v2 | closure-2026-10-11 | kibsd.org | unknown | 2 files, held in the repository
| https://www.kibsd.org | https://www.kibsd.org | rendered-browser closure (probe v2): home render, sitemap scan, special-education path candidates | DHH named on the site but not an own DHH program (see evidence_note) | October 11, 2026 | |||||||
| Iditarod Area School District | AK-21 | regular district | MENTION | No | Special Education Service Agency (SESA) | none named | SESA listed among special-education links. | iditarodsd.org | rendered browser (Chrome extension); keyword-screen probe v2 | closure-2026-10-11 | iditarodsd.org | unknown | 2 files, held in the repository
| https://www.iditarodsd.org | https://www.iditarodsd.org | rendered-browser closure (probe v2): home render, sitemap scan, special-education path candidates | DHH named on the site but not an own DHH program (see evidence_note) | October 11, 2026 | ||||||
| Hoonah City School District | AK-19 | regular district | MENTION | No | none named | Free hearing and vision screenings advertised. | hoonahschools.org | rendered browser (Chrome extension); keyword-screen probe v2 | closure-2026-10-11 | hoonahschools.org | unknown | 4 files, held in the repository
| https://www.hoonahschools.org | https://www.hoonahschools.org | rendered-browser closure (probe v2): home render, sitemap scan, special-education path candidates | DHH named on the site but not an own DHH program (see evidence_note) | October 11, 2026 | |||||||
| Haines Borough School District | AK-18 | regular district | MENTION | No | none named | Student-services list names hearing or vision difficulties. | hbsd.net/en-US | rendered browser (Chrome extension); keyword-screen probe v2 | closure-2026-10-11 | hbsd.net | unknown | 4 files, held in the repository
| https://www.hbsd.net | https://www.hbsd.net | rendered-browser closure (probe v2): home render, sitemap scan, special-education path candidates | DHH named on the site but not an own DHH program (see evidence_note) | October 11, 2026 | |||||||
| Dillingham City School District | AK-15 | regular district | MENTION | No | Special Education Service Agency (SESA) | none named | SESA listed among special-education resources. | dlgsd.org | rendered browser (Chrome extension); keyword-screen probe v2 | closure-2026-10-11 | dlgsd.org | unknown | 2 files, held in the repository
| https://www.dlgsd.org | https://www.dlgsd.org | rendered-browser closure (probe v2): home render, sitemap scan, special-education path candidates | DHH named on the site but not an own DHH program (see evidence_note) | October 11, 2026 | ||||||
| Copper River School District | AK-11 | regular district | MENTION | No | none named | Deaf/Hard of Hearing and Sign Language listed under Types of Services Provided; no staff or classroom described. Standing option to reconsider as weak PROGRAM. | crsd.us | rendered browser (Chrome extension); keyword-screen probe v2 | closure-2026-10-11 | crsd.us | unknown | 8 files, held in the repository
| https://www.crsd.us | https://www.crsd.us | rendered-browser closure (probe v2): home render, sitemap scan, special-education path candidates | DHH named on the site but not an own DHH program (see evidence_note) | October 11, 2026 | |||||||
| Bering Strait School District | AK-07 | regular district | MENTION | No | Special Education Service Agency (SESA) | none named | SESA listed among special-education resources. | bssd.org | rendered browser (Chrome extension); keyword-screen probe v2 | closure-2026-10-11 | bssd.org | unknown | 2 files, held in the repository
| https://www.bssd.org | https://www.bssd.org | rendered-browser closure (probe v2): home render, sitemap scan, special-education path candidates | DHH named on the site but not an own DHH program (see evidence_note) | October 11, 2026 | ||||||
| Aleutian Region School District | AK-04 | regular district | MENTION | No | none named | IDEA Child Find eligibility list names deafness, deaf-blindness, hearing impairment. | aleutregion.org | rendered browser (Chrome extension); keyword-screen probe v2 | closure-2026-10-11 | aleutregion.org | unknown | 2 files, held in the repository
| https://www.aleutregion.org | https://www.aleutregion.org | rendered-browser closure (probe v2): home render, sitemap scan, special-education path candidates | DHH named on the site but not an own DHH program (see evidence_note) | October 11, 2026 |
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Every row is viewable here. The workbook with every sheet is part of the licensed state file.
