In AS 14.18 and 4 AAC 06.500 - 4 AAC 06.600
- (1) "commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Education and Early Development;
- (2) "extracurricular recreational activity" includes school-sponsored or supported clubs, teams, or activities of general or specific interest not part of classroom instruction;
- (3) "instructional material" includes textbooks, films, filmstrips, workbooks and other materials the primary purpose of which is for use in classroom instructional activity; "instructional materials" does not include literary works;
- (4) "physical education activities involving bodily contact" means boxing, wrestling, rugby, ice hockey, football, basketball, and other sports the purpose or major activity of which involves bodily contact;
- (5) "gender bias" means behavior or written materials that, when taken as a whole, portray one gender in a role or status inferior to or more limited than that of the other gender; assign abilities, traits, interests, or activities on the basis of gender stereotypes; denigrate or ridicule on the basis of gender; ignore or substantially underrepresent the numerical existence of one gender for reasons not necessitated by the subject matter of the work; or otherwise treat persons in a discriminatory way on the basis of gender;
- (6) "state board" means the State Board of Education;
- (7) "department" means the Department of Education and Early Development;
- (8) "discrimination" means differential treatment of or the denial of equal opportunity to a person based on that person's race or gender or because that person filed a grievance under this chapter.
(Eff. 10/31/82, Register 84; am 6/4/93, Register 126)