Alaska's career standard, criterion by criterion: 5 of 12 matched, 7 not claimed.

Alaska does not compel a universal middle-grades career plan. Employability is "adopted by reference" in regulation (4 AAC 04.140 lists it among the content standards adopted from the department's standards publication), but the same regulatory chapter explicitly disclaims it as compelled content: 4 AAC 04.010(c) states "the content standards are not graduation requirements or components of a curriculum, but they establish what constitutes excellent educational results," intentionally broad so districts can tailor curriculum locally. 4 AAC 04.030, which lists the 12 subject areas that are a stated goal of the state public school system, does not include Employability at all. Net effect: a state-adopted outcome aspiration, not a compelled curriculum, course, or graduation requirement — no district is legally required to teach to it in any grade. A separate, real mandate exists one step removed: AS 14.18.030 requires gender-equitable access to guidance/counseling services, and its implementing regulation 4 AAC 06.530(a) directs counselors to "encourage students to explore and develop their individual interests in vocational programs and career opportunities without regard to gender" — access to exploration, not any specific content standard, and it names no grade band.

Alaska Standards: Content and Performance Standards for Alaska Students — Employability section, published by Alaska Department of Education & Early Development (DEED), adopted by the State Board of Education & Early Development, grades K-12 (ungraded — Alaska publishes no middle-grades-specific band for Employability). Alaska has no 6-8-specific career-readiness standard of any kind. Employability is the state's only career-adjacent content standard, and it is a single undifferentiated K-12 standard with no grade-banding, unlike the same booklet's History section. The Employability text is identical between this standalone PDF and the full compiled standards booklet. Two lettered content standards, A and B, each a one-sentence umbrella statement followed by a flush numbered list (7 items under A, 5 under B — 12 total, complete, nothing sampled or omitted).

It means the platform itself produces the artefact the criterion asks for, with nothing a teacher has to add. 1 criterion of the 12 are closed this way: B.1. Each of those rows names the surface and the artefact, and several carry a coverage caveat — how many careers actually hold the field being claimed — because a reviewer will check.

It means the platform supplies the data or the assessment result and a teacher runs the classroom half — it is weaker, and it is labelled separately for that reason. 4 criteria are closed this way: A.1, A.4, B.2 and B.4. A plan a system wrote for the student would not satisfy the standard, and claiming it would not be worth much either.

Because the 1 and the 4 are different kinds of evidence — one is work the software does on its own, the other is work a teacher does with something the software supplies — and merging them into one headline number would flatter the platform at your expense. Every row states which of the two it is, and the counts are shown as separate pills rather than added together.

We make no claim on them. No JobCannon surface — assessment, career-page field or glossary entry — addresses them, and they are listed exactly as plainly as the 5 we do claim: same row format, same visual weight, a stated "not claimed" rather than an absence.

Alaska prints the letters A/B and the numbers 1-7 / 1-5, but never concatenates them into a single citable code (no "EMP-A-3" anywhere in the source) — unlike the same booklet's Alaska History Performance Standards, which do use compound codes. This page cites each item as "A" or "B" plus its own printed number, spelling out the state's actual label rather than manufacturing a compound code the state never used.

Three different dates attach to this same text across legitimate primary sources: the compiled booklet's cover reads "Fifth Edition, Revised March 2016"; the regulation 4 AAC 04.140 cites the adopted publication as "revised as of March 2019"; the live standards index page lists the standalone Employability PDF as "2006." The underlying Employability text is identical across the 2016-cover booklet and the currently-linked standalone PDF; whether the March-2019 date reflects an actual text edit could not be confirmed and is reported as unresolved rather than asserted. The document itself is linked at the top of the table, so you can check any row against the source rather than take our word for it.