Counted in both directions for each statewide provider: the provider's own published count, and the agencies in frame that name the provider as a Deaf and hard of hearing service mechanism, named outright.
As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.
The state does not publish counts by agency, so this measure is not reported; it is never supplied where the state does not publish them (FRM-005 section 3).
Alaska does not publish a per-district hearing-impairment count the public can use, so the publication measure other files compute cannot be computed here. This is itself a finding about what the state does not measure.
| Indicator | Value | Year | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Placement criteria and IEP communication considerations | under AS 14.30.276 a child with a disability is educated with non-disabled children to the maximum extent appropriate, with removal to a separate setting only where the severity makes regular classes with supplementary aids and services unsatisfactory; HB 39 adds to AS 14.30.272 a duty to inform the parent of a deaf or hard of hearing child across communication methods and to provide services in the method the parent chooses | 2026 | Source 6 | AS 14.30.276 (least restrictive environment) and AS 14.30.272 as amended by HB 39 (Chapter 27 SLA 26). |
| Educational environments, hearing impairment (by category) | of 138 school-age students with a hearing impairment in SY 2024-25: 93 in a regular class 80 percent or more of the day, 28 at 40 to 79 percent, 16 at less than 40 percent, 1 in a separate school, 0 in a residential facility; 10 students ages 3 to 5 | 2024-25 | Source 2 | Federal IDEA Section 618 2024-25; the state 2024-25 least restrictive environment tables carry the same school-age bands (93/28/16 to 138) and resolve the separate-school and residential cells the state suppresses. The 2025-26 state tables carry 95/21/13 to 130. |
| Deaf and hard of hearing parent-information and communication-choice rights | HB 39 adds to AS 14.30.272 a district duty to give the parent of a deaf or hard of hearing child comprehensive, neutral and unbiased information on hearing technology and communication methods, the parent choice of communication method, delivery by trained professionals, and statutory definitions of the bilingual approach, cued speech, listening and spoken language and total communication; and adds to AS 14.30.276 a department duty to support one or more programs for the deaf with residential-services authority | 2026 | Source 6 | Chapter 27 SLA 26, effective 20 September 2026; passed House 40 to 0 and Senate 20 to 0; two zero fiscal notes (source 7). |
| Educational interpreter standard | an interpreter for a deaf child must be certified by the National Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, or enrolled and progressing in a program meeting the Board of Education's Advisory Board for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing standards | 2026 | Source 9 | 4 AAC 52.255; a certification-or-progressing-enrollment bar, not an Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment score threshold, unlike many states. |
| Teacher-of-the-deaf category in the state personnel file | the state Part B personnel file for 2024-25 carries no teacher-of-the-deaf category, though districts plainly employ teachers of the deaf (Lower Kuskokwim and Matanuska-Susitna name the role) | 2024-25 | Source 1 | A gap between a state instrument that sees no such category and districts that staff it; carried as an unresolved conflict. |
| Identified population by agency (baseline) | no per-district hearing-impairment count is published the public can use; the Child Count by District carries the category to a statewide total of 148 (1 October 2024) with small cells suppressed | 2024-10-01 | Source 1 | Unlike Nevada, Alaska does not publish the count at unit level. |
As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.
The count of identified students with hearing impairment and with deaf-blindness as the primary category, for each year the state publishes, as published. Where two instruments give a count for the same year, both rows are shown with their sources. No change between years is computed.
| Year | Hearing impairment | Deaf-blindness | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-01 | 148 | 1 | Source 1 |
| 2025-10-01 | 134 | Not published | Source 1 |
As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.
