STATE FUNDING GUIDE

Alaska

The Alaska Reads Act requires K-3 screening and evidence-based reading intervention statewide, but it did not create a dedicated state fund districts can tap for intervention curriculum purchases — its main funding pieces are pre-K grants and a modest Base Student Allocation increase. The largest literacy-specific money currently flowing to Alaska districts is federal: a $50 million, five-year Comprehensive Literacy State Development (CLSD) grant administered by DEED and awarded competitively to districts. Otherwise, districts typically fund intervention purchases through federal Title I and IDEA.

Alaska Reads Act (2022)

How schools fund reading intervention in Alaska

The state-level programs below are the streams Alaska districts most often use for evidence-based reading intervention purchases, alongside the federal streams available everywhere.

Comprehensive Literacy State Development (CLSD) subgrants, administered by DEED

Federal grant of $50M over five years (awarded 2024) with competitive subgrants to districts for birth-grade 12 literacy, prioritizing districts serving students in poverty, English learners, and students with disabilities; 16 districts were funded in the 2024 cohort.

Alaska Reads Act Base Student Allocation increase

The Act added $30 per student to the BSA formula — unrestricted formula money rather than a literacy grant, but it is the Act’s only recurring per-pupil funding component.

Approved-list note: Alaska requires evidence-based intervention under the Reads Act but maintains no mandatory state-approved intervention curriculum list; DEED publishes guidance and screener requirements rather than a purchasing list.

Official state resource →