Once the locally - developed alternative assessments are officially
endorsed by their local school boards, any of the state's 115 school districts can pick and choose from those alternatives for use in their own school districts in lieu of the portfolio system.
Reacting to the concerns of
local school districts, the Alaska State
Board of Education has
endorsed a concept that will recognize «
local diversity» in the implementation of a plan for a statewide
school - improvement proposed
by the Governor's Task Force on Effective
Schooling.