The channels at FRM-003, each with its status. Amounts are as published, nominal, and marked enacted or appropriated; they are not added across channels, and no per-pupil figure is computed.
| Channel | Status | Amount | Fiscal year | Enacted or appropriated | Instrument | Citation | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Named appropriation / budget line (centralized program, org 1603) | Populated | $3,674,793 | FY 2024-25 | Appropriated | The centralized program (AKSDHH, org 1603) is funded through the Anchorage operating budget, not a separate state line; funding follows the enrolled student to the operating district under 4 AAC 33.070 | Anchorage School District 2025-26 Preliminary Budget Book, org 1603; 4 AAC 33.070 | Special Ed Deaf (org 1603): 3,674,793 dollars in fiscal year 2025, reduced to 3,396,338 for fiscal year 2026 (-7.6 percent), on a funded average daily membership of 23.30 and certificated staffing of 10.00 falling to 9.00 full-time equivalents. A separate federal grant line carried 319,000 dollars. |
| Named appropriation / budget line (district hard of hearing / listening and spoken language program, org 1605) | Populated | $1,290,580 | FY 2024-25 | Appropriated | Anchorage School District Hard of Hearing / Listening and Spoken Language program, org 1605 | Anchorage School District 2025-26 Preliminary Budget Book, org 1605 | 1,290,580 dollars in fiscal year 2025, reduced to 1,192,472 for fiscal year 2026 (-7.6 percent). Combined with org 1603 the deaf-program budget was 4,965,373 dollars falling to 4,588,810. |
| General formula funding (AS 14.17 foundation formula) | Populated | $5,960 | FY 2024-25 | Enacted | State foundation formula base student allocation per adjusted average daily membership, with a special-needs factor of 1.20 and an intensive-services weighting of 13 times each eligible student; not deaf-specific | AS 14.17; Department School Funding Program Overview; Legislative Finance Citizen's Guide (23-8) | FY 2024-25 (state FY2025) base student allocation 5,960 dollars (set FY2024 from 5,930); HB 57 (2025) raised it to 6,660 dollars effective FY2026. No separate deaf-education line in the formula. |
| High-cost, low-incidence, or catastrophic aid (statewide low-incidence outreach, SESA; the intensive-services weighting) | Populated | FY 2026-27; FY 2024-25 not retrieved | Enacted | Special Education Service Agency allocation, funding the statewide Low Incidence Disabilities Outreach Program serving deaf and hard of hearing students; in the formula, the intensive-services weighting of 13 times each eligible student added to adjusted average daily membership | HB 246 (Chapter 45 SLA 26, 2026); AS 14.17; Department School Funding Program Overview (15 September 2025); Anchorage School District 2025-26 Preliminary Budget Book (intensive-needs count) | The state's only dedicated deaf-education appropriation in the reference window is the SESA allocation, a separate, funded channel from the Anchorage operating budget; its FY 2024-25 amount was not retrieved. The high-cost mechanism in the formula is the intensive-services weighting (13 times each eligible student enrolled on the count date with an established IEP); Anchorage counted 1,120 intensive-needs students for FY 2025-26, 14,560 added to adjusted membership. Neither is deaf-specific. | |
| Special education funding mechanism (AS 14.17 special-needs factor) | Populated | FY 2024-25 | Enacted | Special education other than intensive services is block funded: the foundation formula multiplies a district's adjusted average daily membership by a special-needs factor of 1.20; not deaf-specific | AS 14.17; Department School Funding Program Overview (15 September 2025); Legislative Finance Citizen's Guide to K-12 Funding (23-8) | No separate deaf-education line in the formula; the factor applies to every district's membership and carries no deaf or hard of hearing count. Anchorage's special education instruction total, general fund, was 99,271,091 dollars for FY 2025-26. | |
