Alaska School Performance Incentive Program (AKSPIP)

The Alaska legislature approved the Alaska School Performance Incentive Program in 2006. Then Governor Frank H. Murkowski signed the legislation, House Bill 13, in June 2006.

The goal of the program, which was proposed by the Alaska Department of Education & Early Development, is to serve as an incentive for all employees in a school to create a learning environment in which student achievement substantially increases.

House Bill 13 deals with a number of education issues. The incentive program is on pages 1, 2, 3 and 14 of the bill, which is linked on this web page. The law is Alaska Statute 14.03.126.

The law establishes the program as a pilot for school years 2006-2007, 2007-2008, and 2008-2009.

The law allows an incentive payment for up to 850 certificated staff as well as all non-certificated staff employed in schools whose certificated staff receive payments. Some personnel in a school district’s central office also may receive payments.

This web page includes a PowerPoint presentation explaining how the program will work, regulations adopted by the State Board of Education & Early Development on September 28, 2006, to implement the law, and guidance for schools.

• Performance Incentive Program Fact Sheet - PDF
• Technical Documentation - Developing a Value Table for Alaska - PDF
• Measuring Individual Student Achievement - Powerpoint
• SCS CSHB 13 (FIN) - PDF
• Regulation Filed by the State Board of Education & Early Development Effective December 28, 2006 - PDF
• Amended regulation 4 AAC 33.520 (4) - PDF
• Alaska Performance Incentive Program Guidance - PDF
• Filed regulation 4 AAC 06.825(b)(2), (c); 4 AAC 06.830(c); 4 AAC 06.885; 4 AAC 33.520(3)(4); 4 AAC 33.540(a)(2), (5), (6) - PDF