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BILL NUMBER:S4788
Title of bill
An act to amend the education law, in relation to home instruction
Purpose
To clarify and modernize the procedures and standards regarding home instruction
Summary provisions
A new section 3229 of the Education Law is created, to govern procedures and standards regarding home instruction. Requirements include notice of intent to instruct at home, submission of individualized home instruction plan to district, required subjects in various grades, standard attendance requirements, annual assessment requirements by either commercially published norm-referenced achievement tests or by alternative evaluation in the form of a written narrative, probation procedures if child's annual assessment fails to meet minimum standard, and letter of substantial equivalency verify compliance with this section.
Justification
Modifying the regulations on home instruction has the potential to reduce administrative burdens for the local school district, and the State Education Department, and the homeschooling family while maintaining reporting requirements at the beginning and end of each school year to ensure home instruction students are being educated. The current regulations have been in effect for nearly 30 years. New York's regulations are now the most burdensome on school officials and parents alike. Currently New York law requires parents to submit documentation at least seven separate times throughout the school year. Many rural school districts have had to contract out to their local board of cooperative educational services for the administration-of the home instruction documentation that is required to be submitted. School districts deserye to see a decrease in the burden on administering the paperwork for homeschool families.
Prior legislative history
New bill
Fiscal implications
None to the State.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first day of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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