| Federal flow-through (the program's federal grant line; IDEA Part B) | Populated | FY 2024-25 not printed; see series | Appropriated | The Anchorage budget book's federal grant line "Alaska School Deaf & Hard Of Hearing (Fed)"; the state's IDEA Part B award flows through the Department to districts under the formula | Anchorage School District 2025-26 Preliminary Budget Book, federal grant line for the program | The budget book prints the federal line as actuals for 2022 (195,260 dollars), 2023 (102,846) and 2024 (20,894) and a 2026 budget of 319,000 dollars; no FY 2025 column is printed for the line. The state's IDEA Part B and Part C award amounts for the reference year were not retrieved (the instrument is named). | |
| Interagency and tuition mechanisms (4 AAC 33.070) | Populated | FY 2024-25 | Enacted | Funding for a student enrolled in the centralized program follows the student to the operating district under 4 AAC 33.070; no tuition or residential mechanism is published | 4 AAC 33.070 (the Department's register copy; with 4 AAC 33.080 and 33.090 in the same article) | The mechanism by which a district other than Anchorage pays for a student placed in AKSDHH; no dollar figure is published for it. The program is a day program; no residential mechanism exists. | |
| The market layer | Not applicable | n/a | Not stated | No private school with a deaf or hard of hearing program and no OPTION Schools member in Alaska; the statewide correspondence and allotment sector carries no deaf-specific offering | The narrative's private sector and market layer sections (the OPTION Schools directory; the correspondence programs read in the closure) | The market layer adds enrollment pathways but no deaf-education capacity; no allotment or charter mechanism was identified that carries a deaf student into a dedicated deaf setting. | |
| Capital | Not published | n/a | Not stated | No capital line for the centralized program on the instruments read (the Anchorage operating budget book carries org 1603 and 1605 as operating cost centers) | Anchorage School District 2025-26 Preliminary Budget Book | No capital appropriation naming the program was found in the reference window; none is claimed. | |
| Rights act (unfunded) | Populated | $0 | 2026; no FY 2024-25 appropriation | Enacted | HB 39, rights for public school students who are deaf or hard of hearing, amending AS 14.30.272 and AS 14.30.276 | HB 39 (Chapter 27 SLA 26); two zero fiscal notes prepared by the Department | Adds obligations toward deaf and hard of hearing students without an appropriation; effective 20 September 2026. |
| Early identification (Part C / EHDI) | Populated | FY 2024-25; no amount published | Enacted | Universal newborn hearing screening under the Department of Health; insurer coverage of a screen within 30 days of birth; tracking system under AS 47.20.320 | AS 47.20.300 to 47.20.390 (2006, HB 109) | Hearing loss defined as 40 decibels or greater in the speech frequencies; the Part C and EHDI touchpoint. |
Where a channel carries a series, each fiscal year as published with its basis (actual, revised, enacted, appropriated, or as the instrument names it). The figures are not added across years or channels.
| Fiscal year | Amount | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2024-25 | $3,674,793 | ADOPTED 2025 column (the headline year under D-075) |
| FY 2025-26 | $3,396,338 | PRELIMINARY 2026 column |
| Fiscal year | Amount | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2024-25 | $1,290,580 | ADOPTED 2025 column (the headline year under D-075) |
| FY 2025-26 | $1,192,472 | PRELIMINARY 2026 column |
| Fiscal year | Amount | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2023-24 | $20,894 | 2024 actual column |
| FY 2025-26 | $319,000 | 2026 column |
As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.
The standards and the supply behind a Deaf child's classroom: the qualification the state requires of an educational interpreter, the training and preparation programs, the teacher of the deaf credential, shortage designations, the paraprofessional, intervener, and audiologist standards, and the special education workforce. Each figure is as published; no ratio is computed.
| Item | Status | Figure | Year | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Educational interpreter qualification required in K-12 | Published | an interpreter for a deaf child must be certified by the National Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, or enrolled and progressing in a program meeting the Board of Education's Advisory Board for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing standards | 2026 | Source 9 | 4 AAC 52.255. Not an Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment score threshold. |
| State educational interpreters (Part B personnel) | Published | 3.38 full-time-equivalent interpreters, all fully certified | 2024-25 | Source 1 | State Part B personnel file. |
| State educational audiologists (Part B personnel) | Published | 10.9 full-time-equivalent educational audiologists | 2024-25 | Source 1 | State Part B personnel file. |
| Teacher-of-the-deaf category in the state personnel file | Published | no teacher-of-the-deaf category is carried, though districts employ teachers of the deaf (Lower Kuskokwim, Matanuska-Susitna) | 2024-25 | Source 1 | A gap carried as an unresolved conflict. |
| Centralized-school staffing (AKSDHH, org 1603) | Published | certificated staffing fell from 10.00 to 9.00 full-time equivalents, holding nine special-service teachers and eliminating one other certificated position; non-certificated salaries down 13.4 percent | 2024-25 | Source 12 | Anchorage FY26 budget book; the preliminary FY2026 budget reduced the program by about 4.63 full-time equivalents. |
As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.
| Name | Type | Operating authority | City | County | Educational setting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska State School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AKSDHH) | Centralized state program operated by a school district | 4 AAC 33.070 (centralized program operated by a district; funding follows the student to the operating district; the placing district keeps its special education duty); statutory parent AS 14.30.276(b) via HB 39; operated by the Anchorage School District | Anchorage | Anchorage | Day program within the Anchorage School District special education division; not a separate state institution and not residential |
| Anchorage School District Hard of Hearing / Listening and Spoken Language Program (org 1605) | District program | Anchorage School District special education; carried in the district budget as organization 1605 | Anchorage | Anchorage | District classrooms; listening and spoken language instruction |
| Mount Edgecumbe High School (clarification; not a deaf program) | State-operated boarding school (not a deaf program) | State-operated statewide residential college-preparatory boarding high school; admission under 4 AAC 33.080 | Sitka | Sitka | Residential boarding |
| Special Education Service Agency (SESA), Low Incidence Disabilities Outreach Program | Statewide outreach agency | Statewide special education service agency; its allocation set by HB 246 (Chapter 45 SLA 26, 2026) | Anchorage | Anchorage | Itinerant consultation and support to districts, not a school |
As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.
The remaining columns (ages or grades, communication and language approach, ASL availability, residential service, enrollment, cost to family, governance basis, accreditation, leadership, notes, and primary source) are part of the licensed state file. Access tiers and the licence request route
The frame is the 54 school districts Alaska counts for 2024-25 across three agreeing instruments: the Department's district directory, the federal Common Core of Data 2024-25 local education agency universe, and the 1 October 2024 Child Count by District. Of the 54, 53 are operating (52 regular city, borough and Regional Educational Attendance Area districts plus Mount Edgecumbe, state-operated) and one, Tanana, is carried NOT OPERATING, marked closed in the federal universe for the reference year. Statewide correspondence and homeschool-allotment programs are operated within districts and are not separate units.
| Class | Count | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Statewide correspondence and homeschool-allotment programs | 0 | Operated within existing districts, not counted as separate local education agencies; swept for deaf content in the market-layer read and none publishes a deaf-specific offering. |
Deaf-blindness is carried where the federal Section 618 file names it: the state count is 1 for 2024-25. No separate National Deaf-Blind Child Count reconciliation is attempted; the single federal cell is recorded as published.
Every normalization applied in this run: the FRM-004 set and the state's own standing false positives, as the file records them.
Five limitations bound this run. Most by-district hearing-impairment cells are suppressed by the state, so no per-district deaf count is published and the publication measure other files compute is unsupported for Alaska. The AKSDHH dollar line is read from the Anchorage School District budget book rather than a separate state appropriation line, because the centralized program is funded through one district operating budget under 4 AAC 33.070. The three units reduced from v1.0 PROGRAM to NONE FOUND rest on the absence of any public deaf reference across two rendered attempts, adjudicated by the owner as a publication finding, not on a claim that no service exists. The CDC Early Hearing Detection and Intervention survey cell for Alaska was not extracted, upstream of the K-12 frame. The AS 14.07.030 and AS 14.07.060 board and department powers and the AS 14.30.350 definitions were not separately quoted; the operative deaf-education provisions beside them were read, and the internet-archive availability lookup over the sources was emitted but completed only in part because archive.org rate-limited the single-device queries, a non-blocking step under SRC-003.
Novara Consulting Group LLC, the publisher of the Index, has no financial, partnership or funding relationship with any Alaska body named in this file. The Alaska Deaf Council, the Anchorage School District, the Department of Education and Early Development, the Special Education Service Agency with the Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education, the Department of Health and Hope Community Resources are noticed under STD-005 on the same terms as every other body, with no editorial input.
| Body | Route used | Route failures |
|---|---|---|
| Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, Special Education | donald.enoch@alaska.gov (the Special Education office's published address); sent 16 October 2026, 19:19 AKDT; the window closed 30 October 2026; no response, no route failure | |
| Anchorage School District, as operator of AKSDHH | Officeofthesuperintendent@asdk12.org (the district's published superintendent's office address); sent 16 October 2026, 19:19 AKDT; the window closed 30 October 2026; no response, no route failure | |
| Special Education Service Agency (SESA), with the Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education | sesa@sesa.org (the agency's published address; the owner's choice of 12 October 2026; the Governor's Council, GCDSE@alaska.gov, by the owner's forward); sent 16 October 2026, 19:19 AKDT; the window closed 30 October 2026; no response, no route failure | |
| Alaska Department of Health, Newborn Hearing Screening (Part C / EHDI) | doh.info@alaska.gov (the department's published address); sent 16 October 2026, 19:19 AKDT; the window closed 30 October 2026; no response, no route failure | |
| Alaska Deaf Council | community@akdeafcouncil.org (the Council's own address, decoded from its page's protected link); sent 16 October 2026, 19:19 AKDT; the window closed 30 October 2026; no response, no route failure | |
| Hope Community Resources, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Supports (second hard-of-hearing organization under D-071) | info@hopealaska.org (the organization's published address; the owner, 16 October 2026: 'info@ is fine'; Michael Merritt and Sharon Miranda by the owner's forward); sent 16 October 2026, 19:19 AKDT; the window closed 30 October 2026; no response, no route failure |
No response was received before the window closed.
Notice, comment, and correction on this state file reach the Index at the contact of record the file names.
October 31, 2026, cause: re-audit
Rebuilt to the v2.0 standard. Frame re-verified at 54 units, with Mount Edgecumbe carried as a listed state-operated unit rather than excluded. All 53 operating units re-read in a rendered browser across two attempts on two calendar days and recoded to 5 PROGRAM, 11 MENTION, 37 NONE FOUND and 1 NOT OPERATING: three v1.0 PROGRAM units (Alaska Gateway, Galena, Juneau) reduced to NONE FOUND on the owner's recorded decision that information not publicly present is a certain blocker to the public, and four units (Hoonah, Iditarod, Northwest Arctic, Valdez) raised to MENTION under a consistency rule; the North Slope keyword artifact was cleared. Rebuilt the fiscal record to reference-year dollars from the Anchorage FY26 budget book, and the governance, early-intervention, interpreter-credentialing and private and market reads (HB 39 against AS 14.30.272 and 14.30.276, AS 47.20.300-.390, 4 AAC 52.255). Re-assembled on 17 October 2026 before notice, no figure changed: the narrative in the STD-002 v1.2 section order with the plain-language, workforce and notice sections drawn from the data modules and Annex A appended; the workbook by the standard eight-sheet builder; the fiscal headline labeled FY 2024-25 under D-075 (state fiscal year 2025) with FY 2025-26 beside it; U.S. spelling throughout. Noticed 16 October 2026 (six bodies; no response); released 31 October 2026.
August 21, 2026, cause: correction
Closed all six NOT VERIFIABLE district codes; replaced October 2017 child count and LRE figures with October 2024 and 2024-25 figures from DEED's Section 618 workbooks; added a statewide Part B personnel finding of 3.38 FTE educational interpreters; added each agency's Hearing Impaired child count to the District Coverage sheet; recoded Tanana City as NOT OPERATING following its absorption into the Yukon-Koyukuk REAA; confirmed HB 39 and HB 246 both enacted; strengthened the evidence caveats on Juneau and Alaska Gateway; withdrew the HB 39 fiscal note figure of $6,000.
August 13, 2026, cause: first release
Initial compilation of the narrative profile and workbook.
3b3009de6b2ff01ccec04f03fa3111c231061efa8a264d67fde5e88b6ea5beefEach source with its access date and its Internet Archive status as the archive status file recorded it at the run: a snapshot found, with its date and address; no snapshot; a lookup that failed; or not requested.
| No. | Source | Accessed | Archive status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, Section 618 data: Child Count by District and by Age, least restrictive environment, and Part B personnel, 2024-25 and 2025-26 (1 October 2024 count is the baseline, D-032) (as published, October 11, 2026)education.alaska.gov/sped/618data | October 11, 2026 | No snapshot |
| 2 | U.S. Department of Education, IDEA Section 618, Part B child count and educational environments, Alaska, SY 2024-25 (hearing-impairment cells sum to 148, tying the state count) (as published, October 11, 2026)data.ed.gov | October 11, 2026 | No snapshot |
| 3 | U.S. Department of Education, Common Core of Data, 2024-25 local education agency universe, Alaska (as published, October 11, 2026)nces.ed.gov/ccd/ | October 11, 2026 | No snapshot |
| 4 | Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, district directory (Alaska Public Schools Database) (as published, October 11, 2026)education.alaska.gov/DOE_Rolodex/SchoolCalendar/Home/Districts | October 11, 2026 | No snapshot |
| 5 | 4 AAC 33.070, Alaska school for the deaf (centralized program operated by a district; funding to the operating district), filed regulation PDF from the Department register (byte hash fd15389044ff4ef1c3d675a3e61f995dac891c4f6c6e5e775e37ff1e5d9adc7c) (as published, October 11, 2026)education.alaska.gov/regs/filed/4AAC_33.070.pdf | October 11, 2026 | No snapshot |
| 6 | Alaska Statutes AS 14.30.272 (procedural safeguards) and AS 14.30.276 (least restrictive environment), codified 2025, read against the enacted text of HB 39 (as published, October 12, 2026)law.justia.com/codes/alaska/title-14/chapter-30/article-5/ | October 12, 2026 | No snapshot |
| 7 | Alaska Legislature, HB 39 (Chapter 27 SLA 26, effective 20 September 2026) and HB 246 (Chapter 45 SLA 26), 34th Legislature, bill history and enacted text (as published, October 11, 2026)akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/34 | October 11, 2026 | No snapshot |
| 8 | Alaska universal newborn hearing screening law, AS 47.20.300 to 47.20.390 (2006, HB 109), administered by the Department of Health (hearing loss defined as 40 decibels or greater) (as published, October 12, 2026)infanthearing.org/legislative/summary/alaska.html | October 12, 2026 | No snapshot |
| 9 | 4 AAC 52.255, educational interpreter standard for a child who is deaf (RID certification or progressing enrollment in an Advisory Board-approved program) (as published, October 12, 2026)regulations.justia.com/states/alaska/title-4/chapter-52/artic... | October 12, 2026 | No snapshot |
| 10 | AS 14.17 foundation funding formula and the Department School Funding Program Overview (base student allocation, special-needs factor 1.20, intensive-services weighting times 13) (as published, October 12, 2026)education.alaska.gov/SchoolFinance/pdf/2025-09-15_Guidance_Sc... | October 12, 2026 | No snapshot |
| 11 | Legislative Finance Division, Citizen's Guide to K-12 Funding in Alaska (paper 23-8): base student allocation 5,930 dollars FY2017-FY2023, 5,960 dollars from FY2024 (as published, October 12, 2026)legfin.akleg.gov/InformationalPapers/23-8CitizensGuideToK12.pdf | October 12, 2026 | No snapshot |
| 12 | Anchorage School District 2025-26 Preliminary Budget Book, General Fund (orgs 1603 Special Ed Deaf and 1605 Hard of Hearing; ADOPTED 2025 column is the reference year; byte hash d0ef896ab46cdc54dafea681c27c6c833812c770828d222c7d1e1fd0ad492e64) (as published, October 12, 2026)asdk12.org/budget | October 12, 2026 | No snapshot |
| 13 | Alaska State School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AKSDHH) and Anchorage School District special education pages (as published, October 11, 2026)aksdhh.asdk12.org | October 11, 2026 | No snapshot |
| 14 | Special Education Service Agency (SESA), Low Incidence Disabilities Outreach Program (as published, October 11, 2026)sesa.org | October 11, 2026 | No snapshot |
| 15 | Alaska Department of Health, Universal Newborn Hearing Screening program (as published, October 11, 2026)health.alaska.gov/en/services/newborn-hearing-screening/ | October 11, 2026 | No snapshot |
| 16 | Anchorage Daily News and Alaska's News Source, Anchorage School District budget reporting, 2025 and 2026 (FY2025-26 deficit 111 million dollars; FY2027 budget passed 24 February 2026; deaf-program staff reductions) (as published, October 12, 2026)adn.com/alaska-news/education/ | October 12, 2026 | No snapshot |
| 17 | Rendered-browser closure reads of the 53 operating Alaska units across two attempts (11 and 12 October 2026), with the SRC-003 two-file custody split for the 16 units whose code rests on page content (as published, October 12, 2026)education.alaska.gov/DOE_Rolodex/SchoolCalendar/Home/Districts | October 12, 2026 | No snapshot |
Each gap this file records that a request to a public body could close, with the record requested, the route, and the request as the file records it. A gap with an identifier has been asked; a gap without one has not yet been asked. The gap stands until the record is published.
| Gap | Record requested | Route | Identifier | Sent | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who serves deaf pupils in the districts that publish nothing | the delivery arrangement (a program, itinerant service, SESA outreach, contract or placement) for deaf pupils in the 37 districts coded NONE FOUND | direct inquiry to the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, and to SESA | not sent | Source 1 | ||
| Board and department powers and the special-education definitions | the text of AS 14.07.030 and AS 14.07.060 (the authority 4 AAC 33.070 rests on) and AS 14.30.350 (definitions) | Alaska Legislature statute browser | not sent | Source 6 | ||
| Early-identification survey cell | the CDC Early Hearing Detection and Intervention survey row for Alaska for the reference year | CDC EHDI-HSFS | not sent | Source 8 | ||
| v1.0 basis for the three reduced PROGRAM units | the v1.0 per-unit evidence that coded Alaska Gateway, Galena and Juneau PROGRAM (record only; the downgrades are settled) | internal v1.0 record | not sent | Source 17 |
As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.
The licensed state file for Alaska carries the narrative profile of this version (9,152 words, rendered here for a licensee), the report and its evidence supplement as PDF and Word, and the workbook with every sheet, and it carries the same figures as this page. It is licensed per state, with a reduced-rate product for Deaf-led and disability organizations, and under the State Partner and national licences. How to request a licence
The frame, the tallies, the operator silence counts, the indicators, and the fiscal channels of this version. With them, every other part of this page that is free: the plain-language summary, the method as applied, the identified population over time, the workforce, the Schools and Programs directory, the records requests, the contact of record, and the archive status of the sources. The District Coverage rows and the identified population by agency are viewable on this page and are not in the export.
| File | Filename | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workbook | AK_Deaf_Schools_and_Programs_v2.0.xlsx | 36 KB | 7c72c22282b0 |
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